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Boycotts used to be a major conservative tool. Do they still work? Not as well, but they can work. Big Tech’s biggest vulnerability is the need to project an impossible perpetual motion machine of constant growth. What happens when that illusion of perpetual growth is challenged? Then the bottom suddenly drops out. Netflix reported its first…

The religion of peace continues its track record of having a peaceful Ramadan. Swedish police said they fired warning shots during a riot in an eastern city to disperse protesters angry about demonstrations over the past several days by a Danish anti-Islam group in Sweden. Three people were slightly injured during the clashes. A crowd…

The debate about the homeless crisis is really a debate about the nature of homelessness which, as facts have repeatedly shown, is a case of mentally ill and drug-addicted vagrants whose presence on the streets has been enabled by the homeless-industrial complex. Despite that most of the LA mayoral candidates promise to fix the homeless…

An important piece of subtext for the radical COVID control policies we’re seeing on display in Shanghai and elsewhere in Communist China. China’s leaders have said that the country, unlike most of the rest of the world, cannot afford to live with the virus because it has a large and vulnerable aging population.  I’ve explored…

It’s sad when friends fight. Also entirely deserved. Pakistan’s intel people and regime are the major backers of the Taliban. They also helped shield Al Qaeda and other Taliban allies. But there are the “good Taliban” in Afghanistan and the “bad Taliban” in Afghanistan. Like most Islamist regimes, the Pakis are enthusiastic about Jihad… somewhere…