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Author Archives: Max West
Orson Welles & “The Other Side of the Wind”
Big news for Orson Welles fans. The Other Side of the Wind, which was his unfinished last film, which he struggled for years to complete, will eventually see the light of day. While I don’t think it will be a … Continue reading
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Former Iraq Ambassador: Obama ‘Warned by Everybody’ About ISIS, but ‘Did Almost Nothing’
From NR: James Jeffrey, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2010 to 2012, pushed back against President Obama’s claim that the intelligence community was caught off guard by the rise of the Islamic State, claiming the White House knew all about … Continue reading
Posted in Democrat Party, Middle East, War on Terror
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La Raza Promotes Washington Post Guide On Where People Can Vote Without An ID
From the Daily Caller: The pro-amnesty Hispanic activist organization the National Council of La Raza helpfully promoted a Washington Post article explaining which states people can vote in without having to use a photo ID. “Voter ID laws are at-issue … Continue reading
Posted in Death of the West, Immigration
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Roger Daltrey: Why I’ll Never Forgive Labour
Because I’m a Who fan: The Who frontman slammed Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for opening the floodgates to millions of migrant workers and “destroying the ambition” of the nation’s youngsters when Labour was in power. The veteran rocker also … Continue reading
NYC: Aspiring Actress Hit With 108 Catcalls in 10 Hours
The video below is making the rounds on news sites (e.g., NY Daily News; CNN; HuffPo; etc). A woman wearing jeans and a crewneck t-shirt walked around NYC for ten hours with a hidden (to everyone else) camera fixed on … Continue reading
Report: Non-Citizen Voters Could Sway Key Elections
From Breitbart: A new study that asks whether non-citizens can tip elections for Democrats gives more credence to an Eagle Forum report that concluded that massive amnesty legislation would be “suicide” for the conservative movement and the GOP. In a … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, National
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Priebus: GOP Will Stop BO’s “Un-American” Amnesty
After the GOP sweep next week, the Big Question will be: What will this newly empowered majority actually do when The Organizer grants de facto amnesty to millions of illegals before the end of the year? If my life depended … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Republican Party
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James Burnham
In The American Conservative, Daniel McCarthy profiles the often overlooked, founding neoconservative James Burnham: He was one of the key thinkers of the postwar conservative movement, though his thought is badly neglected on the right today. The man whose mind … Continue reading
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F*** the Po-leese
From a Reason poll on attitudes towards the po-leese: Americans like the police, but older, more affluent, white, conservative Republicans really like the police. Fully 72 percent of Americans say they have a favorable view of the police, and 24 percent have … Continue reading
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Tall Buildings
“If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.’” — Joseph Campbell (Hat tip: Alain de Botton)
Posted in Culture, International
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