vdare--2020-05-25--An American Reader In Israel Says America Used To Have No Problem With Honoring The Confederacy

One of the earliest campaign medals the US ever issued was the Civil War Medal .
Originally the ribbon was to be red , white and blue ( the colors of both sides ) but it was changed to blue and gray for obvious reasons .
( There actually is a pattern to using the colors of `` the enemy '' on campaign ribbons , although here both sides were American . )
Interestingly , veterans of both sides were entitled to the medal .
The designs of the medals themselves were also chosen to be as neutral as possible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the words `` WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE WITH CHARITY FOR ALL , '' and the Navy version , even more neutral , shows the Monitor fighting the Merrimac .
The Pentagon 's Office of Military Heraldry put it this way : The Civil War Campaign Badge was design by Mr. F. D. Millett , a prominent American Artist , and the Chief of Staff , U.S. Army , approved the design and authorized the manufacture of the badge in 1906 .
The initial contract with a commercial firm was canceled and the design @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Philadelphia for manufacture .
The initial ribbon design was two bands of red , white , and blue with the red on the outside and the blue bands separated by a thin white stripe in the center .
The head of Lincoln was selected because it was the only thing that could be used on the medal without offense to the sentiment then happily prevailing over the whole country in regard to the Civil War .
The portrait of Lincoln must be acceptable to everybody , particularly when accompanied by the noble phrase @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tersely and accurately expresses his attitude during the war .
The ribbon was changed in 1913 to half blue ( on the left ) and half gray .
Union veterans wore the ribbon with the blue on the right , and Confederate veterans with the gray on the right .
A fellow member of a flag group I belonged to once told the story about how his father , who owned a military supply store in the Hampton Roads area , arranged to have medals awarded to the last Confederate veterans at their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's I think .
They had never known they were even entitled to the medals , and had tears in their eyes when they were pinned on .
There are no veterans left , of course , but the practice remains : Campaign streamers on the US Army flag are the colors of the campaign medal ( if there is one ) .
The Civil War streamers , of course , are blue and gray .
Generally , the blue is on top , but if the unit flying the flag fought for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ within the US military which did , mostly National Guard units—then they fly the streamer with the grey on top .
In addition , the name of the battle on the streamer is changed if the South had a different name for it—Manassas instead of Bull Run and so on .
Once again , from the Army 's Military Heraldry office : Do n't tell these fanatics this , or they 'll destroy that too .
See earlier letters from the same reader .
James Fulford writes : I 've been looking up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sure that the Civil War Medal was meant to be awarded to people who served in the armies of the late Confederacy .
Some sources say it was , some say it was n't .
However , it remains clear that in the years after the Civil War , white Americans reconciled with each other .
President Truman met with the 99-year old head of the United Confederate Veterans in the White House in June , 1945 .
The US government issued the stamp at right in 1951 in honor of the last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ praised Robert E. Lee , and President Eisenhower kept Lee 's portrait in the White House .
The hate is being promoted by people who do n't have America 's best interests at heart .

Re: James Fulford's article Memorial Day: Remember America's Dead—Including BOTH Sides In Civil War
From: Norm [Email him]
One of the earliest campaign medals the US ever issued was the Civil War Medal. Originally the ribbon was to be red, white and blue (the colors of both sides) but it was changed to blue and gray for obvious reasons. (There actually is a pattern to using the colors of "the enemy" on campaign ribbons, although here both sides were American.)
Interestingly, veterans of both sides were entitled to the medal. The designs of the medals themselves were also chosen to be as neutral as possible: The Army version shows Lincoln with the words "WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE WITH CHARITY FOR ALL," and the Navy version, even more neutral, shows the Monitor fighting the Merrimac.
The Pentagon's Office of Military Heraldry put it this way:
The Civil War Campaign Badge was designed by Mr. F. D. Millett, a prominent American Artist, and the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, approved the design and authorized the manufacture of the badge in 1906. The initial contract with a commercial firm was canceled and the design turned over to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia for manufacture. The initial ribbon design was two bands of red, white, and blue with the red on the outside and the blue bands separated by a thin white stripe in the center. The head of Lincoln was selected because it was the only thing that could be used on the medal without offense to the sentiment then happily prevailing over the whole country in regard to the Civil War. The portrait of Lincoln must be acceptable to everybody, particularly when accompanied by the noble phrase from his second inaugural address which so tersely and accurately expresses his attitude during the war. The ribbon was changed in 1913 to half blue (on the left) and half gray.
Union veterans wore the ribbon with the blue on the right, and Confederate veterans with the gray on the right.
A fellow member of a flag group I belonged to once told the story about how his father, who owned a military supply store in the Hampton Roads area, arranged to have medals awarded to the last Confederate veterans at their last reunion, sometime in the 1940's I think. They had never known they were even entitled to the medals, and had tears in their eyes when they were pinned on.
There are no veterans left, of course, but the practice remains: Campaign streamers on the US Army flag are the colors of the campaign medal (if there is one). The Civil War streamers, of course, are blue and gray. Generally, the blue is on top, but if the unit flying the flag fought for the Confederate side—and there are still units within the US military which did, mostly National Guard units—then they fly the streamer with the grey on top. In addition, the name of the battle on the streamer is changed if the South had a different name for it—Manassas instead of Bull Run and so on.
Once again, from the Army's Military Heraldry office:
Don't tell these fanatics this, or they'll destroy that too.
(I suppose this is of a piece with the fake outrage of last week, when it was discovered that German POWs are buried in US military cemeteries with German insignia. Noooo!)
See earlier letters from the same reader.
James Fulford writes: I've been looking up online, and I have difficulty being sure that the Civil War Medal was meant to be awarded to people who served in the armies of the late Confederacy. Some sources say it was, some say it wasn't. However, it remains clear that in the years after the Civil War, white Americans reconciled with each other.
President Truman met with the 99-year-old head of the United Confederate Veterans in the White House in June, 1945.
The US government issued the stamp at right in 1951 in honor of the last reunion of actual Confederate veterans. FDR praised Robert E. Lee, and President Eisenhower kept Lee's portrait in the White House.
The hate is being promoted by people who don't have America's best interests at heart.


vdare--2020-05-26--From the Derbyshire Email Bag: Felony Murder, Nursing Home Attacker, And WHO Is Ferociously Hostile?

Just a few from the May 22nd podcast : ( 1 ) Felony murder .
A mighty host of listeners has emailed in explaining this to me .
Many thanks to all .
I now understand the concept , although I think `` felony murder '' is a damn silly way to name it .
( 2 ) The nursing-home attacker is an inmate , not an orderly .
From one listener among many : So when the kids ship me off to Shady Pines at last , I shall be sharing the place with virus-positive young black psychopaths .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ On my infamously asserting that `` A small cohort of blacks — in my experience , around five percent — is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us . ''
Two listeners have argued for symmetry : i.e .
that a similar cohort of whites is ferociously hostile to blacks .
Sorry , no sale .
I 've lived among white people most of my life .
Of the hundreds I 've known well enough to form an opinion , only some low single-digit number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all cases with good personal reason .
That 's way less than one percent .
And this is what you 'd expect from the general principles of social psychology .
Where feelings of group superiority and inferiority are in play ( whether factually based or not ) the usual arrangement of emotions is as follows .
• Directed from the perceived-superior to the perceived-inferior .
At the happy end : affectionate paternalism , noblesse oblige , gentle condescension , noble-savagery romanticism .
At the other end : dislike , avoidance , contempt , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the perceived-inferior to the perceived-superior .
At the happy end : affectionate loyalty , admiration , respect .
At the other end : hate hate hate hate HATE .
( 4 ) Puzzle corner .
One listener 's attention got snagged on my use of the word `` comely . ''
He notes that a fair antonym to `` comely '' is `` homely , '' and wonders whether there are any other antonym pairs that differ by just a single letter .
Uh ...
I leave this as an exercise for the @ @

Just a few from the May 22nd podcast:
(1) Felony murder. A mighty host of listeners has emailed in explaining this to me. Many thanks to all. I now understand the concept, although I think "felony murder" is a damn silly way to name it.
(2) The nursing-home attacker is an inmate, not an orderly. From one listener among many:
Apparently he had been kicked out of a group home for assaulting a staff member with Lysol prior to this. Whether this is related to his pending assault charges from a November offense is unclear. According to his father, he tested positive for the Wuhan virus, and was placed in the nursing home per the governor’s directive. They had nowhere else to put him, and he was apparently unable to “quarantine” at home with his father. So the brute was pawned off on a for-profit nursing home, where he could indulge his fetish for showcasing himself involved in the most heinous abuse and criminal activity.
So when the kids ship me off to Shady Pines at last, I shall be sharing the place with virus-positive young black psychopaths. Good to know.
(3) On my infamously asserting that "A small cohort of blacks — in my experience, around five percent — is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us." Two listeners have argued for symmetry: i.e., that a similar cohort of whites is ferociously hostile to blacks.
Sorry, no sale. I've lived among white people most of my life. Of the hundreds I've known well enough to form an opinion, only some low single-digit number were ferociously hostile to blacks, in all cases with good personal reason. That's way less than one percent.
And this is what you'd expect from the general principles of social psychology. Where feelings of group superiority and inferiority are in play (whether factually based or not) the usual arrangement of emotions is as follows.
Directed from the perceived-superior to the perceived-inferior. At the happy end: affectionate paternalism, noblesse oblige, gentle condescension, noble-savagery romanticism. At the other end: dislike, avoidance, contempt, mockery, disgust.
Directed from the perceived-inferior to the perceived-superior. At the happy end: affectionate loyalty, admiration, respect. At the other end: hate hate hate hate HATE.
(4) Puzzle corner. One listener's attention got snagged on my use of the word "comely." He notes that a fair antonym to "comely" is "homely," and wonders whether there are any other antonym pairs that differ by just a single letter. Uh ... I leave this as an exercise for the reader.


