I can't recommend this enough. Get it and read it. It brings into sharp focus how white Americans paid to eliminate slavery up front and any talk of "reparations" is nonsense.
[penguinrandomhouse.com] John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery.
Brown’s violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president. But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln’s fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test.
The Zealot and the Emancipator is acclaimed historian H. W. Brands’s thrilling and page-turning account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
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...After years of trying, I finally got to see Harper's Ferry about a year ago - on the greyest, saddest day you can imagine.
I am not exaggerating when I tell you that John Brown's ghost still walks there, that the brutality in his heart can still be felt, and that the things he helped turn loose still echo.
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[CNBC] Like many before him, Brenan Hefner arrived in New York 20 years ago in search of a career on Wall Street.
His journey will sound familiar to those drawn to the nation’s financial capital. Hefner got a job at an asset management firm in Manhattan, found love and career success, and eventually moved to Pelham, an upscale town in Westchester, to start a family.
He would still be there if it wasn’t for the coronavirus pandemic. When Hefner, co-founder of a research platform called Analyst Hub, sold his house this summer to a couple from London, he wondered if it made sense to look beyond the surrounding neighborhoods for a new home. He ended up moving his family to Dallas last month.
Hefner is one of thousands of high earners who’ve left New York this year, an exodus that is deepening concerns over a projected $9 billion budget shortfall. While the city is no longer the national virus hotspot it was earlier this year, those leaving cite anxiety over the region’s economy and quality of life and a conviction that higher taxes are coming. Last month, business leaders publicly upbraided Mayor Bill De Blasio for "deteriorating conditions in commercial districts and neighborhoods across the five boroughs."
By forcing the mass adoption of remote work and crimping many of the advantages of urban life, the pandemic has turbocharged migration from high cost, high-density places to lower-cost states including Texas, Florida and Nevada. Nearly half of New Yorkers earning more than $100,000 a year said they considered leaving the city recently, with cost of living being the top factor, according to a Manhattan Institute survey.
"The cost of living down here is significantly less," Hefner said by phone from his new home. "There’s no state income tax. I’m not riding mass transit during the middle of a global pandemic to get to a subway to live in a WeWork or something."
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Every time I see a Texas, Washington, Oregon or Cali license here in Colorado I wonder if they have brought their demoncratic voting habits with them.
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New York has adopted too many taxes to cover too many open end carrots and 1 side Political Correctness agendas all to attract for votes. It is again spending and taxing its way into Bankruptcy.
IF NYC comes begging for taxpayer $$$$ again...There MUST be some serious strings attached and mandatory limits on how it is spent.
The US Super Big Metro concept has repeatedly failed every place it was ran like a homeless shelter with endless handouts to attrach votes and political power.
Instead we must start requiring all Taxpayer handouts come with community service strings and self economic improvement paths to end life-long support. An any federal funds used have 100% open e-record for public accountability. The taxpayer should know every penny spent by WHOM, TO WHOM and JUSTIFIED IT.
Contractors, businesses and their owners receiving Taxpayer $$$$ should not be allowed to donate political $$$$$ for 5 years including to PAC's and SIG's and etc.
[NYP] The savagery in France is a reminder of the choice facing American voters at the ballot box next week. Will we stick with a president who intuited that our elites were sleepwalking toward a deadly precipice — and taking the rest of us along for the plunge? Or do we choose to return to power those same pre-Trump elites, with their dreams of a borderless world?
Europe made its choices. In 2015, right around the time then-candidate Donald Trump was shaking up the staid orthodoxies of the Republican Party, the Continent’s de facto leader, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, threw open the gates to more than a million newcomers from the Middle East and Africa.
I was reporting from London at the time, and I joined the migrants on the trail of misery that brought them from the western shore of Turkey, through the Greek isles and the Balkans and into Western and Northern Europe. As an Iranian immigrant myself, I wrote sympathetically about their plight.
But even then, I wondered: Could a secular Europe so out of touch with its own religious and civilizational roots absorb this many newcomers who harbored no doubts about their identity and religious convictions?
More mundanely: How come so many of them were young men, the prime demographic for jihadist radicalization? How could the Europeans be so sure they weren’t admitting terrorists, given that many of the migrants lacked papers?
[AlAhram] A Joe Biden presidency would be a welcome relief in Europe, said Nick Witney, the founder and first chief executive of the European Defence Agency in Brussels.
Certainly it would be less overtly challenging, as the world’s fondations continued quietly rotting. Some interesting Qs and As:
AO: Do you think the Europeans are heading in the right direction regarding their security, regardless of who occupies the White House?
