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2016 Election, Donald Trump, Race and Culture

It Seems Black Voters are Hiding From Fox News Pollsters In the Same Places White Voters Are

vassar / September 5, 2016

In plain sight As Donald Trump gave a rousing speech to black churchgoers in Detroit, where blacks are known to sit on their hands if they don’t like a candidate, a timed Fox News Poll  reported only 1% of polled…

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2016 Election, Bureaucrcy, Conservatism, Donald Trump, Race and Culture, Religion

Vain Men’s Thirst for Kings

vassar / August 26, 2016

(Timely, and unedited from a 2010 essay at RedState.com. Since then, they’ve changed, I haven’t.) A caution to the non-religious: In what follows I use religious references from the Old Testament. They are intended as metaphors, or teaching tools. Still, this…

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2016 Election, Donald Trump, Race and Culture

America Needs Its Sing-Along Song Back

vassar / August 15, 2016

“God Bless America” was written by Irving Berlin in 1918, and revived in 1938 with war looming, and made famous by Kate Smith, whose 1938 radio rendition was a national hit. (See if you can spot Ronald Reagan. If  you’re…

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