vdare--2020-05-26--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015:  Court Rules Against Obama, Prevents Executive Amnesty from Goi

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015:  Court Rules Against Obama, Prevents Executive Amnesty from Going Forward

Originally published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2015 .
The Republican leadership may have given up the fight , but there is still hope Barack Obama 's Executive Amnesty will be stopped before it gets off the ground .
The court rejected the administration ’ s request to lift an order blocking Obama from expanding a program for illegal immigrants who entered the country as children and creating a new program for illegal immigrant parents of U.S. citizens .
The New Orleans-based 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals voted , 2-1 , to deny an emergency stay of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hanen imposed on Obama ’ s plan earlier this year at the request of Texas and 25 other states challenging the president ’ s moves .
Writing for the majority , Judge Jerry Smith said the Justice Department had not met the legal standards required to block the lower court ruling .
In an opinion joined by Judge Jennifer Elrod , Smith sounded sympathetic to claims that Obama ’ s actions exceeded the authority given to the president and the executive branch by Congress .
[ Obama loses bid to move forward with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Josh Gerstein , Politico , May 26 , 2015 ]

Originally published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2015.
The Republican leadership may have given up the fight, but there is still hope Barack Obama's Executive Amnesty will be stopped before it gets off the ground.
The court rejected the administration’s request to lift an order blocking Obama from expanding a program for illegal immigrants who entered the country as children and creating a new program for illegal immigrant parents of U.S. citizens.
The New Orleans-based 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals voted, 2-1, to deny an emergency stay of an injunction U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen imposed on Obama’s plan earlier this year at the request of Texas and 25 other states challenging the president’s moves.
Writing for the majority, Judge Jerry Smith said the Justice Department had not met the legal standards required to block the lower court ruling.
In an opinion joined by Judge Jennifer Elrod, Smith sounded sympathetic to claims that Obama’s actions exceeded the authority given to the president and the executive branch by Congress.
[Obama loses bid to move forward with immigration plan, by Adam Lerner and Josh Gerstein, Politico, May 26, 2015]


vdare--2020-05-26--Patrick J. Buchanan: China's Jinping Takes Up the US Challenge

See , earlier : JOHN DERBYSHIRE : China Has Problems In New Bipolar World—But U.S. Has Worse Is the U.S. up for a second Cold War—this time with China ?
What makes the question newly relevant is that Xi Jinping 's China suddenly appears eager for a showdown with the United States for long-term supremacy in the Asia-Pacific and the world .
With the U.S. consumed by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed 100,000 Americans and crashed our economy to depths not seen since the Great Depression , China 's dictator seems to be making his move .
At the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ announced that it was seizing control of Hong Kong 's security .
From now on , subversion , sedition , secession and foreign meddling within the city will be crushed .
Whatever sanctions the U.S. and its allies impose , there will be no free and independent Hong Kong .
`` For an Ascendant China , Reining in Hong Kong Is Just the Start , '' is the headline over The New York Times story on China 's new assertiveness .
`` China 's move to strip away another layer of Hong Kong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It was a deliberate act , months in the making , '' writes reporter Steven Lee Myers .
`` It took into account the risks of international umbrage and reached the reasonable assumption that there would not be a significant geopolitical price to pay .
... '' With the world distracted by the pandemic ’ s devastating toll , China has taken a series of aggressive actions in recent weeks to flex its economic , diplomatic and military muscle across the region .
`` China ’ s Coast Guard rammed and sank @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vietnam , and its ships swarmed an offshore oil rig operated by Malaysia .
Beijing denounced the second inauguration of Taiwan ’ s president , Tsai Ing-wen , and pointedly dropped the word peaceful from its annual call for unification with the island democracy .
`` Chinese troops squared off again last week with India 's along their contentious border in the Himalayas . ''
To warnings that China is risking Cold War II , Beijing seems to be responding : If a Cold War with the United States is the price of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Asia and the world , bring it on .
Beijing has put the ball in America 's court .
What do we do now ?
Consider the list of nations with which China has territorial quarrels that have lately produced military clashes .
Beijing claims Indian lands China has occupied since their 1962 war .
China claims virtually all the islets and reefs in the South China Sea and now uses naval vessels to deal with the rival claimants of Vietnam , Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines .
Beijing asserts that Taiwan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the East China Sea belong to China .
While the Senkaku Islands have long been controlled by Japan , China claims these islands as well .
As for protests of the suppression of Tibetans and incarceration in concentration camps of Muslim Uighurs and Kazakhs , Beijing brushes them off .
Should the U.S. seek sanctions on China if it crushes the resistance in Hong Kong , how many U.S. allies would support those sanctions , when , for Australia , South Korea , Japan and Taiwan , China , not America , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ How did we allow ourselves to get into this position where a lately backward China is suddenly a greater rival for global hegemony than was the Soviet Union of Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev ?
Said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ruefully this month : Yet , the rising totalitarian power of China , even with its imperial ambitions undisguised , does not threaten the vital interests of the United States .
So , again , the question : If China is prepared for a Cold War II with the United States to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prepared to do should China absorb Hong Kong and convert it into a second Shanghai ?
What are we prepared to do if China puts new pressure on Taiwan and seizes offshore islands in the East China Sea , as she did in the South China Sea ?
Sanctions against Vladimir Putin 's Russia to compel it to return Crimea and vacate eastern Ukraine have conspicuously failed .
Are we prepared to fight for any of the islands , none of which we claim and many of which we agree ultimately belong to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intellectual property , coerced technology transfers from our businesses and sent spies posing as students into our universities to thieve our secrets .
Meanwhile , we allowed ourselves to become dependent on China for medicines and drugs vital to the health and the survival of millions of Americans .
Who did this to us ?
We did it to ourselves .
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

See, earlier: JOHN DERBYSHIRE: China Has Problems In New Bipolar World—But U.S. Has Worse
Is the U.S. up for a second Cold War—this time with China?
What makes the question newly relevant is that Xi Jinping's China suddenly appears eager for a showdown with the United States for long-term supremacy in the Asia-Pacific and the world.
With the U.S. consumed by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed 100,000 Americans and crashed our economy to depths not seen since the Great Depression, China's dictator seems to be making his move.
At the Communist Party conclave this May, China announced that it was seizing control of Hong Kong's security. From now on, subversion, sedition, secession and foreign meddling within the city will be crushed.
Whatever sanctions the U.S. and its allies impose, there will be no free and independent Hong Kong.
"For an Ascendant China, Reining in Hong Kong Is Just the Start," is the headline over the New York Times story on China's new assertiveness.
"China's move to strip away another layer of Hong Kong's autonomy was not a rash impulse. It was a deliberate act, months in the making," writes reporter Steven Lee Myers. "It took into account the risks of international umbrage and reached the reasonable assumption that there would not be a significant geopolitical price to pay. ...
"With the world distracted by the pandemic’s devastating toll, China has taken a series of aggressive actions in recent weeks to flex its economic, diplomatic and military muscle across the region.
"China’s Coast Guard rammed and sank a fishing boat in disputed waters off Vietnam, and its ships swarmed an offshore oil rig operated by Malaysia. Beijing denounced the second inauguration of Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, and pointedly dropped the word peaceful from its annual call for unification with the island democracy.
"Chinese troops squared off again last week with India's along their contentious border in the Himalayas."
To warnings that China is risking Cold War II, Beijing seems to be responding: If a Cold War with the United States is the price of securing our strategic interests and position in Asia and the world, bring it on.
Beijing has put the ball in America's court. What do we do now?
Consider the list of nations with which China has territorial quarrels that have lately produced military clashes.
Beijing claims Indian lands China has occupied since their 1962 war.
China claims virtually all the islets and reefs in the South China Sea and now uses naval vessels to deal with the rival claimants of Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Beijing asserts that Taiwan and all of its offshore islands in the East China Sea belong to China. While the Senkaku Islands have long been controlled by Japan, China claims these islands as well.
As for protests of the suppression of Tibetans and incarceration in concentration camps of Muslim Uighurs and Kazakhs, Beijing brushes them off.
Should the U.S. seek sanctions on China if it crushes the resistance in Hong Kong, how many U.S. allies would support those sanctions, when, for Australia, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, China, not America, is their largest market and trading partner?
How did we allow ourselves to get into this position where a lately backward China is suddenly a greater rival for global hegemony than was the Soviet Union of Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev?
Said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ruefully this month:
"China's been ruled by a brutal, authoritarian regime, a communist regime since 1949. For several decades, we thought the regime would become more like us through trade, scientific exchanges, diplomatic outreach ... (but) that didn't happen. "We greatly underestimated the degree to which Beijing is ideologically and politically hostile to free nations. The whole world is waking up to that fact."
Yet, the rising totalitarian power of China, even with its imperial ambitions undisguised, does not threaten the vital interests of the United States.
So, again, the question: If China is prepared for a Cold War II with the United States to establish its predominance, what are we prepared to do should China absorb Hong Kong and convert it into a second Shanghai?
What are we prepared to do if China puts new pressure on Taiwan and seizes offshore islands in the East China Sea, as she did in the South China Sea? Sanctions against Vladimir Putin's Russia to compel it to return Crimea and vacate eastern Ukraine have conspicuously failed.
Are we prepared to fight for any of the islands, none of which we claim and many of which we agree ultimately belong to Beijing?
The Chinese have stolen our intellectual property, coerced technology transfers from our businesses and sent spies posing as students into our universities to thieve our secrets.
Meanwhile, we allowed ourselves to become dependent on China for medicines and drugs vital to the health and the survival of millions of Americans.
Who did this to us? We did it to ourselves.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-05-02--Navajo Nation Doesn't Want Navajo Murderer Of Navajo Woman And Navajo Child Executed; His Lawyers Ar

Navajo Nation Doesn't Want Navajo Murderer Of Navajo Woman And Navajo Child Executed; His Lawyers Are Claiming "Jury Bias"

