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Category Archives: America
Donald Trump and the Man Who Would Be Howard Beale
The most revolting writer in America is Charles Pierce. Bernard Goldberg writes: It’s a safe bet, I think, that most of you have never heard of Charles Pierce. If you haven’t, consider yourself lucky. Charles Pierce, technically, is an opinion … Continue reading
Rep. Steve King Mentions the Empire Has No Clothes
But what about Hitler and Stalin? That’s the rejoinder one usually gets when you praise white Western civilization. My answer: Every people produce genocidal tyrants, only the West has pioneered advanced civilization (much of it adopted by East Asia in … Continue reading
Trump’s Amazing Entrance
The moment Donald Trump entered the #GOPConvention https://t.co/rBRl8OGoqo pic.twitter.com/th6VcowmfM — CNN (@CNN) July 19, 2016 Washington Post lists winners and losers from last night: Watching Melania Trump speak, it was hard for me to imagine that anyone would leave her … Continue reading
NYT: Black Police Officers Feel the Inner Tug of a Dual Role
The stronger your in-group identity, such as black, the more likely you are to have negative feelings about out-groups. Strongly identifying blacks are bound to have ambivalence about the United States of America and any white-majority or non-black majority country. … Continue reading
Media Paints Steve King As Racist For Defending Western Civilization
Vox Day tweets: “It is glorious how Progressives, Blacks, and Jews are belatedly learning that calling whites names no longer dissuades them from anything.” “It is no surprise that the media hates Melania Trump. Even at her age, she is … Continue reading
Great Article On Donald Trump’s Motivations
McKay Coppins writes: From political power brokers to the entire island of Manhattan, a varied cast of taunting insiders has inadvertently driven Donald Trump’s lifelong revenge march toward the White House. This is what it’s like to be one of … Continue reading
WP: ‘I rejected my parents’ WASP values. Now I see we need them more than ever’
Comments on the Washington Post article: * “My parents were the kind of polite conservatives who would have been appalled by this year’s Republican presidential campaign. They belonged to that stuffy but understated class of Eastern WASPs who were gently … Continue reading
The Program Destroying Blacks In America
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Well what I mean by NWO is that there are policies put in place (not voted on) by the puppeteers of our government which are destroying the black communities and all of the other communities … Continue reading
3 Cops Shot Dead In Baton Rouge
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Leftists stigmatize fear and hatred and expect Trump to fall in line to their bidding. That is like Nadal saying to Federer and Djokovic hard courts are no good and we should play all matches … Continue reading
French Political Scientist Nona Mayer: They [National Front’ Are Unknitting The Social Fabric of Society’
Some people object to the phrase “America First.” So what country should Americans put first? Israel? Perhaps America should put good values first. So whose values? Biblical values? So what would those Biblical values teach? If you take your religion … Continue reading