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American Dream v. Israeli Dream: Jennifer Rubin And Mickey Kaus Debate

A commenter transcribes a 2011 videologue between Mickey Kaus and Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post:
From the podcast John Marzan posted. Discussion begins after 50:00. Jennifer Rubin and Mickey Kaus discuss an alleged difference between the American Dream and the Israeli Dream: 
RUBIN.

Jonathan Chait Speaks Power To Truth: Says The Richwine Affair Means Republicans MUST Submit On Amnesty

New York magazine's Jonathan Chait, a former co-author with Stephen Glass at The New Republic, speaks power to truth:

Sheldon Adelson To Buy 2014 Georgia Senate Race For Treason Lobby?

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S Adelson: "Y'all vote for Open Borders now, hear?"

The key Amnesty development  of 2013 has not been hispanicking by the innumerate Republican Establishment – it is the paroxysms of greed sweeping the parasitical Conservatism Inc community after they realized the Treason Lobby was prepared to spend huge amounts of money to gain open borders – as I discussed in Is Cash Avalanche Sweeping GOP Into Amnesty Acquiescence?

Further evidence of this can be seen in Super PAC Donor Adelson Targeting New Senate Race for 2014? By Kent Cooper Roll Call May 11 2013. This wonkishly wades through

E-Verify In Action! At A Mexican-Food Chain, No Less!!

NumbersUSA has an article about the enhanced-E-Verify bill, H.R. 1772, that Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) introduced on April 26.  At this writing, the bill has 22 cosponsors including, notably, one Democrat, Peter DeFazio, a 14th-term congressman from Oregon.** [See below].

Senate Immigration Plotters Overlook Water Supply

The big suits in Washington are currently licking their chops in anticipation of passing a monstrous immigration bill that would increase US population by tens of millions over the next decade. Jamming in a Canada-sized bunch of new shoppers should goose up the GDP pretty good, business types agree!

Los Angeles County Fears Amnesty Costs Will Hit Locally

imageLos Angeles has been ground zero for for bearing the brunt of of immigration diversity for some time. Unlucky in geography, the county was home to 9.8 million residents as of 2010, 56.6 percent of whom over age 5 do not speak English at home according to the Census. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich has been reporting on the cost to taxpayers of illegal immigration for years, with an update a few days ago noting that $54 million in welfare benefits were issued to illegal alien parents just in the month of March in the county.

A March 2012 article in the LA Times about a new school free food program mentioned in passing that kids from low-income families make up 80 percent of the LAUSD enrollment. The place is a poverty magnet with palm trees.

Even Los Angeles liberal pols are concerned about what another massive amnesty will do to the county’s welfare spending, although they are hopeful the feds will kick in some extra cash, as was done in 1986.

L.A. County officials worried about costs of immigration overhaul, Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2011

With an estimated 1.1 million people in L.A. County illegally, officials fear that the county will get stuck with many costs for those who apply for citizenship.

WASHINGTON — Few regions will absorb the

LA Times: "Officials Fear That The County Will Get Stuck With Many Costs For Those Who Apply For Citizenship"

Basically, nobody outside California knows anything about the history of illegal immigration, so anything the Heritage Foundation says about the likely costs of another amnesty is automatically "controversial." But, in California ... From the Los Angeles Times:

L.A. County officials worried about costs of immigration overhaul

With an estimated 1.1 million people in L.A. County illegally, officials fear that the county will get stuck with many costs for those who apply for citizenship.

By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times

May 11, 2013, 5:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Few regions will absorb the impact of future immigration reforms more than Los Angeles County, home to an estimated 1.1 million people in the country illegally, one-tenth of the nation's total.

As the Senate Judiciary Committee began

Obama Administration Announces It's Been Lying With Statistics About Deportations

For years, I've been hearing about how the Obama Administration is setting records for numbers of illegal aliens being deported. For example, USA Today reported on December 21, 2012:

Obama administration sets deportation record: 409,849 

Alan Gomez 

5:27 p.m. EST December 21, 2012 

"Ariel Castro's American Dream"—What Was The Washington Post THINKING?