The Volokh Conspiracy features a Short Circuits feature with short comments on various court decisions .
At the beginning of May , Volokh blogger John Ross wrote this : In 2001 , a Navajo man murders a Navajo woman and her granddaughter within the territory of the sovereign Navajo Nation .
As the case continues to wind through the courts , two Ninth Circuit judges write separately to comment on the unusual fact that the United States sought the death penalty `` against the express wishes of the Navajo Nation , several members of the victims ' family , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Arizona .
`` [ Short Circuits , May 1 , 2020 ] The decison is LEZMOND C. MITCHELL , AKA Lezmond Charles Mitchell , Petitioner-Appellant , v.UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , Respondent-Appellee , No .
18-17031 .
Lezmond Mitchell , right , is the man who killed Alyce Slim,63 , and her granddaughter , Tiffany , 9 .
Here 's what happened .
Mitchell and an accomplice wanted to rob a trading post , and needed to steal a car .
Their choice was the one driven by an old lady accompanied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , October 28 , 2001 , Alyce Slim and her granddaughter , Tiffany , were traveling from Fort Defiance , Arizona , to Tohatchi , New Mexico , to visit a traditional medicine person , in the hopes of relieving pain in Alyce ’ s legs .
While the woman was unable to help them , she recommended another medicine woman in Twin Lakes , New Mexico .
They set an appointment for the next day , and left the first medicine woman ’ s home .
Sometime after leaving , Alyce and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the two men were able to enter the vehicle .
Near Sawmill , Arizona , the car was stopped to let Mitchell and Orsinger out , however Mitchell and Orsinger stabbed Alyce 33 times .
Wounds on her hands and arms indicated that she attempted to fight off the men .
Alyce was then tossed into the backseat , where her granddaughter was forced to sit next to her , while Mitchell drove 30-40 miles into the mountains , where Alyce ’ s body was disposed of .
Tiffany was also ordered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was cut twice and when that failed to kill her , the two men dropped large rocks on her head , which killed her .
Severed body parts , including the heads , were buried in a hole , while the torsos were pulled into the woods .
The clothing and jewelry of the victims were later burned .
The knives used in the murders were washed in a nearby stream , and with alcohol the following day .
There is no possible excuse for not executing a man who did that , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ relatives do n't want him executed , they should be censured by the courts , rather than pandered to .
Obviously , if the case has , as John Ross said , been continuing `` to wind through the courts '' since 2001 , that is a miscarriage of justice all by itself .
Public Defender Jonathan Aminoff told the panel that Mitchell ’ s case is “ rife with concerns of racism , ” adding that the Supreme Court in 2016 recognized a right for defendants to investigate juries where there ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is the only federal capital prosecution of a Native American in the history of this country , ” Aminoff said , arguing that racial makeup of the jury alone – 11 white jurors to 1 Native juror – merits investigation .
With execution on hold , Navajo inmate presses court on jury bias claim , by Harrison Mantas , Cronkite News , December 16 , 2019 The state of Arizona is less the 5 percent Native American , so there 's no reason that there should be more than one Indian juror @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jury .
Also , all jurors are asked if they 're willing to sentence people to death , and if the Navajo Nation is actually opposed to capital punishment on principle , then maybe they should n't be on capital juries—or may excluded themselves during voir dire by saying so .
As for the Supreme Court ruling that white jurors can be questioned about previously secret jury deliberations to see if they 're prejudiced , see John Derbyshire 's 2017 piece SCOTUS Leftists Rule Child Molestation Less Important Than The Depravity Of Whiteness @

The Volokh Conspiracy features a Short Circuits feature with short comments on various court decisions. At the beginning of May, Volokh blogger John Ross wrote this:
In 2001, a Navajo man murders a Navajo woman and her granddaughter within the territory of the sovereign Navajo Nation. As the case continues to wind through the courts, two Ninth Circuit judges write separately to comment on the unusual fact that the United States sought the death penalty "against the express wishes of the Navajo Nation, several members of the victims' family, and the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona." [Short Circuits, May 1, 2020]
The decison is LEZMOND C. MITCHELL, AKA Lezmond Charles Mitchell,Petitioner-Appellant,v.UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent-Appellee, No. 18-17031.
Lezmond Mitchell, right, is the man who killed Alyce Slim, 63, and her granddaughter, Tiffany, 9.
Here's what happened. Mitchell and an accomplice wanted to rob a trading post, and needed to steal a car. Their choice was the one driven by an old lady accompanied by a little girl.
On Sunday, October 28, 2001, Alyce Slim and her granddaughter, Tiffany, were traveling from Fort Defiance, Arizona, to Tohatchi, New Mexico, to visit a traditional medicine person, in the hopes of relieving pain in Alyce’s legs. While the woman was unable to help them, she recommended another medicine woman in Twin Lakes, New Mexico. They set an appointment for the next day, and left the first medicine woman’s home. Sometime after leaving, Alyce and her granddaughter came across Mitchell and Orsinger and the two men were able to enter the vehicle. Near Sawmill, Arizona, the car was stopped to let Mitchell and Orsinger out, however Mitchell and Orsinger stabbed Alyce 33 times. Wounds on her hands and arms indicated that she attempted to fight off the men. Alyce was then tossed into the backseat, where her granddaughter was forced to sit next to her, while Mitchell drove 30-40 miles into the mountains, where Alyce’s body was disposed of. Tiffany was also ordered out of the vehicle. Her throat was cut twice and when that failed to kill her, the two men dropped large rocks on her head, which killed her. Severed body parts, including the heads, were buried in a hole, while the torsos were pulled into the woods. The clothing and jewelry of the victims were later burned. The knives used in the murders were washed in a nearby stream, and with alcohol the following day. Lezmond Mitchell Receives Stay Ahead of December 11, 2019, Federal Execution Date, The Forgiveness Foundation Christian Ministries, December 2, 2019
There is no possible excuse for not executing a man who did that, and if either the Navajo Nation or the relatives don't want him executed, they should be censured by the courts, rather than pandered to.
Obviously, if the case has, as John Ross said, been continuing "to wind through the courts" since 2001, that is a miscarriage of justice all by itself.
Public Defender Jonathan Aminoff told the panel that Mitchell’s case is “rife with concerns of racism,” adding that the Supreme Court in 2016 recognized a right for defendants to investigate juries where there’s concern of racial bias. “This is the only federal capital prosecution of a Native American in the history of this country,” Aminoff said, arguing that racial makeup of the jury alone – 11 white jurors to 1 Native juror – merits investigation. With execution on hold, Navajo inmate presses court on jury bias claim, by Harrison Mantas, Cronkite News, December 16, 2019
The state of Arizona is less the 5 percent Native American, so there's no reason that there should be more than one Indian juror, on average, on an Arizona jury. Also, all jurors are asked if they're willing to sentence people to death, and if the Navajo Nation is actually opposed to capital punishment on principle, then maybe they shouldn't be on capital juries—or may exclude themselves during voir dire by saying so.
As for the Supreme Court ruling that white jurors can be questioned about previously secret jury deliberations to see if they're prejudiced, see John Derbyshire's 2017 piece SCOTUS Leftists Rule Child Molestation Less Important Than The Depravity Of Whiteness.


vdare--2020-05-26--Black Privilege Trumps Rule of Law:  Illegal Street Racing To Be Allowed In Atlanta

The rule of law , and standards governing civil behavior are antiquated relics of white supremacy when disparate impact is involved .
Illegal street racing should be legal , when too many black people are arrested for participating in said activity .
After all , a disproportionate amount of black people arrested for a given activity is a moral wrong , right ?
It ’ s a clear indication of white privilege , systemic inequality , and implicit bias , right ?
Illegal street racing should be immediately legal in Atlanta , if those participating in the activity are overwhelmingly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as felons in possession semi-automatic rifles ! )
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Otherwise , racism is afoot .
While Atlanta street racers burn up the city ’ s semi-empty roads , doing stunts for crowds of hundreds , the mayor ’ s considering a designating a racing spot instead .
One recommendation Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she ’ s heard from Bloomberg Philanthropies ( and one of her sons ) is to consider a designated space for street racing in the city .
“ That ’ s something we will explore and keep you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to monitor those [ racing ] hot spots in the city , ” Bottoms told Atlanta City Council at a Thursday briefing .
State law bans street racing .
And the city is sometimes liable for injuries on city property .
Mayor Bottoms “ has charged her senior leadership to examine the facts , collect best practices and lessons learned from other cities and put a plan in place to address these gatherings , ” wrote a spokesman after Bottoms ’ briefing .
Northwest Atlanta District 9 City Councilman Dustin Hillis has his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be able to go after event organizers and spectators .
Drivers can already face charges like reckless driving .
Legislation he ’ ll introduce Monday will propose fines of up to $ 1,000 and up to six months in jail for people watching or organizing street racing events .
He says the point is to stop the events before they start .
Hillis said he ’ d have to do some more research on designating an area for races , but that he doesn ’ t think his idea and the mayor ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said some groups of car enthusiasts just want to have informal “ car show ” -type events and aren ’ t trying to do something like burn up a $ 4,000 set of tires .
“ But then from what I ’ ve seen and what I ’ ve heard from people that are in these groups is : designated area or not , they ’ re not gong to take advantage of that , ” Hillis said .
“ That ’ s part of the thrill , of knowing you ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interstate and coming within inches of being hit by a car doing a doughnut.
” Maybe it ’ s no coincidence that by profession , Hillis is a nurse .
He ’ s seen what crashes can do .
It ’ s those people who would seek danger on the streets , performing for a close crowd , that he says make his ordinance necessary .
Last week , Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields said to Council that her department had not been ready for the uptick in racing that ’ s come @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said the department is taking racing seriously .
“ It ’ s reckless , lawless and has the potential to get someone hurt , ” he said via e-mail .
“ I think it ’ s important the public understand that we want to address this issue in a way that doesn ’ t result in innocent people getting hurt – we are not going to pursue these individuals in high-speed chases , ” Campos said .
“ But we will identify them and hold them accountable for these antics.
” Chief Shields @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
No , high-speed chases aren ’ t the answer .
She said that the only way to get people to sit up and pay attention is to impound their cars and ideally , put them in jail .

