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November 11, 2015
Where Will American Refugees Go?If immigration completely transforms America, where can Americans go to preserve our national identity? Nowhere. This land is our one chance. There is nowhere else to turn for Americans who want limited government, truly free speech, the norm of p...
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August 23, 2014
In Defense of 'Fear and Bitterness'If you oppose amnesty and unlimited “generosity” for the latest wave of illegal aliens, then you are probably fearful and bitter, according to conservative commentator Matt Lewis. It is an unfortunate aspect of politics that people ass...
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August 18, 2014
'Must we have a dead white kid?' asks Erick EricksonConservative talk show host Erick Erickson asks of the turmoil in Ferguson, "Must we have a dead white kid?" Well so what if we did have a dead white kid? Would people think differently about the police conduct in Ferguson? Eric...
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August 3, 2014
Was Kit Carson like Hitler, or was he an American Hero?For many Americans, the name Kit Carson invokes several of the greatest elements of the American character: bravery, self-sufficiency, and the thrill of exploration. For some, Carson’s name stands for victory over hostile native tribes. ...
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July 31, 2014
The Conservatives Peddling Amnesty (and Teddy Bears) for the 'Refugees'George Will and Hugh Hewitt, despite the mounting evidence that almost no Democrat will enforce existing immigration laws, are still plugging amnesty for the latest wave of illegal aliens. Glenn Beck, for his part, handed a talking point to Dick Durb...
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July 28, 2014
Glenn Beck's Kinder, Gentler Exploitation of the Border CrisisGlenn Beck’s “charity” charade is neither conservative nor, in my opinion, Christian. This nation’s charitable impulses have already been exploited beyond belief through decades’ worth of lax immigration enforcemen...
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July 14, 2014
The Conservatives Who Deserve Blame for the Border BreakdownThe conservative commentators who advocated a “path to citizenship” after the 2012 election bear partial blame for the current wave of illegal immigrants from Central America. Many of those who advocated for amnesty following the 2012 ele...
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June 20, 2014
Senator Rand Paul's Imaginary Libertarian ImmigrantsSen. Rand Paul has suddenly become aware of facts that do not exist. “Immigrants are drawn to the magnet of free market capitalism here in the United States,” he wrote in an op-ed last week. However, over half of Hispanics are li...
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February 15, 2014
Leading British Conservative: Immigration Makes Us 'Give Up Our Culture and Identity'America is not the only nation roiled by immigration debates. England, like many Western nations, is also in the midst of a heated one. Douglas Murray, one of England's leading conservative intellectuals, has just made a major contributi...
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February 11, 2014
Dead Souls In the Republican Leadership"America cannot become the world and still be America." So warned the late Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington in his 2004 article "America's Dead Souls." Huntington's article was prophetic, and it explains why some GOP pols have taken the...
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June 14, 2013
Shamnesty's Latest SelloutSickly sentimentality is bearing its rotten fruit, and this country may suffer as a consequence. Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte's support makes amnesty more likely to pass the Senate. Here is a sample of her rationale: As a nation of im...
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June 14, 2013
Rubio Doubles Down by Lying about Border SecuritySomething unusually awful happened Thursday in the circus of lies that is comprehensive immigration reform. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) offered an amendment to the bill, making border security a trigger for granting temporary legal status to illega...
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June 3, 2013
Amnesty will Lead to More Affirmative ActionOf all the consequences that would result from amnesty, one that hasn't been discussed enough is the expansion of affirmative action. Affirmative action takes existing racial grievances, institutionalizes them, and then magnifies them. As...
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May 28, 2013
Blame Whitey: The Swedish Version"Sweden riots expose ugly side of Multiculturalism and Immigration." That would be an accurate title for an article describing the wave of mayhem unleashed by violent immigrants in the suburb of Husby, north of Stockholm. ...
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May 16, 2013
John McCain's 'Judeo-Christian' ShamnestyJohn McCain is one of the more manipulative amnesty advocates. During recent town hall meetings, his angry constituents made political, legal, and economic objections to amnesty. There stood McCain, backpedaling, hemming and hawing, and sp...
