Lots and lots of black bears are moseying into town, and some folks have used the occasion to ask whether to reintroduce grizzly bears to California.
I don't know if that's gonna work, although grizzlies are actually native to the Golden State. The state's "bear flag" features a California grizzly bear.
Interesting, in any case.
At LAT, "A black bear boom has a California town wondering how residents would get along with grizzlies."
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Glenn Reynolds and Helen Smith (and Family) Wish You Merry Christmas!
At Instapundit, "MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE REYNOLDS-SMITH HOUSEHOLD!"
And see Glenn's very moving holiday essay, at USA Today, "Finding the good in my dad's final days."
And see Glenn's very moving holiday essay, at USA Today, "Finding the good in my dad's final days."
Did Reince Priebus Just Compare Donald Trump to Jesus?
Professor Daniel Drezner about popped a vessel at this:
Mollie Hemingway responds:
At the Bustle, "Did Reince Priebus Just Compare Donald Trump To Jesus? Probably Not, But It Sure Sounded Like It."
And at BuzzFeed. The "new king" is Jesus, not Donald Trump:
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) December 25, 2016
Mollie Hemingway responds:
I get that not everybody is Christian but you should really know that Christians celebrate this good news at this time each and every year. https://t.co/CSsWMv4oI1— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 25, 2016
At the Bustle, "Did Reince Priebus Just Compare Donald Trump To Jesus? Probably Not, But It Sure Sounded Like It."
And at BuzzFeed. The "new king" is Jesus, not Donald Trump:
People are arguing about whether Republicans just compared Trump to Jesus https://t.co/cyknbSgPAo pic.twitter.com/Gq2M5nRDMY— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) December 25, 2016
Baltimore Ravens QB Joe Flacco Bought Each of His Nine Offensive Lineman an Oculus Rift Virtual Reality System
That's a Merry Christmas!
At the Washington Post, "Some NFL players went all out with gifts for teammates."
At the Washington Post, "Some NFL players went all out with gifts for teammates."
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Two-Hour Delivery with Amazon Prime
That's actually pretty impressive.
Normally I don't need my stuff shipped that fast, but if you're an Amazon Prime member, you can get your last-minute gift items delivered today.
Here's the Deal of the Day, Ninja Coffee Bar Brewer, Glass Carafe, Silver (Certified Refurbished).
I'll post some book links a little later.
I've got to take my son to work and head over to CostCo to buy food for our Christmas dinner, tri-rip roast and lobster (plus baked potato).
More later.
Normally I don't need my stuff shipped that fast, but if you're an Amazon Prime member, you can get your last-minute gift items delivered today.
Here's the Deal of the Day, Ninja Coffee Bar Brewer, Glass Carafe, Silver (Certified Refurbished).
I'll post some book links a little later.
I've got to take my son to work and head over to CostCo to buy food for our Christmas dinner, tri-rip roast and lobster (plus baked potato).
More later.
Obama, Trump, and the Turf War That Has Come to Define the Transition
It's been an unusual transition, at least for Donald Trump's tweeting, heh.
(But obviously much more than that. I don't ever recall an outgoing administration dissing the notion of concurrent "co-presidencies," but Ben Rhodes, Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor, did just that a few days ago.)
In any case, at the New York Times (via Memeorandum):
I saw the guy on cable news and he looked like a dork. Just having to declare there's "only one president at a time" illustrates just how weak the outgoing administration is.
DLTDHYOTWO.
(But obviously much more than that. I don't ever recall an outgoing administration dissing the notion of concurrent "co-presidencies," but Ben Rhodes, Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor, did just that a few days ago.)
In any case, at the New York Times (via Memeorandum):
Obama and Trump have been polite. But they've become leaders of what amounts to dueling administrations. https://t.co/p7mniK63pU
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 24, 2016
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump and President Obama have been unfailingly polite toward each other since the election. But with Mr. Trump staking out starkly different positions from Mr. Obama on Israel and other sensitive issues, and the president acting aggressively to protect his legacy, the two have become leaders of what amounts to dueling administrations.Ben Rhodes? What an idiot.
The split widened on Friday when the Obama administration abstained from a United Nations Security Council vote that condemned Israel for Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and allowed the resolution to pass. A day earlier, Mr. Trump had publicly demanded that Mr. Obama veto the measure, even intervening with Egypt at the request of Israel to pressure the administration to shelve the effort.
“As to the U.N.,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter after the vote, “things will be different after Jan. 20.”
It was the latest in a rapid-fire series of Twitter posts and public statements over the last week in which Mr. Trump has weighed in on Israel, terrorism and nuclear proliferation — contradicting Mr. Obama and flouting the notion that the country can have only one president at a time.
That longstanding principle has largely collapsed since the victory by Mr. Trump, who campaigned on a strategy of breaking all the rules and has continued to speak in unmodulated tones.
“In some ways, Trump is neutering the Obama administration,” said Douglas G. Brinkley, a professor of history and a presidential historian at Rice University in Houston. “They’ve avoided personally attacking each other, but behind the scenes, they’re working to undermine each other, and I don’t know how the American people benefit from that.”
For its part, the Obama administration on Tuesday announced a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along wide areas of the Arctic and the Eastern Seaboard, invoking an obscure provision of a 1953 law, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, to claim that Mr. Trump had no power to reverse it.
White House officials asserted a similar privilege in their decision not to veto the Security Council resolution. Israel’s aggressive construction of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, they said, puts at risk a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr. Trump’s opposition to the measure, and the likelihood that his administration will reverse the position, played no part in the decision, they said.
“There’s one president at a time,” said Benjamin J. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser. “There’s a principle here that the world understands who is speaking for the United States until January 20th, and who is speaking for the United States after January 20th.”
I saw the guy on cable news and he looked like a dork. Just having to declare there's "only one president at a time" illustrates just how weak the outgoing administration is.
