Think Google knows your secrets? Wait until you meet Yodlee. The company knows where you invest your money and how much you owe on your mortgage. It knows your credit card numbers, the amount of your weekly paycheck, and how much you really spend on shoes.

 Think Google knows your secrets? Meet Yodlee

by Blake Ellis, staff reporter 

November 16, 2010: 3:51 PM ET


NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Think Google knows everything about you? Wait until you meet Yodlee.
The company knows where you invest your money and how much you owe on your mortgage. It knows your credit card numbers, the amount of your weekly paycheck, and how much you really spend on shoes.

If you've banked online, you've probably used Yodlee without even knowing it. More than 200 financial institutions, including Citibank and Bank of America use its services, touching nearly 26 million consumers. Your bank probably uses its technology, too, though Yodlee doesn't like to name names.

Yodlee is the proverbial man behind the curtain. So what, exactly, does he do?

When you log into your bank and transfer money between your savings and checking accounts, that's Yodlee providing to the technology to make the transaction happen. Paying a bill online? Yodlee. Signing up for a new account? Yodlee. Analyze how much you spend? Yodlee.
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Then there are its fancier financial-management tools. Yodlee can aggregate all of consumer's financial information and serve it up to a bank or personal finance website, such as Mint.com, allowing you to see your financial health in one snapshot.

For example, on Bank of America's website, customers can see all of their bank accounts in one place. Behind the scenes, Yodlee has scraped your financial data from your various lenders -- student loans, mortgage holder, credit cards, 401(k), checking, savings -- and fed it to Bank of America. (With your log-ins and permissions, of course. But more on that later.) That way, you can analyze spending, budget and set goals across all of your accounts.

"Unlike Facebook and Google, which are very visible, Yodlee has quietly powered the same kind of services across every bank," said Schwark Satyavolu, who co-founded Yodlee and worked there for eight years before moving on to start his own company, an online personal finance startup called BillShrink. "Yodlee is the 800-pound gorilla in the room, but you may not even realize it's there."

It's also the only gorilla in the room. Founded in 1999, the Redwood City, Calif.-based company has a strong head start on its few competitors, such as Geezeo and Strands.

"Yodlee was clearly the most innovative and technologically savvy from a cultural standpoint -- they were all about taking calculated risks," said Devon Kinkead, CEO of Micronotes, a new startup that is using Yodlee's services. "What they've done is build a platform and invited a bunch of sharp, innovative companies and the top banks, so they are extremely well-positioned for growth and have become very hard to compete with."

In fact, some competitors -- like Strands -- are actually turning to Yodlee for their data aggregation services.
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"Even their so-called competitors are their customers, which is a pretty good situation to be in," said Ron Shevlin, a senior analyst specializing in retail banking at Aite Group. "While the market isn't going to get handed to them, given their capabilities and their history, they have a good shot of staying on top."

And for some companies, working with Yodlee has been a life-or-death decision. Wesabe, an early financial-management site, attributes its failure to spurning Yodlee. Wesabe was a competitor to Mint.com, and one chose to work with Yodlee, and one did not.

"Since [Yodlee] had effectively no competitors, we didn't believe we should tie our company to a single-source provider," Wesabe founder Marc Hedlund recently wrote in his blog. "Mint used Yodlee... to automatically get user's data from bank sites and import them into Mint, and as a result had a much easier user experience getting bank data imported."

Mint.com is now considered the leader in the personal finance management space and was recently acquired by Intuit. As part of the deal, however, it is transitioning to Intuit's internal aggregation system, rather than Yodlee's.

One reason Wesabe gave for avoiding Yodlee was its finances, something that had concerned Mint, as well. Particularly, Mint said it was concerned because the company had yet to be acquired.

"That's always been a concern," said Aaron Patzer, vice president of Intuit Personal Finance and founder of Mint.com. "They've been around for 11 years so it's less of a concern now, but since they're a private company it's hard to know how they're doing."

Yodlee, which is backed by investors such as Accel and Warburg Pincus, said it has seen revenue climb more than 30% over the past three years and now has 700 employees.

"Our financials are extraordinarily solid," said Yodlee's chief marketing and strategy officer, Joe Polverari. "In terms of not being acquired, our objective is not to be the classic model of 'pump it up and hype it up' so someone will buy it -- our goal was to be the next real financial services platform."

