vdare--2020-11-23--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2014: Illegal Alien Kids Stress New York City Schools

Originally posted here on VDARE.com on this day in 2014 .
Every city news outlet should replicate the New York Posts detailed report on the effects on local schools , including dollar costs , from the flood of illegal alien kiddies from Central America .
Educating backward children from the Third World is an expensive project .
One example is Lynn Massachusetts , where the mayor had to rejigger the entire budget by reducing funds to city departments to pay for the extra costs of 600 illegal kids .
Those needs include free food , tutors , Spanish-speaking teachers , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the little aliens dont even understand Spanish but were raised speaking indigenous languages like Kanjobal or Ixil .
Some have never attended school at all .
An administration education bureaucrat opined , “ The DOE believes that every child has a right to a great education , and that means any foreign kid who can bypass the border gets the whole education-welfare enchilada courtesy of the unwilling taxpayer .
The upshot is this : either taxes are raised to pay for the higher school costs or resources are moved around so citizen kids @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get more .
Every American parent with a kid in public school should be concerned and angry about the downgrade .
Flood of illegal immigrants pour into NYC public schools , New York Post , By Susan Edelman and Isabel Vincent , November 23 , 2014 | 4:10am New York has sent a warning to its schools : Expect more illegal immigrants .
The city Department of Education has told principals it plans this year to enroll 2,350 migrant children from Central America who crossed into the United States unaccompanied — with many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expected that children will continue to arrive in large numbers in the coming years , ” says a DOE memo to principals obtained by The Post .
The notice comes as the city rolls out a $ 50 million red carpet for 1,662 minors who crossed the border this summer to escape violence and gangs in Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador .
In the “ surge , ” 5,000 of the 63,000 migrant kids caught trying to cross US borders — or who turned themselves in for refuge — have been released @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in New York state .
Most live with other illegal immigrants .
In the city , Queens has received the highest number of unaccompanied children , 732 , followed by Brooklyn ( 434 ) , The Bronx ( 433 ) , Manhattan ( 63 ) and Staten Island ( less than 50 ) , federal reports show .
The recent arrivals join an estimated 350,000 children of illegal immigrants already in New York state — about 12 percent of the public-school population .
The DOE refused to discuss the exact numbers of recently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ student privacy .
Officials ignored questions about the cost .
The city ’ s per-pupil spending in the 2012-2013 academic year averaged $ 20,749 , which would bring the total for the migrant kids to $ 48.7 million .
But the costs could soar , because the youths — many of them victims of poverty and abuse — will need state-mandated English-language instruction , free or reduced-price lunch , and a range of other services , including psychological counseling , medical and dental .
“ The DOE believes that every child has a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we are committed to providing children who have escaped violence with the academic foundation and access to services that they need to establish a path to long-term achievement , ” said DOE spokeswoman Devora Kaye .
But parent leaders worry the influx will strain school budgets .
“ Unless the mayor , governor or president announces that funds will be made available immediately , our already-struggling schools will have to provide more , ” said Sam Pirozzolo , vice president of the New York City Parents Union .
“ NYC public schools are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the students they have — 70 percent can not read , write and do math at grade level .
How can they handle thousands of new students competing for the same services without things getting worse ?
” Under US law , all children have a right to enroll in school and receive government services , regardless of immigration status .
On Long Island and upstate , several school districts have been accused of blocking enrollment of migrant youths by demanding a birth certificate , proof of residency and education records from their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to register them without delay and follow up later on documentation .
“ In the city , they don ’ t tend to give you a problem , ” said Manhattan-based immigration lawyer John Cavallo .
DOE representatives even sit at a desk in Immigration Court downtown , where the migrant kids appear for hearings , to help them enroll in school and sign up for free health care .
In court , Melvin Bonilla , 17 , said he traveled alone from Honduras on a “ scary ” journey to the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with an uncle in Brooklyn but has skipped school .
Bonilla told Immigration Judge Virna Wright he finished sixth grade in Honduras and had not enrolled in a school here because his uncle wanted him to learn English first and was paying for lessons .
Wright instructed him to register .
Children can stay in the country if they convince authorities that they faced harm or persecution in their native land .
Judges may also grant “ special immigrant juvenile ” status to a child found abused , neglected or abandoned .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Obama ’ s executive orders last week to let 5 million illegal immigrants stay in the country .
One order exempts from deportation the parents of permanent residents or anyone born in the United States .
Another expands relief to “ Dreamers ” brought here illegally before age 16 — and before Jan. 1 , 2010 .
The orders place “ recent arrivals ” in the same priority for deportation as suspected terrorists and felons .
The feds are processing the recent flood of migrant kids more quickly , Cavallo said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ hearings , the recent arrivals get scheduled within weeks or a few months at most , ” he said .
“ The message is : You come now , you ’ re going to get arrested and deported right away.
” But Obama vowed to deport “ criminals , not children , ” and critics contend his actions will encourage more kids to flee to the United States to get amnesty .

Originally posted here on VDARE.com on this day in 2014.
Every city news outlet should replicate the New York Post's detailed report on the effects on local schools, including dollar costs, from the flood of illegal alien kiddies from Central America.
Sunday's Post front page directed readers to the story:
Educating backward children from the Third World is an expensive project. One example is Lynn Massachusetts, where the mayor had to rejigger the entire budget by reducing funds to city departments to pay for the extra costs of 600 illegal kids. Those needs include free food, tutors, Spanish-speaking teachers, psychological counseling and healthcare. Some of the little aliens don't even understand Spanish but were raised speaking indigenous languages like Kanjobal or Ixil. Some have never attended school at all.
An administration education bureaucrat opined, “The DOE believes that every child has a right to a great education," and that means any foreign kid who can bypass the border gets the whole education-welfare enchilada courtesy of the unwilling taxpayer.
The upshot is this: either taxes are raised to pay for the higher school costs or resources are moved around so citizen kids get less so illegal alien kids can get more. Every American parent with a kid in public school should be concerned and angry about the downgrade.
Flood of illegal immigrants pour into NYC public schools, New York Post, by Susan Edelman and Isabel Vincent, November 23, 2014 | 4:10am
New York has sent a warning to its schools: Expect more illegal immigrants.
The city Department of Education has told principals it plans this year to enroll 2,350 migrant children from Central America who crossed into the United States unaccompanied — with many more to come.
“It is expected that children will continue to arrive in large numbers in the coming years,” says a DOE memo to principals obtained by The Post.
The notice comes as the city rolls out a $50 million red carpet for 1,662 minors who crossed the border this summer to escape violence and gangs in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
In the “surge,” 5,000 of the 63,000 migrant kids caught trying to cross US borders — or who turned themselves in for refuge — have been released to relatives or other “sponsors” in New York state. Most live with other illegal immigrants.
In the city, Queens has received the highest number of unaccompanied children, 732, followed by Brooklyn (434), The Bronx (433), Manhattan (63) and Staten Island (less than 50), federal reports show.
The recent arrivals join an estimated 350,000 children of illegal immigrants already in New York state — about 12 percent of the public-school population.
The DOE refused to discuss the exact numbers of recently enrolled children, claiming it would violate student privacy. Officials ignored questions about the cost.
The city’s per-pupil spending in the 2012-2013 academic year averaged $20,749, which would bring the total for the migrant kids to $48.7 million.
But the costs could soar, because the youths — many of them victims of poverty and abuse — will need state-mandated English-language instruction, free or reduced-price lunch, and a range of other services, including psychological counseling, medical and dental.
“The DOE believes that every child has a right to a great education, and we are committed to providing children who have escaped violence with the academic foundation and access to services that they need to establish a path to long-term achievement,” said DOE spokeswoman Devora Kaye.
But parent leaders worry the influx will strain school budgets.
“Unless the mayor, governor or president announces that funds will be made available immediately, our already-struggling schools will have to provide more,” said Sam Pirozzolo, vice president of the New York City Parents Union.
“NYC public schools are already failing to meet the needs of the students they have — 70 percent cannot read, write and do math at grade level. How can they handle thousands of new students competing for the same services without things getting worse?”
Under US law, all children have a right to enroll in school and receive government services, regardless of immigration status.
On Long Island and upstate, several school districts have been accused of blocking enrollment of migrant youths by demanding a birth certificate, proof of residency and education records from their home countries.
DOE has instructed staff to register them without delay and follow up later on documentation.
“In the city, they don’t tend to give you a problem,” said Manhattan-based immigration lawyer John Cavallo.
DOE representatives even sit at a desk in Immigration Court downtown, where the migrant kids appear for hearings, to help them enroll in school and sign up for free health care.
In court, Melvin Bonilla, 17, said he traveled alone from Honduras on a “scary” journey to the United States four months ago. He lives with an uncle in Brooklyn but has skipped school.
Bonilla told Immigration Judge Virna Wright he finished sixth grade in Honduras and had not enrolled in a school here because his uncle wanted him to learn English first and was paying for lessons. Wright instructed him to register.
Children can stay in the country if they convince authorities that they faced harm or persecution in their native land. Judges may also grant “special immigrant juvenile” status to a child found abused, neglected or abandoned.
The migrant kids are not directly affected by President Obama’s executive orders last week to let 5 million illegal immigrants stay in the country. One order exempts from deportation the parents of permanent residents or anyone born in the United States. Another expands relief to “Dreamers” brought here illegally before age 16 — and before Jan. 1, 2010.
The orders place “recent arrivals” in the same priority for deportation as suspected terrorists and felons. The feds are processing the recent flood of migrant kids more quickly, Cavallo said.
“While others wait years for their hearings, the recent arrivals get scheduled within weeks or a few months at most,” he said. “The message is: You come now, you’re going to get arrested and deported right away.”
But Obama vowed to deport “criminals, not children,” and critics contend his actions will encourage more kids to flee to the United States to get amnesty.


