tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89291162012-01-23T08:19:52.850-08:00An examination of issues of civilization and conflict.Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.comBlogger5591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-68586736455161334162012-01-12T05:51:00.000-08:002012-01-12T06:08:08.715-08:00

An article at Salon.com examines the lingering aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, which killed an estimated 220,000 Haitians and left the country in even more squalid ruins than before. According to Salon, most of the billions in international aid cannot be accounted for and only a trickle had reached the ever-suffering Haitian people. This is to be expected, of course. There is no greater

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The late biologist, Stephen J. Gould, penned the 1981 book, The Mismeasure of Man, as a polemic against IQ science and any findings that discovered physical, but especially mental differences between the races. Such findings ran counter to Gould's Marxist belief in the absolute genetic equality of all people, and the inherent racism of Western, and particularly American society. Naturally, the

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In New Square, New York, a man was badly burned during an arson attack on his home. The motivation for the attack appears to have been religious.A New Square man who was severely burned early Sunday during an attack on his home had been the victim of growing harassment for more than a year because he did not attend the community's main synagogue.Aron Rottenberg, 43, who suffered third-degree

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What happens when a student falsely accuses a university of racism? Well, if the liar happens to be a minority, then the answer is: not much.Last month, Jonathan Perkins, a black, third year law student at the University of Virginia Law School penned a letter to the Virginia Law Weekly in which he alleged that university security guards had harrassed him while he walked home one night solely

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Last night's announcement that U.S. Special Forces teams had cornered and killed al-Qaeda founder and terrorist frontman INSIDE PAKISTAN, produced spontaneous public expressions of joy across the U.S.In the Islamic world, however, news of bin Laden's demise produced criticism. The decision of the Obama administration to bury bin Laden's corpse at sea with full Muslim rites provoked the usual

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Rick Sanchez, CNN's afternoon talking head, was pressed in a radio interview as to why he doesn't like Comedy Central's Jon Stewart. After calling Stewart a bigot, then evading questions about his reasons, Sanchez finally opened up and let it out.Dominick asked Sanchez again what group Stewart is bigoted against. Said Sanchez, "Anybody who's different than you are, anybody who's not form your

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This isn't how it was supposed to be. This was supposed to be "recovery summer" and Democrats thought they would be sailing under favorable winds toward a November election safely under the mantle of President Obama's popularity. But the idolized leader has proven detached, wooden, and not terribly competent. The economy is in tatters, American soldiers are still dying in the worthless sands of

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Over the past few weeks, America's elite political class, which has no better representative than New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, has displayed something close to ecstacy when spitting on the cultural sensibilities of average Americans by backing the proposed mosque/Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. The opportunity to lecture Americans on the finer points of

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After a decade of Hugo Chavez's beneficient socialist rule, not only is Venezuela's economy contracting, but it has become the murder capital of the Western Hemisphere. The situation is so bad that not even the New York Times can ignore it.In Iraq, a country with about the same population as Venezuela, there were 4,644 civilian deaths from violence in 2009, according to Iraq Body Count; in

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Over the past few days, various US media outlets had been joyfully bubbling with eager speculation that a white serial killer was running amok targeting black men for brutal, and often, fatal attacks.Police in Flint, Michigan, are investigating 13 stabbings resulting in five deaths since late May that they believed have been committed by one man.Race may be a factor in the crimes: A majority of

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Faced with mounting criticism that the standardized math and reading proficiency tests used to gauge public school performance were so watered down that chimpanzees could pass them, New York State recently revised the tests, making them tougher. The results were, well, predictable.There were large drops in passing rates across New York, reflecting new requirements intended to correct for years of

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Close on the heels of Wikileaks' disclosure of thousands of classified US and NATO intelligence papers, which document clandestine Pakistani support for the Taliban (already an open secret in Washington), a new poll of Pakistanis finds - surprise, surprise - that a solid majority view the United States as an enemy.Despite billions in aid from Washington and a shared threat from extremists,

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Jews are always foremost amongst leftists in denouncing white Americans and Europeans for racist thoughts, actions and institutions. Indeed, the racism charge has been used by Jewish-run organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center to impugn virtually every non-Jewish American who falls afoul of their ideological dictates. Jewish journalists rail against white racism in every major

