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Category Archives: California
Jews & Charity
Mark Arax writes in January 2018: Stewart Resnick is the biggest farmer in the United States, a fact he has tried to keep hidden while he has shaped what we eat, transformed California’s landscape, and ruled entire towns. Together, the … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: No Jail Time for Berkeley Bike Lock Philosopher Eric Clanton
News story: Eric Clanton takes 3-year probation deal in Berkeley rally bike lock assault case By Emilie Raguso Aug. 8, 2018, 2:14 p.m. A former East Bay college philosophy professor who was charged with four counts of felony assault with … Continue reading
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David Brooks – The Ugly Face Of Anti-Gentilism
Steve Sailer writes: As I predicted in my two previous Taki’s columns, the Trump administration offered to Democrats an extremely moderate and generous compromise immigration package. Trump proposed a path to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal aliens in return for … Continue reading
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Rob Reiner Celebrates The Browning Of America
California is now 37.7% white. Comments at Steve Sailer: * Why don’t Rob Reiner and his ilk organize a huge Freedom Ride, buses and all, to Mexico City? You know, protest the continued subjugation of the native Mexico population by … Continue reading
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Vanity Fair: “OH MY GOD, THIS IS SO F—ED UP”: INSIDE SILICON VALLEY’S SECRETIVE, ORGIASTIC DARK SIDE
I wish there was an ethnic angle to this. Vanity Fair: Some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley are regulars at exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties—gatherings they describe not as scandalous, or even secret, but as a bold, unconventional … Continue reading
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You Can Be Anti-Slavery And A Racist
The New York Times teaches us today: Peter Burnett was the first governor of the State of California, ascending to the post on December 20, 1849. But his ignominious legacy is hardly known today. Mr. Burnett came from Missouri via … Continue reading
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LAT: ‘How Hitler’s fascism almost took hold in Los Angeles’
Pat Morrison writes: Hiler didn’t have to set foot out of Germany for his malign plans to be felt beyond the Reich’s borders — even here in Los Angeles. Through the depths of the Depression right into World War II, … Continue reading
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Good Idea To Lower Standards For Passing California Bar In The Name Of Diversity?
Lowering standards for passing California Bar Exam in the name of diversity …https://t.co/umYbWhAVnl Wouldn't blatant quotas be better? pic.twitter.com/89RUWgHB47 — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) August 23, 2017 Performance by race/ethnicity on major postgrad test: LSAT, GRE, MCAT, GMAT, and DAT in … Continue reading
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LAT: ‘Lyft Shuttle: Another Silicon Valley effort to shelter the well-off from those pesky poor people’
It sounds to me like a service to help non-blacks get away from blacks. For people who ride public transport, all the low-lifes, transients, parolees and welfare users on board make the experience miserable, and a disproportionate number of these … Continue reading
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Nietzsche and Illness
Steve Sailer writes: My impression is that one connection between Nietzsche and Hitler was a common German fear of being poisoned, whether by miasmas, bad food, or mixed blood. For example, my Germanophone Swiss grandfather moved from Oak Park, IL … Continue reading
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