Sign of the Apocalypse

When California announced that it was raising the dollar limit on shoplifting to $950 before a person could be charged with a felony, and started releasing people with no bail, any American with half a brain knew what was coming. Sure enough, California is experiencing a crime wave of amazing proportions. Thieves routinely walk into …

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Reconstructing History, Part 4: Multiple Punctured Equilibriums

Since 2020, the US has gone through a series of trigger events that upset the established order. The two events in 2020, COVID-19 and the George Floyd death, broke a strong path dependency in American history, opening the way for Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project to re-write American history. Then the Virginia elections in Fall 2021 called that newly emerging equilibrium into question. As Americans were starting to sort out these issues, Russia invaded Ukraine, adding further complexity and uncertainty.