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By Nicholas Stix
So as not to bury my lede:
It’s that time of year again—when we at VDARE.COM must pass around the hat to our loyal readers, without whose generous support we could not continue to provide the best journalism in America regarding all issues related to the National Question, as in: Will the United States of America continue as a nation-state, the political expression of a particular people?
With the death knell of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sounding in February, as the paper’s staff sought donations to keep going, an SPI reporter argued that without the newspaper, stories would go untold.
If only it were so.
Without Establishment newspapers, readers would likely miss out on the following types of boilerplate:

Illegal immigrant sob stories;
Stories about the raceless victims of raceless criminals;
Press releases from big business, mercenary non-profits, and encroaching government agencies, which SPI staffers would write up to look like news stories;
Lindsay Lohan’s newest DUI arrest; and
White celebrities’ newest attempts to get positive publicity by adopting black African babies they have no intention of raising.

As a longtime, unapologetic newsaholic, I am not celebrating the death throes of the American newspaper. But American newspapers have no one to blame but themselves. Their refusal to do their job led to readers’ refusal to patronize them.
But if VDARE.COM shut down, vital stories really would go untold.
Let’s look at some of the countless stories that readers saw through VDARE.COM.

The Sailer Surge
In an election year, the media’s most vital job is to vet the candidates. In 2008, instead, in a display of media corruption for the ages, the Mainstream Media (MSM) acted as activists, operatives, and shock troops on behalf of one candidate, alternately stonewalling the public, race-baiting public critics, and even organizing a shameless campaign of vilification, including criminal acts, against a private person—Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher—who had the temerity to criticize their champion.
And yet, long before Election Day, VDARE.COM readers knew more about the man calling himself "Barack Obama" than did most MSM journalists—because VDARE.COM had done the MSM’s job.
In 2007, VDARE.COM’s often intellectually hyperactive Steve Sailer focused his attention on that man like a laser, and wrote scores of columns and blogs explaining what makes "Obama" tick, culminating in the first VDARE.COM book, The Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s "Story of Race and Inheritance," which came out in late 2008. http://www.vdare.com/half-blood_prince/
In a just journalistic world, Steve would have won his second and third Pulitzer Prizes this year – for biography (for his book), and for explanatory journalism for the continuing series he began last year, in revealing how the "minority mortgage meltdown" caused what he calls "the Diversity Depression" which will hopefully be the subject of Steve’s next book. (Steve’s first Pulitzer would have been for his pathbreaking work for VDARE.COM on "affordable family formation"—the public policies, such as immigration restriction, that would make)
Then again, of course, in a just journalistic world, there would be no call for VDARE.COM.
Wearing his hat as one of America’s leading science journalists, Steve wrote a three-part series on the crucifixion of Nobel Prize-winning geneticist James Watson.
Steve has even coined a phrase of broad methodological significance that encapsulates the MSM’s (and academia’s) anti-scientific thinking: "Occam's butterknife."
The "Occam’s Razor" rule calls for a scientist to devise the simplest possible explanation of phenomena in order to ascertain the truth. But politically correct scholars seek to avoid the truth by any means necessary. In spite of a world of group differences, they arrive at the pre-ordained conclusion that all groups are equal in every way and they give the most convoluted explanations imaginable for group differences in everything from education outcomes to mortgage foreclosure rates to crime. For instance, the science of intelligence easily explains group differences in testing and education outcomes. But since I.Q. science consists of what VDARE.COM has called "hate facts", I.Q. is ruled out—and all manner of circular and fantastical theories of "stereotype threat", "test bias", and "white racial privilege" are invoked instead.

"‘Stereotype Threat’ a.k.a. Occam's Butterknife" February 15, 2004
"America and the Left Half of the Bell Curve: Part I: IQ and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It" July 15, 2000
"Part II: How the Other Half Lives" July 18, 2000
"Why Do We Keep Writing about Intelligence? An IQ FAQ" December 3, 2007
Immigration and Gender

Over the past three or so years, VDARE.COM’s indefatigable Brenda Walker has been on a roll, writing on among other things, Third World immigration and the abuse of girls and women. Newsrooms and college faculties abound with thousands of feminists who jealously insist on a monopoly on all discussion regarding the protection of girls and women. But it is exactly these "feminists" who have betrayed both American-born and immigrant girls and women, and joined the War on the West. They have in effect joyously submitted to the misogyny of Third World, with happy talk of "vibrant", multicultural immigrants. Hence, if you oppose the importation of female slavery, the violent abuse of girls and women, including genital mutilation, honor killings, and a thousand lesser daily sexual degradations, it is to VDARE.COM that you must turn. (By the way, Brenda is working on a book on the foregoing topics.)
Some of Brenda’s stories:

"Dead Culture Walking: Muslim Colonization of Europe Should Frighten America" March 26, 2009
Canary in the Coal Mine: The Status of Women vs. "Diversity" February 18, 2009
"Diversity is Strength! It’s Also…Selling Your 14-Year Old Daughter?" February 05, 2009
"Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also… Witchcraft, Imported By Immigration. (And, Yes, From Obama’s Kenya Too)" November 06, 2008

Crime News
You might think that America had enough homegrown criminals of her own; VDARE.COM’s Brenda Walker has written hundreds of front page and blog reports on the growth industry of immigrant felons, especially the market niches of
slave owners and
homicidal drunk drivers
"immigrant mass murder syndrome", a term Brenda has coined to describe a phenomenon that didn’t exist in my childhood, when old, boring, undiverse America was enjoying a 41-year pause from mass immigration.
Thus when Chinese-Vietnamese immigrant monster Jiverly Wong aka Voong murdered 13 people at a Binghamton immigrant center early this month, the MSM approvingly quoted the local police chief’s inane condemnation of Americans as having "caused" the mass murder, supposedly through criticizing the English of Wong, who in 28 years here had never bothered to learn English. In "The Binghamton Massacre—Latest Case of Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome," [April 05, 2009] Brenda was the first writer with the courage to state the obvious:
"…immigrating to a completely foreign culture is a vastly more disorienting experience [than leaving home for college or having child], where the possibility for failure is real and life-affecting….
Yet when a horrific immigrant mass murder episode occurs, the wrenching stresses created by multicultural immigration are never considered by the Main Stream Media or Washington legislators as a major cause. In fact, every other reason on earth is dragged out—particularly when the political agenda is to blame America, its people and the Second Amendment."
Over the past three or so years, the indefatigable Brenda has produced the equivalent of at least two excellent books on immigrant crime:
"Meddling Mexico Funds High-Priced Lawyers to Help Immigrants Get Away with Murder" September 11, 2008
"‘They Also Kill People In Your Town’: San Francisco Triple Murder Highlights Immigrant Crime Wave" July 31, 2008
To my knowledge, no journalist in America has done a more thorough job than Brenda Walker of chronicling America’s immigrant—legal and illegal—crime wave.

Crime and Race
Crime is clearly not a job that "Americans won’t do", but writing honestly about crime is a job that America’s MSM refuse to do, even though crime ranks up with sports in readers’ interest. Although interracial crime first exploded during the 1960s, and in recent years, black-on-white rape-torture-murder atrocities have become routine, the MSM’s response was to suppress such reporting, as a matter of conscious policy, and to race-bait anyone who does the job they have refused to do.
VDARE.COM’s editor-columnist-blogger-fact checker James Fulford has written a series of classic articles on this subject:
"Race, Relevance and the Public’s Right to Know," "Ann Coulter on Willie Horton, Joey Fournier—And What Life is Really Like", and "Hate Crimes, Real Crimes, and Relevance." James has even introduced the article category,"
not reporting race," which is not limited to crime stories.

