Thoughts on its source(s), from Virginia Postrel.
One of the irritating things about the immigration debate is the conflation of opposition to immigration per se, and opposition to the unrestricted flooding of the country with people who have been completely unvetted, and many of whom are coming not for American opportunity but rather government handouts, and many of whom hate America (e.g., Somalians in Minnesota).
It’s just more evidence of the failing of the American media that too many Americans still worship these people as royalty.
I was digging through the archives looking for my first Veteran’s Day post in 2001, and I ran across this fisking of an op-ed on space policy from The Economist. It holds up pretty well, I think. I wish that they had followed my advice then. We’d be a lot further ahead.
…you should remember today.
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At precisely 11:11 a.m. on Veterans Day, November 11, the sun shines in perfect alignment with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona. pic.twitter.com/88E80aSkTG
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) November 11, 2025
Both my parents were veterans of WW II. Very few of that generation remain with us, and that war, the greatest one in history, is passing from living memory.
…of America’s radical left.
The Cold Civil War is defrosting, and I don’t think the left will ultimately be happy with the results.
As Roger says, I’ve always been aghast that this horrible man was in the intelligence community at all, let alone head of the CIA. Let’s hope justice is finally served.
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Related thoughts from Stephen Kruiser.
…versus the Democratic deep state. You can have a constitutional republic, or a massive federal bureaucracy. Pick one.
This is extremely explanatory, and extremely terrifying. I love women as individuals, but we should be societally terrified of them as groups. It’s why many people, including many women, think that it was a mistake to give them the vote. It makes me think that if we were to return to literacy tests to vote, maybe we should have some emotional ones as well. It would exclude many men, but probably many more women.
Reading Empire of the Summer Moon really drove this home — the Comanche started out in Canada, and ended up controlling much of the plains and Texas through total conquest. And they do "land acknowledgments" to the Comanche at SXSW! https://t.co/iGJKGNE6lg
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 13, 2025
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Instapundit’s annual C-Day post.
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It's a great Indigenous People's Day for the Jewish people, who had a kingdom in Israel more than 2,300 years before Columbus, & were ejected from that land by a Western colonial empire.
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) October 13, 2025
It is an interesting coincidence.
Forever-Democrat Alan Dershowitz is going to campaign for Republicans next year.