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Category Archives: America
The Atlantic: ‘Why White People Don’t Use White Emoji’
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I first heard about the race-toned emoji last year, during office hours for a college class I was teaching. Two black students were sitting doing practice problems (and playing on their phones), and one looked … Continue reading
Obama’s Gift of Immunity to Trump
Victor Davis Hanson sways back and forth between conservatism, nationalism and realism. He writes: It is now old wisdom that Barack Obama created Trump—as in the idea of a national pushback to Obama’s out-of-the-mainstream agendas and the unconstitutional way in … Continue reading
Mexico Deports More Illegals Than The US Does
REPORT: Mexico tightens immigration laws, while asking us to loosen ours. As the United States’ borders have become weaker in recent years, the southernmost Mexican border has become more fortified than our border along Mexico. In fact, the border along … Continue reading
Emma Barton: I went looking for Trump supporters and I found white supremacists
Emma writes: Another bystander brings up Hitler. First, he dismisses the question as being historical and therefore irrelevant, he says he’s looking to the future instead. So, I ask, seven times before getting a straight answer, if he condemns the … Continue reading
Trump Vs Hillary
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I agree that Trump’s victory is part of a wave of nationalist and immigration-skeptical politics gaining strength in many democracies this year, for good reasons. One thing though that explains Trump, but also probably obscured … Continue reading
Nate Silver 2015: Donald Trump’s Six Stages Of Doom
Nate Silver writes in August of 2015: The lesson, rather, is that Trump’s campaign will fail by one means or another. Like Cain, Bachmann and Gingrich, Buchanan, Huckabee and Forbes came nowhere close to winning the Republican nomination. If you … Continue reading
Hillary’s Plan to Lose the Deer Hunter States
Steve Sailer writes: …the Washington Post ran a trial balloon claiming that Hillary intended to run in the fall on immigration expansion and gun control. Looking at the 2012 electoral college map, that looks even more suicidal than it originally … Continue reading
Mr. Trump, explain why America First must mean ending Foreign Aid and Foreign Military Assistance
Michael Sheuer writes: Now that Mr. Trump has vowed that the concept of “America First” will be at the core of his administration’s foreign and domestic policies, he should begin to tell Americans what he intends to do make that … Continue reading
LAT: Watch Muslim women explain what their hijab means to them
I can’t wait for the Los Angeles Times to produce videos with white nationalists explaining what their symbols mean to them. I’d love to see one on Nazis explaining what their symbols mean to them. Am I saying that Islam … Continue reading
How Were The Pundits So Wrong About Trump?
I think a major reason that the pundits were so wrong about Trump is that half of them are Jewish and Jews tend to feel a visceral revolt against gentile nationalisms, racial consciousness, nativism, populism. Jews, by and large, feel … Continue reading