JIM TREACHER:  “Just think how these 12th-Century dip$#!+s will react when they get their butts kicked by some gay dudes. It’ll just add to the humiliation.”

ON FACEBOOK, DAVID BOAZ WRITES: “The distinguished economist Alan Blinder says it’s a ‘Christmas present’ when the government doesn’t raise taxes on the rich. So I’ve got a present for Dr. Blinder: I’m not going to steal his car.”

Muslim businessman boards flight with loaded handgun ...

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/12/tsa-under-fire-after-muslim-businessman-boards-flight-with-loaded-handgun.html

but a goodie, an appropirate in light of this: Chicago mayoral candidate James Meeks is unhappy with the fact that non-African-Americans are participating in the city’s affirmative action programs

Chief Justice John Roberts - 

           “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1

Carbon trading failed miserably in Europe

Carbon trading failed miserably i Chicago

so what do the Californiand do?  Why, they ENACT it of course.  

• California adopts its own cap-and-trade system.

Here is Matt Ridley, from page 111 of his excellent book The Rational Optimist:

Companies have a far shorter half-life than government agencies. Half of the biggest American companies of 1980 have now disappeared by take-over or bankruptcy; half of today’s biggest companies did not even exist in 1980. The same is not true of government monopolies: The Internal Revenue Service and the National Health Service will not die, however much incompetence they might display. Yet most anti-corporate activists have faith in the good will of the leviathans that can force you to do business with them, but are suspicious of the behemoths that have to beg for your business. I find that odd.

In an editorial entitled "Islam's Christians," the Journal writes that the persecution of the Christian minority in Iraq "raises questions about contemporary Islam's ability to coexist with non-Islamic peoples," as indeed it does.  But then:

Some of these Christian minorities have coexisted with Islam in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East since the time of Jesus.