But Shevlin said he can think of a number of companies that likely have Yodlee on their radar.

"The tech firms that provide all the really boring core applications for managing transactions to banks -- that space has really been consolidating," he said. "Fidelity Information Services, Fiserv, Jack Henry -- any one of them could be good candidates for acquiring Yodlee and creating a single stop shop for banks."

So, with Yodlee having such broad access to consumer information, should you be worried about your privacy?

"There's no reason that anyone should be any more concerned about Yodlee's security than their bank's security, or any other firm they do business with online," Shevlin said.

Yodlee is audited and supervised by the federal government, much like a bank. It is also audited by the financial institutions it works with. And, said Polverari, Yodlee has never had a security breach.

"The proof of the pudding is that we have had all the major banks audit every single piece of our infrastructure -- everything from our data center to our office -- and we've taken that cumulative feedback from all the banks and turned Yodlee into a fortress," said Satyavolu. "Not only is it secure, but with [Yodlee's] privacy policy, an individual's financial data is completely unusable."

SORRY SENATOR, BIDEN WILL NOT COMPLY...you're wasting your time.

Tuberville urges Biden to ban travel from China to prevent spread of ‘mystery illness’
Daniel Taylor | 12.01.23



On Friday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) signed a letter demanding President Joe Biden ban travel from China until more is learned about a mysterious respiratory disease infecting the country.

Since October, China has seen a significant and unexplained rise in respiratory illnesses and pneumonia. However, Chinese health officials told the World Health Organization (WHO) they had not detected any "unusual or novel diseases," Fox News reported.

"[W]e should not wait for the WHO to take action given its track record of slavish deference to the [Chinese Communist Party]," the letter read. "We must take the necessary steps to protect the health of Americans and our economy. That means we should immediately restrict travel between the United States and the [People's Republic of China] until we know more about the dangers posed by this new illness."

The letter pointed to the success of former President Donald Trump's travel bans at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

"Many officials and commentators—including you—criticized his decision as being influenced by 'xenophobia,'" the letter stated. "But history and common sense show his decision was the right one… A ban on travel now could save our country from death, lockdowns, mandates, and further outbreaks later."

U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) also signed the letter.



To connect with the story's author or comment, email daniel.taylor@1819news.com.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say a sitting president cannot be arrested...and it definitely does not say the Justice Department can make such a ruling.

 

Foreign-Born Population Hits 49.5M Under Biden – Largest Ever in U.S. History

Foreign-Born Population Hits 49.5M Under Biden – Largest Ever in U.S. History

November 30, 2023 by John Binder

The nation’s foreign-born population has hit an unprecedented 49.5 million, the largest ever recorded in American history, under President Joe Biden.

Analysis by Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) revealed that in October the foreign-born population reached almost 50 million, increasing by 4.5 million foreign-born residents since Biden took office in January 2021.

Put another way, the Biden administration has added more immigrants to the nation’s population than the annual number of U.S. births in fewer than three years. Similarly, the growth of the foreign-born population under Biden exceeds the resident populations of 25 states.

“At 15 percent, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population is also the highest ever recorded in American history,” Camarota and Zeigler wrote:

As the debate rages over the ongoing border crisis, this finding is important because administrative numbers such as border encounters or even legal immigrant arrivals do not measure the actual size of the immigrant population, which is what ultimately determines immigration’s impact on the country. [Emphasis added]

Chart via Center for Immigration Studies

In numbers even excessive for a liberal White House, Biden has doubled the monthly inflow of immigration. Under former President Barack Obama, for example, the foreign-born population grew by about 68,000 every month and under former President Donald Trump it grew by about 42,000 a month.

Biden, on the other hand, has grown the foreign-born population by a whopping 137,000 every month since taking office. More than half — about 2.5 million — of those arriving under Biden, the CIS researchers note, are illegal aliens with the remaining two million arriving as legal immigrants.

More than 6-in-10 foreign-born residents who have arrived since Biden became president are from Latin America while others are primarily from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

Though much attention is given to illegal immigration, the nation’s policy of annually importing more than a million legal immigrants accounts for 75 percent of the total foreign-born population today.

Without reductions to legal immigration levels, the foreign-born population is expected to hit 70 million by 2060.

