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PermatexNo.2

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June 10, 2025

Remember simpler times when Barry Goldwater's convention speech told us that "Extremism in defense of.....

......liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue"? I know what Trump's misguided take on this is, exponentially worse than Goldwater's libertarian bloviatings. But given our prospects here in America today, Los Angeles comes to mind, I'll admit that this has left me scratching my head.

June 8, 2025

Two things about California. One, I thought that it was the governor that "called up the National Guard", not.....

.......the president. And second, if Hegseth is talking about sending in the Marines, isn't that in the realm of Posse Comitatus?

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