DLTDHYOTWO.
Israel's 'Illegal Settlements' Aren't Actually Illegal
That's the thing about the radical left and foaming far-left anti-Semites: they spew lies which then become treated as fact.
See David M. Phillips, at Commentary, "The Illegal-Settlements Myth":
And be sure to watch that Danny Ayalon video above. It's so crystal clear it's ridiculous.
PREVIOUSLY: "Obama's 'Dangerous Parting Shot' on Israel."
See David M. Phillips, at Commentary, "The Illegal-Settlements Myth":
The conviction that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal is now so commonly accepted, it hardly seems as though the matter is even open for discussion. But it is. Decades of argument about the issue have obscured the complex nature of the specific legal question about which a supposedly overwhelming verdict of guilty has been rendered against settlement policy. There can be no doubt that this avalanche of negative opinion has been deeply influenced by the settlements’ unpopularity around the world and even within Israel itself. Yet, while one may debate the wisdom of Israeli settlements, the idea that they are imprudent is quite different from branding them as illegal. Indeed, the analysis underlying the conclusion that the settlements violate international law depends entirely on an acceptance of the Palestinian narrative that the West Bank is “Arab” land. Followed to its logical conclusion—as some have done—this narrative precludes the legitimacy of Israel itself.Keep reading.
These arguments date back to the aftermath of the Six-Day War. When Israel went into battle in June 1967, its objective was clear: to remove the Arab military threat to its existence. Following its victory, the Jewish state faced a new challenge: what to do with the territorial fruits of that triumph. While many Israelis assumed that the overwhelming nature of their victory would shock the Arab world into coming to terms with their legitimacy and making peace, they would soon be disabused of this belief. At the end of August 1967, the heads of eight countries, including Egypt, Syria, and Jordan (all of which lost land as the result of their failed policy of confrontation with Israel), met at a summit in Khartoum, Sudan, and agreed to the three principles that were to guide the Arab world’s postwar stands: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with Israel. Though many Israelis hoped to trade most if not all the conquered lands for peace, they would have no takers. This set the stage for decades of their nation’s control of these territories....
The question of the legal status of the West Bank, as well as Jerusalem, is not so easily resolved. To understand why this is the case, we must first revisit the history of the region in the 20th century.
Though routinely referred to nowadays as “Palestinian” land, at no point in history has Jerusalem or the West Bank been under Palestinian Arab sovereignty in any sense of the term. For several hundred years leading up to World War I, all of Israel, the Kingdom of Jordan, and the putative state of Palestine were merely provinces of the Ottoman Empire. After British-led Allied troops routed the Turks from the country in 1917-18, the League of Nations blessed Britain’s occupation with a document that gave the British conditional control granted under a mandate. It empowered Britain to facilitate the creation of a “Jewish National Home” while respecting the rights of the native Arab population. British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill later partitioned the mandate in 1922 and gave the East Bank of the Jordan to his country’s Hashemite Arab allies, who created the Kingdom of Jordan there under British tutelage.
Following World War II, the League of Nations’ successor, the United Nations, voted in November 1947 to partition the remaining portion of the land into Arab and Jewish states. While the Jews accepted partition, the Arabs did not, and after the British decamped in May 1948, Jordan joined with four other Arab countries to invade the fledgling Jewish state on the first day of its existence. Though Israel survived the onslaught, the fighting left the Jordanians in control of what would come to be known as the West Bank as well as approximately half of Jerusalem, including the Old City. Those Jewish communities in the West Bank that had existed prior to the Arab invasion were demolished, as was the Jewish quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
After the cease-fire that ended Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, Jordan annexed both the West Bank and East Jerusalem. But, as was the case when Israel annexed those same parts of the ancient city that it would win back 19 years later, the world largely ignored this attempt to legitimize Jordan’s presence. Only Jordan’s allies Britain and Pakistan recognized its claims of sovereignty. After King Hussein’s disastrous decision to ally himself with Egypt’s Nasser during the prelude to June 1967, Jordan was evicted from the lands it had won in 1948.
This left open the question of the sovereign authority over the West Bank...
And be sure to watch that Danny Ayalon video above. It's so crystal clear it's ridiculous.
PREVIOUSLY: "Obama's 'Dangerous Parting Shot' on Israel."
Obama Administration Accused of 'Stabbing Israel in the Back'
Following-up, "Obama's 'Dangerous Parting Shot' on Israel."
More backlash against the evil Obama regime, at Free Beacon, "Obama Joins the Jackals."
More backlash against the evil Obama regime, at Free Beacon, "Obama Joins the Jackals."
Obama's 'Dangerous Parting Shot' on Israel
Following-up from yesterday, "Obama Administration Abstains as U.N. Votes to Condemn Israel Over Settlements (VIDEO)."
The left-wing Washington Post takes the hateful, anti-Israel Obama regime to task, "The Obama administration fires a dangerous parting shot":
But keep reading.
The left-wing Washington Post takes the hateful, anti-Israel Obama regime to task, "The Obama administration fires a dangerous parting shot":
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S decision to abstain on a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements reverses decades of practice by both Democratic and Republican presidents. The United States vetoed past resolutions on the grounds that they unreasonably singled out Jewish communities in occupied territories as an obstacle to Middle East peace, and that U.N. action was more likely to impede than advance negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.The Obama's regime's just has hypocritical --- and just as evil --- as the United Nations.
The measure, approved 14 to 0 by the Security Council Friday, is subject to the same criticism: It will encourage Palestinians to pursue more international sanctions against Israel rather than seriously consider the concessions necessary for statehood, and it will give a boost to the international boycott and divestment movement against the Jewish state, which has become a rallying cause for anti-Zionists. At the same time, it will almost certainly not stop Israeli construction in the West Bank, much less in East Jerusalem, where Jewish housing was also deemed by the resolution to be “a flagrant violation under international law.”
