"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone."  - Frederick Bastiat

President Trump said a lot of the right things in his RNC speech.  Civilization vs. Anarchy is powerful framing for the election and is by no means baseless.

A writer for the New York Times describes race as "biological fiction."  This is a more obviously unscientific assertion than anything any rightwing congressman or President has ever said.

GK Chesterton told us to not take down a fence until we know why it was erected.  The left do not -- and have never -- taken that advice.  The latest fence we removed is bail.

I discuss the Kenosha DA Mike Gravely, who as far as I can tell has ludicrously overcharged Kyle Rittenhouse.  To put expediency above principle is to betray your profession.

"[Socialists and anarchists] are the stench today in the nostrils of all honest men and women. They are a poison; and I would have them go and colonize and live out their theories and eat one another up; for they produce nothing and they subsist as suckers on what honest men, frugal and industrious, produce."  - John D. Rockefeller

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/us/politics/trump-rnc-speech-transcript.html

https://www.nytimes.com./2020/08/30/business/media/im-still-reading-andrew-sullivan-but-i-cant-defend-him.html?smid=tw-share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY9TLL4ulks

https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1298839169280638976