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Author Archives: Max West
US Chamber To Spend Millions Against Tea Party Style Candidates in 2014
With friends like this, who needs enemies? The chamber — the county’s most powerful and deep-pocketed pro-business lobby — signaled last month its stake in the elections by telling The Wall Street Journal it would spend $50 million in this … Continue reading
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Happy 50th!
Happy 50th birthday, War On Poverty! Here’s to 50 more!
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UK: Record Support For Severe Curbs On Immigration
Amazing shift in U.K. opinion: Support for sweeping curbs on immigration to the UK has reached record levels, a major study of public opinion shows. Almost eight out of 10 Britons now believe that the number of new arrivals should … Continue reading
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Max Tegmark: Mathematical Reality of Reality
A physicist (with a cool name) provides an update on ideas proposed some years ago by Eugene Wigner in “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences“: Max Tegmark has a theory about reality. According to Max, who is … Continue reading
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Rush: GOP’s Stealth Plan For Amnesty
Increasingly, Rush Limbaugh seems to be tip-toing, ever slowly, towards a fundamental realization of why Conservatism, Inc. is doomed. I’m waiting for the day when he acknowledges that a Third Party may be necessary.
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‘Disparate Impact’ – Pt. 31,038
Eric “My People” Holder is bringing the fad liberal concept of “disparate impact” to the classroom, to further tie the hands of school officials from exercising disciplinary measures on unruly students. The latter, you see, are quite often black. The … Continue reading
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Are Jewish Neighborhoods a Good Thing?
Conservative Dennis Pragert asks “Are Jewish neighborhoods a good thing?“ While he comes down on the side of less self-imposed separatism (he doesn’t favor outright ‘multiculturalism’, just the notion of ‘small Jewish communities’ over, apparently, ‘large Jewish communities’.) Having lived … Continue reading
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Patients in Vegetative State Can Respond Emotionally to Loved Ones
The Jahi McMath case is this decade’s Terri Shiavo case, albeit with less media attention this time. (This is because the media ‘won’ in the Schiavo case. She was removed from her feeding tube, despite objections from her parents.) In … Continue reading
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BookTV: Mark Levin
Two things that stood out of me in the BookTV interview with Mark Levin yesterday on C-SPAN. (I caught only an hour of it). 1) In the interview, Levin asserts — without caveats — that Christianity (particularly) Protestants — are … Continue reading
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BBC: We Made A ‘Terrible Mistake’ Over Immigration Debate
From The Telegraph, the U.K. elites are beginning to realize their P.C. suppression of white ethnocentrism (aka ‘nativism’) didn’t suppress anything… but simply pushed it underground, where a ‘silent majority’ grew over the past two decades: Nick Robinson, the BBC’s … Continue reading
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