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Life and politics

Are we having a dress rehearsal for a police state?

When police enforce malum in se laws only, they are part of us. When they are used to enforce...

May 18, 2020

Who is gaslighting whom?

Mr. Gambuto is right that as soon as the worst of COVID-19 is behind us, advertisers will lure us...

May 2, 2020

Is inequality unequal?

There is a Polish saying that, for a poor one, the wind always blows into the eyes. There are...

Apr 23, 2020

Human and artificial intelligence in capitalism

One cannot pass a law making Americans smarter.

Privacy or anonymity?

Most of us live in big cities where we enjoy anonymity, often mistaken as privacy.

Apr 15, 2020

Cash is king, more potent than we think

The cashless economy leaves us at the mercy of an operator. Also, a centrally controlled system can be abused...

Mar 30, 2020

Argentina – a warning to the United States and China

For about two generations, from about 1870 until 1930, Argentina was firmly among the 10 most prosperous countries in...

Feb 18, 2020

Science and money in the climate change debate

It is not about climate change but grandiose government spending for unrelated ideological reasons.

A wrong way about Huawei

The WSJ does not ask the most obvious question: What is wrong with the United States that it cannot...

Jan 15, 2020

The indolence of the political elite (informally) confirmed

America is so big that many false prophecies can find enough supporters, guaranteeing a comfortable life for the elite.

Remark of the day

Tom Homan, Eliot Ness of our era

December 19, 2024
Immigration

For a hammer, everything is a nail. Carlson Tucker's interview with Tom Homan shows a decent cop trying to enforce our immigration laws, which are as good and as unenforceable as Prohibition. The same politicians voted in both in the early 1920s. Eliot Ness did not make Prohibition work. People wishing to live in the U.S. come to the country illegally because it is the easiest way to obtain legal residence. Even the best police work by the Border Czar will not change it. Many will get hurt, but maybe Americans will realize that ending illegal immigration could be as easy as ending the menace of Prohibition — by repealing our immigration laws.

Killing CEOs does not solve the problem

December 12, 2024
Health care, Media

The media noticed that the public shows solidarity with Luigi Mangione and has little ...

DOGE is much ado about nothing

December 05, 2024
Life and politics, Media

The media noted that even Trump opponents see potential benefits of DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. ...

Two jokes about Russia

November 28, 2024
Ukraine

A Russian propagandist made a joke about Russia giving up nuclear weapons by sending them on rockets to the United States. I remember a similar...

How to respond to the nuclear blackmail?

November 19, 2024
Ukraine

Putin always waved that he had atomic bombs. Now, he claims that he might use it if, thanks to the military help, Ukrai...