Russell Brand
Russell Brand
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A toxic Brand
The biggest story currently distracting the British public is the fall of Russell Brand. American readers may not be familiar with Brand, an English comedian and actor who has recently reinvented himself as a YouTube influencer. (more…)
The entrance to this year’s CPAC Hungary. Photo courtesy of the Visegrád Post.
The entrance to this year’s CPAC Hungary. Photo courtesy of the Visegrád Post.
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The word “woke” was first used as an adjective, as opposed to “awake,” in a political context by black Americans during the twentieth century to describe someone who is “alert to racial prejudice and discrimination.” (more…)
Ben and Jerry
Ben and Jerry
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Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, like Bernie Sanders, are New York Jews who helped destroy the once-placid, once-beautiful, once almost entirely rural and homespun State of Vermont. (more…)
Sir Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton
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Many people believe in innate racial equality, yet I have never seen an argument made for it. All I have seen are attempts to keep people away from the opposite view, whether by calling it racist pseudo-science, saying that racial differences should not be studied, denying that there is anything to study by saying that there are no such things as races, or condemning a belief in racial differences on the grounds that it entails judgements of superiority and inferiority. To see what line it took, I watched a video produced in 2014 at University College London (UCL) about Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911). (more…)
Behzad Karim Khani says that immigrant crime is part of the Germans’ atonement for World War II.
Behzad Karim Khani says that immigrant crime is part of the Germans’ atonement for World War II.
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As the Chinese proverb goes, “Do someone a favor, and they’ll never forgive you.”
When he was but a wee beardless lad of only ten, the Iranian-born Behzad Karim Khani and his family successfully applied for refugee status and left Iran for Germany. He grew up to resemble the Happy Merchant, if someone had dipped him in urine. (more…)
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For media junkies like myself, the blessed week between Christmas and New Year’s should be rehab. It isn’t, of course. We can’t quit the needle. We spend the week watching myriad round-ups of the year that has just left us from around the media globe, as well as the other side of the two-faced god Januarius’ gaze: the media’s prognostications as to the year ahead. (more…)