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Last year, former Labor Party officials admitted, publicly, that the open borders immigration policies practiced in Britain by Labor governments for decades were part of a deliberate plan to change the nation's demographics to better favor multiculturalist socialism. This was done without any public disclosure of the Liberals intentions, and with outright denials of the likely outcome of the

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A new report issued by FICO, the company that compiles the eponymous credit scores that determine whether consumers can borrow money, and at what rate, has released a report that says that FICO scores for more and more Americans are falling:As the U.S. economy struggles to recover and unemployment rates remain high, Americans may have another issue to worry about before they can improve their

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New York State, faced with years of declining test scores has found an innovative way to brighten the picture (and comply with Bush's No Child Left Behind):When does 2 + 2 = 5? When you're taking the state math test. Despite promises that the exams -- which determine whether students advance to the next grade -- would not be dumbed down this year, students got "partial credit" for wrong answers

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Once upon a time, there was a president of Harvard University who gave a speech in which he pointed out that modern science had found all sorts of biological differences between men and women, some of which translated into different behaviors and capabilities between the sexes. Unfortunately, one of the women in his audience heard his words, cried foul, rallied the forces of the gender studies

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Veteran reporter, Helen Thomas, who delighted the mainstream press for years with strident, politically-charged, but occasionally trenchant, questions aimed at Republican and Democrat Press Secretaries, and a steady stream of far-left opinion pieces, finally stepped out of line, criticizing the one group of people who are never to be criticized in the media:In the video clip, which was filmed on

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The Los Angeles Unified School District has become infamous for violence, low test scores, a high drop out rate, and, like all of California, massive budget shortfalls. So what is the foremost priority amongst the LAUSD's leadership? Why, condemning Arizona's recent immigration law!The Los Angeles Unified School District school board wants all public school students in the city to be taught that

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Cortney Munna wanted to graduate from a top-ranked university. She managed to do so, but as the New York Times explains, it's going to cost her much, much more than she bargained for:Like many middle-class families, Cortney Munna and her mother began the college selection process with a grim determination. They would do whatever they could to get Cortney into the best possible college, and they

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Once upon a time, oh, about thirty years ago, the US had unquestioned supremacy in high-technology, especially computers. Three decades of free trade later, American dominance in technology is as dead as a doornail. Now the Chinese are advancing swiftly on the one area where American firms still have a slight lead.A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked as the world’s second-fastest machine,

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As previously noted, Jewish organizations are strongly supportive of open borders and massive legal/illegal immigration to the US. But Jews are hardly alone in their enthusiasm over mass immigration. Most American Catholic bishops and Catholic organizations have also taken up the cause of increased immigration and amnesty for illegal aliens. Since the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants

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Despite the early efforts of the mainstream media (and the leftists who control it) to portray that would-be Times Square Bomber as a "homegrown terrorist," (i.e., Americans are just as bad as radical foreign jihadis) it is now clear that Faisal Shahzad was anything but homegrown, and certainly not an American in any meaningful sense of the word. Mr. Shahzad was born and in Pakistan in 1979,

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It turns out that the apparent perpetrator of the failed car bombing of New York' Times Square was NOT - despite the mainstream media' most earnest leftist wish - a white, native-born American, but a "naturalized American citizen" from Pakistan.(CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the Justice Department anticipates charging Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad "with an

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The New York Times has long been the left's most reliable public pulpit, daily dispensing propaganda to advance its pet causes: income redistribution, social justice and multiculturalism. However, it seems that "economic and social justice" is something that the Times' liberal owners and managers view as something only to be practiced by others, not by themselves.Some New York Times Co. (NYT)

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Have you ever wondered just why the US media seems to enamored with illegal aliens, and so ready to slander anyone who argues in favor of border enforcement? Or why so many US politicians are deathly afraid of the immigration issue - even though every poll indicates that Americans overwhelmingly support immigration restriction and oppose amnesty for illegals? Well, the reason is the open borders

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As the death toll from the Haitian earthquake continues to soar, the open borders crowd, ever eager to use tragedy to advance their cause, are now suggesting that the US open itself to mass immigration from Haiti in order to help the Haitian people. The argument, most cogently advanced by Elliot Abrams, runs as follows: in order for Haiti to finance its rebuilding it will need money; since many

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While the world's attention is focused on the twin disasters of the Haitian earthquake and the unraveling Obama agenda, one of the left's recent great hopes is beginning to teeter and collapse. Even the Washington Post editorial page deputy editor Jackson Diehl has noticed what is happening.During the past two weeks, just before and after the earthquake outside Port-au-Prince, the following

