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A Nanny State Idiocracy

FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2024

Black leaders and white liberals have kept black Americans so focused on superficial indications of racism, that we overlook the most pernicious and ruinous use of race, that is, as an economic weapon — not just to deter one’s employment in companies created by others, but to hamper the ability to create employment for oneself.

Elizabeth Wright

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May 23, 2024
Drug-War Obtuseness in Mexico
In the final debate between Mexico’s two leading presidential candidates, Claudia Sheinbaum and Xochitl Galvez, before the June 2 election, both candidates vied with each other as to which one would be a stronger drug warrior. Both of them vowed to smash the violent drug cartels that dominate Mexican society. It would be difficult to find a better example of obtuseness than that. …
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