vdare--2020-07-25--Covid-19 and Race: I Am Completely Vindicated By U.S. Govt. Report

It seemed obvious to me from the beginning that there could be race differences in the prevalence of Covid-19 .
But literally no media source was discussing the possibility , and even the basic facts on the racial incidence of the disease were just not being reported .
I began to end my VDARE.com articles with a mantra : If Covid-19 is not an Equal Opportunity disease , that means our race-denying Ruling Class is frightening most people too much—and not warning some people enough .
This will not merely cause unnecessary chaos—it will cost lives .
I have now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
Indeed , so extreme has been the Ruling Class flip-flop on this issue that Federal health advisers are now reportedly even considering prioritizing minorities for treatment , arguably unconstitutionally , because race differences in incidence are so pronounced .
[ Access to COVID-19 vaccine may be restricted based on race , if panel has its way , by Hans Bader , Liberty Unyielding , July 24 , 2020 ] Initially , because it was unclear exactly what was happening—more accurately , because the facts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what evidence was available .
At first the Wu Flu seemed primarily to impact East Asians , who had shown particularly poor resistance to flu in the past .
On this basis , it seemed not unlikely that the outbreak might essentially be confined to East Asia , as earlier outbreaks had been , notably the 2002-2003 SARS pandemic .
This caused me to speculate that the key issue behind Covid-19 incidence in East Asia might be Vitamin C deficiency .
If this model was right—if Vitamin C was the key issue—then we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Covid-19 , as they are good at producing Vitamin C , and this seemingly was the case in Africa itself , where Covid-19 did not and still does not appear to have had a significant impact .
It eventually emerged , however , that the opposite was true among African-Americans , who were strongly over-represented among Covid-19 deaths .
( This was the point at which the U.S. Main Stream Media apparently got permission from Political Correctness Central to switch unblushingly to reporting race data , as also happened in Britain .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ relevant—and it still might be—and there must have been something else that was overwhelming this .
Once it became clear that Corona was killing other groups as well , it was also noticeable that it was especially severe among the same groups—such as Italians—who had fared really poorly in America during the 1918 flu epidemic .
Finally , it emerged that non-whites in the West were the worst hit , even when controlling for socioeconomic status .
This appears to be due to Vitamin D deficiency indirectly caused by dark skin in an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explain why Africans in Africa were resistant .
In essence , non-whites in countries with low light are Vitamin D deficient because they can not so easily absorb sunlight via their skin and synthesize it into Vitamin D. But others likely also played a part .
For example , the fact that Iran and southern Europe were particularly hard hit raised the possibility that , for these people , lack of genetic resistance to flu was significant .
Rounding up all that we now know on race differences in Covid-19 prevalence in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services , has now concluded that the impact was clearly greater on non-whites .
Based on the report by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [ Characteristics of Persons Who Died with COVID-19 — United States , February 12–May 18 , 2020 July 17 , 2020 ] , Slavitt tells us ( in an extended Twitter thread ) that 13 % of whites who died were under the age of 65 , compared to 30 % of non-whites .
The median age of death from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for whites but only 31 for non-whites .
Below , a screenshot showing two replies from people worried about what whites will do with this information .
It seems not to occur to them that non-whites might use this information to save their lives .
Slavitt confesses to having been shocked at the extent of deaths among otherwise healthy people , with 25 % of those who died—including 17 % of those under 65—having no underlying medical conditions .
Of course , non-whites in the US are more likely to have underlying medical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even when controlling for factors associated with these underlying conditions , such as socioeconomic status .
The report cited by Slavitt does not even look at the evidence for this , which has come primarily from assessments of deaths among non-white workers for Britain ’ s National Health Service and other British data—all of which I reported as soon as it came to my attention .
As I reported the racial developments week by week , my liberal friends argued that the evidence for racial differences was weak and that speculating about it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Of course , this “ stigmatizing ” argument never made any sense .
If East Asians , for example , were more likely to die of Covid-19 for genetic reasons , they would be unlikely to impact local whites , if whites were relatively resistant , and whites would have no reason to shun them .
Another argument against my reporting Covid-19 ’ s racial dimension : We didn ’ t know enough yet and therefore should “ wait and see ” before reporting anything .
I couldn ’ t agree less .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ media lie all the time about race , and there was no reason to suppose the truth would ever emerge .
Thus the fact that SARS was most prevalent among East Asians was never widely reported .
Secondly , the way that we make sense of any phenomenon is by sharing information , discussing what we know , and presenting and testing hypotheses .
These will stimulate further thoughts , and fresh insights , until we get closer to being able to really work out what is happening .
To suggest we should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ issue until “ we know more ” is effectively saying that we should ignore it—try to put out of minds .
After all , at what arbitrary point will we actually have “ enough information ” ?
Who decides when , exactly , we “ know more ” ?
The scientific method ( now , not coincidentally , under attack in the increasingly multicultural West ) doesn ’ t work like that .
Scientists attempt to make sense of the world with the best available data .
And when new data come along @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Covid-19 , they revise their models accordingly .
That is exactly what I did .
On the minus side , this meant that at various points I reported ( albeit cautiously ) hypotheses that have not held up completely .
On the plus side , it meant that I followed the spirit of free scientific enquiry and therefore discovered the most parsimonious explanation for race differences—Vitamin D deficiency—long before the MSM .
The implication of this Vitamin D finding : non-whites in Western countries needed to be particularly careful .
But no-one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ VDARE.com .
The big question : what will we be right about , and the Ruling Class attempt to suppress , next ?
Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

It seemed obvious to me from the beginning that there could be race differences in the prevalence of Covid-19. But literally no media source was discussing the possibility, and even the basic facts on the racial incidence of the disease were just not being reported. I began to end my VDARE.com articles with a mantra: If Covid-19 is not an Equal Opportunity disease, that means our race-denying Ruling Class is frightening most people too much—and not warning some people enough. This will not merely cause unnecessary chaos—it will cost lives. I have now been completely vindicated by a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Indeed, so extreme has been the Ruling Class flip-flop on this issue that Federal health advisers are now reportedly even considering prioritizing minorities for treatment, arguably unconstitutionally, because race differences in incidence are so pronounced. [Access to COVID-19 vaccine may be restricted based on race, if panel has its way, by Hans Bader, Liberty Unyielding, July 24, 2020]
As they start to rank which Americans will receive the first effective doses of coronavirus vaccines, U.S. health officials are debating whether to put Black and Latino people, who have disproportionately fallen victim to Covid-19, ahead of other Americanshttps://t.co/roNlbt6T1G — The New York Times (@nytimes) July 9, 2020
Initially, because it was unclear exactly what was happening—more accurately, because the facts were being suppressed—I simply reported based on what evidence was available.
At first the Wu Flu seemed primarily to impact East Asians, who had shown particularly poor resistance to flu in the past. On this basis, it seemed not unlikely that the outbreak might essentially be confined to East Asia, as earlier outbreaks had been, notably the 2002-2003 SARS pandemic.
This caused me to speculate that the key issue behind Covid-19 incidence in East Asia might be Vitamin C deficiency. If this model was right—if Vitamin C was the key issue—then we would expect blacks to be strongly resistant to Covid-19, as they are good at producing Vitamin C, and this seemingly was the case in Africa itself, where Covid-19 did not and still does not appear to have had a significant impact.
It eventually emerged, however, that the opposite was true among African-Americans, who were strongly over-represented among Covid-19 deaths. (This was the point at which the U.S. Main Stream Media apparently got permission from Political Correctness Central to switch unblushingly to reporting race data, as also happened in Britain.) So even if Vitamin C was relevant—and it still might be—and there must have been something else that was overwhelming this.
Once it became clear that Corona was killing other groups as well, it was also noticeable that it was especially severe among the same groups—such as Italians—who had fared really poorly in America during the 1918 flu epidemic.
Finally, it emerged that non-whites in the West were the worst hit, even when controlling for socioeconomic status. This appears to be due to Vitamin D deficiency indirectly caused by dark skin in an environment with low light—which also helped to explain why Africans in Africa were resistant.
In essence, non-whites in countries with low light are Vitamin D deficient because they cannot so easily absorb sunlight via their skin and synthesize it into Vitamin D.
But others likely also played a part. For example, the fact that Iran and southern Europe were particularly hard hit raised the possibility that, for these people, lack of genetic resistance to flu was significant.
Rounding up all that we now know on race differences in Covid-19 prevalence in the US, Andy Slavitt, former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has now concluded that the impact was clearly greater on non-whites.
Based on the report by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Characteristics of Persons Who Died with COVID-19 — United States, February 12–May 18, 2020 July 17, 2020], Slavitt tells us (in an extended Twitter thread) that 13% of whites who died were under the age of 65, compared to 30% of non-whites. The median age of death from Covid-19 for those under 65 was 44 for whites but only 31 for non-whites.
Below, a screenshot showing two replies from people worried about what whites will do with this information.
It seems not to occur to them that non-whites might use this information to save their lives.
Slavitt confesses to having been shocked at the extent of deaths among otherwise healthy people, with 25% of those who died—including 17% of those under 65—having no underlying medical conditions.
Of course, non-whites in the US are more likely to have underlying medical conditions. But race differences persist, even when controlling for factors associated with these underlying conditions, such as socioeconomic status. The report cited by Slavitt does not even look at the evidence for this, which has come primarily from assessments of deaths among non-white workers for Britain’s National Health Service and other British data—all of which I reported as soon as it came to my attention.
As I reported the racial developments week by week, my liberal friends argued that the evidence for racial differences was weak and that speculating about it risked “stigmatizing” certain races.
Of course, this “stigmatizing” argument never made any sense. If East Asians, for example, were more likely to die of Covid-19 for genetic reasons, they would be unlikely to impact local whites, if whites were relatively resistant, and whites would have no reason to shun them.
Another argument against my reporting Covid-19’s racial dimension: We didn’t know enough yet and therefore should “wait and see” before reporting anything.
I couldn’t agree less. For one thing, Western governments and media lie all the time about race, and there was no reason to suppose the truth would ever emerge. Thus the fact that SARS was most prevalent among East Asians was never widely reported.
Secondly, the way that we make sense of any phenomenon is by sharing information, discussing what we know, and presenting and testing hypotheses. These will stimulate further thoughts, and fresh insights, until we get closer to being able to really work out what is happening.
To suggest we should just not think about or discuss an issue until “we know more” is effectively saying that we should ignore it—try to put out of minds. After all, at what arbitrary point will we actually have “enough information”? Who decides when, exactly, we “know more”?
The scientific method (now, not coincidentally, under attack in the increasingly multicultural West) doesn’t work like that. Scientists attempt to make sense of the world with the best available data. And when new data come along, as it did in the case of Covid-19, they revise their models accordingly.
That is exactly what I did. On the minus side, this meant that at various points I reported (albeit cautiously) hypotheses that have not held up completely. On the plus side, it meant that I followed the spirit of free scientific enquiry and therefore discovered the most parsimonious explanation for race differences—Vitamin D deficiency—long before the MSM.
The implication of this Vitamin D finding: non-whites in Western countries needed to be particularly careful.
But no-one told them. Except me, in VDARE.com.
The big question: what will we be right about, and the Ruling Class attempt to suppress, next?
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-07-25--I Don't Think Merely Capitalizing Black Is Showing Enough Obeisance

