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...By rigidly splitting Americans into two groups, white versus nonwhite, it reinvents the discredited 19th-century “one-drop rule” and applies it to a 21st-century society in which the color line is more fluid than it has ever been. In reality, racial diversity is increasing not only at a nationwide level but also within American families—indeed within individual Americans. Nearly three in 10 Asian, one in four Latino, and one in five Black newlyweds are married to a member of a different ethnic or racial group. More than three-quarters of these unions are with a white partner. For more and more Americans,...

The ongoing fiasco in Afghanistan is a major humiliation of American power and prestige abroad, sending an image of weakness and incompetence to friend and foe alike. After spending 1.2 trillion dollars, and losing thousands of soldiers, the U.S. has failed to convert Afghanistan into a stable, democratic country. What sort of society is Afghanistan anyway? Now, what about the refugees? We’re being told that we must take in Afghan refugees, potentially tens of thousands. But how compatible are Afghans with American culture?

I believe that Marxist post-modern deconstructionists are the greatest internal threat known to Western Civilization. They are the enemy within, and they are winning, and it scares the hell out of me.

When politicians and journalists talk about Afghanistan, most of them do not know what it really is. That is to say, they are distracted by the fact that it has had a flag, a territory, and a name, and until recently, its official representatives participated in a variety of international forums, such as the United Nations. Until last week, it even had a (semi-) democratic, elected, but remarkably corrupt government, which as a governing class supervised an equally corrupt police, judiciary, and army. All that is gone now. Why? Because the Taliban are better anthropologists than President Biden, the CIA,...

Those of us who still believe in private property seem to be out of step with the times. I recently had an experience that I’m having trouble getting my head around and causing me to wonder if morality is dead. I know it isn’t. There are too many acts of kindness stories. Maybe morality is just eroding. A tenant in a house I rented decided, without my knowledge, it needed an air conditioner. So he cut a hole in the walls and installed one. He moved out and I put the house up for sale, pointing out one of the...

Iwoke up this morning to video clips of Afghanis falling to their deaths from the undercarriage of US Air Force cargo planes taking off from Kabul airport. Home/Rod Dreher/The Fall Of Imperial America The Fall Of Imperial America AUGUST 16, 2021|2:36 PM ROD DREHER Iwoke up this morning to video clips of Afghanis falling to their deaths from the undercarriage of US Air Force cargo planes taking off from Kabul airport. A friend pointed out that this is a fitting, if horrific, bookend to the American adventure in Afghanistan. He wrote, of the Falling Man of 9/11, and the falling...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Pentagon is sending roughly 3,000 American troops to Kabul to help evacuate many of the U.S. Embassy employees there. This comes as the Taliban continues to gain ground in Afghanistan just before U.S. troops officially withdraw. “We believe this is the prudent thing to do given the rapidly deteriorating security situation in and around Kabul,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said. Security is seemingly deteriorating after decades of U.S. involvement. Mike McElhiney first stepped foot in Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago “We were the first team to go in and be on the ground consistently in...

Herein lies a glimpse into just what kind of knuckle-draggers the left thinks we are. They think patriotism means we’ll do whatever they say whenever they say it.“Rooting against Olympians, scoffing at Capitol police, broaching civil war — meet today’s conservative movement.”That’s the opening of an article last week at Vox.com. You’ve probably heard of Vox. Their self-proclaimed, self-aggrandizing purpose is to “explain the news.” But when Vox’s condescending reporters start talking about conservatives, Christians, guns, or really anyone outside of a few coastal cities, they have a habit of sounding like Jane Goodall observing apes.So, what’s their qualm now?...

The Culture War is hot, and it continues. The furor over Critical Race Theory seems to have died down a bit (perhaps on purpose?), but don’t think we have won. This is likely to continue for quite some time and we know for sure that the leftists will not quit, and neither should we. I can hear the groans now: “That’s a great way to ruin my family dinner or my pool party barbeque, dude.…” Indeed, it is a risky endeavor, and the decision is yours alone. However, in the culture war and in the battle to preserve America, we...

