Forty-seven percent of strong Tea Party supporters took consistently conservative positions on the issues of gun control, birthright citizenship, government regulation, and health care repeal compared with only 15% of the entire public.
He will not be the chief executive of News Corp, or much of anything else, but even from jail, if that is where he finds himself, he will be one of four siblings who each control 25% of their birthright company.
Making America great again is about putting non-whites and females "back in their places," which allows wealthy white men to more easily wield the control they think is their birthright.
Mr. Raja may not have been a threat to Mr. Karunanidhi's children, who jealously guard control of the party as their birthright.
As minority leader of the Georgia State Senate in the 1970's, he was part of a legislative bloc so small and impotent that it was ignored, steamrolled and sometimes openly ridiculed by the Democrats who controlled the legislature as if by birthright.
Hip-hop had inspired him to believe that, precisely because he was black, he could achieve what whites simply assumed was theirs by birthright -- a gainful life over which he asserted control.
Violence and hatred, and the fear of our own inability to control them in ourselves, are a fundamental part of our birthright, along with altruism, creativity, tenderness, pity and love.
The Liddle cosmology is thus a Manichean one: on the one side are decent working- and lower-middle-class white Britons who have been robbed of their birthright, and on the other are a "tribe" of Shami Chakrabatis who are shamelessly exploiting positive discrimination in order to control the commanding heights of the economy, the culture and society overall.
Not content to run the plumbing of the Internet and to control the firmware on almost every scientific device in the world, open source proponents believe it is their birthright to supplant Windows on the desktop or, barring that, at least gain mind share in the average home computer.
Ruthlessness was her birthright.