By abstaining, the administration did not explicitly support that position, which has not been U.S. policy since the Carter administration. In explaining the vote, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power pointed out that the council was sanctioning Israel even while failing to take action to stop a potential genocide in South Sudan or the slaughter in Aleppo, Syria. Yet in failing to veto the measure, the Obama administration set itself apart both from previous administrations and from the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, who spoke out strongly against the resolution...
But keep reading.
Tucker Carlson Eviscerates Far-Left Nutjob Lauren Duca (VIDEO)
Mediate has the headline, via Memeorandum, "Teen Vogue Writer Battles Tucker Carlson: 'You're Actually Being a Partisan Hack'."
And at Hot Air, "“You should stick to the thigh-high boots”: Tucker Carlson vs. Teen Vogue writer":
Click through for the exit question.
Lauren Duca's a nutjob (and an airhead). Tucker takes her to task for tweeting "Eat Shit, @realDonadTrump" (now deleted) and Duca accuses him of being childish, pfft. (She also calls him a "sexist pig," but the audio cuts out at the end.)
And at Hot Air, "“You should stick to the thigh-high boots”: Tucker Carlson vs. Teen Vogue writer":
On this slow pre-holiday news day, kindly enjoy the celebrated cable-news food fight du jour. This interview was booked, I assume, in the belief that it’d be what I’ll call a “bop-bag segment,” in which the host brings on a guest who’s not as practiced as he is at political debate, especially on television, and ends up knocking him/her down repeatedly for the entertainment of the hometown fans. Duca came to play, though. I think Dave Weigel’s basically right that Carlson started goofing on “Teen Vogue” halfway through only because she wasn’t as much of a pushover in the first half as the audience might have liked. (The audio cuts out on Duca’s parting shot, in which she calls him a “sexist pig” for his crack about her sticking to writing about boots.) The give and take makes for good TV; Fox News should book her more often. If CNN can have a stable of dedicated spinners for Trump like Kayleigh McEnany and Jeffrey Lord, surely Fox can spare 10 minutes a day for an anti-Trumper like Duca to have slapfights with Eric Bolling and Sean Hannity...
Click through for the exit question.
Lauren Duca's a nutjob (and an airhead). Tucker takes her to task for tweeting "Eat Shit, @realDonadTrump" (now deleted) and Duca accuses him of being childish, pfft. (She also calls him a "sexist pig," but the audio cuts out at the end.)
Friday, December 23, 2016
Things Will Be Different at the United Nations
Following-up, "Obama Administration Abstains as U.N. Votes to Condemn Israel Over Settlements (VIDEO)."
Less than a month from now.
Things will be different.
Less than a month from now.
Things will be different.
As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2016
Hailey Baldwin LOVE Advent 2016 (VIDEO)
I fell behind on my LOVE posting last night.
Here's Hailey Baldwin to catch up:
Here's Hailey Baldwin to catch up:
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I don't know if anyone's that hard up for last minute gifts, but Amazon's got one-day shipping available.
And some suggestions...
Dore Gold, Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos, and The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City.
Caroline Glick, The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, O Jerusalem!
Joshua Muravchik, Making David into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel.
Yossi Klein Halevi, Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation.
Martin Gilbert, Israel: A History.
Jed Babbin and Herbert London, The BDS War Against Israel: The Orwellian Campaign to Destroy Israel Through the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.
Roger Hardy, The Poisoned Well: Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East.
And some suggestions...
Dore Gold, Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos, and The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City.
Caroline Glick, The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, O Jerusalem!
Joshua Muravchik, Making David into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel.
Yossi Klein Halevi, Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation.
Martin Gilbert, Israel: A History.
Jed Babbin and Herbert London, The BDS War Against Israel: The Orwellian Campaign to Destroy Israel Through the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.
Roger Hardy, The Poisoned Well: Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East.
Pat Condell: The United Nations is an Embarrassing Disgrace and Insult to Humanity (VIDEO)
Following-up, "Obama Administration Abstains as U.N. Votes to Condemn Israel Over Settlements (VIDEO)."
This video's four years old.
Mr. Pat appears a little leaner around the jowls, but his commentary's as biting as ever.
This video's four years old.
Mr. Pat appears a little leaner around the jowls, but his commentary's as biting as ever.
Obama Administration Abstains as U.N. Votes to Condemn Israel Over Settlements (VIDEO)
President Obama and his administration are working feverishly to sow as much evil as they possibly can before leaving office next month. The only consolation --- and it's a big one, thank God --- is that the incoming Trump regime will be like firecrackers in reversing every piece of blasted sod initiatives from this morally regressive refuse-stain of a presidency.
And if I haven't made myself clear enough, well, just get steamed a little yourself at the black-bark piece of human refuse Samantha Power's comments during her speech to the Security Council today. Behold human evil as it erupts in all its wicked hatred and bile:
Here's the story, at WSJ, "U.N. Censures Israeli Settlement Expansion as U.S. Declines to Block."
And if I haven't made myself clear enough, well, just get steamed a little yourself at the black-bark piece of human refuse Samantha Power's comments during her speech to the Security Council today. Behold human evil as it erupts in all its wicked hatred and bile:
Here's the story, at WSJ, "U.N. Censures Israeli Settlement Expansion as U.S. Declines to Block."
Benjamin Netanyahu's Christmas Message (VIDEO)
I love Benjamin Netanyahu.
His messages always make me feel so good and proud, and so welcomed in Israel.
I'm planning at trip to Israel, in fact. I'm not sure when. I have two trips on the agenda. I don't know if I can make it one big trip or not. I want to go to France, to Normandy, and I want to visit Auschwitz, in Poland. Then I want to go to Israel. That might be two trips, but we'll see. I'm not sure if my wife wants to go. She's not comfortable traveling outside of the U.S., and I don't blame her. But I'm not worried. Maybe this summer I'll be able to do some traveling. The time is right, financially as well as family-wise. I want my sons to go, especially my young son, who hasn't traveled a lot yet.
