Dec 25, 2009

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The Apostate

Infidel: My LifeAyaan Hirsi AliLondon: Simon & Schuster, 2007Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s political career was brief and dramatic. Born in Somalia in 1969, she is the daughter of Hirsi Magan Isse, a scholar and political dissident. She arrived in the Netherlands in 1992 as an asylum-seeker, learned the language, earned degrees in political science at Leiden University, and became an...

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Nov 22, 2009

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The Religious Origins of Globalism:
An Interview with Hervé Ryssen, Part 2

From Mechanopolis, February 24, 2009Translated by Greg JohnsonRead Part I here.Mechanopolis: Judging by the policy of US President George W. Bush, it does not appear that his numerous Zionist advisers are promoting the world of “peace” about which you speak. How do you explain this?Hervé Ryssen: It is undeniable that the leaders of the American Jewish community bear a good...

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Nov 11, 2009

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All Things Not Considered:
Why NPR Won’t Tell Listeners Why It Fires Its Black Employees

From The Occidental Observer, November 3, 2009National Public Radio has always struck me as a highly-polished jewel in the crown of hard-left, Jewish-dominated media. On my drive home from work, I listen to Robert Siegel, a quintessential liberal Jewish male, and Michele Norris, a quintessential liberal Black female, co-hosts of All Things Considered, the nightly news reflections...

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Oct 5, 2009

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Alex Kurtagic on Why We Write

I write because the future is not what it used to be.I know, because I have lived in it. My parents had overseas jobs during the 1970s and early 80s, and, consequently, I spent part of my childhood and early teenage years in Latin America. Venezuelan schools — at least at the time — taught their students that the country’s population was racially diverse, going...

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Sep 25, 2009

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England’s Sultan?
(Multiculturalism Just Gets Dumber & Dumber)

A popular claim doing the rounds in Muslim circles holds that Offa, the great King of the Mercians who reigned for four decades from AD 757 to 796, was a Muslim. The only piece of evidence for the supposed Islamic faith of this King, ruler of one of the Saxon Heptarchies, comes from a gold coin now on display in the British Museum. The coin is a copy of an Abbasid dinar bearing on...

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Sep 25, 2009

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Richard Hoste on Why We Write

The most interesting thing about the writers of TOQ isn’t why we write, but why we came to write from the perspective that we have. Wanting to express oneself in print isn’t that rare. High IQ people have their journals and books while even the less intelligent have MySpace. The more interesting question is how did we come to hold such unpopular beliefs?As a hereditarian, I...

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Sep 23, 2009

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Cultural Enrichment?

If there’s one argument in favor of multiculturalism that I hear far too often, its that a racially mixed nation fosters the “cultural enrichment” of its inhabitants. In other words, the individual American somehow becomes more knowledgeable about the world and its peoples, more skilled in interpersonal interactions, and just overall more refined if he is surrounded by...

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Sep 7, 2009

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The Morality of Majority Rights and Interests

From The Occidental Observer, September 6, 2009I’ve managed to avoid the vast majority of the outpourings of praise for Sen. Kennedy. But I couldn’t help noticing Neal Gabler’s op-ed in the L.A. Times because it mentioned Kennedy’s notorious moral lapses. The article, titled (ironically) “Ted Kennedy, America’s conscience” notes thatafter his brothers’...

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Aug 19, 2009

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The Difficult Class

The middle class is not an income bracket. It is a group of people who share values that strengthen the individual. Their strength makes the middle class the most difficult class to rule.Displacing the middle class has been the trend of recent history. Globalism concentrates wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people, which starves out the mid-tier of society. Particularly since...

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Aug 14, 2009

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Evolving into Consumerism — and Beyond It

Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer BehaviorGeoffrey MillerNew York: Viking, 2009When I was asked to review this book, I half groaned because I was sure of what to expect and I also knew it was not going to broaden my knowledge in a significant way. From my earlier reading up on other, but tangentially related subject areas (e.g., advertising), I already knew, and it seemed more...

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