I have written a series of VDARE.COM articles on black-on-white crimes and racial atrocities:
The Duke Rape Hoax,
Knoxville Horror,
Winchester Atrocity
the Anne Pressly rape-torture-murder

Environmental Reporting
The unfortunate people who depend on the MSM for information assume that "environmental" groups such as the Sierra Club (which until 1996 pledged its support for population stabilization), are fighting pollution, over-population, and to defend America’s natural treasures.
In contrast, VDARE.COM readers know the truth through Brenda Walker’s exposés, such as "Sierra Club Sellout Worse Than Ever." [April 10, 2008]
The environmental movement has been hijacked by the left wing of the Open Borders Lobby, and the Sierra Club was bought off for $100 million by hedge fund entrepreneur and Open Borders fanatic, David Gelbaum.
Conserving America’s natural treasures, such as her national parks, is a classic environmentalist concern. But here, too, the Sierra Club in indifferent. As Brenda has detailed in reports over the years, such as "Mexican Gangsters Converting America's National Parks into Gigantic Marijuana Patches," [November 13, 2008]
America’s national parks in several states, with Sequoia National Park in California the hardest hit, are increasingly being stolen and plundered by illegal Mexican immigrant drug gangs, the franchisees in El Norte of Mexico’s narcoterrorists. They have taken over large swathes of the parks for the cultivation of hundreds of patches of marijuana, turning them into no-go zones for Americans taxpayers, who pay for their upkeep, who are their owners. And not only are the narcoterrorists stealing our parks, but the environmental havoc they cause spreads to ten times the area actually cultivated:
"These Mexican marijuana messes are an ecological disaster. They are not innocent little plots that leave a minimal footprint. They are industrial grow sites, toxic stews where the gangsters use dangerous and illegal chemical herbicides, pesticides and growth hormones that result in long-lasting environmental damage."
The foxes are guarding the henhouse.
Due to sanctuary policies and de-policing, local parks are also being stolen and destroyed. In 2007, VDARE.COM’s Steve Sailer observed in "Report From Occupied America: Sunday in the Park with Jorge," [July 22, 2007]Los Angeles’ "public" Hansen Dam Park, which had been seized from the American taxpayers, and privatized by illegal aliens from Mexico who made no tax contribution to its support, and who wrecked it. They buried the grass in garbage and excrement, set fires that caused massive damage, brought in horses that were illegal, unhealthy, and extremely dangerous, in an area jammed with people and many small children, for an illegal trade selling rides for kids.

California’s Immigration Disaster—And America’s
VDARE.COM’s Joe Guzzardi was born and raised in California, but recently fled its dystopia for Pittsburgh.
His archived VDARE.COM columns paint a portrait of the greatness that was California, and the destruction, through runaway immigration, of the once Golden State. And following California’s, that of the country.
Joe G. also mans our sports desk, and has for years been our letters editor, a job in which he has been ably assisted by Kevin Lamb (who recently published a powerful, wide-ranging interview with historian Raymond Wolters).
Joe has reported on how the replacement of the American people continues apace in professional baseball and college sports programs. Who’d have thunk that even playing big time sports was a "job Americans won’t do"?
Joe also acts as the sole judge of VDARE.COM’s annual Worst Immigration Reporter Award, bestowed on the reporter who that year stood out among all the country’s shameless open borders shills. In 2008, Joe bestowed the award on the Wall Street Journal’s Miriam Jordan.
Public Health Reporting
VDARE.COM has led the way with the story of how America’s immigration disaster has reintroduced into the country diseases that had been conquered generations ago, such as tuberculosis. "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor … Your Infectious Diseases?" by Edwin S. Rubenstein.

Quantitative Journalism
Quantitative analysis is so integral to journalism that the term "quantitative journalism" should be redundant. And yet, it isn’t. Most MSM journalists are innumerate, and hostile towards numbers. But in spite of their ignorance, they correctly intuit that for what they seek to wreak on American society, numbers are not their friends. VDARE.COM’s Steve Sailer and economist-statistician Edwin S. Rubenstein in his VDARE.COM column "National Data" are America’s two leading quantitative journalists.
One of Ed Rubenstein’s many contributions to journalism has been his "VDAWDI": VDARE.COM American Worker Displacement Index. With this he has for years tracked employers’ practice of supplanting American workers with (often illegal) immigrants who work under often horrific conditions, typically for a fraction of the wages the American workers earned.
Financial and Economics Journalism
Although VDARE.COM does not advertise itself as a site for economics journalism, it was founded by top financial journalist, Peter Brimelow, and has a brilliant stable of writers on finance on economics—Paul Craig Roberts, Patrick Cleburne, Randall Burns, et al., who have in recent years repeatedly either beaten out the MSM or academia or who break stories about which those moldering institutions engage in bizarre world propaganda. In addition to the aforementioned series by Steve Sailer, we have run:
Peter’s Brimelow’s Explication of Financial Corruption and the Minority Mortgage Meltdown; September 30, 2008
Takuan Seiyo’s "The Case of the ‘Disappeared’ Sub-Prime Borrower"; September 22, 2008
Randall Burns’ Revolutionary Work on the Economic Value of American Citizenship; and
Patrick Cleburne’s Devastating Analysis of the SPLC’s Finances. April 08, 2009 (VDARE.COM calls it the "$PLC")
And of course, VDARE.COM is without parallel in the field of immigration policy reporting, particularly the continued attempts by America’s elites to ram through a nation-ending mass amnesty of illegal immigrants.

The MSM
For its entire nine-year existence, VDARE.COM has been a thorn in the side of the MSM. VDARE.COM reported on the War on Christmas, and put the story on the map; the MSM recently denied that any such war exists. When a VDARE.COM reader complained a few months ago, to a Portland, Oregon-based reporter of propaganda she’d tried to disguise as reporting, she contacted his employer and tried to get him fired from his job. And just two months ago, the seemingly omnipotent yet near-bankrupt New York Times, working in tandem with the $PLC, published a series of editorials attacking VDARE.COM, its founder Peter Brimelow, and contributor Marcus Epstein by name. We’ve got them on the run!
About Our Readers:
VDARE.COM has some of the best readers around: Clever, passionate, and above all, well-informed, often through hard-won experience. And our editors treat them with the respect they deserve. They even treat the abusive ones, who deserve no respect, with decency. Some correspondents such as Scotland’s Martin Kelly, have graduated from getting critical letters published to writing supportive articles.
Contrast that with the MSM. I’ve spent hours researching and writing letters to major newspapers that were never published, while insane letters with fabricated facts from political fringe cases were.
It’s one of the ways, along with push polls, that newspapers construct a fraudulent consensus. And yet another reason why they are going out of business.

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Help FAIR Hold President Obama's Feet to the Fire‏

A very interesting article by www.fairus.org about Candidate Barack and President Barack's opinions on the issue of Immigration.


Help FAIR Hold President Obama's Feet to the Fire‏
While serving in the U.S. Senate in 2007, Barack Obama proclaimed that the U.S. needed stronger enforcement of our immigration laws on the border and in the workplace. However, since taking office, President Obama and his administration have shown an alarming trend away from enforcement and toward rewarding lawbreakers.

