The racist loons infesting the Republicans and the Republic have truly achieved a frightening prominence. Consider these impolite and impolitic questions they are raining upon our beloved President:

First they demand a Full Name… FULL! With the middle, any suffixes, prefixes, titles, assignments, hyphenations… the full boat. The date of birth, place of birth and social security number. This the President must supply without fail. This may not seem too audacious but just you wait.

Then they demand a listing of all relations, living and deceased and their citizenship status. Stepfathers and mothers are as requisit as those who actually contributed a chromosome. The President’s well known herd of half brothers and sisters left by his father across every land and nation you could name is attacked, obviously and maliciously with this outrageous inquisition.

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Tags: politics & government, race & culture by Ken Watson
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Six months ago, as Atlantans were preparing for school and work, they might have seen an unremarkable fellow; black, burly and in dark glasses, tossing their curbside refuse into the back of a stinking trash truck and thought, you know what? That cat looks like the mayor. And he should. Because he is.

Mayor Reed Works Garbage Route: MyFoxATLANTA.com

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Tags: politics & government, race & culture by Ken Watson
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I reconnected with an old friend in Japan late this week, and gained a greater appreciation for what might be possible through social media … even for old dinosaurs such as myself, who use Twitter, Facebook, et al., for work purposes, yet never get around to making our own, personal foray into that world. Now here I am, re-thinking that stance in light of a connection I made this week, with someone who is, himself, a newbie to Facebook.
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Tags: race & culture, trusted media & news by Jeff McDonald
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A courageous sprig has come up at the State Department. As we all know but few care, the Administration launched a war not a year ago and lost it in the span of weeks, much like the Arabs habitually throw themselves, in futility, against Israel. Of course we refer to the War on Fox. The President himself denounced Fox as a fraud, a propaganda outfit masquerading as a news corpse. But this hastily prepared air campaign was destroyed on the ground by native incompetence. Fox seemed scarcely to acknowledge the attack and the President sued for terms from Admiral O’Reilly prior to this year’s Super Bowl. But that has not dimmed the Administration’s fighting spirit. Secretary Clinton is the point man in a new and expanded offensive not against Fox merely but against all domestic American broadcast and cable news, freighted as they are with commercials and arguments that are not informative. After losing so catastrophically against a small fragment of the American media, what practical chance does the Administration have to overcome ALL of American media, however dire the need to silence it? It becomes possible only with the recruitment of a new ally in that struggle; the state owned and controlled Middle Eastern media giant, Al-Jazeera. [Read more →]

Tags: race & culture, terror & war by Ken Watson
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Another dram of history: Mr Obama, or perhaps Mrs Obama, or perhaps Valerie Jarrett has smashed yet another glass ceiling kept so spotless you probably didn’t know it existed. We refer of course to the hiring of an openly gay man as Social Secretary at the White House. The purity of this latest First is somewhat at issue though. The office of Social Secretary, while venerable, is not mentioned in the Constitution. Its history is not well recorded. Like so many curious things Presidential, it owes its current sacred status to the gunning down of William McKinley which begat the raising up of Teddy Roosevelt. But until yesterday this swanky, demanding post had never been held by a man. Now, this is not much of a First for fans of Firsts especially as this lucky fellow, Jeremy Bernard, is about as white as they come except that he is no Republican. He is however a prominent homosexual, which counts for Firsts, I guess, except that since the job is approving doilies and judging chintz you might doubt it if they said he WASN’T gay, but just hiring a white guy with good penmanship and a glad hand wouldn’t be much of a breakthrough, at least not on par with the other Firsts we have seen. Probably Bernard’s status as a multi-million dollar campaign contribution bundler was most persuasive, if we are being fair. But paying off a crony is no kind of First and if we are being truthful we would say what everyone paying attention knows; our Second Black President has hired our First (Openly) Gay Male Social Secretary as part of a coordinated and transparent sop to a restive element of his base. [Read more →]

Tags: politics & government, race & culture by Ken Watson
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Israel sits on some disputed real estate. Perhaps you had heard. The vigor with which it is disputed is somewhat curious given that it is tiny, mostly desert and in a pretty rough neighborhood. Indeed it is the neighbors who press their claims. The claimants are arab and muslim. The holders are jewish and jewish. Yes, there are arabs and muslims in Zion but if they are loyal Zionists they keep that to themselves. Israel is a jewish nation for a jewish people who are about as religious as any western people which is to say some are not at all and some are devoutly so. There have been many, many denunciations of this state of affairs as some sort of racism and yes, it IS some sort of racism. It is the sort of racism practiced by a race that is threatened with extinction every day by explicitly racist actors with apocalyptic religious tastes of their own.

