Octopodial Chrome

Pavel Kohout points out that Europe is rapidly becoming extinct. The birth rate in many parts is 1.2 children per woman—an absurdly low figure. And yet in the Islamic world continues to grow at a healthy pace: at current trends by 2050 there will be more people in Yemen than in Germany. The European welfare state is destroying itself. If leftists truly valued diversity, they would decry this: the loss of European culture is no less important than the loss of aboriginal Australian culture (indeed, considering the relative good to come out of each, rather more important).

Jonah Goldberg writes about the current votes-for-felons advocates. Unsurprisingly, the Democrats are in favour of allowing felons to vote. This is and should be a matter for the states to decide, although the right decision is to generally oppose it.

Interestingly, no-one comes out in support of the right of felons to bear arms…