American voters continuously tell pollsters they want cuts to overall immigration, mostly legal immigration. The latest survey from Rasmussen Reports showed 56 percent of likely voters want legal immigration levels cut to at least 750,000 admissions a year — including a plurality who said they want to see fewer than 500,000 admissions a year.

Likewise, 62 percent of likely voters said they oppose current immigration law which allows for so-called “chain migration,” the process where newly naturalized citizens can sponsor an unlimited number of foreign relatives for green cards.

Most relevant to the CIS analysis, nearly 7-in-10 likely voters said they want immigration-driven population growth either slowed or halted altogether so that the U.S. population can stabilize at a comfortable rate.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News.

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If you ask me, I would guess they're going to New York, Chicago, Boston, and maybe Cape Cod.

 

North Korean satellite takes pictures of White House, Pentagon

TASS (Russian News Agency)


27 NOV, 15:38Updated at: 16:17

North Korean satellite takes pictures of White House, Pentagon

According to the news agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has already familiarized himself with the pictures


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MOSCOW, November 28. /TASS/. A North Korean reconnaissance satellite has taken pictures of the White House and the Pentagon, Reuters reported, citing the North Korean Central News Agency.

According to the news agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has already familiarized himself with the pictures.

Reuters also said that the reconnaissance satellite also took photos of aircraft carriers at the US naval base in Norfolk, Virginia.

On November 21, North Korea launched a reconnaissance satellite. In response, on November 22, South Korea announced a partial suspension of the agreement with North Korea to reduce tensions. The measure affected the no-fly zone provision. On November 23, the North Korean Defense Ministry announced that it would no longer abide by the entire agreement and would resume actions prohibited by the document.
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To rescue a nation "some voice must be raised” against the collaborationists’ outrages, and that voice should be Donald Trump, there is no other.

 I don't know why I post stuff like this, for very few will read it and fewer of them will comprehend its meaning. At the present time there is only one voice out there that has some semblance of a rescue mission and that is Donald Trump...there are no more de Gaulle s waiting in the wings. - N.E.H.

When France’s entire ruling class dissolved, delivering the country to Hitler, Brigadier Charles de Gaulle, stranded in London, begged that class’s better parts to take up France’s cause. All refused. He resisted instinctively the prospect of doing it himself, comparing it to “trying to cross the ocean by swimming.” But then, when nobody showed up to shoulder the impossible burden, he put his personal insignificance aside and told his radio audience that “some voice must be raised” against the collaborationists’ outrages, and that “tonight, that voice will be mine.” There was no other.

 

To Rescue a Nation

• By Angelo Codevilla
• November 21, 2023

Like any other way of life based on self-rule, ours can be re-founded only by the people themselves. 

Editor’s Note – This essay was originally published by the American Mind on June 22, 2021 under the title, “To Rescue a Nation.” The late Angelo Codevilla explains what is required of a leader, when, as is the case today, it is necessary to rescue—or re-found—a country.

A leader must, by definition, set himself apart from the cause he leads, but at the same time, he must “dissolve” into that cause. He must make it clear that the cause is greater than himself just as he inspires the people’s dedication to a cause greater than themselves. His purpose and character will define the substance of the cause and provide its cohesion. For Washington, Lincoln, or Churchill, that substance and cohesion were necessarily unique to their crises.

In our crisis, a leader must make it clear to citizens that we are at war, that our choice is between American freedom and Woke tyranny. It’s one or the other. There is no avoiding the issue. And everything we revere and hold dear is at stake.

Codevilla argues that Donald Trump has been deficient as a leader because he has made the cause too much about himself. Fair enough. But we must fight with the leaders we can get. So far, Trump is the best we have. Clearly he understands we are at war. When he gets back into office, we can expect him to do everything in his power to eliminate the cancer that is the woke regime and to fight resolutely for the American way of life.

Peoples become nations by following those who lead them to worship the same God or idols, and to act habitually as they do. The Greeks called these habits “ethics.” These change for good and ill as prominent persons change, or develop new ways of life, or foreign influences impose themselves. The general population tends to follow. Plato and Aristotle led subsequent generations to note that peoples tend to take on their leaders’ character.

