Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
The country with the largest Muslim population in the world is Indonesia, followed by Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. These four account for more than 40% of the total. Nigeria is in the fifth place. Egypt, Iran and Turkey share places…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…