Earlier : The New Childishness : “ Why we capitalize ‘ Black ’ ( and not ‘ white ’ ) @ @ @ @ @ the word “ Black , ” I think the prestige press should take a lesson @ @ @ @ @ !
, Hello , Dolly !
, Oliver !
, and Mamma Mia !
and @ @ @ @ @ italics with an exclamation point : For example , from the New York Times in @ @ @ @ @ of 2019 when blacks were treated equally with whites in terms of capitalization : In @ @ @ @ @ would be :

Earlier: The New Childishness: “Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)”
Rather than merely capitalizing the word “Black,” I think the prestige press should take a lesson from Broadway musicals like Oklahoma!, Hello, Dolly!, Oliver!, and Mamma Mia! and always print the word in italics with an exclamation point:
For example, from the New York Times in the bad old disrespectful days of 2019 when blacks were treated equally with whites in terms of capitalization:
In more reverential 2020, that would be:
A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates Black and white America.
But in 2021:
A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates Black! and white America.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-07-25--Facebook Blocks VDARE.com, But Allows Antifa To ORGANIZE RIOTS

Gateway Pundit reports antifa organizing more and worse riots .
The point is that they 're doing it on Facebook—which @ @ @ @ @ speech , but apparently allows murderous arsonists to organize .

Gateway Pundit reports antifa organizing more and worse riots. The point is that they're doing it on Facebook—which censors anything they call hate speech, but apparently allows murderous arsonists to organize.
From VDARE's Twitter feed:


vdare--2020-07-25--The Layoffs Will Continue Until the Diversity Ratio Improves

( Reuters ) – Oil major Chevron Corp ( CVX.N ) expects to reduce the dominance of white males in company management during cost-cutting this year , upping the share of senior level jobs held by women and ethnic minorities to 44 % from 38 % last year , the company said in a statement… .
Figures from the end of last year show that less than a quarter of Chevron ’ s U.S. executives and senior managers were female , and only 22 % were from ethnic minorities .
In an email sent to employees this week and seen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rhonda Morris said the company selected 26 % women for global roles in a second round of appointments and , in the United States , 29 % of candidates selected were from ethnically diverse candidates .
I ’ m fascinated by the decline in first the word and then the concept of “ disinterested.
” First , it acquired a new meaning of “ bored , ” then the old concept was almost completely forgotten .
For example , it is now considered a GOOD thing that executives being paid to fire white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instead of races and genders that personally benefit from the anti-white male push .
… .
Long owned and run predominantly by white males , the oil industry has drawn criticism along with other parts of corporate America for failing to do enough to promote diversity .
And what has the American oil industry ever accomplished ?
I means , besides partnering with the American car industry to revolutionize the American way of life and raise living standards for the masses to undreamt of heights .
Chevron executives were among those at big @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ black lives matter ” campaign , which has become a global movement against racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis .

From Reuters:
Chevron diversity ratio to improve as layoffs progress
Shariq Khan BUSINESS NEWS JULY 24, 2020 / 8:02 AM / A DAY AGO (Reuters) – Oil major Chevron Corp (CVX.N) expects to reduce the dominance of white males in company management during cost-cutting this year, upping the share of senior level jobs held by women and ethnic minorities to 44% from 38% last year, the company said in a statement…. Figures from the end of last year show that less than a quarter of Chevron’s U.S. executives and senior managers were female, and only 22% were from ethnic minorities. In an email sent to employees this week and seen by Reuters, Chief Human Resources Officer Rhonda Morris said the company selected 26% women for global roles in a second round of appointments and, in the United States, 29% of candidates selected were from ethnically diverse candidates.
I’m fascinated by the decline in first the word and then the concept of “disinterested.” First, it acquired a new meaning of “bored,” then the old concept was almost completely forgotten. For example, it is now considered a GOOD thing that executives being paid to fire white men are not white men but are instead of races and genders that personally benefit from the anti-white male push.
…. Long owned and run predominantly by white males, the oil industry has drawn criticism along with other parts of corporate America for failing to do enough to promote diversity.
And what has the American oil industry ever accomplished? I means, besides partnering with the American car industry to revolutionize the American way of life and raise living standards for the masses to undreamt of heights.


vdare--2020-07-25--Portland Insurrection, Backing The Blue, The Gen Z Menace And The African Future, Etc.

12m29s Is Brexit woke ?
( Have we been thinking about it wrong ? )
21m58s The Gen Z menace @ @ @ @ @ to worry me . )
32m07s Immigrants take over .
( A lesson from the @ @ @ @ @ Museum curators gone wild .
( Miss BumBum Pageant for the educated classes . )
@ @ @ @ @ in the face .
( A case study from Fox News . )

