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Archives for July 2016
And now, from the paper that brought you that glorified fraternity prank, ‘Watergate’
David Cole writes: The Post caught the error after Dewey’s piece was posted. The editors caught it because the moderators of the real “largest Donald Trump Reddit page” complained, vocally. The Post’s response, however, was not … [Read more...]
TrailersFromHell: ‘Piranha’ (1978)
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‘Pundits who, only days before, had been vociferously lamenting the gun crisis rushed to denounce Trump for fearmongering about crime’
Steve Sailer writes: The rise and fall of murders in New York City has been famously related to the ruling political ideology for the past 50-plus years. (...) It would be nice if policemen didn’t tend to be divas who … [Read more...]
‘I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test’
The vast majority of my students - I'm talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years - they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they … [Read more...]
Must read — Pat Buchanan: Will Putin Get a Pulitizer?
Har: In 1971, The New York Times published secret documents from the Kennedy-Johnson administration on how America got involved in Vietnam. Goal: Discredit the war the Times had once supported, and undercut the war effort, now that Richard Nixon was president. The documents, many marked secret, … [Read more...]
Brendan O’Neill: Brexit is the most punk rock thing to happen in years
Brendan O'Neill is back... ‘Anarchy in the UK’ screams the front-cover headline, next to photos of Nigel Farage with devil’s horns, Boris looking bonkers, and Cameron looking … [Read more...]
My NEW Taki’s column: The great ones make it look hard
Not sure why they changed my rather obvious headline. I have NO prediction as to the "JOOOOO!!!"-yness of the comments... Yet rewatching That’s Entertainment last week reinforced my choice of Astaire’s nearest … [Read more...]
‘So if liberalism made America so successful materially and politically, why is it now enabling a slow euthanasia?’
James E. Miller writes: In a recent interview with On Being, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt described the paradox of capitalist systems engendering liberal values over time. “So here’s the irony: the left generally … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: A World Without Western Civ
Jim Goad writes: Most uncomfortable for egalitarians and their ilk is that there are vast landmasses—sometimes entire continents—where the indigenous inhabitants have invented virtually nothing. Sub-Saharan Africans are … [Read more...]
TrailersFromHell: ‘The Day of the Dolphin’ (1973)
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Everything Wrong with ‘Star Trek III: The Search for Spock’ (video)
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