We Have The Right To Our Own

The Soviet Union Came Apart Along Ethnic Lines. The Most Important Factor In This Breakup Was The Disinclination Of Slavic Ukraine To Continue Under A Regime Dominated By Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia Came Apart Also, Beginning With A Brutal Clash Between Serbia And Croatia, Here Again 'nations' With Only The Smallest Differences In Genealogy; With, Indeed, Practically A Common Language. Ethnic Conflict Does Not Require Great Differences; Small Will Do.

The Amount Of Violations Of Human Rights In A Country Is Always An Inverse Function Of The Amount Of Complaints About Human Rights Violations Heard From There. The Greater The Number Of Complaints Being Aired, The Better Protected Are Human Rights In That Country.

There Is One Unmistakable Lesson In American History; A Community That Allows A Large Number Of Young Men To Grow Up In Broken Families, Dominated By Women, Never Acquiring Any Stable Relationship To Male Authority, Never Acquiring Any Set Of Rational Expectations About The Future - That Community Asks For And Gets Chaos.

Things Become Complicated If There Are Enough People To Complexify Them.

To Be Irish Is To Know That In The End The World Will Break Your Heart.