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Best piece I have seen on the politics of immigration. McIntyre at RCP

California Cabernets beat French wines, 30 years later.

Starbucks plans for the future: More than latte. Check out that stock chart, too

A new book from Larry McMurtry: CSM says his best since 1988

Quoted from a piece at Atlas:

The way I see it is this.  European societies face a problem in that the Muslim populations in their midst are growing at a faster rate than the native population.  Over time, the proportion of those societies made up of Muslims is going to increase. It's often said that one consequence of this is that Europeans adopt a spineless attitude towards Islamic terrorism, attempting to appease it rather than address it, for fear of provoking civil unrest in their own countries.  This invertebrate attitude on the part of Europeans is cited as something that will lead to the inevitable downfall of their civilisation and, maybe within our lifetimes, their eventual partial or total submission to an Islamic way of life with all the horrors that brings.  It's seen as a suicidal strategy, born of weakness.

How the federal government plays a huge, but hidden, role in land use. NYT Science Times