02m00s Turbulence and order. (The Portland insurrection.)
08m47s Backing the Blue. (With a cold, realistic eye.)
12m29s Is Brexit woke? (Have we been thinking about it wrong?)
18m20s The Quadruple Entente. (From a strange source.)
21m58s The Gen Z menace. (They're starting to worry me.)
26m34s The African future. (Preventable evils.)
32m07s Immigrants take over. (A lesson from the Bronze Age.)
37m51s The naming of parts. (Toxic-male anatomy.)
40m27s Museum curators gone wild. (Miss BumBum Pageant for the educated classes.)
42m17s The mind's construction in the face. (A case study from Fox News.)
44m10s Signoff.
01— Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Notably so this week, listeners, as this is actually Radio Derb Number 750. Yes, folks; this is your tenaciously genial host John Derbyshire three-quarters of the way to one thousand podcasts. [Cheering.] Thank you, thank you.
This is also, as it happens, my 250th podcast hosted at VDARE.com. Many thanks to the VDARE editors and technical staff for making Radio Derb possible. Sincere thanks also to the hosts of our previous 500 episodes, Taki's Magazine and National Review Online. And most of all, of course, thanks to our listeners for giving us your time and attention all these years: a total of 454 hours, 44 minutes and 20 seconds if you caught every single podcast.
Well, well: Vita brevis, ars longa. Although, surveying the current national scene, the Latin tag that more readily comes to mind is O tempora, O mores! Let's take a look.
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02— Turbulence and order. Our nation's Constitution is getting something of a stress test up in the Northwest, especially in the city of Portland. Anarchist rioters have been assaulting the federal courthouse there, along with of course some vandalizing and looting of private property on the side.
(And in parenthesis, just a word about my use of the word "anarchist" there. No, I don't mean to imply that these rioters are inspired by the writings of Peter Kropotkin, Michael Bakunin, and Max Stirner. I'd be very surprised to learn that any of them are inspired by anything more erudite than Marvel Comics and Teen Vogue. We need some way to refer to them collectively, though, and a fully-informative descriptor like "Soros-funded alliance of Occupy, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and opportunistic black looters" just isn't snappy enough. End parenthesis.)
The constitutional issue here is the proper role of federal law-enforcement in local disturbances. It's been an issue at some level or other since the very beginnings of the Republic, since the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s.
A fundamental principle in play here is localism, also known as the principle of subsidiarity, which says that public issues should be managed and decided at the lowest level able and willing to decide them. You don't want bureaucrats in Washington, DC telling you whether or not you can build a treehouse in your back yard.
Over against that is the body of our fundamental rights and duties as citizens of a common nation. If my town decides that it's OK for me to practice human sacrifice in my back yard, higher authorities will have something to say about it, and it's right that they should.
And then, turbulence. I had things to say about this back in May. I quoted George Orwell's remarks after attending a meeting of striking coal miners during the Great Depression. Orwell had called the miners "sheeplike" and lamented that, quote, "There is no turbulence left in England."
I hastened to add that you can of course have too much turbulence. Still, for a crowd of citizens to break a few windows now and then— the windows of the rich and powerful for strong preference— is not altogether a bad thing.
So what if turbulence well above the window-breaking variety goes on night after night for weeks? And what if the local levels of law enforcement— municipal and state— can't control it? Ideally what you'd want to happen then is, those authorities would call on the feds to take over. The feds would come in and restore order, and life would get back to normal.
But what if the local elected officials don't want to do that? What if, for one reason or another— cold political calculation, perhaps, or a much warmer belief that the guy in charge of the feds is Literally Hitler— what if the Mayor and the Governor prefer the turbulence to just go on, even when rioters are assaulting federal facilities?
A sidebar issue here is the democratic legitimacy of those officials. There are high levels of apathy in municipal voting. I have previously noted the case of New York City, which twice elected Bill De Blasio, a crazy communist, as mayor, on turnouts of thirteen percent and eighteen percent.
Portlanders seem not to be that apathetic. The current mayor, a chap named Ted Wheeler, was elected in 2016. He got 55 percent of the votes in a total turnout just short of two hundred thousand. I can't find a figure for that turnout as a percentage of the total voter roll; but Portland's population is 650 thousand, so on the usual rule of thumb that two-thirds are registered voters, only about half of Portlanders turned out to vote, not much more than half of them voting for Wheeler.
So Portlanders are not as dumb as New Yorkers; but if only half of them bother to vote in mayoral elections, it's tempting for the rest of us to sit back and say: "This current mayhem is what you folk didn't bother to vote for. Enjoy!"
Except of course that federal facilities belong to the rest of us, not just to Portlanders. If they are being vandalized and assaulted, the rest of us have something to say about it.
If Portland's mayor, and his state's governor, don't like what we have to say, we have further recourse. As well as sending in federal officers to defend our property and arrest those who are assaulting it, let's cease all other federal activity in Portland and/or Oregon and stop all federal funding there other than for firm enforcement of federal laws.
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03— Backing the Blue. In my chat with Michelle Malkin here at VDARE.com this Thursday, I said the following thing. It's at 56 minutes, 35 seconds on the video.
[Clip: I've mixed with cops a fair amount. I don't know how it is country-wide, but in New York, going into the police force, you're basically going in for twenty years. You go to Police Academy, you come out, you do twenty years, you retire on a very handsome pension; and then you can start a new career, or you can start a handy little business. It's a pretty good life, and— no offense to anyone— but a lot of guys just don't want to jeopardize that.
Michelle: Yes, that's a plain fact. There are pension collectors; and, you know, if their staunchest supporters are bloodied in front of them, eh. Back the Blue …
Me: I back the Blue, but with a slightly cold, realistic eye …
Of course, some people did take offense. "We're putting our lives on the line for you civilians, and you think it's just about the darn pension? …" et cetera, et cetera.
Well, we don't always make ourselves clear when speaking impromptu, so let me just say again: I do back the Blue, and am not such a fool as to think we can enjoy peace and safety without a well-trained, well-funded, properly-remunerated police force. Thanks to all of them for what they do.
And Michelle's credentials on this are way more impressive than mine. That was a Back the Blue rally in Denver on Sunday where Michelle got roughed up, and it was one of many, many that she's attended and spoken at through the years. She's aggrieved that Denver police had been told to stand down and let the anarchists run wild, and she's entitled to be aggrieved on that point.
I'm sorry, though, that I didn't mention, and didn't give Michelle the chance to mention, that one Denver police lieutenant ignored the stand-down order and kept his guys in place, saving the rally from much worse mayhem. Michelle has already, elsewhere, expressed her thanks and appreciation to that lieutenant, and I'm glad to add my thanks to hers. Thank you, officer!
And the point I was making is still a true one. Yes, police work can be dangerous, even fatal, and any officer at any time can find himself called to an act of selfless heroism. With very rare exceptions, cops answer that call.
There is no contradiction in noting, however, that policing is a really good job if you have the temperament for it. Again, I can't speak for the whole country; but where I live in the outer-outer suburbs of New York city, cops retire in the prime of life with gold-plated pensions and benefits. I know by first-hand reports that when my county police headquarters advertises a new round of entrance exams for the local force, the line of applicants goes nine times round the block.
By all means let's back the Blue. Let's also honestly acknowledge, however, that when shyster politicians and their willing stooges in the police command bureaucracy tell rank-and-file officers to stand down to let anarchists run wild, and those rank-and-file officers do stand down, there is more than just blind obedience in play.
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04— Is Brexit woke? I haven't posted any Brexit news for a while. I don't really have any actual news, and I don't think there is any. Britain formally withdrew from the European Union on January 31st this year and is now in a one-year "transition period," filled with eye-glazing negotiations about legal and economic fine details.
I did, though, just read a very striking essay on Brexit by British writer Ed West over at Unherd.com.
As you probably know, the debate over Brexit fitted neatly into the big cultural schism that occupies so much of our attention nowadays. The two sides of that schism have been variously named: so variously, I have built lists of the names. Here's my list from last November:
blues and reds,
globalists and nationalists,
cosmopolitans and communitarians,
metropolitans and provincials,
Cloud People and Dirt People,
Anywheres and Somewheres.
Well, on the Brexit issue, the Brits who wanted to remain in the EU— commonly called Remainers— and those who wanted to leave— the Leavers, of course, a/k/a Brexiteers— make for another entry on that list:
Remainers and Leavers.
Remainers are blue, globalist, cosmopolitan, and metropolitan. They are the Cloud People; they are the Anywheres.
Brexiteers, on the other hand, are red, nationalist, communitarian, and provincial. They are the Dirt People; they are the Somewheres.
Not so fast, says Ed West. That might turn out to be all wrong. Civilization-wise, the Europe that Britain has left is redder, more provincial, less globalist, and so on than is the Anglosphere— the collection of English-speaking nations with whom the Brits hope to forge new bonds and strengthen old ones.
He notes, for example, that while Britain's Conservative government has made placatory noises to the Black Lives Matter lunatics, France's Emmanuel Macron has given them the back of his hand. Similarly, France protested about Turkey's turning the Hagia Sophia museum back into a mosque and there's considerable indignation about it in other EU countries; but the Brits have said nothing about it.
Quote from Ed:
the English-speaking nations are the most liberal on earth. In continental Europe, only the small Scandinavian countries are comparable and Germany— and even more so France— are further to the Right on core progressive issues like race relations, gender equality and gay rights.
End quote.
I love contrarian takes like this, and recommend Ed's article to anyone similarly disposed. Just one more quote. This is from the very end of the piece. Quote:
It is not inconceivable that there might be a "great realignment" on Europe, with internationalist Remainers embracing Global Britain and nationalists finding common cause with allies on the continent. Stranger things have happened, and in the 2020s, stranger things will.
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05— The Quadruple Entente. Speaking of geopolitical realignments, here's a phrase I suspect we may hear more of in years to come: the Quadruple Entente.
This phrase is a play on a much older one from European history: the Triple Entente. That was an understanding between Britain, France, and Russia in the early years of the 20th century, motivated by fear of a rising Germany. It wasn't a formal alliance; but when World War One broke out, it might as well have been, as the Entente countries acted together against Germany and her allies.
So who's in this Quadruple Entente? Well, nobody yet, as it's not yet a thing, only a speculation. It's a very plausible speculation, though, it seems to me.
The part of Germany here is being played by China. Moved by fear of China's fast-rising military power, India, the U.S.A., Japan, and Russia may be headed to a common understanding, perhaps common action, against China. A common understanding: a Quadruple Entente.
The arguments here have been laid out in two blogs, dated July 1st and July 9th, at a website called The Giza Death Star, run by an Oklahoma eccentric named Joseph Farrell, who has published a book of that same name, The Giza Death Star.
To call Farrell eccentric is actually an understatement: He is way further out than merely eccentric. Farrell belongs in fact, along with the likes of Charles Fort, Immanuel Velikovsky, and many others, to that brotherhood of crackpot intellectuals that the rest of the world thinks of as characteristically American (although Velikovsky didn't settle here until his forties). Farrell has a doctorate in, uh, Theology. The gist of his book The Giza Death Star is that the Great Pyramid in Egypt was a weapon deployed in an interplanetary war. Hoo-kay.
No, I'm not going to try to sell you on that, which I think is nuts. Those two blogs from earlier this month speculating about a Quadruple Entente are, however, worth your time.
Supposing I am right about that, they raise the interesting question: Can a crackpot who believes crazy things also have interesting thoughts that make sense? Stopped clocks and all that. I leave it with you.
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06— The Gen Z menace. Here's a real, credentialed scholar of geopolitics and geostrategy; this one not, so far as I can tell, a crackpot about the Pyramids. His name is Richard Hanania and he's a research fellow at Columbia University. I find him quite simpatico and follow him on Twitter.
Here he was the other day tweeting a survey he'd found— he doesn't give a source— about the Washington Redskins changing their name. Should they? the pollster asked, and broke down responses by broad age group.
Only twenty-four percent of Baby Boomers thought they should. For Gen X respondents— people age 40 to 55— it was twenty-seven percent; for Millennials— ages 25 to 40— thirty-one percent. For Gen Z— the under-twenty-fives— there was a big jump: forty-five percent of respondents though the Redskins should change their name.
All right, it's a straw in the wind. And all right: we get more conservative as we get older. That's a big straw, though, and a heck of a wind.
The numbers are more impressive if you cut out the don't-knows and just compare shoulds to shouldn'ts. For those with an opinion we get the following ratios, should change the name to shouldn't:
Boomers: ratio 0.43.
Gen X: ratio 0.49.
Millennials: ratio 0.66.
Gen Z: ratio 1.96.
The Gen Z ratio is three times the one for Millennials. As Hanania says, tweet:
By 2-1, Gen Z favors the Redskins name change, every other generation opposes it. Basically, you can predict every single thing the younger generation believes by just looking at the [New York Times] editorial page and what's happening at schools and universities.
End tweet.
That's awful and depressing. Last week I had a segment wondering whether Poland will go Irish: that is to say, wondering whether the first of those two deeply Catholic, conservative, ethnonationalist countries will follow the second into the long dark night of wokeness.
Among the responses I got was one pointing me to a news report about Poland's recent election headlined: "Older, rural voters tip Poland's election to the incumbent"— that is, to Andrzej Duda, the conservative-ethnonationalist candidate.
The implication there is that as those older, more rural voters die off, a more woke younger generation of Poles might indeed send their country down the path Ireland has taken.
Again, I know: We get more conservative as we get older. And Ed West's speculations, which I noted earlier, about Europe standing to defend her civilization while the English-speaking world slips ever deeper into multiculti progressivism, might put Poland back on the rails.
I know, I know; yet still, Gen Z— these under-25s— are starting to worry me.
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07— The African future. Steve has drawn our attention to a report from the BBC on world population trends.
It's a shocker: no great surprises, but none the less shocking. Sample quotes:
Quote: Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century.
Quote: 23 nations— including Spain and Japan— are expected to see their populations halve by 2100.
Quote: Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation … expect the number of people on the planet to peak at 9.7 billion around 2064, before falling down to 8.8 billion by the end of the century.
Quote: China, currently the most populous nation in the world, is expected to peak at 1.4 billion in four years' time before nearly halving to 732 million by 2100.
Quote: This will be a truly global issue, with 183 out of 195 countries having a fertility rate below the replacement level.
Quote: It will create enormous social change.
Quote: Countries … have used migration to boost their population and compensate for falling fertility rates. However, this stops being the answer once nearly every country's population is shrinking.
Quote: Countries that have put significant effort into tackling the "baby bust" have struggled. Singapore still has a fertility rate of around 1.3.
Quote: The researchers warn against undoing the progress on women's education and access to contraception.
End sample quotes.
There are 1,058 words in the story. You have to read 843 of them— so you're just at eighty percent of the way through the story— before you reach this, quote:
The population of sub-Saharan Africa is expected to treble in size to more than three billion people by 2100.
And the study says Nigeria will become the world's second biggest country [behind India, they mean], with a population of 791 million.
End quote.
So: At the end of this century Nigeria will have more people than China … in less than ten percent of China's land area. Interesting. Is it wrong of me to think it strange that I had to read through four-fifths of the story to get to that?
Ah, but, the lead researcher tells us, quote:
We will have many more people of African descent in many more countries as we go through this.
Global recognition of the challenges around racism are going to be all the more critical if there are large numbers of people of African descent in many countries.
End quote.
Indeed. "The challenges around racism." It goes without saying that there are no problems with bringing tens of millions of blacks into countries that formerly had none, except for "The challenges around racism."
To put it another way: Any problems that might arise from such a massive demographic transformation will be the fault of non-black people.
"The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils," said a great man fifty-two years ago. Is there a preventable evil here our statesmen should be providing against, for the sake of our children and grandchildren?
If there is, will any of them speak about it? Dare any of them speak about it?
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08— Immigrants take over. Before ancient history— Greeks and Romans— there was really ancient history: Egyptians, Babylonians, Hittites, Sumerians.
Back in my late-teen years I read Geoffrey Bibby's book with the title Four Thousand Years Ago, subtitle: "A Panorama of Life in the Second Millennium B.C." The teenage Derb was fascinated to learn how much history took place before what we normally think of as history, even before ancient history. The world was a busy place way back there in the Bronze Age.
Not the least fascinating aspect was, that you could, without trying very hard, find faint echoes in that history of Old Testament stories: the migration of Abraham and his clan from Mesopotamia to Palestine; Joseph's rise in Egypt and the migration of his clan thither; Moses and the Exodus; the settlement of Canaan.
Now, sixty years on, the glow has faded considerably. Bibby was a professional archeologist and knew his stuff, but inevitably there have been new discoveries in the decades since he did his work, so much of what he wrote has been superseded. The historicity of the Old Testament stories is not given much credence by scholars nowadays.
Still, in reflective moments, I marvel to think that, so long ago, there were people much like myself, working and playing, eating and loving, reading and writing, marrying and socializing, living in cities with roads and schools and temples. The ancient world, however imperfectly we know it, however distorted and mythologized is our collective memory of it, is great food for the imagination.
And Egypt is always there, a part of it, from way back in the third millennium B.C., quite possibly even the fourth. What a span of time! How uncountably many lives were lived in all those distant centuries!
Bibby and other writers told us that the Egyptians were ruled by no-one but themselves for the first fifteen hundred years of their kingdom. There were some spells of division, but the rulers were always Egyptian.
Then (the story continued) around 1700 B.C. Egypt was invaded by Semitic nomads called the Hyksos. Where exactly the Hyksos invaded from depended on who you read. Bibby, as I recall, thought they were Amorites from northern Mesopotamia who had made their way down through Palestine to attack Egypt from the north.
Wherever they came from, they took over northern Egypt and established a dynasty, the Fifteenth, which lasted a hundred years. That's the story we read.
One oddity about this story that's been bothersome to archeologists is that there isn't much archeological evidence of the kind of slaughter and destruction you'd expect when a foreign army takes over inhabited territory. This particular anomaly may just now have been resolved.
Science magazine, July 15th, headline: "Invasion" of ancient Egypt may have actually been immigrant uprising.
Yes: By dint of some very clever detective work on skeletons buried in Egypt long before the Hyksos showed up and comparing them with known Hyksos skeletons, some British archeologists have figured out that there was a big immigrant community of Hyksos in Egypt long before they took over the country. Quote:
Their rise to power is probably explained by the failings of the pharaohs to control the area, says Egyptologist John Darnell at Yale University.
End quote.
So this may be a case of immigrants— the Hyksos— doing the work Egyptians wouldn't do— ruling Egypt.
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09— Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Earlier this year I had a spot of bother with my Eustachian tubes, teeny little passages that go from the inner ear to the back of the nose. Radio Derb listeners were very helpful, and the problem is solved.
Those pesky tubes are named after Bartolomeo Eustachi, a 16th-century Italian anatomist. I bet you didn't know that.
I don't have any Fallopian tubes, but if I did have any I'd be glad to know they were named after Gabriele Falloppio, another 16th-century Italian anatomist.
Where am I going with this? To an article in the July 18th Daily Mail about a campaign launched by doctors in Australia to purge from our medical vocabulary any terms for body parts that are named after men or are otherwise misogynistic. Eustachian and Fallopian tubes, Achilles tendon, Adam's apple, … they've all got to go!
The stupidity level here is higher even than usual for a cultural revolution story, which God knows is high enough. Quote:
The speculum— used by gynaecologists to perform a pap smear— was named after an American slave trader.
End quote.
Oh yeah: Ol' Simon Legree Speculum, remember him? Actually you don't. The word "speculum," according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is taken from the Latin verb specere, "to look at or observe."
[Australian accent.] Strewth, you Aussies, don't youse have anything better to do down there than bugger up the Queen's English? I mean really: fair suck of the old sauce bottle, Bluey.
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Item: Also from the Daily Mail, which is a treasure trove of silly news items to fill out your podcast, here's another one about body parts. Or … part— I'm not sure of the plurality here.
This one's pandemic-related. Museums world-wide are in trouble for want of visitors. To keep alive interest in their exhibits, curators have set up a social media challenge to find the world's Best Museum Bum.
Images of statues and paintings from all over, and even a suit of armor, are being submitted to the contest and scrutinized by judges to find the handsomist heinie, the perfect posterior, the cutest keester, the most delightful derrière. It's a sort of Miss BumBum Pageant for the educated classes.
The suit of armor, in case you're wondering, belonged to King Henry VIII of England, whose rear end expanded considerably as he worked his way through the six wives but maintained a properly regal roundness.
In His Majesty's honor, and as defiance to the cultural revolutionaries Down Under, I propose that this particular part of every human being's own personal Down Under be known henceforth as the henry.
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Item: A different king, this one King Duncan of Scotland in Shakespeare's Macbeth, told us that, quote: "There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face."
I respectfully disagree. Sometimes, after you've gotten a good long look at someone's face, you know there are bats in the belfry.
I always felt that way about Cathy Areu, who used to feature on Tucker Carlson's show as the "liberal sherpa," explaining abstruse points of the cultural revolution to Tucker and his viewers.
Cathy hasn't been on the show for a while, and now she is suing Carlson and other Fox personnel for sexual harassment.
The lawsuit isn't going well. Ms Areu's claims are addled with errors: mismatched dates and places, dubious quotes, a claim to have been trapped in a studio chair because she didn't know how to remove her voice mike and ear piece. Guest mikes are just clipped to your clothing; the ear piece is just … an ear piece. Spectator USA July 21st had a full account of all the blunders and inconsistencies.
I could have spared Fox the trouble. For a modest fee I will pre-screen future studio guests for them to eliminate the troublemakers. It's in the face, whatever Shakespeare thought.
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10— Signoff. And there you have it, ladies and gents. Thank you for your time and attention; may all be well with you and yours in these peculiar times we are living through.
Radio Derb podcast number 750 in the bag. Onward and upward!
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-07-24--John Derbyshire: Starve Portland Out! And Back The Blue—With A Cold Eye

[ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] Our nation 's Constitution is getting something of a stress test up in the Northwest , especially in the city of Portland .
Anarchist rioters have been assaulting the federal courthouse there , along with of course some vandalizing and looting of private property on the side .
The constitutional issue here : the proper role of federal law-enforcement in local disturbances .
It 's been an issue at some level or other since the very beginnings of the Republic , since the Whiskey Rebellion of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ play here : localism , also known as the principle of subsidiarity , which says that public issues should be managed and decided at the lowest level able and willing to decide them .
You do n't want bureaucrats in Washington , DC telling you whether or not you can build a treehouse in your back yard .
Over against that is the body of our fundamental rights and duties as citizens of a common nation .
If my town decides that it 's OK for me to practice human sacrifice in my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ something to say about it , and it 's right that they should .
So what if turbulence well above the window-breaking variety goes on night after night for weeks ?
And what if the local levels of law enforcement—municipal and state—ca n't control it ?
Ideally what you 'd want to happen then is , those authorities would call on the feds to take over .
The feds would come in and restore order , and life would get back to normal .
But what if the local elected officials do n't @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , for one reason or another—cold political calculation , perhaps , or a much warmer belief that the guy in charge of the feds is Literally Hitler—what if the Mayor and the Governor prefer the turbulence to just go on , even when rioters are assaulting federal facilities ?
A sidebar issue here : the democratic legitimacy of those officials .
There are high levels of apathy in municipal voting .
I have previously noted the case of New York City , which twice elected Bill De Blasio , a crazy communist , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ percent and eighteen percent .
Portlanders seem not to be that apathetic .
The current mayor , a chap named Ted Wheeler , was elected in 2016 .
He got 55 percent of the votes in a total turnout just short of two hundred thousand .
I ca n't find a figure for that turnout as a percentage of the total voter roll ; but Portland 's population is 650 thousand , so on the usual rule of thumb that two-thirds are registered voters , only about half of Portlanders turned out to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of them voting for Wheeler .
So Portlanders are not as dumb as New Yorkers ; but if only half of them bother to vote in mayoral elections , it 's tempting for the rest of us to sit back and say : `` This current mayhem is what you folk did n't bother to vote for .
Enjoy ! ''
Except of course that federal facilities belong to the rest of us , not just to Portlanders .
If they are being vandalized and assaulted , the rest of us have something @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's mayor , and his state 's governor , do n't like what we have to say , we have further recourse .
We can send in federal officers to defend our property and arrest those who are assaulting it .
Or my suggestion : Let 's cease all other federal activity in Portland and/or Oregon and stop all federal funding there other than for enforcement of federal laws .
In my chat with Michelle Malkin on VDARE TV on Thursday , I said the following thing ( It 's at 56 minutes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : ME : I 've mixed with cops a fair amount .
I do n't know how it is country-wide , but in New York , going into the police force , you 're basically going in for twenty years .
You go to Police Academy , you come out , you do twenty years , you retire on a very handsome pension ; and then you can start a new career , or you can start a handy little business .
It 's a pretty good life , and—no offense to anyone—but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ want to jeopardize that .
MICHELLE : Yes , that 's a plain fact .
There are pension collectors ; and , you know , if their staunchest supporters are bloodied in front of them , eh.… ME : I back the Blue , but with a slightly cold , realistic eye … Of course , some people did take offense .
`` We 're putting our lives on the line for you civilians , and you think it 's just about the darn pension ?
... '' et cetera , et cetera @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make ourselves clear when speaking impromptu , so let me just say again : I do back the Blue , and am not such a fool as to think we can enjoy peace and safety without a well-trained , well-funded , properly remunerated police force .
Thanks to all of them for what they do .
And Michelle 's credentials on this are way more impressive than mine .
That was a Back the Blue rally in Denver on Sunday where Michelle got roughed up , and it was one of many , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at through the years .
She 's aggrieved that Denver police had been told to stand down and let the anarchists run wild , and she 's entitled to be aggrieved on that point .
I 'm sorry , though , that I did n't mention , and did n't give Michelle the chance to mention , that one Denver police lieutenant ignored the stand-down order and kept his guys in place , saving the rally from much worse mayhem [ Denver police union head : 'Stand-down ' order was in effect when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Fox News , July 22 , 2020 ] .
Michelle has already , elsewhere , expressed her thanks and appreciation to that lieutenant , and I 'm glad to add my thanks to hers .
Thank you , officer !
But the point I was making is still a true one .
Yes , police work can be dangerous , even fatal , and any officer at any time can find himself called to an act of selfless heroism .
With very rare exceptions , cops answer that call .
There is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that policing is a really good job if you have the temperament for it .
Again , I ca n't speak for the whole country ; but where I live in the outer-outer suburbs of New York city , cops retire in the prime of life with gold-plated pensions and benefits .
I know by first-hand reports that when my county police headquarters advertises a new round of entrance exams for the local force , the line of applicants goes nine times round the block .
By all means let 's Back The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , however , that when shyster politicians and their willing stooges in the police command bureaucracy tell rank-and-file officers to stand down to let anarchists run wild , and those rank-and-file officers do stand down , there is more than just blind obedience in play .
All this and a Woke military too .
John Derbyshire [ email him ] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets .
( This no longer includes National Review , whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We Are Doomed : Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books .
He has had two books published by VDARE.com com : FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT ( also available in Kindle ) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II : ESSAYS 2013 .
For years he ’ s been podcasting at Radio Derb , now available at VDARE.com for no charge .
His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com .
Readers who wish to donate ( tax deductible ) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire 's writings at VDARE.com can do so here .

