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Category Archives: America
America’s White Murder Rate Is About The Same As For Whites Elsewhere
National Review: This brings to mind Matt Yglesias’s recent discussion of the white-on-white murder rate in the U.S., an effort to shed light on what some are calling the “fallacy” of talking about black-on-black crime. Yglesias warns that “white-on-white murder … Continue reading
SCENES FROM WEIMERICA
PICTURE: “In Weimerica, instead of exchanging recipes and learning to cook, young women exchange dildos and learn how to perform fellatio.” COMMENTS: * What the Alternative Right needs to be worth more than internet bandwidth is for us to meet … Continue reading
What Is America?
I watched two movies today — Concussion and Bridge of Spies. They both explored American identity. Is America a particular place and people? Not according to these movies. According to Concussion, it is even better for an American hero to … Continue reading
The Trumpening
Comments: * My thoughts on the Frum piece, as they occurred: – tribalism (fissures) within the parties mirror the more lurid colour-coding of America race-wise, under Obama, doesn’t it? – immigration… as now constituted looks a lot like slavery; elites … Continue reading
WP: Hate Groups Embrace Trump
I got this in my email this morning: The picture links here. Are groups such as the NAACP that fight for the interests of blacks hate groups? Are groups such as La Raza (The Race) that fight for the interests … Continue reading
WP: How America’s dying white supremacist movement is seizing on Donald Trump’s appeal
Washington Post: The same rhetoric that frightens critics (“Trump has really lifted the lid off a Pandora’s box of real hatred and directed it at Muslims,” said the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok) draws praise from supporters such as … Continue reading
Are You Scared?
Comments: * Seems in tandem with the media’s effort to dislodge Trump is an effort to convince everyone that dissenting from the left’s agenda is nothing more than being childish–namely, being irrationally “fearful” and “anxious”. There is no shortage of … Continue reading
The Real Purpose Of Section 8 Housing
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Raj Chetty and his handlers may be perfectly aware that while moving section 8 dwellers into prosperous counties will do nothing to increase the rate of movement upwards for the dysfunctional, it will certainly bring … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: Farooked: Some People Just Aren’t Cut Out for a Life of International Intrigue
Steve Sailer writes: He’s been confessing to the FBI pretty much nonstop ever since the Farooks went off, and now the Bureau has posted the criminal complaint against him. Reading it, it’s evident that some people just aren’t cut out … Continue reading
Bye Bye Jeb!
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Jeb Bush never becoming president of The United States works out quite well for his wife Columba, because if she is the First Lady than she will have to do a lot more media interviews … Continue reading