Have you noticed how immigrants and/or Hispanics have become inseparable in the media mind from the cant phrase "the American dream," even when the implications are disastrous for the beloved Gang de Ocho? Last month, for example, the New York Times headlined its profile of Tamerlan Tsarnaev with "Before Bombs, a Battered American Dream."

Sunday Talk Shows: No Amnesty Discussion, Patriots Totally Excluded

 

Censorship

Got to keep it from the Peasants...

A huge week in Immigration news, with the Senate Democrats demonstrating dogmatic determination to prevent any border tightening in exchange for their Amnesty, the devastating Heritage study released, the subsequent effort to Mau Mau it, and of course

If Latino Immigrants Are So Bright, Why Does LULAC Have To Hire A Director Named "Brent Ashley Wilkes"?

This is from LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens, generally considered not as crazy as La Raza. It's a press release bashing Heritage over the Jason Richwine affair:

The Flight from White—American Indian Version

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THE NATION: Jencks' Approval Of Richwine's Thesis "The Big Problem"

Jon Weiner writes for the leftwing The Nation:

The third member of the committee is the big surprise, and the big problem: Christopher Jencks, for decades a leading figure among liberals who did serious research on inequality—a contributor to the New York Review, the author of important books including Inequality: Who Gets Ahead?; The Homeless; and The Black White Test Score Gap.

Post-Gay Marriage, cont.: Transgendered MMA Fighters

What next, after the that bravura display of media marketing muscle that was the gay marriage whoop-tee-doo? There has to be something else to force the rubes to identify themselves by their lack of enthusiasm. But, what ...

Front and center on NYTimes.com this evening:

A Reluctant Pioneer in Mixed Martial Arts 

By GREG BISHOP 

News Flash: Crops Not Rotting In The Fields Because Growers Are Raising Wages

The Fresno Bee reports an epochal breakthrough in economic theory is taking place in the fields of the Central Valley of California. As everybody who took Econ 101 in college knows, the Law of Supply and Demand says that shortages and surpluses push wages toward market-clearing prices. Except that, as we all know from reading hundreds of newspaper stories rewritten from press releases issued by growers' PR guys, the Law of Supply and Demand doesn't apply in the case of farm labor.

Senate Judiciary Committee Doesn't Want ANY Enforcement With Their Amnesty

"Fortune Favors The Bold, "and a coward dies a thousand deaths. We are given these words of wisdom by Lucius Cornelius Sulla and William Shakespeare respectively. And what is their import on the current state of the opposition to the Obama Regime? Well, at least, in the area of the ongoing opposition to the mad rush for amnesty. And a mad rush it is.

Obama Regime Administrative Amnesty In Jeopardy?

In a major change of strategy in the Obama Regime's war on immigration law enforcement, it all but conceded that the Administrative Amnesty is illegal.

Homeland Security News Wire May 10, 2013

DHS Now Willing To Discuss Deportation Policy With Agents' Union

Radio Derb Is On The Air: Richwine Defenestration Is Soviet Stuff

As a podcast on iTunes, listenable/downloadable onscreen at Taki’s Magazine, or as a transcript here.

Radio Derb goes to tape at midnight on Thursday, so this week’s broadcast is not totally up to date with the Jason Richwine story.  I think I got the essence of it, though.

WEEKLY STANDARD (!!!): Gang Bill Too Much Like '86 Amnesty Fiasco

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H/T The Weekly Standard (!)

From the VDARE.com point of view The Weekly Standard has a dubious provenance. And its silly foreign policy stance is not central to our interests. Our paths rarely cross.

So I was very surprised to see on Real Clear Politics The Amnesty Next Time By Fred Barnes which is apparently from their print issue dated May 20, 2013 and is subtitled The specter of 1986 haunts the immigration debate

This accurately discusses