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Opus of an old time Democrat. The following email came from a friend who is unarguably one of the most talented secondary school teachers in America in the last few decades. He is from an old Tennessee mountain family, where all were (and nearly all still are) Democrats. My friend’s devotion to the Founding Documents would make him a welcome dinner companion (assuming a time machine were available) at most any table in most any of the homes of those who signed those documents. Yeah, he is a history teacher, as you surely guessed by now. This email is an...

From the 'I never thought I'd say this' file: the latest move by the C.B.C., Canada's national embarrassment network, announced this week they were pulling the plug on their online broadcasts of Hockey Night In Canada in the Punjabi language. Yes, they did show hockey games on their website in Punjabi. For two years the C.B.C. had made available the Saturday night staple in the country's fourth-most spoken language. While this will not have any impact on the billion dollars of funding MotherCorp receives annually, it is good news for those of us who have long complained of diversity run...

The fraudulence of much that currently masquerades under the name "multiculturalism" results from gross perversions of what, in 1972, I called the new ethnicity. Multiculturalism is a profound betrayal of the fundamental principles of the new ethnicity. In the current culture wars on campus, however, an explicit indictment of the perversions of multiculturalism may be useful. 1. Anti-Americanism. Since it regards the West (at least its white males) as imperialistic, and America as the most advanced face of the West, multiculturalism expresses hostility to American traditions and institutions, while glorifying non-Western cultures, especially those inimical to America.2. Victimology. Multiculturalism...

Perhaps the most debilitating aspect of liberal malevolence is in the area of education. When college recruiters are more concerned about racial diversity than a student's preparedness, it's the student who suffers. The white liberal’s agenda, coupled with that of black race hustlers, has had and continues to have a devastating impact on ordinary black people. Perhaps the most debilitating aspect of this liberal malevolence is in the area of education.

If you haven’t seen the billboards yet, liberals love multiculturalism, they embrace all races and religions because they believe in diversity. True? Nope. Liberals follow the left’s paradigm of waging class warfare. Their interest in minorities extends only to enlisting some disenfranchised groups in their class warfare. Contrary to all the multicultural billboards, liberals are primarily interested in unsuccessful minorities, because they can frighten them, exploit them and farm them as voting blocks. Successful minorities such as Asians, Indians and Jews are wanted only as window dressing. And get the short end of the stick when a real issue comes...

Money quote: "When someone destroys a bible, US government officials don’t line up to attack him. President Obama bowed lower than a fawning maitre d’ before the King of Saudi Arabia, a man whose regime destroys bibles as a matter of state policy, and a man whose depraved religious police forces schoolgirls fleeing from a burning building back into the flames to die because they’d committed the sin of trying to escape without wearing their head scarves. If you show a representation of Mohammed, European commissioners and foreign ministers line up to denounce you. If you show a representation of...

Two freshman at Edward Bok Technical High School in Philadelphia were hospitalized after a beating by 10 other boys, Friday. The victims were new 14 and 15 year immigrants from China. Bok High School is 72 percent black and the perpetrators were black kids bringing to mind incidents that happened last December at South Philadelphia High School. One of the perps has been arrested and is facing assault charges. Philadelphia School District officials described the incident as part of traditional freshman hazing and said racism was not involved. The Asian community is skeptical.

TEMPE, AZ - An 81-year-old Tempe man was beaten to death by teenagers while attending his granddaughter’s wedding in Virginia, in an apparently random attack. George Baker’s son Gregg Baker, whose daughter was getting married, remembers his father’s last day. “[He was] hugging his granddaughter at her wedding reception, telling her how beautiful she looked, telling her how much he loved her.” “We are strong, but it still makes me sick,” said Leslie Gahagan, the bride. “How could you do that to an old man?” Two 16-year-olds and a 13-year-old have been charged with murder. Prosecutors say they will decide...

In the world news, we read of a moment of horror at a wedding in Gaziantep, in southeastern Turkey. During the celebration of his own wedding, as is all too common in the Middle East, Tevfik Altun, the groom, fired his AK-47 into the air, immediately lost control of it, and in an instant had killed his own father and two of his aunts, besides injuring eight others. News reports include the obligatory mention that the Turkish government has tried unsuccessfully for years to end this practice, but that's a tall order in a culture where the right to party...

