Hell yes! No doubt in my mind at all

In re Mikhail Gorbachev's piece in The Nation (Is The World Really Safer Without The Soviet Union?) Of course it is. Now we need to dismantle the United States of America and the People's Republic of China as well. Kill off the big ones and the rest will go too, in time. The best state is no state at all.

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Truer words were never spoken, #1: “You can’t bloat a modest republic into a crapulent empire without sparking one hell of a centrifugal reaction.” Bill Kaufman @ FPR
How to save the next Generation: Getting rid of the Drug War - John McWhorter @ TNR
The birther issue comes up yet again: "If you ask me, this folderol of reincarnating the “Birther” issue by two prominent liberal Democrats just smacks of orchestrated political psy-ops." And why is that? Cui bono?

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California city so corrupt the only way to fix it is to abolish it. That's what the LA county prosecutor's office is saying. The city of Vernon, California isn't really a city at all, prosecutors say, but is in actuality an on-going criminal enterprise which needs to be abolished. Hmm...I'll be interested to see how that legal theory pans out as we here in Michigan could likely make the same claim about the systematic corruption and malfeasance found in Detroit, Flint, Highland Park and a few other places that seem chronically resistant to reform of any sort.