In any case, enjoy the prime minister's message, via the Conservative Treehouse:
His messages always make me feel so good and proud, and so welcomed in Israel.
I'm planning at trip to Israel, in fact. I'm not sure when. I have two trips on the agenda. I don't know if I can make it one big trip or not. I want to go to France, to Normandy, and I want to visit Auschwitz, in Poland. Then I want to go to Israel. That might be two trips, but we'll see. I'm not sure if my wife wants to go. She's not comfortable traveling outside of the U.S., and I don't blame her. But I'm not worried. Maybe this summer I'll be able to do some traveling. The time is right, financially as well as family-wise. I want my sons to go, especially my young son, who hasn't traveled a lot yet.
In any case, enjoy the prime minister's message, via the Conservative Treehouse:
'Listen children all is not lost, all is not lost. Oh no, no...'
CNN's going to run the Chicago documentary on January 1st. I keep seeing the ads for it, "CHICAGO’S AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY NOW MORE THAN EVER: THE HISTORY OF CHICAGO PREMIERES ON CNN ON JANUARY 1."
As noted at Wikipedia:
As noted at Wikipedia:
Second only to The Beach Boys in Billboard singles and albums chart success among American bands, Chicago is one of the longest-running and most successful rock groups, and one of the world's best-selling groups of all time, having sold more than 100 million records."Saturday in the Park" is one of my favorite all-time songs. I don't listen to it enough, come to think of it.
According to Billboard, Chicago was the leading US singles charting group during the 1970s. They have sold over 40 million units in the US, with 23 gold, 18 platinum, and 8 multi-platinum albums. Over the course of their career they have had five number-one albums and 21 top-ten singles. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 8, 2016 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York...
When Native Americans Were Arms Dealers — And Powerful, Formidable Warriors
I posted a bunch of links about the American West and Native Americans last night: "Two-Day Free Shipping Before Christmas."
I didn't know of this book, however, from David Silverman, Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America.
It's reviewed at the Los Angeles Times, "When Native Americans were arms dealers: A history revealed in 'Thundersticks'":
I didn't know of this book, however, from David Silverman, Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America.
It's reviewed at the Los Angeles Times, "When Native Americans were arms dealers: A history revealed in 'Thundersticks'":
In the years after the American Revolution, Seminole Indians built an arsenal of weapons acquired from Cuban and British traders that allowed them to defend their lands as an alternate and well-armed Underground Railroad in what was then Spanish-controlled Florida. To the horror of Deep South elites, the Seminoles shielded and supplied guns to Panhandle communities of Black Seminoles, small villages peopled by plantation runaways, intermarried tribal members and freed slaves of the tribe themselves.As you'll notice, the Seminoles don't appear to be the weakling victims of which the left always portrays American Indians. The tribe held off and defeated the U.S. army for half a century. While not all tribes had the capabilities and organization, Silverman's not the only one to document the fearsome fighting power of Native Americans. I linked yesterday S.C. Gwynne's, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History, which also offers a powerful counter-narrative placing Native Americans at the center of hegemony for vast sections of the American frontier. It's important to keep this narrative in mind when you read stories of the "genocide" against American Indians, which is the left's dominant victim's narrative (and which is a lie).
“Together they resolved to keep white Americans and their slave catchers out of Seminole territory,” historian David Silverman writes in “Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America.” “An alliance of militant Indians and black maroons supported by European resources was the materialization of a nightmare that had haunted white southerners ever since the seventeenth century.” ...
For the most part, Silverman avoids anthropological explanations for Native American tribes’ fascination with guns — save for the book’s title, which comes from a literal translation of the Narragansett word for gun, pésckunk. To explain the indigenous arms race that once gripped the continent, Silverman uses military history and political economy to chip away at Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel” narrative, in which Europeans with superior weapons technology marched triumphantly through the Americas.
Instead, Silverman uncovers a history in which Indians quickly cornered a gun market, shocking European and American militaries with the breadth and superiority of their arms, most of them made in Britain or France. This indigenous arsenal explains why the Seminoles were able to repel the U.S. Army over three wars, spanning 1816 to 1858. Unable to best the tribe on the battlefield, the American military resorted to scorched-earth techniques — burning Seminole villages to the ground, destroying cattle herds — to starve the Seminoles and drastically reduce their population.
In contrast to a military that relied on the bureaucracy of purchase orders and shipping caravans to distribute its arms, the Seminoles’ decentralized backwoods armory lay scattered across the humid peninsula in dry, bark-lined underground caches. The tribe made dugout canoe runs to Cuba to restock guns while raiding Florida sugar plantations for their lead-lined vats, which were melted down for ammunition. As the wars raged on, tribal leaders set up pseudo peace talks with military officials as a ruse to have their younger warriors sneak off into the bushes to buy guns from the opportunistic traders who followed U.S. military campaigns. Most notorious, tribal warriors seized muskets from the battlefield dead.
Among North American tribes of the colonial period, the Seminoles were far from alone in one-upping colonial powers to master a multinational supply network of arms. Silverman calls this phenomenon “a gun frontier,” a nimble, intertribal network of trade that created an arms race on the American continent, often decades before the arrival of sizeable numbers of Euro-American settlers...
2-Year-Old Boy Found Standing in the Rain Wearing Only a Soiled Diaper, Surrounded by a Pack of Dogs
Actually, the pack of dogs was "protective" of the child.
A policeman found the boy and "scooped" him up, then drove around the neighborhood to find his house with the front door wide open and the dogs in the living room.
What a sordid, even horrific, story.
At the Los Angeles Times, "Toddler in soiled diaper found surrounded by pack of dogs in Victorville park."
