Enough of these Tears
Enough of these simpering tears, Europe, as your children are murdered once again by those that you welcomed in with the…
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Bernie vs. Clinton — #berniemademewhite?
Here’s a question to contemplate this morning:Why does anyone say that Sen. Sanders has a problem with “minority voters”? Even this somewhat sympathetic take from NPR this morning collapses in on itself a little by simply buying into the standard rhetoric (which, naturally, serves the Clinton machine’s interests): ¶ So which point of view is correct? Sanders does horribly with minority voters? Or the media do a bad job of telling the story of Sanders’ existing minority support?
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A brave little theory, and actually quite reasonable, if we hadn’t already seen Rand Paul crater…
The GOP without the South is a permanent minority party. Trading the South in the hopes of winning a few techno-libertarians in Silicon…before Iowa had finished voting. I might have even gotten behind it myself before then. ¶ The GOP without the South is a permanent minority party. Trading the South in the hopes of winning a few techno-libertarians in Silicon Valley who, by themselves, wouldn’t even swing the state of California sounds to me like a prescription for losing. (See, e.g., the election map from 1976). ¶ The only Republican candidate in this cycle, who is, presently, creating the possibility of the GOP moving…Johannes PaulsenMar 24
NYT: Failed Belgian State Accommodated Islamic Terrorists
Via Ann Althouse. I offer this excerpt without comment:The country of just 11.2 million people faces widening derision as being the world’s wealthiest failed state — a worrying mix of deeply rooted terrorist networks, a government weakened by divisions among French, Dutch and German speakers, and an overwhelmed intelligence service in seemingly chronic disarray…. ¶ “This shows the limits of the actions you can undertake in a state of emergency,” said Philippe Hayez, a former official with the D.G.S.E.,Johannes PaulsenMar 23
The Donald on Belgium
Apparently, Trump had this to say about Belgium:“There is something going on, Maria,” Trump replied. “Go to Brussels. Go to Paris. Go to different places. There is something going on and it’s not good, where they want Sharia law, where they want this, where they want things that — you know there has to be some assimilation. There is no assimilation. There is something bad going on.” ¶ The Republican presidential front-runner said Brussels, the capital of Belgium, had been particularly transformed.Johannes PaulsenMar 22
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Lincoln, on mobs
Seth Godin
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Yeah, so I’m assuming you weren’t endorsing this line….right?
Abstractly considered, the hanging of the gamblers at Vicksburg was of but little consequence. They constitute a portion of population that is worse than useless in any community; and their death, if no pernicious example be set by it, is never matter of reasonable regret with any one.
Natural born citizenry and eligibility for the US Presidency
Rob Gunther
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This actually makes sense. I think a reasonable compromise would be to require that any naturalized citizens must meet the requirements outlined in the Constitution, plus have some fixed year requirement (let’s say 20 years) of constant residency in the United States or its territories after attaining citizenship. I think that would satisfy the people concerned about a ‘foreigner’ running for president.
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Donald Trump is a career scumbag and his supporters are a bunch of dumb racists
Rob Gunther
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I would like to gently ask: what audience was this piece written for?
Was it to convince Donald Trump supporters not to vote for him?
Was it to convince people in the middle that they shouldn’t support Trump?
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