NW: I think there are two realisations that are widely shared in Europe. The first is that the world in the 21st century is not the same as the world of the 20th century, and whether we like it or not, the extent of American protection and the American willingness to focus on Europe will diminish during the coming decades, regardless of whether we have a republican or democratic president, and therefore the Europeans should do more to ensure their security.
The second realisation is that Europe does not necessarily see the diminish of US interest as a bad thing, because Uncle Sam's protection of Europe had its upsides and downsides. The commercial, industrial, cultural, and even psychological interests of the Europeans may be better served by achieving a greater degree of independence from America in order to achieve "strategic autonomy" for Europe. This term is being talked about increasingly. Therefore, I think that there are two realisations there, namely that America will no longer be as engaged as it was in the past, and that this may be a good thing for Europe.
But so often with matters to do with Europe, it is one thing to achieve an intellectual realisation, and it is quite a different matter to do anything about it, i.e. to make the policy changes, the hard decisions to spend money, and to make actions conform with these intellectual realisations. I am much less confident about that second part.
AO: But European security is at stake. Because of US policies in countries like Syria and Iraq, we have an immigration crisis, and Europe is the continent that pays the price. Why can't Europe put in place policies that resist the chaos America is creating?
NW: I think the European foreign policy is not ambitious.
In the Middle East, I believe that the policy of the European Union during the coming period will be defensive and protective. You are right that the biggest concern Europeans are facing is illegal immigration. The second concern is terrorism, a threat that has become present again in France in recent days. But does this mean that Europeans believe they can or should play a more active role in the Middle East? I am sorry to say no. I think that the Europeans have reached the conclusion that any attempt to be active in the Middle East will end in a disaster similar to the experiences of American intervention during the past two or three decades.
The best way to fight terrorism is to stay out of the Middle East and focus completely on the activities of the security services. The best way to combat illegal immigration is not a military intervention, but to help the region to prevent migrants from leaving for Europe. I think our policy will be very defensive, and not ambitious, and this assessment includes Britain as well.
AO: How will the US elections affect other policies in the region?
NW: If Biden is elected, he will restore the nuclear agreement with Iran, and the Europeans will be very pleased about that. The Europeans also did not support Trump's policy to encourage a rapprochement between Israel and the Gulf states, because they considered that this alliance was driven by hostility to Iran and was not constructive and that Europe could not support it. But the European Union will not do anything specific about it.
The Europeans will keep talking about the rights of the Palestinians and so forth, but they will not do anything concrete about it. The European instinct will be to keep out the Middle East. After all, oil does not matter that much anymore.
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The Europeans also did not support Trump's policy to encourage a rapprochement between Israel and the Gulf states, because they considered that this alliance was driven by hostility to Iran
Translation: "Trump is intent on making sure that Iran does not nuke Israel. Such an intention is incompatible with traditional European values."
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America can help speed Europe on their way by increasing tariffs from 2.5% to 25%.
[Jpost] The triumph of an audacious Ottoman Turkish nation over the Western powers that had caused the Ottoman fall from grace is a tale deeply embedded in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... ’s political culture.
The Treaty of Sèvres was a crushing humiliation for the Ottomans, proposing to dismember the sultans’ empire, leaving a rump state in which the Ottoman Turkish people could lick their wounds. In defeat, they rallied around field marshall Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the only Ottoman military commander to be undefeated in World War I. Ataturk had criminal masterminded the Ottoman Turkish defense of Gallipoli, a pivotal victory which has shaped Ottoman Turkish identity as much as Trafalgar has shaped Britannia’s.
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These things, and much worse, are commonly said of President Donald Trump. His personality totally eclipses his record.
So we, seemingly, have him on the dunk tank, ready for a very cold bath.
Let's play dump the lout.
But is this really what it's about?
Isn't the real question whether he has been taking the country, and the economy of this region, in the right direction these last four years?
Can we separate the man from the record?
We share the embarrassment of millions of Americans who are disturbed by the president's unpresidential manners and character ‐ his rudeness and put-downs and bragging and bending of the truth.
None of this can be justified. The president's behavior often has diminished his presidency, and the presidency. Most Americans want a president who makes them proud.
We too prefer the first-class temperament and demeanor of a Winston Churchill, a Dwight Eisenhower, a Franklin Roosevelt, a Ronald Reagan, or a Barack Obama (whom this newspaper enthusiastically supported in 2008 and 2012). None of them are on the ballot this year.
Let's look at the Trump record:
Under Donald Trump the economy, pre-COVID, boomed, like no time since the 1950s. Look at your 401(k) over the past three years.