A policeman found the boy and "scooped" him up, then drove around the neighborhood to find his house with the front door wide open and the dogs in the living room.
What a sordid, even horrific, story.
At the Los Angeles Times, "Toddler in soiled diaper found surrounded by pack of dogs in Victorville park."
I've Finished Shelby Steele's, Shame
A great book and a quick read.
And most heartily recommended, Shelby Steele, Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country.
In any event, I started Steven E. Schier and Todd E. Eberly yesterday, Polarized: The Rise of Ideology in American Politics. It's great. Also a small volume, I expect to read it in just a couple of days.
That's not the case with Robert J. Gordon's, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. It's a great book but a hefty tome! I'm currently on Chapter 7: "Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Illness and Early Death."
Finally, I still have a ways to go on Exodus. I need to finish that up so I can start another novel. I read more non-fiction nowadays, but I still love a good novel.
I'll have more book blogging later today.
And most heartily recommended, Shelby Steele, Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country.
In any event, I started Steven E. Schier and Todd E. Eberly yesterday, Polarized: The Rise of Ideology in American Politics. It's great. Also a small volume, I expect to read it in just a couple of days.
That's not the case with Robert J. Gordon's, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. It's a great book but a hefty tome! I'm currently on Chapter 7: "Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Illness and Early Death."
Finally, I still have a ways to go on Exodus. I need to finish that up so I can start another novel. I read more non-fiction nowadays, but I still love a good novel.
I'll have more book blogging later today.
Sasha Abramsky, The American Way of Poverty
I'm just now seeing this.
I used to study U.S. anti-poverty policy in great detail. With the appointment Dr. Ben Carson as H.U.D. Secretary, perhaps we'll have a real discussion of poverty in America.
And of course, many in the white working class suffer from the same pathologies as the black underclass --- a point J.D. Vance raises in his book, Hillbilly Elegy --- so it's all the more vital from a public policy perspective.
In any case, see Sasha Abramsky, The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives.
I used to study U.S. anti-poverty policy in great detail. With the appointment Dr. Ben Carson as H.U.D. Secretary, perhaps we'll have a real discussion of poverty in America.
And of course, many in the white working class suffer from the same pathologies as the black underclass --- a point J.D. Vance raises in his book, Hillbilly Elegy --- so it's all the more vital from a public policy perspective.
In any case, see Sasha Abramsky, The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives.
Lauren Southern: Top 2016 Election Conspiracies (VIDEO)
Be sure to stay with this to the end. I'm not sure how Ms. Lauren can keep a straight face, but it's pretty funny.
And ICYMI, her new book, Barbarians: How The Baby Boomers, Immigration, and Islam Screwed my Generation.
And ICYMI, her new book, Barbarians: How The Baby Boomers, Immigration, and Islam Screwed my Generation.
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Pipeline to America: Africans, Asians, Haitians — Migrants from Across the Globe Risk Everything to Cross Into the U.S.
Well, the more things develop, the more Donald Trump is proven correct.
Check out this sensational story, from the front page at today's Los Angeles Times, "Africans, Asians, Haitians: The sharp rise in non-Latin American migrants trying to cross into the U.S. from Mexico":
And stories like this are only going to bolster the GOP's case for securing the border. Donald Trump's got the pulse of the nation in this issue. It's why he's taking office on January 20th.
Still more.
Check out this sensational story, from the front page at today's Los Angeles Times, "Africans, Asians, Haitians: The sharp rise in non-Latin American migrants trying to cross into the U.S. from Mexico":
Haitians, Africans, Asians: Mexico’s border cities are getting overwhelmed with migrants headed to America https://t.co/eK7BYGLa85 pic.twitter.com/cdVZ3c3GLU
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 22, 2016
One morning in January, five men from Nepal showed up at the Casa del Migrante in Tijuana, looking for a bed for the night.And here's a personal story:
That’s odd, the shelter’s director, Father Patrick Murphy, remembers thinking.
This border city has been a gateway to generations of migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Mexico and Central America, people dreaming of a better life in the United States.
But Nepal was 8,000 miles away. What were they doing here?
Within months, Tijuana would be teeming with migrants from across the globe — from Haiti, India, Bangladesh and various parts of Africa — all hoping to reach the U.S.
In a surge Mexican officials are calling unprecedented, some 15,000 migrants from outside Latin America passed through Baja California this year — nearly five times the number seen in 2015.
More than a third of the detainees being held in California immigration holding centers in September were from outside Latin America, U.S. officials say.
As they traverse a circuitous and dangerous path up the spine of South America, Central America and Mexico, they have strained resources along the route and presented new challenges for securing America’s southern border.
Emmanuel Ngunyi arrived in Tijuana on a flight from Mexico City, where he had spent a few days recovering from a tortuous journey that began with a flight from Cameroon to Ecuador and continued overland through half a dozen countries.Interesting that these migrants are coming here. You know, they could always emigrate to Angela Merkel's Germany, before the Germans pull the welcome mat.
A member of Cameroon’s English-speaking minority, the 25-year-old had been jailed twice for supporting a banned secessionist movement. The second time was the worst, he said. His jailers tied him from a ceiling and raped him with a candle.
If he could make it to the U.S., he was convinced, “My life will be secure.”
Some countries were easy to get through, even without a visa. Officials were issuing permits to transiting migrants giving them a few days to cross their territory. But other places — Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama — had closed their borders to the migrants. He had to enlist the help of smugglers to cross vast stretches of jungle, swampland and mountains on foot.
In all, it took Ngunyi two months to reach Mexico and cost him nearly $10,000. It was mid-May when he landed in Tijuana, and the early morning chill made him shiver.
He tried to hire a taxi from the airport to the border, but got into an argument with the driver, who he said grabbed his phone and pushed him out of the car. So he decided to walk the last few miles.