During the first 100 days of his administration, President Obama has:
Scaled back worksite enforcement;
Questioned the utility of REAL ID as a security measure;
Questioned the use of 287(g) state-federal cooperative enforcement;
Backed off completing the border fence as originally planned;
Opposed making E-Verify permanent and mandatory;
Opposed requiring the use of E-Verify as part of the Stimulus spending bill;
Adopted a "wait and see" attitude despite requests by several governors for support to secure our borders.
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In FAIR's 30 years of fighting for immigration reform, I know that these are clear signals that there will soon be a big push for a mass amnesty!
That's right, the opposition is already boasting of a $48 million campaign—financed by George Soros and the Ford Foundation—to promote what they call "comprehensive immigration reform" meaning amnesty for the more than 12 million illegal aliens who broke the law when they illegally crossed our borders.
There is precious little time and that's why I am asking you today to join FAIR and unite with us to HALT the mass amnesty lobby that puts the interests of illegal aliens ahead of those of legal U.S. citizens.
As FAIR continues to build a strong and integrated network across the country, FAIR members are crucial partners in all aspects of our work. If we don't stand up to special interest groups that push for amnesty, constantly remind our elected officials to address immigration problems, and continue to build public support for true immigration reforms, the Obama Administration will try to sweep an amnesty right under our noses.
That's why it is important that you join FAIR today.
Your support makes a difference.

What our President Should have read instead of Chavez's book!

This list comes from an article by Thomas Sowell of one of his reading lists. You can read his full article here http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell071403.asp.

To review what misfortuned happened at the Summit of the Americas read here http://brianleesblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/barack-stick-up-for-us-also-please.html

A detailed account is William McNeill's "The Rise of the West," which is about more than the West and in fact begins with the earliest known civilizations in the Middle East. (Click HERE to purchase).

For those interested in the economic problems of less developed countries, there is "Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion" by Professor Peter Bauer of the London School of Economics. He spent years living in poor countries and more years trying to talk sense to the foreign aid establishment in Western nations. (Click HERE to purchase).

Once dismissed as someone outside the mainstream, Peter Bauer was part of the mainstream by the time of his death last year. He hadn't changed. The mainstream had moved over to where he was, after decades of bitter experience had proved him right.

One of the reasons for the many disappointments of foreign aid programs has been that some cultures do and some do not promote the kind of behavior that produces economic development. This is particularly apparent in a book on Latin America by Lawrence Harrison titled, "Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind." (Click HERE to purchase).

Institutions -- or lack of institutions -- can also hold back development. "The Mystery of Capital" by Hernando de Soto explores why capitalism works in Western nations but not in most non-Western countries. (Click HERE to purchase).

The non-judgmental notion that "all cultures are equal" is unlikely to survive reading "The Character of Nations" by Professor Angelo Codevilla of Boston University. It is a grown-up's demolition of childish ideas that have become fashionable in our times. (Click HERE to purchase).

Commentary: Embracing a trio of anti-American dictators won't advance U.S. foreign policy interests

A big hat tip to www.heritage.org for this article by Ray Walser about the Summit of the Americas to follow up this post http://brianleesblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/barack-stick-up-for-us-also-please.html

Commentary: Embracing a trio of anti-American dictators won't advance U.S. foreign policy interests

By Ray Walser The Heritage Foundation

The Obama administration says it's in the process of altering our nation's policies in Latin America. It promises modest steps to allow Cuban-Americans to travel more often, for example, and seems to be leaning toward further diplomatic overtures elsewhere. But "change" isn't always an improvement.

Simply put, now is not the time to return U.S. ambassadors to Bolivia or Venezuela or extend full diplomatic recognition to Cuba.

Begin with our ambassadors to Bolivia and Venezuela, both career foreign-service officers expelled last September on flimsy pretexts. President Evo Morales accused the U.S. ambassador of fomenting division in Bolivia. In Caracas, President Hugo Chavez swiftly followed suit.
An outspoken leader of Bolivia's coca growers, Morales once promised to become the United States' "worst nightmare." He's busily dismantling decades of U.S. drug cooperation and employing anti-U.S. rhetoric to consolidate his political power base. Until his government shows it's ready to lower its anti-American tone and conduct serious talks about coca production and control, a charge d'affaires in La Paz is quite capable of handling business.
President Chavez, meanwhile, sells the U.S. large amounts of oil. That makes Venezuelans good commercial partners. This aspect of the relationship works with or without an ambassador.

The problem with Chavez is his three-pronged strategy: 1) establishing a permanent Chavez-dominated political system in Venezuela; 2) developing a Latin American union to exclude U.S. interests; 3) fostering a global coalition of anti-American forces.

Even the most liberal American should blanch at the prospect of cozying up to a leader who literally hugs Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Sudan's Omar al-Bashir and proudly calls them friends.
It would be nice to push the reset button with Venezuela, but that all depends on Chavez. Given the mounting flow of cocaine through Venezuela, enabling the DEA to work with Venezuelan police would be far more important than installing an ambassador. Expelling leaders of the FARC (currently camped on Venezuelan territory) would be another positive step. Again, actions - not rhetorical overtures - would speed the return of an ambassador to Caracas.

Cuba, of course, stands apart.
Freedom House www.fredomhouse.org calls it "repressive" and ranks it with Burma, North Korea and Sudan for its disdain of human rights. Since 1959, the Castro brothers have crafted a nation devoid of votes, free media, free speech or political opposition.
Earlier efforts to normalize relations with Cuba have always failed. Over the years, the island has: been a proxy of the Soviet Union, exported revolution to Central America, launched the Mariel boat lift and shot down unarmed Brothers to the Rescue aircraft. For a small, inconsequential nation, Cuba is adept at tossing sand in our eyes.
Only one party is allowed in Cuba. It holds some 200 political prisoners. Travel freedom, media freedom and labor freedom are denied. The Cuban secret police watch for any dissident.
Perhaps for some Americans, free speech and media freedom matters less now that Cubans are allowed to buy cell phones or own personal computers (without access to the internet, of course). Perhaps the press for "change" at home has driven the U.S. to offer stimulus to an economy that's in shambles and a regime that's out of ideological gas.
President Obama says his pace of reform will be gradual and is predicated on political change inside Cuba. Right now, though, any further loosening of sanctions beyond those announced on April 13 would be more likely to benefit the Castro regime than the Cuban people.
And since Presidents Morales and Chavez seem uninterested in talking through important issues such as cooperation in curbing the Andean drug trade, prevention of international terrorism or working together to improve the global economy, there's little hope we can improve relations. Sending ambassadors would only paper over differences.
In Latin America, "change" must begin at home.

