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Going Color-Blind Could Help Americans See What Truly Unites Them

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In his 1983 magnum opus, Irish historian Benedict Anderson famously coined the term “imagined communities” — the notion of which involves how people in the early modern period imagined themselves as part of a community that transcended their immediate social relationships. For example, in order for the nation of Italy to exist, an Italian had to imagine something bigger than his local neighborhood in Rome. 

The idea of imagined communities also belies the fact that a community, at least on one level, has a fantastic character that exists more in the minds of the inhabitants of a community than in reality. In other words, one person’s idea of what it means to be an American southerner might have little to do with the history of the South or its present reality. 

Finally, an “imagined community” also involves the will. One must will to believe France is the quintessentially secular republic, and one must enforce that will through propaganda, art, education, etc. These reasons are why, while there are real social and cultural bounds among people, national identity is something variable. 

Within contemporary American discourse on the political left, there is a strong and aggressive imaginative vision of the United States. This view — especially popular among critical race theorists — is that America is fundamentally structurally racist. America was, in this view, founded upon slavery and was created to maintain a master-slave relationship between whites and nonwhites who were merely in the country to work and be oppressed. In his

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Illegal Aliens Skew Elections By Inflating Certain States’ Electoral Power. This Bill Would Change That

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The House Rules Committee will consider a proposal late Monday afternoon that would prevent illegal aliens and other foreign citizens from skewing elections by shifting the apportionment of congressional seats and electoral college votes.

The “Equal Representation Act” would modify the Census Bureau’s questionnaire for each decennial census beginning in 2030 by requiring individuals to attest to their citizenship status on the form and then using that data to exclude foreign citizens from the count used to determine congressional and electoral college apportionment. Apportionment is derived from the number of residents in a particular area but does not currently differentiate legal citizens from foreigners who, in many cases, are illegal immigrants. A state can gain or lose congressional seats and electoral college votes based on the size of its population.

This means that millions of illegal aliens who have invaded the country can dilute the representation of American citizens by inflating the populations of the left-leaning areas to which they flock — even as American citizens flee those same states.

When former President Donald Trump signed a memo in July 2020 barring illegal aliens from being counted in the census, it was promptly met with a flurry of challenges. A handful of judges blocked the memo, and President Joe Biden eventually reversed the policy.

Democrat New York Rep. Yvette Clark made it crystal clear why Democrats support including illegal aliens in their apportionment tallies when she said in 2021 that her district could “absorb a significant number

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The Real Threat To The U.S. Economy Isn’t Election Integrity, It’s Joe Biden

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week warned that “threats to democracy” will imperil U.S. economic growth. Yellen’s admonishment is a less-than-veiled finger wag at former President Donald Trump and anyone who would dare question the official lie that the 2020 election was “one of the most secure elections in history.” 

The real threat to the economy is Joe Biden, his buffoonish treasury secretary, and the rest of the capitalism-crushing useful idiots in this dangerous administration.

As Democrat Party public-relations firm the Associated Press reported, Yellen used “economic data” in her address Friday in Arizona to “paint a picture of how disregard for America’s democratic processes and institutions can cause economic stagnation for decades.”

“Yellen, taking a rare step toward to [sic] the political arena, never mentioned Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, by name in her speech for the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum, but she hinted at the former president’s potential impact if he regains the White House,” the AP’s Fatima Hussein and Josh Boak propagandized in a shared byline. 

The former Federal Reserve chairwoman, who has routinely injected herself into the “political arena,” used the speech to “serve as a sort of warning for business leaders who may overlook Trump’s disregard for modern democratic norms because they prefer the former president’s vision of achieving growth by slashing taxes and stripping away regulations.”

Yellen’s comments, and the AP article marketing them, are as nakedly political as they are hilariously absurd. Trump’s assertions that the 2020 election was rigged — by

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Filings: Jack Smith Tampered With Evidence In Get-Trump Classified Documents Case

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Special Counsel Jack Smith admitted federal prosecutors tampered with evidence in his criminal case alleging former President Donald Trump mishandled classified documents.

According to a Friday court filing, prosecutors said documents the FBI seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence are no longer in the same order in which they found them, and some are mislabeled and may even be misplaced. A government “filter team” that dealt with the boxes once the FBI took them “was not focused on maintaining the sequence of documents within each box,” the special counsel’s office wrote in the filing.

Later the filing says, of early inventories and scanned records of the seized document boxes, “Because these inventories and scans were created close in time to the seizure of the documents, they are the best evidence available of the order the documents were in when seized. That said, there are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans.” A footnote on this last sentence says: “The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court.”

The filing also suggests the Department of Justice and FBI may have lost and mislabeled some of the documents. When the agencies first took the documents at Mar-a-Lago, government employees used many blank sheets of paper as substitutes and cover papers for what they decided might be classified documents.

After the FBI brought the document boxes to Washington DC, federal employees

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