There was a long line of people waiting to use the pedestrian crossing at San Ysidro. He walked to the front and told the first police officer he saw: “I want to request asylum in the United States.”
“Do you see people like you here?” the officer barked at him. He was sent to the back of the line.
When he made it to the front, he was escorted into the port of entry to wait for an interview with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The wait lasted most of the day, and he fell asleep on the tile floor.
At last, it was his turn to be questioned. An official asked his name, what country he came from, his address.
Then another official burst into the room. “No, no, no, we don’t have space for them,” he recalled her saying. “Back to Mexico. All of them back to Mexico.”
It was past midnight when Ngunyi found himself once again in Tijuana, the gate to America swinging shut behind him...
And stories like this are only going to bolster the GOP's case for securing the border. Donald Trump's got the pulse of the nation in this issue. It's why he's taking office on January 20th.
Still more.
Trump Should Quickly Rescind Obama's Drilling Ban
Well, that goes without saying.
But see Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "FASTER, PLEASE. Andrew McCarthy: Trump Should Quickly Rescind Obama’s Drilling Ban."
Background here, "Obama Bans Drilling in Parts of the Atlantic and the Arctic."
You know O's last regulatory rules are mostly out of spite. He's pissing in the ashes of his destruction.
But see Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "FASTER, PLEASE. Andrew McCarthy: Trump Should Quickly Rescind Obama’s Drilling Ban."
Background here, "Obama Bans Drilling in Parts of the Atlantic and the Arctic."
You know O's last regulatory rules are mostly out of spite. He's pissing in the ashes of his destruction.
Hannah Ferguson Reveals All During Her Body Painting Shoot (VIDEO)
This is too hot to embed!
At Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, "Hannah Ferguson Bears All In Body Paint Shoot."
At Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, "Hannah Ferguson Bears All In Body Paint Shoot."
Two-Day Free Shipping Before Christmas
If you're doing last-minute shopping at Amazon, today's your last chance for free two-day shipping.
So, what are you waiting for? Get cracking amigos!
Some suggestions for under the tree...
See Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West.
William C. Davis, The American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers, and Cowboys 1800–1899.
Robert Bunting, The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture of an American Eden.
Elliott West, The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story.
Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History.
Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.
Bob Drury, The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend.
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.
Peter Cozzens, The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West.
So, what are you waiting for? Get cracking amigos!
Some suggestions for under the tree...
See Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West.
William C. Davis, The American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers, and Cowboys 1800–1899.
Robert Bunting, The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture of an American Eden.
Elliott West, The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story.
Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History.
Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.
Bob Drury, The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend.
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.
Peter Cozzens, The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West.
Jim Downing, The Other Side of Infamy [BUMPED
Hey, select two-day shipping and have these wonderful books delivered before Christmas.
At Amazon, Jim Downing, The Other Side of Infamy: My Journey through Pearl Harbor and the World of War.
Also, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice.
And Donald Stratton, All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor.
At Amazon, Jim Downing, The Other Side of Infamy: My Journey through Pearl Harbor and the World of War.
Also, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice.
And Donald Stratton, All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor.
Lauren Southern, Barbarians
Well, I love her videos. I expect her book will be good too. Indeed, she's getting excellent reviews at Amazon.
See Lauren Southern, Barbarians: How The Baby Boomers, Immigration, and Islam Screwed my Generation.
See Lauren Southern, Barbarians: How The Baby Boomers, Immigration, and Islam Screwed my Generation.
Tomi Lahren: Hey MTV Losers, Donald Trump's a White Male, Get Over It
Here's the irrepressible Tomi Lahren, who's got clips from the childish MTV '2017 Resolutions for White Guys' video.
Watch, "Tomi Lahren - Resolutions from a White Female to MTV - Final Thoughts With Tomi Lahren."
Watch, "Tomi Lahren - Resolutions from a White Female to MTV - Final Thoughts With Tomi Lahren."
Amazon: A Disrupter of All Things
From Barry Ritholtz, at Bloomberg, "Woe to Those Disrupted by Amazon":
I love Amazon though. I'm not worried about it crushing any of my own business ventures, heh.
The more I think about what Amazon actually is, the closer I come to this: It’s a self-funding incubator that ruthlessly kills the ventures that don’t work (remember the Fire mobile phone?), while pouring cash into the ones that hold promise. It’s a marketplace for new and used products, a place to hire people for services, a content company, a software maker, a gadget business, a cloud company and so on. Oh, and it’s an online retailer that just happens to be the world’s sixth-biggest company by market value -- about $365 billion.You have to read the whole thing to fully understand the lesson.
I still am not sure exactly what Amazon’s core business is or what it will end up being. I just hope it never sees an opportunity in any business I have a vested interest in.
I love Amazon though. I'm not worried about it crushing any of my own business ventures, heh.
Political Rules Changed in 2016
From Michael Barone, at RCP, "How the Political Rules Changed in 2016":
But keep reading.
Over the 40-some years that I have been working or closely observing the political campaign business, the rules of the game haven't changed much. Technology has changed the business somewhat, but the people who ran campaigns in the 1970s could have (and in some cases actually have) run them four decades later.I remember in the spring I told my students that if Donald Trump won the presidency he'd have broken all the rules of politics. Indeed, I expect he's rewritten the rule book now.
But suddenly this year, the rules seemed to change. Let me try to count the ways...
But keep reading.
Barry Switzer Punked the Media Press Pool at Trump Tower
OMG this is hilarious.
Via AoSHQ, "#FakeNews: College Football's Barry Switzer Explains How He Easily Punked Media Into Reporting He Was Under Consideration to be Trump's "Secretary of Offense" Who Would 'Make the Wishbone Great Again'."
Via AoSHQ, "#FakeNews: College Football's Barry Switzer Explains How He Easily Punked Media Into Reporting He Was Under Consideration to be Trump's "Secretary of Offense" Who Would 'Make the Wishbone Great Again'."
