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I was being interviewed in the Bloomberg studios on the first day of the publicity tour for my notorious book Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster when news of the last great terrorist attack, the Oklahoma City bombing, began to flare across the TV monitors. For
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First published in Forbes Magazine, 1987 THE MAN FROM THE White House was stunned. He had telephoned to offer Thomas Sowell nothing less than a Cabinet post in the new Reagan Administration. And Sowell, an economist and senior fellow of the California-based Hoover Institution, had hung up the phone while
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"While 2 percent of white and African-American [violent] deaths occur in bars, the figure is 12 percent for Mexican-Americans." A brilliant article by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor in "Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper" is ostensibly about marketing malt liquor to Hispanics. It's actually about
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Peter Brimelow writes: Sam Francis here repeats (he can't be right all the time) the media-filtered conventional wisdom that Enoch Powell's April 1968 speech ruined his career. On the contrary, it made it. It transformed him into the unofficial opposition to the center-left consensus, both in
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Two AZ Readers Are Shocked, Shocked At Any Mention Of R— If San Diego columnist and talk show host Raoul Lowery Contreras (click here or here to email) did not exist, we would have to invent him. The cause of immigration reform is immeasurably aided by his thuggery (comparing Cuban-born
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Peter Brimelow writes: Government statistics are wonderful things. Forbes Magazine has just (May 28 issue) published my charticle on the silent dropout disaster of the 1990s – a disaster that the government school complex has been forced to acknowledge only by activist pressure. Not only is the dropout rate (22% in
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Immigration enthusiasts often give pride of place to the achievements of the community imported from India. Without them, we are given to understand, America would have been unable to develop a high-tech industry. And indeed, this able group has been extremely quick to learn the ropes of the US political
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Many thanks to the several appalled readers who sent us Todd S. Purdum's March 29 New York Times piece California Census Confirms Whites Are in Minority : "For the first time in the modern era, non-Hispanic whites are officially a minority in California, amounting to a little less
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Peter Brimelow writes: Forbes Magazine has just published my charticle demonstrating the European Union's strikingly low labor force participation rates compared to the U.S. (Click here – don't forget to continue through to the actual chart, which in the web version is shown separately. Forbes still
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Peter Brimelow writes: The Boston Herald's Don Feder is one of the very few syndicated columnists who dare to tackle immigration. He once kindly attributed his change of heart to my 1992 National Review cover story "Time to rethink Immigration?" In this powerful piece, he cites
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Peter Brimelow writes: Samuel Huntington, the eminent Harvard political scientist and a friend of VDARE, is one of a surprising number of established figures who have expressed quiet but total skepticism about current immigration policy. Others include diplomatist George Kennan, in his 1994 memoir Around the Cragged