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May 13, 2013
Marco Rubio's Theater of the AbsurdJust a few years ago, Senator Rubio said, "[I]f you grant amnesty ... in any form, whether it's back of the line or so forth, you will destroy any chance we will ever have of having a legal immigration system that works here in America." Rubio is n...
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May 7, 2013
John McCain: American Citizenship Is PorkIf being consistent and honest in what one says is a measure of respect, then John McCain must have a level of disrespect, somewhere between carelessness and contempt, for the American public. We see this in his own self-refuting remarks about Hisp...
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May 3, 2013
Paul Krugman, the Anti-Immigrant?In 2006, Paul Krugman wrote that "immigration reduces the wages of domestic workers" and poses a "political threat" to "the welfare state." Now he supports amnesty. What a difference an election makes. In 2006, liberal economist and New York Times ...
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April 27, 2013
Amnesty as a 'Civil Right'Amnesty "is a matter of civil and human rights," Eric Holder claims. If that's the case, then amnesty opponents are a bunch of Bull Connors. Holder stated in remarks in an April 24 speech to the Mexican American Legal Defense a...
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April 25, 2013
Sen. Marco Rubio's Tangled Web of Dishonest PC Spin"A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." So said British prison psychiatrist and social commentator Theodore Dalrymple. No better words could des...
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October 5, 2012
Shut Up or Die, the Muslim Protesters ExplainedWould liberals support censorship in response to wife-beaters, skinheads, abortion-clinic bombers, gay-bashers, or any other violent group? Then why do they support censorship in response to terrorists? It appears that some liberals want to of...
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September 19, 2012
Eric Holder, 'Hate Crimes,' and 'His People'A group of those whom Eric Holder described as "his people," at least six young men, repeatedly punched a 24-year-old white woman in the face, then proceeded to kick her face over and over when she was on the ground helpless. This occ...
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August 21, 2012
Todd Akin Must GoCongressman Todd Akin is nothing but a liability, and he should immediately step aside. Politics is the art of the possible, and it will be impossible to win with such a tainted candidate. Tom McClusky, VP for government affairs at the Family Rese...
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May 17, 2012
Racism and the PC InquisitionMonday last week, The Chronicle of Higher Education announced that Naomi Schaefer Riley was fired from their blog "Brainstorm" for writing that black studies programs should be "eliminated" because they are "left-wing victimi...
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April 2, 2012
Holder's RevengeReverse discrimination against whites has just begun, according to Attorney General Eric Holder. Now, the exploitation of Trayvon Martin's death has thrown the cycle of racial resentment and favoritism into overdrive. There has been much...
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March 22, 2012
Critical Race Theory: A Cult of Anti-White ResentmentWhen asked by CNN's Soledad O'Brien about the definition of critical race theory (CRT), Emory Law Professor Dorothy Brown offered the following: "Critical race theory seeks to explain judicial decisions by asking the question, What does race have to ...
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January 23, 2012
White Middle-Schooler Beaten Unconscious by Group of Black StudentsThe story is shocking enough, even without bringing race into it: on the way to school in Ocala, FA, a thirteen-year-old girl was beaten unconscious and reportedly went into a seizure after being attacked on the school bus by a group of fellow studen...
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August 31, 2011
A Violent Racist Game Claims More VictimsOne man was stomped to death and another man nearly killed in a racist amusement called the "knock-out game," played almost exclusively by black teenagers. The victims were both white, and that fact needs to be raised in our nati...
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August 30, 2011
The Racial Violence that Dare Not Speak Its NameRecent flash mob violence has alerted Americans to a pattern of racially tinged violence.. A notable outbreak occurred in Denver in 2009, setting a pattern of delay, denial, and silence. Now that same scourge has returned to Denver, among...
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August 23, 2011
Obama Baits the Dependency TrapThe Obama administration is busy expanding the exact type of violent, ungrateful underclass which recently exploded in London. An administration program will expand free school meal coverage to millions of young people who are not even supposed...
