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Monthly Archives: September 2016
Hasids Busted for Plan to Murder Husband Who Wouldn’t Divorce Wife
Forward: Federal prosecutors announced the arrest Wednesday evening of two members of the Satmar Hasidic group accused of planning to kidnap and murder a man who had refused to grant his wife a religious divorce. Shimen Liebowitz, 25, and Aharon … Continue reading
60th Drug-Related Death In Orthodox New York Over Past Year
Forward: The granddaughter of one of Brooklyn’s most influential Hasidic rebbes, or rabbis, died of a reported drug overdose early this week, according to an Israeli newspaper, sending the tight-knit ultra-Orthodox community into mourning and raising alarms among advocates who … Continue reading
Math Is Racist
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Essentially, evidence is racist. * Everyone knows that math was invented by black Africans in Egypt, who used it to build pyramids and airplanes. But then jealous whites took the math from these people, and … Continue reading
Trump – Hillary Townhall
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Lauer helped Hillary up the podium in the guise of a handshake, all pre planned no doubt. She forgot her scripted answer to the commander in chief quality question, and answered first with, “Steadiness” then … Continue reading
Forward: “Is Donald Trump’s Endorsement by 88 Retired Generals a Secret Neo-Nazi Code?”
Steve Sailer writes: Do you ever get the impression that the Establishment is undergoing a nervous breakdown? By the way, if we’re going to wander off into Minister Farrakhan-style numerological fever swamps, the number 88 means a lot more to … Continue reading
The Specter of the ‘Alt-Right’
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: It began, as many instances of sliming do, with curiosity, following Hillary Clinton’s August 25 speech denouncing Donald Trump’s ties to the so-called alt-right movement. Living as I do in a bubble, I had … Continue reading
Compared To America, Israel Is A Low-Trust State
There are parts of American life that are considerably lower trust than parts of Israeli life. Overall, however, Americans have more trust in their government and in each other than do Israels. So what about Jews in the West? Jews … Continue reading
Conservatism Failed
Vox Day writes: I don’t know who “Publius Decius Mus” is, except in the Samnite War sense, but this is the best article I have ever read at the Claremont Institute. It very clearly makes the case for the need … Continue reading
WSJ: Jewish Baby Boom Alters Israeli-Palestinian Dynamic
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV July 14, 2016 8:37 a.m. ET JERUSALEM—Israel’s peace camp and its international backers have long used one crude but powerful argument: Arabs make more babies than Jews and unless a separate Palestinian state is created, a demographic … Continue reading
‘London is generally safe – but be careful in areas populated by Indians, Pakistanis and black people’: Chinese airline condemned for in-flight magazine’s ‘racist’ advice
Daily Mail: Tourists are being told to avoid areas of London ‘populated by Indians, Pakistanis and black people’ in a Chinese airline’s in-flight magazine. Wings of China, the in-flight magazine for Air China, made the ‘racist’ comment in a travel … Continue reading