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In the Soviet Union common criminals were punished less harshly and received better treatment than political prisoners. A person who had committed a violent crime had more rights than someone who expressed criticism of the government and could be portrayed as having acted against the government.  We now have the same situation in the US.

Portland OR Columnist Joseph Rose: White Protests "Just As Bad" As Black Beatings

Portland, Oregon is a progressive city full of bike riders, outdoor enthusiasts, microbreweries, coffee shops, indie bands and book shops. It is always rated as one of the most livable and most green cities in the U.S. and Forbes has ranked Portland as the third safest city in the nation.


The city is even the subject of a popular TV show called Portlandia that makes fun of the Stuff White People Like types who inhabit “The City of Roses.”


Portland added over 10,000 white residents from 2000-2010 and local economist Joe Cortright calls these new arrivals the “beer, bikes and Birkenstock” crowd.


But the unemployment rate in Portland is actually higher than the U.S. average. And salaries in other liberal Northwest meccas such as Seattle and San Francisco are roughly 20% higher than in Portland. So why are whites flocking there?


Answer: overwhelmingly, culture and quality of life. The progressive reputation of Portland is attracting college-educated whites from across the U.S. to live in a city full of reliable public transportation and walkable, safe neighborhoods.  


But much to their consternation, their own migration is helping to keep Portland white.


The 2010 Census shows that whites comprise 74% of the city of Portland

Ron Unz Has A Modest Proposal For Mitt Romney: To Encourage Self-Deportation, Raise The Minimum Wage

Peter Brimelow writes: Newt Gingrich is foolishly attacking Mitt Romney’s surfacing (finally!) of one of the key immigration reform concepts that I had despaired of seeing mentioned in this campaign: attrition through enforcement, which he calls “self-deportation.”  [Gingrich mocks Romney’s ‘self-deportation’ plan for illegal immigrants, By Amy Gardner and Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington Post, January 25, 2012]. Gingrich calls the idea an “Obama-level fantasy”, whereas in fact it’s exactly what happened during Operation Wetback, the program with which the Eisenhower Administration stopped and reversed the earlier illegal immigration crisis in 1954.

I’m not surprised that Gingrich has never heard of the concept. Friends who have tried to discuss immigration with him privately report that he appears to be in a state of invincible ignorance—possibly because he is too egotistical to consider ideas that he has not thought of himself, or because he instinctively blocks anything likely to offend big donors.

But Romney is defending “self-deportation” and maybe, just maybe, it’s now in play. That’s the nice thing about elections and debates!

Ron Unz is an intellectual entrepreneur of Gingrichian proportions, although he tends to stay with ideas longer and some (abolishing bilingual education) are very good. We are posting here, with Unz’s permission, an email he wrote to friends on January 24 about the possible role that his proposal for a massive increase in the minimum wage could play in the primaries.

Although Unz does not emphasize the point here, his original proposal was actually designed to discourage low-skilled immigration, both illegal and legal—and encourage its self-deportation. Employers would not be able to substitute cheap labor for capital investment—they would have to turn to mechanization (or get out of labor-intensive activities only made economic by illegal immigration).

Of course, this would require enforcement, which the Obama Administration has systematically abandoned.

 

In Memory Of My Grandson: Reflections On Reclaiming Florida

Mitt Romney, New Gingrich and Rick Santorum are now campaigning in my home state of Florida, where the GOP presidential primary will be held January 31. As usual, the Main Stream Media is fixating on the much-hyped Hispanic vote—for example, Newt Gingrich Looks For Latino Support In Bid For Florida Success, by Matthew Jaffe, ABC News, Jan. 28, 2012. It’s all too possible that one of the candidates will offer Florida’s first-term Senator Marco Rubio the Vice Presidential slot in return for his endorsement.

But Florida Hispanics are only 22% of the state’s population—and, testimony to the sheer size of Florida’s ongoing immigration disaster, a remarkable half of them are foreign-born, so many cannot be voting citizens. Over three-quarters of us Floridians are not Hispanics.

