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Three comments on “White-Collar Supremacy”

Three comments out of seven hundred responses to the NYT opinion piece by Kelly J. Baker I mentioned earlier. “sjaco” from northern Nevada: Ok, I guess I get what the author is getting at. Over 60 million people voted for Trump lets…

A filibuster in Hungary?

If my calculations are correct, 37.4% of the eligible voters voted for Brexit in June and 39.7% of the eligible voters voted for Orbán’s immigration proposal last Sunday. However, the turnout for the Brexit referendum was 72%, with 52% voting…

“The truth is a trap”

I stopped writing about DJT’s campaign when he failed the Khan test. Khizr Khan’s speech at the DNC made little sense. The US constitution does not authorize unrestricted immigration. The benefit of accepting potential heroes is immeasurably less than the…

So far, so good (freefall chronicles)

I have been told that population aging is hardly the disaster certain natalists are making it to be: just look at how well Germany and Japan have handled it. Unfortunately, it is a rear-mirror view, reminiscent of the proverbial optimist…

Good dreams, bad dreams

In his perennial quest for relevance, Dmitry Medvedev has granted a long interview to the German business newspaper Handelsblatt. It’s hidden behind a paywall on their site but posted in English on the official site of the Russian government. Naturally, Medvedev is…

Russia’s demographics: Putin’s solution

According to the BBC, Russia and Tajikistan have signed an accord to make legal hundreds of thousands of Tajik migrants in Russia. That’s the introductory paragraph; the rest of the report is mostly whining and hand-wringing over the Tajik illegals’…