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Archive for 2019
August 15, 2019
LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: A nation is vanishing: Has Venezuela lost almost 20 percent of its population?
Mark Green, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), said on Feb. 16, 2019, that getting humanitarian aid to Venezuela is an effort not just of the United States, but of the whole region.
A staggering 15 to 19 percent of Venezuela’s total population has left the country amid an economic and political crisis with no clear end in sight, a new survey estimates. And those numbers are likely to increase in coming months and years if there are not profound changes in the South American country.
A recent poll by the Caracas-based think tank, Consultores 21, found that 48 percent of all families had an average of 1.6 members living abroad. Based on those numbers, the organization estimates that anywhere from 4.7 million to 6 million of the nation’s 31.8 million people are now living abroad.
Even the low-end figure is huge.
SO IF THEY TRY TO ENTER THE COUNTRY, HE’S GOING TO . . . SEND THEM BACK? Confirmed: Netanyahu to Block Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib from Entering Israel.
SORT OF LIKE HOW THE AMERICAN MEDIA TREATED THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT: China’s information war is trying to turn its citizens against Hong Kong protesters.
LIFE IN THE BLUE CITY: Bystanders taunted and laughed as police officers were being fired upon in Philadelphia.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Experts: Broken Bones in Jeffrey Epstein’s Neck ‘Are Common In Victims of Homicide by Strangulation.’
I DON’T KNOW ART, BUT I KNOW WHAT I DISLIKE: Jeffrey Epstein had a painting which appeared to be Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress and red heels hanging inside his Manhattan home.
IF TRUMP WERE REALLY A RACIST, WOULD THEY HAVE TO MAKE UP ALL HIS “RACIST” STATEMENTS? Fake News: Trump Official Did Not Say Statue of Liberty Poem Was Only for Europeans.
BUT WE WON’T BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE TOO MUCH SENSE: Why The United States Should Treat Immigration like A Job Interview.
When technical qualifications and cultural fit are suggested as elements of immigration policy, adversarial reactions far surpass the typical reflexive and groundless accusations of racism routinely hurled against conservatives. Indeed, the hysteria in such circumstances is reminiscent of the scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in which the Ark of the Covenant is opened, and the faces of Nazis melt right off.
We should be asking of applicants is whether they have a pluralist, tolerant view of others and support individual freedom and self-representative values. This would certainly hard to measure, as well as susceptible to mismanagement and fraud, but how this could be accomplished should be investigated and considered.
Such a policy would not mean that immigrants must come from societies embodying these ideals; one reason immigrants might be seeking entrance to the United States in the first place is disagreement with their home countries’ cultures, politics, and institutions. Many entrepreneurial, free-market-embracing immigrants from communist China and Vietnam are great examples of this phenomenon. Nonetheless, whether an applicant shares are our traditional values and mores is an appropriate area of inquiry.
Not just appropriate, but nearly indispensable.
A BIT OF WISDOM FROM ROBERT BOLT: Bolt was the man who wrote A Man for All Seasons and the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago. Today would have been his 95th birthday.
OUT: TRUMP’S A BULLY WHO THREATENS OUR INSTITUTIONS
In: Senate Dems Issue Ominous Warning to SCOTUS: ‘Heal’ or Be ‘Restructured.’
SCENES FROM A DISARMED NATION: 16-year-old boy stabbed to death with machete on London doorstep.
RED FLAG THIS CRAZY WOMAN: ‘Whiteness Killing Us:’ Former CO House Candidate Tweets Anti-White Rant. I don’t trust her with guns.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I was desperate for a baby so I ‘spurgled’ a man and tricked him into getting me pregnant.
Flashback: Is a Vasectomy Now the Only Way Men Can Be Truly Safe from Financial Extortion? “Ironically, this notion – of privileged white men taking control of their reproductive destinies – has given some feminists the willies.”
If I were a young single guy, I’d be inclined to bank a bunch of sperm, then get a vasectomy. For men, that’s pretty much the only way to achieve “reproductive rights.”
And on this topic, I should once again plug a piece by my Tennessee colleague Michael Higdon: Fatherhood by Conscription: Nonconsensual Insemination and the Duty of Child Support.
FIGHTING THE CULTURE WAR TAKES MANY FORMS: The Art of Bigfoot and Painting as Philosophy.
WELL, BEARS POO IN THE WOODS, AND THE POPE CLAIMS TO BE CATHOLIC, SO CHANCES ARE I HAVE TO ANSWER YES: Did Mark Zuckerberg Lie Under Oath About Facebook Eavesdropping Through Your Phone?
IT IS NOT A MAGICAL FORMULA: The Power of Law.
YEP. FREEDOM IS PRAGMATICALLY BETTER: “How do you propose to end mass shootings then?”
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE. SO SHINY AND SHOCKED: Transgender athletes retain their muscular advantage.
IF OUR FATE WEREN’T TIED TO THESE REFUGEES OF AN INSANE ASYLUM, THIS WOULD BE COMEDY GOLD: Stacey Abrams Sets Out to Save Democracy,
SINCE HE FAILS TO GRASP THAT THE PROBLEM IS HIS DERELICTION OF DUTY, I IMAGINE THE DIFFERENCE WILL BE FOR THE WORSE: Portland Mayor Promises Protests Will Be Different This Weekend.