[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com.]
I did not of course sit through the President's State Of The Union address. The human frame can only bear so much. My entire concession to journalistic due diligence was to Ctrl-F through the transcript next day to see how many times Obama said "That's Not Who We Are."

Answer: Incredibly, he didn't say it once--at least according to the transcript. Not once, in 59 minutes of lofty moralizing!

I would naturally like to conclude that the President, or his advisers, have at last paid attention to Radio Derb's repeated complaints about the use of this threadbare phrase as a way of affirming Cultural Marxist pieties.

But while the President may not have said "That's Not Who We Are" but he did make two references to "Who We Are."

First reference:

[ Clip, at 1h04m20s:  Will we respond to the changes of our time with fear, turning inward as a nation, and turning against each other as a people? Or will we face the future with confidence in who we are, what we stand for, and the incredible things we can do together?]

Second reference:

[ Clip, at 1h41m22s:  When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied,

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I have never liked that cliché definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. As an amateur musician, I count on different results. It’s called practicing. But when it comes to dealing with the Main Stream Media, maybe it is indeed insanity.

The Washington Post recently interviewed me for a story about robocalls I made to support Donald Trump in Iowa [ Hear a white nationalist’s robocall urging Iowa voters to back Trump, January 12, 2016]

The reporter, Peter Holley [email him], was the usual bright young lad, and we had a 45-minute phone conversation that covered

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To awaken Thursday to front-page photos of U.S. sailors kneeling on the deck of their patrol boat, hands on their heads in postures of surrender, on Iran's Farsi Island, brought back old and bad memories.

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If Ted Cruz is a "natural born citizen," eligible to be president, what was all the fuss about Obama being born in Kenya? No one disputed that Obama's mother was a U.S. Citizen.

Cruz was born in Canada to an American citizen mother and an alien father. If he's eligible to be president, then so was Obama—even if he'd been born in Kenya.

As with most constitutional arguments, whether or not Cruz is a "natural born citizen" under the Constitution apparently comes down to whether you support Cruz for president. (Or, for liberals, whether you think U.S. citizenship is a worthless thing that ought to be extended to every person on the planet.)

Forgetting how corrupt constitutional analysis had become, I briefly believed lawyers who assured me that Cruz was a “natural born citizen,” eligible to run for president, and “corrected” myself in a single tweet three years ago. That tweet’s made quite a stir!

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Jack Kerwick, who holds a doctorate in philosophy from Temple University and teaches at various colleges in the Philadelphia area, is a talented polemicist as well as learned academic. For those who want to sample the unleashed Jack Kerwick, I recommend his recent anthology The American Offensive, available in Kindle or paperback.

Jack is a commentator on multiple websites, and (unlike myself) is allowed to post on the GOP Establishment forum Townhall.com. As I read over his pieces there, I sometimes gape in disbelief. Jack is one of the few commentators on Townhall who pushes the anti-PC envelope. (Pat Buchanan and Ann Coulter do too, but both of these celebrities are far better connected than Jack—and no doubt harder to get rid of).

Not surprisingly, not all of Jack’s pieces are accepted by Townhall or by the neoconservative FrontpageMag, which is also one of his outlets. Those of his commentaries that seem (to use his term) “too insensitive” for Conservatism, Inc. go on to his own website, and from there at least some of them have found their way into The American Offensive.

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Ka-ching! Wednesday's Powerball jackpot soared to $1.5 billion as get-rich-quick mania seized America this week. But you don't need to wait for the drawing to know who'll score the royal payoff.

The biggest winner of the multistate numbers game is -- drumroll, please -- Uncle Sam.

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