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In my recent article On Turning The Other Cheek To ALIPAC's Bill Gheen, I noted that my original offer to North Carolina patriotic immigration reform activist Gheen, that we would publish a letter from him disputing our Washington Watcher's brief reference to his attempts to sabotage
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I've recently been getting emails like this one: "Keep up the great work." Sigh. The "ninnie" to whom our reader refers is North Carolina political entrepreneur Bill Gheen, [Email him] who runs ALIPAC[Americans For Legal Immigration] and who has indeed alienated many people
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The really good news about Obama's assault on Arizona and its SB1070 law is captured in both the headline and the lead of this report by the very Politically Correct Associated Press: "As Dems lay low, GOP hits Obama on Arizona lawsuit "WASHINGTON — Republicans denounced the
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President Obama left no cliché unturned in his much-touted July 1 speech on immigration, and it's impossible to read the transcript without laughing. The southern border is too long to secure! We can't deport 11 million illegals!! We have too stepped up enforcement! Obama even finished—
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The news that the Obama Administration has decided to challenge Arizona's anti-illegal immigration SB1070 is one of those moments when you see that, inside the Beltway and for our entire bipartisan political class, it's an upside-down, through-the-looking-glass, funny old world. Quite regardless of the very debatable
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When I was young, I had a knowing, sophisticated view of sociopsychological factors that shape public debate—for example, what Joe Sobran used to call "The Hive", explaining why liberals everywhere suddenly start saying the same thing. But as I get older, I lean increasingly to the view
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Peter Brimelow writes: The tree-based National Review has just published a cover story entitled Keeping Blacks Poor by staff writer Kevin D. Williamson, [subscriber link] with the picture you see on the left. It's a piece of harmless, quite well-written wonkery, pointing out that Democratic Party policies on
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Peter Brimelow writes: Ten years ago tonight, Christmas Eve 1999, I launched VDARE.COM officially by sending out a mass email to friends and foes—after the usual battle putting my then-small children, Hannah Claire (seen above with me after a recent appearance in Godspell) and Alexander (seen distractedly wandering
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[Peter Brimelow writes: This column appeared in WorldNetDaily, Thursday December 3, 2009, under the headline Putting Americans back to work. As far as I can see, it's the ONLY mention of the immigration moratorium anti-unemployment policy option that appeared in the media during the entire Jobs Summit week.
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We were in rural Arkansas, staying with my wife's grandparents, when the news broke that Sarah Palin was the GOP 2008 Vice Presidential pick. Lydia's grandfather had been showing his gun collection to her stepson, Alexander, and there were, as I recall, sixteen (16) of them
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[James Fulford writes: Peter Brimelow called this the "Most unpopular Brimelow article ever" when he updated it earlier this year for MarketWatch.] Forbes, August 11, 1997 SO YOU THINK members of Congress are rats. But won't starving them make them more vicious? Congressional salaries, currently set
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(First appeared in Forbes, Sept 22, 1997) [Peter Brimelow writes: We just found my article on the economist Gordon Tullock, published in the dead-tree version of Forbes Magazine in the pre-internet Dark Ages. Tullock has a remarkably fertile mind, very like (in this respect at least) Milton Friedman and I