The Other Half of History Daily Blog

Thoughts on modern politics from a historical perspective.

Elizabeth Warren’s Indian Status

The Massachusetts Senate race took an interesting twist recently when supporters of incumbent Republican Scott Brown accused Democrat candidate Elizabeth Warren of falsely claiming to have Indian blood in order to get a job as a professor at Harvard.  Despite Warren’s early denials, it has now been proven that for several years she identified herself as a minority member to an academic association. Now it turns out that she is only 1/32 Indian, and that no tribe is willing to claim her as a member.
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May Day Radicals Go Back to their Roots

As I mentioned in my last post, the left wing and Marxist overtones of various May Day demonstrations are getting to be too obvious for the media to cover up. The Occupy-Whatever-City movement has made a point of emphasizing the historical significance of the day while organizing its various protests. This year mainstream news organizations like CBS News are using the words “May Day” to describe May Day demonstrations, whereas in past years they generally didn’t.

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May Day’s Marxism Comes Out

The first day of May always brings out the leftist loonies of the world, who call it International Workers Day. Over the last several years the news media have tended to downplay the Marxist theme of the demonstrations that always take place on May Day, but this year might be different. It looks like the Occupy Wall Street crowd has been making its Marxist connections so obvious that even the New York Times will have a hard time not noticing.

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Racial Quota for Navy Seals (NFL Still Racist)

The NFL draft concluded on Saturday, and the players drafted look about like the players chosen by NFL teams every other year; all of them are male, only about 35% of them are white, and a significant number are of Polynesian ancestry. The NFL is not a government bureaucracy, so personnel decisions are made purely on the basis of the perceived ability of the players to do the jobs the teams hire them to do.

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