— Forget engineering: here’s a degree that will always be in demand.
— An excellent article about the Second Amendment.
— Yet another example of the importance of social cohesion.
— Ralph Nader and Charles Murray examine their differences and similarities.
— Jersey’s “Jackson Whites”.
— Are statins OK for you after all?
— Light pillars, Finland. (h/t hbd*chick)
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“— Programming for girls.”
Sounds a bit underhanded …
“Programming for girls” — I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
Ah yes. A great many of us are beginning to feel this way. In neoreactionary terms: ‘Voice’ having failed us, we want ‘Exit’. (‘Programming for girls’, of course, is the least of it — they can amuse themselves as they like, and obviously nothing serious will come of it. But it is symptomatic of the underlying condition.)
The problem is: nowhere to go. Sooner or later: it’s a hard rain gonna fall.
“Possibly” having to do with your link – Our pals the Saudis;
In In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, the Second Circuit held that defendant Saudi princes could not be held liable for the consequences of providing material support to Al Qaeda through financial funding that allegedly enabled the 9/11 terrorist attacks because each prince, acting in his official capacity, qualified as an “agency or instrumentality” of the Saudi government. … Having determined that the FSIA governed immunity, the court turned to the exceptions to assess whether any would permit the suit to go forward, but found that none applied. The defendants’ alleged provision of support to Muslim charities that promoted and underwrote terrorism did not constitute conduct in trade, traffic, or commerce to place it within the commercial activity exception. Moreover, the FSIA tort exception for death and personal injury did not apply to the matter, according to the court, because the terrorist act of providing material support to Al Qaeda occurred overseas, and it also sounded more in the FSIA’s terrorism exception than the tort
exception. Saudi Arabia did not fall within this terrorism exception because it had never been designated a state sponsor of terrorism.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41379.pdf
Death of the Warthog–Yep, kill all the warthogs so that we can give benefits to illegals. Ever since WW II our defense department has become ever more determined to develop by quantum-leap methods rather then evolving. The spec-bid process is insane. What is equally insane is a Congress and an Executive branch that thinks social welfare is a higher priority than national security. Rome lasted several hundred years past this point in their politics; we will be lucky to last several decades at the rate we are going.