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Tags: politics & government, race & culture by Ken Watson
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Do you know how Hallmark became a successful company? They introduced expectation. They used a seemingly worthless trinket to set a low bar, but a bar where none had existed before.

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Tags: race & culture by Mike McGowan
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What do Lara Logan and Hozni Mubarak have in common? What unifies the Egyptian protesters with those granola hikers that “wandered” into Iran? Vultures and sharks, even AIDS and syphilis bugs along with numberless Copts, Kurds, turkomen and other ethno-religious also-rans are all swept into one morally homogenous category of enemy where also sits nearly every nation or at least powerful interests within those nations. Israel herself is the Little Satan. The Great Satan? Look in a mirror. We are all tools, perhaps unknowing, of the hellish Zionist Entity that has quite literally conspired even to shrink the genitals of the faithful. [Read more →]

Tags: on the law, race & culture by Ken Watson
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New Year’s Day is an underrated holiday without a solid identity. Christmas has presents, Thanksgiving has food and football, Easter has brunch and church, and 4th of July has fireworks and hot-dog eating contests. But what does New Year’s Day have? [Read more →]

Tags: race & culture, television by Robert O'Hara
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I get a kick out of what I call everyday irony—small contradictions, often so small they pass without notice—that make me laugh. For example, the other day a friend of mine pointed out the everyday irony of those radio ads that ask for donations of old cars to benefit the blind. Undoubtedly a worthy charity, but it still brings to mind Mister Magoo. [Read more →]

Tags: language & grammar, politics & government, race & culture, trusted media & news by Jay Baldwin
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Recently the boxer Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins accused Manny Pacquiao of being biased against blacks. Why? Because they’re apparently the only people on Earth the phenomenon from the Philippines hasn’t been beating into comas. After all, recently Manny’s fought Hispanics (Antonio Margarito), whites (Ricky Hatton), and blacks (Joshua Clottey). Oops! When pointed this out, Hopkins amended his accusation to say Pacquiao was avoiding African-Americans, since even though Clottey was born in Africa and now lives in America, he technically is an African in America, not to be confused with an African-American (or a plain American, such as Bernard’s business partner “Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya, whom was clobbered into retirement by Manny). Still with Bernard? Let’s continue. [Read more →]

Tags: race & culture, sports by Sean Cunningham
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece discussing where our obligation to obey the government comes from, as a response to an article I’d read which was written by Mr. Barton Hinkle of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.  My thesis was that our obligation to obey the government comes from the fact that the government holds the legal monopoly on force, i.e. the government can kill you and get away with it.  Thus, when the government gives us an order, the people who obey are ultimately obeying out of fear; they’re looking out for their own rational self interest.

Mr. Hinkle read it and was gracious enough to respond.  He was also willing to allow me to continue this conversation in a public forum.

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Tags: politics & government, race & culture by Mike McGowan
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Interview with Alex Kudera, author of Fight for Your Long Day

I have known Alex Kudera since 1996 when he and I met in the café of Borders Bookstore in Center City, Philadelphia. A couple years later, Alex and I worked together as adjuncts at Temple University and at Drexel University. Alex has now written a novel, the just-published Fight for Your Long Day, and it is a bracing, painful, and sometimes funny look at the life of an adjunct college teacher in the early 2000’s.

Although Alex currently teaches full-time at Clemson University in South Carolina, he is quick to note that working full-time does not mean tenure. I recently interviewed him about Fight for Your Long Day, published by Atticus Books.

Below are some of the excerpts.

