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[Peter Brimelow writes: I wrote this on December 11 2011 during our 2011 Christmas fundraising campaign, but it asks a good question, so I’m posting it to VDARE.com too.] For immigration patriots, the December 10 Iowa GOP Presidential candidates debate would have been a bore—except for the
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The transcript of last night's debate makes the extraordinary exchange between Romney and Bachmann that I complained about look even extraordinarier: "ROMNEY: ...Let me turn to Congresswoman Bachmann and just—just as you, Congresswoman. As—as we've spoken this evening, we're all concerned
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Peter Brimelow writes: We don't write enough about the public-choice consequences of creeping bilingualism i.e. foreign-language retention in the U.S., particularly because we regularly get letters from native-born Americans denied jobs because they don't speak Spanish. We just found an e-version of my analysis
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Peter Brimelow writes: At VDARE.com, we’re preoccupied with what we call “The National Question”—whether the U.S., or for at matter any other First World country, can survive as a nation-state, the political expression of a particular nation, defined as a specific ethno-cultural community. We mostly focus
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I've always argued that candidates need merely mention the issue of patriotic immigration reform to give the highly emotional Treason Lobby enough rope to hang itself. This morning's Washington Post editorial, Michele Bachmann’s misplaced immigration nostalgia (Posted September 15, 2011), proves me right. Michelle Bachmann
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I stopped memorializing 9/11 on VDARE.com on the sixth anniversary in 2007. I wrote early that morning: "I suppose a whole generation will always remember where they were when they heard about 9/11, just as an earlier one never forgot where they were when they heard
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Jay Bookman [email him], a carpetbagging Treason Lobby shill at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is trying to stampede Georgia governor Nathan Deal into rescinding his appointment of Phil Kent [email him], a patriotic immigration reformer and long-time conservative activist, to the state’s Immigration Enforcement Review Board. [Anti-immigrant extremist appointed to
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In the exotic Turkish night, what seem to be fiery sparks whirl wildly above the looming bulks of Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque, both huge domes attended by soaring minarets. Studying them from one of Istanbul's many rooftop restaurants, we eventually realize that they are seagulls, catching
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Back to: That GOP Debate In New Hampshire: A Pleasant Surprise On Immigration Excerpts From CNN Republican Debate In New Hampshire, June 13, 2011 QUESTION: As a naturalized American citizen who came here legally, I would like to know how you, as America—as president, plan to prevent illegal immigrants
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Rob Sanchez has a powerful post this morning about Gov. Tim Pawlenty's Chamber of Commerce-compliant immigration policy, but I am astonished to say I don't really agree with Rob's dismissal of the immigration component in last night's GOP presidential debate as "
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Peter Brimelow ends VDARE.com Spring 2011 Fundraising Drive, Thanks Readers Peter Brimelow writes: Today, I learned that this day's snailmail had brought in checks that FINALLY put us over our $30,000 Spring Fundraising target, I want to thank everyone concerned—even the readers who complained when
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My quick thoughts on President Obama's much-promoted May 10 immigration speech: * Obama nowhere mentioned the word "unemployment". But he is urging not merely the amnestying of millions of undocumented Democrats, allowing them full access to the American job market, but also increasing legal immigration—already at