The rule of law, and standards governing civil behavior are antiquated relics of white supremacy when disparate impact is involved. Illegal street racing should be legal, when too many black people are arrested for participating in said activity. After all, a disproportionate amount of black people arrested for a given activity is a moral wrong, right? It’s a clear indication of white privilege, systemic inequality, and implicit bias, right?
Illegal street racing should be immediately legal in Atlanta, if those participating in the activity are overwhelmingly black (especially if they were arrested as felons in possession semi-automatic rifles!). Otherwise, racism is afoot.
While Atlanta street racers burn up the city’s semi-empty roads, doing stunts for crowds of hundreds, the mayor’s considering a designating a racing spot instead.
One recommendation Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she’s heard from Bloomberg Philanthropies (and one of her sons) is to consider a designated space for street racing in the city.
“That’s something we will explore and keep you posted, but meanwhile we will continue to monitor those [racing] hot spots in the city,” Bottoms told Atlanta City Council at a Thursday briefing.
State law bans street racing. And the city is sometimes liable for injuries on city property.
Mayor Bottoms “has charged her senior leadership to examine the facts, collect best practices and lessons learned from other cities and put a plan in place to address these gatherings,” wrote a spokesman after Bottoms’ briefing.
Northwest Atlanta District 9 City Councilman Dustin Hillis has his own proposal: he wants police to be able to go after event organizers and spectators. Drivers can already face charges like reckless driving.
Legislation he’ll introduce Monday will propose fines of up to $1,000 and up to six months in jail for people watching or organizing street racing events. He says the point is to stop the events before they start.
Hillis said he’d have to do some more research on designating an area for races, but that he doesn’t think his idea and the mayor’s idea are mutually exclusive.
Hillis said some groups of car enthusiasts just want to have informal “car show”-type events and aren’t trying to do something like burn up a $4,000 set of tires.
“But then from what I’ve seen and what I’ve heard from people that are in these groups is: designated area or not, they’re not gong [sic] to take advantage of that,” Hillis said. “That’s part of the thrill, of knowing you’re shutting down a state highway or the interstate and coming within inches of being hit by a car doing a doughnut.”
Maybe it’s no coincidence that by profession, Hillis is a nurse. He’s seen what crashes can do.
It’s those people who would seek danger on the streets, performing for a close crowd, that he says make his ordinance necessary.
Last week, Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields said to Council that her department had not been ready for the uptick in racing that’s come with COVID-19.
APD spokesman Carlos Campos said the department is taking racing seriously.
“It’s reckless, lawless and has the potential to get someone hurt,” he said via e-mail.
“I think it’s important the public understand that we want to address this issue in a way that doesn’t result in innocent people getting hurt – we are not going to pursue these individuals in high-speed chases,” Campos said. “But we will identify them and hold them accountable for these antics.”
Chief Shields elaborated in an interview with Fox 5. No, high-speed chases aren’t the answer. She said that the only way to get people to sit up and pay attention is to impound their cars and ideally, put them in jail.


vdare--2020-05-26--Uh-Oh, the Social Justice Jihadis Are Starting to Take "Race Is Just a Social Construct" Seriously

I understand you are a True Believer in everything you ’ ve been told by your fellow Social Justice Jihadis @ @ @ @ @ ’ t murder your future black patients with bad medical care just to prove your @ @ @ @ @ , the people you trust were yanking your chain about how race doesn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ upcoming black patients actually need you not to throw away their lives with your credulity @

Today, @UWMedicine announced that it will no longer use race to calculate estimated glomerular filtration rate. This move came in light of concerns raised by UW medical students, including critical conversations facilitated by the Anti-Racism Action Committee. Such a huge win. — Elizabeth Stein, MD (@lizstein_) May 26, 2020
Liz,
I understand you are a True Believer in everything you’ve been told by your fellow Social Justice Jihadis, but you really shouldn’t murder your future black patients with bad medical care just to prove your political correctness. In reality, the people you trust were yanking your chain about how race doesn’t biologically exist, while your upcoming black patients actually need you not to throw away their lives with your credulity.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-26--International News: White Woman Calls The Police

Here ’ s the top story on the BBC , which , last I checked , is in London : @ @ @ @ @ called the police after a black man asked her to put her dog on a @ @ @ @ @ has been suspended from her job with an investment firm .
Shouldn ’ t America @ @ @ @ @ a Constitutional Amendment saying no white woman can ever call the cops on a black @ @ @ @ @ is watching !
When Marshall McLuhan back in the 60s talked about a “ global @ @ @ @ @ foresee an era when millions of people ’ s interests would shrink down to trivial @ @ @ @ @ away ?
Personally , I like big data and don ’ t like he said-she @ @ @ @ @ I ’ m in a minority .

Here’s the top story on the BBC, which, last I checked, is in London:
White woman called police on black man in dog row
3 hours ago A white American woman who called the police after a black man asked her to put her dog on a leash in New York City has been suspended from her job with an investment firm.
This is international news, people!
Shouldn’t America just hurry up and pass a Constitutional Amendment saying no white woman can ever call the cops on a black man? The whole world is watching!
When Marshall McLuhan back in the 60s talked about a “global village,” did he foresee an era when millions of people’s interests would shrink down to trivial personal spats thousands of miles away? Personally, I like big data and don’t like he said-she said arguments, but obviously I’m in a minority.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-23--Jia Lynn Yang's Disloyalty: Concept of "Citizenism" Has Not Exactly Caught On

Battles over borders in ‘ One Mighty and Irresistible Tide ’ By David M. Shribman Globe Correspondent , Updated May 14 , 2020 , 2:30 p.m. For more than four decades beginning in 1924 the United States , for generations the great nation of immigrants and the dream destination for the oppressed , turned from its fabled past , virtually shutting off immigration in a period when vast changes swept through Europe , Asia , and Latin America .
The tired and poor were largely kept from our shores by a law that basically locked the American doors to many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ changed with the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act , which helped shape the America we now inhabit by transforming the demographics of the country even as the country confronted its exclusionary past during the civil rights era .
One of the beneficiaries was the family of Jia Lynn Yang , [ Tweet her ] whose mother from Taiwan and father from Shanghai found a home in the United States and whose devotion and diligence have produced a masterly study of political struggle .
Yang ’ s “ One Mighty and Irresistible Tide ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and it is a uniquely American story , one to celebrate in this period when immigration once again is on the American agenda and when immigrants are targeted as criminals and coronavirus carriers .
This is a story of how Irish Catholic leaders like John , Robert , and Edward Kennedy worked with Jewish political figures like Emanuel Celler and Herbert Lehman and others in what Yang called a “ coalition of the powerful and the powerless.
” Together they produced a landmark immigration bill that was signed by a Protestant president , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his early years teaching Mexican-American schoolchildren in Texas .
The 1924 law was an expression of xenophobia and paranoia ,

From the Boston Globe book review section:
Battles over borders in ‘One Mighty and Irresistible Tide’
By David M. Shribman Globe Correspondent, Updated May 14, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
For more than four decades beginning in 1924 the United States, for generations the great nation of immigrants and the dream destination for the oppressed, turned from its fabled past, virtually shutting off immigration in a period when vast changes swept through Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The tired and poor were largely kept from our shores by a law that basically locked the American doors to many yearning to breathe free.
All that changed with the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which helped shape the America we now inhabit by transforming the demographics of the country even as the country confronted its exclusionary past during the civil rights era. One of the beneficiaries was the family of Jia Lynn Yang, [Tweet her] whose mother from Taiwan and father from Shanghai found a home in the United States and whose devotion and diligence have produced a masterly study of political struggle.
Yang’s “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide” is at base a political story, and it is a uniquely American story, one to celebrate in this period when immigration once again is on the American agenda and when immigrants are targeted as criminals and coronavirus carriers.
This is a story of how Irish Catholic leaders like John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy worked with Jewish political figures like Emanuel Celler and Herbert Lehman and others in what Yang called a “coalition of the powerful and the powerless.” Together they produced a landmark immigration bill that was signed by a Protestant president, Lyndon Johnson, himself marked deeply by his early years teaching Mexican-American schoolchildren in Texas.
The 1924 law was an expression of xenophobia and paranoia,


