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Oh America. You are inferior to at least two African countries in how far you will go to protect citizens from potential global pandemics: NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa have managed to limit its spread on the continent to fiveContinue reading “"Push ’em Back, Push ’em Back, Bury that Lede! Push ’em Back, Push ’em Back, Bury that Lede…!"”

“This is a test of the Diversity Emergency Broadcast System…”Paul Nachmann of Vdare last week: Every Friday, a friend of the PowerLine blog whose screen name is “Ammo Grrrll” gets to weigh in there with comments (Thoughts From the Ammo Line) on the passing scene. This week, her entry seems well tuned toVdare’s readership, so here’sContinue reading “Fire Bells in the Blight”

Respect, just a little bit… Two recent publications from last month, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic article arguing for slavery reparations, and former New York Times science editor Nicholas Wade’s book asserting the reality of racial differences, A Troublesome Inheritance, met with very different receptions from what is regarded as respectable opinion. The timing is coincidental, but IContinue reading “The Case for Refutations”

The “nobody-I-know-voted-for-Nixon” head scratching continues over at the New York Times. Anything to avoid the obvious question with the more obvious answer–absent the perception of Cantor as a high-profile champion of a deeply unpopular Amnesty, would Professor Brat have had a snowball’s chance of unseating the powerful incumbent? There, mystery solved in one question. ButContinue reading “Lions and Tigers and Goyim, oh my!”

John Boehner’s choice of phrase in lamenting last night’s upset of Eric Cantor was a clumsy but no doubt sincere moment of pathos, unintentionally revealing the love of prestige and influence that fills the heart, such as it is, of the typical politician: “My thoughts are with Diana and their kids tonight.”   This is too hard.   DidContinue reading “A matter of power and death”

Mickey Kaus today: Still, you’d think the embarrassment of this latest surge – with thousands of recently arrived illegals being shipped all over the country, obviously never to leave –would be enough to kill amnesty, at least for this year. But you’d have thought the slack job market would be enough to kill amnesty, andContinue reading “Real Horror Show”

The Washington Post has an article up about declining levels of trust among Americans:  Data from the DDB Life Style Survey indicates that trust began to increase throughout the country after World War II, and rose steadily through the 1960s. According to the data, trust peaked in 1967–1968, when roughly 56% of survey respondents agreedContinue reading “Can the Washington Post be trusted?”

It is not “race” that has lost its usefulness as a word or concept, but “racism”. Of course this all depends on who defines “usefulness”. Who, whom, always.

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