ABOUT THE WRITER
Ray Walser is a retired foreign service officer and senior analyst for Latin American policy at the Heritage Foundation. Readers may write to the author in care of The Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, D.C. 20002; Web site: www.heritage.org. Information about Heritage's funding may be found at http://www.heritage.org/about/reports.cfm.
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Earth Day's Founder

A very interesting article to read and forward to everyone you can this "Earth Day" (H/t http://www.examiner.com)

Earth Day founder murdered his girlfriend

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Maybe long-time Earth Day advocate Ira Einhorn took the whole “recycling” thing a little too far when he “composted” his girlfriend’s remains in a trunk in his closet...Back in 1970, Earth Day was a grassroots hippie event. The organizers chose April 22 – which just “happens” to be the birthday of their Soviet Communist hero, Lenin:“One of the self-identified ‘founders’ of Earth Day, Bay Area activist John McConnell, has written that in 1969 he proposed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors a new holiday to be called Earth Day on the first day of spring, the Equinox, around March 21. But, he writes, in 1970 local anti-Vietnam War and Environmental Teach-in activists 'who were planning a one-time event for April 22, also decided to call their event Earth Day.'“And what was this unnamed ‘one-time event’ in 1970? It was the 100th birthday celebration for Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known to history as Lenin...”(Amusingly, the Soviets marked Lenin’s 100th birthday with – a massive tree planting in Siberia. The trees spell out a congratulatory message to the late dictator when seen from above. How “green” of them! Alas, the Soviets normally weren’t so environmentally savvy; their factories typically expelled exponentially more pollution than those in the West, but few Leftists like to dwell on that “inconvenient truth. )That very first Earth Day in Philadelphia, Ira Einhorn -- local leftwing activist and self-promoting gadfly, a would-be Abbie Hoffman -- served as the event’s Master of Ceremonies.
Today, Earth Day has been embraced by governments and corporations. Amazon.com is offering Earth Day specials; school kids are compelled to celebrate it instead of Christmas. But founding organizer Ira Einhorn’s name is strangely absent from all the official Earth Day literature these days. It’s no wonder: the one-time up and coming counterculture superstar later killed his girlfriend and fled abroad to escape justice.
Ken Anderson explains:“After bludgeoning his girlfriend of five years to death, fracturing her skull in a dozen places, Ira stuffed her body into a trunk, which he packed into a closet where it remained until discovered by the police nearly two years later.”Incredibly, Ira Einhorn isn’t the only leftwing activist who founded a holiday and was convicted of committing an act of violence against a woman. As I wrote here last December, the fake holiday Kwanzaa sprang from the fevered imagination of an African-American radical who’d served jail time for torturing one of his female comrades.None of this should shock even the most casual student of the Left.
As documented time and again, their vaunted idealism is just a thin, publically acceptable veneer, barely concealing their misogyny, racism, misanthropy and hostility to any facts that contradict their beloved theories or people who dare to disagree with their viewpoints.
Ira Einhorn just took his hypocrisy, sense of superiority and entitlement a little farther than the average Leftist. And he got caught.

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"Barack, Stick up for US also Please!"

This is a very interesting article from Pat Buchanan about the President's tour to the Summit of the Americas. Also the book link here http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Perfect-Latin-American-Idiot/dp/156833236X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240341710&sr=1-1# is a better book to order than the one Hugo Chavez gave to Barack Obama! http://townhall.com/Columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/04/21/the_apologists

The Apologists

Pat Buchanan

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

For 50 minutes, Obama sat mute, as a Marxist thug from Nicaragua delivered his diatribe, charging America with a century of terrorist aggression in Central America.
After Daniel Ortega finished spitting in our face, accusing us of inhumanity toward Fidel Castro's Cuba, Obama was asked his thoughts.
"I thought it was 50 minutes long. That's what I thought."
Hillary Clinton was asked to comment: "I thought the cultural performance was fascinating," she cooed.
Pressed again on Ortega's vitriol, Hillary replied: "To have those first-class Caribbean entertainers all on one stage and to see how much was done in such a small amount of space. I was overwhelmed."

Thus the nation that won the Cold War, contained the cancer of Castroism in Cuba, liberated Grenada, blocked communist takeovers of Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, and poured scores of billions in aid into this region was left undefended by its own leaders at the Summit of the Americas.

Nor was this the only unanswered insult. Hugo Chavez, who has called Obama an "ignoramus" and Bush "El Diablo," walked over to a seated U.S. president and handed him the anti-American tract "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent."
The book blames Latin America's failures on white Europeans.

It opens, "Renaissance Europeans ventured across the oceans and buried their teeth in the throats of the Indian civilizations."

Civilizations? Before Pizarro and Cortez, the Inca and Aztec empires these conquistadors overthrew were into human sacrifice.

Evo Morales, the Aymaran president of Bolivia, who is using the race card against Bolivians of European descent, implied a U.S. role in an assassination plot against him.

Argentina's Cristina Kirchner, who allegedly received black-bag money from Chavez, ripped into America for its role in the 1980s. Under Reagan, America aided Britain in the Falklands War, after the Argentine junta invaded the islands, and assisted the Contras in their war of national liberation to oust Ortega's Sandinistas.

Again, Obama offered no defense of his country.

President Lula da Silva of Brazil, who blames the world financial crisis on "white, blue-eyed bankers," told Obama that any future Summit of the Americas without the Castro brothers was unacceptable.
Perhaps Obama believes in turn-the-other-cheek diplomacy, though it is hard to find much success in history for such a policy. Perhaps pacifism is in his DNA. Perhaps he shares the indictment of America that is part of the repertoire of every Latin demagogue.

Whatever his motive, in Trinidad, there were not two sides to the story. There were the trashers of America on the Latino left and a U.S. president who wailed plaintively, "I'm thankful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was 3 months old."

But, the Bay of Pigs, had it succeeded, would have given Cubans 50 years of freedom instead of the brutal dictatorship they have had to endure. And it took place four months before Barack was born.
Obama's silence -- signifying, as it does, assent -- in the face of attacks on his country is of a piece with the "contrition tour" of his secretary of state.
"Clinton Scores Points by Admitting Past U.S. Errors," was the headline over Saturday's New York Times story by Mark Landler:
"It has become a recurring theme of Hillary Rodham Clinton's early travels as the chief diplomat of the United States: She says that American policy on a given issue has failed, and her foreign listeners fall all over themselves in gratitude.
"On Friday, Mrs. Clinton said ... that the uncompromising policy of the Bush administration toward Cuba had not worked. ...

"The contrition tour goes beyond Latin America. In China, Mrs. Clinton told audiences that the United States must accept its responsibility as a leading emitter of greenhouse gases. In Indonesia, she said the American-backed policy of sanctions against Myanmar had not been effective. And in the Middle East, she pointed out that ostracizing the Iranian government had not persuaded it to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions."

Sandler wrote that Hillary brought to mind Bill Clinton:

"On a single trip to Africa in 1998 ... Bill Clinton apologized for American participation in slavery; American support of brutal African dictators; American 'neglect and ignorance' of Africa; American failure to intervene sooner in the Rwandan genocide of 1994; American 'complicity' in apartheid ... ."

Yet, as C.S. Lewis reminds us in "God in the Dock," "The first and fatal charm of national repentance is ... the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins to the congenial one of bewailing -- but, first, of denouncing -- the conduct of others."
Bewailing the policies of Bush as failures and standing mute in the face of attacks on his country and predecessors may come back to bite Obama.
For when Jimmy Carter assumed a posture of moral superiority over LBJ and Richard Nixon, by declaring, "We have gotten over our inordinate fear of communism," it came back to bite him, good and hard.

Rally Around Miss California’s Crown !!

A Very interesting article from www.Redstate.com about the culture war that is going on in America.


Rally Around Miss California’s Crown
Posted by Mark Impomeni (Profile)
Tuesday, April 21st What happens when a judge asks a beauty pageant contestant in front of a live television audience her opinion about a political question? If you answered that the contestant risks her crown if she gives anything other than the liberal-approved answer, you would be right.
That is what is happening right now to Miss California USA 2009 Carrie Prejean after liberal internet gossip maven Perez Hilton asked her, during the Miss USA competition this past Sunday, whether she thought gay marriage should be made legal nationwide, and why. Hilton was obviously seeking to put Miss California on the spot for her state’s November vote for Proposition 8, which amended the California Constitution making gay marriage illegal. Hilton used the venue of the Miss USA pageant to sandbag the unsuspecting Prejean, who nevertheless courageously stated her belief that marriage should be between one man and one woman. The answer has launched a firestorm of controversy that has Miss California officials openly condemning Prejean for her beliefs, and hinting that she could lose her title because of them.Prejean’s answer to Hilton’s question could not have been more apologetic. But it was not nearly enough for Hilton, and for Miss California officials, that she qualified her answer in terms of her own upbringing, expressed tolerance for other viewpoints, and essentially threw herself on the mercy of the court.