Juan Miranda-Jara, who admitted to being the newborn’s biological father; the man also told them he and the pre-teen entered into a relationship last October... Thursday, police announced that they had also taken the victim’s mother, Desiree Castaneda, into custody. Castaneda and other relatives are accused of knowing about and permitting the unlawful relationship between the man and child.... “There are photos of the family throwing a baby shower for the victim and the suspect,” The 12-year-old girl’s father is in prison serving a 12-year sentence for a rape conviction, police said, adding that the case was unrelated.

Remember when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was amazed by a garbage disposal and the idea that you can grow food in the ground? Many of us tittered and guffawed. As it turns out, she is not an anomaly. According to a poll from SWNS digital, 81% of college grads wish they had been taught more life skills before graduation. Instead, they learned the importance of pronouns and social justice activism. It seems that many students leave a college clueless about budgeting and what to do when you can’t afford DoorDash. The learned helplessness churned out from our universities seems intentional....

A police department in Wisconsin is hitting back against a cell phone video taken during a traffic stop circulating on social media, arguing that body camera footage showing the incident from a different vantage point, proves that an officer did not try to "plant evidence" in the back seat of the vehicle. The incident happened Wednesday at about 3:22 p.m. when officers from the Village of Caledonia Police Department conducted a traffic stop for a vehicle traveling 63 mph in a 45 mph zone. The driver was identified by her driver’s license, and two rear passengers who were not wearing...

Former President Donald Trump blasted the Cleveland Indians Friday over their name change announcement.

Young North Koreans have been warned they must follow traditional lifestyles and adhere to the country's dialect. The secluded state's official newspaper made the demand in a column as Pyongyang tries to eradicate cultural influences from South Korea. Kim Jong Un's regime is particularly focused on the speaking habits of millennials, with some mimicking their neighbours by referring to their husbands as "oppa" - a term that means "older brother". The Rodong Sinmun newspaper said North Korea's standard language is superior and young people must use it correctly - all while ensuring their clothes, hairstyle, music preferences and dancing styles...

Are we living in the age of stupid? The era of the idiot? The answer of course is yes, with examples of monstrous moronicism everywhere – from climate deniers to the “plandemic” crowd who believe Covid-19 was cooked up in Bill Gates’ basement. On the other hand, human beings have always been illogical creatures. A better question is whether we are, as a species, becoming dumberer. If this is already the era of the idiot, what comes next? An “Idiocracy”, according to film-maker Mike Judge. The Beavis and Butt-head, King of the Hill and Silicon Valley creator’s dystopian 2006 comedy...

'Consumers' Research' targets 'woke' corporations in new ad campaign Consumers' Research executive director Will Hild explains how the organization is calling out 'woke' companies in a new initiative. Consumers' Research, an educational nonprofit dedicated to consumer information, on Thursday launched a number of new advertising efforts targeting Coca-Cola over its "woke" political narratives. The new efforts – which include an ad that will air in Atlanta, a new website called AlwaysWokaCola.com and mobile billboards attached to trucks that will drive around Coca-Cola's headquarters, its museum and the Georgia State Capitol over the next 28 days – are part of the...

Evidence is mounting that “wokeness” is a creation of abnormally anxious and prejudiced white women who feel that elaborate rituals are necessary to interact with people of other races — something that most people, who simply treat them as peers, have no need for. Matt Taibbi made such a case about Robin DiAngelo this month, highlighting a passage from the “White Fragility” author’s latest book in which she describes not knowing what to do when having dinner with a black person. She compensates by spouting racial and political bromides in an attempt to prove that she wasn’t racist, instead of...

The notion of “acting black” attempts to redefine black reality as being the black prejudgment. We are consistently told that race is a social construct yet simultaneously told to act in a manner that upholds this manufactured social system. Blacks are told to behave in a manner that appeases others as if blacks are agentless slaves. Even worse, blacks hold each other to this same inadequate standard of thinking.

Before his corpse was dumped in a shallow grave 50 miles north of Los Angeles, Mauricio Ismael Gonzalez-Ramirez was held prisoner at one of the hundreds of black-market pot farms that have exploded across California’s high desert in the last several years, authorities say. He worked in what has become California’s newest illegal marijuana haven: the Mojave Desert. A world away from the lush forest groves of the “Emerald Triangle” of Northern California, this hot, dry, unforgiving climate has attracted more than a thousand marijuana plantations that fill the arid expanse between the Antelope Valley and the Colorado River. It’s...