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
Our nation's Constitution is getting something of a stress test up in the Northwest, especially in the city of Portland. Anarchist rioters have been assaulting the federal courthouse there, along with of course some vandalizing and looting of private property on the side.
(No, I don't mean to imply that these rioters are inspired by the writings of Peter Kropotkin, Michael Bakunin, and Max Stirner. I'd be very surprised to learn that any of them are inspired by anything more erudite than Marvel Comics and Teen Vogue. We need some way to refer to them collectively, though, and a fully-informative descriptor like "Soros-funded alliance of Occupy, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and opportunistic black looters" just isn't snappy enough.)
The constitutional issue here: the proper role of federal law-enforcement in local disturbances. It's been an issue at some level or other since the very beginnings of the Republic, since the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s.
A fundamental principle at play here: localism, also known as the principle of subsidiarity, which says that public issues should be managed and decided at the lowest level able and willing to decide them. You don't want bureaucrats in Washington, DC telling you whether or not you can build a treehouse in your back yard.
Over against that is the body of our fundamental rights and duties as citizens of a common nation. If my town decides that it's OK for me to practice human sacrifice in my back yard, higher authorities will have something to say about it, and it's right that they should.
So what if turbulence well above the window-breaking variety goes on night after night for weeks? And what if the local levels of law enforcement—municipal and state—can't control it?
Ideally what you'd want to happen then is, those authorities would call on the feds to take over. The feds would come in and restore order, and life would get back to normal.
But what if the local elected officials don't want to do that? What if, for one reason or another—cold political calculation, perhaps, or a much warmer belief that the guy in charge of the feds is Literally Hitler—what if the Mayor and the Governor prefer the turbulence to just go on, even when rioters are assaulting federal facilities?
A sidebar issue here: the democratic legitimacy of those officials. There are high levels of apathy in municipal voting. I have previously noted the case of New York City, which twice elected Bill De Blasio, a crazy communist, as mayor, on turnouts of thirteen percent and eighteen percent.
Portlanders seem not to be that apathetic. The current mayor, a chap named Ted Wheeler, was elected in 2016. He got 55 percent of the votes in a total turnout just short of two hundred thousand. I can't find a figure for that turnout as a percentage of the total voter roll; but Portland's population is 650 thousand, so on the usual rule of thumb that two-thirds are registered voters, only about half of Portlanders turned out to vote, not much more than half of them voting for Wheeler.
So Portlanders are not as dumb as New Yorkers; but if only half of them bother to vote in mayoral elections, it's tempting for the rest of us to sit back and say: "This current mayhem is what you folk didn't bother to vote for. Enjoy!"
Except of course that federal facilities belong to the rest of us, not just to Portlanders. If they are being vandalized and assaulted, the rest of us have something to say about it.
If Portland's mayor, and his state's governor, don't like what we have to say, we have further recourse. We can send in federal officers to defend our property and arrest those who are assaulting it.
Or my suggestion: Let's cease all other federal activity in Portland and/or Oregon and stop all federal funding there other than for enforcement of federal laws.
Starve them out!
Back The Blue Footnote:
In my chat with Michelle Malkin on VDARE TV on Thursday, I said the following thing (It's at 56 minutes, 35 seconds on the video):
ME: I've mixed with cops a fair amount. I don't know how it is country-wide, but in New York, going into the police force, you're basically going in for twenty years. You go to Police Academy, you come out, you do twenty years, you retire on a very handsome pension; and then you can start a new career, or you can start a handy little business. It's a pretty good life, and—no offense to anyone—but a lot of guys just don't want to jeopardize that. MICHELLE: Yes, that's a plain fact. There are pension collectors; and, you know, if their staunchest supporters are bloodied in front of them, eh.… ME: I back the Blue, but with a slightly cold, realistic eye …
Of course, some people did take offense. "We're putting our lives on the line for you civilians, and you think it's just about the darn pension?..." et cetera, et cetera.
Well, we don't always make ourselves clear when speaking impromptu, so let me just say again: I do back the Blue, and am not such a fool as to think we can enjoy peace and safety without a well-trained, well-funded, properly remunerated police force.
Thanks to all of them for what they do.
And Michelle's credentials on this are way more impressive than mine. That was a Back the Blue rally in Denver on Sunday where Michelle got roughed up, and it was one of many, many that she's attended and spoken at through the years. She's aggrieved that Denver police had been told to stand down and let the anarchists run wild, and she's entitled to be aggrieved on that point.
I'm sorry, though, that I didn't mention, and didn't give Michelle the chance to mention, that one Denver police lieutenant ignored the stand-down order and kept his guys in place, saving the rally from much worse mayhem [Denver police union head: 'Stand-down' order was in effect when pro-cop rally attacked, by Bradford Betz, Fox News, July 22, 2020].
Michelle has already, elsewhere, expressed her thanks and appreciation to that lieutenant, and I'm glad to add my thanks to hers. Thank you, officer!
But the point I was making is still a true one. Yes, police work can be dangerous, even fatal, and any officer at any time can find himself called to an act of selfless heroism. With very rare exceptions, cops answer that call.
There is no contradiction in noting, however, that policing is a really good job if you have the temperament for it.
Again, I can't speak for the whole country; but where I live in the outer-outer suburbs of New York city, cops retire in the prime of life with gold-plated pensions and benefits. I know by first-hand reports that when my county police headquarters advertises a new round of entrance exams for the local force, the line of applicants goes nine times round the block.
By all means let's Back The Blue. Let's also honestly acknowledge, however, that when shyster politicians and their willing stooges in the police command bureaucracy tell rank-and-file officers to stand down to let anarchists run wild, and those rank-and-file officers do stand down, there is more than just blind obedience in play.
All this and a Woke military too.
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John Derbyshire [email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
Readers who wish to donate (tax deductible) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire's writings at VDARE.com can do so here.


