Such cruel cynicism we get from our readers: “Derb—There is some evidence that an off-shoot of the [Skoptzy] sect came to the United States and that it survives into the 21st century under the name of ‘The Senate Republican Caucus’ (evidently a reference to the group’s former home in the Caucasus). Oddly, for a religious group, they mostly concern themselves with matters related to the judiciary and immigration law.”