Archive for June 2011

Jonathan Melaku

When Rush Limbaugh attempted to buy into an NFL franchise, the political left spread spectacular lies about him, even falsely and absurdly claiming that he had defended slavery on his radio program. When the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., sponsored a public debate on immigration policy, the left-wing hate group known as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) smeared and denounced AEI by claiming that it was “mainstreaming hate” by sponsoring the debate. Of course, Americans have been debating immigration policy ever since the Louisiana Purchase. The SPLC is the leading leftist group that engages in this kind of totalitarian behavior.

When a group of military and police officers organized a group called “Oathkeepers” to simply affirm the oath they had all taken to respect and live by the U.S. Constitution, they were denounced by the SPLC as a “hate group,” the exact same language the SPLC uses to describe the KKK. When in 2009 the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement that “Ron Paul for President” bumper stickers “could identify likely threats,” their asinine statement came from information supplied to them by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The League of the South recently published its “Declaration of Cultural Secession” advocating a society that advances what it calls the virtues of “Celtic culture,” defined on its Web site as “the permanent things that order and sustain life: faith, family, tradition, community, and private property; loyalty, courage, and honour.” The SPLC lied about and defamed the League of the South by spreading the falsehood on its own Web site that by “Celtic culture” the League of the South means, and I quote, “white people.” Apparently the SPLC believes that only white people embrace family, tradition, community, private property, courage, etc.

Impuning the motives of one’s political opponents, rather than engaging in civilized debate, is an age-old strategy of socialists and other left-wing extremists. In his famous book, The Law, Frederic Bastiat wrote of how the socialists of his day (the 1840s) routinely responded to his criticisms of their interventionist economic schemes by accusing him of hating the poor. It is also obviously the modus operandi of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC works hand-in-hand with leftist politicians like Congressman Lacy Clay (D-Banksters), quoted at the top of this article, who are too cowardly to sponsor a new Sedition Act that would outlaw criticisms of the government altogether, as was done during the Adams administration. Instead, they support in any way they can the operations of the SPLC, which attempts to censor all serious criticism of the extreme leftist political agenda of socialist politicians like Lacy Clay by accusing any and all critics of “hate” or “extremism,” the same words that are used to describe genuine hate groups like the KKK, or criminal or terrorist organizations and individuals.

The Majority Strategy

A Path to Victory and a Secure Future

9 September 2011
The National Press Club
Washington, DC

www.NPIConferences.com

• Peter Brimelow — The “Sailer Strategy”: Triumphant and Denied
• James Edwards — Obama and the “R Word”
• Jared Taylor — White Identity: Why We Need It

With each new election cycle, the Republican leadership becomes ever more convinced of its need to “reach out” to Hispanics, Blacks, and other minorities, or else risk irrelevance and defeat.

The Inland area’s soaring Latino population and aging white households are creating a growing ethnic and racial generation gap, newly released census figures show.

Nearly two-thirds of Riverside and San Bernardino counties’ residents 65 and older are white non-Hispanic — while nearly 80 percent of children 5 and younger are non-white — according to numbers released late Wednesday from the 2010 U.S. Census.

Across the nation, primarily suburban areas like the Inland region are seeing growing gaps as they become more diverse and the white population ages, said William Frey, a senior fellow and demographer with the Metropolitan Policy Institute.

The statistics are the latest from the once-every-10-years count of the nation’s population. Initial statistics on the Inland area were released in March and May, and more will be released in coming months.

France’s right-wing nationalist party, Front National, has taken inspiration from Denmark.

“Denmark patrols its borders … why don’t we?” the party’s newest campaign posters read.

The posters are being distributed to party members throughout France, reports public broadcaster DR.

Front National’s leader Marine Le Pen applauded the Danish government – and its right-wing support party, the Danish People’s Party – for reinstating permanent border controls.

On the poster Le Pen details how France is under even greater threat than Denmark of being overrun by refugees and migrants from non-EU countries - especially unstable north African countries.

Front National’s new border control campaign may be the first in a trend that Germany’s vice foreign affairs minister Werner Hoyer warned against earlier this month. “Nationalists in every country will get the same idea. They will model themselves on Denmark,” Hoyer told Politiken newspaper.

Millionaires are now legally entitled to collect food stamps as long as they have little or no monthly income. Thirty-five states have abolished asset tests for most food-stamp recipients. These and similar “paperwork reduction” reforms advocated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are turning the food-stamp program into a magnet for abuses and absurdities.

