By Washington Watcher on 08/31/2009

I Stand Corrected...Sort Of

I recently blogged that with the Left exploiting Ted Kennedy's death for socialist healthcare, we don't need to worry about them doing the same with amnesty.  I was wrong. Michelle Malkin already...
By Allan Wall on 08/31/2009

Associated Press Recognizes Senator Kennedy's Contribution to Nation's Demographic Transformation

An Associated Press piece by one Russell Contreras, published August 29th, pretty much spells it out. The article, entitled KENNEDY HELPED CHANGE DEMOGRAPHICS OF US AS TIRELESS ADVOCATE FOR IMMIGRANT...
By Peter Brimelow on 08/31/2009

Was Someone Using Hal Turner To Entrap VDARE.COM?

Alexander Hart's recent analysis of the way in which right radical web radio host/ FBI informant Hal Turner was apparently being used to make the case for Hate Crimes/ Hate Speech totalitarianism rang ...
By Patrick Cleburne on 08/30/2009

Democratic Elite prefers Martha's Vineyard...Brazilian

All VDARE.com readers will be sorry to hear that it has been a pretty rainy week up here in the North East, where President Obama is finishing his vacation on Martha's Vineyard. North East - Brazil? Th...
By Steve Sailer on 08/30/2009

Tenure

Our elected officials and punditocracy are engaging in an orgy of nostalgia over the late Ted Kennedy, in part because he embodied their ideal: the Public-Figure-for-Life. Teddy was elected to the U.S....
By Patrick Cleburne on 08/29/2009

Two Classics—one not funny.

The astonishingly international blog The Irish Savant has a report from Ireland so ludicrous that is funny. This is nothing funny about the well-balanced post on Ted Kennedy just posted by The Western ...
By Patrick Cleburne on 08/29/2009

Obama: Kennedy "Voice of poor and powerless". VDARE.com: "Of which Nationality?"

President Obama (who likely first met Edward Kennedy only five years ago when he was ordained Senator from Illinois) has earned this headline from Reuters: Obama lauds Kennedy as voice of poor and powe...
By Steve Sailer on 08/29/2009

KennedyCare?

Would anybody really be so bad at PR as to want to rename Obama's health care initiative after the late Senator Ted? Don't they understand the inevitable power of alliterative K's? (Just ask Krusty the...
By Steve Sailer on 08/29/2009

America Needs College Football In NYC And DC

Typically, college football rankings are dominated by public "flagship" universities (e.g., the University of Oklahoma) rather than second tier public universities (e.g., Oklahoma State). There are som...
By Patrick Cleburne on 08/29/2009

An Elephant is blocking Obamacare

I have noted before the curious fact that the better public policy Journalism often seems to occur in the regional Newspapers — most of the national MSM is too rigidly partisan for quality.Obama's heal...
By James Fulford on 08/28/2009

Brenda Walker On The Bruce Elliott Show Tomorrow Morning Around 6:00 A.M. ET

Brenda Walker will be interviewed on The Bruce Elliott Show tomorrow morning during the 6:00 a.m. ET hour. She will discuss illegals being covered under Obamacare. The program airs in Baltimore and ear...
By Brenda Walker on 08/28/2009

Why We Should Distrust Obama (And Congress) On Obamacare For Illegals

Former Congressman Ernest Istook has explained the political tapdance of the President and Congress to convince the public that illegal aliens will not get medical treatment under the Obamacare plan—an...
By Kevin Lamb on 08/28/2009

Ted Kennedy's Legacy: Symbolism vs. Stark Realities

Ted Kennedy’s death on Wednesday–in essence the passing of a senator–produced a never-ending tsunami of retrospectives. Newscasts, from CNN to PBS’ News Hour with Jim Lehrer, devoted entire programs...
By Nicholas Stix on 08/28/2009

"Diverse" Jury Spares Letalvis Cobbins The Death Penalty - with Help from the Bench

As I predicted, Knoxville Horror carjacker-kidnapper-rapist-torturer-murderer Letalvis Cobbins was spared proper punishment by a jury which was comprised of six (originally seven) blacks, five (origina...
By Steve Sailer on 08/28/2009

Hot Town, Summer In The City

Here's a video of a riot in my old neighborhood, Uptown, whose slogan is "Chicago's Most Entertaining Neighborhood." (It's home to the Riviera and Aragon concert halls.) This bottle-throwing brouhaha ...
By Washington Watcher on 08/28/2009

Ted Kennedy Memorial Immigration Act, RIP

Upon hearing of Ted Kennedy’s diagnosis of terminal cancer last, Marcus Epstein blogged on VDARE that the open borders lobby would name the the next amnesty legislation, ”The Ted Kennedy Memorial Immig...
By Paul Nachman on 08/28/2009

Plagiarize!

Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes, Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize!(Partial lyrics to "Lobachevsky," by 1950...
By Paul Nachman on 08/27/2009

"If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say, Come Sit By Me."

The famous Alice Roosevelt Longworth quote used as the title above is a refreshing antidote to the mawkish hagiography about Edward Kennedy that's already lapping at our shins and augurs to rise much h...
By James Fulford on 08/27/2009

Brenda Walker On The Ron Smith Show, 3:35 Eastern Time

Brenda Walker will be on the Ron Smith Show at 3:35 PM Eastern time, discussing the Obamacare coverage of illegal aliens. Listen here. See Democrats Insist on Extravagant Medical Giveaway for Illegals ...
By Peter Brimelow on 08/27/2009

Ellison Lodge on "The White People's Party"

Ellison Lodge has just published on Takimag a very elegant essay, The White People Party: The GOP and Demographic Destiny, arguing that the only practical option for the GOP is to mobilize its white ba...