Daily Archives: September 3, 2015

If you had to choose between 500 Syrian or African refugees dying at sea or moving on to your block, which would you choose?

Mashable: “If this photo doesn’t make you care about the refugee crisis, nothing will” I don’t care about Syrian refugees and I don’t care about African refugees and I don’t care about Mexican refugees. I don’t expect these people to … Continue reading

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NorCal Vs SoCal

This essay reminds me of my own experience of California and the dramatic differences between the northern section of the state and the south. I associate Sacramento with depression and Los Angeles with hope. Dennis McDougal’s granddaughter Megan Cole writes: … Continue reading

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Who Are The Alternatives To Donald Trump?

Comments to Steve Sailer: * You raise an interesting question: are *any* of the alternatives to Don T. especially classy/cosmopolitan? Hillary though a valedictorian at a Seven Sisters college and potential meritocratic success story till moving to Arkansas, is a … Continue reading

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Should Israel Take In Syrian Refugees?

That’s crazy, right? Why would the Jewish state want to take in enemy aliens? Well, does not the same reasoning apply to the West? Why would any Western countries want to take in Muslims, who are famously hostile to the … Continue reading

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What did Mahatma Gandhi think of black people?

From the Washington Post: Was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the revered leader of India’s freedom movement, a racist? A controversial new book by two South African university professors reveals shocking details about Gandhi’s life in South Africa between 1893 and 1914, … Continue reading

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