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Category Archives: America
Trolling The Trolls
Comments at Steve Sailer: * The whispered rumors are we will see a TV show (modeled off the European version) where some insufferable media hack (secretly working with the government and internet providers) brings a camera crew and goes to … Continue reading
What will be in Trump’s immigration speech?
Giuliani and Sessions will go with Trump to Mexico City tomorrow, per campaign source. @JenniferJJacobs calls them the Three Amigos. Olé! — David Martosko (@dmartosko) August 31, 2016 Comments at Steve Sailer: * It may be that Trump’s intent is … Continue reading
Russia Vs USA
Comments: * The correct question is whether Russia would ring the U.S. with military bases if it could. The answer is, of course, yes. There’s nothing we’re doing to Russia that Russia wouldn’t do to us given the chance. Those … Continue reading
Legendary Lawyers
Steve Sailer writes: It’s hard to be a legendary lawyer outside your state boundaries. Racehorse Haynes of Houston had a couple of national network miniseries made about his biggest cases in Texas, but he stuck to Texas. Los Angeles has … Continue reading
Invade The World, Invite The World
Comments at Steve Sailer: * If you want the government to meddle in domestic affairs, you’re a liberal. If you want the government to meddle in foreign affairs, you’re a conservative. If you want the government to meddle in domestic … Continue reading
Jews, Nationalism and the Alt-Right
I’ve been writing on this subject since 1998 when Reggie White got in trouble for remarking on group differences. Around the same time, I read The Bell Curve which made it obvious what I had always suspected — different races … Continue reading
Jeffrey Toobin Reveals Patty Hearst’s Real Crime
“In the end, notwithstanding a surreal detour in the 1970s, Patricia led the life for which she was destined back in Hillsborough. The story of Patty Hearst, as extraordinary as it once was, had a familiar, even predictable ending. She … Continue reading
Samuel Eliot Morison And America`s Displaced Protestant Establishment
Steve Sailer writes in 2010: As I`ve been rereading Professor Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison`s three-volume Oxford History of the American People from 1964, I`ve been thinking about the old Protestant Establishment. Morison (1887-1976) was himself a leading member of the … Continue reading
The Election: The Left’s Secret Weapon
William Lind writes: For a few weeks after the conventions, Republican media tried to play the psychological conditioning game on Mr. Trump himself, with the goal of getting him to resign the nomination and get out of the race. Though … Continue reading
Disinformation About 2008 Georgia-Russia War
Steve Sailer writes: Would the New York Times blithely report “preventing Arab nationalism is a centerpiece of the foreign policy of Israel, which invaded Egypt and Syria in October 1973 largely to forestall that possibility”? Or would the editors reject … Continue reading