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 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 >>

You could tell from thirty miles out that this was not a day like all others. Northern Virginia traffic is notoriously awful—I once derailed Joe Sobran’s bitter complaints about it, in his see-no-evil-in- immigration days, by pointing out that sprawl is a direct result of immigration-driven population growth—but in the rainy early morning I-66 was eerily empty. Quite obviously, even civilian commuters were staying home on Inauguration Day. Our native guide, who had been planning a complicated route involving parking at a far Metro stop, grew increasingly optimistic. We finished up driving all the way to Roslyn, the edge of heart of the District, where we found parking easily and took a cab to Capitol Hill.

There the reason for the eerie emptiness became immediately apparent: there had been a military coup.

The streets swarmed with uniformed men (and women, looking ridiculous as usual but still carrying guns). It was extremely difficult to get around. Humvees, concrete blocks and high wire fences had sprung up everywhere. There was an unmistakable feeling of curfew--intensified by fact that, as you got closer, everyone seemed to be hurrying intently in the same direction, as if trying to get home before the blackout. They were Trump supporters, cheerful but quiet and orderly, headed for the Mall.

As it happened, VDARE.com senior management had this odd (but usefully traffic-clearing) experience in another great American city a few months earlier: in Cleveland, when Donald J. Trump accepted the GOP nomination.

But in Cleveland there were no riots. It’s a mark of the Left’s intensifying assault that in D.C., despite this intense lockdown, there were still riots and some 230 arrests. Read more >>