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Author Archives: Max West
$1 Trillion Food Stamp Bill
The Organizer just signed a $1 trillion “Farm Bill”, with over 80% of the monies going to food stamps. One in five American households receive food stamps today. More than 1 million people were added to the rolls in 2013, … Continue reading
Dogeared Copy of The Fountainhead
On Fox News Sunday, Laura Ingraham battled Conservatism, Inc on immigration: “As far as I can tell, the Wall Street Journal is on the side of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, Pat Leahy and La Raza,” Ingraham said. “I … Continue reading
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Swiss Voters Approve Curbs on Immigration
Apparently, a majority of Swiss aren’t buying the “more immigration = economic prosperity” snake oil. From the NYT: BERLIN — A narrow majority of voters in Switzerland on Sunday approved proposals that would reintroduce restrictions on the number of foreigners … Continue reading
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Sen. Sessions’ Stealth Strategy
With Boehner pulling the plug on immigration reform this year, and the WSJ blaming this failure on ‘talk radio’, James Kirkpatrick has an excellent post on the stealth leadership being exhibited by Jeff Sessions. The Main Stream Media is missing … Continue reading
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Berenson’s Bears
From a Weekly Standard article on dandified aesthete Bernard Berenson, the latter a subject of Yale’s Jewish Lives series: A greater source of ill-will is the subject of his religious convictions, which are surely relevant to a book published under … Continue reading
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Same-Sex Marriage and the Jews
In Mosaic Magazine (“Advancing Jewish Thought”), Sam Schulman has an article analyzing American Jews’ disproportionate level of support for gay marriage (“Same-Sex Marriage and the Jews“): The majority of American Jews, as I have already indicated, are affluent and highly … Continue reading
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Why Bach Moves Us
From a NY Review of Books piece by George B. Stauffer (“Why Bach Moves Us“) .. Bach’s identification with Martin Luther that made all the difference. Luther’s earthy German translation of the Bible, a “prose of the people,” provided Bach … Continue reading
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
In The Nation, Eric Foner’s review of David Brion Davis’s book “The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation” is a great exercise in ‘reading between the lines’: As [Davis] points out, although barely remembered today, colonization was a … Continue reading
Sailer’s Chart
Steve Sailer recently reposted this chart he assembled on the 2012 election, a chart which represents who voted for Romney vs. who voted for Obama, the source data being Reuters-Ipsos’ panel of over 40,000 voters. As Steve himself noted, it’s … Continue reading