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Monthly Archives: February 2019
What Is Racism?
00:00 Kyle on Amy Harmon vs Greg Cochran 20:00 Steve Sailer vs Amy Harmon 55:00 Do Jews want to be president? 58:00 KMG asks what is racism? 1:10:00 Labor MP David Lammy blasts ‘uneducated’ Stacey Dooley 1:19:00 Whites need a … Continue reading
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Paypal Cracks Down On Conservatives
Kyle writes: WSJ Interview of PayPal CEO: https://outline.com/2FUJSU Dan Schulman makes clear that Charlottesville was the impetus for an intensified crackdown: WSJ: When do you think people first took note that PayPal makes business decisions according to how they align … Continue reading
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A Chinese Massacre In 1871 Los Angeles
From David Kipen’s new book, Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018: Frank Lecouvreur writes: October 24, 1871: There has been a Chinese massacre this month, a most disgraceful affair, the like of which is … Continue reading
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Declining Global IQ
John Walker writes: That is the thesis explored by this insightful book, which is packed with enough “hate facts” to detonate the head of any bien pensant academic or politician. I define a “hate fact” as something which is indisputably … Continue reading
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Revolution in Judea: Jesus and the Jewish Resistance (1974)
Free pdf download of Hyam Maccoby’s book The Mythmaker. https://t.co/MncwSzqeuf Free registration at same place to get Revolution in Judea for two weeks. https://t.co/pkbUYC7sJ7 — (((Luke Ford))) (@lukeford) February 26, 2019 What philosophical school do I belong to? Warren Buffett … Continue reading
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I Was Livestreaming On Youtube When The 1:52 AM 3.3 Earthquake Rolled Through
Map of the testimonies received so far following the #earthquake M3.3 in Greater Los Angeles Area, Calif. 1hr 7min ago pic.twitter.com/aOLRUgBAVj — EMSC (@LastQuake) February 26, 2019
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Conservative Conversions
Marc B. Shapiro blogs: Of particular interest to me was R. Yissachar Dov Hoffman’s article on the practice of a number of great Torah sages of prior generations not to kiss their children. Such a practice is so much against … Continue reading
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The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter–And How to Make the Most of Them Now
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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
Here are excerpts from this 2018 book: * The company put off drafting an army of sales and marketing people until much later. Instead, in 1999 and 2000, Google staffed up with—what else?—brainiacs. Larry and Sergey hired software engineers, hardware … Continue reading
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NYT: Jeffrey Hart, Influential and Iconoclastic Conservative, Is Dead at 88
I interviewed Jeffrey Hart in 2005. Jeffrey: “I thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Then I supported [the American-led invasion]. Now I find that many of those claims were not only incorrect, but possibly fabricated.” Luke: “What grade would … Continue reading
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