"Something there is that doesn't love a wall," wrote poet Robert Frost in the opening line of "Mending Walls."

And on the American left there is something like revulsion at the idea of the "beautiful wall" President Trump intends to build along the 1,900-mile border between Read more >>

Since January 20th, 2017, Donald Trump has been President of the United States. Everyone just has to deal with it. But the Mexican government is trying harder than the Mexican elite—or expatriate Americans in Mexico.

Street Protests

On Inuguration Day, Mexican media reported:

In various parts of the country there were marches and protests against the new President of the United States, Donald Trump, who is considered a menace to Mexico, although the mobilizations had less participation than was expected.

Consideran a Trump como una amenaza [“Trump Is Considered A Menace”] El Siglo de Torreón, January 21, 2017. Emphasis added

How is Trump a “menace?” How is he preventing the Mexican government from handling its affairs?

That unexpected "less participation" is interesting: Mexicans may just be burned out on Trump bashing. After all, it’s been nonstop for nineteen months. Also, they may be more concerned about domestic issues, like the rise in gasoline prices (the gasolinazo). (Is there some way to blame Trump for that?)
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Like millions of Americans who are paying thousands of dollars a year for health insurance no doctors will take, I would love to be flying to Washington this week, pleading with members of Congress, spearheading letter-writing campaigns and appearing as a witness, to tell everyone about my experiences with Obamacare.

But none of us can, because we're too busy working so we can afford to pay for the health care of 22 million poor, entitled or irresponsible people under Obamacare.

Just yesterday, for example, in addition to working, I had to spend an hour--on top of days and days last month--figuring out which few remaining clinics provide mammograms under my brand-new, now third Obamacare insurance plan.

My original plan was made "illegal" by Obamacare, and the next two plans--fully approved under Obamacare--went bankrupt and were shut down by state and federal regulators.

Now I just have to pray I don't get cancer or break a bone before Obamacare is repealed because, even at $700 a month with a gigantic deductible, there is NO PLAN on the individual market accepted by the two premier hospitals in my area for cancer or broken bones. Read more >>

Abortion extremists are the new Luddites.

Remember Ned Ludd from your grade-school history lessons? He was the Occupy Wall Street agitator of his time — a phantom leader of early 19th-century British textile workers who vindictively smashed spinning jenny power looms to bits in a desperate bid Read more >>

Over the past several years, there has been increasing demand for a VDARE.com conference. Last fall, I decided to take the plunge and plan our first-ever.

VDARE.com is a very small office and I found the prospect of this major event quite intimidating. But with the support of some key donors and the advice of many friends, I went ahead. My first step was to identify a freelance Project Manager who could bear the brunt of much of the more specialized tasks. Through observation and through the explicit advice of my friends, I knew the most elemental step in any event space we in our movement secure, is that is be GOVERNMENT-OWNED. I communicated this to my Project Manager from Day One. Imagine my delight when he presented a venue at Yosemite National Park.

Well, as it turns out, there is a government owned facility at Yosemite National Park, but Tenaya Lodge, with whom we contracted, was not it. I trusted my Project Manager when he assured me that it was, because he misunderstood Tenaya’s assurances that it was governed by federal law, and that trust seemed validated when Tenaya presented a contract that did not allow for the possibility for them to cancel. For any reason.

So:

• Mistake Number One: Unknowingly contracting with a private venue.


• Mistake Number Two: Not contracting for punitive sanctions if Tenaya cancelled.

To be fair, it was Mistake Number One that lulled me in to a sense of security regarding Mistake Number Two. But both are hard lessons learned. Read more >>

Blue Monday? President Trump is certainly keeping some major campaign promises, but for immigration patriots his first day was something of a let-down.

Trump, for example, abandoned the horrible Trans-Pacific Partnership  [ Trump Wastes No Time Undoing Obama Legacy , by Garth Kant, WND, January 23, 2017]. Not only is this a major step towards reclaiming American sovereignty, it also is an important political move by the new president to consolidate his base of Rust Belt workers. It won praise from the AFL-CIO and even from Bernie Sanders [ Sanders, joined by Rust Belt Democrats, praises Trump for nixing TPP , by David Weigel, The Washington Post, January 23, 2016].

And Trump is delivering for pro-lifers (by stopping funding for foreign abortions), fiscal conservatives (implementing a hiring freeze), and business leaders (meeting with executives to discuss tax cuts.) And he is showing he is not afraid of sparking new protests by moving to approve the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines [ ‘A Big Priority’: Spicer Suggests Keystone XL Approval Is On The Way , by Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller, January 23, 2017]. Read more >>

As the patriotic pageantry of Inauguration Day gave way to the demonstrations of defiance Saturday, our new America came into view. We are two nations now, two peoples.

Though bracing, President Trump's inaugural address was rooted in cold truths, as he dispensed with the customary idealism of inaugurals that are forgotten within a fortnight of the president being sworn in.

Trump's inaugural was Jacksonian.

He was speaking to and for the forgotten Americans whose hopes he embodies, pledging to be their champion against those who abandon them in pursuit of higher, grander, nobler causes. Declared Trump: Read more >>