I appreciate all the reader support. I mostly love Amazon for the books. I love posting and learning about all these books. And I use the commissions to buy books, heh. I've never really blogged for the money. When Amazon cut off California from the marketplace in the sales tax standoff, I just kept blogging as always.
In any case, I do thank all of you for your support. It's very nice of you. I'm a humble community college professor. American Power isn't as popular as it used to be, although I like to think I can still fill niche here, especially with unabashedly pro-American and politically incorrect blogging. That's never going to change.
In any case, at Amazon, Today's Deals.
Also, Audio Technica AT-LP120BK-USB Direct-Drive Professional Turntable (USB & Analog), Black.
Here, AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning to USB Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters) - White.
And, Millennium Assorted Energy Bars (6 Count) - Long Shelf Life Fruit flavored Bar Bundle - Survival Pack for Calamity, Disaster, Hiking and Meal replacement - with Emergency Guide.
More, Mountain House Just In Case...Breakfast Bucket.
Plus, Koffee Kult - Medium Roast Coffee Beans (2 lb Whole Bean) Highest Quality Delicious Coffee - Fresh Gourmet Aromatic Artisan Blend - Packaging May Vary.
BONUS: Harvey Klehr, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, and The Soviet World of American Communism.
Friday, March 17, 2017
ICYMI: David Horowitz, Take No Prisoners
Following-up, "David Horowitz Interview with Dave Rubin (VIDEO)."
At Amazon, David Horowitz, Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left.
At Amazon, David Horowitz, Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left.
David Horowitz Interview with Dave Rubin (VIDEO)
I have friends who despise David Horowitz. He's said to be totalitarian himself. But there's nobody else, for me, who better expose the evil and hatred of the left, and thus I'll always love the guy.
Here's his latest book, at Amazon, Big Agenda: President Trump’s Plan to Save America.
And watch, "David Horowitz on Communism, Marxism, and the Black Panther Party":
Here's his latest book, at Amazon, Big Agenda: President Trump’s Plan to Save America.
And watch, "David Horowitz on Communism, Marxism, and the Black Panther Party":
Trump Administration Said to Apologize to U.K. Over Spying Claims
At the Los Angeles Times, "Trump's unsubstantiated claim that Obama spied on him has now entangled — and upset — Great Britain."
This was the big thing on CNN this morning, which I had on for a while while grading essays:
Still more, at Memeorandum, "White House apologizes to British government over spying claims."
This was the big thing on CNN this morning, which I had on for a while while grading essays:
Still more, at Memeorandum, "White House apologizes to British government over spying claims."
Once Called a Hoax, Vallejo Kidnapping Leads to Prison
At the Los Angeles Times, "Harvard-educated former attorney sentenced to 40 years in prison for bizarre Vallejo kidnapping":
Harvard-educated man sentenced to 40 years for bizarre Vallejo kidnapping police had called hoax https://t.co/cVmFeM9NYn @brittny_mejia— Hailey Branson-Potts (@haileybranson) March 17, 2017
It had been nearly two years since Denise Huskins had been in the same room as the man who kidnapped her in the early morning darkness.Keep reading.
Standing at a podium in a Sacramento courthouse, she faced him. Then she turned her words against the man — a Harvard-educated former attorney — who had bound, drugged and raped her twice.
“Now we meet face to face, eye to eye,” Huskins told Matthew Muller. “I’m Denise Huskins, the woman behind the blindfold.”
Huskins’ family and friends grew teary eyed as she described her pain after Muller kidnapped her on March 23, 2015, and after the Vallejo Police Department, at one point, publicly portrayed the case as a hoax.
In an emotional scene, Huskins asked that Muller be sentenced to life in prison.
“I know, without doubt or hesitation, that as long as he walks free, there will be more victims,” she said.
At the sentencing, Muller’s defense attorney argued for a 30-year sentence, citing his client’s struggles with mental illness.
“I’m sick with shame,” Muller said, adding that he would accept whatever sentence was imposed.
His parents sat with their younger son and their family and friends, as they waited in silence for U.S. District Court Judge Troy L. Nunley to hand down his sentence:
Forty years in prison.
The kidnapping took place before dawn as Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, slept in the master bedroom of his home on Mare Island. The couple awoke to find a stranger standing in the room.
Using a stun gun and a water pistol made to look like a gun, Muller ordered the couple to lie still while he bound and blindfolded them and gave them a sleep-inducing liquid, prosecutors said. A recorded message played over headsets, threatening electric shock if the couple did not comply with his orders.
Muller placed Huskins in the trunk of Quinn’s 2000 Toyota Camry and moved her to the trunk of another car before driving her to his family’s South Lake Tahoe home...
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest
*BUMPED.*
I picked up a copy.
It's at my beside. Indeed, I've read the preface to the new edition. She's a energetic writer who's endlessly pleased by the publication of her book. It changed her life. She's got few regrets.
