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What happened to the populist left? - Chadwick Moore, The Spectator , 31 January 2021 https://spectator.us/topic/what-happened-populist-left-occupy-trans-pacific-partnership/ The corporate global elite have manipulated activists into taking to the streets to rage for the machine ... The Obama-era O...

Hi folks, was checking my bookmarks and saw "On the Nature of Things" bookmark, lucky still had the password. Have to admit, America not America when we talk last .. Trump made America really great Well, to be honest, was expecting would take a bit longer, but things went too fast straigh...

coronavirus-data-explorer.png Colonel Sun, would you care to speculate as to why Japan's death rate is so low? Speculation. Early and strict border closure. Early adoption of the ubiquitous wearing of masks. Shibuya crossing, the busiest pedestrian crossing in Tokyo: lkIJYc4UH60 Detection of COVID-...

Television isn't gay enough says the New York Times - Cockburn, The Spectator , 16 January 2021 https://spectator.us/topic/television-gay-enough-says-new-york-times/ It’s headline news at the New York Times: television is getting less gay! ... Of course, it’s 2021, not 2013, so the Times isn’t sati...

I guess being banned by Google or Twitter for advocating racial violence is culture. If they had a better culture they wouldn't be having their rights infringed by multinationals. This brings up an interesting question: what exactly is conservative culture and what innovations has it developed in r...

Hi Doc Been a while. That 3D printing idea didn't work out. We didn't get the investment capital. We worked on more analytics and web app stuff instead. Bought a house in the country, looking forward to growing some food here soon. ... Good to see that you are well and also happy to hear you manage...

@jack is the giant - Peter Wood, The Spectator , 12 January 2021 https://spectator.us/jack-dorsey-twitter-giant/ .. But where does Mr Dorsey get the authority to control our conversations? Who does he think he is, a college president? ... There are places that Americans have come to accept where it...

Wikipedia locks page for Biden’s tentative DOJ Civil Rights Chief - Rudy Takala, Mediaite , 12 January 2021 https://www.mediaite.com/news/wikipedia-locks-page-for-bidens-tentative-doj-civil-rights-chief/ Wikipedia editors on Tuesday locked the page for President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the J...

Simple Minded wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:33 am Thomas Sowell had an interesting take on it. ...

Speaking of whom:



Is truth irrelevant? - Thomas Sowell, Jewish World Review, 12 January 2021
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell011221.php3

Joe Biden’s Big Tech takeover - Dominic Green, The Spectator , 9 January 2021 https://spectator.us/big-tech-takeover-trump-twitter-biden/ The algorithms and the agony ... Big Tech has jumped before it was pushed. It has landed heavily on free speech, and led with its left foot too. Don’t assume tha...

Heather Mac Donald has been a supporter of Donald Trump, however, she's had enough: Trump’s exit - Heather Mac Donald, City Journal , 8 January 2021 https://www.city-journal.org/trumps-exit Encouraging a mob to target his own allies and disrupt the rule of law, the president has ended his tenure dis...

Unlike you, Zack, I believe local residents have at least some right to how their community develops. I didn't say anything to the contrary. I am saying local residents can't exclude black people, for example. As I remember it, you consider anyone who says anything against immigration, including il...

Quite a funny article in The Spectator ... The carnival in the Capito l - Ben Sixmith, The Spectator , 7 January 2021 https://spectator.us/carnival-capitol-camp-larping/ ... which gets beyond the faux outrage and complete hypocrisy of the media. The author links to this insightful piece: How camp ex...

You're advocating for a utopia. How far from the Western intellectual tradition you have strayed when you argue that outlawing the erection of barriers to disadvantage entire groups of people you dislike is "utopian". Unlike you, Zack, I believe local residents have at least some right to...

:roll: Disregarding the above facile bullshit, this is what is happening: Violent pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol Seems like the media has discovered a new word. 'Violent'. How did the violence compare to the riots in American cities last summer? The media seems not to have known that word back the...

We agree on the dates. The tribalization of American society began when free association was effectively made illegal and the government started using force to make people live with, go to school with, and do business with everyone and anyone, even those with whom they who didn't get along. It just...

:roll: Disregarding the above facile bullshit, this is what is happening: Violent pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol Seems like the media has discovered a new word. 'Violent'. How did the violence compare to the riots in American cities last summer? The media seems not to have known that word back the...

Do our woke universities live up to their own values? - Philip Carl Salzman, Minding the Campus , 28 December 2020 https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2020/12/28/do-our-woke-universities-live-up-to-their-own-values/ Each of our great universities used to have official mottos that were meant to stand f...

Nope it started with the 1960's counter culture in Colleges and Universities Then when all the soft "Science" Types went on to teach their leftist ideology and lack of teaching critical thinking. That generation of 60's youth went on to lead US intellectual output to its zenith in all fie...

Tablet Mag | Bringing the Middle East Back Home The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas As Americans, we’ve gone from glorifying the politics of crowds, to celebrating the tribalization of American society and the elevation of the c...

Seattle: Teaching hate - Christopher F. Rufo, City Journal , 18 December 2020 https://www.city-journal.org/racial-equity-programs-seattle-schools The Seattle school district claims that the U.S. education system is guilty of “spirit murder” against black children. San Diego: Radicals in the classroo...

VDH's last column for the National Review:



A guide to Wokespeak - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 29 December 2020
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/ ... wokespeak/

Notes on the ascendant Left's new terminology

Here's hoping for a better 2021 than this year!

Colonel Sun wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 5:18 pm coronavirus-data-explorer.png

Colonel Sun, would you care to speculate as to why Japan's death rate is so low?

It's another Haverford. A student mob took over Bryn Mawr. The college said thank you - Minnie Doe, Quillette , 27 December 2020 https://quillette.com/2020/12/27/a-student-mob-took-over-bryn-mawr-the-college-said-thank-you/ Hundreds of responses on Quillette's forum including many from students, par...