vdare--2020-07-28--A Talk Radio Listener Says Coronavirus Threatens Leftmost Colleges—But All Colleges Are Woke Now

A report on colleges in New York State about to be slain by coronavirus : 14 colleges in NY likely @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus pandemic , new analysis says , by Geoff Herbert , Syracuse.com , July 27 @ @ @ @ @ includes three colleges that have been controlled by the radical left for more than 50 @ @ @ @ @ Lawrence , and The New School .
Now that they control every college , there @ @ @ @ @ their former hideouts .
James Fulford writes : These predictions are mostly based on writings @ @ @ @ @ These predictions are mostly based on writings about the vulnerability of colleges from ProfessorGalloway.com What @ @ @ @ @ One thing is financial reliance on foreign students .

From: A Talk Radio Listener [Email him]
A report on colleges in New York State about to be slain by coronavirus: 14 colleges in NY likely to ‘perish’ in coronavirus pandemic, new analysis says , by Geoff Herbert, Syracuse.com, July 27, 2020.
The list includes three colleges that have been controlled by the radical left for more than 50 years: Bard College Sarah Lawrence, and The New School . Now that they control every college, there's no need to maintain their former hideouts.
James Fulford writes: These predictions are mostly based on writings about the vulnerability of colleges These predictions are mostly based on writings about the vulnerability of colleges from ProfessorGalloway.com.
Right now half of colleges and universities plan to offer in-person classes, or something resembling a normal college experience, this fall. This cannot happen. In-person classes should be minimal, ideally none. https://t.co/TtrZGEhRFn — Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) July 18, 2020


vdare--2020-07-28--After New Kritarch Attack, Trump Needs To Step Up His Game On DACA

The Trump Administration , probably President Kushner , has decided that they will cave to the illegal alien lobby and continue the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals ( DACA ) program for at least one more round of renewals for the current beneficiaries of the illegal program .
This is another self-inflicted wound for the President politically .
DACA beneficiaries and their partisans will never be voting for him , so why ?
In the current crisis of domestic terrorism , this issue has faded away from the consciousness of the average voter open to re-electing President Trump , if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Most likely this continuation of DACA is in response to a kritarch ordering a full restart of the program , including the path to citizenship by DACA recipients , Advanced Parole , where aliens apply for a permit to re-enter the United States , despite the aliens not having a lawfully issued immigrant or non-immigrant visa , before they depart the United States , then use the parole status to apply for legal permanent residency .
First , the kritarch in question , Paul Grimm , who ordered the program to continue in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to wind down .
This shows another failure of the Trump Administration , they should have ordered the end of DACA immediately on President Trumps ’ Inauguration Day , as promised , with an immediate stop to all benefits and the illegal aliens placed in removal proceedings .
Sadly , the Administration waited until September 2017 , then designed the end of DACA to be a “ wind down , ” rather than an immediate stop .
This obviously showed hesitancy , which the illegal alien lobby calculated it could use as precedent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unconstitutional , why “ wind it down ” rather than end it ?
Being generous and kind was used against the Administration .
Instead , the Administration should have announced a new policy of deporting all illegal aliens : that would have obviated the need for any actions under the Administrative Procedure Act ( APA ) and made this about prosecutorial discretion , which is what Obama originally claimed it was .
Unsurprisingly , Kritarch Paul Grimm is an Obama appointee , but , interestingly for the immigration debate , was born , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Japan .
He is obviously neither a Japanese citizen nor Japanese , as Japan does not recognize an accident of birth as being related to being Japanese .
Japan determines Japaneseness by your relationship to your genetic , cultural , and racial make up .
[ Japanese Refuse To Declare Foreigners Born In Japan To Be Japanese Citizens , by Federale , VDare , December 19 , 2016 ] A federal judge on Friday ordered the government to revive the DACA program as it existed before President Trump tried to phase it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it up to brand new applications .
That ’ s a key issue that had remained in limbo after last month ’ s Supreme Court ruling , which found the Trump phaseout cut too many corners .
U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm , sitting in Maryland , issued an order restoring all parts of the program back to where they were , which means not only protecting current recipients but also approving new ones .
[ Judge Orders DACA Restart , Including New Applications , Indirect Pathway To Citizenship , by Stephen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 2020 ] But , again , the Trump Administration will resist with half measures , which are bound to fail and be exposed as legally faulty .
Again , if the program is illegal , why extend it ?
Furthermore , the program was originally designed for two-year periods for the illegal aliens , why go to one year ?
It only encourages illegal aliens to hold out for the November elections .
But worst of all , there was no need to extend the program at all .
The Supreme Court @ @ @ @ @ @ @ repeal of the program needed a “ notice and comment ” period under the APA .
However , there is no need for any procedure under the APA to not take any action .
The original DACA program was not continuous , the program required authorizing a continuation of the program by executive action , i.e .
a new memorandum to authorize a new period of time for new applicants .
The DACA program could have been ended by doing nothing , and , of course , ignoring or appealing the above kritarch @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not in compliance with Kritarch Grimm .
President Donald Trump is ordering a comprehensive legal review of the immigration program that allows undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children to remain , and will consider winding down the policy after a Supreme Court decision left the door open to its cancellation , a senior administration official said on Tuesday .
Trump plans to “ limit the scope ” of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program , known as DACA , while that review is underway , the official said… Renewal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ considered , but only one-year renewals will be provided , rather than the existing two-year renewals , for eligible applicants .
And all applications for advanced parole , allowing applicants to travel to and from the United States with immigration applications pending , will be rejected “ absent extraordinary circumstances , ” the official added .
[ Trump To ‘ Limit The Scope ’ Of DACA , Review Winding Down Immigration Policy , by Michael Wilner , McClatchy , July 28 , 2020 ] So , the Trump Administration is only going a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ full Andrew Jackson .
Half measures will get the same result as the original half measure , failure .
A better strategy is to not extend the program , let it die on the vine .
And then to challenge the fundamental basis of the SCOTUS decision , start placing DACA illegal aliens in deportation proceedings .
And to make things tough for the illegal alien advocates , start with DACA illegals who have criminal records .
Remember , applicants for DACA were allowed to have up to three misdemeanor convictions , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ according to new “ prosecutorial discretion ” DACA will not apply to any alien with any criminal convictions .
Send Deportation Officers out to arrest all those aliens with three or fewer misdemeanors to make an example of them and as a poke-in-the-eye to Kritarchs John RobertsJohn Roberts and Paul Grimm .
There is nothing they can do about the exercise of “ prosecutorial discretion , ” especially since it goes both ways ; to decide to prosecute or not .