This is amazing https://t.co/lf6vv0FBUD pic.twitter.com/Nf9uFgCYyz
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) December 22, 2016
Kellyanne Conway Tapped as Donald Trump's 'Counselor to the President' (VIDEO)
This literally warms my heart, especially since she's super smart, close to the president-elect, and has a mellowing effect on Trump and his public statements.
She's going to be a huge asset to this White House.
At the New York Times, via Memeorandum, "Kellyanne Conway, ‘Trump Whisperer,’ Will Be Counselor to President."
And watch, at CNN, "Kellyanne Conway lands top White House job."
She's going to be a huge asset to this White House.
At the New York Times, via Memeorandum, "Kellyanne Conway, ‘Trump Whisperer,’ Will Be Counselor to President."
And watch, at CNN, "Kellyanne Conway lands top White House job."
Ivanka Trump, Flying Commercial, Accosted by Angry Leftists on JetBlue Flight
It's not moral equivalence, that there's "bad people on both sides."
No, leftists claim to be the tolerant ones. It's supposedly part of their DNA. They're better than you, remember.
Well, not so much actually. These people are in-you-face Hillary supporters and New York homosexuals. They're supposed to be the enlightened ones.
On Twitter:
No, leftists claim to be the tolerant ones. It's supposedly part of their DNA. They're better than you, remember.
Well, not so much actually. These people are in-you-face Hillary supporters and New York homosexuals. They're supposed to be the enlightened ones.
On Twitter:
.@lamblock Just wow: Ivanka Trump aggressively confronted, verbally attacked by man on flight with kids. https://t.co/qdZZjvW3fC
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) December 22, 2016
Harassing women and children at Christmas. Classy. pic.twitter.com/LX3u5RPS5t
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) December 22, 2016
Leftists are nasty, intolerant, hateful people. Period. https://t.co/jPju92p0q9
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) December 22, 2016
Leftists are out of control. https://t.co/UZ9PpE0G58
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) December 22, 2016
Ivanka Trump Berated, Harassed By Man On JetBlue Flight https://t.co/wdcCmBlXMW
— Ƭαвιтнα Ɓℓιѕѕ ❤ (@BlissTabitha) December 22, 2016
Please don't harass the president's grandchildren on planes (or anywhere). Sorry if this ruins your weekend plans.
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) December 22, 2016
Jared Diamond, Collapse
My mom bought it for me for Christmas.
See Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
My dad once told me that you'll never be bored if you like to read.
And I love to read. And I love to blog about books and reading.
Thanks again for all your support. I really appreciate it.
Merry Christmas!
See Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
My dad once told me that you'll never be bored if you like to read.
And I love to read. And I love to blog about books and reading.
Thanks again for all your support. I really appreciate it.
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Last-Minute Deals
At Amazon, Last-Minute Deals - There's Still Time to Find Gifts for Everyone on Your List.
More Gold Box Savings here.
BONUS: Katherine Cramer, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker.
More Gold Box Savings here.
BONUS: Katherine Cramer, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker.
Change! Young Americans Living With Parents at 75-Year High
Thank god our long national nightmare of Barack Obama in office is almost over.
What, it's less than 30 days until the Trump administration takes power. I can't wait.
At WSJ, "Percentage of Young Americans Living With Parents Rises to 75-Year High":
What, it's less than 30 days until the Trump administration takes power. I can't wait.
At WSJ, "Percentage of Young Americans Living With Parents Rises to 75-Year High":
Almost 40% of young Americans were living with their parents, siblings or other relatives in 2015, the largest percentage since 1940, according to an analysis of census data by real estate tracker Trulia.More.
Despite a rebounding economy and recent job growth, the share of those between the ages of 18 and 34 doubling up with parents or other family members has been rising since 2005. Back then, before the start of the last recession, roughly one out of three were living with family.
The trend runs counter to that of previous economic cycles, when after a recession-related spike, the number of younger Americans living with relatives declined as the economy improved.
The result is that there is far less demand for housing than would be expected for the millennial generation, now the largest in U.S. history. The number of adults under age 30 has increased by 5 million over the last decade, but the number of households for that age group grew by just 200,000 over the same period, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Analysts point to rising rents in many cities and tough mortgage-lending standards as the culprit, making it difficult for younger Americans to strike out on their own.
“I don’t think those are challenges that are going to keep young households permanently out of the housing market, but it may keep their homeownership rate near historic lows for likely the indefinite future,” said Ralph McLaughlin, Trulia’s chief economist.
The share of young Americans living with parents hit a high of 40.9% in 1940, just a year after the official end of the Great Depression, and fell to a low of 24.1% in 1960. It hovered between about 31% and 33% from 1980 to the mid-2000s, when the rate started climbing steadily.
The census data on living arrangements goes back annually to 1980, and prior to that was collected each decade.
Household formation is closely correlated with housing affordability and income. Among those aged 25 to 34, 40% of those earning less than $25,000 headed their own household. The share rose to 50% for those earning between $25,000 and $50,000, and 58% for those with incomes above $50,000, according to the Harvard Joint Center.
Census data also show younger Americans are getting married and having children later in life than previous generations. Even so, economists project the historically large millennial generation will more than double its current number of households through 2025...
Evelyn Taft's Wet Weather Forecast
It's raining tonight.
I love it, heh.
Here's Ms. Evelyn, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
I love it, heh.
Here's Ms. Evelyn, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Donald Trump Calls Berlin Truck Jihad an 'Attack Against Humanity' (VIDEO)
I love him.
I'm so happy we have someone who tells it like it is.
At CNN, "Trump calls Berlin rampage an 'attack on humanity'."
I'm so happy we have someone who tells it like it is.
At CNN, "Trump calls Berlin rampage an 'attack on humanity'."
