On this day:
1834
US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute
1886
Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute
1886
Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
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Nobody is needy in the market economy because of the fact that some people are rich.--von mises
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Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund made $247 billion in 2025. Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) manages the fund on behalf of the Norwegian population. Set up in the 1990s to invest excess revenues from Norway’s oil and gas industry, the fund is currently an investor in more than 7,000 companies across 60 countries.The fund is worth the equivalent of $385,000 for every Norwegian man, woman and child and finances some 25% of the country's fiscal budget.
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Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund made $247 billion in 2025. Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) manages the fund on behalf of the Norwegian population. Set up in the 1990s to invest excess revenues from Norway’s oil and gas industry, the fund is currently an investor in more than 7,000 companies across 60 countries.The fund is worth the equivalent of $385,000 for every Norwegian man, woman and child and finances some 25% of the country's fiscal budget.
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"But it does make a kind of sick sense that if Vance can’t have a white wife standing next to him as he clearly looks toward the 2028 presidential election, the next best thing is a pregnant one."
This is from Slate, and you can keep it in mind for those times when you are uncertain how bad the far Left really is.
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Rising Above the Law and Those Left Behind
Democrat Commissioner Diane Marseglia in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. spoke as she and Democratic Board chairman Robert Harvie, Jr., dismissed the earlier Pa. Supreme Court rulings in order to accept ballots without required signatures or mandatory dates. She declared that she would not second a motion to enforce a Supreme Court ruling, “mostly because I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country and people violate laws any time they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention to it.”
So a county commissioner thinks the law is optional, perhaps part of a continuum. A hint of what's to come.
This may help explain the current problems in Minnesota. The state has refused to enforce the immigration laws and has forced the Federal agents to work alone in the face of serious local opposition, including assaults, to protect Federal criminals living or arrested there.
This stance, called 'nullification,' was an early Southern position to resist anti-slavery laws, a charming precedent for the good citizens of Minnesota to adopt. Like the county commissioner, it rejects the law, in this case because the individual has a better idea. Importantly, the local officials have encouraged their citizens to encounter the Federal law enforcement with the hopes that the conflict will dramatize their position. Two have been killed, but sacrifices must be made. And they can sue.
One is struck by the confused thinking the violators use to explain themselves. It is a throwback to the pre-Hammurabi days, when Hammurabi's 'eye-for-an-eye' was a significant civilizing advance over the barbaric vendetta and vigilante arrogance. And, as the commissioner shows, the so-called political and social leaders are at least as dim-witted and irresponsible as their camp followers.
And, according to the news, these lemmings think Noam is the problem. There are plenty of problems.
It's hard to imagine how popular support for immigrant criminals will turn out, but while the nation will suffer, the immigrants--both legal and illegal--will suffer most. Biden let in over 10 million unvetted people--perhaps as high as 20 million--from all over the world. They will be of all sorts. Most will be just desperate, like their predecessors, although some, like the 70 battalions of young Chinese men, will be of more specific concern. The fate of the 300,000 unaccompanied children will be abandoned to...fate.
The criminals among them will eventually reveal themselves, but managing that number of people will be difficult without public support. We will probably have to accept the group and their social and criminal burden, and deal with the criminals one by one, as their new, emancipated selves fulfill their criminal destinies. And, we'll watch the others--and those that look like them--suspiciously. This will create in the national mind a second class of citizens, undermine the culture's cohesiveness, and accept the apparent unrest these people seem to be so comfortable with. And, of course, there's the success of the rioters and the lesson that will teach.
It would be great if Noam and the reaction of the law were the problem.
Democrat Commissioner Diane Marseglia in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. spoke as she and Democratic Board chairman Robert Harvie, Jr., dismissed the earlier Pa. Supreme Court rulings in order to accept ballots without required signatures or mandatory dates. She declared that she would not second a motion to enforce a Supreme Court ruling, “mostly because I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country and people violate laws any time they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention to it.”
So a county commissioner thinks the law is optional, perhaps part of a continuum. A hint of what's to come.
This may help explain the current problems in Minnesota. The state has refused to enforce the immigration laws and has forced the Federal agents to work alone in the face of serious local opposition, including assaults, to protect Federal criminals living or arrested there.
This stance, called 'nullification,' was an early Southern position to resist anti-slavery laws, a charming precedent for the good citizens of Minnesota to adopt. Like the county commissioner, it rejects the law, in this case because the individual has a better idea. Importantly, the local officials have encouraged their citizens to encounter the Federal law enforcement with the hopes that the conflict will dramatize their position. Two have been killed, but sacrifices must be made. And they can sue.
One is struck by the confused thinking the violators use to explain themselves. It is a throwback to the pre-Hammurabi days, when Hammurabi's 'eye-for-an-eye' was a significant civilizing advance over the barbaric vendetta and vigilante arrogance. And, as the commissioner shows, the so-called political and social leaders are at least as dim-witted and irresponsible as their camp followers.
And, according to the news, these lemmings think Noam is the problem. There are plenty of problems.
It's hard to imagine how popular support for immigrant criminals will turn out, but while the nation will suffer, the immigrants--both legal and illegal--will suffer most. Biden let in over 10 million unvetted people--perhaps as high as 20 million--from all over the world. They will be of all sorts. Most will be just desperate, like their predecessors, although some, like the 70 battalions of young Chinese men, will be of more specific concern. The fate of the 300,000 unaccompanied children will be abandoned to...fate.
The criminals among them will eventually reveal themselves, but managing that number of people will be difficult without public support. We will probably have to accept the group and their social and criminal burden, and deal with the criminals one by one, as their new, emancipated selves fulfill their criminal destinies. And, we'll watch the others--and those that look like them--suspiciously. This will create in the national mind a second class of citizens, undermine the culture's cohesiveness, and accept the apparent unrest these people seem to be so comfortable with. And, of course, there's the success of the rioters and the lesson that will teach.
It would be great if Noam and the reaction of the law were the problem.
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