Some see such changes as betrayal. If these alienate a large enough proportion of people, the body politic itself loses the capacity to act as a whole. Enough disarticulation, and the body politic ceases to exist for practical purposes. Serious changes, regardless of their sources, lead some to want a resetting the country on what they regard as its proper basis—or outright resuscitation.

Machiavelli wrote that doing that amounts to re-founding a nation, and that this is considerably more difficult than founding one in the first place.

What does it take to re-found a nation? The question is lively for twenty-first century Americans because the changes that have taken place in the bipartisan ruling class that controls nearly all our institutions have explicitly denied and denigrated what had made America itself. Today’s ruling class leads and even forces Americans to act, speak, and think as if all that they had thought good were bad, and vice versa. Almost as if a vengeful power had conquered the country. At least half the country yearns for some kind of rescue.

Though history does not lack examples of nations rescued and refounded, most rescues involve overthrowing the dominion of foreigners rather than of mutated ruling classes. But as the Book of Exodus shows, the removal of foreign influence is almost always much less than half the battle. Reference to foreign oppression is often a necessary, but always an insufficient factor. Charles de Gaulle’s success against the Germans was not enough to overcome resistance to his efforts to restore France’s corrupt body politic. Without a foreign focus however, refounding can only be a civil war of variable temperatures. Abraham Lincoln’s failure to avoid the Civil War is as clear an example as there is.

Machiavelli’s near equation of reform with re-founding mostly abstracts from the fact that, for nations and regimes founded on and tailored for the people’s characteristics, repeating something like the founding is not possible once these have changed. Peoples are far less malleable than regimes.

On the one hand, successive generations of Romans were able to re-set Rome more or less on the basis on which Romulus had set it by killing his brother, Remus, who had trespassed on what became the Urbe’s fundamental law: war against outsiders. Successive Fathers of the Fatherland reaffirmed that law. And when Cleomenes judged that Sparta’s ephors had violated Lycurgus’s constitution, he deftly re-established it by killing the ephors and their followers. The Soviet regime’s fundamental law was the Communist General Secretary’s murderous discipline of the Party, which suffused society with fearful uncertainty. When Mikhail Gorbachev tried to rescue tyranny from the feudalism into which it had fallen under Brezhnev, he might well have succeeded had he been willing to kill as Lenin and Stalin had done.

Doubtless, rescuing disrespected constitutions has always required and will always require undoing any number of enemies.

But there is little historical evidence that peoples who had constituted themselves nations on the basis of freedom can convert that nationhood’s lively memory into rebirth.

Self-government ever reflects self, and lost civic virtue is almost as unrecoverable as lost virginity.

Divisive leadership

The political conflict in which we are engaged pits some Americans who revere the legacy and memory of the Republic founded in 1776-1789 against those who despise it and have corrupted the Republic’s institutions into an oligarchy.

The concentration of corruptions in the ruling class does not minimize the reality that a part of the U.S population are that oligarchy’s eager subjects, either uninterested in or opposed to any kind of restoration. We who resent that our ruling class’s corruption deprives us of self-government are another part. Hence governing ourselves again, resetting America on the bases on which it was founded is necessarily by, of, and for only we who want it.

In short, America has changed so much from what it had been just a half century ago that any restoration implies some sort of mutual alienation, separation, or secession, whether as a substitute for civil war or as a result of it. What kind of conflict might it take to rescue ourselves from what we regard as contemporary America’s corruptions?

The process of rescue necessarily consists of republican Americans’ would-be leaders convincing their followers to ignore, to disdain, to resist, the directions from society’s commanding heights in favor of what they believe is more consistent with what America had been and should be again. It is essentially a revolutionary (or counter-revolutionary) process that requires equal doses of negation and affirmation.

Silent secession by alienated individuals is inevitable and deadly. In 1967, hippie songster Arlo Guthrie invited those who wanted to drop out of the America they despised to mock its authorities by singing them the meaningless “you can get anything that you want at Alice’s restaurant.” Millions of East Germans said to themselves “ohne mich,” without me, as they pretended to go along. Many more Soviet subjects also kept their heads down as they spat out official lies with ever more evident mockery. Live not by lies, said Solzhenitsyn. In the long run turning one’s back, tacit hemorrhage of legitimacy, dooms regimes. But it reforms and refounds nothing.

large terms, to seek commitment to themselves. There is no greater pitfall. Effective espousal of a cause means that the leader dissolves into the cause.