The Trump Administration, probably President Kushner, has decided that they will cave to the illegal alien lobby and continue the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for at least one more round of renewals for the current beneficiaries of the illegal program.
This is another self-inflicted wound for the President politically. DACA beneficiaries and their partisans will never be voting for him, so why? In the current crisis of domestic terrorism, this issue has faded away from the consciousness of the average voter open to re-electing President Trump, if there was ever any real concern.
Most likely this continuation of DACA is in response to a kritarch ordering a full restart of the program, including the path to citizenship by DACA recipients, Advanced Parole, where aliens apply for a permit to re-enter the United States, despite the aliens not having a lawfully issued immigrant or non-immigrant visa, before they depart the United States, then use the parole status to apply for legal permanent residency.
First, the kritarch in question, Paul Grimm, who ordered the program to continue in full from before the program was ordered to wind down. This shows another failure of the Trump Administration; they should have ordered the end of DACA immediately on President Trumps’ Inauguration Day, as promised, with an immediate stop to all benefits and the illegal aliens placed in removal proceedings.
Sadly, the Administration waited until September 2017, then designed the end of DACA to be a “wind down,” rather than an immediate stop. This obviously showed hesitancy, which the illegal alien lobby calculated it could use as precedent. If the program was illegal and unconstitutional, why “wind it down” rather than end it? Being generous and kind was used against the Administration.
Instead, the Administration should have announced a new policy of deporting all illegal aliens: That would have obviated the need for any actions under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and made this about prosecutorial discretion, which is what Obama originally claimed it was.
Unsurprisingly, Kritarch Paul Grimm is an Obama appointee, but, interestingly for the immigration debate, was born, like the late Olivia de Havilland, in Japan.
He is obviously neither a Japanese citizen nor Japanese, as Japan does not recognize an accident of birth as being related to being Japanese.
Japan determines Japaneseness by your relationship to your genetic, cultural, and racial make-up. [Japanese Refuse To Declare Foreigners Born In Japan To Be Japanese Citizens, by Federale, VDare, December 19, 2016]
A federal judge on Friday ordered the government to revive the DACA program as it existed before President Trump tried to phase it out in 2017, which means opening it up to brand new applications. That’s a key issue that had remained in limbo after last month’s Supreme Court ruling, which found the Trump phaseout cut too many corners. U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm, sitting in Maryland, issued an order restoring all parts of the program back to where they were, which means not only protecting current recipients but also approving new ones. [Judge Orders DACA Restart, Including New Applications, Indirect Pathway To Citizenship, by Stephen Dinan, Washington Times, July 17, 2020]
But, again, the Trump Administration will resist with half measures, which are bound to fail and be exposed as legally faulty. Again, if the program is illegal, why extend it? Furthermore, the program was originally designed for two-year periods for the illegal aliens; why go to one year? It only encourages illegal aliens to hold out for the November elections. But worst of all, there was no need to extend the program at all. The Supreme Court decision on the case only said the repeal of the program needed a “notice and comment” period under the APA. However, there is no need for any procedure under the APA to not take any action. The original DACA program was not continuous, the program required authorizing a continuation of the program by executive action, i.e. a new memorandum to authorize a new period of time for new applicants. The DACA program could have been ended by doing nothing, and, of course, ignoring or appealing the above kritarch. The one year renewals are obviously not in compliance with Kritarch Grimm.
President Donald Trump is ordering a comprehensive legal review of the immigration program that allows undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children to remain, and will consider winding down the policy after a Supreme Court decision left the door open to its cancellation, a senior administration official said on Tuesday. Trump plans to “limit the scope” of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, while that review is underway, the official said… Renewal applications for deportation protections will still be considered, but only one-year renewals will be provided, rather than the existing two-year renewals, for eligible applicants. And all applications for advanced parole, allowing applicants to travel to and from the United States with immigration applications pending, will be rejected “absent extraordinary circumstances,” the official added. [Trump To ‘Limit The Scope’ Of DACA, Review Winding Down Immigration Policy, by Michael Wilner, McClatchy, July 28, 2020]
So, the Trump Administration is only going a little bit Andrew Jackson, not a full Andrew Jackson. Half measures will get the same result as the original half measure, failure.
A better strategy is to not extend the program, let it die on the vine. And then to challenge the fundamental basis of the SCOTUS decision, start placing DACA illegal aliens in deportation proceedings. And to make things tough for the illegal alien advocates, start with DACA illegals who have criminal records. Remember, applicants for DACA were allowed to have up to three misdemeanor convictions, and more with waivers. Publicly announce that according to new “prosecutorial discretion” DACA will not apply to any alien with any criminal convictions. Send Deportation Officers out to arrest all those aliens with three or fewer misdemeanors to make an example of them and as a poke-in-the-eye to Kritarchs John Roberts and Paul Grimm. There is nothing they can do about the exercise of “prosecutorial discretion,” especially since it goes both ways; to decide to prosecute or not.


vdare--2020-07-28--Whites Come In SEVENTEENTH In Median Income, Behind Many Immigrant Groups  (Although Still Ahead Of

Whites Come In SEVENTEENTH In Median Income, Behind Many Immigrant Groups  (Although Still Ahead Of Blacks, Hispanics, And Hmong, Etc.)

Earlier : Democratic Platform to White People : We Hate You Under the heading Worst .
White .
Supremacists.Ever.
, Powerline 's John Hinderaker points to a stateement in the Democratic Party platform that says Hinderaker goes on to add The DNC 's point is that if whites are doing better , it 's because whites are racist , not , for example , that other groups are lame , or not trying hard .
Hinderaker 's point is that American capitalism will allow people to get ahead , whatever their color .
He does n't offer an explanation for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and some Asians , etc .
I 'm going to put the chart below , and I do n't believe that a white income lower than immigrant groups that work for Microsoft , or run dollar stores or Indian motels is a good thing .
( HInderaker is showing it as proof that America is n't racist . )
As I 've said repeatedly , those skilled or entrepreneurial immigrants simply displace a better class of American .
What I want ask , and I think I know the answer , is : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans and Pacific Islanders ?
The answer , I think , among Asians is the Hmong , and among `` Pacific Islanders '' , I. E. Micronesians , Tongans , and Samoans , is almost all of them , barring a few NFL players .
( Did you know that a Samoan male is 56 times more likely to play in the NFL than a non-Samoan male ? )
Here are some of our stories about Hmong : • Agitprop Of The Day—Hmong Asked To Speak English • An Unassimilated Hmong Writes VDARE.com @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gunman Was a Violent Convicted Felon Laos Would Not Receive in Deportation • Hmong Family Values : Former Child Bride Is Murdered by Ex-Owner/Husband Here are some of our stories about `` Islanders '' : • Samoan Sniper In The News—Or Not • Not A Flash Mob , For A Change , But Note The Samoan Factor • Micronesians In America—How Come ?
Mushroom Farmers , DUI , And Statutory Rape • Whose Idea Was It For The US To Have TONGAN Gangs ?
While the groups below are , of course , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less work for local police forces than their low-achieving fellow immigrants .
But both phenomena mean an Immigration Moratorium would be a good idea .

Earlier: Democratic Platform to White People: We Hate You
Under the heading Worst. White. Supremacists. Ever., Powerline's John Hinderaker points to a statement in the Democratic Party platform that says
Median incomes are lower and poverty rates are higher for Black Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and some Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, compared to median white households.
(Emphasis added.)
Hinderaker goes on to add
But wait! Notice how they tried to slip that one by you: “some Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.” Why only “some,” in a land defined by white supremacy? There is, of course, a story here, one that the Democrats will never tell. These are how various ethnic groups ranked by median household income in the 2018 census. Whites come in 17th:
The DNC's point is that if whites are doing better, it's because whites are racist, not, for example, that other groups are lame, or not trying hard. Hinderaker's point is that American capitalism will allow people to get ahead, whatever their color. He doesn't offer an explanation for the failure of blacks, Hispanics, and some Asians, etc.
I'm going to put the chart below, and I don't believe that a white income lower than immigrant groups that work for Microsoft, or run dollar stores or Indian motels is a good thing. (HInderaker is showing it as proof that America isn't racist.)
As I've said repeatedly, those skilled or entrepreneurial immigrants simply displace a better class of American.
What I want ask, and I think I know the answer, is: who are the lame, underperforming Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders?
The answer, I think, among Asians is the Hmong, and among "Pacific Islanders," i.e., Micronesians, Tongans, and Samoans, is almost all of them, barring a few NFL players. (Did you know that a Samoan male is 56 times more likely to play in the NFL than a non-Samoan male? )
Here are some of our stories about Hmong:
Here are some of our stories about "Islanders":
While the groups below are, of course, displacing white Americans, they're creating less work for local police forces than their low-achieving fellow immigrants.
But both phenomena mean an Immigration Moratorium would be a good idea.


vdare--2020-07-26--Latin America Now Surpasses COVID-19 Total of U.S. and Canada. Keep That Southern Border Tight

The COVID-19 coronavirus got started later in Latin America than in the United States , but it is now the @ @ @ @ @ raw numbers of COVID-19 infections .
Sounds like we better keep the southern border as @ @ @ @ @ America now has 4,327,160 total cases of the novel coronavirus compared to 4,308,495 infections in @ @ @ @ @ according to the count based on data provided by the governments of each country .
@ @ @ @ @ be the individual country with the highest number of infections and deaths from COVID-19 , @ @ @ @ @ the virus , with more than 4.2 million cases and roughly 146,000 deaths , followed @ @ @ @ @ million cases and nearly 87,000 dead .
Mexico , Peru and Chile also are among @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 cases .
Mexico is now # 4 in coronavirus deaths , after the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ .

The COVID-19 coronavirus got started later in Latin America than in the United States, but it is now the region leading the world in raw numbers of COVID-19 infections.
From Reuters:
Coronavirus cases in Latin America for the first time have surpassed the combined infections in the United States and Canada, a Reuters tally showed on Sunday [July 26], amid a surge of infections in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Argentina. The quickly growing number of cases make Latin America the region most impacted by the pandemic globally, with 26.83% of worldwide cases. [Latin America leads world in coronavirus cases, Reuters count shows, (Reporting by Daniela Desantis and Javier Leira; Writing by Dave Sherwood; Editing by Will Dunham), Reuters, July 26, 2020]
Sounds like we better keep the southern border as tight as possible.
Latin America now has 4,327,160 total cases of the novel coronavirus compared to 4,308,495 infections in United States and Canada, according to the count based on data provided by the governments of each country. The United States continues to be the individual country with the highest number of infections and deaths from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus, with more than 4.2 million cases and roughly 146,000 deaths, followed by Brazil, with 2.4 million cases and nearly 87,000 dead. Mexico, Peru and Chile also are among the top 10 nations in COVID-19 cases.
Mexico is now #4 in coronavirus deaths, after the U.S., Brazil and the UK.
According to the Reuters count, the number of people known to have been infected worldwide exceeds 16.1 million. Health experts have said that official data almost certainly under-reports infections and deaths, particularly in countries with limited testing capacity.
Keep that southern border tight.