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Anyone who has listened to news or talk radio in recent years, particularly in the Northeastern US has had to suffer the irritating jingle of Kars4Kids commercials which seem to run every two minutes on some stations. While the commercials lead listerners to believe that by donating their old cars to the charity they will be helping children in general, it turns out that, in fact, only one group

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When Nidal Hasan, the Muslim-American Army psychologist, walked into the Ft. Hood Texas Soldier Readiness facility, screamed "Allah Akbar" and began shooting un-armed servicemen, his murderous rampage was a direct result of the "diversity mania" that Western intellectuals have held as their highest value for the better part of 50 years. Hasan found himself caught between two worlds, because

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The massive wave of immigration that has swamped Britain in recent decades was not some fluke of economics and poor government policy ... it was a consciously designed effort by the Left to remake Britain's ethic demography to better favor multiculturalist dogma.Huge increases in immigration over the past decade were a deliberate attempt to engineer a more multicultural Britain, a former

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This morning the Nobel Prize committee stunned the world by announcing that President Obama, whose only notable international accomplishment has been to win the Presidency of the United States, had received the Nobel Peace Prize, an award usually reserved for individuals who have made some sort of outstanding contribution to peace or human rights (Lech Walesa, Gandhi, Theordore Roosevelt, Begin &

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In the aftermath of the last Thursday's early morning shooting at Fenger High School in Chicago, and the subsequent late afternoon riot in which 16 year-old Derrion Albert was beaten to death, neighborhood residents gathered to create a memorial to the victim. The resulting chaos says a great deal about the sort of people who live in this area and send their children to Fenger High. It also

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In Chicago, where multiculturalism is fashioning one hell of a city, a teenager was beaten to death with wooden boards (among other things) because he happened to inadvertantly walk into a street brawl between opposing gangs from the local high school.Three teenagers have been charged with beating to death 16-year-old Derrion Albert, an "innocent bystander" who walked into the middle of a street

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The recent discovery of a nascent Islamic terrorist plot to bomb New York reveals the enormous danger to which the current "open borders" immigration policies have placed the American people. The lead conspirator in the plot, Najibullah Zazi, is an immigrant from Afghanistan. His father, who also immigrated to the US, and has been implicated in the plot, is, reportedly, a naturalized American

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The young black woman to made up gang rape charges against five black and latino men at Hofstra University (see post below), will not be charged, according to authorities.The Hofstra University student who prosecutors say falsely accused five men of tying her up and gang-raping her in a dormitory bathroom will not face criminal charges as long as she admits she lied, gets psychological help and

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Britain is sowing the seeds of its own demise, much like almost every other Western nation, through mass immigration, welfarism, and the cultural fragmentation and decline that these things encourage. Evidence of the type of future citizen that Britain is producing can be found in a recent article in The Daily Mail.The first time I saw Tuggy Tug, he was standing on a street corner in Brixton with

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Hofstra University, which like every US university has placed "diversity" ahead of academic excellence, has reportedly been the scene of a particularly vicious rape. HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Five men gang raped an 18-year-old Hofstra University student on campus early Sunday morning after one of them lured her away from a party by snatching her cell phone, according to police. Detectives have arrested

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The sordid tale of a former "reality"-TV "star" who murdered his wife and stuffed her body in a suitcase, and then committed suicide while running from the authorities continues to dominate the mainstream media. Yet, the horrendous double rape and murder of a young, innocent Tennessee couple at the hands of a gang of thugs goes almost unnoticed, save for the local Tennessee media, who cannot find

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In which case, we are heading straight toward a dystopia of urban-nightmare proportions. Consider the proclivities of some high school students in Valparaiso, Indiana.The three Portage High School boys accused of terrorizing fellow students on their bus route are a step closer to being tried as adults.The Porter County Prosecutor's office has filed papers to waive the three from juvenile court to

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Things are getting worse in Afghanistan. Each month brings more dead Western troops, and fresh evidence that the Taliban is restoring its influence and control to more and more provinces of the country. NATO forces have been spectacularly ineffective, and NATO's European members have been openly unwilling to commit additional forces or money to "America's War" in Afghanistan - which should send a

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New York City is being sued for failing to adequately comply with a 2003 law which forces the city to pay for translation services for non-English speaking residents.A 2003 city law, the Equal Access to Human Services Act [pdf], passed after initial resistance from the Bloomberg administration,, gave city agencies five years to phase in comprehensive translation services, supplied by phone or in

