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WASHINGTON, June 13. (by Calvin Woodward, AP) - President Clinton took note Tuesday of the lively – and sometimes bilingual – contest by both parties for the Hispanic vote. Then he took aim at Republicans, claiming they are falling short in issues important to those voters. "I hope very much that
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"You know something's up when Jack Kemp, Spence Abraham and Bill Gates find themselves on the same side of the barricades as Al Gore, Bob Graham and the folks at the National Council of La Raza," says the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page this morning (June
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Peter Brimelow writes: At last—available on the Internet! I still think Ed Rubenstein's and my analysis of current immigration policy's impact on future Presidential politics is the best thing around—partly because, incredibly, it's still the only thing around. Its publication as a
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Times of London, February 17, 1990 Peter Brimelow writes: Tom Brokaw hadn't instructed us that they were the "Great Generation" when I published this column on the death of my father for a British audience (London Times, February 17, 1990). Almost exactly ten years later, we
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Diversity vs. Freedom (contd.) You won't find this on the Washington Times website because, well, who cares? But on April 12, Page C2, the paper carried this short item: Man given 10 years for burning cross A man involved in a 1997 cross burning at Bowie [Md.] High
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Peter Brimelow writes: Like Steve Sailer, I kind of like Ron Unz, despite his propensity for Paul Gigot-type childishness like calling critics of immigration policy "anti-immigrant." (And me quote-unquote "respectable." What is that supposed to mean?) This is an extract from his enormous post on Steve
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Canada has invented another disease, to go along with speech codes and multiculturalism: the Queens University philosopher Will Kymlicka , a professional liberal ideologue who spends his time inventing rationales for political elites to pander to ethnic minorities at the expense of majorities. (The 3/28/00 Wall Street Journa ran
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Peter Brimelow writes: Department of Education officials claimed to be unaware of Jane Elliott's views in March 2000 when the former Iowa teacher told the DOE's speaker series on diversity that Governors George W. and Jeb Bush were racists etc. etc. But teacher union watchdog Michael
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I wasn't very hopeful about the London Economist's "Editorial Survey on America and Immigration" when I read the flyer being circulated to potential advertisers. (In the current climate, immigration enthusiasts never think of hiding their crass motivations.) And in fact the survey can'
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Peter Brimelow writes: It's a cliché of contemporary debate that America is a unique "Proposition Nation," not one of those nasty ethnically-specific nation-states in Europe. Anyone can become an American by subscribing to a set of abstract principles, etc. etc. Quack quack. In Alien Nation, I
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To great applause, the AFL-CIO has just reversed its opposition to illegal immigration and come out for ANOTHER amnesty. The political economy of this: [1] labor unionism is declining among native-born Americans, so immigrants represent a new market; [2] if illegals can be unionized, employers can't use them