Immigration Reduction: Xenophobia and Racism? Or, Common Sense and Pragmatism in a Crowded Nation?
Just ask media and other open-border advocates – although that says a lot about the bias (or agenda) of today’s media – according to them, we have always been a nation that welcomed all immigrants. When that was not the case, from their view, the only possible reasons were racism, sexism, xenophobia and, most particularly, the smug superiority of wealthy white males forging exclusionary policies.
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Modern Megadrought: Population, Denial, and Crisis in the American Southwest
After a prolonged wet spell, the “modern megadrought” hit the Southwest in 2000 and 2001, a lingering, uncompromising, monstrous thing, like no drought in centuries.
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Why Population Really Disappeared from the News and Became Politically Incorrect!
In July, New York Times editor Bari Weiss published a scathing resignation letter to what she called a “once-great” newspaper, accusing the paper of choosing stories to
“satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and to DRAW THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS.” (Emphasis mine.)
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The Southwest: Ground-Zero for Global Warming
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Experts warn that the American Southwest will be the part of the nation hit first, worst and hardest by global warming. But the desert Southwest— what author Wallace Stegner called “the dry core of the West”—could face a civilization-breaking water crisis even without global warming. There is insufficient water for the current …
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