Right Wing Nation

Chengdu Chicken

I started with this homemade chicken stock — note that it is not a pale, insipid, light yellow color.

There are lots of things you can do with it, but I needed to use up some tomatoes from the farmers’ market, plus some shiitakes, some Hungarian wax peppers, and green beans. So I took the two […]

Technorati: open threads
Comment or trackback, as long as you link to this post.
Previous free threads are here.

Studying improves student performance. So did the authors of this “study” get an NSA research grant, and if so, how much?
I’m going to need to create a new blog category for money flushed down the toilet.

Top stories: Killer babies are on the loose! and Honeymoon couple attacked by goldfish!
I bought a National Enquirer once. I couldn’t resist the headline: Killer trees stalk America! However, I never could bring myself to go through that particular cashier’s line again. But online . . .

For all the whining about evil “high-stakes” testing, you’d never know that 20% of the enrolled students in DC didn’t come to school on the second day of classes. I guess they were too “disenfranchised” to be bothered.
More likely, they were out committing crimes.

Considering that this comes from the “paper of record,” the “flagship newspaper of the nation,” this is fairly depressing (hat tip to Hot Air — I would have stumbled upon it when I hit Instapundit later, but credit where it is due):
It is an eminently good thing that the anti-suicide measure would require medical specialists […]

Guess what the red circles on the map below are.

Have an idea yet? Answer below the fold.

Read single article or Open it here… »

Yuval Levin:
Have a look at the map of Manhattan below (used recently […]

Technorati: open threads
Comment or trackback, as long as you link to this post.
Previous free threads are here.

Richard Jewell is dead.

But before I go, the Carnival of Education is posted.

Pat Schroeder: Conservatives Can’t Read
Statisticians: Liberals Can’t Do Math

Technorati: open threads
Comment or trackback, as long as you link to this post.
Previous free threads are here.

I’ve reworked this to make it a bit more readable (particularly to the non-math folks), and here and there, I’ve clarified or added material. I hope it helps. I’ve also added a section for those of you who use mostly written assessments, like papers or esssay questions (yes, you can use statistics to help […]

Who finds the following “hateful and intolerant”?

The right of all people to live in freedom and dignity
The freedom of the individual conscience to change religions or have no religion at all
The equality of dignity of women and men
The right of all people to live free from violence, intimidation, and coercion

Go here to find out.

Technorati: open threads
Comment or trackback, as long as you link to this post.
Previous free threads are here.

Brown people cause global warming!

Technorati: open threads
Comment or trackback, as long as you link to this post.
Previous free threads are here.

Just got back. It’s a big — really big — county fair with a tent city. Hundreds of tents. People set up camp and live there. Here are a few pics (click to immensify):

I don’t think they have 4-H or the FFA in New York City.

Yup, you read that right. Deep-fried oreos (they’re fairly nasty, […]

From Pam:
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this: You cannot post “Thou Shall Not Steal, “Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery”, and “Thou Shall Not Lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.
Read the whole thing.

Maybe fish and chips destroy brain cells. Or maybe it’s calling sausages “bangers.” From Gabriel comes this cluelessness from the UK:
Labour came to power in 1997 promising to tackle both crime and its causes. Since then violent crime has doubled - and last week Rhys Jones became the 18th young person this year to be […]

We went to the farmers’ market this morning for more of that ay-maze-ingly good corn — I’m going to make that ay-maze-ingly good corn pudding — but you can’t just eat corn pudding. So we drove to Giant. I found really nice broccoli (I love broccoli), and we headed to the back of the store […]

British forces under the command of Vice Adm. Sir Alexander Cockburn and Maj. Gen. Robert Ross set fire to Washington, D.C. Hat tip: the Tank.

By gun dealers and a state representative:
More than two dozen gun dealers and a state lawmaker filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to block a planned four-day freeze on gun sales to allow an upgrade of the state’s computerized background check system.
The gun shops and Rep. Timothy Solobay, D-Washington, say the system upgrade could be completed […]

Ted Nugent isn’t mincing words:

Hat tip: Ace.

Well, I think it’s funny.

The Weatherby and the Winchester (click to hugefy):

The S&W 1911 and the Remington:

Blame Tim Blair.

Technorati: open threads
Comment or trackback, as long as you link to this post.
Previous free threads are here.

Technorati: open threads
Comment or trackback, as long as you link to this post.
Previous free threads are here.

The Carnival of Ed is posted.

I found this on MVRWC:

There has to be a story there.

I really don’t know what to say about this. Don’t vacuum in the nude? No, that doesn’t work. Don’t get your privates too close to the vacuum?
“British Dwarf’s Penis Gets Stuck In Vacuum Cleaner”
Midgets. What would we do without them?

Technorati: open threads
Comment or trackback, as long as you link to this post.
Previous free threads are here.

I first published this last year. Since the school year is starting, I brushed off the dust, and reposted it with a few additions. (If you know somebody who’s going off to college, you should point him to Ben Stein’s essay.)
When I was in my early grad school career back in the 80s, I was […]

This crap really honks me off:
Word to the wise if anyone in the GOP cares to listen: When your own partisans (such as myself) are actively rooting for Republican Congressmen to be arrested, you’ve got a problem.
Get rid of him. Now.

God knows I don’t want to take issue with the Club for Growth — I think they and the Republican Study Committee are two of the most important and valuable organizations today. And God also knows I just hate pork, but pork isn’t the only important issue. I can hear Pat Toomey and Andrew Roth […]

Technorati: open threads
Comment or trackback, as long as you link to this post.
Previous free threads are here.

General Patton on the GWOT (hat tip to Liberty Film Festival for the much appreciated clip):

This is no surprise:
To thunderous acclaim from the liberal intelligentsia
That’s enough to tell you it’s pure BS right there. Oh. Sorry. I got sidetracked. Here’s the rest:
To thunderous acclaim from the liberal intelligentsia, a team of feminist icons — including Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda — last year launched a women-run radio network. The mainstream […]

I now really, really, really detest Firefox. I want to either downgrade to 1.5.x, or move to another browser, one that’s supposed to be what Firefox used to be: Fast and stable, not a CPU hog, and with no intrusive “Your files have all downloaded!” popups or automatic updates.
So far today, Firefox has frozen seven […]