“I think it’s great Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what in my country, in my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be, between a man and a woman.”

Clearly, Ms. Prejean was a bit flustered by the pressure of being asked such a sensitive question in front of a live audience and on live television. But she rebounded beautifully, and much more importantly, she spoke her convictions.

Hilton was not impressed. On his website that night, he called Prejean, ” a dumb b—-.” He has since apologized, and retracted his apology. He says he was “floored” by Prejean’s answer, and believes – no doubt happily – that it cost her the title of Miss USA.
“She lost it because of that question. She was definitely the front-runner before that,” Hilton said, adding that he’s “very happy with whom the judges chose,” Miss North Carolina’s Kristen Dalton.
For her part, Prejean appears to be taking the controversy in stride, just as she did having her hopes and dreams made a pawn of Hilton’s political agenda on national television.

“I wouldn’t have had it any other way. I said what I feel. I stated an opinion that was true to myself and that’s all I can do. It is a very touchy subject and he [Perez] is a homosexual and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience would’ve wanted me to be more politically correct. But I was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything.”

Miss California organizers were aghast that they might have given the title to a woman of conviction, and threatened to dethrone her.
Keith Lewis, who runs the Miss California competition, released a statement to the media in response to Prejean’s answer last night.
“As co-director of the Miss California USA, I am personally saddened and hurt that Miss California believes marriage rights belong only to a man and a woman,” said Lewis in a statement. “I believe all religions should be able to ordain what unions they see fit. I do not believe our government should be able to discriminate against anyone and religious beliefs have no politics in the Miss California family.”
Co-director Shanna Moakler, the 1995 Miss USA, told the media that she fully supported Lewis’ statement.
Make no mistake, the liberals are coming for Miss California’s crown. The Miss California USA directors are no doubt pouring over the rules right now looking for some obscure technicality on which to base their baseless attacks. Or else, they will be looking for the first opportunity, the most minor of controversies or misunderstandings to justify their political discrimination. All because a young woman was asked to deny herself to win an honor. She refused to bow to liberal and politically correct orthodoxy, and now they must make an example of her.
Why does any of this matter? Because with liberals in power and emboldened, scenes like this will be playing out with greater and greater frequency over the next four years. As the Department of Homeland Security’s report on alleged “right-wing extremism” shows http://brianleesblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/fire-napolitano.html, there is a movement afoot to marginalize, if not outright criminalize, mainstream conservative beliefs. Wherever conservatives see a public figure bravely standing against the liberal onslaught, they must rally. Prejean, and the reckoning that is coming for her, provides just such an opportunity, and from the unlikliest of places.
Miss California Carrie Prejean’s act of courage - in the face of tremendous pressure to spout the liberal line - serves as a fine example for young and more seasoned conservative politicians. First be true to your beliefs, and let the chips fall where they may. When they do, they should know that conservatives of like mind across the country will stand up for them.

Fire Napolitano?

A very interesting case made by www.moveamericaforward.org about firing Janet Napolitano for her memo on so-called "domestic terrorism."


SHAME ON YOU JANET NAPOLITANO!! OBAMA SHOULD FIRE DHS DIRECTOR OVER DISGRACEFUL REPORT THAT ATTACKS U.S. TROOPS
Barack Obama’s appointee to head the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, has attacked American war veterans, saying they’re a risk to the homeland because right-wing extremists could enlist them to terrorize the United States. Napolitano allowed the offensive DHS threat “assessment,” entitled “Right Wing Extremism,” to be sent to over 800,000 law enforcement officers nationwide. The report included a controversial theory that supposedly “disgruntled” troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are prime candidates for domestic terror. This smear of our heroic war veterans who have served so diligently and honorably in Iraq and Afghanistan is outrageous and unacceptable. And Napolitano’s half-hearted apology does nothing to reverse the damage done with her libel of our troops. In fact her comments since the report was released only further dishonor our brave troops who don’t deserve this slander. “In retrospect,” she told The Hill, “anything can be written differently to prevent politicization. But I think any fair reading says this is very consistent with other reports that have been issued before.” Napolitano is NOT apologizing for the inaccuracy of the report; she’s just trying to downplay it as being politicized! Well there is nothing POLITICAL about supporting our troops and Napolitano should lose her job for attacking them!
It is WRONG to have the Director of Homeland Security attacking our troops for being terrorists! Please make a donation to Move America Forward and our continuing efforts to get her FIRED!

SIGN THE PETITION TO OBAMA: FIRE NAPOLITANO!
We at Move America Forward, the largest protroop, grassroots organization in our country, are demanding that President Obama fire Janet Napolitano immediately! She has no place in the organization meant to protect our homeland when she attacks U.S. troops who risk their lives to protect us. The petition is clear that we cannot tolerate the bigotry that Napolitano has shown toward our troops: “Dear Mr. President Your choice for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, has attacked returning military heroes by suggesting that they are a terrorist threat to the United States. Anyone who refuses to call our enemies “terrorists,” but can apply that to returning veterans has no place in our government and we demand you fire Janet Napolitano. . . “Mr. President when you first hired Janet Napolitano to run the department that protects all of our lives here in the homeland, she REFUSED to mention terrorism in her very first speech as Secretary of DHS. She then even had the gall to refer to terrorist attacks as MAN-CAUSED DISASTERS. But, she has no hesitancy in suggesting that returning American troops could become “terrorists.” The United States cannot stand for outrageous attacks against our troops from Barack Obama’s cabinet. As citizens, we must stand against those who demean and libel our troops.

CLICK HERE to SIGN our Petition to get Janet Napolitano fired!

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Imagine a World Without VDARE

A hat tip for this site http://www.vdare.com/, which is being increasingly filtered out of public computers!

This post comes from http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/, a great site to view daily.

Imagine a World Without VDARE
Imagine a typical day—I’m addressing patriots here. You get a few minutes, and start typing "V-D-..." on your computer screen, until your pc remembers the rest of the URL, and voila … nothing.

You want to get a quick roundup on stories about illegal immigration, immigrant mass murder syndrome, non-immigrant visa (e.g., H1-B) abuse, raceless criminals/raceless victims, SPLC hoaxes and scandals, Obamanomics, the minority mortgage meltdown (e.g., updates on the racial and ethnic breakdown of subprime mortgage foreclosures), human bidoversity, i.e., the War on America, the multicultural abuse of women, immigrant crime and media malpractice … but you can’t, because there is no more VDARE.com.

If you’re like most people, you don’t have time to scour the ends of the Web for those stories. That’s what VDARE is for.

Even if you’re a writer, like me, who punches out story after story on the National Question—i.e., will the United States of America, that light unto the nations, endure—you don’t have time to find the stories here and there. That would take all day, and then you’d have no time left for writing.

Let’s say you’re an immigration activist—oh, how I hate the word "activist," but there are people who are doing good things that it describes best, as opposed to those who are engineering race hoaxes and conspiring to extort money from whites—and you need the most up-to-date, vetted, reliable information and talking points to fight the newest amnesty outrage plot. You’re screwed.