Unemployment for Black Americans is lower than it has ever been, under any president of either party.
Under Mr. Trump, our trade relationships have vastly improved and our trade deals have been rewritten. Thanks to him, middle America is on the map again and the Appalachian and hourly worker has some hope.
Has Mr. Trump done enough for these struggling fellow citizens? No. But he recognized them. Maybe he was not articulate, but he recognized their pain.
No one ever asked the American people, or the people in "flyover," country, if they wanted to send their jobs abroad ‐ until Mr. Trump. He has moved the debate, in both parties, from free trade, totally unfettered, to managed, or fair, trade. He has put America first, just as he said he would.
He also kept his promise to appoint originalists to the Supreme Court of the United States. His third appointment, Amy Coney Barrett, is the best of all ‐ a jurist whose mind and character and scholarship ARE first class. We hope she stands against both judicial and executive excess.
Finally, let's talk about one of the most important concerns in this region ‐ energy. Under Mr. Trump the United States achieved energy independence for the first time in the lifetimes of most of us. Where would Western Pennsylvania be without the Shell Petrochemical Complex (the "cracker plant")?
Donald Trump is not Churchill, to be sure, but he gets things done.
He is not a unifier. He often acts like the president of his base, not the whole country. He has done nothing to lessen our divisions and has, in fact, often deepened them. The convictions and intellect of all Americans should be respected by ALL Americans, especially the president.
Has Mr. Trump handled the pandemic perfectly? No. But no one masters a pandemic. And the president was and is right that we must not cower before the disease and we have to keep America open and working.
He has not listened well to people who could have helped him. He has not learned government, or shown interest in doing so.
But the Biden-Harris ticket offers us higher taxes and a nanny state that will bow to the bullies and the woke who would tear down history rather than learning from history and building up the country.
It offers an end to fracking and other Cuckoo California dreams that will cost the economy and the people who most need work right now. "Good-paying green jobs" are probably not jobs for Pittsburgh, or Cleveland, or Toledo, or Youngstown.
It offers softness on China, which Mr. Trump understands is our enemy.
Mr. Biden is too old for the job, and fragile. There is a very real chance he will not make it through the term. Mr. Trump is also too old but seemingly robust. But in Mike Pence, Mr. Trump has a vice president ready to take over, if need be. He is a safe pair of hands. Sen. Kamala Harris gives no evidence of being ready to be president.
This newspaper has not supported a Republican for president since 1972. But we believe Mr. Trump, for all his faults, is the better choice this year. We respect and understand those who feel otherwise. We wish that we could be more enthusiastic and we hope the president can become more dignified and statesmanlike. Each American must make up his or her own mind and do what he or she thinks is best for the community and the republic. Vote your conscience. And, whatever happens, believe in the country.
But he utters in public what the Left mutters among themselves behind closed doors or in their echo chambers. He doesn't hide behind a mask as his detractors do every day. He has made them drop those masks and reveal the darkness in their own heart, their hate, their loathing, and their intolerance.
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It must be tough for the Lame Stream Media to say anything good about the "devil incarnate", but a very far cry from that pathetically lame and TDS-laced endorsement of Joey by the Cleveland Plain Dealer a few weeks ago.
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This is a fairly big deal. The P-G may not be as far around the bend as, say, the Strib, but it's pretty far around the bend nonetheless. It's easy for a long time observer of that rag to wonder if there hasn't been a mass kidnapping or a food poisoning incident in the cafeteria there.
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An enormous deal. As a bellwether, this endorsement by a dyed in the wool regional Democrat newspaper means Trump is likely to win western Pennsylvania and northeast Ohio, hence PA & OH.
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Thousands and thousands of ballots from those states might be 'misplaced' though, Angairt.
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Great endorsement by a paper that pushed the leftist anti-Trump dribble for 4 years and after 90% of the yinzers have already voted. The post-gazette and joe Biden are jag offs.
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What is with the BS about not being a unifier; Trump is getting unprecedented support from gays, blacks and Latinos. Even in endorsement P-G still pushes leftist elite propaganda.
[Babylon Bee] LAKE JACKSON, TX‐Sometimes adults will jump out and scare children with creepy costumes or presentations on climate change. But former representative and presidential candidate Ron Paul came up with a new tactic to frighten trick or treaters: jumping out and lecturing them on the ballooning national debt.
As the first trick-or-treaters rang his doorbell for the evening, Paul leaped from his front door and cried out, "The national debt is rapidly approaching $23 trillion!"
