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Category Archives: America
Twitter accused of suppressing DNC Wikileaks story
REPORT: “Twitter lit up Friday night with allegations that it tried to suppress news that secret-leaking website Wikileaks exposed thousands of emails obtained from the servers of the Democratic National Committee. Friday afternoon, users noted, “#DNCLeaks” was trending, with more … Continue reading
Steering The Elephant
Comments at Steve Sailer: * There is a book entitled Steering the Elephant, a collection of essays by first-term Reagan Administration officials describing the obstacles that they encountered trying to implement Ronald Reagan’s programs back in the relatively sedate 1980s. … Continue reading
The Placated Proles
If you don’t know who the Inner Party is, you’re not chosen. Comment: The Proles — the lower-class people who make up the majority of the US population — are largely ignored by the government. They don’t face the same … Continue reading
#AmericanLivesMatter
Blog: #AmericanLivesMatter This is, obviously, a take off of #blacklivesmatter. Regardless of your views on the righteousness (or not) of the BLM argument, at least 75% of Americans would like to move beyond it, after the BLM-inspired tragedies of Dallas … Continue reading
Krugman: What’s Trump Talking About? Life Is Swell on the Upper West Side!
Comments: * Another popular fallacy is that American can’t do anything prudent about immigration policy, such as cutting back on new immigrants, because that would enrage the old immigrants so much that they will kill us, or something. So therefore … Continue reading
Free Trade With China Wasn’t Such a Great Idea for the U.S.
Noah Smith, finance professor, writes for Bloomberg: But look at actual economics research, and you will find a very different picture. The most recent example is a paper by celebrated labor economists David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson, titled … Continue reading
We Snark About The Wrong Things
From the Chateau: * I said in the shoutbox earlier that contemporary society encourages snark about things that should be considered sacred, and sentimentality about things that call for hard headed realism. * It’s all part of the leftoid SWPL’s … Continue reading
Why Are Liberals Exhausted?
From the Chateau: Post-Nice, post-Dallas, and post-…well, pretty much every mass killing that’s happened in the last five years, I’ve been hearing a lot of comments from shitlibs bemoaning the “exhaustion” they feel over all these events, and how it’s … Continue reading
Republican Convention Speeches
Comments at Steve Sailer: * So I am watching the GOP convention for the first time, and Peter Thiel gets up there and gives a good common sense speech, and afterwards, all the CNN people can talk about — literally … Continue reading
Where’d Trump Get His Homicides Up 17% Stat? from the Washington Post
WP: More people were murdered last year than in 2014, and no one’s sure why Comments at Steve Sailer: * Have you noticed the flurry of op-Ed’s and think pieces about how the crime isn’t really bad? Funny, for the … Continue reading