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According to a new study, "underrepresented minorities make up a very small proportion of high technology workforces, especially in senior level," reports the EETimes. The study, conducted by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, found that 6.1 percent of technical men and 8.2 percent of technical women in Silicon Valley high-tech companies are underrepresented minorities.Hmmmm. And,

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In Arkansas, a gunman opens fire at two young soldiers standing outside a military recruiting center. Both are soldiers wounded; tragically, one dies. And what of the shooter? The gunman, identified by the police as Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad of Little Rock, fled the scene and was arrested minutes later a short distance from the recruiting station, in a bustling suburban shopping center. The

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If you are wondering why Latino power is growing in the U.S., you need only look at the numbers. Aside from the millions who have crossed into the U.S., in defiance of American law, Latinos living in the U.S. are busy making sure that the Latino population is skyrocketing. According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 53 percent of Latinas get pregnant in their teens

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In Britain, a Chris Woodhead, former school chief has caused an uproar by suggesting that the children of middle class parents might, on average, be smarter than the offspring of poor parents. Mr Woodhead called for a return to selection by ability at 11. He suggested that grammar school pupils were more likely to be middle-class because 'the genes are likely to be better if your parents are

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Multiculturalists are always telling us that all cultures and peoples are equal in innate abilities, cultural achievements and moral sentiments. Any perceived differences in said qualities between different races and cultures is simple racism (that is, when white Western people dare to notice). So, when reading the following, remember that all cultures are equal and you are a bad, bad person if

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In what was hopefully his last major appearance in front of the Washington press corps, a relatively animated President Bush yesterday offered a vocal defense of his administration and its policies. Just like the policies he enacted, Bush's arguments remain completely divorced from reality. His rhetoric ignores the actual facts, in favor of that which he wishes were true. Reflecting on Bush's

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Writing in the Telegraph, Alasdair Palmer, voices hope that Britain's ruling Labor party might just have come to the startling realization that its mass immigration policies are eviscerating its political base: native English people.The Labour leadership seems finally to be waking up to the fact that the party's immigration policy has not been popular with what has traditionally been seen as its

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-26311402241902446282009-01-06T09:17:00.001-08:002009-01-06T09:33:59.618-08:00

Most Americans, and a good portion of the rest of the world, are only to happy to see George W. Bush's presidency come to an end. Not everyone is overjoyed, however. The Asia Times points out that at least one Asian power that has benefited greatly from the Bush administration's economic and geopolitical incompetence:Indeed, as the daunting challenges of an Obama presidency start to hit home,

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-43427814335170090012009-01-06T08:16:00.000-08:002009-01-06T08:44:02.257-08:00

The Wall Street Journal, which has been the enthusiastic cheerleader for the immigrant invasion (and particularly the Latino invasion) that has swamped the U.S. over the past several decades, now admits that those very immigrants and the pressure applied by immigrant-friendly politicians to advance their interests, might just possibly have contributed to the current financial meltdown.For years,

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The Australian government has permitted tens of thousands of Muslims to settle inside the country. And how is that kindness (read: foolishness) repaid?A BRISBANE Islamic school has banned the national anthem at assemblies and sacked the teacher who asked for it to be played, The Courier-Mail can reveal.Australian International Islamic College teacher Pravin Chand was sacked in November, four

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-77899600168754552012008-12-03T10:02:00.001-08:002008-12-03T10:09:22.954-08:00

The always fascinating John Derbyshire (National Review) and Heather MacDonald (City Journal) have teamed with Razib Khan (Gene Expression) and Walter Olson (Overlawyered.com) to create a new blog called Secular Right, which, as the name suggests, examines a broad range of issues from a non-religious/scientific, but conservative perspective. Given the wit and intellectual firepower of its

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-29260542740242581032008-12-01T11:11:00.000-08:002008-12-01T11:17:26.892-08:00

In all of the media coverage of last week's vicious terrorist attack on Mumbai, India, in which unarmed civilians were slaughtered en masse by gun-totting cowards, what word did the U.S. media (CNN, the New York Times, etc.) almost never use in connection with the attackers?The answer: Muslim.Next question: Should anyone be surprised?

