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A Postcard from Manchester
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A Postcard from Manchester

The horrors of immigrant violence and the reaction of the UK government to the outrage of its citizens ought to be a lesson for Americans.

Who Should Blacks Vote for in November?
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Who Should Blacks Vote for in November?

If looking strictly at policies that best serve the interests of blacks, the electoral calculus may surprise. It’s not the party of the donkey or the elephant, but that of the porcupine.

Kamala Harris, Queen of Oppo Research
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Kamala Harris, Queen of Oppo Research

Harris’s ties to sketchy opposition research figures are well-established and her fingerprints linger on several significant “oppo” hits. What will this mean for November?

Lawfare, Turmp hush money trial, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon
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The Rule of Lawfare

Lawfare is the manipulation of the legal system to get Donald Trump. But more broadly, it's the use of existing law, in a manner not intended by its framers, to neutralize or destroy enemies of those in power.

lawfare, Donald Trump, 34 counts, Hush Money, rigged court proceeding, Judge Merchan, rigged trial
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Slouching Towards the Gulag

The Trump “hush money” verdict should serve as a wake-up call to all freedom-loving Americans. If the best-known man in the world can be railroaded in a rigged kangaroo court, any of us could be.

Lawfare, selective prosecution, populist uprising, Fani Willis,
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The Empire Strikes Back

Prosecutors pick the person or target and then go searching for the crime. Trump supporters are the latest most glaring example of this inversion of justice, which if often called "lawfare."

H. L. Mencken, The American Mercury, the smart set, Baltimore Sun, journalism, Scopes Monkey Trial
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Remembering H. L. Mencken

Critics have long considered H. L. Mencken to be impossible, meaning stubborn, difficult, exasperating. But today the appellation takes on a different meaning: His career and ideas simply would be impossible today.

Richard Dawkins, New Atheism debunked
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Doubting Dawkins

Coming to Faith Through Dawkins provides a dozen accounts of former adherents of the Dawkinsian view who became apostates precisely because they looked closely at that dogma.

Books in Brief: August 2024
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Books in Brief: August 2024

Short reviews of New Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God by José Carlos González-Hurtado, and The Paleolibertarian Guide to Deep Tech, Deep Pharma & the Aberrant Economy by Ilana Mercer.