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The Mechanics of Crime Reduction in DC
Puzzles remain, but crime has discernibly decreased during the course of Trump’s “surge.”
A Week of Democracy in the Anglosphere
The Brexit coalition starts coalescing again; Constitutional governance survives in Virginia… for now; States can no longer gerrymander Congressional districts by race, but they can by other means.
Operationalizing Voting Rights
The point of racial gerrymandering is power and political monopoly, not democratic representation.
Gerrymandering is bad until it isn’t, they said.
"Yes, Virginia, Democratic Norms™ are for losers," they said.
War is bargaining by other means
It may be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than to bring down an oppressive regime without imposing some hardship on the population.
Hatred reveals cravings for conformity of mind and spirit.
"Anti-Zionism" is license to hate. But hate is still a choice—a choice that reveals criminal dullness of mind & spirit.
Trump’s Cheap Talk
I totally approve.
Epic Fury Unfolds Like the Universe – Right on Schedule
Why had the Universe not scheduled war with the Iranian regime sooner?
The Ayatollah Khomeini was Iran’s Vladimir Lenin
The Bolshevik Model: A cabal of fanatics can seize the machinery of government and then impose its principled orthodoxy on the atomized populace.