“Maybe we will see all new people by 2016,” I wrote here on 4/17/12. “Call it Republicans vs. Jeffersonian conservatives, leaving the Democrats to dangle. Today Rand Paul hobbles the old school by demanding that $2 billion in foreign aid to Egypt be stripped. 2016 starts already … Rand Paul/Joe Miller 2016: Vote for grown-ups.” But 2016 will not be a good time to be president. The economy will be in a shambles and there will inevitably be blood. It comes, said Charles Dickens, the moment economy sinks below equilibrium, which is now. And today we see first blood among my relatives (on both sides) in Northern Ireland. But don’t sweat the small stuff. China has not yet avenged itself for the horrors brought upon it by Japan in World War II. And it will, because karma, the soul force of the East, demands it. China, said Richard Nixon, remembers a thousand years.

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