The kids froze in fright, their candy bags extended, their eyes wide in terror. "This has at least three dire effects on the country: higher taxes, a weaker U.S. dollar, and a cycle of increased borrowing to make up for the expanding deficit. You see, the Fed is an unregulated beaur---"
Finally, the kids found their voices. "AHHHHHHH!!!!" they screamed, scrambling to escape from Paul's front porch.
"As the size of the debt increases and interest rates increase, the amount we pay for interest on the national debt will increase by hundreds of billions of dollars. And who will get billed for that? The US taxpayer!" he called out as they ran down the block in terror. "Don't say I didn't warn you!"
"Hey, wait, you forgot your candy!" he added.
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When I'm out at the store and some poor mother is having to deal with her loud crying child, I ask "who told him/her what they owed on the national debt?".
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Ron Paul used to be my congressman.
Every time I saw him in person, he tried to sell me a book.
(I'm not trying throw shade here. I'm just stating a fact, for what it's worth.)
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That's cool, ed in TX. I guess my preconceived notion of Ron Paul was one of a mellow, old guy, not one to push books, even his own.
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Speaking of Halloween (missed pumpkin rollover)...
As poet say, "Vote like Li Po,
Fo' no soulless ol' Halloween ho
Did he see when he woke
With his wine bottle broke,
Just a huge orange face on the flo'
And the dawn's early light through his do'."
[Townhall] It's all there. All the cards fell into place. Liberals and the biased and bribed mainstream media are just too blind to see it.
It's Donald Trump's win over Hillary Clinton all over again. It's George H.W. Bush overcoming a 17-point deficit to beat Michael Dukakis all over again. It's the final days of Ronald Reagan versus Jimmy Carter, when all of America broke for Reagan at the same time.
At this moment, if you're not blind, deaf or very dumb, it's clear that in these final days up to the election, a majority of American voters, certainly crucial voters in battleground states, are breaking to reelect President Trump.
It's all adding up to a Trump electoral landslide.
And I'm not just talking about tightening polls, the few polls that show Trump actually in the lead or battleground states where Trump is outperforming his numbers from his race against Clinton four years ago.
Much more importantly, I'm talking early-voting numbers. Trump is doing extraordinarily well in early voting in Florida, Nevada, Iowa, North Carolina and Arizona. Trump and Republicans are outkicking the coverage. In other words, they're kicking the Democrats' butts -- with the physical votes on Election Day still to come. And we all know Republicans rule on Election Day.
It is what Treasonous steps have the Socialists/Democrats already taking to keep Trump from taking office.
IF they can tie the election results up in say just 10 Large Electoral College States that could tip winning balance either way for President by the Electoral College Vote.
Then the Electoral College unable to vote by Noon Jan. 20th 2021, causes the Speaker of the House of Representatives by current US Constitutional Order of Succession to temporarily become and act as President. Reminder: Hillary was recently appointed an Electoral College Voter.
So until either the Electoral College votes, or the House votes to appoint its own President, or the Courts challenges are quickly settled and/or If the Electoral College does not stage a rebellion or is attacked itself.
Then US Constitution is clear that neither Trump, nor the VP can be sworn in, to continue their duties. An the current order of succession kicks in:
1. Speaker of the House of Rep - Nancy Pelosi (LSD)
2. President pro tempore of the Senate - Chuck Grassley (RINO)
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ACB's accession to the Court and the resulting solid conservative/originalist majority will reduce the chance that the election remains undecided as of January 10th.
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I've already voted (the only useful gift the DemoncRats in my state have ever given us), and I'm sure we all know for whom, but still, DON'T GET COCKY
I have no doubt the DNC will do their level bestworst to cheat enough to claim they won. >:-(
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Don't get discouraged by bad news and don't be made cocky by good news.
Remember Fla. BUSH/GORE
It took 3 weeks after Election Day and that was with NO fake or claims of missing mail-in Ballots type issues. It was just voter clinging chad issues for old style voter machines. That involved about 8 state and Federal legal challenges on counting the votes for just ONE STATE.
I can see a minimum of 5 Liberal Socialist Democrat states (WASH, ORG, CAL, NY, MINN, & MICH)
Each pulling a stunt.
Each court requiring and higher court appeal until it reaches the SCOTUS.
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...oh, yeah, ask the very people responsible for creating the mess by obstructing voter ID, eliminating residence requirements, and refusing to change anything when there is obviously something wrong with the final counts*.
*see - Al Franken's win with a margin less the number of unqualified felons who cast ballots.
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For reasons I explained in an article I posted here I have no doubt Biden will do considerably worse than Clinton and the Trump will win.
