Conservatives and the diversity dross

The next news item is unremarkable. “The U.S. government,” reports Fox News, “paid a Chicago consultant hundreds of thousands of dollars to put on diversity training workshops that, according to one watchdog, included an exercise in which employees were told to chant ‘our forefathers were illegal immigrants.’” What do you expect from “the U.S. government”?

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Jared Taylor makes plea for White Student Union in Towson

by Kyle Rogers of examiner.com Pro-American activist Jared Taylor spoke at Towson University near Baltimore to argue for the need for a White Student Union on campus. Taylor is the author of Paved With Good Intentions, and the president of New Century Foundation. Local Charleston residents may recognize his name as he has been a

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It’s not ‘Manifest Destiny’ any longer

by Ned Kowalski The US is engaged in wars with no end in sight. Unlike the Indians Wars on the North American Continent prior to and after the founding of the American nation, these wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will not be won by “Manifest Destiny”. Manifest Destiny was the belief widely held by Americans

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Fear of fracking

Fuel is usually found in unattractive places. Geologists discovered the biggest oil and natural gas reserves in the deserts of the Middle East and beneath the permafrost of Siberia. Countries in temperate Central Europe, on the other hand, have only modest reserves. One of them lies some 5,000 meters (16,000 feet) beneath the surface in

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Ex-defense Chief Says Attack On Iran Would Be Disastrous

Painting a picture of internal political dysfunction in a dangerous world, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned Wednesday night that a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran would have disastrous consequences. Neither the United States nor Israel is capable of wiping out Iran’s nuclear capability, he said, and “such an attack would make a nuclear-armed

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Britain to appeal colonial torture judgement

Britain’s Foreign Office said it would appeal a High Court judgement on Friday that three elderly Kenyans who were tortured under British rule in the 1950s could pursue their claim for damages from London. “The judgement has potentially significant and far reaching legal implications,” it said in a statement. “The normal time limit for bringing

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It’s a boy!

Some couples want a baby boy badly. So badly they’re willing to fly halfway around the world to get one. Destination? The United States. Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, director of The Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles and New York City, has for several years offered a fertility procedure allowing affluent couples to choose their baby’s gender.

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Israeli forces kill American gunman

Israeli forces shot dead an American man who opened fire in a seaside hotel packed with tourists on Friday, killing one person. The Friday incident at the lobby of Leonardo Club Hotel took place after an Israeli armed guard tried to intervene in an intense argument between the American and a hotel employee. The US

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Britain likes anarchy, especially in South Africa

by Dan Roodt Over the past week or two, I have been embroiled in a polemic in Business Day and elsewhere about South African and Afrikaner history. First of all, I challenged the ubiquitous assumption that apartheid visited some form of genocide upon South African blacks. Neither did apartheid “withhold education from blacks” as historian

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Turkish parliament votes for cross-border military operations in Syria

Turkey’s parliament has authorized cross-border military operations into Syria. The move follows a cross-border mortar-shelling into Turkey which Damascus has apologized for. The Turkish parliament voted 320-129 in favor of the bill, though the government was quick to eliminate the perception they country preparing for a unilateral military assault. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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Biofuels are creating famine

Two million kilometers of foreign purchased land in developing countries is either idle or used for Western biofuel production, according to a British charity. Oxfam’s report estimates an area the size of London is sold every six days. The report states that between 2000 and 2010, 60% of investment in agricultural land by foreign traders

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Follower of Charles Manson recommended for parole

US authorities recommended parole Thursday for a follower of infamous US mass murderer Charles Manson, more than four decades after he killed two people who were tortured and mutilated. Bruce Davis, 70 on Friday, was already recommended for parole once in 2010, but then-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rejected the recommendation, saying Davis would pose a

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Mine strikes continue in South Africa

Wildcat strikes at platinum, gold, coal, diamond, chrome and iron ore mines continued across a number of provinces on Thursday. Thousands of strikers at Gold Field’s KDC West mine confirmed they would continue to down tools. “We will not go back to work until our demands are met,” a leader of the strikers, Ellis Booi,

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Holocaust denial: German court to punish British bishop

A German court is making a fresh attempt to punish a British ultraconservative Catholic bishop for denying the Holocaust in a television interview. The regional court in the southern city of Regensburg has issued an order of punishment against Richard Williamson after an earlier conviction was overturned on a legal technicality last year. Court spokesman

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