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-73767744132698590332008-11-12T06:38:00.000-08:002008-11-12T07:05:41.346-08:00

The Boston Globe today posts an amazing story openly attributing Barack Obama's recent election as President of the United States to the 1965 Immigration Act, shepherded through Congress by Senator Ted Kennedy.There is no question that Obama owes a debt to the Kennedys - but it may be far greater than he or they realize. Yes, Senator Edward M. Kennedy offered a crucial early endorsement,

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-80538620662785809182008-11-11T11:28:00.000-08:002008-11-11T11:37:10.539-08:00

In Britain, the best housing is reserved for those who can't afford it.A mother-of-five claiming benefits is living in a detached home worth £1million - with taxpayers helping fund her £25,000 annual rent.The luxury five-bedroom home with two sitting rooms, a conservatory and a double garage is being paid for with housing benefits handed out by her local council.Situated in a smart north London

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-90359039791267218992008-11-05T07:40:00.000-08:002008-11-05T08:03:31.347-08:00

A staggering second successive electoral loss for the GOP.Democrats siezed not only the White House in an electoral college blowout, but added at least five (and possibly a couple more, depending on recounts) Senate seats, and between 15 and 20 House seats, cementing their majorities in Congress. Writing at National Review this morning, in a column aptly titled "Eight Wasted Years," John

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As Americans go to the polls today, in an election that will be a referendum on the last eight years of GOP power in Washington, it is worthwhile to take note of one interesting poll result. For eight years, John McCain and George W. Bush (read: Karl Rove) had many areas of agreement, but none so strongly as on the matter of amnesty for illegal aliens (read: Mexicans). Both Bush and McCain

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-65832704809814713402008-11-03T07:40:00.000-08:002008-11-03T07:55:18.142-08:00

The Left's relentless assault on the native culture and peoples of Western nations continues to gather speed. No where is the campaign pressing harder than in the United Kingdom, where leftists are racing to erase every vestige of culture that the English people spent a millennium creating.Classics scholars have accused councils of 'ethnic cleansing' after they banned staff from using Latin

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The incomparable, and indispensable Steve Sailer has written an online book about Barack Obama, which is certain to be more fair and more informative than anything you will find in a mainstream newspaper or media website. A small taste:Doubts over whether he is black enough have tormented Obama since his youth. His psychological trauma helps make him a more captivating personality to contemplate

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-50215973214360169742008-10-27T11:24:00.000-07:002008-10-27T11:31:47.042-07:00

So much for any hope that Sarah Palin would bring a good dose of traditional conservatism to the McCain ticket. Or that McCain would have learned something from his "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" disaster. Nope.Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she supports John McCain's position on immigration, including a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.It's the first time she's addressed the issue in

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-48010223615162512112008-10-23T07:27:00.000-07:002008-10-23T07:45:04.011-07:00

The happy workers in Hugo Chavez's socialist paradise had better get used to working by candle light, since the Venezuelan government can't seem to keep the electricity running in its major cities.A massive power cut has left millions of Venezuelans without electricity on Sunday, the third big outage this year.The blackout hit several of the country's most populous states, including the capital,

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Come see the paradise:A Long Island school was on guard on Tuesday after two days of fighting led to dozens of suspensions at Hempstead High School. District officials took action against the troublemakers, fearing the violence would escalate. They held up their suspension notices like badges of honor. One dozen Hempstead High students kicked out Tuesday, separated themselves by racial and ethnic

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-73486975490676031422008-10-21T11:18:00.000-07:002008-10-21T11:34:42.543-07:00

With oil prices falling precipitously, thanks to fears of a worldwide recession and a resurgent US dollar, those who were banking on petrodollars to fund their precious utopias now find themselves facing the prospect of bitter economic realities according to the New York Times.[Venezuelan President Hugo] Chávez was emphatic last month when he announced that Venezuela would engage in naval

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Shocking because someone in the British government said something that makes sense, which, these days, is extremely rare.Strict limits are to be imposed on immigration amid fears that unemployment rises in the economic downturn will fuel racial tension. Phil Woolas, in his first interview since taking over as Immigration Minister, said that he wanted to see a dramatic reduction in the number of

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-75258307332492099912008-10-17T08:38:00.000-07:002008-10-17T08:57:28.544-07:00

The overthrow of Apartheid was hailed as a great moment in human history. In early 1990's, hoards of Western journalists ran up enormous expense accounts traveling to Africa to pen accolades to Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress as they took control of the country. In recent years, however, the Western media has generally avoided the subject of South Africa whenever possible. The

