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Category Archives: Politics
On the Republican Obamacare Plan
On Beck’s show last week, I heard Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) note how the sitting members of the House Ways and Means Committee, in charge of the Obamacare replacement initiative, receive the most political contributions from the insurance and pharmaceutical … Continue reading
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Mediate: “Is That Cute Kid Trump Met at the White House Today Making the Pepe Symbol?”
When it comes to all things Alt-Right, Jewish paranoia is quite boundless. Jon Levine (ahem) frets anxiously, asking “Is That Cute Kid Trump Met at the White House Today Making the Pepe Symbol?”: President Donald Trump on Tuesday took time away from berating his staff and … Continue reading
Nationalist Update from Europe
Hunter Wallace provides a “Nationalist Update from Europe”: The latest polls show that the Sweden Democrats, a patriotic and anti-immigration party, are now the most popular party in Sweden with 28.8% support – 7 points higher than the Socialists. All of the … Continue reading
CJR on Breitbart-Led Media Ecosystem
From the astonishingly leftwing Columbia Journalism Review is “Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda”, by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, and Ethan Zuckerman (ahem, ahem, ahem, and ahem): THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SHOOK the foundations of … Continue reading
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The Great Meme War
Writing in Politico, leftist Ben Schreckinger has a long profile piece titled “World War Meme”. Schreckinger profiles various “veterans of the Great Meme War”: That’s the grandiose name given—only half ironically—to the decentralized efforts of a swarm of anonymous internet … Continue reading
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RIP: Libertarianism?
In a long Politico piece, Tim Alberta asks if Trump’s election, and the relative decline in political stature of Rand Paul and other Congressional libertarians, represents “The End of the Libertarian Dream?” Meanwhile, in “Ayn Rand is dead. Liberals are … Continue reading
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Buchanan: It’s Trump’s Party Now
After Trump’s widely acclaimed speech to Congress this week, Pat Buchanan writes that “It’s Trump’s Party Now”. But he concludes with a poignant warning against naïve optimism: The Republican establishment today bends the knee to Caesar. But how long before … Continue reading
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Trump’s Speech
Politico has a piece on “How Trump’s Disciplined Speech Came Together”. President Donald Trump sat in the White House Map Room on Tuesday with a coterie of advisers, a black Sharpie, stacks of paper and a teleprompter. Beside him much … Continue reading
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Andrew Breitbart: 1969 – 2012
At BNN, Larry Solov has a brief post which reads: 10 years ago, when my lifelong friend, Andrew Breitbart, approached me to partner up with him on a new media venture, his pitch was very simple: Let’s change the world. … Continue reading
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Roger Scruton on Populism
As part of The New Criterion’s series on populism, Roger Scruton has a new essay titled “Populism, VII: Representation & the People”. I haven’t read it yet, but anything by Scruton is a must-read.