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The majority of Americans don't support illegal immigration. Socialists cry racism. What's new?

The majority of Americans don’t support illegal immigration. Socialists cry racism. What’s new?

A conservative columnist for the New York Times is under fire from progressives over an op-ed slamming the 2020 Democratic candidates for embracing pro-illegal immigrant policies, with one critic going so far as to call him a “white nationalist.”

In a scathing piece published on Friday, Bret Stephens argued that voters see Democrats as the “party that makes too many Americans feel like strangers…

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The beam in their eye

The beam in their eye

Conservatives have adopted a victim mentality that insists they’re targets of a biased press and threatened by violent leftists. They cite everything from coverage of Kavanaugh to protesters at universities to prove their point. Of course most of what they whine about has a grain of truth, but they’re represented by the political party that controls the Presidency, both Houses of Congress, the…

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Ann Coulter, Now Brett Stephens – Do We Have a Free Speech Crisis or Is it Something Else?

Ann Coulter, Now Brett Stephens – Do We Have a Free Speech Crisis or Is it Something Else?

For weeks, a great amount of energy was poured into discussing whether Ann Coulter should be allowed to bring her snark heavy schtick to the Berkeley campus. Before her it was Milo. Now Brett Stephens’ first column at the New York Times has hysterical leftists cancelling their subscriptions because he dared express skepticism about climate change.

The conversations about all of these inevitably…

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"The average office worker around here has no time to think much less rest. They wake up, get ready, and get to work; this takes an hour at minimum. They work eight to ten hours, sometimes more, usually because he who sits at the desk longest gets promoted. Then they go to the gym, dinner at a restaurant, and then maybe get a drink. Then it’s to home for a couple hours of TV before bed.

Nowhere during this day did this person experience a thought of their own creation. Their brain filled itself with reactions entirely. At work, they are given work to focus on; at the gym, they are listening to headphones; at the bar, talking to others; watching TV, their brains are awash in the visions of others. Are we even individuals if we have no individual thoughts?”