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Super busy week! Drove out to Dallas to pick up my son’s friends so they could all go on a seminary visit from our diocese.
We’re so close paying off the big family van, but we started thinking about tariffs driving up the cost of cars and having two vehicles over 100,000 miles probably isn’t smart with all these kids. So I spent all day Friday negotiating to afford a small SUV (with the money we’ll save shortly once the van note is paid) so we at least have something we can use fo…
Older voters vote.
Crosstab the age cohorts by region and you'll see who is more more likely to win each.
There's no tightening of the result if Colettos numbers are right. Libs will win.
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As a historical fact Palestinians did bring the Nakba on themselves. The Arabs rejected pluralist democracy when they had a majority, launched a massive insurgency and war to try to kill the Jews, and a large but hard to estimate share of Nakba sufferers voluntarily left their homes in expectation of the Arab states sweeping the Jews int…
The word that was on everybody’s minds for some time, *equality*, is . . . unnatural. It is anti-power and anti-agency, and by consequence, pro-decay and pro-death.
Network effects, power laws, compound interest . . . Power disparity is the only stable configuration, without it, there is conflict and power struggle.
The objective of a well designed system of governance, then, is maximally efficient transfer of power. This makes way for great men to realize their greatness, and it means that when a 1 in a trillion or 1 in a quadrillion person does come along, society receives maximum benefit from that person’s presence and life, by getting out of their way.
A small fraction of resistance and conflict reduced would produce an order of magnitude increase in agency, and each additional fraction would produce greater results than the last, the last few drops squeezed hold virtually all the nectar.
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