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August 17, 2011
Media Stifling Racial Violence CoverageRace matters if we want to understand the current pattern of racial mob violence. Flash mobs have a lot of people talking, no thanks to PC journalists who have refused all along to help us understand this emerging social problem. For t...
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August 10, 2011
Racial Sensitivity Through the Looking GlassRacial sensitivity has placed us in a peculiar situation as a nation, in which thoughtless rudeness evidently is a bigger concern than actual violence. A recent set of events demonstrates this. Imagine that a minority college student was bothered by ...
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August 8, 2011
The Taboo on Mentioning Black Mob ViolenceIf you point out a wave of racial mob violence, you are "race-baiting," according to several liberal commentators. Perhaps these liberals are the ones Attorney General Holder referred to when he called ours a "nation of cowards." The wave of ra...
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August 4, 2011
Guns Are Racist: Chicago Politics and Blame-Shifting for Urban ViolenceGuns are responsible for violence in the same way that pencils are responsible for bad test scores. Those of us who embrace the notions of character and accountability would say that the person himself is responsible for how he uses his gun. ...
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July 14, 2011
The Knockout Game: Racial Violence and the Conspicuous Silence of the MediaBy now, almost everyone has seen one of the semi-amusing videos of so-called "flash mobs" rampaging through a store. Maybe we've even seen the non-amusing pictures of the victims, or heard their stories. Most Americans have ...
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July 8, 2011
Minority Feelings and Violent FactsWhat is the most important take-away from a story about mobs of black teens attacking and seriously injuring innocent pedestrians and businesses? The feelings of teenagers who share the race of the attackers, according to Chicago's local CB...
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June 30, 2011
How Race Gets Rubbed Out of the StoryThe editor of a major newspaper has just admitted that he prints propaganda. There is no other way to describe the decision of Chicago Tribune editor Gerould W. Kern, who refuses to report on the racial aspect of recent mob attacks in Chicago. ...
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June 15, 2011
The 'Achievement Gap' FraudOur educational system is self-destructing because of a fraud known as the "achievement gap." One result of that fraud is that public school bureaucrats are taking away opportunities from good students in a misguided effort to help un...
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June 2, 2011
Racial Violence Has Not Made It Into the Conversation about RaceIf we're going to have a conversation about race, we should include violent "flash mobs" in the list of conversation topics. After all, recent flash mob violence is the closest our nation has come to widespread racial strife in ov...
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May 27, 2011
Open Mind or Empty Head?There is a difference between an open mind and an empty head. But not everyone agrees. At Harambee Elementary in Maplewood Minnesota, kindergarteners are starting their indoctrination early. The Star Tribune reports that at this sch...
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May 25, 2011
Open Mind or Empty Head?There is a difference between an open mind and an empty head. But not everyone agrees. At Harambee Elementary in Maplewood Minnesota, kindergarteners are starting their indoctrination early. The Star Tribune reports that at this school, "A ...
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November 30, 2010
Sharia Law Is Already HereSophisticated liberals have found humor in Oklahoma's recent ban on Sharia law. Along with humor, some have found offense in the bill. U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange granted a temporary restraining order blocking the bill. Critics, such...
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November 3, 2010
Who's Afraid of Muslims?NPR has shown itself to be afraid of Muslims -- far more afraid than Juan Williams, and hypocritical in a way that Williams never was. What's worse, NPR has acted on that fear. In 2006, a Danish cartoonist made drawings of the proph...
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October 22, 2010
Join the National Conversation on Race and Get FiredScore a point for thought control. Juan Williams joined the conversation about race, said something non-PC, and NPR fired him. We now regretfully understand, even more clearly, why 75% of Americans consider political correctness a problem,...
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October 6, 2010
For Obama, Mexico Comes FirstPresident Obama did more than just botch American history in his recent speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; he advanced a racial separatist agenda which undermines our cultural solidarity and insults our sovereignty. In a speech to the Cong...
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September 23, 2010
Shouting 'Fire' in a Crowded GlobeCan we stop calling Islam a religion of peace now? The fairy tale has been tarnished by Islamic violence, and it's undignified for children of the Enlightenment to go on repeating falsehoods. If Islam were a religion of ...