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vdare--2020-11-25--Russian Vaccine Claims 91.4% Efficacy

Russian Vaccine Claims 91.4% Efficacy

With more data on its COVID-19 vaccine , Russian institute offers new evidence of success Joining the flood of press releases announcing positive results from COVID-19 vaccine trials , developers of Russia ’ s Sputnik V vaccine today reported 91.4 % efficacy from a second interim analysis of more than 18,000 people , bolstering a claim the team made on 11 November with scant evidence .
Whereas the initial report rested on a mere 20 cases of COVID-19 , with no details on how they were split between vaccinated and placebo groups , the new analysis is based on 39 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group versus 31 in the much smaller placebo arm .
… About 75 % got the vaccine , 25 % the placebo .
The Sputnik V vaccine , made by the Gamaleya Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow , uses adenovirus ( Ad ) “ vectors ” to deliver a gene that codes for the surface protein , spike , of SARS-CoV-2 , the virus that causes COVID-19 .
The two-dose scheme begins with an Ad26-spike vaccine and is followed by a booster shot 21 days later that contains Ad5 spike .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ concerns that immune responses to the same vector could lower the impact of the booster shot .
Another adenovirus vaccine , developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca , reported efficacy data yesterday of 70 % .
It uses the same adenovirus vector for both the prime and the booster shot .
“ At the moment , the data released today on the Sputnik vaccine looks to be the best in the field of the adeno-vectored vaccines , ” says Ian Jones , a virologist at the University of Reading .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Johnson & Johnson both also have adenovirus vaccines against COVID-19 in efficacy trials .
My point is not that the Russian vaccine effort was obviously successful at the time they approved it—clearly the Russian approval was akin to a phase III trial and did not have the same evidentiary bar as FDA approval .
But , the Russian vaccine designers made a decision based on this foreseeable outcome to use two different vectors for their prime/boost .
The mopes at Oxford/AZ chose not to .
There are logistical and other considerations that would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but it turns out those should have been outweighed by considerations of efficacy .
That oversight is definitely arrogant !
The head of the academic group , Sarah Gilbert , is quoted in the Guardian article , and she still didn ’ t catch on to the fact that by far the most likely explanation is that they had generated too many anti-vector antibodies for the boost to work .
Go back and read her quotes in many hagiographic articles about their vaccine over the spring and summer .
These people screwed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their bacon was only saved by a separate logistical mistake they made where they literally administered a mischaracterized drug product to thousands of human volunteers !
Here is one such example but there are many .
OK , I ’ m confused , how long did they wait to see if the vaccine is working ?
“ Whilst the [ COVID-19 ] case numbers remain small , this is highly effective , ” Azra Ghani , an infectious disease epidemiologist at Imperial College London , told the Science Media Centre .
The ongoing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after 78 confirmed COVID-19 cases .
Overall , trial organizers expect to enroll 40,000 participants .
The new report allays the concerns raised by many vaccine researchers and public health experts when the Sputnik V team made the earlier efficacy claims , according to Jones .
“ I think the numbers are now significant and I think they do give credence to what they say , ” he says .
… One benefit of adenovirus vaccines is they can be stored in standard refrigerators , rather than needing freezers .
Charlotte Houldcroft , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , cautions that the latest Russian announcement is yet another instance of “ science by press release , ” but , she adds , “ If the figures are as good as they appear , that ’ s really promising because this needs a standard cold chain to be rolled out rather than an ultracold chain like the RNA vaccines , and that ’ s a big plus.
” … Dmitriev said partners in India , South Korea , China , and Brazil are producing the vaccine , which could cost less than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would allow for the production of 1 billion doses in 2021 , with first doses delivered internationally in January .
So , it sounds like the Russians have a smarter dosing regimen than the similar Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine , which the Russians are willing to share with the Brits .
And here ’ s a new Science article on the Chinese vaccine efforts , which mostly use an old technology .
No clinical trial data has been released yet , but lots of people in China have been innoculated .

From Science:
With more data on its COVID-19 vaccine, Russian institute offers new evidence of success By Kai Kupferschmidt Nov. 24, 2020 , 1:00 PM Joining the flood of press releases announcing positive results from COVID-19 vaccine trials, developers of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine today reported 91.4% efficacy from a second interim analysis of more than 18,000 people, bolstering a claim the team made on 11 November with scant evidence. Whereas the initial report rested on a mere 20 cases of COVID-19, with no details on how they were split between vaccinated and placebo groups, the new analysis is based on 39 cases total, eight among the vaccinated group versus 31 in the much smaller placebo arm. …
About 75% got the vaccine, 25% the placebo.
The Sputnik V vaccine, made by the Gamaleya Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, uses adenovirus (Ad) “vectors” to deliver a gene that codes for the surface protein, spike, of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The two-dose scheme begins with an Ad26-spike vaccine and is followed by a booster shot 21 days later that contains Ad5 spike. Gamaleya chose two different adenoviruses because of concerns that immune responses to the same vector could lower the impact of the booster shot. Another adenovirus vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, reported efficacy data yesterday of 70%. It uses the same adenovirus vector for both the prime and the booster shot. “At the moment, the data released today on the Sputnik vaccine looks to be the best in the field of the adeno-vectored vaccines,” says Ian Jones, a virologist at the University of Reading. The Chinese company CanSino Biologics and pharma giant Johnson & Johnson both also have adenovirus vaccines against COVID-19 in efficacy trials.
Sputnik V is happy to share one of its two human adenoviral vectors with @AstraZeneca to increase the efficacy of AstraZeneca vaccine. Using two different vectors for two vaccine shots will result in higher efficacy than using the same vector for two shots. #SputnikV — Sputnik V (@sputnikvaccine) November 23, 2020
From iSteve commenter 415 Reasons:
My point is not that the Russian vaccine effort was obviously successful at the time they approved it—clearly the Russian approval was akin to a phase III trial and did not have the same evidentiary bar as FDA approval. But, the Russian vaccine designers made a decision based on this foreseeable outcome to use two different vectors for their prime/boost. The mopes at Oxford/AZ chose not to. There are logistical and other considerations that would lead you to use a single vector, but it turns out those should have been outweighed by considerations of efficacy. That oversight is definitely arrogant! The head of the academic group, Sarah Gilbert, is quoted in the Guardian article, and she still didn’t catch on to the fact that by far the most likely explanation is that they had generated too many anti-vector antibodies for the boost to work. Go back and read her quotes in many hagiographic articles about their vaccine over the spring and summer. These people screwed the pooch! And it seems like their bacon was only saved by a separate logistical mistake they made where they literally administered a mischaracterized drug product to thousands of human volunteers! Here is one such example but there are many.
Back to Science:
The Russian results presented today are an interim analysis from 18,794 participants 7 days after they received their booster dose. (Only one out of every four received the placebo.)
OK, I’m confused, how long did they wait to see if the vaccine is working?
“Whilst the [COVID-19] case numbers remain small, this is highly effective,” Azra Ghani, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Imperial College London, told the Science Media Centre. The ongoing trial will conduct its next interim analysis after 78 confirmed COVID-19 cases. Overall, trial organizers expect to enroll 40,000 participants. The new report allays the concerns raised by many vaccine researchers and public health experts when the Sputnik V team made the earlier efficacy claims, according to Jones. “I think the numbers are now significant and I think they do give credence to what they say,” he says. … One benefit of adenovirus vaccines is they can be stored in standard refrigerators, rather than needing freezers. Charlotte Houldcroft, a virologist at the University of Cambridge, cautions that the latest Russian announcement is yet another instance of “science by press release,” but, she adds, “If the figures are as good as they appear, that’s really promising because this needs a standard cold chain to be rolled out rather than an ultracold chain like the RNA vaccines, and that’s a big plus.” … Dmitriev said partners in India, South Korea, China, and Brazil are producing the vaccine, which could cost less than $10 a shot. Current agreements would allow for the production of 1 billion doses in 2021, with first doses delivered internationally in January.
So, it sounds like the Russians have a smarter dosing regimen than the similar Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which the Russians are willing to share with the Brits.
And here’s a new Science article on the Chinese vaccine efforts, which mostly use an old technology. No clinical trial data has been released yet, but lots of people in China have been innoculated.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-21--VDARE.com, Unlike The NEW YORK TIMES, Wishes Happy Thanksgiving To All Our Readers!