VDARE is invaluable, because its top-flight contributors, including its own in-house fact-checker, James Fulford (neither the New York Times nor any other Webzine or blog that I am aware of has its own fact-checker), spend tens of thousands of man-hours annually researching and writing the work that it publishes. But those contributors have to be paid. And I’m proud to be one of them.

Is it possible to fight immigration anarchy without VDARE? Perhaps, but it would be much more difficult, and much less effective. Can the patriotic immigration reform movement successfully beat back “Obama’s” current plan for a massive amnesty of over 22 million illegal immigrants this year without VDARE? No.

VDARE founder Peter Brimelow has not posted any new articles for the past two days, and is in danger of having to shut down the Web site altogether, due to a lack of funds.

“Well, even if Peter does shut down the Web site, there’s still the archives.”Wrong. The archives exist in cyberspace, only so long as the Web site is up and paid for. They take up bandwidth, just like the Webzine and the blog, and bandwidth is not free.

“Yeah, but Google caches are forever!”Wrong again. The notion that Google caches last forever in cyberspace is an oft-repeated myth. Usually, when a Web site goes down, its cached pages remain accessible on Google for a few weeks and then, poof, gone forever! Sometimes, the cached pages disappear much quicker.

While you’re imagining life without VDARE, imagine a life in which Spanish has been elevated to the official language of the United States.

Mind you, I find Spanish, when spoken properly, a lovely language. But there are already 22 countries in which Spanish is the primary language; there’s no need for any more. (Puerto Rico is not a separate country!)

Imagine a country, in which whites and Asians must pay “reparations” in perpetuity to blacks and Hispanics; a country, in which people from “non-protected” groups with an IQ of 140 are lucky to get work digging ditches, while people from “protected” groups with IQs of 100 are made professors of engineering and physics; a country, in which in which Moslems have imposed Sharia law on the courts; and a country which is in a state of permanent racial, ethnic, and religious warfare, with the warring parties differing, depending on the region in question. (I mean, much worse warfare than presently exists in America!) Think of places like Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and India.

If you want to save America, you have to save VDARE.

Please give generously to the VDARE Foundation, the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that operates VDARE.com. Your donations are tax-deductible.Today, I thank you; one day your posterity will, too.

Nicholas Stix
Posted by Nicholas at 1:25 PM

See Also http://brianleesblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/dream-act.html

Congressman King says DHS should be watching mosques, not "right-wing extremists"

A big h/t to www.jihadwatch.org for this article

Leftist/Jihadist Alliance Update: the lefties at Think Progress posted this video. They think they have caught Congressman Peter King (R-NY) in a "Gotcha" moment on this one, but not unexpectedly, they play fast and loose with the facts. In their post they quote King thusly:
“[Y]ou could say that 80-85 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists,” he said in 2004.
The impression one might get from this is that King originated this figure -- pulled it out of his hat, made it up. In reality, he is on very firm ground here, but Think Progress doesn't tell you that. The Naqshbandi Sufi Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani said this in a State Department Open Forum on January 7, 1999: “The most dangerous thing that is going on now in these mosques, that has been sent upon these mosques around the United States – like churches they were established by different organizations and that is ok – but the problem with our communities is the extremist ideology. Because they are very active they took over the mosques; and we can say that they took over more than 80% of the mosques that have been established in the US. And there are more than 3000 mosques in the US. So it means that the methodology or ideology of extremist has been spread to 80% of the Muslim population, but not all of them agree with it.”
Kabbani based his statement on personal investigation of 114 American mosques, and never retracted his words, despite enormous pressure from American Muslim advocacy groups. In October 2001 the New York Times reported: “Sheik Kabbani said that he stood by his claim in his State Department speech that 80 percent of American mosques had been taken over by extremists, because of the 114 mosques he first visited in the United States, ‘Ninety of them were mostly exposed, and I say exposed, to extreme or radical ideology,’ based on their speeches, books and board members.”

This estimate has been borne out by more recent studies.

And is there any evidence of jihadist plotting in American mosques? Yes. Yes, there is.
(Video thanks to Andrew Bostom.)
Posted by Robert at 7:26 AM

See also http://brianleesblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/tax-day-four-million-anchor-babies-in.html

DREAM Act

This Kausfiles article shows something you can contact your Senators and Representatives about now. H/t www.vdare.com/epstein/index.

Especially contact Senator McCaskill here http://mccaskill.senate.gov/contact/


Obama to Potential Illegals: Arrive Now, Get Legalized Later

Will Obama's New Legalization Push Screw American Workers? Or Has It Already Screwed Them? Both supporters and opponents of illegal immigrant legalization think trying to pass it "while the U.S. economy is mired in economic turmoil" might be difficult. The fear/expectation is that Americans will see the new law as a plan to allow foreigners who aren't supposed to be here to compete for the few jobs that are left, bidding down wages in the process. But here's the thing: Just by re-opening the legalization issue, without passing any new law, Obama has already encouraged foreigners who aren't supposed to be here to come and compete for the few jobs that are left, bidding down wages in the process. What better way to encourage more illegal immigration than by promising a possible amnesty in the next few years?
This incentive is especially strong, actually, if immigrants (not unreasonably) think it really will take years to write and enact a legalization bill. Suppose, for example, that Congress passes a bill in the late summer of 2010. There will be a cutoff, of course--if you entered the country illegally after a certain date, you wouldn't qualify for the amnesty. But what date? It if the bill doesn't pass until mid- 2010 there's a good chance that the cutoff date will be sometime around the end of 2009, if not later. (The last legalization plan, the "Z-Visa" debated in May of 2007, had a cutoff of January 1, 2007.). That means if you are now in Mexico or Central America and you can make it across the border in the next few months, you're likely to qualify for legalization. The longer Congress takes, of course, and the sooner you come, the better the chance you'll have of beating the cutoff. Obama might as well print up leaflets that say
LEGALIZATION IS COMING. GET ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE NOW IF YOU WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OFFER!
It's hard to believe Obama adviser Cecilia Munoz doesn't realize reopening the amnesty issue could have this effect.
In any case, low-wage American workers don't have to worry that Obama's immigration proposals might make it harder for them to feed their families. Obama already made it a bit harder to feed their families, yesterday, just by letting Munoz and others bring up the subject. The damage--at least some of it--has been done. The lowest-paid Americans can now expect more low-wage jobs to go to illegal immigrant workers attracted by the very prospect that illegal immigrant legalization will succeed. ...
P.S.: CNN reports--after taking to "two senior administration officials"--that
the Obama administration wants to remove incentives to enter the U.S. illegally
Um, the easiest way to do that would have been to not put out yesterday's story. ...
P.P.S.: Gibbs vs. Munoz ...
At Thursday's White House briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs suggested the front-page Times story was a bit overplayed. "Most of what I read today one could have written a year or so ago, based on what he said on the campaign trail. He told groups through 2007 and 2008 that the process on immigration reform would begin during his first year in office," Gibbs said. "I don’t think that he expects that it’ll be done this year. ..."
[Thanks to alert reader P.]
Update: I'm not saying there's not a good chance of some form of legalization passing fairly soon. Sen. McCaskill of Missouri, previously a tough-on-immigration Dem, just announced she'd now "probably" vote for the so-called "DREAM Act," which would legalize illegals who entered the country before their 16th birthday and would have the effect of legalizing "25% of our total undocumented population," according to some proponents. (Do you think the government is going to deport the undocumented parents of the newly-legalized DREAM immigrants?) By some estimates, McCaskill could be the crucial 60th senator in favor of DREAM. ... The DREAM Act (2007 version, 2009 version) required that "the alien has been physically present in the United States for a continuous period of not less than 5 years immediately preceding the date of enactment"--a cutoff that would, in theory, eliminate the incentive of potential illegals to cross the border now with their children in order to have those children qualify (assuming it didn't take Congress five years to pass the law). But the prospect of DREAM's passage would discourage some illegal immigrants from returning home (which would breach the "continuous" presence requirement). Plus, there's always the possibility of the next DREAM Act, or DREAM Act extension, that would advance the cutoff date--why make a kid who's been here for only 4 years 'live in the shadows,' etc.. ... In any case, current administration talk hasn't been about the DREAM Act, but rather about a broader legalization program. ...[Correction: I've removed a sentence that ignored DREAM's five year cutoff.] ... [Thanks to reader J.].
Backfill: On the issue of whether talk of amnesty encourages more illegals to come, or to not leave, see this testimony and this report from the anti-legalization Center for Immigration Studies:
[T]he illegal immigrant population seems to have ticked up, grown somewhat if you will, during the debate over legalization or amnesty last year. And the figures show that after the amnesty failed, the numbers begin to fall pretty quickly.

