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Impeaching the prince's ministers (as a way of checking his abuses of power) is a very traditional practice, dating back to 16th century England.

Republicans must embrace Medicare for All, and tax AI to pay for it robkoons.substack.com/p/repu…

Just crunched the numbers. Democrats will have complete control of 21 states and DC, with a total of 273 electoral votes. That means that they can abolish the Electoral College without constitutional amendment. We will never have another non-Democrat President. Thank you for saving democracy!

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New posts at The Analytic Thomist and The Post-Liberal Patriot: analyticthomist.com/2026/10/… robkoons.substack.com/p/step…

An AI system is not a concrete thing. It’s an abstract, mathematical object. Saying that a sufficiently complex AI system might be conscious is like thinking that the number pi might be conscious

If I identify as a man, am I a woman? No, obviously not. Why not? Because being a man and being a woman are self-evidently different. Exactly

Attacking the hard left on the issue of “political violence” doesn’t make much sense. Has everyone forgotten the American Revolution?

On today’s Journal Editorial Report, WSJ columnist Alissia Finley claimed that a typical car wash uses twice as much water as a typical AI data center. One of the most preposterous things I’ve ever heard. The WSJ opinion page has descended to the level of Big Lie propaganda.

Nolan didn’t adapt Homer “for a modern audience.” He adapted the epic against a specific segment of the modern audience. He was worried that presenting Homer straight would appeal too much to the wrong audience. He gives us a liberalized, egalitarian, denatured, cosmopolitan Homer in order to repel many modern people

Homer’s epics don’t need to be adapted for the modern audience; the modern audience must do what more than 100 earlier generations have done: adapt itself to Homer’s epics.

America is not a nation of immigrants. It is a nation of immigrants and 1st, 2nd,3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th-generation descendants of immigrants.

I don’t see the point of watching an adaptation of the Odyssey designed to reflect back to me 21st century preconceptions

Disturbing

Can the President enforce voter ID for voting? Article IV, section 4: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government.” You can’t have a republic without manifestly secure elections.

My latest appearance on Pat Flynn’s podcast. open.substack.com/pub/journa…

Happy Christmas, everyone! And BTW, it was not “the first census under Quirinius,” it was “the census before Quirinius’s.” Check the Greek!

New interview with Dan Bonevac on the 5 Ways: youtu.be/EJjjp-3kkqk?si=kt7Z…

Scott Yenor the latest target of the Conservative Inc cancel culture? All this obsessive gate-keeping will ensure that no one with an original thought is left within.

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