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Protecting America from Immigrants

She makes a terific argumint.
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The sign in the background reads:
——–Tejas no es una colonia mexicana.

A tip of the hat to Robert Rummel-Hudson’s
Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords blog.
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Will There Be Water in Lake Chad?

Much of the talk about unsettled times ahead looks to oil as a cause: economies will undergo transition and regional conflicts will increase.
Think also about water.
Lake Chad is an exemplar. At one time the world’s sixth largest lake, included in four African countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria), it has, in less than a half-century, …   Continue Reading »

Prof. Joshua Whatmough — Linguistics 120

This morning, rising with formless, benignant wonderings about my future and vague remembrances of my long-ago youth, I surprised myself with an abrupt focus on Prof. Joshua Whatmough (”WHAT-moe”).
I googled and found a perfect description of his terrifying and exhilarating classroom (in 1947) put up on a webpage by one of Whatmough’s former students, William …   Continue Reading »