<p>Two people were charged Saturday in "very disturbing" drug-related killings of two young children and two adult relatives outside Washington D.C.</p> <p>Darrell Lynn Bellard, 43, of Dickinson, Texas, and Tkeisha Nicole Gilmer, 18, of Texas City, Texas were taken into custody Friday and charged with first-degree murder, police in Prince George's County, Maryland, told CNN. More charges are being considered.</p>

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White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen thinks Asian players are given privileges in the United States that Latinos are not afforded. In his latest rant, the outspoken Guillen also said he's the "only one" in baseball teaching young players from Latin America to stay away from performance-enhancing drugs and that Major League Baseball doesn't care about that. He said MLB only cares about how often he argues with umpires and what he says to the media. Guillen said it's unfair that Japanese players are assigned translators when they come to the U.S. to play pro ball, but Latinos are not. "Very...

Two Indian men were arrested on Monday over an attack on a college teacher who had his hand cut off for setting an exam question that allegedly insulted Muslims... T. J. Joseph, 52, had his right arm severed at the wrist as he was returning home from church with his mother and sister on Sunday, and has since undergone an operation to have the limb sown back on. Joseph, a lecturer at a private Christian-run college in the southern state of Kerala, has been on bail since April after being arrested over a question in internal exams that some Muslim...

Writers of public school curricula would do well to note that George Washington, the Father of our country, was no multiculturalist. Call him a culturist. Washington laid out his culturist principles in a document all schoolchildren used to study, his 1796 Farewell Address to the nation, upon completing his second term as president. Far from celebrating our multicultural ties to the Old World, Washington argued that ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; ... indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt...

Only a month after a Lebanese girl won the Miss USA beauty competition, a Syrian-born woman has won Germany's Top Model 2010 competition. 20-year old Damascus-born Alisar Ailabouni beat 23,000 other women to win the contest hosted by Heidi Klum. Winning Germany's Top Model is widely considered a major step in a models career. Raised in Mattighofen in Upper Austria, Ailabouni began her training in a tourism school, though she had to drop out after she had problems paying for the program. To help her family earn money, she started working as a saleswoman. Now that Ailabouni has won the...

HARARE - A ZIMBEBWEAN woman killed her infant son and sold one of his ears for US$20 (S$27.95) to a traditional healer wanted for ritual murders in neighbouring Mozambique, police said on Thursday. 'We can confirm that the woman Christine Hofisi from Chipinge (near the Mozambican border) strangled her 18-month-old son to death and cut off his left ear,' deputy national police spokesman Oliver Mandipaka told AFP. 'Hofisi sold the ear to a traditional healer notorious for ritual murders in Mozambique. She sold the ear for US$20 but was given US$10 with the balance to be paid later. 'She is...

How do you win over 1 million-plus people on Facebook? Entrepreneur Kumi Rauf has taken a simple phrase not unlike James Brown's "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" and the 70s soul affirmation "black is beautiful" and created a movement. I Love Being Black is one of the few fan pages on the social network devoted to consistently and unapologetically rallying black people to feel good about who we are. Rauf says, "With this page, and soon our mobile applications, I want to bring Black people together to start a dialogue on a variety of topics and to...

The reality of violent inner-city crime is indicated today by statistics . The official figures, which examine the ethnicity of those accused of violent offences in London, suggest the majority of men held responsible by police for gun crimes, robberies and street crimes are black. Black men are also disproportionately the victims of violent crime in the capital. One prominent black politician said that the black community needed to face up to major challenges. Shaun Bailey, a Tory election candidate in London and a charity worker, said: “The black community has to look at itself and say that, at the...

The virulent eruption surrounding the decision to order an apparent last-minute escort Friday for the funeral procession of a cop-killer, who is the son of Dallas' police chief, shows no sign of abating. Since word leaked Friday afternoon about the order made by Dallas police DC Julian Bernal, I have been inundated by outraged phone calls, emails and text messages from current and retired Dallas police officers. The general sentiment is that it dishonored the memory of slain Lancaster police Officer Craig Shaw and the innocent bystander who were killed by Brown Jr. in a Father's Day shootout. On Undergroundcop.com,...

'You sit and ask yourself: What are we doing here?' [Andy McCarthy] Why would General Stanley McChrystal give that kind of access to a lefty rock-n-roll magazine? Maybe because he's a kindred spirit who felt the need to assure Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings that he voted for Obama — even against McCain, a military legend who shares McChrystal's transnational progressive outlook. "Now it can be told," elaborates Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic "The story about [McChrystal] voting for Obama is not contrived. He is a political liberal. He is a social liberal. He banned Fox News from the television sets...