Armas Weekend Reader

16-17 April 2022

Just add music.

This week: the uncontrolled border, war in Europe, the Irish Republican Army in New York City, Schindler’s typist, trust, and the bleeding intersection of F-14s and rock ’n’ roll. Let’s go — 

1) “The Biden administration will not enforce immigration laws or secure the border. But states like Texas have the power to act on their own.”

https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/13/to-secure-the-border-texas-gov-greg-abbott-should-shut-it-down/ 

2) “You can’t represent most Americans with a government made up only of highly credentialed and wealthy elites.”

Congress Needs More Working-Class Members

3) “[P]ersonal differences obscure important political similarities. Both Coolidge and Mr. Trump staked their presidencies on voter satisfaction with broadly shared prosperity. Both supported restricting immigration into the United States. Both wanted to protect American industry from foreign competition. Both sought to avoid overseas entanglements. Mr. Trump’s views now dominate the Republican Party.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-return-of-the-old-american-right-11649430434 

4) “A mother killed by a sniper while walking with her family to fetch a thermos of tea. A woman held as a sex slave, naked except for a fur coat and locked in a potato cellar before being executed. Two sisters dead in their home, their bodies left slumped on the floor for weeks. Bucha is a landscape of horrors.”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/11/world/europe/bucha-terror.html 

5) “The Russian attempt to take Kyiv was defeated by a combination of factors including geography, the attackers’ blundering, Ukrainian ingenuity and modern arms.”

https://www.ft.com/content/e87fdc60-0d5e-4d39-93c6-7cfd22f770e8