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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
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The Enigma of Sacha Baron Cohen Explained
From The Times of Israel, an article that explains the mystery that has baffled the combined intellectual might of America's film critics. What could possibly motivate Baron Cohen to make fun of Pakistanis, Slavs, Austrians, and Arabs? It's been a complete mystery, but now a few clues are available.
As the actor/comedian makes his way to Israel for his latest flick, those who knew him way back when share some potent memories
By JESSICA STEINBERG May 11, 2012,
... He is Sacha Baron Cohen, the Jewish, English and half-Israeli comedian who has created a career out of imagined characters who deftly comment on the political, cultural and social issues of the moment.
He began his career as the fictional Ali G on “Da Ali G Show,” playing a boorish, uneducated type, and often baffled his celebrity and politician interviewees who didn’t realize he was in character.
Now he’s a celebrity, married to a fellow — converted — celebrity, actress Isla Fisher, with whom he has two daughters, including one whose name is Elula. For those who knew him when, as a fellow Habonim Dror youth group member or Cambridge student, his current antics are hilarious, sometimes crude, but his success is not altogether surprising.
“I remember being on the bus during our Habonim Mahane Lomdim trip, and he did this standup bit about lost property at the front of the bus,” said one woman now living in Ra’anana, who attended a three-week seminar with Baron Cohen in Israel when they were graduating high school. “He was really very nerdy, he didn’t hang out with the girls, but we were literally crying from laughter because he was so funny. I remember thinking how talented he was, and very, very smart, a genius, really.”
The son of an Israeli mother and Welsh father, “a quirky, smart family,” she added, Cohen grew up in West London and was active throughout high school in Habonim Dror, a Zionist youth group. “He was very Zionist, very involved in Habo,” said
More Voting By Aliens In North Carolina And Florida
And the hard work of exposing this crime is being done by the private sector, not U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE). (h/t Election Law Center) The Voter Integrity Project (VIP) is on the case and found over 500 persons who claimed when called to jury duty to be aliens have voted.
VIP Media Center May 15, 2012
Man Bites Dog—DOJ Files Suit Against An Indian Body Shop…But Not For Discriminating Against American
Sort of. The United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (DOJ CRD) announced a lawsuit against an Indian job shop, Whiz International LLC, not for discriminating against Americans, but for retaliating against an employee who objected to the discrimination. (h/t Stein Report)
DOJ CRD Press Release May 22, 2012
Tom Wolfe’s Miami Novel Gets a Background Documentary
Novelist Tom Wolfe announced several years ago that his next book would take place in south Florida and would explore immigration. One can only hope that he will skewer the diversity cult in his own unique style.
Wolfe engaged Oscar Corral, a reporter from the Miami Herald, to sherpa him through the local culture, and Corral then filmed the author’s explorations of social byways to produce a documentary of Wolfe’s investigations of Caribbeanized Florida.
Below, Wolfe soaks up local diversity in south Florida.
What a juicy topic. Perhaps he will blend in the backstory of the catastrophic Mariel Boatlift which welcomed 130,000 unscreened Cuban criminals, drunks and other undesirables Castro wanted to cull. Miami’s murder rate doubled the year following Cuba’s human dumping, and everybody carried handguns for protection. See my blog, Mariel Diversity Celebrated for the disturbing details.
The trailer for Tom Wolfe: Bloodlines provides
Why Lorenzo Pagina and Sergio Brino had to found Google in Mexico
From the New York Times on how Romney should attract the Hispanic vote:
By C. STEWART VERDERY, JR.
Two Claremont McKenna Hoaxes: SAT and Hate
From Charles C. Johnson in City Journal on what we know now about the mostly hushed-up scandal at one of the Claremont Colleges, where the Admissions department fabricated statistics submitted to USNW&R and other guidebooks to keep its Top Ten liberal arts college rating:
How Long Before Israel's Unwelcome Black "Refugees" Get Dumped On America?
Bound for the USA? African immigrants in Israel
Hostile Peacenik US Soldier (Muslim) Found Guilty in Fort Hood Bomb Plot
The terrorism trial of Pfc. Naser Abdo (pictured) has concluded in Waco. For a while, he was the poster boy of the anti-war left, but lately not so much.
Breaking News, in the Knoxville Horror Case! Tennessee Supreme Court Stops Overturning of Davidson, Thomas, and Cobbins Verdicts
By David in TN and Nicholas Stix
[Court's order remanding rulings in Christian-Newsom cases (pdf)]
On Thursday, the Tennessee Supreme Court halted Special Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood's decision to throw out the convictions in the
Romney Says Education Gap the "Civil Rights Issue of our Time"
Mitt Romney was in Philadelphia, visiting an inner city charter school. Plenty of protestors, including the mayor of Philadelphia, were outside the school. Inside the school, Romney made a rather amazing claim, stating that
"I Love Lucy" v. "I Love Marilyn"
We've been having some fun positing historical trivia related to the increasingly popular interpretation of American history put forward by whiteness experts like Noel Ignatiev, that the Irish, Spaniards, Jews, Italians, and so forth weren't considered white until recently.
Or, for example, look how the CIA wouldn't allow James Jesus Angleton to join because his mother was Mexican.
Look how Mel Ferrer's acting career was so hampered by discrimination that he had to console himself with being married to Audrey Hepburn.
Abe Foxman Speaks About Race Riots In Israel
Although the New York Times hasn't yet gotten around to covering the recent pogrom in Tel Aviv against black "illegal infiltrators" (here's video footage of the riot -- not all that violent as far as race riots go), Abraham H. Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, issued the following statement today:
Change In Zimmerman/Trayvon Witness Stories: Threats From Black Thugs Or Coercion From Law Enforcement
There are only two explanations for the sudden changes in witness statements in the George Zimmerman persecution. It appears that several witnesses have had sudden changes in what they observed that fateful night in Florida.
Orlando Sentinel May 22, 2012 by Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner
Latest Israel Immigration News, Haaretz Edition
From the top of the website of Haaretz, the left of center Israeli newspaper:
"African asylum seekers injured in Tel Aviv race riots"
Quite a headline:
African asylum seekers injured in Tel Aviv race riots, by Conal Urquhart, The Guardian, May 23, 2012
Dozens of African asylum seekers were injured as race riots broke out in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night.
Drudge Carries Immigration Story!
I have been grumbling a lot recently about the Drudge Report’s lack of immigration coverage.
The Lynching of Desi Arnaz (1917-1951)
A commenter at Slate attempts to explain to Matthew Yglesias the answer to that journalist's question "Why does the census count me as Hispanic?"
Latinos/Hispanics are individuals whose descent comes from Latin American countries and Puerto Rico (an American Territory).
Senators Sessions and Vitters Try to End Tax Loophole for Illegal Aliens; Reid Blocks
Many Americans became irate when they heard about the outrageous tax credits (cash, not deductions) that illegal aliens have used to rip off billions of dollars from this country.
On Tuesday, Senate budget hawks Jeff Sessions and David Vitters asked for unanimous consent to pass legislation that would close the loophole — an effort that was blocked by the Majority Leader, Harry Reid.
Xochitl Hinojosa: DoJ's Aztec Warrior Princess / Spokesmodel
The decision by pundit Matthew Yglesias to list himself officially on the 2010 Census as "Hispanic" has raised interesting questions about our new Hispanic elites.
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn: ‘The Computer Ate My Crime Stats!’: Disappearing Crime in Milwaukee… and Everywhere Else
A colleague asks,
How do you deal with the argument that crime is falling nationwide?
And answers his own question, by sending along the following article.