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Category Archives: Politics
Who Rules Whom?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * “Who? Whom?” is a great concept, but a lousy phrase. It’s meaning isn’t obvious enough, it’s a little hard to say, and it sounds too much like an owl talking. Was it translated from a … Continue reading
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NYT: Marco Rubio Pushed for Immigration Reform With Conservative Media
Jason Horowitz writes for the New York Times Feb. 27, 2016: A few weeks after Senator Marco Rubio joined a bipartisan push for an immigration overhaul in 2013, he arrived alongside Senator Chuck Schumer at the executive dining room of … Continue reading
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Where’s Columba Bush?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Again, why isn’t Jeb! having Columba front and center on the campaign trail with him, by his side and making a few speeches before women’s groups? That is a fair question especially since this is … Continue reading
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Poland Previews America?
Steve Sailer writes: Following the Paris atrocities, the new populist conservative government announced it wouldn’t be admitting any Muslim refugees. In the foreign press, the recent ascendance of majoritarian conservatives over corporate conservatives is being heralded as the End of … Continue reading
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Study: Libs Really Do Suffer From A Case Of “My Feels”
From the Chateau: The stereotype of liberals as emotionally underdeveloped children who feel first and think later now has support from the very entity liberals have raised to divine status: SCIENCE! Liberals and conservatives exhibit different cognitive styles and converging … Continue reading
Race Takes Center Stage In American Politics
Eduardo Porter writes for the New York Times: Race, of course, has shaped political choices for a long time. The Republican takeover of the South is understood by scholars as a reaction to whites’ sense of betrayal after the Democratic … Continue reading
Remembering Edwin Edwards
Just Not Said: In 1992, Edwards ran against white power advocate and former KKK member David Duke. Edwards, referring to his own reputation as a ladies’ man, said of Duke that “the only thing we have in common is that … Continue reading
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The Tragedy Of Great Power Politics (2001)
I’m reading John J. Mearsheimer’s 2001 classic: * Great powers that have no reason to fight each other—that are merely concerned with their own survival—nevertheless have little choice but to pursue power and to seek to dominate the other states … Continue reading
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Boston Globe: Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.
We’re talking about the Deep State. Democracy, to a large extent, is a sham. Link: The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon THE VOTERS WHO put Barack Obama in office expected some … Continue reading