The Children of China's Communist Elite

Of course, the entire fact that there is such a thing as a "Communist elite" is fodder for jokes.  Now the bigwigs are worrying that their pampered little plutocrat princelings will "devour the revolution."  Yummy, yummy revolution.  Pass the soy sauce.

Jon Stewart Vs. "Fast and Furious" and Executive Privilege

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The Imperial Presidency, Updated

*Sigh.*  I found this bit of the article interesting (my emphasis in bold)

William G. Howell, a University of Chicago political science professor and author of “Power Without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action,” said Mr. Obama’s use of executive power to advance domestic policies that could not pass Congress was not new historically. Still, he said, because of Mr. Obama’s past as a critic of executive unilateralism, his transformation is remarkable.

Heh.  YOU DON'T SAY!  

More SOPA Skulduggery: It Covers For China's Online Censorship

Well, DUH.

Anti-Piracy Crusaders Caught ... Pirating

Um ... yeah.  Way to go, RIAA.  And Homeland Security!   Live by BitTorrent, die by BitTorrent.

China Lectures Canada On Environmental Policy

Whatever.  China's the world's biggest emitter.  Go lecture to the mirror, pal.

Occupy Practical Reality

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Life Imitates Satire: Occupy San Francisco Goes Into Banking

Bwahahahaha!  Is it the "inevitable culmination"?   If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!  And somehow I can't help thinking, "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Awesome: "What Occupy Harvard Should Tell Liberal Elite Parents on Thanksgiving"

I had already mocked Occupy Hahvahd here, but this piece is worth a read.  Short version: displaying undisguised snobbish, self-righteous condescension and contempt toward people with whom you disagree will not incentivize them to hail you as their cultural and social masters.  Well, DUH.  Here's a piece of it:

What you tell him is that he should put his life in your hands. Yet you scorn his religion. You mock his faith in the sacredness of conception. You deride his belief in family. You tell him that his love for hunting makes him a murderer, and that his terror at being economically displaced makes him a xenophobe and a racist. Then you emasculate his hope for the future by telling him that if his ship comes in—that dream of a ship that makes the grinding disappointment of daily life worth living through—you’ll help yourself to a big slice of it. And you expect him to believe your rhetoric about fairness and equality when, all the while, you are accusing him of gullibility in his politics and bad faith toward the least fortunate of his fellow citizens. When, all the while, you are living untouched by your own policies. When you are cushioned against life’s hardness, not by government, but by simply knowing other people in your class. You expect him to buy your talk about equitable distribution of wealth when you are sailing through tax loopholes off into the sunset.

Jon Stewart and Occupy Wall Street

No comment needed.  Just listen to these people talk when Samantha Bee interviews them.

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LOL: The Pampered Poseurs of "Occupy Harvard"

This is hilarious.

Well, well, well ...

Heh.  You do remember this.

Leftists and Property Rights

Harvard econ prof Greg Mankiw observes, with photographic evidence from the Occupy Wall Street kerfuffle, that even leftists believe in property rights when it comes to their property.  Heh! 

Dipstick Duel: Krugman vs. Zakaria

Pass the popcorn!  For even more Krugman silliness and hypocrisy, see this.  UPDATE:  Dignified Rant notes that this could only get better if that other famous dipstick Friedman gets involved.  Why, yes!

Oh, This Will End Well

Killing one native species in order to help another?  Only environmentalists could think this is a good idea.  I'm waiting for the wildlife biologists -- you know, REAL scientists -- to put the beatdown on the environmentalists.  Meanwhile, place all bets now on the barred owl!

LOL: Capitalism-Bashing Filmmaker Sues For More Money

Heh!

You First, Your Highness

Greeniac wealthy palace-dweller Prince Charles thinks Indian slums are a good model for sustainable "green" living.  Really?  You want me to give up my modern conveniences and technology and live in a shack made of scavenged rubbish -- all for the good of the planet?  YOU FIRST, PAL.  

Nerd News: A Critique of Obama's K-12 Public Education Policy

You've heard me rant about this topic repeatedly.  Here is a slice of why.  (Oh, don't even get me started on Obama's higher/college education policy.)  Anyway, as any thinking, objective person knows, you can't fix the education problem simply by throwing money at it.  As for wealthy politicians killing the DC school voucher program (for low-income families!)  even while they send their own kids to expensive elite private schools?  HYPOCRITICAL MUCH?  Pfffffft.

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Hilarious.  

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Best Political Commentary of the Day: Food and Nanny Government

What fresh (or really, recycled) hell is this?  The latest round of nannyish preaching and finger-wagging by Mrs. Obama about food and how we should change how and what we eat is the same dull blah-blah-blah you've come to expect from any number of killjoy interfering do-gooders.  But what really is worth your time is the choice of photos that accompany the text of the First Lady's annoying sermon to the National Restaurant Association. Kudos to whomever did the photo layout!