Tax Day: FOUR MILLION Anchor Babies in the U.S.; New Euphemism: "Citizen Children"

A big hat tip to www.debbieschlussel.com/ for writing this article on where our Tax Dollars are going to.

Tax Day: FOUR MILLION Anchor Babies in the U.S.; New Euphemism: "Citizen Children"
By Debbie Schlussel
Since it's Tax Day, perhaps you'll be happy to know that 6.8% of children enrolled in our nation's public schools in grades K-12 are illegal alien kids and anchor babies--children of illegal aliens who, unfortunately, get the fortuitous privilege of instant citizenship because, through clever timing and location, they were born here.
And that figure isn't from just anyone. It's from a study just released by the liberal-leaning Pew Hispanic Center, which means the real figure is probably far higher. Ditto for the figure of FOUR MILLION anchor babies born to illegal immigrants inside the U.S. That leaves about 1.5 million illegal alien children who come here with their parents. And they strain the system, too.
Remember that, the next time someone tells you that, "without illegal aliens, lettuce would cost $10 a head." Without illegal aliens, tax-funding of public schools and a ton of other free services abused by illegal aliens and their anchor babies would cost far less and it would balance out that allegedly $10 lettuce.
And as longtime readers know, I'm particularly concerned with anchor babies of the Islamic variety. I've written about how a network of pregnant Muslim alien women--thousands of them per year, aided by the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS)--come to the Detroit area and elsewhere around the U.S. to have their babies here, defraud taxpayers of billions in Medicaid funds to pay for it, and get instant citizenship for their kids, the documentation of which they can then sell on the open market to anyone of the same gender in the barbaric depths of the Middle East or even Somalia and Pakistan. Anywhere.
I've also written about the terrorist anchor babies--the kids of convicted Islamic terrorists Sami Al-Arian and Fawaz Abu Damrah, and deported Al-Qaeda financier Rabih Haddad and his associate Mohammed Al-Churbaji, among many others. While these human vessels of hate and mass destruction are either gone or--in Al-Arian's case--jailed and awaiting deportation, their kids are all here, terrorist anchor babies with citizenship who can remain here forever and have more terrorist anchor babies of their own. The citizenship birthright--meant only to give citizenship to slaves and their children long ago--is anachronistic, dangerous, and a fast mestastasizing cancer.
And all of these kids are causing harm to America, whether through their significant soaking of taxpayer-funded resources or the dangerous ideology and worse that they are here to spread.
Still, don't let that bother you, says CNN. These are not "anchor babies." Nope, according to the left-wing cable news channel, they are "Citizen Children." Nice new euphemism, but a complete misnomer. Memo to CNN: If you are born here to legal U.S. citizens or permanent residents, then you are a "citizen child." If you are born to one or more illegal aliens, you are an ANCHOR BABY. Period. You are an anchor that your illegal alien parent or parents will use to try to stay here when he or she should get packing.
And that's the problem. Illegal aliens constantly use their anchor baby children in endless, court-clogging legal battles as an excuse to stay. And even though having a child is not a defense to violating immigration laws, liberal judges who ignore the law sometimes stay or reverse deportation orders for this very reason. Yet another reason why birthright citizenship MUST BE ENDED.
And, in case you wondered, the Pew Hispanic Center is pulling at your "family values" heartstrings, letting you know, via its study of "unauthorized immigrants" that
illegal immigrants are more likely to live as family units with their children than legal immigrants or U.S.-born Amerians.
Awwww. Cute propaganda, but of course they are more likely to live as family units. They're in hiding, remember? And they've driven wages down so low that the wages they earn from someone's meat-packing job they stole is only enough for one apartment, not several.
It is disturbing that the percent of households made up of couples with children is 47% for illegal immigrants versus only 21% for U.S.-born citizens, but that's because illegal aliens are anchor baby factories, trying to create multiple reasons to game the American immigration system. It's not something to cheer about.
Sorry, but the "intact nuclear family" excuse for illegal aliens and their anchor babies continuing to invade our country, doesn't do it for me. How 'bout you?
Read the Pew Hispanic Center's "A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States."

Tea Parties, Jesus Christ, Passover, and Unleavened Bread

As you are aware there are multiple Tea Parties happening around the nation on April 15. See here http://brianleesblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/tea-party-movie-johnny-tremain-bumped_14.html for more details. However, there is also a time of Spiritual Liberation that happens on this day which happens to also fall on April 15 this year, the Last Day of Unleavened Bread which commemorates the parting of the Red Sea, when the Israelites escaped the Egyptians. The article below explains this, and if you'd like, you can find out more here http://www.gnmagazine.org/booklets/HD/leavingsin.asp


Passover and Unleavened Bread...True Freedom: A Passover Season Lesson
by Jerold W. Aust
"My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