A serious attempt to rescue Americans from an alien regime at war with our way of life awaits the rise of a person to embody their sentiments, focus and lead them to act successfully in their own interest.

Leadership and identity

Though it seems obvious that trying to lead, or even to take part, in such an enterprise requires outsized self-confidence, historical examples show that the authority by which some have rallied peoples behind flags picked from the dirt flowed more from the flags themselves—from the enterprise itself—than from any attempt by the leader to project himself onto them. Presuming to lead something far greater than one’s self on the basis of that self is likeliest to prove mere conceit. In fact, those who have effectively placed themselves at the head of nations became great by becoming one with causes that daunted them, as they should have.

Moses first rejected his comfortable place in Egyptian life by protecting an Israelite. But when the call came from the Burning Bush, Moses begged off. Not me. “I am slow of speech.” But the voice from the fire told him that rescuing Israel was not about Moses. It was what I Am wanted done. He would tell Moses what to say and give what help was needed. Moses’ insufficiencies mattered less than the cause.

Thus did Moses remind his people that they were the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, bound not to the Egyptians, but by covenant to serve the one true God; and that this God was in the process of rescuing them. At every point in the Exodus, Moses pointed to the signs of the Lord’s sustaining power. Moses organized them for survival and war. His successes rallied the people behind his leadership, and enabled him to lead them into a new covenant on the basis of the Decalogue. This re-founding arguably was as significant as Abraham’s original.

When France’s entire ruling class dissolved, delivering the country to Hitler, Brigadier Charles de Gaulle, stranded in London, begged that class’s better parts to take up France’s cause. All refused. He resisted instinctively the prospect of doing it himself, comparing it to “trying to cross the ocean by swimming.” But then, when nobody showed up to shoulder the impossible burden, he put his personal insignificance aside and told his radio audience that “some voice must be raised” against the collaborationists’ outrages, and that “tonight, that voice will be mine.” There was no other.

History affords few examples of a nation as thoroughly abandoned by its ruling class as France was in 1940, and of the re-construction of an alternate ruling elite—piece by piece, individual by individual—as Charles de Gaulle accomplished between July 1940 and July 1945. His circumstances were special, as all are. But what de Gaulle accomplished was nothing less than to re-infuse life into a mostly dead body politic, or to re-articulate a paralyzed one. He re-connected the French people with one another for collective action on their own behalf.

Founders and re-founders turn peoples’ resentments and hopes into action by asking them to think of themselves as together—as being in the same boat, as it were—and jointly dedicated to a nation greater than themselves; and hence to stand together, first in small, and then in ever greater ways. Inevitably, this means joining to overcome resistance. It means fighting and prevailing together in the name of their nation. Their successes counterbalance the inconveniences and burdens involved.

Moses secured the Israelites’ coherence and adherence to the Decalogue and the rest of the Law because he fed them, defeated the Amalekites, and put violent dissenters to the edge of the sword, in the name of the Lord. In the name of France, de Gaulle asked the people to regard occupiers and collaborators as future “prisoners or corpses,” and to act only as commanded by “la résistance” that he organized. But that encouragement was meaningful only because his troops, fighting alongside the Allies, delivered inspiring victories, such as at Bir Hakeim. That, and deft maneuvering against rivals, made possible the effective, triumphant, re-founding of the French nation on the Champs Elysees, August 26, 1945.

lie that this has anything to do with public health and leave no doubt that such passports—necessarily digital—inevitably would carry information that amounts to what the Chinese call “social credit.” States that prohibit them within their borders thereby de-legitimize them and make them impracticable nationwide. But only national-level leadership can make sure that the American people treat this power grab as part of the oligarchy’s war on republican America.

Universities and colleges, largely financed through government, having been the fountainhead of the oligarchy’s intellectual/moral character, nothing would reduce that fountain’s pressure on republican America like curtailing that financing. Republican America’s would be leaders could campaign to make individual institutions liable for unpaid student debts incurred there and make them into lending institutions. The Democrats’ objections notwithstanding, that cause would prevail, sober the educational establishment in countless ways, and lower tuition costs. National-level involvement in K-12 education also having been a source of inflation and all manner of corruption, and attempts to use the Department of Education to remedy the harm it has caused having miscarried, today’s leaders should, like Ronald Reagan, promise to abolish that Department. And then do it, reminding parents that if they do not educate their own children, the government is sure to mis-educate them.