She became something of a public intellectual too.
At Amazon, Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.
I picked up a copy.
It's at my beside. Indeed, I've read the preface to the new edition. She's a energetic writer who's endlessly pleased by the publication of her book. It changed her life. She's got few regrets.
She became something of a public intellectual too.
At Amazon, Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.
Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser, Populism
Following-up, "Dutch Election Sows (Shows) Extreme Political Fragmentation."
At Amazon, Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser, Populism: A Very Short Introduction.
At Amazon, Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser, Populism: A Very Short Introduction.
Dutch Election Sows (Shows) Extreme Political Fragmentation
From Cas Muddle, an excellent scholar, at NYT:
MY take on Dutch elections. Headline by @nytimes doesn't really summarize different points made in it. #TK17 🇳🇱 https://t.co/9ZmoHAC936
— Cas Mudde (@CasMudde) March 16, 2017
The parliamentary election in the Netherlands on Wednesday was predicted to be the next populist show of strength after the Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election. The Dutch would be the first of a number of European countries to succumb to the right-wing populists’ siren songs in 2017, with the French not far behind.
It didn’t work out that way.
Geert Wilders, who is all too often described as a bleach blond or referred to as “the Dutch Trump,” did not defeat the conservative prime minister, Mark Rutte. In fact, he didn’t come close.
With more than 95 percent of the vote counted, Mr. Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, or V.V.D., came first with 21.2 percent of the vote, compared to Mr. Wilders’s Party for Freedom, which took only 13.1 percent. Mr. Wilders barely improved on his margin in the 2012 election (where he took 10.1 percent) and failed to do as well as he did in 2010 (where he got 15.5 percent of the vote).
The real story in Dutch politics isn’t Mr. Wilders’s rise, it is the unprecedented fragmentation of the political system. Together, Mr. Rutte’s and Mr. Wilders’s parties look set to make up only 33 percent of the Parliament, with 11 more political parties constituting the rest. This splintering of Dutch politics is making effective governance of the country increasingly impossible.
While previous Parliaments have counted 14 or more factions, what has changed is the relative size of the parties. In 1986, the top three parties together won 85 percent of the vote. In 2003, it was down to 74 percent. Today it is just around 45 percent.
Because of its proportional representation system of voting, the Netherlands is an extreme case. But the trends are similar across Western Europe: The main center-right and center-left parties are shrinking, smaller parties are growing and unstable coalition politics are becoming the norm. There are many reasons for this — from secularization to deindustrialization to the emergence of new political issues, like the environment or immigration.
The consequences have been painfully visible across Europe for some time. It took Belgium 541 days to form a government after its 2010 election. Both Greece and Spain were in recent years forced to hold second elections after the first Parliaments failed to form coalitions. In the Netherlands, forming a government is not quite as difficult, but the next one will most likely be a coalition of four to six parties.
If the Party for Freedom is excluded — and almost all parties have pledged that they will refuse to serve in a coalition with Mr. Wilders — the government will probably consist of five or six medium-size parties that span almost the entire political spectrum. Given that the conservative V.V.D. and the Christian Democratic Appeal are ideologically closer to the Party for Freedom than they are to, for example, the Green Left party with which they will be governing, the government will be rightly perceived as an anti-Wilders coalition.
This will play right into Mr. Wilders’s hands. He has long argued that the Netherlands’ political parties are all the same. Being the leader of the largest opposition party against an internally divided, weak “anti-Wilders” coalition is undoubtedly his second most desired outcome of the elections — after, of course, winning an outright majority of the votes.
The only way to break this vicious circle is for the parties in government to come together to support a positive program, one that justifies their cooperation and their decision to exclude Mr. Wilders...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
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Okay, I've got to hop in the shower and get ready for work.
I figured out what happened on my *bumped* posts last night: I had the wrong date, the 13th instead of the 14th, so the posts wouldn't bump up to the top of the blog. My bad. I was fatigued from work and I thought the posts were from yesterday and not the day before. In any case, at least Blogger's not all "hinky" after all.
Until tonight, Shop Deals at Amazon.
Here's one, Save on Dyson AM05 Hot + Cool Fan Heater (Certified Refurbished).
BONUS: Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.
I figured out what happened on my *bumped* posts last night: I had the wrong date, the 13th instead of the 14th, so the posts wouldn't bump up to the top of the blog. My bad. I was fatigued from work and I thought the posts were from yesterday and not the day before. In any case, at least Blogger's not all "hinky" after all.
Until tonight, Shop Deals at Amazon.
Here's one, Save on Dyson AM05 Hot + Cool Fan Heater (Certified Refurbished).
BONUS: Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.
More Hailey Clauson (VIDEO)
Following-up from yesterday, "Hailey Clauson Uncovered for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017 (VIDEO)."
