Ferris State University prof opens a museum of "racist memoribilia"

I suppose this is a good idea. In our current cultural environment it is a good idea to keep physical media and artifacts from the Jim Crow days cataloged and exhibited somewhere, cuz you never know when someone will try to flush the evidence down the memory hole. Organized Jewry have successfully used this tactic to keep their guilt-trip inspired political and cultural influence going strong for half a century and counting.

Book Review: Grab Their Belts To Fight Them

A review of Warren Wilkins' book Grab Their Belts To Fight Them a critical study of Vietcong/PAVN tactics against the US Army and Marines during the Vietnam war by Youssef Aboul-Enein a faculty member of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces posted at the Small Wars Journal website.

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A review of Francis Fukuyama's new book  (Steve Sailor, American Conservative)
Diversity weakens not strengthens. You can't separate race and ethnicity from political organization no matter how you try.

The sheep leading the wolves; Nietzsche on the modern state (Michael Kleen, Alternative Right)
"Nietzsche saw socialism as the driving force behind the “perfect State” (der vollkommene Staat), or the State taken to its ultimate modern expression. With its striving for a comfortable life for the greatest possible number, Nietzsche imagined this State would choke the life out of the geniuses who had previously found themselves at the top of the social ladder."

Next year's Steve Jobs bio already a bestseller (Lance Whitney, Cnet)
"The upcoming authorized biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs won't be out until next March, but it's already a bestseller on Amazon thanks to a flurry of preorders."

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EMU regent blows off meetings for nearly two years: No surprise that he's a Granholm appointee too. EMU and the other regional universities have long been a dumping ground for lame patronage appointees of the incumbent governor.

Michigan jail inmates often unable (or unwilling) to pay "incarceration fees" to county jails: What a surprise! If these lumpen had any money they'd not likely be in jail in the first place. As the ACLU guy quoted in this Freep news story says this is just a way to keep people tethered to the criminal justice bureaucracy.

Blogger has Bill O'Reilly pegged: "O’Reilly is a self-important middle manager.  If he sees you are 'above him' in stature, someone who makes him look good by being on the screen with him, he’s obsequious.  If he sees you as beneath him, then he expects deference."

History doesn't repeat but it often rhymes: "Yet just as the Soviet communist bosses held on to power to the point of their self-destruction, the American oligarchies will squeeze the U.S. economy to its death. Is President Obama’s failure to bring any change yet another indication that change in America will only follow catastrophe?" Probably, yes.

Sign of the times...cont'd.

Marx would love this picture.

Old Marxists never die: Eric Hobsbawm's latest interview - U.K. Guardian
Still going strong and still an avid Marxist at 93 years of age.