Most Americans will not be having a traditional family Thanksgiving this year , because of travel restrictions , large gathering restrictions and so on .
But at the New York Times , the War On Thanksgiving goes on—because the War On Thanksgiving is a War on White America .
The NYT recently ran an article featuring a picture of an Indian hunter with a modern rifle , uttering “ traditional ” Indian prayers before a hunt [ The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year | For many Native Americans , the Covid-19 toll and the struggle over racial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the holiday , and a cruel history , by Brett Anderson , November 17 , 2020 ] ( Many Indian “ traditions ” of this kind are really 20th century inventions—the late David Yeagley , himself a Comanche , pointed out that modern Indians are almost all Christians , really ) .
The hunt that followed took place on Turtle Mound Buffalo Ranch , 27,000 acres of rolling pasture on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation .
Every stage of the hunt was marked by a ceremony to give thanks for a buffalo that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white settlers in the late 19th century .
The mass killing was part of a government-approved effort to seize land from Native Americans who depended on the animal to survive .
The brutality of settlers ’ expansion into the Great Plains and American West has been drastically underplayed in popular myths about the founding and growth of the United States .
Arguably the best-known of those myths is the story of the first Thanksgiving , a holiday Robert Magnan , who led the buffalo hunt at Fort Peck , does not observe .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Day for Native people , ” he said .
“ Why would we celebrate people who tried to destroy us ?
” [ Links in original ] Of course White people too might ask that about Indians : why should we celebrate a people who tried to destroy us ?
But we do , as Ann Coulter just pointed out , we “ name our sports teams and military armaments after Indians ” .
The New York Times ’ Anderson quotes an Indian woman who hates Thanksgiving—and white America ; Lyz Jaakola , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa , recalls the catharsis she felt as a young woman watching the movie “ Addams Family Values , ” a dark comedy released in 1993 .
In one scene , the Wednesday character , cast as Pocahontas in a children ’ s Thanksgiving play , goes off script to take violent revenge on the Pilgrims .
“ You have taken the land which is rightfully ours , ” she calmly seethes .
“ Years from now , my people will be forced to live in mobile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wear cardigans and drink highballs.
” “ I was like , ‘ Oh my gosh , other people get it , too , ’ ” said Ms. Jaakola .
You can watch the clip below , and it is funny .
But it doesn ’ t mean “ other people get it ” —it means that Hollywood ( as personified here by Addams Family Values writer Paul Rudnick and director Barry Sonnenfeld ) hates America : Life on Indian reservations is pretty bleak , but it ’ s not because anyone is “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subsidized by white peoples ’ taxes to live there , and any bleakness is caused by living with other Indians .
( I don ’ t know if writers even knew that Indians shouldn ’ t drink highballs , for mostly genetic reasons—alcoholism is a major contributor to reservation bleakness . )
Here are some principles for remembering the first American Thanksgiving : • The land wasn ’ t “ rightfully ” owned by the Indians , ownership of land being a civilized invention ; they were only wandering around on the top @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Indians ” before the discovery of America by Europeans—there were indigenous tribes who hated each other , and warred constantly in Hobbesian fashion .
• There was also no America , as we know it today—the land was there , but the country is a creation of the Historic American Nation .
• The Wampanoag Indians who allied with the Pilgrims against the Iroquois—happy to have allies with firearms—had 50 years of peace .
But Indians in general were , as Thomas Jefferson was to write 155 years later , when the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war on the American patriots , “ merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare , is an undistinguished destruction of all ages , sexes and conditions.
” • The Indians ( not the Wampanoag ) tried to destroy America at its birth , and tried , by massacring women and children , to prevent the settlement of the American West .
• The fact that they failed , and America exists—still !
—is what we Give Thanks for .

Earlier by Ann Coulter: Have a Historically Accurate Thanksgiving!
Most Americans will not be having a traditional family Thanksgiving this year, because of travel restrictions, large gathering restrictions and so on. But at the New York Times, the War On Thanksgiving goes on—because the War On Thanksgiving is a War on White America.
The NYT recently ran an article featuring a picture of an Indian hunter with a modern rifle, uttering “traditional” Indian prayers before a hunt [The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year | For many Native Americans, the Covid-19 toll and the struggle over racial inequity make this high time to re-examine the holiday, and a cruel history, by Brett Anderson, November 17, 2020] (Many Indian “traditions” of this kind are really 20th century inventions—the late David Yeagley, himself a Comanche, pointed out that modern Indians are almost all Christians, really).
The hunt that followed took place on Turtle Mound Buffalo Ranch, 27,000 acres of rolling pasture on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Every stage of the hunt was marked by a ceremony to give thanks for a buffalo that descends from animals killed to near-extinction by white settlers in the late 19th century. The mass killing was part of a government-approved effort to seize land from Native Americans who depended on the animal to survive. The brutality of settlers’ expansion into the Great Plains and American West has been drastically underplayed in popular myths about the founding and growth of the United States. Arguably the best-known of those myths is the story of the first Thanksgiving, a holiday Robert Magnan, who led the buffalo hunt at Fort Peck, does not observe. “Thanksgiving is kind of like Columbus Day for Native people,” he said. “Why would we celebrate people who tried to destroy us?”[Links in original]
Of course White people too might ask that about Indians: why should we celebrate a people who tried to destroy us? But we do, as Ann Coulter just pointed out, we “name our sports teams and military armaments after Indians”.
The New York Times’ Anderson quotes an Indian woman who hates Thanksgiving—and white America;
Lyz Jaakola, 52, a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, recalls the catharsis she felt as a young woman watching the movie “Addams Family Values,” a dark comedy released in 1993. In one scene, the Wednesday character, cast as Pocahontas in a children’s Thanksgiving play, goes off script to take violent revenge on the Pilgrims. “You have taken the land which is rightfully ours,” she calmly seethes. “Years from now, my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans and drink highballs.” “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, other people get it, too,’” said Ms. Jaakola.
You can watch the clip below, and it is funny. But it doesn’t mean “other people get it”—it means that Hollywood (as personified here by Addams Family Values writer Paul Rudnick and director Barry Sonnenfeld) hates America:
Life on Indian reservations is pretty bleak, but it’s not because anyone is “forced” to live there—they’re subsidized by white peoples’ taxes to live there, and any bleakness is caused by living with other Indians. (I don’t know if writers even knew that Indians shouldn’t drink highballs, for mostly genetic reasons—alcoholism is a major contributor to reservation bleakness.)
Here are some principles for remembering the first American Thanksgiving:
Happy Thanksgiving from VDARE.com!


vdare--2020-11-25--From The  Derbyshire Email Bag: Big Dogs, Odd Numbers, And Big Words, Etc. [5 Items!]

Turkmenistan 's National Dog .
That would be the alabay , which I had things to say about in my November 13th podcast .
I quoted a web page on the alabay describing this dog as `` Body heavy , huge , balanced and muscular … Weight 40 to 80 pounds . ''
Then I added : `` That 's a big dog . ''
Actually , 40 to 80 pounds is not a very big dog .
The Derbs favor small dogs , twenty-something pounds in weight , so my judgment here is biased that way .
Forty to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Dogwise , though , it 's really not .
A friend with two dogs emailed in thus : `` I heard your podcast while walking a 136-pound Great Pyrenees and his 90-pound sister ...
I suspect your source got its units wrong , and it was 40-80 kilos , not pounds . ''
I suspect he 's right .
That web page I posted was a Russian one , and we all know about the Russian penchant for disinformation .
Also for dodgy websites : My security software had no problem with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clicked on the link he got a DANGEROUS LINK !
warning and retreated .
Derbyshire numerals .
In that same November 13th podcast , I had a segment about the county of Derbyshire , with which I have no connection other than that we—I and the county—share a name .
A listener reminded me of the system used for counting sheep in Derbyshire , one of many such in Britain .
There is a Wikipedia page here .
A Derbyshire shepherd counts from one to twenty thus : So on a Derbyshire hillside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Practice !
—there 'll be a quiz period later .
Tucker Derangement Syndrome .
In my November 20th podcast I observed that Tucker Carlson presents as `` a milquetoast Civic Nationalist type , '' and that this is as much as you can expect from a commentator on prime-time TV .
`` I 'll take what I can get , '' I added .
Of course I know that Tucker is never going to have me on his show , nor Peter Brimelow , nor Steve Sailer .
He wo n't even have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's what `` milquetoast Civic Nationalist '' means .
Some cautious , watery America First conservatism in prime time is better than none , though ; and none is what we 'll have when they cancel Tucker , as I believe they soon will .
As Peter Roff argued at RealClearPolitics the other day ( though from a somewhat different perspective to mine ) , `` The perfect should not be the enemy of the good ... Energy spent on fighting the movement ’ s allies is energy wasted . ''
Benford 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the meme—which I glanced at in my November 6th podcast—that Benford 's Law can tell us something useful about the election results .
Says she : Seems to me Prof. Golbeck has laid that meme to rest .
This does not of course mean that the election was n't manipulated to ensure a Biden win .
It was rigged nine ways to Sunday .
It 's just that Benford 's Law is no help in proving the case .
`` Arborose '' ?
In the October 16th podcast I uttered the following sentence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that I send them a transcript as soon as I have one , in hopes they can distill a regular article from it to post .
In the article thus distilled from the October 16th transcript a VDARE.com editor changed my `` arborose '' to `` arboreal . ''
Did I notice this ?
a reader wondered .
Yes I did .
I always read my own stuff when posted .
Narcissistic ?
Whatever .
There 's a slight loss of meaning in going from `` arborose '' to `` arboreal . ''
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ -ose , '' according to my 1993 Webster 's Third , is `` full of '' ; so `` arborose '' means `` full of trees . ''
The word `` arboreal , '' on the other hand , has the lame primary meaning `` of or relating to a tree : resembling a tree . ''
The secondary meaning is `` inhabiting or frequenting trees . ''
Since our streets here are n't related to trees , and the inhabitants of my town do n't inhabit or frequent trees ( well , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I think `` arborose '' is much the better word here .
[ Editor 's note : He 's probably right , but we err on the side of intelligibility , which means mostly using words readers wo n't have to stop and look up . ]
If I were to raise the issue with an editor ( which I did n't : not for nothing am I known in the trade as an easy edit ) he 'd probably point out that `` arborose '' is n't in the dictionary .
Indeed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Webster 's anyway ; but `` -ose '' is , and writers have been appending it to Latin stems for centuries to make `` verbose , '' `` jocose , '' `` otiose , '' `` grandiose , '' etc .
Lexicographers excercise a fielder 's choice when deciding whether to include words like this , whose meaning you can figure from their component parts .
For example : If some branch of the Tree of Life contains many , many species , biologists say it is `` speciose . ''
This word @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but the OED acknowledges it .
Please do n't email in to argue about this .
My email bag is already way too disputatiose .