The Obama administration is far more enthusiastic about boosting food-stamp enrollment than about preventing fraud. Thanks in part to vigorous federally funded campaigns by nonprofit groups, the government’s AmericaCorps service program, and other organizations urging people to accept government handouts, the number of food-stamp recipients has soared to 44 million from 26 million in 2007, and costs have more than doubled to $77 billion from $33 billion.

The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service now has only 40 inspectors to oversee almost 200,000 merchants that accept food stamps nationwide. The Government Accountability Office reported last summer that retailers who traffic illegally in food stamps by redeeming stamps for cash or alcohol or other prohibited items “are less likely to face criminal penalties or prosecution” than in earlier years.

South Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature has approved a bill that would require police officers to check the immigration status of people they stop for another reason and force companies to ensure their employees are authorized to work in the United States.

SB 20, inspired by Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 law, will now go to the desk of GOP Gov. Nikki Haley, who has said she plans to sign it.

The state’s House of Representatives on Tuesday approved changes made last week by the Senate, which extended debate on the bill after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that states have the right to compel employers to use the federal E-Verify system to determine whether jobseekers can legally work in the country.

Firms that defy the law could have their business license temporarily suspended or even revoked.

Research by Melissa McDonald, doctoral student in psychology, and Carlos Navarrete, assistant professor of psychology, explores the link between fertility and prejudice.

Women’s bias against male strangers increases when women are fertile, suggesting prejudice may be partly fueled by genetics, according to a study by Michigan State University psychology researchers.

The study, funded by the National Science Foundation, appears online in Psychological Science, a major research journal.

“Our findings suggest that women’s prejudice, at least in part, may be a byproduct of their biology,” said Melissa McDonald, a doctoral student and lead author on the paper.

The researchers conducted scientific studies with two groups of women that investigated how women’s implicit attitudes toward men change across the menstrual cycle. They found that fertile women were more biased against men of different races and men of different social groups than men of their own group.

Importantly, though, the increase in bias occurred only for women who perceived the men as physically threatening, said Carlos David Navarrete, assistant professor of psychology and research team leader. Navarrete, an evolutionary psychologist, and his team explore big-picture topics such as morality and race relations.

By 9-7 vote, the full 5th Circuit refused to consider an appeal of a three-judge decision that upheld using race as one consideration in admissions at the University of Texas.

Nine of the ruling’s 11 pages are taken up by a dissent from the circuit’s chief judge, joined by four other judges.

The case originated in changes to Texas’ “Top 10 Percent” law, enacted in 1997 to boost minority enrollment at state universities. After assessing its minority population, the University of Texas in 2004 began including seven special circumstances as factors in considering in-state applicants who were not eligible under the Top 10 Percent law. Among these special circumstances are race and socioeconomic status.

The UT adopted the race-conscious undergraduate admissions program with attention to the 2003 Supreme Court ruling Grutter v. Bollinger, regarding the admissions process at the University of Michigan Law School.

Walter E. Williams

The late South African economist William Hutt, in his 1964 book, “The Economics of the Colour Bar,” said that one of the supreme tragedies of the human condition is that those who have been the victims of injustices and oppression “can often be observed to be inflicting not dissimilar injustices upon other races.”

Born in 1936, I’ve lived through some of our openly racist history, which has included racist insults, beatings and lynchings. Tuskegee Institute records show that between the years 1880 and 1951, 3,437 blacks and 1,293 whites were lynched. I recall my cousin’s and my being chased out of Fishtown and Grays Ferry, two predominantly Irish Philadelphia neighborhoods, in the 1940s, not stopping until we reached a predominantly black North or South Philly neighborhood.

Today all that has changed. Most racist assaults are committed by blacks. What’s worse is there’re blacks, still alive, who lived through the times of lynching, Jim Crow laws and open racism who remain silent in the face of it.

Last year, four black Skidmore College students yelled racial slurs while they beat up a white man because he was dining with a black man. Skidmore College’s first response was to offer counseling to one of the black students charged with the crime. In 2009, a black Columbia University professor assaulted a white woman during a heated argument about race relations. According to interviews and court records obtained and reported by Denver’s ABC affiliate (12/4/2009), black gangs roamed downtown Denver verbally venting their hatred for white victims before assaulting and robbing them during a four-month crime wave. Earlier this year, two black girls beat a white girl at a McDonald’s, and the victim suffered a seizure. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ordered an emergency shutdown of the beaches in Chicago because mobs of blacks were terrorizing families. According to the NBC affiliate there (6/8/2011), a gang of black teens stormed a city bus, attacked white victims and ran off with their belongings.