QOTD - Jay Nordlinger in NR

Although, in my book, a crime is a crime — no need for the special category of “hate.”

QOTD - Greg Mankiw

"Trickle-down" is not a theory but a pejorative used by those on the left to describe a viewpoint they oppose.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-popes-rhetoric.html

That Henry Ford story you heard was bunk

The reason for the pay rise was not as some of our contemporaries seem to think it was. It was nothing at all to do with creating a workforce that could afford to buy the products. It was to cut the turnover and training time of the labour force: for, yes, in certain circumstances, raising wages can reduce total labour costs.

Tim Worstall in Forbes

QOTD - Brad Lomborg in the WSJ

Subsidizing first-generation, inefficient green energy might make well-off people feel good about themselves, but it won't transform the energy market.

Green-energy initiatives must focus on innovations, making new generations of technology work better and cost less. This will eventually power the world in a cleaner and cheaper way than fossil fuels. That effort isn't aided by the perpetuation of myths.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324432404579051123500813210

QOTD - Ed Crane

There are two types of human beings: people who want to interfere in the way other people live their lives, and people who are content to mind their own business.  Which type of people do you think go into politics?

h/t Cafe Hayek

QOTD - William F. Buckley

"There shouldn't be tax exemptions for anybody or anything. Not for the little church around the corner, not for Harvard University, not for the Olympic Laser Sailboat Committee. That position is so defensible as to be my own: The Government should stop using tax policy to encourage or discourage particular activities."
William F. Buckley, 1988 column, reprinted in Happy Days Were Here Again

BoSox win the Pennant.

Link of the Day - the great Mark Perry

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/09/boys-vs-girls-on-the-math-sat-test/

QOTD - Steve Sailor

Clearly, the situation is still murky so don't feel too assured that this latest account is accurate. But if it is, isn't it about time that, just as we have a highly useful National Transportation Safety Board to investigate accidents and make reform recommendations, we should have a National Immigration Safety Board to investigate why immigrants and the children of immigrants who mess up very badly were ever in our country?

And you sir, you're an idiot!

Odd Couple, Roy Clark as guest star.
here

QOTD - Althouse

By the way, whatever happened to the "Occupy" movement? Maybe it's taking a break out there somewhere with the Coffee Party.

QOTD - Via Taki: What the Arab world needs is capitalism, not democracy, Fraser Nelson wrote.

What the Arab world needs is capitalism, not democracy, Fraser Nelson wrote.

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QOTD - Walter Russell Mead at Via Meadia

 The biggest cause of climate skepticism isn’t evil oil companies and campaigns of disinformation; it is the inability of greens to refrain from overstating their case and insisting dogmatically and self righteously on more certainty than the frustrating facts can give.

QOTD - Kyle Smith in the NY Post

The 20 years of the Giuliani-Bloomberg era have been a pleasant vacation from the decades-long decline that preceded it. Today we joke about soda bans instead of how to react to armed robbers. But soon New York may be back doing what it does best: Being Crazytown, USA.

QOTD - Owned

The Frackenator says:

May 16, 2013 at 6:34 am

“Apparently there are Sheriffs who are OWNED by the Gun Industry”

Yes, Sheriffs are owned by the Gun Industry.
People who advocate for Fracking are owned by Big Oil.
People who are skeptical of Global Warming are owned by the Energy Industry.
And Enviromentalists are owned by ????
:)

QOTD - Bob McManus

Gov. Cuomo is spending $140 million on TV ads whitewashing Albany, but he better buy more paint.

Illegal immigration is to immigration what shoplifting is to shopping

From the fearless Five Feet of Fury

The Skeptic's Case - Dr. David M.W. Evans

"We check the main predictions of the climate models against the best and latest data. Fortunately the climate models got all their major predictions wrong. Why? Every serious skeptical scientist has been consistently saying essentially the same thing for over 20 years, yet most people have never heard the message. Here it is, put simply enough for any lay reader willing to pay attention."

H/T William Teach at the Pirates Cove

Global warmists always want to argue about CO₂ contributing to rising temperatures  but skeptics don't argue that point. The argue about the feedback assumptions in the models that are not panning out as the extremists would prefer.

QOTD - Steven Landsburg

The minimum wage is nothing but a huge off-the-books tax paid by a small group of people, with all the proceeds paid out as the equivalent of welfare to a different small group of people. If a tax-and-spend program that arbitrary were spelled out explicitly, voters would recoil. How unfortunate that when it is disguised as a minimum wage, not even our Republican president can manage to muster a principled objection.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2004/07/the_sin_of_wages.2.html

see also:
http://www.thebigquestions.com/2013/02/18/thoughts-on-the-minimum-wage/#more-8310

QOTD - Mark Perry

I’ve found that somebody’s position on the minimum wage is a pretty good “litmus test” of a person’s ability to understand basic economic principles and think logically.  Those who support increases in the minimum wage demonstrate their inability to think clearly, logically and rationally, and their inability to understand basic economic theory.  Supporters of the minimum wage embrace emotional “thinking” over truly rational thinking, and generally therefore really can’t be taken seriously.

QOTD - Seal Team 6 member on UBL raid

"Hey, we need to get moving. These bitches is getting truculent." 

Read more: Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden - Treatment of Veteran Who Shot bin Laden - Esquire http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313-5#ixzz2KisgWPi5

QOTD - John Mackey

Capitalism is the greatest creation humanity has done for social cooperation. It has lifted humanity out of the dirt. 

via Mark Perry

Bumper Snicker of the Day (via LI)

Where are we going?
And why are we in this handbasket?

QOTD Jeff Jacoby

American conservatism didn't arise from a yearning to conform to public opinion. Its raison d'être was to defend constitutional liberty and economic opportunity – free men and free markets – and to make the case that human dignity and prosperity flourish not when government is all-powerful, but when it is limited.

It’s an adult show.

CBS defends 'Criminal Minds' against violence slam

by James Hibberd

“It’s a much-maligned show,” Tassler said of Minds. “I happen to enjoy the show. It’s not for everybody. It’s an adult show. It’s a suspense thriller. And within that it’s also a character crime procedural. It’s given an appropriate rating. I don’t let my [14-year-old] kid watch it. I do. It’s a genre show … I think we’re making a huge mistake — and I’d say it to Bob to his face — to let any of the [violence] conversation devolve into ‘my show vs. your show.’ This is a much bigger issue.”

CM is one of the very few shows I watch on TV. It hasn't inspired me to commit any violent acts.

What is wrong with people?

7 men gang rape bus passenger in India

New Delhi, India (CNN) -- In an incident eerily similar to a sexual assault that sent shock waves worldwide, Indian police say a woman was gang-raped over the weekend by seven men after she boarded a bus at night.

Police arrested six suspects, including the bus driver, after the alleged Friday night attack in Gurdaspur district in Punjab.

A manhunt for the other man was under way Sunday.

Just like a gang rape in New Delhi that sparked international outrage last month, the new attack occurred after the woman got on a bus.