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In order for a civilized society to function, most people have to willingly follow the rules of that society. If that happens, law enforcement authorities can deal with the few that choose to be lawless. For generations, that is how things worked in America. There was a high standard of morality among the general population, and so the police were able to successfully handle the few bad apples that insisted on breaking the law. But now everything has changed. As a result of decades of extreme moral decay, lawlessness is rampant and there are vast multitudes of young people that...

A blackpill is the pill you take to die. A blackpill report is essentially a pessimistic take on our near or not so distant fates. Anyone that finds such takes/rants should submit them with the title and then append (Blackpill). The 2021 Quincy Adams Wagstaff Lecture"You asked for this lecture, and you're going to get it, good and hard. These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have other ones."In what's become a more or less annual tradition here*, we present to you this year's Q.A.W. Lecture. If you haven't read earlier ones, we heartily encourage it.The earlier...

Afew [sic] hours after California voters approved his Proposition 13 tax-cut measure on June 6, 1978, a bibulous and exultant Howard Jarvis dropped his pants for the benefit of a few reporters gathered in his suite at the L.A. Biltmore Hotel. A reporter had asked Jarvis why he was limping, so his ostensible reason was to show a large, ugly bruise, which he'd suffered in a fall a few days before, on his ample, boxer-clad behind. The surprise gesture, however, also afforded the earthy and profane Jarvis a chance to display his contempt for the press and, by extension, the...

ON MAY 19th Californians will go to the polls to vote on six ballot measures that are as important as they are confusing. If these measures fail, America’s biggest state will enter a full-blown financial crisis that will require excruciating cuts in public services. If the measures succeed, the crisis will be only a little less acute. Recent polls suggest that voters are planning to vote most of them down.

Latin America: Bitterly refusing to concede the presidential election he lost, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vows to destabilize Mexico as payback for his defeat. The government will have to deal with him firmly. And that's a shame, because the final call, set for Sept. 6, on Mexico's July 2 presidential election should be pure celebration. The country should rightly recognize its free and fair vote, its emerging new parties and its solid institutions — all of which have come about in a mere decade of democracy from a one-party state — and winner Felipe Calderon should be able to begin...

<p>HOLLYWOOD - Fifteen years ago, when Pete Wilson was thinking about giving up his U.S. Senate seat and running for governor of California, a very prominent political strategist privately chastised him for considering such a move because "California is ungovernable."</p>