The Year in Reading
Following-up from early this morning, "Edward O. Wilson, Half-Earth."
I was reading this fabulous roundup of luminaries and their favorite books of 2016, at the New York Times.
Of course, not that many conservatives there, but of those that are, some interesting choices. Newt Gingrich recommends Daniel Silva, The Black Widow.
And Francis Fukuyama recommends Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal, White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics.
I was reading this fabulous roundup of luminaries and their favorite books of 2016, at the New York Times.
Of course, not that many conservatives there, but of those that are, some interesting choices. Newt Gingrich recommends Daniel Silva, The Black Widow.
And Francis Fukuyama recommends Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal, White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics.
Junot Díaz, Ava DuVernay, Hilary Mantel, John Green and many others share what they read in 2016: https://t.co/AW0kcMSlar
— New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) December 19, 2016
Why Democrats Can't Move On
From Jonathan Tobin, at Commentary:
Still more.
Why Democrats Can’t Move On? - by @tobincommentary https://t.co/dLqXq2MZ1F pic.twitter.com/o6uLRLgogX
— Commentary Magazine (@Commentary) December 21, 2016
Like the effort to force recounts in swing states won by Trump, the attempt to persuade the Electoral College to see the president-elect as part of a Russian plot or to channel The Federalist Papers and pick someone else flopped. So now that the fantasies that the bad dream can be made to go away are exploded, what are Democrats who are still refusing to accept they lost to do?Remember, it's the left that's fomenting fascism in America. All these attempts to delegitimize Trump are textbook examples of fascist political agitation, right out of the last days of Weimar.
The answer from the left is “resistance.” That’s what Moveon.org — which helped organize some of the protests at the various Electoral College ceremonies as well as other anti-Trump demonstrations — is saying. What form will “resistance” take? That’s far from clear. The group’s leader Anna Galland seems to be primarily interested in more mass street theater. According to radical TV talker Keith Olbermann, it should consist of daily reminders to Republicans that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote and refusing to refer to Trump as the president.
Such comically futile gestures don’t sound terribly inspiring or productive, but might make some people feel better. Yet those elected officials tasked with the duty to reconstruct the Democratic Party sound just as confused as nudniks like Galland and Olbermann.
A small number of centrist Democrats like Ohio’s Rep. Tim Ryan, who led a spectacularly unsuccessful challenge to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, think the party should try to cooperate with Trump on issues where they might agree. But that’s something a party increasingly dominated by its Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren leftist faction has no interest in doing. Ellison, who is continuing his effort to be elected the head of the Democratic National Committee, believes the party should refuse to support the infrastructure proposal in spite of the fact that it is remarkably similar to President Obama’s own first term stimulus legislation. While his hopes to be the DNC Chair are still up in the air, he probably speaks for most of his party when he says they don’t trust Trump and will resist him on every front.
The point here is not so much their understandable hard feelings about the election results. Rather, it is that they are still stuck in the denial stage of grief and can’t shake it off. Though they’ll pay lip service to the notion of serving the best interests of the country, there’s little doubt that they are far more interested in continuing the project to delegitimize Trump. That’s why so many of them continue to harp on the farcical notion that Vladimir Putin elected Trump or to hope some other Hail Mary play like parlaying disputes over the president-elect’s admittedly tangled and far-flung financial interests into an impeachment putsch even before he takes office will do the trick.
What this means is that rather than a fraction of the party’s extremists starting the new administration enmeshed in a new derangement syndrome, it appears the critical mass of the party that won 48 percent of the vote is unable to move past a disappointing election...
Still more.
Karen Dawisha, Putin's Kleptocracy [BUMPED]
A timely suggestion for your winter holiday reading.
At Amazon, Karen Dawisha, Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
At Amazon, Karen Dawisha, Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo: Efforts to Abolish the Electoral College 'All About Race' (VIDEO)
I watched this last night and thought nothing of it.
Once again, O'Reilly hit the nail on the head. And like clockwork, leftists were outraged for O'Reilly telling it like it is.
Once again, O'Reilly hit the nail on the head. And like clockwork, leftists were outraged for O'Reilly telling it like it is.
this is getting lots of attention tonight https://t.co/SYlsj80HzB— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) December 21, 2016
.@oreillyfactor: “The left wants power taken away from the white establishment and they want a profound change in the way America is run.” pic.twitter.com/EggkBz7kvZ— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 21, 2016
Fox News' Bill O'Reilly under fire for race comments: "The left wants power taken away from the white establishment" https://t.co/qxBfsChIKw pic.twitter.com/RkaPfIRvvU— CNN (@CNN) December 21, 2016
At Least 32 Dead in Mexico Fireworks Market Explosion (VIDEO)
At CNN, "Mexico explosion: 32 dead at fireworks market as search teams comb rubble."
That's a spectacular explosion, almost like a military bombing zone. Man.
That's a spectacular explosion, almost like a military bombing zone. Man.
CNN's @sarasidnerCNN is at the scene of the massive fireworks market blast Tuesday in Mexico https://t.co/erMO1c1H9n https://t.co/R7hZlFktNQ pic.twitter.com/uBnx0qHON2
— CNN (@CNN) December 21, 2016
#BREAKING: Fireworks explosion rips through market outside Mexico City, dozens injured. https://t.co/s4FBLe7XVl pic.twitter.com/3rhxSk4a4Z
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) December 20, 2016
Why the White Working Class Feels Lost
Justin Gest's new book is The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality.
I like the comparative approach taken there. It's on my list for my next big splurge at Amazon, heh.
He's interviewed at Vox, "Why the white working class feels like they’ve lost it all, according to a political scientist."
I like the comparative approach taken there. It's on my list for my next big splurge at Amazon, heh.
He's interviewed at Vox, "Why the white working class feels like they’ve lost it all, according to a political scientist."
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