Just a few:
Turkmenistan's National Dog. That would be the alabay, which I had things to say about in my November 13th podcast.
I quoted a web page on the alabay describing this dog as "Body heavy, huge, balanced and muscular … Weight 40 to 80 pounds." Then I added: "That's a big dog."
Actually, 40 to 80 pounds is not a very big dog. The Derbs favor small dogs, twenty-something pounds in weight, so my judgment here is biased that way. Forty to eighty pounds does seem big to me. Dogwise, though, it's really not.
A friend with two dogs emailed in thus: "I heard your podcast while walking a 136-pound Great Pyrenees and his 90-pound sister ... I suspect your source got its units wrong, and it was 40-80 kilos, not pounds."
I suspect he's right. That web page I posted was a Russian one, and we all know about the Russian penchant for disinformation.
Also for dodgy websites: My security software had no problem with the page, but when my friend clicked on the link he got a DANGEROUS LINK! warning and retreated.
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Derbyshire numerals. In that same November 13th podcast, I had a segment about the county of Derbyshire, with which I have no connection other than that we—I and the county—share a name.
A listener reminded me of the system used for counting sheep in Derbyshire, one of many such in Britain. There is a Wikipedia page here.
A Derbyshire shepherd counts from one to twenty thus:
yain, tain, eddero, pederro, pitts, tayter, later, overro, coverro, dix, yain-dix, tain-dix, eddero-dix, pederro-dix, bumfitt, yain-o-bumfitt, tain-o-bumfitt, eddero-o-bumfitt, pederro-o-bumfitt, jiggit.
So on a Derbyshire hillside, eddero times pitts equals bumfitt. Practice!—there'll be a quiz period later.
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Tucker Derangement Syndrome. In my November 20th podcast I observed that Tucker Carlson presents as "a milquetoast Civic Nationalist type," and that this is as much as you can expect from a commentator on prime-time TV. "I'll take what I can get," I added.
Of course I know that Tucker is never going to have me on his show, nor Peter Brimelow, nor Steve Sailer. He won't even have Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin. That's what "milquetoast Civic Nationalist" means.
Some cautious, watery America First conservatism in prime time is better than none, though; and none is what we'll have when they cancel Tucker, as I believe they soon will.
As Peter Roff argued at RealClearPolitics the other day (though from a somewhat different perspective to mine), "The perfect should not be the enemy of the good ... Energy spent on fighting the movement’s allies is energy wasted."
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Benford's Law. CompSci whiz Jen Golbeck tackles the meme—which I glanced at in my November 6th podcast—that Benford's Law can tell us something useful about the election results. Says she:
I am an expert with published research on Benford’s Law, the statistical pattern they are talking about. I’m going to tell you why they are doing it wrong and why, even if they did it right, it wouldn’t indicate fraud.
Seems to me Prof. Golbeck has laid that meme to rest. This does not of course mean that the election wasn't manipulated to ensure a Biden win. It was rigged nine ways to Sunday. It's just that Benford's Law is no help in proving the case.
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"Arborose"? In the October 16th podcast I uttered the following sentence:
Basil gets a good long daily walk: forty-five minutes around the quiet, arborose streets of our middle-middle-class suburb.
The drill with Radio Derb is that I send them a transcript as soon as I have one, in hopes they can distill a regular article from it to post. In the article thus distilled from the October 16th transcript a VDARE.com editor changed my "arborose" to "arboreal." Did I notice this? a reader wondered.
Yes I did. I always read my own stuff when posted. Narcissistic? Whatever.
There's a slight loss of meaning in going from "arborose" to "arboreal." The primary meaning of the suffix "-ose," according to my 1993 Webster's Third, is "full of"; so "arborose" means "full of trees." The word "arboreal," on the other hand, has the lame primary meaning "of or relating to a tree: resembling a tree." The secondary meaning is "inhabiting or frequenting trees."
Since our streets here aren't related to trees, and the inhabitants of my town don't inhabit or frequent trees (well, not much of the time), I think "arborose" is much the better word here. [Editor's note: He's probably right, but we err on the side of intelligibility, which means mostly using words readers won't have to stop and look up.]
If I were to raise the issue with an editor (which I didn't: not for nothing am I known in the trade as an easy edit) he'd probably point out that "arborose" isn't in the dictionary.
Indeed it isn't, not in my Webster's anyway; but "-ose" is, and writers have been appending it to Latin stems for centuries to make "verbose," "jocose," "otiose," "grandiose," etc.
Lexicographers excercise a fielder's choice when deciding whether to include words like this, whose meaning you can figure from their component parts. For example: If some branch of the Tree of Life contains many, many species, biologists say it is "speciose." This word is not in my Webster's Third, but the OED acknowledges it.
Please don't email in to argue about this. My email bag is already way too disputatiose.
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vdare--2020-11-25--A Glimpse Of Biden's America: Massive Redistribution Of White Taxpayer Wealth Proposed As Part Of "J

A Glimpse Of Biden's America: Massive Redistribution Of White Taxpayer Wealth Proposed As Part Of "Justice For Black Farmers Act"

Earlier ( 2014 ) : Obama Hands Out Billions In Fraudulent Bias Claims To `` Black Farmers '' And here we go… America in 2021 is on the same path of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe .
After the US Civil War , newly emancipated Black growers won a share of the agricultural landscape .
They did so despite fierce backlash and the ultimately failed promises of Reconstruction .
By the 1910s , around 200,000 Black farmers owned an estimated 20 million acres of land , mostly in the South .
* That turned out to be a peak .
Since then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and racist machinations within the US Department of Agriculture , the number of Black farmers has plunged by 98 percent .
The remaining few managed to hold on to just 10 percent of that hard-won acreage .
A new Senate bill , called the Justice for Black Farmers Act , set to be released November 30 , would mount a long-delayed federal effort to reverse the “ destructive forces that were unleashed upon Black farmers over the past century—one of the dark corners of shame in American history , ” lead sponsor Sen. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jones .
Co-sponsored with senators Elizabeth Warren ( D-Mass . )
and Kirsten Gillibrand ( D-N.Y. ) , the bill would , among other things , create an Equitable Land Access Service within the USDA , including a fund that devotes $ 8 billion annually to buying farmland on the open market and granting it to new and existing Black farmers , with the goal of making 20,000 grants per year over nine years , with maximum allotments of 160 acres .
It would also fund agriculture-focused historically Black colleges and universities as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Color Land Trust to help identify land for the USDA to purchase , and “ help new Black farmers get up and running , provide farmer training , and provide other assistance including support for development of farmer cooperatives , ” the bill ’ s summary states .
If the land transfer sounds like a generous giveaway , consider that “ we ’ ve done this before—we have seen massive land grants in US history , ” Booker said .
Indeed , the westward expansion of the United States was largely driven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The 1850 Donation Land Claim Act delivered the Oregon territory to white US settlers in 320-acre chunks .
The biggest of them all was the Homestead Act , signed into law by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 , which ultimately delivered about 270 million acres—about 10 percent of the US land base—to smallholders .
The Justice for Black Farmers Act ’ s much more modest proposal would amount to an “ equitable balancing of the scales after decades of systematic racism within the USDA that disadvantaged Black farmers , excluded them from loans and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them from holding on to their land , ” Booker said .
The 19th century ’ s great land transfers , which generated trillions of dollars in wealth for beneficiaries and their heirs , “ effectively precluded African Americans from participating , ” said Thomas Mitchell , a law professor at Texas A & M and 2020 MacArthur fellow , who participated in the bill ’ s drafting .
Meanwhile , the near-complete wipeout of Black farmland ownership since the early 20th century—driven largely by racist federal and state policies—represents a transfer of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ conservatively ” worth $ 300 billion , Thomas added .
That handover contributes to a persistent racial wealth gap—today , the median white family is 12 times wealthier than its Black counterpart .
In addition to the land-grant program , the bill would create a Farm Conservation Corps , which would focus on young adults from socially disadvantaged communities with USDA-funded apprenticeships on farms , with the goal of providing “ academic , vocational and social skills necessary to pursue careers in farming and ranching.
” While the program would be open @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Black trainees would be given priority for land grants from the Equitable Land Access Service .