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-11576118385637802912008-10-17T06:23:00.000-07:002008-10-17T06:40:02.340-07:00

Earlier this year, the state of Hawaii launched an ambitious program to provide free health care to children whose families did not have health insurance, or had very low incomes. Now, just seven months later, the state is abandoning the program. Why?"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr. Kenny Fink, the

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-1099959241669625792008-10-16T10:58:00.001-07:002008-10-16T11:40:49.516-07:00

The financial meltdown that began in the US, and has now spread across the world, originated in the refusal of Americans and the US government to live within their means. The US government's effort to magically increase homeownership - by forcing banks and other lenders to give mortgages to people who had no way of paying for them, and then making Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy up those lousy

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-83388177408015646072008-10-14T13:21:00.001-07:002008-10-14T13:34:35.944-07:00

President George W. Bush, explaining the federal government's plan to partially nationalize American banks in an attempt to reverse a credit crisis that the federal government itself largely created:"The government's role will be limited and temporary," Bush pledged. "These measures are not intended to take over the free market but to preserve it."Isn't it quaint that American leaders still feel

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-19190049193639714832008-10-14T06:47:00.000-07:002008-10-14T07:04:51.398-07:00

Pat Buchanan points out the simple fact that with the U.S. deficit about to reach historic and astonishing levels, the financial system in shambles, and a recession on the horizon, the neo-conservative dream of Empire is about to bite the dust.We no longer live in Eisenhower or Reagan's America. Even the post-Cold War world of George H. W. Bush, where America was a global hegemon, is history. In

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-30184383665398235032008-10-13T07:22:00.000-07:002008-10-13T07:36:49.183-07:00

The UK Telegraph reports that under the oh-so-efficient socialism of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's oil output has fallen by almost 25%. Making matters worse for Venezuela, Chavez's efforts to assist other struggling socialist states have placed the national economy at the hands of the one nation Chavez misses no opportunity to antagonize.To win allies and forge an anti-American front, Mr Chavez sells

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-48859573160789034022008-10-01T08:08:00.000-07:002008-10-01T08:33:20.781-07:00

As Washington struggles to react to the financial crisis now humbling Wall Street's financial titans, it is useful to remember that there is plenty of blame to go around. As George Will points out, the Wall Street fat cats and the DC politicians weren't alone in building the house of cards that is now unraveling.We are waist deep in evasions because one cannot talk sense about the cultural roots

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-33420203314815499422008-09-30T07:19:00.000-07:002008-09-30T07:40:54.119-07:00

This morning a beleaguered President Bush stood before the cameras and microphones to warn of "painful and lasting" damage to the American economy. He was speaking directly about yesterday's failure of the proposed bailout package for Wall Street, but he might as well be referring to the consequences of his entire presidency, which has been on unending spending spree financed by foreign

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-50885814482667181472008-09-26T07:02:00.000-07:002008-09-26T07:10:59.159-07:00

The always invaluable Steve Sailer directs our attention to one of the final PR releases issued by Washington Mutual (WaMu) just hours before the bank was seized by the FDIC for insolvency and its assets were sold to JP Morgan.WaMu Recognized as Top Diverse Employer—Again Company ranks in top ten of Hispanic Business’ Diversity Elite and earns perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-27881706214507483422008-09-17T11:09:00.000-07:002008-09-17T12:54:00.595-07:00

After numerous complaints, the Minnesota Department of Education is investigating the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, a charter school established and maintained with taxpayer funds for possibly - just possibly - promoting Islam on the public dime.Now, what would possibly lead anyone to suspect that this publicly-financed school might be promoting Islam?Its executive director, Asad Zaman, is an imam, or

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-11339149701541936122008-08-27T12:21:00.000-07:002008-08-27T12:31:11.049-07:00

Over at National Review, John Derbyshire laments the Hobson's Choice facing American voters in the coming election: two candidates, both of whom are committed to bleeding the nation's already dwindling resources dry in service to utopian fantasies. Derbyshire quotes Barack Obama's enthusiastic response to a question posed by Pastor Rick Warren regarding what the U.S. can do to assist the "148

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-49334786384521356322008-08-21T10:50:00.000-07:002008-08-21T11:16:33.620-07:00