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Tags: art & entertainment, books & writing, education, family & parenting, race & culture, sports by Robert Anthony Watts
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I like to think about media effects and generally find those effects to be more positive than negative. Case in point: Today’s college students “… are as likely to say that they are citizens of the planet Earth as they are to say they are citizens of the United States,” according to Zogby International president and CEO, John Zogby, in this Chronicle of Higher Education piece. He says that the current generation of college students is the most globally aware group of students in history, referring to them as “America’s first global citizens.”

Why is this a “media effect?” Because it’s largely attributable, I think, to the rise of social media and the World Wide Web. I think it suggests that the current generation of 18-30 year-olds – having spent a great deal of time during their formative years navigating an environment, albeit virtual, that is borderless, anarchic, and free of national, racial, or ethnic requirements for membership has developed its own culture — one not suffering the xenophobia of past generations — a junior-Army of global Davids defeating hate and prejudice without the help of the culture police.

The credit for this development, I think, goes to free-market capitalism, not multiculturalism. It was capitalism that spurred the growth of the World Wide Web and the evolution of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter that have connected the world’s youth, not Al Gore or Maya Angelou. It’s an excellent example of the beauty of spontaneous orders and what happens when people are free to act in voluntary cooperation.

Tags: race & culture, technology by Jay Baldwin
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For as long as I have been alive, the Democrats have always considered those of us who hail from the South as uneducated country bumpkins, ignorant hillbillies, and moronic rednecks. Those who are in control of pop culture have derided, insulted, and slandered rural Southerners for literally decades, in movies, on TV, in the words they write in books and papers.

And now the folks at NPR want to try to point to the use of the word “hick” as a reason we should all vote Democrat in the 2010 elections?

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Tags: politics & government, race & culture by Mike McGowan
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Did you know that two Thai nationals were among those killed during the terrorist attacks of 9/11? Neither did I.
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Tags: race & culture, terror & war by Jeff McDonald
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As Dan Sterlace pointed out a few days ago, a Mississippi public school was barring black students from running for class president and other offices. When I first heard about this story, I was saddened, outraged, and annoyed, so I dealt with it in the most mature way I could: I prank called them.

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Tags: education, race & culture by Kevin R. Breen
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I thought the election of Barack Obama would have made a difference by now. I thought that a biracial presidency would have helped improve historically distorted attitudes and perceptions of reality. I thought that white American conservatives might learn to respect black leadership. I thought that white American liberals might finally reconcile the fabricated social guilt that they walk around with. I thought that American blacks might desensitize a little. I thought that all Americans, Hispanics and Asians included, might be able to better reconcile common racial and ethnic distortions. I was naive. [Read more →]

Tags: race & culture by Robert O'Hara
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Back in the days of shields and spears whoever won the contested ground would erect a trophy. This would not be an impressive sight to us, it would be a collection of arms and armor and banners piled upon and hung from a tree or a stake in the ground. What made it significant was, of course, that the glittering bits had been taken from brave and well armed men at the cost of their lives demonstrating, say, the Athenians superiority over the Corinthians. But more importantly this quick and dirty memorial would always be raised on a field of victory and was largely a challenge to the defeated to come tear it down. Any offense to the trophy was an act of war, all sides would understand this. Often the first overt act of a war would be a public destruction of the trophy that ended the last war or battle. But many a trophy stood, rusting and rotting, for decades on the road to a once great city, now reduced to a village. The project to build a mosque within a call-to-prayer from New York’s open mass grave is best understood as a trophy. [Read more →]

Tags: race & culture, terror & war by Ken Watson
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A page from Malcolm Gladwell’s moleskine:

I haven’t slept for days. No idea when I last ate. My mind is on fire. Synthesizing all that data has turned my head into a furnace. Seriously, my ears feel hot. Correction: my hair is on fire. I must have nodded off on the stove again. It looks like my snap decision to work in the kitchen today was one of those snap decisions with adverse effects. Which only confirms my thesis: Sometimes the decisions made in the blink of an eye have positive outcomes, though, in certain cases, the outcome is negative. That’s the “50/50 Effect.”

Or consider it this way:

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Tags: books & writing, race & culture by Peter Mann
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