vdare--2020-05-27--Michelle Malkin: Cashing In On Contact Tracing

Look out .
An `` army of contact tracers '' is about to be unleashed on America .
Corporations , political lobbyists and government bureaucracies all win .
Privacy , freedom and family autonomy all lose .
Big time .
You may have already heard of the aptly named House Bill 6666 , sponsored by Illinois Dem .
Bobby Rush .
Known as the Testing , Reaching and Contacting Everyone ( TRACE ) Act , the legislation would allocate $ 100 billion in public funding to `` eligible entities '' to `` conduct diagnostic testing for COVID-19 , and related @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mobile health units and , as necessary , at individuals ' residences , and for other purposes . ''
The cash could be used to hunt down infected individuals , quarantine them in their homes for undefined periods under unknown conditions and subsidize a hiring spree of untold thousands of trackers from nonprofits , schools and medical facilities .
As for `` other purposes , '' the proposal does not define them—leaving Swamp public health bureaucrats and their pet grantees ' imaginations to run wild .
What recourse or appeals process to citizens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ diagnoses and assessments wrong ?
Or when , say , homeschool families refuse to submit to intrusive phone call monitoring or forced quarantine ?
What are the opt-in or opt-out mechanisms ?
H.R .
6666 is silent on all these fundamental issues of autonomy and sovereignty .
Feel safer yet ?
This federally supported surveillance-state bonanza comes on top of the $ 631 million in Centers for Disease Control funding for contact tracing already in the pipeline after the passage of the Coronavirus Aid , Relief , and Economic Security ( CARES ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in proposed contact-tracing spending embedded in the House Democrats ' supplemental stimulus bill known as the HEROES Act .
Who benefits ?
Let 's take one prominent entrant into the `` digital transformation services '' arena : a company called MTX .
Founded in Albany , New York , and now based in Frisco , Texas , the small software company is raking in hundreds of millions of tax dollars to construct `` virtual call centers '' of 25,000 COVID data-mining agents .
In Chicago , MTX has partnered with Google to create @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' for the vaunted coronavirus vaccine and receive alerts on treatments and testing .
In Georgia , the company nailed a five-year government contract for a new online contact-tracing platform .
In New York and Massachusetts , MTX 's mission has spread to monitoring jobless claims and child care facilities .
Lynn Davenport , a Texas public school mom and student privacy activist , reports that MTX is `` also donating its newly launched tracking application to all public school districts in the U.S. '' Generous ... or opportunist ?
As Davenport and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the proliferation of billions of dollars in invasive student data-mining schemes often remind us : `` When it 's free , YOU ( and your children ) are the product . ''
Never forget : The price of `` free '' apps is access to your kids ' search engine queries , website and video browsing , and undoubtedly just around the corner : their temperature , weight and mental health .
Contact tracing makes sense for some types of infectious disease epidemics .
But with something as widespread as COVID-19 , with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it amounts to yet another cost-ineffective , virtue-signaling boondoggle .
Sure , they tell us our privacy is guaranteed .
Medical privacy is sacrosanct in America , right ?
But did you know that the U.S. Health and Human Services has quietly relaxed Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act data security and privacy requirements for pandemic testing sites , which will allow Big Pharma interests and other business interests to access previously protected personal health information Nothing to see here ; move along .
If you do try to see and know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reporters tried to shed sunlight on MTX 's deal with top Texas GOP officials and were lucky to obtain a heavily redacted copy of the company 's $ 295 million contract ( paid with your money and mine ) .
You know that creepy phrase `` Operation Warp Speed '' being used to ram a COVID vaccine through expedited , short-circuited clinical trials ?
Well , the same phrase applies to the adoption of these high-stakes contracts .
Both anti-establishment Republicans and Trump-skeptical Democrats in Texas have raised red flags about the failure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ advance notice to the state legislature of the enormous deal .
The state took a hasty two days to approve MTX 's proposal after putting the project out for bid .
The schem Michelle Malkin [ Email her ] is the author of Invasion : How America Still Welcomes Terrorists , Criminals , and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores .
Click here for Peter Brimelow ’ s review .
Click here for Michelle Malkin 's website .
Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged : Exposing Liberals Gone Wild , Culture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Tax Cheats , Crooks & Cronies , , Who Built That : Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs , and Sold Out : How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America 's Best & Brightest Workers .
Malkin is author of the book , `` Open Borders , Inc. : Who 's Funding America 's Destruction , '' available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover .
To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists , visit

Look out. An "army of contact tracers" is about to be unleashed on America. Corporations, political lobbyists and government bureaucracies all win. Privacy, freedom and family autonomy all lose. Big time.
You may have already heard of the aptly named House Bill 6666, sponsored by Illinois Dem. Bobby Rush. Known as the Testing, Reaching and Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act, the legislation would allocate $100 billion in public funding to "eligible entities" to "conduct diagnostic testing for COVID-19, and related activities such as contact tracing, through mobile health units and, as necessary, at individuals' residences, and for other purposes." The cash could be used to hunt down infected individuals, quarantine them in their homes for undefined periods under unknown conditions and subsidize a hiring spree of untold thousands of trackers from nonprofits, schools and medical facilities.
As for "other purposes," the proposal does not define them—leaving Swamp public health bureaucrats and their pet grantees' imaginations to run wild. What recourse or appeals process do citizens have when the "experts" get diagnoses and assessments wrong? Or when, say, homeschool families refuse to submit to intrusive phone call monitoring or forced quarantine? What are the opt-in or opt-out mechanisms? H.R. 6666 is silent on all these fundamental issues of autonomy and sovereignty. Feel safer yet?
This federally supported surveillance-state bonanza comes on top of the $631 million in Centers for Disease Control funding for contact tracing already in the pipeline after the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, plus another $75 billion in proposed contact-tracing spending embedded in the House Democrats' supplemental stimulus bill known as the HEROES Act.
Who benefits? Let's take one prominent entrant into the "digital transformation services" arena: a company called MTX. Founded in Albany, New York, and now based in Frisco, Texas, the small software company is raking in hundreds of millions of tax dollars to construct "virtual call centers" of 25,000 COVID data-mining agents. In Chicago, MTX has partnered with Google to create an app so residents can "pre-register" for the vaunted coronavirus vaccine and receive alerts on treatments and testing. In Georgia, the company nailed a five-year government contract for a new online contact-tracing platform. In New York and Massachusetts, MTX's mission has spread to monitoring jobless claims and child care facilities.
Lynn Davenport, a Texas public school mom and student privacy activist, reports that MTX is "also donating its newly launched tracking application to all public school districts in the U.S." Generous... or opportunist? As Davenport and other education technology watchdogs who have documented the proliferation of billions of dollars in invasive student data-mining schemes often remind us: "When it's free, YOU (and your children) are the product." Never forget: The price of "free" apps is access to your kids' search engine queries, website and video browsing, and undoubtedly just around the corner: their temperature, weight and mental health.
Contact tracing makes sense for some types of infectious disease epidemics. But with something as widespread as COVID-19, with possibly hundreds of millions of asymptomatic people, it amounts to yet another cost-ineffective, virtue-signaling boondoggle.
Sure, they tell us our privacy is guaranteed. Medical privacy is sacrosanct in America, right? But did you know that the U.S. Health and Human Services has quietly relaxed Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act data security and privacy requirements for pandemic testing sites, which will allow Big Pharma interests and other business interests to access previously protected personal health information?
Nothing to see here; move along.
If you do try to see and know more, good luck. Houston Chronicle reporters tried to shed sunlight on MTX's deal with top Texas GOP officials and were lucky to obtain a heavily redacted copy of the company's $295 million contract (paid with your money and mine). You know that creepy phrase "Operation Warp Speed" being used to ram a COVID vaccine through expedited, short-circuited clinical trials? Well, the same phrase applies to the adoption of these high-stakes contracts. Both anti-establishment Republicans and Trump-skeptical Democrats in Texas have raised red flags about the failure by Gov. Greg Abbott to provide advance notice to the state legislature of the enormous deal. The state took a hasty two days to approve MTX's proposal after putting the project out for bid.
The scheme was rolled out in just a little over two weeks. Who greased the wheels? Follow the money, of course.
The Houston Chronicle revealed that "The deal appears to have been put together within just a few days... MTX hired Austin-based lobbyists Andrea and Dean McWilliams for up to $50,000 each, according to public disclosure documents." The McWilliamses are the Matt and Mercedes Schlapp of Texas—consummate insiders and six-figure Bush bundlers looking out for their corporate clients over our constitutional rights and medical freedom. Not coincidentally, MTX reflects the "America last" values of the open borders Bush empire. The firm runs a "development center" out of offshore outsourcing hub Hyderabad, India, and CEO Das Nobel aspires to lead a "diverse" "billion-dollar-company" from which he hopes to "advance our culture initiatives."
Where's our protection from the globalism virus?
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Michelle Malkin [Email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, ,Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, and Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.
Malkin is author of the book, "Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction," available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM


vdare--2020-05-26--NATIONAL DATA: April Jobs Data Show Pandemic Has Stalled, Reversed, American Displacement, Disposses

NATIONAL DATA: April Jobs Data Show Pandemic Has Stalled, Reversed, American Displacement, Dispossession. But Immigration Moratorium Vital To Secure Rebound’s Gains.