In another astonishing example of liberal "humanitarian" idealism gone insane, the U.S. has, for some years, been inviting refugees from war-torn African nations to come and live in the U.S. with relatives already here. Thousands of Africans - aliens to American and Western culture - have taken advantage of this policy and come to the U.S., thus furthering the ethnic balkanization of the U.S. and

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-43779429049585732082008-08-15T12:50:00.001-07:002008-08-15T13:08:38.243-07:00

Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, Andrew Bacevich offers an even-handed analysis of the Russian intervention in Georgia that puts the action squarely in the context of the last sixteen years of US-Russia relations. Since the end of the Cold War, Bacevich notes, the US has pushed its advantage against a weakened Russia to drive the NATO alliance straight to Russia's western border. Last

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-48134032191852241432008-08-14T06:50:00.000-07:002008-08-14T07:56:19.098-07:00

One cannot turn on the TV but to catch a glimpse of John McCain bleating in almost child-like rage over Russia's military intervention in Georgia, which, like everything else, has caught the US intelligence services and the Pentagon off guard. One wonders exactly what the Pentagon and the sundry American intelligence services use all those billion-dollar spy satellites to watch.One adamantly

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-20613494910995342522008-08-06T06:54:00.001-07:002008-08-06T07:07:08.732-07:00

Last week, dozens of passengers on a Greyhound bus traveling across Manitoba, Canada, fled their bus in terror as one passenger suddenly and without any provocation pulled out a large knife and started stabbing to death another passenger who had been sleeping next to him. The assailant ultimately cut off the victims head, brandished it threateningly toward the other passengers (who had locked

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-68834503873237596632008-07-23T06:47:00.000-07:002008-07-24T08:08:54.458-07:00

Almost two weeks ago, Kevin Myers, a columnist for the Irish newspaper, The Independent, penned an astonishing column calling for an end to Western economic aid to Ethiopia. Myers cut through the usual hand-wringing about the horrible conditions facing Ethiopians by pointing out two salient facts. First, that since the Western world rallied to fight the ravages of the famine in Ethiopia in the

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-60616255602422722452008-07-02T10:31:00.000-07:002008-07-02T10:42:32.946-07:00

Just when one thought that the British were on the fast-track toward being crowned the most politically-correct people in the world, along comes Sweden to give the UK a serious run for its money:An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party.The boy's school says he has violated the children's rights and has

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-83018598471442545602008-07-01T11:20:00.001-07:002008-07-01T11:30:31.607-07:00

In the farcical land still, nostalgically, called the British Isles, the world continues to function upside down.A postcard featuring a cute puppy sitting in a policeman's hat advertising a Scottish police force's new telephone number has sparked outrage from Muslims. Tayside Police's new non-emergency phone number has prompted complaints from members of the Islamic community.The choice of

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-72982383606600697512008-06-27T12:26:00.000-07:002008-06-27T12:43:27.385-07:00

After wasting hundreds of billions of dollars (and thousands of lives) in the sands of Iraq, the US military has now concluded that the war in Afghanistan - the one being waged against the enemy that actually attacked the US on September 11 - is failing.The Taliban will likely try to boost its presence in new areas of Afghanistan while continuing to fight in its south and eastern strongholds,

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-6942541139758610302008-06-20T07:35:00.001-07:002008-06-20T08:05:35.658-07:00

When one reads a newspaper these days, one increasingly gets the feeling one has fallen down a rabbit hole and is being asked to tea by the Queen of Hearts. In almost every news story there is a hint of unreality, as if the editors were trying to have a good laugh at their readers' expense. One finds oneself continually, frowning and re-reading the articles to make sure they aren't satire, or

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-60515721505681044302008-06-13T10:17:00.000-07:002008-06-13T12:43:43.554-07:00

Irish voters have apparently thrust a stake into the heart of the emerging European Union megastate.Voters in Ireland have rejected the European Union's Lisbon reform treaty in a referendum by 53.4% to 46.6%.The vote is a major blow to leaders in the 27-nation EU, which requires all its members to ratify the treaty. Only Ireland has held a public vote.The European Commission has already said

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-34903584727002806942008-06-06T13:07:00.000-07:002008-06-06T13:24:21.728-07:00

Some weeks back, Spike Lee, the black director of such cinematic gems as Crooklyn and She Hate Me upbraided Clint Eastwood for failing to depict any black soldiers in his Iwo Jima film Flags of Our Fathers. Spike Lee launched a bitter attack on Clint Eastwood yesterday, condemning his failure to include a single African-American soldier in his films about the Battle of Iwo Jima.The