Earlier (2014): Obama Hands Out Billions In Fraudulent Bias Claims To "Black Farmers"
And here we go… America in 2021 is on the same path of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.
After the US Civil War, newly emancipated Black growers won a share of the agricultural landscape. They did so despite fierce backlash and the ultimately failed promises of Reconstruction. By the 1910s, around 200,000 Black farmers owned an estimated 20 million acres of land, mostly in the South. * That turned out to be a peak. Since then, due largely to lingering white supremacy and racist machinations within the US Department of Agriculture, the number of Black farmers has plunged by 98 percent. The remaining few managed to hold on to just 10 percent of that hard-won acreage.
A new Senate bill, called the Justice for Black Farmers Act, set to be released November 30, would mount a long-delayed federal effort to reverse the “destructive forces that were unleashed upon Black farmers over the past century—one of the dark corners of shame in American history,” lead sponsor Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) told Mother Jones.
Co-sponsored with senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), the bill would, among other things, create an Equitable Land Access Service within the USDA, including a fund that devotes $8 billion annually to buying farmland on the open market and granting it to new and existing Black farmers, with the goal of making 20,000 grants per year over nine years, with maximum allotments of 160 acres. It would also fund agriculture-focused historically Black colleges and universities as well and nonprofits like the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust to help identify land for the USDA to purchase, and “help new Black farmers get up and running, provide farmer training, and provide other assistance including support for development of farmer cooperatives,” the bill’s summary states.
If the land transfer sounds like a generous giveaway, consider that “we’ve done this before—we have seen massive land grants in US history,” Booker said. Indeed, the westward expansion of the United States was largely driven by land grabs followed by handouts. The 1850 Donation Land Claim Act delivered the Oregon territory to white US settlers in 320-acre chunks. The biggest of them all was the Homestead Act, signed into law by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, which ultimately delivered about 270 million acres—about 10 percent of the US land base—to smallholders.
The Justice for Black Farmers Act’s much more modest proposal would amount to an “equitable balancing of the scales after decades of systematic racism within the USDA that disadvantaged Black farmers, excluded them from loans and other programs, [and] prevented them from holding on to their land,” Booker said.
The 19th century’s great land transfers, which generated trillions of dollars in wealth for beneficiaries and their heirs, “effectively precluded African Americans from participating,” said Thomas Mitchell, a law professor at Texas A&M and 2020 MacArthur fellow, who participated in the bill’s drafting. Meanwhile, the near-complete wipeout of Black farmland ownership since the early 20th century—driven largely by racist federal and state policies—represents a transfer of wealth from Black to primarily white Americans “conservatively” worth $300 billion, Thomas added. That handover contributes to a persistent racial wealth gap—today, the median white family is 12 times wealthier than its Black counterpart.
In addition to the land-grant program, the bill would create a Farm Conservation Corps, which would focus on young adults from socially disadvantaged communities with USDA-funded apprenticeships on farms, with the goal of providing “academic, vocational and social skills necessary to pursue careers in farming and ranching.” While the program would be open to anyone from a disadvantaged background, Black trainees would be given priority for land grants from the Equitable Land Access Service.


vdare--2020-11-25--Ann Coulter: Have a Historically Accurate Thanksgiving!

As every public school child knows , the first Thanksgiving took place in 1621 , when our Pilgrim forefathers took a break from slaughtering Peaceful , Environmentally Friendly , Indigenous Peoples to invite them to dinner in order to infect them with smallpox , before embarking on their mission to fry the planet so that the world would end on Jan. 22 , 2031 .
( Copyright : Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ) Consider this description of the Pilgrims ’ treatment of the Indigenous peoples : Except that ’ s not a description of the Pilgrims ’ treatment of Indigenous peoples .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indigenous people ’ s treatment of other Indigenous peoples , written by the late Francis Parkman , Harvard professor and the world ’ s foremost Indian scholar .
The Wampanoag , who joined the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving , had a lot to celebrate .
Contrary to Hollywood ’ s American-hating rendition of “ Pocahontas , ” in which the Indians feared the “ White Demons , ” the Wampanoag were thrilled with their well-armed white allies , who helped them repel the hated Iroquois and Narragansett .
The whole reason the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coast where the Pilgrims encountered them was that the Iroquois had “ pursued them with an inveterate enmity .
Some ( Wampanoag ) paid yearly tribute to their tyrants , while others were still subject to their inroads , flying in terror at the sound of the Mohawk war-cry.
” Parkman describes a typical Iroquois celebration following one of their attacks on their fellow “ Native Americans ” ( an absurd term , inasmuch as no Indians were “ native ” to America because there was no “ America ” until white Europeans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Iroquois “ reckoned these barbarities among their most exquisite enjoyments.
” After killing “ a sufficient number of captives , ” Parkman says , the Iroquois “ spared the lives of the remainder , and adopted them as members of their confederated tribes , separating wives from husbands , and children from parents , and distributing them among different villages , in order that old ties and associations might be more completely broken up.
” And for the feminists : The Iroquois humiliated conquered tribes by making the men take women ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ barbaric attacks , by the time the Pilgrims arrived , “ Northern New Hampshire , the whole of Vermont , and Western Massachusetts had no human tenants but the roving hunter or prowling warrior.
” Hollywood ’ s “ White Demons ” were “ White Saviors ” to the Wampanoag .
The Pilgrims also had much to be thankful for on that first Thanksgiving .
Of the approximately 100 passengers on the Mayflower , only half survived the first winter , felled by scurvy , malnutrition and the bitter cold .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ largely thanks to the friendly Wampanoag , who shared their food with the Europeans and taught them how to till the land .
The woke version of American Indians makes them just another victim group , like the transgenders .
Their honor and bravery is drained from the PC stories .
To better smear our country , Indians have to be made big , fat losers .
The truth told by Parkman shows the savagery and superstition , but also the courage and honor of American Indians .
The Hurons , for example @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the face of an enemy , ” and even when being tortured alive , a Huron would raise his voice in “ scorn and defiance.
” Doesn ’ t anyone wonder why we name our sports teams and military armaments after Indians ?
We don ’ t name them after weaklings or whiners .
Americans love to boast of having Indian blood , real or imagined — and not just to score a professorship at Harvard like Elizabeth Warren .
Real Americans honor Indians and also honor the courageous European settlers who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a miraculous union that we celebrate on this wonderful holiday .
Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here .
Her book , ¡Adios America !
The Left ’ s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole , was released on June 1 , 2015 .
Her latest book , Resistance Is Futile !
: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind , was released on August 21 , 2018 .

As every public school child knows, the first Thanksgiving took place in 1621, when our Pilgrim forefathers took a break from slaughtering Peaceful, Environmentally Friendly, Indigenous Peoples to invite them to dinner in order to infect them with smallpox, before embarking on their mission to fry the planet so that the world would end on Jan. 22, 2031. (Copyright: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)
Consider this description of the Pilgrims’ treatment of the Indigenous peoples:
“They were the worst of conquerors. Inordinate pride, the lust of blood and dominion, were the mainsprings of their warfare; and their victories were strained with every excess of savage passion.”
Except that’s not a description of the Pilgrims’ treatment of Indigenous peoples. It’s a description of some Indigenous people’s treatment of other Indigenous peoples, written by the late Francis Parkman, Harvard professor and the world’s foremost Indian scholar.
The Wampanoag, who joined the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving, had a lot to celebrate. Contrary to Hollywood’s American-hating rendition of “Pocahontas,” in which the Indians feared the “White Demons,” the Wampanoag were thrilled with their well-armed white allies, who helped them repel the hated Iroquois and Narragansett.
The whole reason the Wampanoag were clustered so close to the coast where the Pilgrims encountered them was that the Iroquois had “pursued them with an inveterate enmity. Some (Wampanoag) paid yearly tribute to their tyrants, while others were still subject to their inroads, flying in terror at the sound of the Mohawk war-cry.”
Parkman describes a typical Iroquois celebration following one of their attacks on their fellow “Native Americans” (an absurd term, inasmuch as no Indians were “native” to America because there was no “America” until white Europeans got here and created it):
“(M)en, women and children, yelling like fiends let loose, swarmed out of the narrow portal, to visit upon the captives a foretaste of the deadlier torments in store for them … (W)ith brandished torch and firebrand, the frenzied multitude closed around their victim. The pen shrinks to write, the heart sickens to conceive, the fierceness of (the captive’s) agony … The work was done, the blackened trunk was flung to the dogs, and, with clamorous shouts and hootings, the murderers sought to drive away the spirit of their victim.”
The Iroquois “reckoned these barbarities among their most exquisite enjoyments.”
Here’s another charming Iroquois practice:
After killing “a sufficient number of captives,” Parkman says, the Iroquois “spared the lives of the remainder, and adopted them as members of their confederated tribes, separating wives from husbands, and children from parents, and distributing them among different villages, in order that old ties and associations might be more completely broken up.”
And for the feminists: The Iroquois humiliated conquered tribes by making the men take women’s names.
Because of the Iroquois’ barbaric attacks, by the time the Pilgrims arrived, “Northern New Hampshire, the whole of Vermont, and Western Massachusetts had no human tenants but the roving hunter or prowling warrior.”
Hollywood’s “White Demons” were “White Saviors” to the Wampanoag.
The Pilgrims also had much to be thankful for on that first Thanksgiving. Of the approximately 100 passengers on the Mayflower, only half survived the first winter, felled by scurvy, malnutrition and the bitter cold. And the ones who made it did so largely thanks to the friendly Wampanoag, who shared their food with the Europeans and taught them how to till the land.
The woke version of American Indians makes them just another victim group, like the transgenders. Their honor and bravery is drained from the PC stories. To better smear our country, Indians have to be made big, fat losers.
The truth told by Parkman shows the savagery and superstition, but also the courage and honor of American Indians. The Hurons, for example, “held it disgraceful to turn from the face of an enemy,” and even when being tortured alive, a Huron would raise his voice in “scorn and defiance.”
Doesn’t anyone wonder why we name our sports teams and military armaments after Indians? We don’t name them after weaklings or whiners. Americans love to boast of having Indian blood, real or imagined — and not just to score a professorship at Harvard like Elizabeth Warren.
Real Americans honor Indians and also honor the courageous European settlers who brought Christian civilization to a continent, a miraculous union that we celebrate on this wonderful holiday.
Happy Thanksgiving!
COPYRIGHT 2020 ANN COULTER
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Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here.
Her book, ¡Adios America! The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole, was released on June 1, 2015.
Her latest book, Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, was released on August 21, 2018.