That is. If elections were half as fair and tightly controlled as in most European countries. It is to me an endless source of amazement how little importance Americans seem to attach to fairness of elections
[American Thinker] Many, including me, are willing to bet the house that Donald Trump will be re-elected, either on November 3 as the clock nears midnight or several days or weeks afterward, when the Supreme Court finally stops the Democrats from "finding" and counting additional ballots for Sleepy Joe.
Do realize, however, that in the event of a Trump victory, that house you just bet with will be gravely endangered, as will your business, your livelihood, and even your personal safety.
Lunatics under the best of conditions, liberals and leftists have already promised mostly peaceful rioting and socially just attacks on Trump-supporters if The Donald prevails.
So if you don't want your home or business burned to the ground with you in it simply because Trump won, there are several steps you must take now.
Like bulls, libs are enraged by the color red. So now is the time to put away all your red Trump signs and paraphernalia, not to mention anything red like, say, a St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap. Let's face it: the 2020 electoral cake is already baked; leaving that Trump sign on your lawn won't change any minds. But it will make your home an easy target for anarchists, arsonists, and Antifarians.
And though libs are none too bright, making critical decisions based solely on emotion and dopey slogans, some of them may remember that you once had a Trump sign in your yard or wore a MAGA hat around town. Some protective camouflage is certainly in order.
Get some poster board and colored markers and make some yard signs to fool the leftist tools who'd do you harm. Any foolish sequence of thoughts will work, like Black Lives Matter, Love is Love, and Hire People with Hooks. Or When It Comes to Hate, Many Are Called but Few Are Chosen. Almost any idiotic sentiment will work; it needn't make sense.
If you live in an overwhelmingly Democrat neighborhood, a temporary chain-link fence with a couple of large Dobermans running free behind it may be required to keep you safe.
If, sadly, you live in a Democrat-run city, election time would be the perfect time to take that much deserved vacation in the Florida Keys. But do check your homeowner's or renter's insurance policy before you board that plane, and make sure the coverage is solid and your premium's up to date.
If you plan on driving in a blue state after the election, you've got to protect yourself from the vicious mobs who'll be blocking streets and highways in protest. God knows the police won't protect you.
[College Fix] There’s really nothing in this world the regressive left won’t blame on white men. Not even white women passing themselves off as black, Hispanic or American Indian (ahem).
The latest Caucasian outed as something she’s allegedly not — the Mexican-political identity "Chicana" — is Kelly Kean Sharp of Furman University in South Carolina.
An anonymous person from her past at the University of California-Davis wrote a Medium post that said the professor of African American history never identified this way in grad school, but had started doing so on Twitter.
The author got in touch with Sharp’s other acquaintances, who quizzed her on her ancestry, and she claimed her grandmother was from Mexico. They did some genealogical digging and learned her grandmother was born in ... Los Angeles! She never left the U.S. that they could find.
Sharp also claimed her hometown of Encinitas, California, was "majority-minority." Wrong! they decreed — Encinitas is as white as a Wilco concert, as Queen Latifah once quipped. True
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This is the "gerbil worming causes colder winters but snow will be a thing of the past" argument applied to the current peculiar sociological pathology the current grift.
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The Duke University cultural anthropologist Christine Folch is a great example of why there must be annual Mental/Emotional Health Checks, and a strict requirement that all Media related comments made, which would include the Schools name, be cleared prior to release.
Plus Tenure should not be for life.
It should have clear requirements that must be maintained and reviewed for adherence.
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/\ Gee, what's a person right out of college with a Bachelor's degree with that major going to rake in? They'd better hope they raise the minimum wage.
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The same people who claim a man or women can identify as the opposite gender are against people identifying as another race? If gender is a social construct isn't race?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CNBC] Like many before him, Brenan Hefner arrived in New York 20 years ago in search of a career on Wall Street.
[Babylon Bee] LAKE JACKSON, TX‐Sometimes adults will jump out and scare children with creepy costumes or presentations on climate change. But former representative and presidential candidate Ron Paul came up with a new tactic to frighten trick or treaters: jumping out and lecturing them on the ballooning national debt.
[American Thinker] Many, including me, are willing to bet the house that Donald Trump will be re-elected, either on November 3 as the clock nears midnight or several days or weeks afterward, when the Supreme Court finally stops the Democrats from "finding" and counting additional ballots for Sleepy Joe.
[College Fix] There’s really nothing in this world the regressive left won’t blame on white men. Not even white women passing themselves off as black, Hispanic or American Indian (ahem).
I am told language can be a barrier. 
