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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
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Patriotic immigration reformers didn't have a dog in the NY-23 Congressional special election fight — Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman toed the Club For Growth line, so the issue didn't surface — but you have to be amazed at the gloating over-interpretation of his very narrow loss (46%
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I really must congratulate me on this prediction, made back in early March when Obama was still riding high, based on my observation of the intense grass-roots fervor that contrasted so sharply with the complacent Establishment leadership at the just-completed Conservative Political Action Committee conference: "The followership, the vast
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September 29, 2009 By A North Carolina Reader Peter Brimelowwrites: I remember then-GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey reacting with utter amazement when I raised the subject of immigration with him in a meeting he had with the editors at the pre-purgeNational Review. Perhaps ten years later,Armey made an appearance
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Alexander is thinking of enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps next year, directly out of high school (long story). So I was highly alarmed when a friend who did the same thing during the Vietnam War told me that he was appalled by the element of sadism—quite new,
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James Fulford writes: Peter Brimelow spoke to Pat Buchanan's American Cause on June 20, 2009, on a panel that included Pat Buchanan, Phyllis Schlafly, Ward Connerly, and Lou Barletta, who are mentioned in the speech. The website ThinkProgress.org made fun of a banner with a spelling error
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Immigration patriots had a number of reasons to be distressed at the news that, at the remarkably advanced age of 88 and armed with a curiously light .22-caliber rifle, James von Brunn attacked the Washington D.C. Holocaust Museum on June 10. They knew that, as Patrick Cleburne has subsequently
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[See also: William F. Buckley, Jr., RIP—Sort Of and Thoughts On Attending William F. Buckley's Memorial Mass The fascinating news that the ageing William F. Buckley, beset by bladder problems, developed the habit of opening the door of his moving limousine and urinating into passing traffic—revealed
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(This article originally appeared in the June, 2009, issue of Chronicles. Subscribe online to Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Click here for details.) I stopped paying attention to Time many years ago. My twin brother and I, already plotting our emigration to the United States, subscribed as college students