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On Tuesday, San Francisco’s largely liberal residents successfully recalled their woke district attorney, Chesa Boudin. The majority of San Franciscans held Boudin accountable for the city’s skyrocketing crimes and the deterioration of the quality of life. The recall’s success has significant implications for San Francisco and the rest of the country. 1. Wokeness Gone Too Far, Even For Democrat VotersSince elected San Francisco’s DA in November 2019, Boudin has become the standard-bearer of the so-called progressive prosecution movement, which includes Los Angeles County DA George Gascón (he previously served as San Francisco’s DA), Chicago Cook County DA Kim Foxx, Philadelphia...

The difference between America and Australia: In America everybody’s talking the possibility of a real estate bubble. In Australia, they’re living it. Real estate prices in Sydney, which rose by about 175 percent from 1994 to 2004, have fallen 10 percent since then and some expect the market to fall farther. "Sydney is undoubtedly the basket case of the national property market," says the Sydney Morning Herald. Investors are fleeing, says the Australian.  "Thousands of home owners are trapped with mortgages higher than the value of their properties as house prices fall,” the national daily reported earlier this month. The...