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Monthly Archives: September 2016
Steve Sailer: Homeless Dumpster Divers Are America’s First Line of Defense Against Islamic Terrorism
From Drudge Report: AHMAD KHAN RAHAMI CAPTURED… SHOOTOUT WITH POLICE… VIDEO… Naturalized Citizen From Afghanistan… Sued police for Muslim targeting… DEVICE EXPLODES OUTSIDE NJ TRAIN STATION… Triple strike puts Manhattan on alert for UN summit… ‘Bigger than ever’ police presence… … Continue reading
WP: ‘His Motive Remains Unknown’
ISIS-linked news agency: Suspect in stabbings at Minnesota mall was 'a soldier of the Islamic State' https://t.co/RNoV9XLzji — Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 18, 2016
Jews For Refugees
National #Jewish orgs urge world leaders to stand up for #refugees in advance of the #UNGA & #UN4RefugeesMigrants. https://t.co/HTLHowVMIb — HIAS (@HIASrefugees) September 18, 2016 HIAS: Jewish Statement on Historic Refugee Summits On September 19, 2016, world leaders will convene … Continue reading
Legality, legitimacy, and Carl Schmitt (Paul Gottfried)
Paul Gottfried wrote for National Review in 1987: ON APRIL 7, 1985, the death of Carl Schmitt, at age 97, brought to an end the longest and stormiest career in the history of political thought. Schmitt’s hero, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), … Continue reading
Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory. By Paul Edward Gottfried. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990
Review: Paul Gottfried’s brilliant new work elucidates Schmitt’s view of the state. As Gottfried stresses, Schmitt rejected the pluralism of Harold Laski, who saw the state as but one of many groups within society. This anti-political view ignored the essence … Continue reading
A Jewish Perspective On Carl Schmitt
Paul Gottfried writes in 2015: Carl Schmitt: A Biography, Reinhard Mehring, Polity, 700 pages Reinhard Mehring’s study of the long-lived German political and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is the most exhaustive biography known to me of a deeply fascinating … Continue reading
America’s Diminishing Social Capital
David Brooks gets it: Sitting out the anthem takes place in the context of looming post-nationalism. When we sing the national anthem, we’re not commenting on the state of America. We’re fortifying our foundational creed. We’re expressing gratitude for our … Continue reading
The Wandering AltJew
Blog post: What made me seek out and research diverse opinions was the blithering stigmatization of other Jews like Benjamin Freedman or Gliad Atzmon- that hysterical stigmatization only drew my curiosity – and later helped me realize Jews have the … Continue reading
Does religion make blacks and Hispanics better citizens?
F.C. Stoughton writes: W. Bradford Wilcox and Nicholas H. Wolfinger, Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos, Oxford University Press, 2016, 248 pp., $27.95. Soul Mates, by academic sociologists W. Bradford Wilcox and Nicholas H. … Continue reading
Scientific Knowledge By Demographics
Dr. James Thompson writes: “The overall difference amounts to 15% less science knowledge for women, and because of some of the weak items chosen that may be an under-estimate.”