The U.S. economy lost 21.5 million payroll jobs in April as the unemployment rose to 14.7 % , the worst since the Great Depression .
But immigrants ( legal and illegal—federal data doesn ’ t distinguish ) lost most ground .
Now more than ever , the immigration moratorium hinted at by President Trump is essential to ensure that the benefits of recovery accrue to American workers , Our analysis of the “ other ” employment survey , of Households rather than businesses , finds total employment shrank by 22.4 million in April , the largest monthly decline since the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the end of World War II .
Note , however , that native-born American workers fared relatively well—i.e.
, they did not suffer quite as much—as their foreign-born counterparts .
• com ’ s immigrant employment index , set at 100.0 in January 2009 , fell to 101.5 from March ’ s 122.8 , a 17.3 % loss .
• The native-born American employment index fell to its lowest level since we began tracking it .
At 92.4 , the April American employment index indicates a 7.6 % reduction in native-born employment since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( January 2009 . )
This means that the slow , grinding employment gains native-born workers have eked out since the end of the Great Recession were wiped out entirely in April .
• Accordingly , the New VDARE American Worker Displacement Index ( NVDAWDI ) , our name for the ratio of immigrant to native-born American employment growth indexes since Jan. 2009 , fell to109.8 in April , a decline of 4.2 % from March ’ s 114.6 .
Not since July 2014 has VDARE.com ’ s Displacement Index been this low @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigrants are leaving in record numbers , and those that remain are losing jobs at even faster rates than native-born A bittersweet benefit of Covid-19 catastrophe : In percentage terms , job losses suffered by native-born workers during Trump ’ s tenure are now less than those endured by immigrants .
From January 2017 through April 2020 native-born Americans lost 14.67 million jobs , a 11.6 % decline , while immigrants lost 4.01 million , a 15.4 % reduction .
Thanks , in part , to his ( relatively ) hard line on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Trump years saw a labor market where native-born Americans lost relatively fewer jobs than immigrants .
This is not quite what Trump supporters had in mind in November 2016 .
But it ’ s something .
Another way of measuring displacement : the immigrant share of total employment .
Our analysis of the April BLS report shows the immigrant share fell to 16.47 % , its lowest level since July 2014 .
Back in March , immigrants held 17.06 % of all jobs .
Each 1 % decline in immigrant employment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jobs from immigrants to native-born workers .
April also saw another near record year-over-year decline in the foreign-born working-age population ( 16 years+ ) .
It fell by 1.23 million from April 2019—the eighth straight month of decline .
This contraction follows a protracted slowing of immigrant workforce growth that can be traced back to early 2018 .
This current immigrant workforce decline is more than double that seen in the 2008 Great Recession .
Back then immigrants were leaving at the rate of 300,000 to 400,000 a month , year-over-year .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seen in the early months of the administration , when illegals apparently self-deported out o fear .
Note that this process was underway well before the pandemic hit .
It has to be counted as a significant Trump achievement—a “ Trump Triumph , as we label it on our featured chart .
Simultaneously , apprehensions on the Southwest Border , a proxy for illegal immigration , continue to fall after the dramatic peak of May 2019 .
In April 16,789 incoming migrants were stopped and sent home by Border Patrol agents .
That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % from March .
A detailed picture of how American workers have fared vis a vis immigrants over the past year is published in Table A-7 of the monthly BLS Report : • The native-born American working-age population grew by 2.226 million , a gain of 1.0 % ; the corresponding immigrant population fell by 1.023 million— the second largest decline since the government started publishing this figure in 2007 .
For the eighth consecutive month , the number of working age immigrants declined , year-over-year .
• Both native-born American and immigrants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 17.68 million positions , a net loss of 13.7 % ; foreign-born workers were clobbered , losing 5.7 million jobs , a 20.6 % loss .
Americans did “ relatively ” well , perhaps because they are not as concentrated in industries ( like hotels and retail ) that shed workers even before the quarantine economy took hold .
• The immigrant labor force ( working or looking for work ) fell by 2.2 million , a 7.6 % decline ; the native-born American labor force fell by 4.1 million , a 3.1 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ • Unemployment rates skyrocketed for both immigrants and native-born .
But the native-born rate rose 311.8 % ( from 3.4 % to 14.0 % ) while the immigrant unemployment rate rose 511.1 % ( from 2.7 % to 16.5 % . )
• The data also show that 18.2 million native-born and 4.3 million immigrants were unemployed in April , but over the last year the number of unemployed immigrants rose by a whopping 455.1 % , while the number of native-born jobless rose by “ only ” 294.5 % .
• Labor-force @ @ @ @ @ @ @ native-born , with the immigrant LPR falling by 5.4 % vs. a 4.0 % decline in the native-born rate .
Immigrant LPRs remain above that of natives , though unlike the case in good times , this factoid now reflects an immigrant labor force that is contracting more than twice as fast as that of natives rather than their increased confidence in the job market .
The monthly job figures are preliminary , and always subject to revision .
Never more so than this April .
For one thing , the pandemic made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ employment surveys .
Call centers were closed , in person interviews suspended , and households and businesses less likely to respond to queries .
“ Under these conditions there is not one number about the labor market that is going to tell you everything you want to know , ” said Erica Groshen , a Cornell University economist who led the BLS during the Obama administration .
Nevertheless .
a “ V ” shaped recovery remains quite possible .
After all , the current meltdown is caused solely by the Federal government ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can—and hopefully will—be reversed as conditions warrant .
The big question : will Federal policy once again deprive American workers of the fruits of recovery ?
The excessive reliance on unemployment insurance as a stimulus in this pandemic makes this outcome more likely .
The latest congressional package raises unemployment benefits by $ 600 a week .
That is more than many laid off workers made while employed .
The bill also raises the period laid off workers are eligible for benefits .
Plus , it would waive eligibility requirements .
Little things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for work .
Domestic labor market rigidities have always boosted immigration , as employers seek the easy way out .
The classic case : the influx of Hispanic immigrants to help rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina , despite the presence of an underemployed pool of American labor , largely black .
The Covid-19 pandemic has struck a heavy blow at many aspects of American life .
But it has also stalled , and even reversed , the Election of a New People through immigration policy .
This gain must be locked in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , any economic rebound could bring immigration roaring back .
Edwin S. Rubenstein ( email him ) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants

edwin@esrresearch.com (Edwin S. Rubenstein)

The U.S. economy lost 21.5 million payroll jobs in April as the unemployment rose to 14.7%, the worst since the Great Depression. But immigrants (legal and illegal—federal data doesn’t distinguish) lost most ground. Now more than ever, the immigration moratorium hinted at by President Trump is essential to ensure that the benefits of recovery accrue to American workers,
Our analysis of the “other” employment survey, of Households rather than businesses, finds total employment shrank by 22.4 million in April, the largest monthly decline since the government began publishing official job statistics at the end of World War II.
Note, however, that native-born American workers fared relatively well—i.e., they did not suffer quite as much—as their foreign-born counterparts.
In April:
Immigrants lost 4.61 million jobs, a 17.3% decline from March.
Native-born Americans lost 17.76 million jobs, a 13.7% decline.
VDARE.com’s immigrant employment index, set at 100.0 in January 2009, fell to 101.5 from March’s 122.8, a 17.3% loss.
The native-born American employment index fell to its lowest level since we began tracking it . At 92.4, the April American employment index indicates a 7.6% reduction in native-born employment since Obama’s last month in office (January 2009). This means that the slow, grinding employment gains native-born workers have eked out since the end of the Great Recession were wiped out entirely in April.
At 92.4, the April American employment index indicates a 7.6% reduction in native-born employment since Obama’s last month in office (January 2009). This means that the slow, grinding employment gains native-born workers have eked out since the end of the Great Recession were wiped out entirely in April. Accordingly, the New VDARE American Worker Displacement Index (NVDAWDI), our name for the ratio of immigrant to native-born American employment growth indexes since Jan. 2009, fell to109.8 in April, a decline of 4.2% from March’s 114.6.
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Not since July 2014 has VDARE.com’s Displacement Index been this low.
Displacement is down, largely because immigrants are leaving in record numbers, and those that remain are losing jobs at even faster rates than native-born Americans.
A bittersweet benefit of Covid-19 catastrophe: In percentage terms, job losses suffered by native-born workers during Trump’s tenure are now less than those endured by immigrants. From January 2017 through April 2020 native-born Americans lost 14.67 million jobs, a 11.6% decline, while immigrants lost 4.01 million, a 15.4% reduction.
Thanks, in part, to his (relatively) hard line on immigration, expressed basically via administrative measures, the Trump years saw a labor market where native-born Americans lost relatively fewer jobs than immigrants.
This is not quite what Trump supporters had in mind in November 2016. But it’s something.
Another way of measuring displacement: the immigrant share of total employment. Our analysis of the April BLS report shows the immigrant share fell to 16.47%, its lowest level since July 2014. Back in March, immigrants held 17.06% of all jobs.
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Each 1% decline in immigrant employment share represents a transfer of 1.3 million jobs from immigrants to native-born workers.
April also saw another near record year-over-year decline in the foreign-born working-age population (16 years+). It fell by 1.23 million from April 2019—the eighth straight month of decline. This contraction follows a protracted slowing of immigrant workforce growth that can be traced back to early 2018.
This current immigrant workforce decline is more than double that seen in the 2008 Great Recession. Back then immigrants were leaving at the rate of 300,000 to 400,000 a month, year-over-year. And it exceeds the “Trump Effect” seen in the early months of the administration, when illegals apparently self-deported out of fear.
Note that this process was underway well before the pandemic hit.
It has to be counted as a significant Trump achievement—a “Trump Triumph," as we label it on our featured chart.
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Simultaneously, apprehensions on the Southwest Border, a proxy for illegal immigration, continue to fall after the dramatic peak of May 2019. In April 16,789 incoming migrants were stopped and sent home by Border Patrol agents. That represents a decline of more than 50% from March.
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A detailed picture of how American workers have fared vis-a-vis immigrants over the past year is published in Table A-7 of the monthly BLS Report:
Employment Status by Nativity, April 2019-April 2020 (numbers in 1000s; not seasonally adjusted) Apr-19 Apr-20 Change % Change Foreign born, 16 years and older Civilian population 43,527 42,504 -1,023 -2.35% Civilian labor force 28,439 26,285 -2,154 -7.57% Participation rate (%) 65.3 61.8 -3.5 pts. -5.36% Employed 27,660 21,961 -5,699 -20.60% Employment/population (%) 63.5 51.7 -11.8 pts. -18.58% Unemployed 779 4,324 3,545 455.07% Unemployment rate (%) 2.7 16.5 13.8 pts. 511.11% Not in labor force 15,088 16,219 1,131 7.50% Native-born, 16 years and older Civilian population 215,166 217,392 2,226 1.03% Civilian labor force 133,657 129,545 -4,112 -3.08% Participation rate (%) 62.1 59.6 -2.5 pts. -4.03% Employed 129,049 111,365 -17,684 -13.70% Employment/population (%) 60.0 51.2 -8.8 pts. -14.67% Unemployed 4,608 18,180 13,572 294.53% Unemployment rate (%) 3.4 14.0 10.6 pts. 311.76% Not in labor force 81,509 87,847 6,338 7.78% Source: BLS, The Employment Situation, April 2020. Table A-7, May 8, 2020. PDF
From April 2019 to April 2020:
The native-born American working-age population grew by 2.226 million, a gain of 1.0%; the corresponding immigrant population fell by 1.023 million— the second largest decline since the government started publishing this figure in 2007. For the eighth consecutive month, the number of working age immigrants declined, year-over-year.
Both native-born American and immigrants suffered massive job losses; native-born lost 17.68 million positions, a net loss of 13.7%; foreign-born workers were clobbered, losing 5.7 million jobs, a 20.6% loss. Americans did “relatively” well, perhaps because they are not as concentrated in industries (like hotels and retail) that shed workers even before the quarantine economy took hold.
The immigrant labor force (working or looking for work) fell by 2.2 million, a 7.6% decline; the native-born American labor force fell by 4.1 million, a 3.1% drop. Advantage native-born Americans.
Unemployment rates skyrocketed for both immigrants and native-born. But the native-born rate rose 311.8% (from 3.4% to 14.0%) while the immigrant unemployment rate rose 511.1% (from 2.7% to 16.5%). Advantage native-born Americans.
The data also show that 18.2 million native-born and 4.3 million immigrants were unemployed in April, but over the last year the number of unemployed immigrants rose by a whopping 455.1%, while the number of native-born jobless rose by “only” 294.5%. Advantage native-born Americans.
Labor-force participation rates declined for both immigrants and native-born, with the immigrant LPR falling by 5.4% vs. a 4.0% decline in the native-born rate. Immigrant LPRs remain above that of natives, though unlike the case in good times, this factoid now reflects an immigrant labor force that is contracting more than twice as fast as that of natives rather than their increased confidence in the job market.
The monthly job figures are preliminary, and always subject to revision. Never more so than this April. For one thing, the pandemic made it difficult for BLS personnel to conduct employment surveys. Call centers were closed, in person interviews suspended, and households and businesses less likely to respond to queries.
“Under these conditions there is not one number about the labor market that is going to tell you everything you want to know,” said Erica Groshen, a Cornell University economist who led the BLS during the Obama administration.
Nevertheless, a “V” shaped recovery remains quite possible. After all, the current meltdown is caused solely by the Federal government’s stay at home orders, which can—and hopefully will—be reversed as conditions warrant.
The big question: Will Federal policy once again deprive American workers of the fruits of recovery?
The excessive reliance on unemployment insurance as a stimulus in this pandemic makes this outcome more likely. The latest congressional package raises unemployment benefits by $600 a week. That is more than many laid off workers made while employed. The bill also raises the period laid off workers are eligible for benefits. Plus, it would waive eligibility requirements. Little things like the requirement that recipients actually look for work.
Domestic labor market rigidities have always boosted immigration, as employers seek the easy way out. The classic case: the influx of Hispanic immigrants to help rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, despite the presence of an underemployed pool of American labor, largely black.
The Covid-19 pandemic has struck a heavy blow at many aspects of American life. But it has also stalled, and even reversed, the Election of a New People through immigration policy. This gain must be locked in, with an immigration moratorium.
Otherwise, any economic rebound could bring immigration roaring back.
Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants


vdare--2020-05-26--If Races Were Reversed In The Dog Park, The White Woman Would STILL Have Been Wrong...Because She's

If Races Were Reversed In The Dog Park, The White Woman Would STILL Have Been Wrong...Because She's White

Apropos of Steve Sailer 's post on the white woman who called cops on the black bird watcher , she 's been fired .
As The Washington Post described it , the dust-up was `` less than 24 hours later after a video of their exchange went online , she has lost her dog , her anonymity , and her job—the latest incident in a long , too-familiar pattern of white people calling the police on black people for any number of everyday activities : Barbecuing .
Playing golf .
Swimming at a pool . ''
But given what went @ @ @ @ @ @ @ woman to leash her dog—let 's reverse the situation .
What if she were birding in the park and had asked the black man to leash his dog .
It still would have been , as the Post reported , `` the latest incident in a long , too-familiar pattern of white people calling the police on black people for any number of everyday activities : Barbecuing .
Playing golf .
Swimming at a pool . ''
The Post simply would have included `` walking the dog , '' even though the black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him without a leash ... that is , letting it run free , just like the white woman did .
In this case , the white woman was wrong , of course .
But if the situation had been reversed , she would have been right .
And it would n't have made a difference .
She still would have lost her dog and her job and become subject to the usual Two Minutes Hate .

Apropos of Steve Sailer's post on the white woman who called cops on the black bird watcher, she's been fired.
As the Washington Post described it, the dust-up was "less than 24 hours later after a video of their exchange went online, she has lost her dog, her anonymity, and her job—the latest incident in a long, too-familiar pattern of white people calling the police on black people for any number of everyday activities: Barbecuing. Playing golf. Swimming at a pool."
A black birdwatcher asked a white woman to leash her dog in Central Park. She called the police instead. https://t.co/7sn31TAwWj — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 26, 2020
But given what went on—a black fellow's asking a white woman to leash her dog—let's reverse the situation. What if she were birding in the park and had asked the black man to leash his dog.
It still would have been, as the Post reported, "the latest incident in a long, too-familiar pattern of white people calling the police on black people for any number of everyday activities: Barbecuing. Playing golf. Swimming at a pool."
The Post simply would have included "walking the dog," even though the black man would have been "walking" him without a leash ... that is, letting it run free, just like the white woman did.
In this case, the white woman was wrong, of course. But if the situation had been reversed, she would have been right.
And it wouldn't have made a difference. She still would have lost her dog and her job and become subject to the usual Two Minutes Hate.


vdare--2020-05-27--Ann Coulter: Quarantine Game! The Kim Jong Joe Plan

See , earlier : Biden And Blacks : No Gaffe Can Threaten This Venal Relationship We ’ re all going crazy and running out of things to do during this endless shutdown .
We ’ ve painted the dog , counted pavers in the backyard , and rearranged the spice rack alphabetically and also by color .
What we really need right now is a new game !
Herewith I present the Quarantine Game that I , Ann Coulter , have invented .
The rules are simple .
Imagine you ’ re the Democratic Party .
You have a stellar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also ensure that the opposition party never regains it as long as Homo sapiens walks the Earth .
But in a series of developments too bizarre to recall ( have they finished counting the ballots in Iowa yet ? )
, you find yourself stuck with a 77-year-old candidate whose campaign is causing no excitement anywhere in the land , even in his own brain—although , in fairness , Joe Biden is unaware that he ’ s running for president .
You have 12 minutes to come up with at least two ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ What can you do to get your party out of this mess ?
Answers will be scored on rationale , probability and advantages .
Think about it .
Your opposition is Donald Trump .
For all the reasons Republicans salivated over running against Hillary—she was a repugnant human being , her every calculation was based on what was good for her and her family , scandals broke out whenever she was around , half the country already hated her—you are salivating looking at Trump .
Lest we forget , in Donald Trump the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] … • who got into office and , the moment two people raised an objection to his fulfilling his campaign promises , said , OK , never mind !
I ’ ll just tell my supporters I did it ; • who is more likely to adopt policy proposals from Kim Kardashian than the Angel Moms ; • who claimed to support gun rights , then mocked the NRA from the White House , while calling for absurd gun control measures ( “ take the guns first , go through due process @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the presidency with zero Wall Street money , then immediately turned the keys of the kingdom over to Wall Street ; • who thinks his daughter , whose only skill is designing shoes ( allegedly ) , is the perfect person to sit at a table with world leaders , including the German chancellor and British prime minister ; • who brings a special counsel on himself by going on Lester Holt ’ s show and seemingly announcing it was his decision to fire the FBI director because of the Russia investigation—then blames @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fake Time magazine cover featuring himself to hang on the walls of his golf clubs ( “ DONALD TRUMP : The ‘ Apprentice ’ is a television smash !
” ) ; • who tweets Michael Moore conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough killing his intern ; who is a very coarse and vulgar person—which could all be forgiven if only he had the little voice in his head that said No , I owe these people .
I promised them .
I ’ ll pick up the phone and call congressional Republicans .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ here .
But again , you ’ re stuck with Biden .
When I played the Quarantine Game , here were my answers : 1 ) Replace Biden and [ unnamed female vice presidential candidate ] with Cory Booker and Kamala Harris .
Rationale : After hearing every six minutes on MSNBC that “ the black vote is not monolithic !
” apparently African Americans agreed this ONE TIME to make an exception and vote monolithically for Joe Biden .
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina said , We ’ re all voting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Yep , OK , done .
Even in normal circumstances , the Democrats are a little too beholden to the Al Sharptons of the party .
But after black voters hauled the creaky , hole-filled Biden campaign cratered at the bottom of the sea to the surface for some quick repairs , there had better be an African American on the ticket .
How about two black Democrats ?
Likelihood : I am sublimely confident that if the Democrats think they are going to lose with Biden and get four more years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the switch .
Ask Robert Torricelli .
Advantages : With two black candidates on the ticket , the media won ’ t have to whip up fake racist incidents like Ferguson to keep black voters interested .
Together , Booker and Harris might even be able to stage a “ Sister Souljah ” moment to reassure backsliding white Democrats .
2 ) Don ’ t let the voters see Biden .
Rationale : Have you seen Biden ?
Likelihood : Have you seen Biden ?
Advantages : It ’ s easy !
Go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ll call it the Kim Jong Joe Plan .
Keep Biden in the bunker , and get a body double to do all his TV interviews and public appearances .
With Biden wearing a black mask these days , all they ’ ll need are the hair plugs .
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 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind , was released on August 21 , 2018 .