The oligarchy’s perversion of American law, its partisan seizure of the justice system, of the intelligence agencies, and of the military, is the deadliest weapon in the war of annihilation it wages against our Republic. Led and largely staffed by partisan Democrats, scarcely distinguishable from the private corporations and institutions it oversees, the bureaucracy legislates and administers against the rest of us. The Constitution? “Are you kidding?” asked Nancy Pelosi. The oligarchy lets rapists and robbers walk, and punishes only demonstrations against its regime. The only crimes are political. The intelligence agencies know—only pretend to know—the evils of republicans. The armed forces’ leadership purges them as the enemy within. The oligarchy having seized our Constitutional system’s control, only a presidential election can take this weapon from them.

But wise leadership can circumscribe its effects as it prepares such an election. Depriving these perversions and seizures of any shadow of legitimacy is key. Any argument we make against bureaucratic, prosecutorial, or power-agency actions as if these actions were errors within our republican system only give credence to a falsehood, a lie. In fact, the bureaucracy’s, the intelligence agencies’, the armed forces’ actions against republicans are not errors. They are the oligarchic regime’s acts of war. As the majority of Americans grasp that reality, they deprive the regime’s powers of the legitimacy that gives them force.

Since the persons who actually wield these powers have careers that transcend electoral cycles, whoever would lead the republican nation can limit the harm they do by forcefully warning them that, sooner or later, a president will take office who, as the American republic’s vigorous partisan and unlike predecessors, will work terrible vengeance upon any and all persons who have served the oligarchy. Such leaders can show their seriousness by using whatever powers they may have to block funding for parts of the justice system, for the FBI and CIA, for certain of the armed forces’ activities, and especially for contractors whom they judge to be excessively tied to the oligarchy.

Success in battles to protect republicans will make it possible to work out some arrangement whereby peoples who now belong to two incompatible civilizations and who look for leadership to two hostile regimes may live in peace though intermingled with one another.

Working out such an arrangement is what rescuing America today means.

Federalism as never before

The more fine-grained the maps of the American people’s electoral choices, as well as of their opinions about the most important things, the clearer it is that its “blue”—Democrat, Woke, etc. —parts are concentrated not simply in California, New York, Illinois, etc., or even in the 16.7 percent of U.S. counties the Democratic Party carried in the 2020 election. Within those states, counties, and even within their cities (e.g., Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Austin) there are substantial parts the residents of which vote for and prefer differently. By the same token there are parts, even of Wyoming, as Woke as Venice, California.

This intermingling is more fraught with horrid consequences than the 19th century division between Northerners and Southerners. Both of those sides, Lincoln reminded them, “prayed to the same God.” Their family lives, their personal habits and preferences, were identical. All revered America’s founders, albeit somewhat differently. None doubted the others’ probity. Today, by contrast, America’s Woke side regards worship of the God of the Bible as the source of the White man’s rapacity, racism, and oppression. It regards the very words male and female, mother and father as poisonous, and rejects reason itself as the arbiter of argument in favor of identity. Through education, it enforces relativism regarding mathematics—never mind sexuality—and wholly denigrates anything that America has been other than the enabler of themselves.

decisions, it finds no barrier in the Constitution’s letter. Congress and the president can do this.

The alternative is already unfolding: people on all sides have learned that “stop me if you can” is today’s operative constitutional law. Pretty soon, everywhere will be a sanctuary for something. The willful and well-organized obey what they will and disobey what they dare. Better for all if the separation follows the law of logic rather than force.

What then?

Geographically, republican America will reign from shore to shore, from Canada to Mexico. Its birth rate, its educational system’s products, its economic vigor, its social stability, its degree of happiness will reflect how fit today’s republicans are for self-government. We cannot foresee and should not speculate how their successes and failures might affect Woke America. We can be sure however that radical de-centralization at home can only reduce the matters with which U.S. foreign policy deals, and hence increase the likelihood that they be dealt with soberly.

Angelo M. Codevilla (1943-2021) was a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and professor emeritus of International Relations at Boston University.