These Children Really Have Two Mothers, AND a Father?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-43767/Worlds-GM-babies-born.html#ixzz1z7a4wUpK

Apparently a new protocol has been successfully tested, wherein additional genes from a female donor are injected into the mother's eggs to allow a successful conception.  (Apparently the injection in this case was of mitochondrial DNA).

People will go to terrific lengths to have children when they really want them.  Regardless of any feelings of mine or anyone else's on the moral status of such procedures, it is folly to presume that such technology can in any way be stopped, short of the center failing to hold and things falling apart.  From a purely political standpoint, if the children in these cases grow up to be cute and apparently at least normal, mounting political opposition is probably a non-starter anyway.  The same was the case in IVF with the original 'test tube babies', and there's no reason to believe that it would be different this time.

Readers probably ought to slightly update their priors as to the likely timing of significant amounts of human genetic enhancement being employed.

Just One More Datapoint Regarding Why Libertarians and Conservatives are Insane to Favor Immigration From Mexico, Legal or Otherwise

http://www.gallup.com/poll/155333/Hispanic-Voters-Favor-Gov-Involvement-Solve-Problems.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines

So you say you want smaller government?  The only way to get that is to have a voting population that actually favors such, and the only segment of the population that actually is in favor of such is easy to identify.  If you've ever been to a gathering of libertarians, you know the demographic.
White males, that's pretty much it.  Anything that decreases or dilutes the influence of white males is bad for conservatism or libertarianism.  Full Stop.
There's no prize for being the last group to retribalize.

Israel Demonstrates How It Is Done: Operation 'Going Home'

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/06/201261411491620572.html

I love that name---Operation Going Home.  Israel is repatriating its 'Illegal Infiltrators', in this case back to the South Sudan.  Flights 'Going Home' are leaving every week.

Romney has talked about 'self-deportation'---and indeed a lot of that takes place for every planeload that is sent to be 'Going Home'.  Perhaps he could take a leaf from Bibi, who I understand he's fairly close friends with.  Bibi shows how demographic hegemony is done.

Following Up: How Well Has For Greater Glory Done?

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=forgreaterglory.htm

Box Office Mojo at this time estimates that it has made approximately 9 Million since its release, a bit more than half in the US.  I'm not certain (nor is the site) what its budget was, but it's safe to assume it was on the lower end of film budgets, being more a period piece than a summer blockbuster.  My guess is that it'll do pretty well in the video market as well.
Hopefully we'll see some more movies of similar stripe soon.  I for one would really enjoy a movie retelling of the struggle of Poland against the Soviet Union from 1919-1921
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War
Between WWI and WWII really is the black hole (or perhaps memory hole) of history for most of us in the US, with the very minor and very partial exception of the Spanish Civil War.

Some Progress on Reporting of Black Dysfunction in the Portland News

http://www.katu.com/news/local/Two-large-scale-fights-reported-at-Laurelhurst-Park-159264645.html?tab=video&c=y

Check out the comments---many of the comments with highly positive ratings could have come from our merry band here.  The article itself is quite good by MSM standards---it actually says that the attacks were by large bands of black teenagers, no reading between the lines is required.

Now, as a commenter to the story points out, if the races were reversed, this would be absolutely priority one and would be shouted from the rooftops, so we're a long long way from parity.  But seeing such 'racist' comments with lots of agreement in liberal Portland is encouraging.  Perhaps whites in Portland aren't too far away from openly advocating their own interests (presently they do EVERYTHING in an infuriatingly passive-aggressive way, whereas I far prefer aggressive-aggressive).

If Anarcho-Tyranny is Your Game, Don't Be Surprised When the Citizenry Begrudges Your Monopoly on Violence

http://jewamongyou.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/parents-kill-daughters-pimp/

Let's see---how many platitudes are falling on deaf ears here?
We can't allow vigilantism
People can't be allowed to Take the Law into Their Own Hands

All these pervasive memes are pernicious when anarcho-tyranny is the rule.  Hopefully the California jury will take a cue from the Texas one and just say 'Not Guilty'.
No reason is required, hell, Reason isn't required.  All that matters in anarcho-tyranny is Who...Whom.
Don't like that?  We can talk about notions like the rule of law when it is something other than the punchline of a bad joke.

More on the Homicide Narrative: Falsification of the Denominator

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/06/more-than-5300-violent-assaults-have.html

Back in this previous post, we examined the steadily decreasing lethality of aggravated assault due to improvements in trauma medicine and emergency response.  These improvements mirror the same improvements in accident and automobile fatalities as well.
http://chariotofreaction.blogspot.com/2012/05/homicide-narrative-revised-to.html

Back then we remarked with interest on how the trend appears not to have continued to improve after 2000-2003 or so.  One speculation was that the denominator (the number of aggravated assaults) was being fudged moreso than was the norm in the past (homicide numbers are almost never fudged, even in places like Detroit).

Well, this article via Althouse confirms that suspicion----this Wisconsin city apparently falsified nearly 20% of its aggravated assaults since 2006---billing them as lesser crimes in reporting.  This is likely not an incident isolated to Wisconsin, that hotbed of official corruption.

It also seems likely that we won't be able to use that particular technique (estimation of normalized homicide rates using the ratio of aggravated assaults to homicides) going forward as it appears that the rate of data poisoning in the aggravated assault rate has substantially increased since 2000.