My modest proposal for any candidate actually interested in winning Florida Anglo support: speak out in favor of proposed Florida legislation (State Representative Gayle Harrell’s HB1315 and State Senator Thad Altman’s SB1638) mandating the use of E-Verify by Florida employers.

These identical bills, written with the advice of the Immigration Law Reform Institute’s Kris Kobach, architect

Drowning In Hypocrisy

Obama's Green Robber Barons

Can US CEOs Be Persuaded To Stop Importing Unneeded Aliens?

Paul Nachman, my fellow VDARE.com contributor, has thoughtfully brought to my attention the Jan/Feb 2012 Atlantic Magazine article, Making It in America, by Adam Davidson.

The Fulford File| Illegal Immigration: The Trafalgar Square Solution

As a very young person, aged about 6, I saw the Disney movie of Mary Poppins, which showed the famous pigeons in Trafalgar Square, with a song called “Feed The Birds” by Julie Andrews, about an old woman who sold birdseed.

As an only slightly older person, I actually visited London and fed them myself. I bought a cup of birdseed, and pigeons came and roosted on me and ate out of my hand. Like this:

Mitt vs. Newt: the Gloves Come Off

Immigration Cartoon Of The Day

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This daily cartoon contributed to VDARE.com by Baloo. His site is HERE

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Newt Gingrich And Richard Lapchick: Partners In America’s Racial Revolution

Back in November, a couple of Gingrich resurrections ago, my VDARE.com colleague Peter Bradley pointed out in Newt Gingrich—GOP’s Anti-White Quota King that the former House Speaker had used his time in office (1995-1998) to sabotage any chance that the Affirmative Action revolution could be reversed. I think it’s worth reviewing that revolution, and one of its characteristic apparatchiks, Richard E. (“social conscience of sport”) Lapchick. I don’t suppose Lapchick [Email him] will support Gingrich, but he should.

Few people seem to grasp the completeness of this radical left victory in America. Recent examples:

This unquestionably has something to do with the fact that Black students—though only 17 percent of the public school population—make up 31 percent of those students classified as having a mental retardation or intellectual deficiency.  Maybe this would explain why The New York Times published an article bemoaning the incredible low proficiency of black students across the nation. [Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected, By Trip Gabriel, November 9, 2010]

  • The EEOC has forced Pepsi Beverages Co. to pay $3.1 million dollars and to stop using criminal background checks on potential employees.

In other words, because Black people engage in a disproportionate amount of the criminality in America, it seems that background checks will soon go the way of IQ tests (dumped courtesy of the landmark court case Griggs v. Duke). VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow quite rightly called this a case of the Minority Occupation Government oppressing the majority and using political power redistributing resource in the interests of its clients.

So who is Richard Lapchick and what does he

South Carolina Shambles: Slippery Newt Massacres Milquetoast Mitt—Agonizes Immigration Patriots

[See also: So Near, And Yet So Far: That South Carolina Debate and America's Immigration Disaster, by Peter Brimelow]

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich's entire career has been spent cultivating the ostensible hatred of the people he is trying to serve and the very real love of the people he seeks to deceive. Paradoxically, by earning the hatred of the Main Stream Media and the liberal (and even Establishment Conservative) elites, Gingrich has gained street credibility among grassroots conservatives. But when it comes to policies, Gingrich has been distinguished by his extraordinary ability to not only betray his base (typical of Republicans), but by

US Industry’s Automation Success Means Immigration Cuts More Than Ever Practical

The trend is unmistakable, but generals always prepare to fight the last war—like building up our air superiority to fight counter-insurgency battles on the home turf of native warriors without uniforms or battle lines.

So Near, And Yet So Far: That South Carolina GOP Debate and America’s Immigration Disaster

Unfortunately, it may well turn out that January 19th’s South Carolina debate was the last time the issue of patriotic immigration reform might have been put into play in the 2012 cycle’s GOP Primaries. So let’s take stock:

The Land of Obama Make-Believe—No Entry Visa Required!

Obama In Disney WorldWhere did President Obama go after killing off thousands of Keystone XL pipeline construction and manufacturing jobs? Why, Disney World, of course. Sabotaging work is hard work for Goofy and his pals.

Who Wants War With Iran?