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I drove through West Virginia a few years ago...

It isn't underserved anymore. It has become a rather crowded niche. With some fascinating product differentiation. Kinda like the cereal aisle (extra sugary niche)

"Talented people exist everywhere. And we should focus on giving people the opportunity to unleash their talent." I very much agree with that. Hopefully, we find ways to allow more talented people in red states to reach their potential. Imagine how great this country would be if folks in red...

I suspect the current generation of Omar Yaghi's will be all right. But they will mostly be getting their educations elsewhere and making their contributions elsewhere.

Omar Yaghi's journey. https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/from-palestinian-refugee-to-nobel-glory-omar-yaghis-incredible-journey-1.500299240

Katie Porter is a joke. She is what a lot of people around here seem to think the Democratic Party has become. Hopefully she doesn't get elected governor.

Picture of some of the pilots in the RAF during WWII. Sikhs. Muslims. Hindus. Some died young. One went on to become head of India's Air Force after independence.

It is very kind of the president to lend a sympathetic ear to her. The kind of humanity we can all learn from.

We have plenty of those. They are just too busy doing other thangs.

Also the pathogens exchange went both ways. Columbus' men brought syphilis back to Europe.

Appointed by your boy. Makes her a high.

In high school I had a classmate from a Palestinian family. She is a federal judge now.

I don't think he would have fit thethe's parameters as a 15 year old who spoke little English. But ballers do ball out. He also has an entrepreneurial bent, having founded two companies.

One American among the three Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry. Omar Yaghi. Born in Jordan to a refugee family from Palestine.

Yeah. Just like you didn't need evidence to tell you about Paul Pelosi's gay lover.

Considering colonialism included large scale slavery and indentured servitude not to mention huge numbers of deaths via exposure to novel pathogens it is unlikely the balance has been a positive one for the subject peoples. The economic benefits for the colonial powers were enormous. A number...

The Spartacus Youth League otoh are a much tougher outfit.

As someone who spent the first 10 years of my life as a British colonial subject I can confirm this.