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I had a great chat with Nanda last night.  Totally didn’t watch the debate.  I am just enjoying the heck out of my time in the States.  Have a Navy buddy coming up to visit this eve.  Will try to get on the Nightcap AMU.  We really *should* do one of our own.  Well, the schedule should be more friendly for that sort of thing in a bit.  My job will *not* be nine-to-five anymore, so I should be able to come up with a decent time that lines up with the States.

Virginia is just beautiful.

Nanda is doing great.  We spoke for over an hour I guess, and it flew by.  Funny, talking to her, Ricochet seems a lot like LGF as it made the turn. … Continue reading →

Lemme try to start a fight here.  Have you thought about what it would take to be a domestic enemy of the Constitution?  I’ve written about it here and there.  As the Obama administration draws to a close, it becomes easier (let us say) to speak about this in the abstract, or at least without worrying overmuch.

What do you think?

Whatever. My wife brought me salt cracker and hommous.  That stuff is delicious!  It’s guacamole for people who don’t even avocado.

You may get some fails or delays or something.  Going to update some stuff so I can upgrade other stuff.

Well here’s something we can all agree upon — that this is one of the finest, most life-affirming, it’s a beautiful day to be alive things that you are likely to see today.  Or tomorrow.  Especially if the news gets any of your eyeball time.

It has been topsy-turvy around here, including an unexpected reassignment in one of my lines of employment, some crucial deadlines being miracles off of me, and not least, a collapse in my email and hosting.  Long story, basically my fault, but they don’t make it easy.  My other site was offline, and all email sent to me beginning 01FEB has simply been dropped, not delivered.  I hope fail notices went out — I have no way to know.

Anyway, going skiing this weekend.  I’ll post pics!

So I saw the new Star Wars movie.  Meh.  There were good things about it and things that I didn’t like so much.  More on that sort of thing later.  Meanwhile, the movie is a walk-away break with the misery of the threequels.   It’s worth seeing if you’re so inclined.  On the other hand, if you don’t really care about Star Wars, you’re not missing anything.

J. J. Abrams has delivered us from the idiot George Lucas.  Huzzah!  Whatever.

The Constitution not only lays out a framework for government, but passage and ratification of the Constitution by the States actually constituted a new government.  The federal government is literally the creature of the states, a thing created by them.

A government exercises sovereignty over its territory and its citizens, and our Constitution specifies that government sovereignty is at the sufferage of the citizens themselves.  This point is repeatedly made in writings on how the Constitution came to be, in procedures spelled out in the Constitution itself, and explored thoroughly in associated writings by those who brought forth the Constitution itself.

Citizenship is as tightly defined by custom and usage as any other term.  We all know what it means for most purposes.  Borders are also not much … Continue reading →

So I’ve put up two posts at Ricochet, in very different moods.  One is furious, one curious.

This omnibus betrayal is going to ring like a bell for years.

So I called Peak Trump a few week ago, said he would be struggling for second by now.  WRONG.  Since then, the race has appeared almost frozen, with only three movers: Fiorina and Bush have faded, while Carson has picked up steam, edging toward 20% in the realclearpolitics.com average of polls.  The Democrats have all the action right now, but when it’s media apparatchik action, it doesn’t work so well for them, as their swarm attack on Carson is just giving him an opportunity to shine.  So they can have their Sanders and Clinton debacle, and the GOP field is sitting pretty.  I cannot wait until one of our clowns gets to take apart theirs.

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