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Charles Mingus: Angry Black Man
In The Nation is an article on jazz legend Charles Mingus, whose “relationship to black identity gave his music its stormy weather.” The biography of this titular jazz pioneer is representative of black identity that can only come about from … Continue reading
Out of the Shadows – Pt. 813,229
Here’s the Vice President of the United States using the Democrat Party’s favorite words “undocumented” and “out of the shadows” in a speech he delivered… in Mexico: (CNSNews.com) – Speaking at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City on … Continue reading
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Is Tom Wolfe a Race Realist?
Over at the excellent Occidental Observer is the first of Nelson Rosit’s 3-part essay “Is Tom Wolfe a Race Realist?“: Perhaps it is a product of his Southern heritage — born in Richmond in 1931, B.A. Washington and Lee, 1951. … Continue reading
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Conservatism, Inc vs. Ted Cruz
FNC’s Chris Wallace receives opposition research on Ted Cruz…. from Rove, Inc: Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace said Sunday morning that he’d received opposition research from other Republicans about Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in advance of Cruz’s appearance this … Continue reading
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Jeffrey Sachs’ Incredible Failure to Eradicate Poverty in Africa
Howard French writes on the hubris of Jeffrey Sachs, whose Millennium Village [MV] projects, intended to wipe out poverty by 2025, has wrought all sorts of unintended consequences. Of an MV set up in northeastern Kenya: As MV money poured … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, International, Left
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Joel Kotkin on Urban Crises
Joel Kotkin on the impending, urban, pension crises across the country. The biggest, most Democrat-controlled cities will be the first to fall: Detroit’s bankruptcy revealed the unsustainable fiscal problems facing most major urban centers, including, most importantly, President Obama’s political … Continue reading
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Brooklyn Jewish Troubadours
In Tablet (“A New Read on Jewish Life”), Lee Smith writes “How Delmore Schwartz Saved My Life: Or at least kept Lou Reed from punching me at a dinner party“): The American poets who captured this paradox best—Schwartz and other … Continue reading
RoP Gettin’ Busy
Another week in Islam’s infinite war against Christianity. In Kenya, al-Shabaab targeted non-Muslims (which, in a country that is 83% Christian, is another way of saying ‘Christian’): A large explosion late Sunday rocked an upscale Kenyan mall a day after … Continue reading
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Jack Donaghy Says…
To Liz Lemon: “You’re New York third-wave feminist, college-educationed, single-and-pretending-to-be-happy-about-it, over-scheduled, undersexed. You buy any magazine that says ‘healthy body image’ on the cover and every two years you take up knitting for … a week.”
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Boko Haram
Muslims in Africa doing what they do best: At least 87 people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, according to local officials. Disguised in military uniforms, the militants set up checkpoints … Continue reading
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