At Sports Illustrated:
At Sports Illustrated:
Marine Corps Nude Photo Scandal (VIDEO)
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's been on a hardcore feminist jihad anyway. These hearings just gave her a platform to spew her PC rage.
At Quartz, "Watch: Senator Gillibrand tears into the marines over why no one’s been held responsible for the nude photo scandal."
And CBS This Morning:
At Quartz, "Watch: Senator Gillibrand tears into the marines over why no one’s been held responsible for the nude photo scandal."
And CBS This Morning:
Professor Robert Kelly Viral Children Interruption Video
Well, he's a lucky man. What a beautiful family!
ADDED: At Althouse, "'My real life punched through the fake cover I had created on television'."
ADDED: At Althouse, "'My real life punched through the fake cover I had created on television'."
Professor Robert Kelly speaks to us again - now we can officially meet his wife & children 😉 https://t.co/SmwRdyPOd7 #BBCDad pic.twitter.com/smCE8iW431— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 14, 2017
Fear and Loathing at MSNBC
Following-up from last night, "President Trump Paid $38 Million in Taxes on More Than $150 Million in Income in 2005 (VIDEO)."
At the Other McCain:
At the Other McCain:
FEAR AND LOATHING AT MSNBC! https://t.co/GxSx1DHubW pic.twitter.com/XWWdGXomav
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) March 15, 2017
Thank you Rachel Maddow, for debunking the myth that Trump hasn't paid any taxes in 18 years. pic.twitter.com/wRWNbQZzu1
— Elizabeth® (@MissLizzyNJ) March 15, 2017
Dutch Elections Today
Following-up from last night, "Immigration Fatigue Defines Dutch Elections."
And after the Dutch elections on March 15, 2017
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) November 6, 2016
I Will Make The Netherlands Great Again!#MakeTheNetherlandsGreatAgain pic.twitter.com/rZXo1QpOy0
.@BlazingCatFur Dutch Vote Watched Across Europe With a Finger in the Wind. https://t.co/X4huwf0rhg
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) March 15, 2017
In less than 24 hours, Dutch voters head to the polls. Here's where the race stands now https://t.co/J2kNtCMYVj pic.twitter.com/asKQa62gzS
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) March 14, 2017
Viacheslav Morozov, Russia's Postcolonial Identity
Here's a work of political science that might be of interest, especially considering all the leftist fake news about Russia.
At Amazon, Viacheslav Morozov, Russia's Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World.
At Amazon, Viacheslav Morozov, Russia's Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
President Trump Paid $38 Million in Taxes on More Than $150 Million in Income in 2005 (VIDEO)
I saw a couple of tweets on this, but now here comes Legal Insurrection with the story. See, "Rachel Maddow’s career committed suicide live on national TV tonight."
And at Bloomberg, "Trump Paid $38 Million Tax on $150 Million Income, Return Shows."
That's huge tax hit. Huge.
It's an effective tax rate of 24 percent. Sheesh. Didn't Mitt Romney get his effective rate down to 14 percent in 2011? I think President Trump needs a new accountant, lol.
And Rachel Maddow needs to get her head screwed on correctly. This is no bombshell. Trump's paying his fair share in federal taxes. Shoot, he's being over-taxed. Maybe that's why he didn't want to release his returns? He's getting hammered by the IRS.
In any case, Maddow's still as butch as ever. I never --- absolutely never --- watch her show. It's been years, literally.
Also, at the Daily Beast, via Memeorandum, "Report: Trump's 2005 Taxes Revealed."
And at Bloomberg, "Trump Paid $38 Million Tax on $150 Million Income, Return Shows."
That's huge tax hit. Huge.
It's an effective tax rate of 24 percent. Sheesh. Didn't Mitt Romney get his effective rate down to 14 percent in 2011? I think President Trump needs a new accountant, lol.
And Rachel Maddow needs to get her head screwed on correctly. This is no bombshell. Trump's paying his fair share in federal taxes. Shoot, he's being over-taxed. Maybe that's why he didn't want to release his returns? He's getting hammered by the IRS.
In any case, Maddow's still as butch as ever. I never --- absolutely never --- watch her show. It's been years, literally.
Also, at the Daily Beast, via Memeorandum, "Report: Trump's 2005 Taxes Revealed."
One More Time, ICYMI: Robert J. Utley, The Indian Frontier
I tried to bump this post, but Blogger is acting all hinky, so I'm reposting it as a new entry.
From earlier today:
*****
I just finished Utley's chapter on the final campaigns of the frontier wars, which concludes with the surrender of Geronimo in 1886.
It's a great book. Marvelously balanced.
At Amazon, Robert J. Utley, The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890.
From earlier today:
*****
I just finished Utley's chapter on the final campaigns of the frontier wars, which concludes with the surrender of Geronimo in 1886.
It's a great book. Marvelously balanced.
At Amazon, Robert J. Utley, The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890.
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