Fear of a Black President

[This article has been causing a bit of an uproar and has inspired Occupy Wall Street to announce: “If we do not confront, confound, and destroy white supremacy and the complex web this system of power exerts over every aspect of our lives, then we are lost. Any […]

Anarchist militia planned to assassinate Obama

by Russ Bynum LUDOWICI, Ga. (AP) — Four Army soldiers based in southeast Georgia killed a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect an anarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks, prosecutors told a judge Monday. Prosecutors in rural […]

Teens Beware: Using Marijuana Could Make You Dumber

wired.com Tanya Lewis Photo: Chuck Grimmett/Flickr Marijuana is the world’s most widely used illicit drug. But smoke too many joints too soon, and you might lose IQ points: A new study suggests extensive marijuana use starting as a teenager could lead to cognitive decline. In a study of 1,037 […]

Respect Indigenous Property Rights

From the Ludwig Von Mises Institute by Mike Reid Environmentalists and mining companies are fighting over the fate of the remote Klappan Valley in northern British Columbia. The different sides struggle for government approval of their particular plans, but almost no one fully acknowledges the property rights of […]

H. L. Mencken Club 2012 Conference

Click here to register. The Agenda for the 2012 H. L. Mencken Club meeting, to be held November 9-11, has been finalized. The theme for this year’s conference is “Challenging the Historical Consensus”. This conference will deal with critical turning points in history. We shall be examining the received […]

The new totalitarianism of surveillance tech

guardian.co.uk Naomi Wolf If you think that 24/7 tracking of citizens by biometric recognition systems is paranoid fantasy, just read the industry newsletters Tom Cruise as John Anderton in the futuristic film Minority Report, where the advertisements use recognition technology to call out to the shoppers. Photograph: Allstar/20th […]

No Jokes, Please: We’re American

From Alternative Right: Andy Nowicki contra the humour police. ________________ There is a kind of meta-humorous flavor to this story in the New York Times, which reports that a certain humanities instructor is in hot water after telling a dark and edgy joke to his class earlier this […]

Statistical Fallacio

Goad grapples with lies, damn lies, and statistics at  TakiMag. ___________________ The email challenge came like a squirrel defiantly placing an acorn on its shoulder and daring me to knock it off: “respond to this damn article.” The damn article was from Forbes, and I’ll be damned if […]

Bill Gates: World needs fewer people

wnd.com Bob Unruh Software billionaire Bill Gates, who previously has advocated the reduction of the human population through the use of vaccines, and his wife Melinda marked the 100th year since the First International Eugenics Congress in London with a “family planning” summit with abortionists and the United […]

Ethnic Panic in India

aljazeera.com Interior minister accuses rival neighbour of fabricating messages threatening revenge attacks on indigenous communities. India has accused Pakistan of fabricating threatening bulk messages that triggered panic among migrant workers in southern Indian cities. Thousands of people hailing from indigenous communities in the northeastern state of Assam fled Bangalore and […]