vdare--2020-11-25--Sailer Review Of A PECULIAR INDIFFERENCE: "The Numbers Don’t Lie" About Black Violence

From my new book review in Taki ’ s Magazine : Six months into the Racial Reckoning , it ’ s timely to review A Peculiar Indifference : The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America by a conventional liberal criminologist named Elliott Currie of the U. of California at Irvine : Much of the country has been understandably outraged by the continuing plague of police killings of black Americans ; after the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police in May 2020 , that anger exploded into some of the most widespread and sustained protests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There has been far less outrage over the ongoing emergency of everyday interpersonal violence in black communities .
Many conservatives credulously believe progressives ’ claims that the social sciences vindicate liberal ideology .
But , when read carefully , social scientific works can be a trove of politically incorrect data .
Here are some striking facts gleaned from A Peculiar Indifference : Between 2000 and 2018…more than 162,000 black Americans lost their lives to violence…the population of a substantial midsize American city—say Jackson , Mississippi… .
As Currie admits , the vast majority @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by other blacks .
The criminologist offers a lengthy historical explanation of why that is still , in 2020 , the fault of whites ( as you no doubt would anticipate , FDR ’ s redlining plays a role ) , but the 21st-century empirical data in the book is eye-opening : In the United States today , a young black man has fifteen times the chance of dying from violence as his white counterpart .

From my new book review in Taki’s Magazine:
The Numbers Don’t Lie
Steve Sailer
November 25, 2020
Six months into the Racial Reckoning, it’s timely to review A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America by a conventional liberal criminologist named Elliott Currie of the U. of California at Irvine:
Much of the country has been understandably outraged by the continuing plague of police killings of black Americans; after the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police in May 2020, that anger exploded into some of the most widespread and sustained protests against police violence in US history. There has been far less outrage over the ongoing emergency of everyday interpersonal violence in black communities.
Many conservatives credulously believe progressives’ claims that the social sciences vindicate liberal ideology. But, when read carefully, social scientific works can be a trove of politically incorrect data. Here are some striking facts gleaned from A Peculiar Indifference:
Between 2000 and 2018…more than 162,000 black Americans lost their lives to violence…the population of a substantial midsize American city—say Jackson, Mississippi….
As Currie admits, the vast majority of black murder victims are unquestionably killed by other blacks. The criminologist offers a lengthy historical explanation of why that is still, in 2020, the fault of whites (as you no doubt would anticipate, FDR’s redlining plays a role), but the 21st-century empirical data in the book is eye-opening:
In the United States today, a young black man has fifteen times the chance of dying from violence as his white counterpart.


vdare--2020-11-25--This Day In VDARE.com History 2014: How Skepticism Spread About the Rolling Stone Rape Story

Origially published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2014 .
We 've used Archive.org links to restore both the Rolling Stone story ( which was was withdrawn ofter it was shown to be a pack of obvious lies , and Richard Bradley 's original blog , which he has ceased to maintain . )
On November 19th , Rolling Stone posted “ A Rape on Campus : A Brutal Assault and Search for Justice at UVA ” to immense acclaim .
On November 24th , veteran editor Richard Bradley asked on his personal blog Shots in the Dark “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Below are the only comments made on Bradley ’ s post before I linked to his post on November 29th , after which the floodgates opened .
Then , my readers followed up with numerous insightful comments on Bradley ’ s blog on November 29th and 30th .
On December 1st , articles started appearing citing Bradley ’ s post in places like Reason , the WSJ , and Jonah Goldberg ’ s column in the L.A. Times .
From December 2nd , onward , the Washington Post took the lead , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The New York Times , however , published only one wishy-washy story about doubts , then on December 4th published a long article on the supposed rape culture crisis on campus and in the military , credulously citing the Rolling Stone story repeatedly .
Today , Rolling Stone has apologized for the article and the Washington Post has much new reporting about it .
So score one for the WaPo over the NYT .
And here ’ s my Taki ’ s Magazine article from earlier this week “ A Rape Hoax for @ @ @ @

Origially published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2014. We've used Archive.org links to restore both the Rolling Stone story (which was was withdrawn ofter it was shown to be a pack of obvious lies, and Richard Bradley's original blog, which he has ceased to maintain.)
On November 19th, Rolling Stone posted “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Search for Justice at UVA” to immense acclaim.
On November 24th, veteran editor Richard Bradley asked on his personal blog Shots in the Dark “Is the Rolling Stone Story True?”
Below are the only comments made on Bradley’s post before I linked to his post on November 29th, after which the floodgates opened.
351 Responses
Then, my readers followed up with numerous insightful comments on Bradley’s blog on November 29th and 30th. On December 1st, articles started appearing citing Bradley’s post in places like Reason, the WSJ, and Jonah Goldberg’s column in the L.A. Times.
From December 2nd, onward, the Washington Post took the lead, actually doing new shoe leather reporting. The New York Times, however, published only one wishy-washy story about doubts, then on December 4th published a long article on the supposed rape culture crisis on campus and in the military, credulously citing the Rolling Stone story repeatedly.
Today, Rolling Stone has apologized for the article and the Washington Post has much new reporting about it.
So score one for the WaPo over the NYT.
And here’s my Taki’s Magazine article from earlier this week “A Rape Hoax for Book Lovers.”


vdare--2020-11-24--The Southern Poverty Law Center Vanishes Its Insufficiently Woke Past

