Author Archives: Max West

Axelrod on Trump

David Axelrod on the Trump surge: “Here’s the gist. Open-seat presidential elections are shaped by perceptions of the style and personality of the outgoing incumbent. Voters rarely seek the replica of what they have,” Axelrod wrote. “They almost always seek … Continue reading

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NYT: ‘Election 2016’ Reporting

Here are the top 2 stories in the NYT’s current ‘Election 2016’ section about the Big Race. Note the sober and sombre reflection on the torturous ideological battle within the Democratic Party vs. the smarmy ‘objective’ reporting on Trump in … Continue reading

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Paris Attack: Yup, They Were Lone Wolves

From AP: PARIS –  New video released by the Islamic State group on Sunday shows the extremists who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris committing atrocities in IS-controlled territory while plotting the slaughter in the French capital that … Continue reading

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Beck Prefers Sanders Over Trump

From The Hill: [Beck] said he even prefers Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” running in the Democratic presidential primary, to Trump. “Honesty, faith and truth are basic requirements. And quite honestly, I have to tell you, this … Continue reading

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Bernie & Israel

Politico has a piece on “Bernie and Israel: It’s complicated”. The piece is interesting less for Sanders’ actually views on Israel (he’s got the typical Leftist’s healthy sympathies for Palestinians) than for the piece’s inherent presumptions about what one’s views … Continue reading

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Oscar Crisis: New Voting Rules Raise Questions & Anger Among Current Members

Whether it’s BLM activists screaming in the face of ‘white’ (aka Jewish) professors at Yale (you’d think the typical uber-liberal college campus is Selma in 1962), or Hollywood’s BLM-equivalents making demands to address the Great Oscar Whiteness Crisis (that’s Sailer’s … Continue reading

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Charles Coburn

I recently watched three excellent movies with the extremely funny character actor Charles Coburn: The More the Merrier (1943), for which Coburn received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar; Howard Hawks’ funny Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), where Coburn plays a South … Continue reading

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Alt-Right Roundup

It’s been a helluva week for the Alt-Right. Rush cryptically acknowledged the Alt-Right when he announced nationalism/populism has overtaken (traditional, limited government) conservatism in the GOP base. He even took a call from a self-described “Alt-Right” listener. Then GOP, Inc … Continue reading

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Enoch Powell Was Right: Trump Edition

In the NYT, one Sarfraz Manzoor has a piece (I can never tell if these things are ‘news’ pieces or opinion pieces) titled “Donald Trump and the ‘Rivers of Blood’”, comparing Trump to the great Enoch Powell: When Mr. Trump … Continue reading

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It’s Pat!

“Is the Spectre of Trump (And Sam Francis) Haunting Davos?” asks Pat Buchanan in his recent column: The lights are burning late in Davos tonight. At the World Economic Forum, keynoter Joe Biden warned global elites that the unraveling of … Continue reading

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