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The Republican Party’s Dilemma for 2016: Should It Increase Its Hispanic Or White Voting Percentage?
Steven Cohen, at The New Republic, concisely slices and dices the Republican dilemma surrounding Hispanics: Republican elites believe that they can stave off this racialized fissure with bilingual campaign ads and half-hearted appeals to pragmatism. What they ignore is not … Continue reading
Build a Wall: Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump’s Alternative To The Demographic Californication Of America
This recent quote from Rush Limbaugh surprised me: If you want to find the future of the Republican Party and the country, look at California. There isn’t a single Republican in statewide office. There never will be in the future. … Continue reading
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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Increasingly Repudiates Nonviolence
The Muslim Brotherhood is every bit as dangerous for Egypt as the Nazis were for Germany. And recall that Egypt, like Germany in the 1930s, has a vulnerable minority, readily susceptible to terrorist violence (in Egypt’s case, Coptic Christians make … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, coptic, Egypt, immigration, Islam, muslim brotherhood, nazis
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Ann Coulter’s Prediction on Immigration, and Her Prescription
Ann Coulter makes a prediction: At the current accelerated rate of immigration–1.1 million new immigrants every year–Republicans will be a fringe party in about a decade. I think her prediction is basically accurate if the GOP does not adjust to … Continue reading
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Nate Cohn on the Republican Path to Victory in 2016
It’s narrow. Here’s Nate Cohn at The New Republic: [I]t looks like Republicans will need to count on the appeal of their 2016 presidential candidate and economic fundamentals to overcome the party’s limited appeal. In other words, Republicans need a … Continue reading
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The Christians of Egypt are the Jews of the Early 21st Century
I’m not being hyperbolic. The world needs to protect the Christians of Egypt, and it can do so by opening opportunities for them to immigrate. Christians number about 9 million people in Egypt—about 10% of the population—and they’re “the other” standing in the way … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Christians, coptic, Egypt, Exodus, immigration, Islam, Jesus, Jews, Moses, muhammad, Statue of Liberty
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Have you seen “The Shelter”?
It’s a Twilight Zone episode that is philosophically interesting. I think of Rod Serling’s “The Shelter” as a profound meditation on Nietzschean v. Christian ethics, Darwinian survival of the fittest, zero-sum games, and living in a world where the civic culture … Continue reading
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Tagged bomb shelters, civility, civilization, dystopia, evolution, fear, immigration, Islam, nuclear terrorism, prejudice, terror, the twilight zone
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Arizona’s new anti-immigration law made simple
. Hat tip: Jerry Coyne
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Tagged America, arizona, bigotry, California, civil rights, immigration, jerry coyne, Mexican American, Phoenix, racism, Republicans
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Author Tayari Jones: Hell no, she won’t go (to Arizona)
Author Tayari Jones is boycotting Arizona, a state in which she once resided. In a letter to the organizers of the Pima Summer Writers Conference in Tucson, Arizona, she explains her decision to avoid the state: Due to the passage of … Continue reading
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Russian Fascism: Xenophobia and Racism Directed Toward Immigrants
CNN does a segment on a paranoid, violent, and authoritarian Russian subculture:
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“At the Border”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
Mexicali waters sour with laundry suds California aqueduct white with almond buds
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Prometheus Unbound 