In a development of precisely no interest to the Main Stream Media , the antiwhite Southern Poverty Law Center ( $ PLC to VDARE.com ) lost its founder , Morris Dees , longtime chairman Richard Cohen and several other top officers in a 2019 coup reportedly related to internal racial tensions and a sexual harassment scandal .
Michelle Obama ’ s former Chief Of Staff Tina Tchen ( who got Jussie Smollett off the hook ) was brought in to smooth things over , which seems to have resulted in the 2020 appointment of another childless first generation Chinese immigrant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tweet her ] as the new President and CEO .
Huang celebrated the election by tweeting “ Now the hard work begins - we must eradicate racism and white nationalism ” —a.k.a .
white identity .
Something else the SPLC is eradicating from its website : any pretense that it was ever critical of black supremacism .
There ’ s precedent for this : in 1919 , Vladimir Lenin gave a famous speech to a crowd of Soviet troops in Sverdlov Square , Moscow .
In the foreground was Leon Trotsky and Lev @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the photograph was edited to remove Stalin ’ s former rivals : Similarly , as radical as the SPLC has always been , it 's now even more radical .
It is erasing its own past in order to intensify its attack on the Historic American Nation—exactly like its Communist forbears .
The BLMania has made many companies and organizations `` go Woke , '' and commit to `` furthering racial equity '' in hiring , by giving away millions to non-white pressure groups , or shaming themselves for insufficient `` anti-racism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ embarrassing circumstances—this trend reached the SPLC .
Recently , it announced it would retire its `` Black Separatist '' category of `` hate groups '' because even the most anti-white black separatism is n't `` hate ; '' it ’ s `` valid anger against very real historical and systemic oppression . ''
The SPLC explained that `` groups formerly designated as Black Separatist will be characterized by antisemitism , anti-LGBTQ , male supremacy and whatever additional ideological categories most accurately describe their offending beliefs . ''
The SPLC has already started to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` a false equivalency of equal hate on both sides . ''
[ Equity Through Accuracy : Changes to Our Hate Map , by Raven Hodges , SPLCenter.org , October 8 , 2020 ] More changes are likely to come .
As recently as March 9 , 2020 , the SPLC had an `` extremist file '' on black nationalism , but explained that white nationalism is worse : The SPLC called the Nation of Islam ( NOI ) `` a leading example of a black nationalist group , '' but said nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Keith Ellison , his ties to NOI , and his past call for a black ethnostate .
However , the dossier did mention NOI 's anti-whiteness : [ T ] he Nation of Islam [ is ] led by Louis Farrakhan .
He has never backed away from the group ’ s fundamental tenets , espoused by the group ’ s previous leader , Elijah Mohammed , that white people are inherently evil — that they are `` blue-eyed devils . ''
Farrakhan has described Catholics and Jews , who he said practice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ preying on blacks .
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In addition , he said , “ White folks are going down .
And Satan is going down .
And Farrakhan , by God ’ s grace , has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew and I ’ m here to say your time is up , your world is through.
” Despite its extreme bias , until a few months ago , the SPLC was willing to criticize groups for being anti-white , however mildly .
A version of the extremist file on black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ included this : The same explanation was included in an earlier version of the SPLC 's extremist file on black separatism , saved by the WayBack Machine on September 8 , 2015 , but with an additional quote : Although the Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes that much black racism in America is , at least in part , a response to centuries of white racism , it believes racism must be exposed in all its forms .
White groups espousing beliefs similar to black nationalists would be considered clearly racist .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ groups regardless of their color .
As Martin Luther King Jr. once said : `` Violence begets violence ; hate begets hate ; and toughness begets a greater toughness .
It is all a descending spiral , and the end is destruction — for everybody .
Along the way of life , someone must have enough sense and morality to cut off the chain of hate . ''
But the two quotes above are now gone .
The SPLC edited or deleted the pages they appeared .
Now , you can only find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the sentiment expressed in those quotes was not uncommon in the SPLC ’ s past .
In 1998 , Senior Fellow Mark Potok said this : [ Louis ] Farrakhan describes Catholics and Jews , who he says practice a `` gutter religion , '' as preying on blacks .
He regrets the `` tone '' of a principal subordinate who calls for slaughtering white South Africans , but agrees with the message .
He calls for racial separatism and inveighs against interracial relationships .
If a white group espoused similar beliefs with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trouble describing it as racist and anti-Semitic .
We hesitate with a group like the Nation of Islam because we recognize that its racism is largely a response to white racism .
But as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said : `` Violence begets violence ; hate begets hate ; and toughness begets a greater toughness .
It is all a descending spiral , and the end is destruction — for everybody .
Along the way of life , someone must have enough sense and morality to cut off the chain of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expose white hate groups , we can not be in the business of explaining away the black ones .
[ The Spreading Flood of Hate , March 15 , 1998 ] That passage has not been deleted—yet .
I imagine that it slipped through the cracks , and will be deleted in due time , given the pattern of edits and deletions .
[ Archive.is link ] For example , there is no longer a `` black nationalist '' category at all .
All groups categorized as such are now lumped in with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ separatist ” sounds less threatening .
The “ separatist ” category is on its way out .
But for now , the URL for the extremist file on “ black nationalists ” now redirects automatically to the extremist file on black separatism .
Put this URL in your browser : And hit the return key .
It almost immediately becomes : The change was made in late March or early April , as shown by this `` digital snapshot '' from the WayBack Machine .
The groups listed are the same , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the extremist file on black nationalism , available through the WayBack Machine here .
Where the URL for the black separatist extremist file `` redirects '' to once it is gone , remains to be seen .
Whether `` nationalist '' or `` separatist , '' the examples of anti-white racism from the Nation Of Islam , and explanations about how extremist groups of all races must be held to account , are gone .
The dossier on separatists is now brief and vague .
It mentions the `` Covington Catholic '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blaming President Trump for fueling black separatism .
Here it is in full : The Black separatist movement is a reaction to centuries of institutionalized white supremacy in America .
Black separatists believe the answer to white racism is to form separate institutions—or even a separate nation—for Black people .
Most forms of Black separatism are strongly anti-white , antisemitic and anti LGBTQ .
Some religious versions assert that Black people are the biblical “ chosen people ” of God .
The activity among Black separatist groups in 2019 did not change much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ past , Black separatists had no influence on mainstream politics or policy , unlike the white nationalist movement .
Despite a few incidents that garnered national news attention , these groups continued to operate on the fringe of society , and as a reaction to institutionalized white supremacy .
In January 2019 , Black Hebrew Israelites were in the national news after confronting students from Covington Catholic High School and Nathan Phillip , a Native American activist and Omaha elder , during the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington , D.C .
The following @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Islam leader Louis Farrakhan ’ s Facebook and Instagram accounts , citing his antisemitic rhetoric .
With the onset of the 2020 presidential election season , it is likely Black separatist groups will become more active in both online and offline spaces .
If the charged political environment produces more racist rhetoric from the Trump campaign , it will only add fuel to these groups ’ recruitment pitches .
Specific examples of anti-white racism are gone , including the fact that the Nation of Islam ’ s theology is axiomatically anti-white .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SPLC ’ s duty to combat racism from all sides .
Chris Roberts [ Email him ] writes for American Renaissance .
You can follow him on Twitter @ RobertsAmRen .

In a development of precisely no interest to the Main Stream Media, the antiwhite Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC to VDARE.com) lost its founder, Morris Dees, longtime chairman Richard Cohen and several other top officers in a 2019 coup reportedly related to internal racial tensions and a sexual harassment scandal. Michelle Obama’s former Chief Of Staff Tina Tchen (who got Jussie Smollett off the hook) was brought in to smooth things over, which seems to have resulted in the 2020 appointment of another childless first generation Chinese immigrant, Margaret Huang, right, [Tweet her] as the new President and CEO. Huang celebrated the election by tweeting “Now the hard work begins - we must eradicate racism and white nationalism”—a.k.a. white identity. Something else the SPLC is eradicating from its website: any pretense that it was ever critical of black supremacism.
There’s precedent for this: in 1919, Vladimir Lenin gave a famous speech to a crowd of Soviet troops in Sverdlov Square, Moscow. In the foreground was Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev. During Joseph Stalin's government, the photograph was edited to remove Stalin’s former rivals:
Similarly, as radical as the SPLC has always been, it's now even more radical. It is erasing its own past in order to intensify its attack on the Historic American Nation—exactly like its Communist forbears.
The BLMania has made many companies and organizations "go Woke," and commit to "furthering racial equity" in hiring, by giving away millions to non-white pressure groups, or shaming themselves for insufficient "anti-racism." Needless to say—especially under the embarrassing circumstances—this trend reached the SPLC. Recently, it announced it would retire its "Black Separatist" category of "hate groups" because even the most anti-white black separatism isn't "hate;" it’s "valid anger against very real historical and systemic oppression." The SPLC explained that "groups formerly designated as Black Separatist will be characterized by antisemitism, anti-LGBTQ, male supremacy and whatever additional ideological categories most accurately describe their offending beliefs."
The SPLC has already started to purge its website of anything that suggests "a false equivalency of equal hate on both sides." [ Equity Through Accuracy: Changes to Our Hate Map, by Raven Hodges, SPLCenter.org, October 8, 2020]More changes are likely to come.
As recently as March 9, 2020, the SPLC had an "extremist file" on black nationalism, but explained that white nationalism is worse:
T]hey should not be seen as equivalent to white supremacist groups – such as the Ku Klux Klan or neo-Nazis – in terms of their history of violence and terrorism. And, unlike white hate groups, they have made virtually no inroads into the mainstream political realm and have virtually no supporters among elected officials. [Black Nationalist | Southern Poverty Law Center, Archive.org Link]
The SPLC called the Nation of Islam (NOI) "a leading example of a black nationalist group," but said nothing about former Congressman and Bernie Sanders surrogate Keith Ellison, his ties to NOI, and his past call for a black ethnostate. However, the dossier did mention NOI's anti-whiteness:
[T]he Nation of Islam [is] led by Louis Farrakhan. He has never backed away from the group’s fundamental tenets, espoused by the group’s previous leader, Elijah Mohammed, that white people are inherently evil — that they are "blue-eyed devils." Farrakhan has described Catholics and Jews, who he said practice a "gutter religion," as preying on blacks. . .. In addition, he said, “White folks are going down. And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan, by God’s grace, has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through.”
Despite its extreme bias, until a few months ago, the SPLC was willing to criticize groups for being anti-white, however mildly. A version of the extremist file on black nationalism from February 22, 2018, included this:
Although the Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes that much black racism in America is, at least in part, a response to centuries of white racism, it believes racism must be exposed in all its forms. White groups espousing beliefs similar to black nationalists would be considered clearly racist. The same criterion should be applied to all groups regardless of their color.
The same explanation was included in an earlier version of the SPLC's extremist file on black separatism, saved by the WayBack Machine on September 8, 2015, but with an additional quote:
Although the Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes that much black racism in America is, at least in part, a response to centuries of white racism, it believes racism must be exposed in all its forms. White groups espousing beliefs similar to black nationalists would be considered clearly racist. The same criterion should be applied to all groups regardless of their color. As Martin Luther King Jr. once said: "Violence begets violence; hate begets hate; and toughness begets a greater toughness. It is all a descending spiral, and the end is destruction — for everybody. Along the way of life, someone must have enough sense and morality to cut off the chain of hate."
But the two quotes above are now gone. The SPLC edited or deleted the pages they appeared. Now, you can only find them on the WayBack Machine.
But the sentiment expressed in those quotes was not uncommon in the SPLC’s past. In 1998, Senior Fellow Mark Potok said this:
[Louis] Farrakhan describes Catholics and Jews, who he says practice a "gutter religion," as preying on blacks. He regrets the "tone" of a principal subordinate who calls for slaughtering white South Africans, but agrees with the message. He calls for racial separatism and inveighs against interracial relationships. If a white group espoused similar beliefs with the colors reversed, few would have trouble describing it as racist and anti-Semitic. We hesitate with a group like the Nation of Islam because we recognize that its racism is largely a response to white racism. But as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said: "Violence begets violence; hate begets hate; and toughness begets a greater toughness. It is all a descending spiral, and the end is destruction — for everybody. Along the way of life, someone must have enough sense and morality to cut off the chain of hate." If we seek to expose white hate groups, we cannot be in the business of explaining away the black ones. [The Spreading Flood of Hate, March 15, 1998]
That passage has not been deleted—yet. I imagine that it slipped through the cracks, and will be deleted in due time, given the pattern of edits and deletions. [Archive.is link]
For example, there is no longer a "black nationalist" category at all. All groups categorized as such are now lumped in with “black separatist,” presumably because “separatist” sounds less threatening. The “separatist” category is on its way out. But for now, the URL for the extremist file on “black nationalists” now redirects automatically to the extremist file on black separatism. Put this URL in your browser:
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/black-nationalist/
And hit the return key. It almost immediately becomes:
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/black-separatist/
The change was made in late March or early April, as shown by this "digital snapshot" from the WayBack Machine.
The groups listed are the same, as you can see from past versions of the extremist file on black nationalism, available through the WayBack Machine here. Where the URL for the black separatist extremist file "redirects" to once it is gone, remains to be seen.
Whether "nationalist" or "separatist," the examples of anti-white racism from the Nation Of Islam, and explanations about how extremist groups of all races must be held to account, are gone. The dossier on separatists is now brief and vague. It mentions the "Covington Catholic" incident with no context and ends by blaming President Trump for fueling black separatism. Here it is in full:
The Black separatist movement is a reaction to centuries of institutionalized white supremacy in America. Black separatists believe the answer to white racism is to form separate institutions—or even a separate nation—for Black people. Most forms of Black separatism are strongly anti-white, antisemitic and anti LGBTQ. Some religious versions assert that Black people are the biblical “chosen people” of God. Top Takeaways The activity among Black separatist groups in 2019 did not change much from last year. As in years past, Black separatists had no influence on mainstream politics or policy, unlike the white nationalist movement. Despite a few incidents that garnered national news attention, these groups continued to operate on the fringe of society, and as a reaction to institutionalized white supremacy. Key Moments In January 2019, Black Hebrew Israelites were in the national news after confronting students from Covington Catholic High School and Nathan Phillip, a Native American activist and Omaha elder, during the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, D.C. The following May, Facebook permanently banned Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, citing his antisemitic rhetoric. What’s Ahead With the onset of the 2020 presidential election season, it is likely Black separatist groups will become more active in both online and offline spaces. If the charged political environment produces more racist rhetoric from the Trump campaign, it will only add fuel to these groups’ recruitment pitches.
Specific examples of anti-white racism are gone, including the fact that the Nation of Islam’s theology is axiomatically anti-white. And there is no more mention of the SPLC’s duty to combat racism from all sides.
Stalin would approve.
Chris Roberts [Email him] writes for American Renaissance. You can follow him on Twitter @RobertsAmRen.


