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Friday, thousands in Moscow, giving Nazi salutes and carrying placards declaring, “Russia for the Russians!” marched through the city shouting racial slurs against peoples from the Caucasus. In Nigeria, Boko Haram, which is Hausa for “Western education is sacrilege,” massacred 63 people in a terror campaign to bring about sharia law. Seven churches were bombed. [...]
Filed under: Immigration
Will popular democracy bring down the New World Order? A fair question. For Western peoples are growing increasingly reluctant to accept the sacrifices that the elites are imposing upon them to preserve that New World Order. Political support for TARP, to rescue the financial system after the Lehman Brothers collapse, is being held against any [...]
Filed under: Immigration, World
Cato’s Jim Harper sees peril in Romney’s love of E-Verify, a supposedly anti-immigration database with plenty of potential for collateral damage to citizens’ liberties: “It’s technically possible to have a biometric card that solely indicates one’s qualification to work under federal law,” Harper says, “but as I wrote in my paper, ‘Franz Kafka’s Solution to [...]
Filed under: Immigration, liberties
In Federalist 2, John Jay looks out at a nation of a common blood, faith, language, history, customs and culture. “Providence,” he writes, “has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion … very similar [...]
Filed under: Culture, Ideas, Immigration
John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, “The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize.” In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: “In a little more than 50 years, there will [...]
Filed under: Culture, Ideas, Immigration
Ron Unz has devised a tough reading-comprehension test for ideologues on both sides of the immigration debate. Already the shallow end of the restrictionist talent pool has failed: a number of commenters evidently didn’t get to the end of the article — not enough Ritalin? Too much Ritalin? — but that hasn’t stopped them from [...]
Filed under: Immigration
For the third straight year, the median income of the typical American family fell in 2010. Adjusted for inflation, it is back where it was in 1996, the longest period of zero growth since the Depression. And the poverty rate has inched up to 15.1 percent. Both figures, however, should be put in perspective. For [...]
Filed under: Economics, Immigration, Politics
For any of you who haven’t been keeping track of all the craziest scandals in Washington–not the kind where Congressmen send crotch pics or dress up like furries, but the kind where people get killed–the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) ran a program from November 2009 to to January 2011 known as Fast and [...]
Filed under: Crime, Foreign policy, Immigration, Law, Scandal
Centuries before William James coined the phrase, men have sought a “moral equivalent of war,” some human endeavor to satisfy the jingoistic lust of man, without the carnage of war. For some, the modern Olympic Games have served the purpose, with the Cold War rivalry for medals between the United States and the Soviet Union, [...]
Filed under: Culture, Immigration
Multiculturalism has “totally failed,” says German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “State multiculturalism has had disastrous results,” says Britain’s David Cameron. Is multiculturalism a failure in France? “My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure,” says President Nicolas Sarkozy. Ex-Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has declared multiculturalism a failure in Spain, saying it divides and debilitates [...]
Filed under: Immigration, Religion, World