Thursday, July 18, 2013

Tea Leaves By Twilight Part 2: Wars And Rumors Of Wars

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We met on the beach amid rumours of war, Your head in your hand, what you saw you won't say, As the newspapers blew in the wind. I ca...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Tea Leaves By Twilight

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Among the greatest of the curses upon the race of Man is our propensity for "thinking" with our wishes rather than our powers of r...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Assorted

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Yes, yes, I usually do these on Fridays, but...well... 1. Prosecutorial discretion. You really have to wonder how much more blatant it ...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

After The Acquittal

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Perhaps there's a Gentle Reader in Andromeda who isn't yet aware that George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges this past Saturd...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Just In Case You're Not Yet Thoroughly Sick Of It...

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...have a little Mark Steyn on l'affaire Zimmerman: The defining characteristic of English law is its distribution of power between pr...
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Friday, July 12, 2013

Assorted

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1. "Ostensibly" This piece should make it clear why I consider Mike Hendrix of Cold Fury one of the Blogosphere's chief or...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Protection Rackets, 2013 A.D.

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“When Sir Robert Peel proposed to organize the police force of London, Englishmen said openly that half a dozen throats cut in Whitechapel e...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Usings Part 3: Bettors and Abettors

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As the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin has entered its final stage, any number of developments have surfaced to c...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Usings Part 2: Users And Borders

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The esteemed Charles Hill linked to this piece, and added a spot-on observation: The “free and open market” is the problem, according t...
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Monday, July 8, 2013

Trials Can Be Murder

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I've never been involved in a criminal trial in any capacity. But I've known others who were jurors in such trials, including in the...
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Sunday, July 7, 2013

Usings

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There have been some remarkable movies made lately -- along with the usual tonnage of crap, of course -- in which important ideas are broach...
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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Book Notes

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Freedom’s Scion is now available at Amazon, for Kindle ( UPDATE: and paperback, too! ) Mark Butterworth's Tales of New America are o...
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Friday, July 5, 2013

An Indictment

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There are some subjects on which I hate to be proved right. One of them is the great, enveloping subject of race. There are...persons...who...
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