vdare--2020-11-24--Carl Bernstein Lists 21 GOP Traitors In The Senate

Earlier : A Reader Asks About Watergate Reporter Carl Bernstein , Who Was Brought Up Communist Carl Bernstein released a @ @ @ @ @ who have privately expressed their disdain for President Trump .
Many of these names are @ @ @ @ @ are .
These are not the only vile , contemptible demons who paraded themselves around @ @ @ @ @ off of Donald Trump , pretending to be on board with the America First agenda @ @ @ @ @ the people they claim to represent .
How many Republicans are really with the people @ @ @ @ @ in them ?
Do we really believe that a Republican Senate will stand in the @ @ @ @ @ , when it is vacuous jokes like these who comprise the barrier ?
Of course @ @ @ @ @ , the 21 Senators who hate the people that elected them , the people whom @ @ @ @ @

Earlier: A Reader Asks About Watergate Reporter Carl Bernstein, Who Was Brought Up Communist
Carl Bernstein released a list of 21 GOP Senators who have privately expressed their disdain for President Trump. Many of these names are unsurprising, but others certainly are. These are not the only vile, contemptible demons who paraded themselves around during their campaigns, leeching off of Donald Trump, pretending to be on board with the America First agenda while privately heaping scorn upon the people they claim to represent.
How many Republicans are really with the people who have placed their faith in them? Do we really believe that a Republican Senate will stand in the way of the totalitarian Left, when it is vacuous jokes like these who comprise the barrier? Of course not.
Without further ado, the 21 Senators who hate the people that elected them, the people whom they owe everything to:


vdare--2020-11-24--Trump May FINALLY Scrap Birthright Citizenship

Donald Trump promised to scrap birthright citizenship on the 2016 campaign trail .
He repeated this idea right before the 2018 midterms and suggested he would do it by executive order .
Yet , the president never got around to doing it—until now .
The Hill reported last week that the president may issue an executive order eliminating birthright citizenship in his apparent last days in office .
It ’ s a serious proposal as drafts exist of it and they have been reviewed by the Department of Justice .
“ Since taking office , President Trump has never shied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to advance bold policies and fulfill the promises he made to the American people , but I won ’ t speculate or comment on potential executive action , ” White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere told The Hill of the move [ Trump administration revives talk of action on birthright citizenship , by Brett Samuels , The Hill , November 20 , 2020 ] .
This would be an incredible move if Trump executes it .
VDARE.com has called for the elimination of birthright citizenship ever since we came online 20 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ citizenship , commonly called ‘ birthright citizenship , ’ is the result of the federal government and judiciary 's willful misinterpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution , ” Nathaniel Parker wrote for VDARE in 2001 .
Now this idea may finally be accomplished .
That doesn ’ t excuse Trump waiting until his last possible days to do this , however .
He should ’ ve scrapped it in his first year of office .
The administration did try to crack down on birth tourism in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t even mention the issue of birthright citizenship on the 2020 campaign trail .
But it is better late than never .
This executive order will certainly be challenged in court if it ’ s issued .
But the administration banks on this happening and wants a Supreme Court ruling on the matter .
They hope the court would rule the 14th Amendment does not guarantee citizenship to anyone who happens to be born in America .
Whether the Supreme Court will rule in such a way is another issue .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fight worth having and it needs to happen as soon as possible .
We can not solve our immigration crisis until we end birthright citizenship .
It ’ s not right if an pregnant illegal immigrant can cross the border , immediately give birth and her child be considered a full American citizen -- as happened this week [ An illegal immigrant just crossed the border and immediately had a baby .
Congratulations to the taxpayers !
, by Eddie Scarry , Washington Examiner , November 23 , 2020 ] .
The administration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this travesty .
Obviously , an incoming Biden Administration could reverse any Executive Order of Trump ’ s but this would at least force the Democrats to defend doing so—birthright citizenship is very unpopular with voters .
Also , the Democrats may decide to leave it up to the Courts—and they may decide against it , not least because of Trump ’ s appointments .

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Donald Trump promised to scrap birthright citizenship on the 2016 campaign trail. He repeated this idea right before the 2018 midterms and suggested he would do it by executive order. Yet, the president never got around to doing it—until now.
The Hill reported last week that the president may issue an executive order eliminating birthright citizenship in his apparent last days in office. It’s a serious proposal as drafts exist of it and they have been reviewed by the Department of Justice. “Since taking office, President Trump has never shied away from using his lawful executive authority to advance bold policies and fulfill the promises he made to the American people, but I won’t speculate or comment on potential executive action,” White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere told The Hill of the move [Trump administration revives talk of action on birthright citizenship, by Brett Samuels, The Hill, November 20, 2020].
This would be an incredible move if Trump executes it. VDARE.com has called for the elimination of birthright citizenship ever since we came online 20 years ago. “This perversion of American citizenship, commonly called ‘birthright citizenship,’ is the result of the federal government and judiciary's willful misinterpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” Nathaniel Parker wrote for VDARE in 2001.
Now this idea may finally be accomplished. That doesn’t excuse Trump waiting until his last possible days to do this, however. He should’ve scrapped it in his first year of office. The administration did try to crack down on birth tourism in its last year, but Trump didn’t even mention the issue of birthright citizenship on the 2020 campaign trail. But it is better late than never.
This executive order will certainly be challenged in court if it’s issued. But the administration banks on this happening and wants a Supreme Court ruling on the matter. They hope the court would rule the 14th Amendment does not guarantee citizenship to anyone who happens to be born in America.
Whether the Supreme Court will rule in such a way is another issue. In any case, it’s a fight worth having and it needs to happen as soon as possible. We cannot solve our immigration crisis until we end birthright citizenship.
It’s not right if an pregnant illegal immigrant can cross the border, immediately give birth and her child be considered a full American citizen--as happened this week [An illegal immigrant just crossed the border and immediately had a baby. Congratulations to the taxpayers!, by Eddie Scarry, Washington Examiner, November 23, 2020]. The administration must do what they can to end this travesty.
Obviously, an incoming Biden Administration could reverse any Executive Order of Trump’s but this would at least force the Democrats to defend doing so—birthright citizenship is very unpopular with voters.
Also, the Democrats may decide to leave it up to the Courts—and they may decide against it, not least because of Trump’s appointments.