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Category Archives: America
Donald Trump Shifts The Overton Window
From the Chateau: A couple of years ago, there was a post on CH explicitly calling for a closed border policy for the United States. Did Trump read it? Because just today he cranked up his inner shitlord and dropped … Continue reading
Mickey Kaus: Jeb’s take-only-Christians plan’s totally different from Trump’s don’t-take-Muslims plan because….
Jeb Bush: Let’s Focus On Helping The Christian Syrian Refugees, Rather Than The Muslims Bush said that the U.S. should use a careful screening process to ensure the refugees it accepts are Christian. In the wake of the Paris terror … Continue reading
IS AN IMMIGRATION BAN ON MUSLIMS UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
Eric Posner, Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School, writes: Probably not. The Supreme Court has held consistently, for more than a century, that constitutional protections that normally benefit Americans and people on American territory do … Continue reading
Fmr. FBI Counterterrorism Agent: We’ve Received ‘Nearly Zero Help’ from U.S. Muslim Community Since 9/11
Perhaps we need to reach out more to the Muslim community? Perhaps we need to be nicer to them? From Breitbart: Though President Barack Obama claimed that America must “enlist Muslim communities” to combat terrorism in his Sunday evening Oval … Continue reading
Communists Developed The Idea Of American Exceptionalism
From Wikipedia: American exceptionalism is the theory that the United States is inherently different from other nations.[2] In this view, American exceptionalism stems from its emergence from the American Revolution, thereby becoming what political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset called “the … Continue reading
Obama Speech Open Thread
Steve Sailer writes: Transcript Doing my usual In-Depth Command-F analysis, I see the following text strings occurred X times: “refugee” – 0 “asyl” – 0 “migra” – 1, in noting that the San Berdoo victims included immigrants. But just as … Continue reading
Different Diets Work Differently For Different People
Steve Sailer writes: The existence of human biodiversity shouldn’t be such a startling new insight, but I guess it is. It ought to be obvious by now that different people flourish or decay on different diets. And yet we constantly … Continue reading
Us Vs Them
Anybody can understand the mentality of “us vs. them.” It’s the most basic divide. The stronger your group identity, the more likely you are to have negative views of outsiders. Nationalism is the most powerful political force in the world. … Continue reading
Why Is AIPAC Silent on Syrian Refugees?
Like much of America, Jewish organizations have become increasingly inward and tribal over the past 40 years. Peter Beinart writes: Many American Jewish groups balance the Holocaust’s tribal and universal lessons. The most powerful one doesn’t even try. The last … Continue reading