By James Fulford on 06/30/2007

Uh-Oh! George Borjas On Bush's Enforcement Priorities

George Borjas has a long post on the defeat of the immigration bill, and in the middle of it there's this worrisome thought:Does this end the debate over immigration? No.Why? Because our immigration s...
By James Fulford on 06/30/2007

Biden and Obama as Costanza and Seinfeld

Not that there's anything wrong with that! From the Democratic President's debate last night at Howard U. in DC in front of a mostly black audience:NPR's Michel Martin: "[W]hat is the plan to stop an...
By Steve Sailer on 06/30/2007

Dennis Dale Is On A Tear

You hopefully know Untethered Dennis Dale for his Repo Man meets Nabokov memoirs of growing up in LA's suburban wasteland. Having seen the global projection of American military might up close, he's al...
By Patrick Cleburne on 06/30/2007

Courtesy: A good idea.

A reader of my By their fruits blog - which listed the twelve Republican S.1639 miscreants — felt I should have made more effort to name those who deserve praise. She specifically mentioned Senator Cor...
By Steve Sailer on 06/30/2007

Rasmussen Poll: America's Politicians Aren't Nearly As Important As They Think They Are.

Hopefully, Scott Rasmussen's polling business will get a lot of new business because he was so much more correct about public opinion on immigration than the established polls. Why was he more accurate...
By Steve Sailer on 06/30/2007

It Couldn't Happen To A Nicer Guy

From the Washington Post:NEWPORT, R.I., June 28 — He looked uncharacteristically dejected as he approached the lectern, fiddling with papers as he talked and avoiding the sort of winking eye contact he...
By James Fulford on 06/30/2007

A Bill So Bad JPod Couldn't Defend It

John Podhoretz [Send him mail] writes in the NYPost about Dubya's latest disastrous political failure.But he miscalculated, as he has done so often since his re-election. He chose to believe polls that...
By Randall Burns on 06/29/2007

Mixed Message from Recent Pew Poll

Pew Research Recently published a poll that included several questions on immigration: The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted May 30-June 3 amon...
By James Fulford on 06/29/2007

Bipartisanship Alert

Mickey Kaus notes a new form of bipartisanship:the coalition opposing the bill was slightly more bipartisan than the coalition favoring the bill.Someone emailed him to point out that opposition to the...
By Patrick Cleburne on 06/29/2007

By their fruits...

Twelve of the 46 Republican Senators voted for cloture on S.1639 today. That is, in support of a bill which would very likely have set the seal on America’s transformation into a Third World Spanish-sp...
By Brenda Walker on 06/29/2007

We Love the Smell of Victory

It was a great success! A big one, with a vote of 53-46 against cloture (see how individual Senators voted). Roy Beck sent around an email that said "This is one of the biggest victories I've ever seen...
By Steve Sailer on 06/29/2007

We Win, They Lose (Redux)

Cloture fails to get 60 votes, in fact it fails to get a majority, and loses 46-53Senator Ted Kennedy showed true class in defeat, saying opponents of his bill were in favor of a "Gestapo."Now all we n...
By James Fulford on 06/29/2007

Undead And Gone

We here at VDARE.com have been calling the revenant bill a monstrosity, and comparing it to Dracula and similar creatures—Steve Sailer wrote: The Axis of Amnestys revival of the Senate immigration bill...
By Steve Sailer on 06/29/2007

It Doesn't Take A Genius

I've been explaining for over a half dozen years that the Bush-Rove immigration offensive was politically nuts for the Republican Party. Of course, I'm not a genius like Karl Rove, but, I do feel in th...
By Randall Burns on 06/29/2007

Antibiotic Resistant Diseases seek the American Dream!

Brandon Keim writes at Wired: Nearly one in twenty patients carry drug-resistant staph bacteria, a number ten times higher than previous estimates, say researchers from the Centers for Disease Control ...
By James Fulford on 06/28/2007

USA Today—Bush Pander Fails

USA Today has a story about how, in spite of all the pandering Bush can do, and the fact that he has a Mexican-American nephew who may seek the Presidency at some point, Hispanics are still Democrats.H...
By Steve Sailer on 06/28/2007

Do You Do Voodoo?

Confirming that the 1989 comedy "Major League," with Dennis Haysbert as Pedro Cerrano, the slugger who keeps a Santeria shrine in his locker, was ahead of its time, the LA Times reports:Religion under ...
By Bryanna Bevens on 06/28/2007

Nasty Immigration Bill Gone! Catch Phrase For 2008: Who's John McCain?

Once upon a time, not so long ago, a senator from Arizona named John McCain was a frontrunner among GOP contenders for the 2008 Presidential elections. Today he's polling somewhere near the bottom of ...
By Randall Burns on 06/28/2007

Senate Immigration Expansion Setback

Charles Babington writes at Associated Press: The Senate drove a stake Thursday through President Bush's plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants, likely postponing major action on immigration...
By James Fulford on 06/28/2007

The Power Of The Internet

The power of the internet: Talk radio knows the bill better than the Senators do, says Jeff Sessions.I'd think that bloggers know it better as well. For one thing, I suspect that if the Senators have ...