Archive for the ‘IQ’ category

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Taft Didn’t Understand Liberty

March 5, 2010

 
At Alternative Right I review Russell Kirk’s The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft. 
Despite being a hero to many on the Alternative Right, Taft thought that the four issues mentioned above, currency regulation, health care, education and housing, were too important to be left to the market. But he never explained why capitalism was the [...]

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California Continues to Implode

March 4, 2010

 
From the NYT
SAN FRANCISCO — Angered by increases in tuition and budget-related cuts in government financing, students and faculty members at California public schools and colleges planned protests across the state on Thursday, as leaders on both sides of the political divide in the state promised answers for its educational crisis.
Called a “strike and day [...]

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Why High IQ People Are PC

February 26, 2010

 
A couple of people have asked about my comment “high IQ people are by and large easier to brainwash.”  Is it really true?  I think so, and will explain why.
Let’s take feminism, which along with Marxism and racial egalitarianism is one of the “big three” evils that have cursed the modern world.  How might a [...]

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Liberal Writers Have Higher IQs

February 25, 2010

 
I was wondering how I could find some evidence to back up my belief that liberal writers/activists are smarter than their conservative counterparts.  The easiest way to do this is to take some writers from a leftist magazine and some from a rightist one and compare the colleges that each group attended
I was hoping to [...]

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IQ Realism Makes Me a Better Person

February 11, 2010

 
I admit to being low class in my food taste.  Today after pulling up to the local Taco Bell drive-through I saw the meal that I would be getting.  Three tacos, cinamon twists, and a drink for $5.  I told the girl that I wanted the meal without the beverage.  “$6.64,” she said.  “I thought [...]

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Sarah Palin Can’t Define Satire

February 9, 2010

 
In the video clip below Ron Reagan says that Sarah Palin can’t define “satire.”  I think he’s right.
For those who don’t know, Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in a closed door meeting said that some liberal activists were “f-ing retarded.”  Sarah Palin, the mother of a retard, called on Obama to fire him.  Here’s [...]

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Politician IQs

February 2, 2010

 
After reading Game Change, watching the political scene and using academic evidence I estimate the following IQs for the major politicians of the 2008 election. 
Bill Clinton-150
Went to Yale Law, whose student body has a median IQ of 140.  Quick on his feet, charismatic, impresses everybody he meets.
Mitt Romney-150
Valedictorian at Brigham Young University, then completed joint [...]