NOT DOSTOYEVSKI: War Crime and Punishment (VIP)

WORDS MEAN THINGS: Don’t Call It Treason (VIP)

BE CAREFUL WHO YOU’RE VOTING FOR: The Real Political Parties (VIP)

WHAT IS IT ACTUALLY GOOD FOR? The ‘International Law’ Scam

YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONES…:Why Affirmative Action May Be Doing More Harm Than Good for Black Americans.

JULY 4TH. EVERY JULY 4TH: The Geometry of Liberty: The Declaration of Independence Is a Logical Argument Based on Jefferson’s Axioms.

I was thinking about “We hold these truths to be self-evident” and remembered I’d written about it in 2019.

The Declaration as a whole is a logical argument that begins by stating its axioms:

• That all men (by which Jefferson meant humanity, humankind) are created equal;
• that by the very fact of their existence they have rights that inhere to them by their nature;
• that among these right — that is, there are other natural rights that Jefferson doesn’t assert for the purposes of his argument — are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness;
• that governments exists by the consent of the governed to secure — protect — those rights;
• that a government’s only reason or justification for existence is to secure those rights;
• and that a government’s only legitimacy and authority derives from that consent.

In that one sentence, Jefferson changes the world.

THE INTERNET IS SAVING AMERICA. AGAIN. Hunter Biden by Gaslight

WHAT IT DOES IN THE SHADOWS: Unraveling the Mystery: How AI Models Process Language Without Truly Thinking. (VIP)

NOT LORI LIGHTFOOT: Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse! Will We See a Supernova in Our Lifetimes?

BILL CLINTON’S SOCK DRAWER: Why Are Bill Clinton’s Socks Presidential Documents but Donald Trump’s Boxes Aren’t? (VIP)

WHAT THE F IS AN NFT? What the Heck Is a Trump NFT? (VIP)

Yeah, that is the pre-Bowdlerized headline….

MUSK TRANSLATION: What Was Elon Musk Trying to Say With His Cryptic Tweet about Git and Subversion?

SABOTAGE? IF SO, WHAT ELSE IS VULNERABLE? Are the Undersea Cables We Depend on Vulnerable to Russian Sabotage? (VIP, use code AMERICAFIRST for 25 percent off.)

“ON THE COVER IT SAID ‘DON’T PANIC’ IN LARGE FRIENDLY LETTERS”: Monkeypox Boogaloo: Pestilence Panic 2022 (VIP)

YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM A LEAK: The First Law of Media Leaks.

But you learn it from the leak itself, not the story around the leak. (VIP)

I SUPPOSE ASKING “WHY?” IS POINTLESS: Hillary Clinton Can’t Stop Lying About Her Emails(VIP)

IT’s JUST POSSIBLE SAYING DUMB STUFF ISN’T HELPFUL: Trump Needs a Lesson on the Constitution (VIP)

HOW PUTIN LOST THE PLOT: The Weakness of the Despot

The biggest surprise for Putin, of course, was the West. All the nonsense about how the West is decadent, the West is over, the West is in decline, how it’s a multipolar world and the rise of China, et cetera: all of that turned out to be bunk. The courage of the Ukrainian people and the bravery and smarts of the Ukrainian government, and its President, Zelensky, galvanized the West to remember who it was. And that shocked Putin! That’s the miscalculation.

I know it’s the New Yorker. It’s good anyway. And they should be encouraged to do more articles about tyrants and despots that don’t mention Trump even once.

MY NEW VIP PIECE: Advice for Biden on Energy Policy: Put the Candle Back

EXPLAINING DURHAM: Quick and Dirty Durham Explainer

This is the long explainer I’ve been promising, finally finished. It’s VIP (FIGHTBACK for a 25 percent discount, or CHARLIE for a 5 percent discount that pays me a little royalty. Yeah, hard decision, I know.) for the next week, but here’s the short form:

In paragraphs 2 through 7, under the heading FACTUAL BACKGROUND, Durham details important points about the indictment that show Sussman working with Rodney Joffe and his firm Neustar, who passed information to researchers under a DARPA contract at Georgia Tech and coordinated an effort to build up a falsified case for investigating Trump’s connections to Russia. This also involved the Clinton campaign, and the Clinton campaign’s general counsel — a familiar name, Marc Elias. This data was, to put it gently, massaged in order to make an incriminating case against Trump that fed into the Clinton campaign’s other efforts, like the “dossier,” and thus into the fraudulent FISA warrants and more intelligence operations against the Trump campaign.

You can see why this caused a lot of agitation on the Democrats’ side: Durham is laying out a case that Perkins Coie, through Sussman and with the active participation of Mark Elias, purposefully manufactured evidence against Trump that factored into the four-year investigation into “Russian collusion”.

EVERYONE IS CONSERVATIVE WHEN IT’S THEIR OWN MONEY: Socialist ‘Current Affairs’ Founder Takes the Red Pill After His Socialist Staff Makes Socialist Demands.

This is a VIP article, re-posed at editorial request. As always, you can subscribe with promo code CHARLIE for a discount.

TECHNICOLOR TOM WOLFE TAKES THE RED PILL: Socialist ‘Current Affairs’ Founder Takes the Red Pill After His Socialist Staff Makes Socialist Demands.

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A QUESTION LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE ASKING: COVID: Yes, There Are Tests for the Delta Variant.

It’s like the misinformation Olympics.

Anyway, this is a VIP piece. Promo code CHARLIE for the discount.

FROM MY OTHER LIFE: Five Pro Tips for Programming Articles That Will Preserve My Last Nerve.

INSURRECTION! As D.C. Murder Rate Soars, FBI Arrests Jan. 6 Protester Who Spent 17 Minutes in the Capitol, Mostly Snapping Selfies.