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-90398129753787015712008-06-06T12:51:00.000-07:002008-06-06T13:06:35.163-07:00

The price of crude oil is soaring on international markets - up to $139 per barrel as of today. This is a incredible boon for oil producing nations, and indeed the nations of OPEC are drawing in record profits. But not every oil producing country is making a fortune.Call it the case of the missing $3 billion.The price of oil keeps climbing and Mexico exports oil. When that happens the government

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-76640947213720168102008-06-05T12:39:00.000-07:002008-06-05T12:53:21.408-07:00

Even a bastion of free-traders, open borders enthusiasts and hyper-Wilsonian interventionists as The Wall Street Journal occasionally sees the truth in front of everyone's eyes. Today's editorial bemoans the Bush administration's devaluing of the US dollar and the diminishing of US clout and prestige that the dollar's decline has wrought.The Bernanke Fed has also been oblivious to the fact that

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-58237848320283066202008-05-27T13:17:00.000-07:002008-05-27T13:23:06.308-07:00

In keeping with the recent reports of the slow, but sure, suppression of free speech in the Netherlands and the UK (see below), Steve Sailer offers a truly depressing long-term forecast for Western Civilization as multiculturalism and political correctness (driven by the absolute need to deny ethnic and cultural differences) slowly strangles the West.So, I suspect that, outside of the United

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In a rejoinder to Andy McCarthy's defense of the Iraq invasion - and of one of its proponents, Douglas Feith - at National Review's The Corner, editor Byron York neatly explains why the invasion gained support, in spite of erroneous premises on which is was based, and why it has lost that support, even among conservatives who initially supported it.The reason that Saddam supposedly posed a threat

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-3438760616494412712008-05-21T09:21:00.000-07:002008-05-21T09:49:10.620-07:00

Usually, the victims of European "hate speech" laws are those who criticize Islam or the growing Islamization of Europe (exemplified by the late Oriana Fallaci in Italy, or still-very-much-alive Bridget Bardot in France). But the laws have been written in such a fashion that any pressure group can use them to squelch any sort of criticism. This is particularly true in Britain as one young man

Pytheashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078804329392181283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929116.post-36943074132679802302008-05-16T11:20:00.000-07:002008-05-16T12:03:33.404-07:00

In yet another perfect example of how political correctness and multiculturalist ideology is being used to squash free speech and eliminate dissent, a Dutch political cartoonist has been arrested for possibly offending people.A Dutch political cartoonist was arrested this week on suspicion of insulting people because of their race or religion through his work, authorities said Friday.The

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In her most recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan manages to sum up the reason that the GOP brand has stagnated, and is surely trundling toward an electoral bloodbath of historic proportions in November. Noonan notes that Republicans have lost three special elections in the last several weeks in traditionally GOP-controlled districts, sparking a panic among the GOP

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Hey, infidels ... it's Mecca Time!Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers.The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar under the title: Mecca, the Centre of the Earth, Theory and

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In an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times, David Shipler gives America a delightful preview of what the coming general presidential campaign is going to look like - as well as just how an Obama presidency will end up stifling free speech.Whether by calculation or coincidence, Hillary Clinton and Republicans who have attacked Barack Obama for elitism have struck a chord in a long-standing

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It that's true, then the U.S. is in big trouble. Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday.The report, issued by America's Promise Alliance, found that about half of the students served by public school systems in the

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose apparent goal while in office - much like his predecessor - is to destroy everything that is uniquely and unequivocally English in the UK, especially its people, has been confronted by an astonishing report from the House of Lords that makes a mockery of his party's lies about immigration.The devastating cross-party report went on to:•Dismiss Ministers'

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Madonna Constantine is a professor at Columbia University in New York. She is also a perfect example of what happens when political correctness, multiculturalism and leftwing politics intersect at an institution of higher learning. In October 2007, Professor Constantine allegedly found a noose hanging from her office door. She immediately alerted Columbia University's security and, apparently,

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President Bush, marking the fifth anniversary of his Wilsonian crusade for democracy in Iraq, chose to commemorate the war by bashing his administration's critics - no, not liberal democrats like Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid; rather, the president aimed his clunky rhetoric straight at conservatives. Pat Buchanan rightly notes:With Iraq entering its sixth year, the dollar sinking to peso levels, the

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