South Africa's Congress passed an expropriation bill to take white-owned farmland and divvy it up among blacks.  Donald Trump announced he's keeping an eye on events there, which caused the S.A. government to stop the program, for the time being, at least. Trump did everyone a favor, though not all appreciate it. What's going on (or not) is uncertain.  People we would call liberals say expropriations aren't happening or even in the offing.  What some call right-wing extremists say killings to that end have been going on silently for some time. Perhaps it's a matter of perspective.  If you're killed on your remote farm, and nobody reports it, people are going to shrug off talk of such killings.  But with the last 30 years of headlines and riots about racial injustice, some are slow to shrug it off.  Zimbabwe's right next door, after all.  Examples of land expropriation in other...(Read Full Post)