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Author Archives: Max West
LSD Brain Imaging
There’s a fascinating new study on involving LSD brain imaging, offering potential insights into consciousness: MRI scans showed that LSD caused brain activity to become less coordinated in regions that make up what is called the default mode network. The … Continue reading
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De Blasio on C.P. Time
While it was part of a lame, scripted skit, NYC’s Mayor Bill De Blasio stepped over the ever-encroaching P.C. line: During an appearance alongside “Hamilton” cast member Leslie Odom Jr. and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton at a black tie … Continue reading
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Belgium: What Assimilation Problem?
From Breitbart: Teachers working in the predominantly Muslim districts of Molenbeek and Schaerbeek in Brussels have reported that “90 percent of their students, 17, 18 years old” called the Islamist terrorists who attacked Paris and Brussels “heroes”. The revelation came in an article in the … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Immigration, Islam
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The Origins of Cuckservatism: Slow Retreat, Benedict Option & Exit
In “The Origins of Cuckservatism: The Slow Retreat, The Benedict Option and “Exit””, Brett Stevens writes: What went wrong with conservatism? It has opposed the Left for centuries and yet been defeated to the point where, before the rise of … Continue reading
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The Snake
Within a typical and rather mediocre New Yorker piece on Trump is this: In his rallies, he has taken to giving dramatic readings of the lyrics of a song, by Al Wilson, called “The Snake,” which he presents as a parable … Continue reading
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Harvard’s Eugenics Era
In Harvard Magazine, Adam Cohen writes of Harvard’s awful, racist, legacy and the prominent role progressives of all stripes played in working with the awful, racist movement’s assumptions (“Harvard’s Eugenics Era”): In August 1912, Harvard president emeritus Charles William Eliot … Continue reading
Anthropologist: White Skin Developed 8,000 Years Ago
From a team of researchers led by Iain Mathieson: An international team of researchers as headed by Harvard University’s Dr. Iain Mathieson put forth a study at the 84th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists recently. Based … Continue reading
Raising My Hand
Campus P.C. overreach outdoes itself every day, making instances of increasingly indistinguishable from The Onion. When, o’ when, will this bubble finally pop? From The Telegraph: A university student was threatened with being thrown out of a meeting after being … Continue reading
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Erick Erickson: “Trump Voters Have Failed at Life”
From Breitbart: It seems like every day, Donald Trump compels someone in the Republican establishment or the conservative industrial complex to reveal their character, who they are, and what they really think. And it’s ugly. Today, Erick Erickson said that … Continue reading
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