{"id":51954,"date":"2014-01-17T13:42:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T21:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51954"},"modified":"2023-09-23T02:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T10:46:18","slug":"not-so-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51954","title":{"rendered":"Not So Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gone much of my life competing against people smarter than me. I just sense that I&#8217;m not as sharp as my peers. School was rarely easy for me. I had to slog to get As. Whatever success I&#8217;ve had has been the result of extraordinary effort and risk-taking.<\/p>\n<p>I started taking an IQ test online (the classic IQ test on Queendom.com) today and gave up. It was too hard. It made my stomach hurt. I have to make peace with being 118-128 (from about ten years ago). Cathy Seipp didn&#8217;t believe that I scored that low. Her IQ was about 150, but she said it was in poor taste to reveal such things. Whatever abilities I have in the verbal area are inherited from my father (whose IQ measured 137, and he got two PhDs in 18 months each) and mother (who published a book before she died). <\/p>\n<p>* On Jan. 16, 2014, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304149404579322482088561454?mod=hp_opinion\">This<\/a> is the most important<br \/>\nthing politically happening in the United States. The attempt is to<br \/>\nsilence conservative opposition in this country and I have a sense that talk radio is next.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;This silencing of conservative opposition by rather nefarious means, by ruining their reputations, by having mass campaigns against any advertiser&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dan Henninger <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304149404579322482088561454?mod=hp_opinion\">wrote<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Christie bonfire has burned for a week. In that same week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI found nothing in the IRS&#8217;s targeting of conservative political groups that warrants criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>This conclusion struck lawyers Jay Sekulow and Cleta Mitchell as fairly amazing. Both represent conservative groups targeted by the IRS, and they say the FBI only recently got in touch with a few of their clients.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, two of the most powerful public institutions in the U.S.\u2014the FBI and the IRS\u2014have concluded no harm, no foul, and the memory hole swallows the Obama administration&#8217;s successful kneecapping of the GOP&#8217;s most active members just as they prepared to participate in the 2012 presidential campaign. Many\u2014ruined or terrified by the IRS probes\u2014shut down. Mr. Obama won.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gone much of my life competing against people smarter than me. 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