See, earlier: Biden And Blacks: No Gaffe Can Threaten This Venal Relationship
We’re all going crazy and running out of things to do during this endless shutdown. We’ve painted the dog, counted pavers in the backyard, and rearranged the spice rack alphabetically and also by color. What we really need right now is a new game!
Herewith I present the Quarantine Game that I, Ann Coulter, have invented.
The rules are simple. Imagine you’re the Democratic Party. You have a stellar opportunity to win the White House and also ensure that the opposition party never regains it as long as Homo sapiens walks the Earth.
But in a series of developments too bizarre to recall (have they finished counting the ballots in Iowa yet?), you find yourself stuck with a 77-year-old candidate whose campaign is causing no excitement anywhere in the land, even in his own brain—although, in fairness, Joe Biden is unaware that he’s running for president.
You have 12 minutes to come up with at least two (2) answers to this question: What can you do to get your party out of this mess?
Answers will be scored on rationale, probability and advantages.
Think about it. Your opposition is Donald Trump. For all the reasons Republicans salivated over running against Hillary—she was a repugnant human being, her every calculation was based on what was good for her and her family, scandals broke out whenever she was around, half the country already hated her—you are salivating looking at Trump.
Lest we forget, in Donald Trump the Democrats have a man [partial list] …
who is a very coarse and vulgar person—which could all be forgiven if only he had the little voice in his head that said No, I owe these people. I promised them. I’ll pick up the phone and call congressional Republicans.
So. Democrats have a real opportunity here. But again, you’re stuck with Biden.
When I played the Quarantine Game, here were my answers:
1) Replace Biden and [unnamed female vice presidential candidate] with Cory Booker and Kamala Harris.
Rationale: After hearing every six minutes on MSNBC that “the black vote is not monolithic!” apparently African Americans agreed this ONE TIME to make an exception and vote monolithically for Joe Biden.
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina said, We’re all voting for Biden, and black voters said, Yep, OK, done.
Even in normal circumstances, the Democrats are a little too beholden to the Al Sharptons of the party. But after black voters hauled the creaky, hole-filled Biden campaign cratered at the bottom of the sea to the surface for some quick repairs, there had better be an African American on the ticket.
How about two black Democrats?
Likelihood: I am sublimely confident that if the Democrats think they are going to lose with Biden and get four more years of Trump, they’ll make the switch. Ask Robert Torricelli.
Advantages: With two black candidates on the ticket, the media won’t have to whip up fake racist incidents like Ferguson to keep black voters interested. Together, Booker and Harris might even be able to stage a “Sister Souljah” moment to reassure backsliding white Democrats.
2) Don’t let the voters see Biden.
Rationale: Have you seen Biden?
Likelihood: Have you seen Biden?
Advantages: It’s easy! Go all Kim Jong Un. We’ll call it the Kim Jong Joe Plan. Keep Biden in the bunker, and get a body double to do all his TV interviews and public appearances. With Biden wearing a black mask these days, all they’ll need are the hair plugs.
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--2020-05-27--Radio Derb Transcript Up For May 22 : China’s Totalitarian Theater, Economic Pincers, And Sputnik Mo

Radio Derb Transcript Up For May 22 : China’s Totalitarian Theater, Economic Pincers, And Sputnik Moment, Etc.

The Radio Derb transcript is up for May 22 .
Go here to read or listen .
10m34s Land of @ @ @ @ @ 's what commies do . )
33m15s Who you calling `` morbidly obese '' ?
@ @ @ @ @ . )
36m53s Neil Munro hits one out of the park .
( The H-1B @ @ @ @ @ false azure in the windowpane .
( Avicide in Manhattan . )

The Radio Derb transcript is up for May 22. Go here to read or listen.
Playlist:
01m28s Totalitarian theater. (China's "legislature" assembles.)
06m16s China's economic pincer. (An end to blithe rope-selling.)
10m34s Land of the Lie. (It's what commies do.)
14m11s A Sputnik Moment? (A nation sufficiently united.)
22m29s Blackety-black news. (The depths of Goodwhite denial.)
33m15s Who you calling "morbidly obese"? (I got it wrong.)
35m21s Joe Biden's Veep pick. (Take my advice, Joe.)
36m53s Neil Munro hits one out of the park. (The H-1B scam.)
37m44s The false azure in the windowpane. (Avicide in Manhattan.)
40m29s Signoff. (With some Bluegrass.)


vdare--2020-05-27--Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow Joined By Jared Taylor, TODAY,  3 p.m. EST

Today , May 27 , at 3 p.m. EST , our latest episode of “ Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow @ @ @ @ @ guest will be the incomparable Jared Taylor !
Be sure to tune for this important @ @ @ @ @ talking about tech censorship , and what they would have said this weekend at the @ @ @ @ @ because of WuFlu .
You can join the conversation here .
Jared Taylor [ Email @ @ @ @ @ of American Renaissance .
For more on Jared Taylor , read here .
Watch our @ @ @ @ @ Distancing with Peter Brimelow ” :

Today, May 27, at 3 p.m. EST, our latest episode of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow” will livestream. His guest will be the incomparable Jared Taylor!
Be sure to tune for this important conversation!
They will be talking about tech censorship, and what they would have said this weekend at the American Renaissance conference, cancelled because of WuFlu.
You can join the conversation here.
Jared Taylor [Email him] is the editor of American Renaissance.
For more on Jared Taylor, read here.
Watch our past episodes of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow”:


vdare--2020-05-27--Sailer In TakiMag: NYT—It’s Not Obesity. It’s Slavery.

From my new column in Taki ’ s Magazine : Opinion journalism in the respectable outlets has increasingly come to be dominated during the Great Awokening of the past half-dozen years by young Women of Color with soft major degrees who take whatever topic is in the news—global pandemic , Ukrainegate impeachment , a tribal elder being smirked at—and relate it to how society must learn to idolize more the beauty of women such as , to take a random example , themselves .
Also , they tend to be extreme antiquarians who don ’ t seem to be cognizant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jim Crow or even of slavery .
Perhaps the funniest example of this long-running trend appeared in The New York Times on Memorial Day when sociologist Sabrina Strings , author of Fearing the Black Body : The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia , weighed in with : To prove her hypothesis , she recounts her experience as “ the only black person in the room ” ( a repetitious trope in this school of op-edizing ) when she explained to public health experts why black people are sick : Well , there you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explain : The era of slavery was when white Americans determined that black Americans needed only the bare necessities , not enough to keep them optimally safe and healthy .
It set in motion black people ’ s diminished access to healthy foods , safe working conditions , medical treatment and a host of other social inequities that negatively impact health .
And that ’ s why African-Americans are so weak and puny today .
For example , only 29 of the 32 first-round picks in the 2020 National Football League draft were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still so malnourished from their slavery days , they would have made up 33 of the first 32 selected .

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Opinion journalism in the respectable outlets has increasingly come to be dominated during the Great Awokening of the past half-dozen years by young Women of Color with soft major degrees who take whatever topic is in the news—global pandemic, Ukrainegate impeachment, a tribal elder being smirked at—and relate it to how society must learn to idolize more the beauty of women such as, to take a random example, themselves. Also, they tend to be extreme antiquarians who don’t seem to be cognizant of any history since the end of Jim Crow or even of slavery.
Perhaps the funniest example of this long-running trend appeared in The New York Times on Memorial Day when sociologist Sabrina Strings, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, weighed in with:
It’s Not Obesity. It’s Slavery.
We know why Covid-19 is killing so many black people.
To prove her hypothesis, she recounts her experience as “the only black person in the room” (a repetitious trope in this school of op-edizing) when she explained to public health experts why black people are sick:
My answer was swift and unequivocal:
“Slavery.”
Well, there you go.
Professor Strings went on to explain:
The era of slavery was when white Americans determined that black Americans needed only the bare necessities, not enough to keep them optimally safe and healthy. It set in motion black people’s diminished access to healthy foods, safe working conditions, medical treatment and a host of other social inequities that negatively impact health.
And that’s why African-Americans are so weak and puny today. For example, only 29 of the 32 first-round picks in the 2020 National Football League draft were black. If blacks weren’t still so malnourished from their slavery days, they would have made up 33 of the first 32 selected.


vdare--2020-05-27--Black Writer In NYT: I Have Not Missed the Amy Coopers of the World

From the New York Times opinion page : I Have Not Missed the Amy Coopers of the World The video of a white woman threatening a black man in Central Park illustrates exactly why I ’ m so relieved to be spending more time inside .
During a recent session conducted over Zoom , my therapist told me I was “ glowing.
” In the middle of a pandemic .
I struggled to explain why until she prodded , “ No crazy experiences with white people this month ?
” That ’ s when it became clear : I ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home alone and practicing social distancing has meant I ’ m avoiding many of the racist encounters that used to plague my daily life .
… It ’ s because I ’ ve spent less time simmering with humiliation and rage over offhand ignorant comments , wondering whether my race is the reason for poor treatment , being preoccupied with how to present myself to avoid or minimize discrimination .
Certainly most of what I experienced on a daily basis was not as extreme — or potentially life-threatening — as what Mr. Cooper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ addition to stories like his , in addition to the tragedy of the black jogger Ahmaud Arbery ’ s death at the hands of white men and in addition to the reports of black people being unfairly targeted for social-distancing violations … Most of the encounters I dealt with before quarantine could be described as “ microaggressions , ” … Racial microaggressions used to be a part of my daily life and a regular topic of my therapy sessions .
Now they ’ re not .
And I ’ m realizing that as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I ’ m often better off at home .

From the New York Times opinion page:
I Have Not Missed the Amy Coopers of the World
The video of a white woman threatening a black man in Central Park illustrates exactly why I’m so relieved to be spending more time inside.
By Ernest Owens
Mr. Owens is a journalist.
May 26, 2020
During a recent session conducted over Zoom, my therapist told me I was “glowing.” In the middle of a pandemic.
I struggled to explain why until she prodded, “No crazy experiences with white people this month?”
“Not that I can immediately recall,” I replied.
That’s when it became clear: I’m doing better these days because staying home alone and practicing social distancing has meant I’m avoiding many of the racist encounters that used to plague my daily life.
… It’s because I’ve spent less time simmering with humiliation and rage over offhand ignorant comments, wondering whether my race is the reason for poor treatment, being preoccupied with how to present myself to avoid or minimize discrimination.
Certainly most of what I experienced on a daily basis was not as extreme—or potentially life-threatening—as what Mr. Cooper faced in Central Park. But in addition to stories like his, in addition to the tragedy of the black jogger Ahmaud Arbery’s death at the hands of white men and in addition to the reports of black people being unfairly targeted for social-distancing violations …
Most of the encounters I dealt with before quarantine could be described as “microaggressions,” …
Racial microaggressions used to be a part of my daily life and a regular topic of my therapy sessions. Now they’re not. And I’m realizing that as a black queer man living in America, I’m often better off at home.