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…)
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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Shooting and Killing Five People to Protest Gun Violence,” on America’s first postmodern mass shooter: Kimbrady Carriker, who may or may not be black, may or may not be transgendered, and may either be a Black Nationalist or a Trump supporter, depending on your point of view — and who claimed that the shooting was a protest against gun violence. See below. (more…)
Kimbrady Carriker
Kimbrady Carriker
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I suppose it’s fitting that 247 years after our all-white and all-male Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, a cross-dressing black male perpetrated a mass shooting in Philly this July 4 holiday.
Since July 4 fell on a Tuesday this year, the midsummer orgy of fireworks, cookouts, and carnage was essentially a four-day weekend. (more…)
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July Fourth always inspires a nostalgic feeling in me. When I was a kid, the holiday roughly marked the halfway point of summer break. Then, and now, it also means the beginning of the dog days of summer. The term “dog days” originated with the ancient Greeks, who coined it to describe the longest days of the year, which brought with them the most oppressive sunlight. (more…)
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Happy Independence Day to our American readers!
It is easy for race-conscious Americans to become cynical about July 4th, which is now an occasion for celebrating an egalitarian civil religion fabricated from a misinterpreted line in the Declaration of Independence, “. . . all men are created equal . . . ,” sometimes paired with a line from Martin Luther King, Jr., the last person on earth who wanted to be judged by the content of his character. (more…)
Robert A. Crimo III
Robert A. Crimo III
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In a climate where politics has poisoned everything to the point where we all probably already have Stage 4 cancer from it and likely won’t even live to see the midterms in November, is it possible for a gunman to shoot and kill seven people from a rooftop at a July Fourth parade with absolutely no political motivation? (more…)
Those terrible, racist white guys who created the United States in action.
Those terrible, racist white guys who created the United States in action.
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Happy Independence Day! Like any other proud American on the Fourth of July, I’ll be grilling hot dogs and burgers with my neighbors before lighting up many kinds of explosions at dusk. (more…)
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Happy Independence Day to our American readers!
It is easy for race-conscious Americans to become cynical about July 4th, which is now an occasion for celebrating an egalitarian civil religion fabricated from a misinterpreted line in the Declaration of Independence, “. . . all men are created equal . . . ,” sometimes paired with a line from Martin Luther King, Jr., the last person on earth who wanted to be judged by the content of his character. (more…)
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The United States on the Fourth of July 2014, 238 years after its declaration of independence from Great Britain, presents a revolting spectacle. For sheer vileness, the US, with its universal surveillance, police state mentality, hatred of freedom, anti-white discrimination, (more…)
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(with apologies to Frederick Douglass and the rhetoric of his century)
Fellow citizens,
He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation has stronger nerves than I have. I look over a people in its multitudes, and it seems presumptuous to take upon myself the responsibility of expressing communal feelings. (more…)
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(with apologies to Frederick Douglass and the rhetoric of his century)
Fellow citizens,
He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation has stronger nerves than I have. I look over a people in its multitudes, and it seems presumptuous to take upon myself the responsibility of expressing communal feelings. (more…)
