[Bread and Circuses - Politics and other Silliness]

The constant drumbeat of the Left for decades is that blacks have no business voting for the Republican Party, despite the fact that it was Republicans who ended slavery; that Democratic president Woodrow Wilson segregated the entire Federal civil service and threw civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter out of the Oval Office; and that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s very first Supreme Court Nominee, Hugo Black, had been a member of the KKK, as had been former Senate Majority leader Robert Byrd. As Mona Charen noted in National Review in 2015, 99 Democrats signed the “Southern Manifesto” in 1956; only two Republicans signed it. She stated, “The Southern Manifesto declared the signatories’ opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education and their commitment to segregation forever.” Charen continued, “The party’s history is pockmarked with racism and terror. The Democrats were the party of slavery, black codes, Jim Crow, and that miserable terrorist excrescence,...

 https://www.sparknotes.com/us-government-and-politics/american-government/political-parties/section2/ The United States has only two major political parties: the Democrats and the Republicans. These parties have a duopoly, meaning that they share almost all the political power in the country. Parties in Other Democracies Most democratic countries have more than two parties. In Israel, for example, twelve parties or party alliances held seats in the seventeenth Knesset. Japan has several major parties, including the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Party of Japan, the New Komeito, and the Japanese Communist Party. The Electoral System In the United States, a candidate wins the election by gaining a plurality, or more votes than any other candidate. This is a winner-take-all system because there is...

Ben Shapiro In the last two weeks, America has learned that a bevy of heretofore relatively uncontroversial objects and ideas are, in fact, extraordinarily controversial. We have learned that the Betsy Ross American flag is irredeemably racist. We have learned that Disney casting a black woman as Ariel in the live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” is supposedly supremely disquieting for a racist America. We have learned that opposing federally mandated forced busing means that you are a secret bigot, so long as you are named Joe Biden.   Or perhaps we haven’t learned any of those things. Perhaps all of this is nonsense, and we’ve merely learned that Americans are angry, that they’re channeling that anger in increasingly bizarre directions, and that opportunists of every stripe are willing to take advantage of that anger for their own benefit. Take, for example, the Betsy Ross flag. Not only was Ross an abolitionist Quaker; the flag has flown for ce...

It's an Invasion!...of Moronic Arguments Ann Coulter BREAKING NEWS: MASS SHOOTING IN DAYTON, OHIO, LAST SATURDAY NIGHT. (This may not be news to you, but I watch MSNBC, so I didn't find out about the Dayton massacre until yesterday.) There were two horrifying mass shootings recently, but our media are fixated on only one -- the one in El Paso, Texas -- because the shooter, Patrick Crusius, issued a "manifesto" that contained some of the same arguments made by Trump about illegal immigration. Crusius began: "This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion." Wait a second! Didn't Trump use the word "invasion" to describe our wide-open border? Why, that makes him a co-conspirator in the white supremacist's slaughter! Of course, if we believe the part of Crusius' manifesto...

How Important Is Today’s Racial Discrimination? Walter E. Williams There is discrimination of all sorts, and that includes racial discrimination. Thus, it’s somewhat foolhardy to debate the existence of racial discrimination yesteryear or today. From a policy point of view, a far more useful question to ask is: How much of the plight of many blacks can be explained by current racial discrimination? Let’s examine some of today’s most devastating problems of many black people with an eye toward addressing discrimination of the past and present. At the root of most of the problems black people face is the breakdown of the family structure. Slightly over 70% of black children are raised in female-headed households. According to statistics about fatherless homes, 90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes; 71% of pregnant teenagers lack a father figure; 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes; 71% of high schoo...

"Gender identity is a person’s inner sense of belonging to a particular gender, such as male or female. It is a deeply felt and core component of human identity. It appears to be related to one’s brain messages and mind functioning, the factors that are now included under the category of neurological sex." "Every person has a gender identity, which is a deep-seated, deeply felt component of human identity for each person. A person’s gender identity is not a personal decision, preference, or belief. In other words, transgender boys are boys and transgender girls are girls. "Current science recognizes that gender identity is innate or fixed at a young age and that gender identity has a biological basis." "At birth, infants are assigned a sex, either male or female, based solely on the appearance of their external genitalia. For most people, that assignment turns out to be accurate and their birth-assigned sex matches that person’s actual sex....

Liberal Camille Paglia: Transgender Surgery 'Can't Change Anyone's Sex' -- DNA is Set By Michael W. Chapman | September 6, 2017 | 4:47 PM EDT Author and social critic Camille Paglia.  (latercera.com)  Liberal Camille Paglia, an academic, best selling author, and public intellectual, said there are "a lot of lies being propagated" about the transgender issue, with "wildly inflated claims" about gender and the false idea that sex-reassignment surgery can change someone's sex.  It cannot, said Paglia, who added that people who encourage transgenderism in children are committing "child abuse." “I think that the transgender propagandists make wildly inflated claims about the multiplicity of gender," said Paglia during an interview on Roda Viva Internacional . "In sex-reassignment surgery, even today, with all of its advances, cannot,...