June 3, 2009

Controlling The Terms Of Discourse

Marx defined the ruling class as those who control the means of production. But that seems so 19th Century. Today, the key is to control the terms of discourse.

For example, consider how affirmative action largely disappeared as something disussable in polite society in recent years. John McCain had a chance to take it up as an issue in 2008 but decided not to touch it. How'd that work out for him?

A Muslim Country Or A Christian Nation?

In The Saint in New York, published 1935, author Leslie Charteris described New York, 11 years after the 1924 immigration cut-off, as "A greater Italian city than Rome, a greater Irish city than Dublin, a greater German city than Cologne..." He also described it as a "modern Baghdad where the ends of the earth came together," but that was just metaphor, also used earlier by O.

Jared Taylor On Lars Larson

Jared Taylor will be on the nationally syndicated Lars Larson Show tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET to discuss his VDARE.com article "Will Sotomayor Make Spanish an Official Language?" The program can be streamed live here.

Are VDARE.com Readers Crazy?

Guatemelan immigrant Constantino Diaz-Duran has an article in the Daily Beast about new diagnoses available in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, [DSM-V] 8 New Ways You Might Be Insane.

A Cheerful Story of Assimilation via Can Openers

imageLeave it to the Washington Post to present a story about one tribe's rather stunning ignorance about the world around them into a heartwarming tale of charming (although oddly stubborn) foreigners [Latinos Newly Open to Cooking From a Can, June 3, 2009].

A Friend in need...

Hat Tip – in fact, warm appreciation - to Mangan’s for defending VDARE.com yesterday in Bashing VDARE from a series of sneers recently published on the Half Sigma blog.