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Category Archives: America
All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America
Michael Wolff writes in this 2025 book: * [In 2021] Mar – a – Lago, as one Trump intimate put it, was less Camelot than Jonestown. * the man on the tightrope without a net. Who can take their eyes … Continue reading
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When it comes to Hamas activist Mahmoud, Democrats & the MSM now support free speech! (3-14-25)
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The Sociology Of Elites (3-13-25)
01:00 My friends for my first three years in LA were all Dennis Prager affiliated, https://lukeford.net/blog/?page_id=3162006:00 Why does America need terror supporters such as Mahmoud Khalil? https://x.com/AkivaShapiro/status/190028126317886714111:00 What Jordan Peterson can teach church leaders, https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-jordan-peterson-can-teach-church-leaders-young-men-influencer-masculinity-22bb318c15:00 Aaron Renn: Creating a Permission … Continue reading
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Rediscovering E. Digby Baltzell’s Sociology of Elites
Aaron Renn writes: * Baltzell defines an aristocratic upper class as one which justifies its status and privileges through service to the nation, both by assuming leadership roles and by being open to assimilating the families of new men of … Continue reading
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Why Are Churches Anti-Men? (3-12-25)
01:00 Aaron Renn: When Selfishness Becomes Celebrated: How modern culture repackages marital abandonment as radical self-love, with little counter-narrative from religious voices, https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/selfish-abandonment09:00 Dennis Prager’s First Public Message11:00 Rodney Martin needs your prayers24:00 Aaron Renn: Tradcons Are the Enemy of … Continue reading
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Democrats & MSM Rally To Defense Of Hamas Agitator Mahmoud Khalil (Columbia University) 3-12-25)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/yale-suspends-scholar-terrorism.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-detention-hearing.html
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Big Law, Big Hollywood, Big Journalism, Big Money, Big Education Cower Before Trump (3-11-25)
01:00 Don’t just take action, sit there03:00 Jewish and black confidence04:30 Does Trump plan before taking action? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLbpnOmImhY18:00 Trump slashes Education department, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j5VNj9_ZWw19:00 NYT: Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff: The layoffs mean that the department will now … Continue reading
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Dayenu! It Would Have Been Enough If Trump Had Only Crushed Illegal Immigration! (3-11-25)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/fear-of-trump-has-elite-law-firms-in-retreat-6f251dechttps://www.wsj.com/world/americas/trump-border-immigration-reverse-migration-150854c4?mod=hp_lead_pos5,Reverse immigration through Mexico: https://www.ft.com/content/112b7d98-ccbe-49c6-9021-7abe01328f8fColin Liddell unimpressed: https://x.com/cbliddell/status/1899504782575833234Jim Goad close to the end: https://x.com/NobleAtlas88/status/1686539573650915335/All events are ephemeral (study them if you enjoy it, not for evidence that you are superior): https://www.ft.com/content/c0734fa8-9b29-4f8e-848d-589dc92edbb8What Should Jews & Catholics Learn From Protestants? (3-9-25), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=159514NYT: … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves’
You can imagine my dismay when I read in the New York Times March 6, 2025: “People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their … Continue reading
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The Bug Out Mindset
Aaron Renn writes Oct. 3, 2024: The rich are first in line here. They are building bunkers, and also acquiring massive ranches and other amounts of rural land. They are also among the people acquiring multiple passports. CNBC did an … Continue reading
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