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Let them eat iPads!
Federal Reserve apologist shows he's totally disconnected from economic reality.
Human prejudice has ancient evolutionary roots
The tendency to perceive outsiders in a "us versus them" context isn't exclusively human but appears to be shared by other primates as well.
NPR’s Middle-Americaphobia
"'All things considered,' that bunch of decrepit pious prisspots at NPR could stand a breath of 'fresh air.' Today’s 'left' is just the inverse Christian Coalition, only more pious and sanctimonious. Cloistered snooty white bluebloods calling people they’ve never met and wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole 'racists.' ”
Why Japanese disaster victims don't riot or loot
" 'Diversity' is a source of conflict and tension, not strength, and the Japanese know it. Thanks to very restrictive immigration [policies], Japan is one of the most homogeneous nations on earth. Its people know that the country belongs to all of them, and they treat it and each other that way. If Japan had let in just a few of the Iraqis and Pakistanis who would love to come, there would not be as many admiring accounts of post-earthquake endurance and self-control."

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Wayne State University considers stricter admissions standards
A good idea perhaps if your graduation rates are among the worst when compared to other Michigan public universities, and well below the 49 percent national average.
Boisterous public employee union protesters jam-pack Michigan capitol building
Objecting to legislation to give state-appointed emergency financial managers more power to resolve fiscal crises, including dissolving employee contracts.
Ohio State University's football coach suspended for two games for NCAA violations
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. Unless you get caught, eh Jim?
The Bully Depot: Breeding, buying and selling Detroit's unofficial canine favorite
"The pit bull might just be the unofficial dog of the city. They're everywhere here — walking down streets on the ends of leashes, peering out of shabby dog houses in neighborhood back yards, barking with a fury from behind iron-barred front doors. They're protection for some, pets for others, reputation builders for many."
The legacy of UK white nationalist Enoch Powell
"Enoch Powell was a great patriot, a man of immense courage and decency. Still he was ignored. Courage and decency are not enough. Victory will only come from a radical approach that tackles the fundamental causes of our malaise. White activists should learn from Enoch Powell’s errors as well as his achievements."
NPR’s CEO Vivian Schiller resigns 
After the release of that secretly made video of that other Schiller yesterday this should come as no surprise.

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Tiffani Hardin

Former Michigan Center high-school athlete now playing in pro-football league - MLive (Jackson)If you count the Lingerie Football League as a "pro" sport. Tiffani Hardin's webpage is here.

Move to "de-fund" NPR begins in House of Representatives - Washington Examiner
 "With 500 cable TV channels, Internet on people's cell phones, satellite radio, we have so many sources of media that we don't need a government-subsidized source of media." 

Lansing medical marijuana clinic robbed - Lansing State Journal
 If they're going to sell a valuable commodity like weed they need to have a higher level of security, like banks,  jewelry stores, and gun shops do. It just makes sense. 

Hartford, CT mayor & NYC "public advocate" call on police departments to boycott Glock firearms unless they stop selling Hi-cap magazines - NY Post
Seeing as how Glock is the primary manufacturer and vendor of pistols for police departments in the US it's hard to see how anyone but a  very small department could successfully pull that off. What is NYPD going to do? Dump all their Glocks into the Atlantic and buy all new stuff? Whatever. On second thought let 'em go back to revolvers. NYPD and the rest are way too trigger happy as it is so limiting their cops to six shots may be a good idea.

Hilarious slide show of Cold War era alarmist propaganda about Soviet era weaponry - Popular Science

"Cheap food, easy credit, overwhelming consumer choice, lax social mores, and all the other virtues that bedevil us here in the land of the alarmingly unrestrained..." - Reason (Greg Beato)
The good life is making us lazy, stupid and fat. So government "choice architects" are needed.

Good point: "I keep asking this question- Since when does a supposed 'free country' have checkpoints?"


Fired Michigan football coach donates huge stash of U of M clothes to Salvation Army - Fox Sports