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Category Archives: America
Steve Sailer: Whatever Happened to All Those Violent Trump Supporters We Were Warned About?
Steve Sailer writes: It’s hard to remember all the media manias that have come and gone in attempts to derail the Trump candidacy. For example, the Great Six-Pointed Star Crisis of early July 2016 is already largely forgotten. It’s hard … Continue reading
Republican Convention Wraps With Trump’s Big Speech
Comments at Steve Sailer: * I’ve heard from three people (an anti-globalization democrat & two mainstream republicans) who have been glued to the TV this week that are now voting for Trump. Seeing his family has humanized him to those … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: Misinformed Latino Cop Tries to Shoot Harmless Latino Autist, Wounds His Black Caregiver Instead. White People at Fault.
Steve Sailer writes: There’s a push these days to take away cops’ new quasi-military toys. That was part of the early right-of-center conventional wisdom out of Ferguson in 2014: it was all the cops’ fault for dressing like orcs. In … Continue reading
Of the attack in Nice, the demise of Europe, and America’s work at home
Michael Scheuer writes: In sum, there are today, and have been for 30 years, only five issues that demand implementation by the U.S. national government: (a) the aggressive dismantling of the unconstitutional legal and economic preferences given to women, minorities, … Continue reading
‘Ex-neocon’ Scott McConnell looks back on 20 years of ideological tumult
Mondoweiss: Q. Ten years ago in March you emailed me the Israel lobby article from the London Review of Books, by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. What do you think of that paper and that book? And how does it … Continue reading
Why Do Non-Whites Fear The Outdoors?
REPORT: Asked what safety concerns kept them from visiting the metro’s regional parks, focus groups of African-Americans spoke worriedly about violent crime and accidents. This could happen Asians tended to bring up snakes, bees, hunters and water viruses. African immigrants … Continue reading
Silicon Valley: Smoking in ‘merica
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Google, under pressure for its low diversity numbers, addressed the issue by making groundskeepers and janitors employees instead of outsourcing the work. Of course, Google is much more racially diverse than The New York Times, … Continue reading
Eric Holder Hired by Airbnb to Fight Discrimination
Comments: * Nice little company you got here. Sure would be a shame if the DoJ found evidence of discriminatory practices… * We are all small-town Christian pizza makers now. * Hotel lodging WILL be desegregated and diversified. Excuse me … Continue reading
Jamie Kirchick Threatens a Military Coup Against a President Trump
Steve Sailer writes: Jamie Kirchick, one of Martin Peretz’s aging Bright Young Men (a skein that includes Andrew Sullivan and Al Gore), writes in the Los Angeles Times: If Trump wins, a coup isn’t impossible here in the U.S. … … Continue reading
L.A. Times Suggests Military Coup Against President Trump
Breitbart: Jamie Kirchick, writing in the Los Angeles Times, asks readers to imagine a military coup against a future President Donald Trump — and argues why one would be necessary. Kirchick cites the example of the recent failed coup in … Continue reading