vdare--2020-07-29--Michelle Malkin: Mike Adams—Doer of the Word

Michael Scott `` Mike '' Adams was a brilliant professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington .
He was an unapologetic conservative who wrote prolifically and fought valiantly against the forces of political correctness and pure evil .
He advocated with unbridled passion on behalf of the unborn .
He trained his sharp tongue and prolific pen on radical feminists , campus liberals , racial demagogues , domestic terrorists and tyrants for more than two decades .
Adams taught and led by example .
In his books , columns and speeches across the country , he spoke truths—and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tragically and unexpectedly last weekend .
The conservative movement and America the beautiful are worse off without his bright and unrelenting light .
News stories revealed that the 55-year-old academic and author was found dead of a reported gunshot wound on July 23 in his home in North Carolina .
A worried neighbor had called police after receiving no responses from him for several days , during which he reportedly had been `` stressed '' and acting in an `` erratic '' manner .
The best way I can honor him is to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he died .
Adams was a convert to Christianity who was a `` doer of the word , '' as James 1:22 counsels us to be , and not just a `` hearer . ''
As a family obituary put it , `` ( A ) fter seeing the mistreatment of prisoners while doing criminology research in a South American prison , Mike realized that there must be an objective standard of good by which we could make sense of evil and injustice .
This helped lead him to Christianity , which dramatically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years , he mentored an estimated 15,000 students at Summit Ministries in Manitou Springs , Colorado .
In those summer seminars ( and elsewhere at universities nationwide as well as on TV ) , the smiling and boyishly handsome professor taught students about the First Amendment and `` fought fiercely to preserve the right to free speech for every American , '' Summit leaders wrote last week .
`` He was a soldier and a friend who was bold , committed to truth , and deeply invested in his students ' success .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , untold numbers of babies have been saved .
Because of his stand for free speech , many freedoms that were being lost have been strengthened . ''
Mike was forced to defend his own free speech rights in court and prevailed in a landmark discrimination case against his university , which was supposed to be a bastion of tolerance and free thought .
His government-funded employer denied him promotions , despite rave reviews from students , as he became more emboldened and outspoken about his social conservative views .
University officials admonished @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in his expression and more `` cerebral . ''
Translation : Stop being so relatably articulate and never , ever joke about liberal sacred cows !
His government employers argued that his columns on academic freedom , civil rights , campus culture , sex , feminism , abortion , homosexuality , religion and morality should not be protected by the First Amendment .
A jury disagreed and Mike ultimately prevailed on appeal to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court with legal representation from the Alliance Defending Freedom .
The school was set to cough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death .
The case had dragged on for seven years and certainly took an emotional and psychological toll as he battled viewpoint discrimination and retaliation .
It 's not easy to be smeared , harassed , threatened and lied about daily by colleagues , students , administrators , neighbors and the media—all while maintaining a public `` happy warrior '' stance .
He was a compatriot and friend , whom I was honored to share the stage with many times over the years .
We were not especially close but were kindred spirits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ smiles and hugs when our travels brought us together .
Like me , he found respite in music .
( He played guitar ; I play piano . )
His friend Lisa De Pasquale told me : `` In our late-night chats , we were more likely to be talking about Rush the band than Rush Limbaugh .
I will miss hearing him play guitar into the phone as he sat on his porch in the evenings . ''
Mike and I were also both enthusiastic climbers of the Manitou Incline , an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of elevation over less than a mile on abandoned railroad tracks in the shadow of Pikes Peak .
He likened physical training for the Incline to digging out of spiritual decline .
In both cases , he reflected , `` I had to step out of my comfort zone . ''
I deeply regret that we will not be able to climb the Incline together , but when I 'm at the top , he will forever be in my thoughts and prayers .
Two of his favorite verses that he recommended to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which states , `` Therefore , to him who knows to do good and does not do it , to him it is sin , '' and Hebrews 13:5 , which reminds us that God `` will never leave you nor forsake you . ''
Of the latter , Professor Adams urged students : `` Remember when you read that verse that , quite literally , nothing else in life matters . ''
Amen and rest in peace , dear warrior .
Michelle Malkin [ Email her ] is the author of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Criminals , and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores .
Click here for Peter Brimelow ’ s review .
Click here for Michelle Malkin 's website .
Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged : Exposing Liberals Gone Wild , Culture of Corruption : Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats , Crooks & Cronies , , Who Built That : Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs , and Sold Out : How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America 's Best & Brightest Workers .
Malkin is author of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Inc. : Who 's Funding America 's Destruction , '' available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover .
To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists , visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com .
COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM

See also Mike Adams And The Battle For America
Michael Scott "Mike" Adams was a brilliant professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He was an unapologetic conservative who wrote prolifically and fought valiantly against the forces of political correctness and pure evil. He advocated with unbridled passion on behalf of the unborn. He trained his sharp tongue and prolific pen on radical feminists, campus liberals, racial demagogues, domestic terrorists and tyrants for more than two decades.
Adams taught and led by example.
In his books, columns and speeches across the country, he spoke truths—and he embraced The Truth. He died tragically and unexpectedly last weekend. The conservative movement and America the beautiful are worse off without his bright and unrelenting light.
News stories revealed that the 55-year-old academic and author was found dead of a reported gunshot wound on July 23 in his home in North Carolina. A worried neighbor had called police after receiving no responses from him for several days, during which he reportedly had been "stressed" and acting in an "erratic" manner. The best way I can honor him is to commemorate how he lived, not how he died.
Adams was a convert to Christianity who was a "doer of the word," as James 1:22 counsels us to be, and not just a "hearer." As a family obituary put it, "(A)fter seeing the mistreatment of prisoners while doing criminology research in a South American prison, Mike realized that there must be an objective standard of good by which we could make sense of evil and injustice. This helped lead him to Christianity, which dramatically changed his outlook." For 12 years, he mentored an estimated 15,000 students at Summit Ministries in Manitou Springs, Colorado.
In those summer seminars (and elsewhere at universities nationwide as well as on TV), the smiling and boyishly handsome professor taught students about the First Amendment and "fought fiercely to preserve the right to free speech for every American," Summit leaders wrote last week. "He was a soldier and a friend who was bold, committed to truth, and deeply invested in his students' success. Because of his stand for human life, untold numbers of babies have been saved. Because of his stand for free speech, many freedoms that were being lost have been strengthened."
Mike was forced to defend his own free speech rights in court and prevailed in a landmark discrimination case against his university, which was supposed to be a bastion of tolerance and free thought. His government-funded employer denied him promotions, despite rave reviews from students, as he became more emboldened and outspoken about his social conservative views. University officials admonished him to be less "caustic" in his expression and more "cerebral."
Translation: Stop being so relatably articulate and never, ever joke about liberal sacred cows!
His government employers argued that his columns on academic freedom, civil rights, campus culture, sex, feminism, abortion, homosexuality, religion and morality should not be protected by the First Amendment. A jury disagreed and Mike ultimately prevailed on appeal to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court with legal representation from the Alliance Defending Freedom. The school was set to cough up a half-million-dollar settlement just before his death. The case had dragged on for seven years and certainly took an emotional and psychological toll as he battled viewpoint discrimination and retaliation.
It's not easy to be smeared, harassed, threatened and lied about daily by colleagues, students, administrators, neighbors and the media—all while maintaining a public "happy warrior" stance.
Yet, Mike soldiered on.
He was a compatriot and friend, whom I was honored to share the stage with many times over the years. We were not especially close but were kindred spirits who always greeted each other with warm smiles and hugs when our travels brought us together. Like me, he found respite in music. (He played guitar; I play piano.) His friend Lisa De Pasquale told me: "In our late-night chats, we were more likely to be talking about Rush the band than Rush Limbaugh. I will miss hearing him play guitar into the phone as he sat on his porch in the evenings."
Mike and I were also both enthusiastic climbers of the Manitou Incline, an extreme 2,800-stair trail that gains 2,000 feet of elevation over less than a mile on abandoned railroad tracks in the shadow of Pikes Peak. He likened physical training for the Incline to digging out of spiritual decline. In both cases, he reflected, "I had to step out of my comfort zone."
I deeply regret that we will not be able to climb the Incline together, but when I'm at the top, he will forever be in my thoughts and prayers. Two of his favorite verses that he recommended to students will also stay with me—James 4:17, which states, "Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin," and Hebrews 13:5, which reminds us that God "will never leave you nor forsake you."
Of the latter, Professor Adams urged students: "Remember when you read that verse that, quite literally, nothing else in life matters." Amen and rest in peace, dear warrior.
COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
Michelle Malkin [Email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, ,Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, and Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.
Malkin is author of the book, "Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction," available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM


vdare--2020-07-29--What if Biden Ran On: Re-Fund the Police?

States and cities are going broke .
They can deficit spend through bond issuances , but it ’ s more @ @ @ @ @ the federal government to just invent money .
The Republicans are cautious about bailing out @ @ @ @ @ the Democrats are not .
What if Biden announced that the central issue in 2020 @ @ @ @ @ federal money to Re-Fund the Police to prevent criminals running amok ?
That would be @ @ @ @ @ Democrats were holding a convention , it would , no doubt , Milwaukee 2020 would @ @ @ @ @ all over again with the cops fighting the radicals in the street .
But the @ @ @ @ @ let Joe stay in his basement and do it all virtually .
So why not @ @ @ @ @ ground , Joe ?

States and cities are going broke. They can deficit spend through bond issuances, but it’s more awkward for them than for the federal government to just invent money.
The Republicans are cautious about bailing out the states and cities, the Democrats are not. What if Biden announced that the central issue in 2020 was his plan to use federal money to Re-Fund the Police to prevent criminals running amok?
That would be pretty interesting.
If the Democrats were holding a convention, Milqaukee 2020, it would, no doubt, would no doubt be Chicago 1968 all over again with the cops fighting the radicals in the street.
But the Democrats apparently are going to let Joe stay in his basement and do it all virtually. So why not grab the centrist law-and-order high ground, Joe?
[Comment at Unz.com]