Similar words to the traditional song above must have rung loudly from the lips of our forefathers that first liberating Passover when they were redeemed from death, then set free!
Their time had come to be saved by the One typified as our Passover more than 1,400 years before He lived on this earth.
Earlier that night, Moses had told all the Israelite families to kill the unblemished lambs, called Passover lambs, selected for this time.
"Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, 'Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb. And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.
"'For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever. It will come to pass when you come to the land which the Lord will give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this service.
"'And it shall be, when your children say to you, "What do you mean by this service?" that you shall say, "It is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households."' So the people bowed their heads and worshiped" (Exodus 12:21-27).
God vividly detailed this event to help us remember that without Christ having been our Passover sacrifice, sin would result in our having one inevitable end-eternal death (Romans 6:23).
But the Father wants us to also remember that because Jesus Christ was resurrected to eternal life, eternal death itself can be conquered.
Life Mocks Death
Jesus Himself knew that after His death, death itself would be conquered. Near His physical life's end, He desired that His followers would grasp the magnificence of that new life-for Him and them-that hinged on that death.
He revealed to His listeners that "the hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified."
He continued, explaining in terms they might comprehend: "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain" (John 12:24).
Then He told them what they in turn would have to face: " He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor" ( verses 25-26).
While they were considering all this they were stunned by a voice like thunder from the clouds-the voice of God!-affirming Christ's words.
Through His word and His Son's spirit in us, that voice of God still speaks loudly to us today, whereby we're stirred to remember His wonderful promises pictured by His great Holy Days.
Paul, when he was counteracting some who doubted an eternal future, enhanced Christ's metaphor for His death. To Christ's' earthy metaphor, he added those two seeds of human life, Jesus and Adam, to contrast their fruit: "For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
Paul continued to build his case for the resurrection. He enthrallingly compared the spiritual and natural realms, revealed that our change will come at the last trumpet's sound, and demonstrated how "this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."
His conclusion must have then left speechless those still doubting. If they had in fact ever realized it, he reminded them what their revered prophets Isaiah and Hosea had proclaimed: "Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: 'Death is swallowed up in victory. O Death, where is your sting? O Hades [grave], where is your victory?'" (1 Corinthians 15:53- 55).
Because death cannot exist in eternal life, as darkness cannot exist in light, everlasting life then "mocks," as it were, both the grave and death. It "cheats" the grave and death.
This is why the glorious symbolisms of the Passover and Unleavened Bread are so important to us. They signal the road to eternal life.
Christ's Sinlessness and Our Responsibility
The Feast of Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23) points us to the righteousness, the holiness, of Almighty God.
This helps Christians realize two important factors: first and most importantly, the feast highlights the sinless character of Jesus Christ, the unblemished "lamb" sacrificed for our sins.
Secondly, having repented of our sins and accepted Jesus' sacrifice for them, we have a responsibility to continue removing various sinful habits from our sinful nature. Why? Because sin weakens and destroys.
This is what the apostle Paul was addressing to the Corinthian Church in 1 Corinthians 5:7. The apostle Paul is clarifying this point: establish in your lives what you profess to know.
The church's acceptance of Christ's sacrifice for their sins was their first step in becoming uncontaminated, like a new batch of unleavened dough. After accepting Jesus Christ's sacrifice, they were then also required to live a clean life, free from past habits of sin. Not to continue putting sin out of their lives would make a mockery of Jesus Christ's holy sacrifice.
Let True Freedom Ring!
The Passover represents Christ's holy sacrifice, therefore the Passover season constitutes for us true freedom. Freedom from anguish, from debilitating weaknesses, from guilt; freedom from fear and from Satan's wicked manipulations of us; freedom of separation from God and freedom to bond with Him through Jesus Christ.
This is true freedom. NB
http://www.ucg.org/un/nb9803/truefreedom.htm (h/t)

Now CUBA gets a BAILOUT!!

A hat tip to www.amerianthinker.com/humberto_fontova for this excellent article analyzing the lifting of restrictions to Cuba. The book pictured here is also by him and goes into more detail! Visit hfontova.com.

Cuba's Bailout
By Humberto Fontova
On April 13th President Obama lifted all restrictions on travel and remittances by family members to their kin in Cuba. Most Cuba-watchers see this as the first step towards a rapid dismantling of what little is left of the so-called "Cuban embargo."
Here's a few things you're not hearing from the MSM regarding travel and remittances to Cuba. Until fairly recently, the Castro regime (classified by the U.S. State Department as a state-sponsor-of terrorism, and classified by the liberal media as a victim of a "cruel U.S. embargo") was in fact enjoying a (conservatively estimated) $1 billion a year lifeline straight from the U.S., which also serves as Cuba's biggest food-supplier and 5th biggest commercial partner. The $1 billion plus bundle came in the form of cash remittances to Cuba from some of Castro's former subjects and from the spending by these former subjects upon their frequent visits to their homeland. This $1 billion in remittances approached China's monetary infusion into Cuba.
This preposterous state of affairs finally provoked the Bush administration in 2004 to limit Cuban-American visits to Cuba to one visit every three years and their remittances to $300 a quarter. This amount, by the way, came to roughly five times the typical Cuban's salary.
"So what's wrong with visiting your homeland and families and helping them through their troubles?" many will ask. Nothing -- unless you claim the status of a political refugee from that totalitarian homeland on your INS application, take advantage of America's traditional generosity toward such refugees and then turn around and behave exactly like the immigrant applicants to the U.S. you rudely shoved aside while jumping in front of them in line.
A constant gripe among other Latin Americans who seek U.S. residency is the obnoxious (as they see it) Cuban habit of shoving them aside and jumping in front of the line. This results from the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act that allows Cubans to apply for U.S. political asylum and thus legal residency, and thus citizenship, much faster and more easily than the process for the duskier huddled masses from other points south.
The traditional distinction, of course, was that Cubans (who much preferred living in Cuba previously; indeed in 1958, more Americans lived in Cuba than Cubans in the U.S.) were now fleeing an U.S. enemy/totalitarian regime that prohibited them re-entry.
Their status upon reaching U.S. shores actually had little to do with so-called "political pandering to the powerful Cuban-exile lobby," and everything to do with something called the Refugee Relief Act signed into law by President Eisenhower in August 1953 to assist Iron Curtain refugees.
Came Castro's Stalinist regime in 1959 and the Florida straits became a barrier far deadlier than the Iron Curtain. Multiple times more Cubans died trying to breach it than Germans attempting to breach the Berlin Wall. Essentially the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 simply codified the 1953 Refugee Relief Act for victims of tropical Stalinism.
In the '50s and '60s Czechs, Hungarians, Russians and East Germans admitted into the U.S. did not immediately clamor to visit the communist nations they just fled, and lavish them with dollars. In fact, the very notion was offensive and insulting to these genuine refugees. In the '60s and '70s and '80s Cubans acted identically, if often more emotionally. Many dropped to the ground and kissed U.S. soil the instant they touched it, often in tears. Pictures and reels of the Mariel Boatlift and incidents before abound in such scenes -- scenes that epitomize the motivation of the political refugees America has always welcomed. Those who planned returns to Cuba planned it with carbines and grenades in hand, until they learned (often gape-jawed) that -- despite what they had heard daily from Castro's media -- the U.S. government, in fact, arrests any American resident who attempts to give the Castro regime a taste of its own medicine.
"Sorry," said former President Bush's policy in 2004 (as advised by Cuban-American Republican legislators.) "But if you're going back and forth to that country with the full blessing of that country's regime and spending thousands of dollars per trip, you're not a political refugee from that regime by any stretch of the definition."
It's been long suspected by genuine Cuban refugees that many of these "family remittances," by recent Cuban "refugees" that Bush curtailed and that Obama now permits, do not originate from the traditional "sweat of your brow" labors of traditional political refugees.
An FBI investigation in South Florida this summer, for instance, turned up a Medicare Fraud scandal totaling $142 million. The Benitez brothers, Carlos, Jose and Luis, who arrived in Miami in 1995 from Cuba, are accused of being responsible for $84 million of this swindle. "Thirty-three of the 36 fugitives whose names have been released by authorities are Cuban immigrants," reported the Miami Herald, "most of whom came to the United States during the past 15 years. Half of these (including the Benitez brothers) have fled back to Cuba to escape prosecution, using their Cuban passports."
Do "refugees" hold and treasure passports from the Stalinist regime that oppressed them until they escaped it and found refuge? Does a Stalinist regime welcome back its professed enemies and shield them from justice sought by the nation that offered their professed enemies "refuge"? Will Obama's new liberalization of travel to Cuba help curtail this criminailty?
Now president Obama has decreed that Cuban "immigrants" are actually much more equal to other immigrants. They'll enjoy identical travel and remittance privileges -- along with their exclusive and traditional fast-track to citizenship.
No "racist Republican" while "pandering" to Cuban-Americans has ever enacted anything so patently unfair and offensive (and not only to other "Hispanics") as Obama's new decree. If you're a political refugee, then act like one. Don't turn around and unduly enrich the very regime you claim to detest and that sponsors terrorism. This is all that Republicans asked of the ethnic bloc who traditionally gives them 70-80 per cent of their votes.
But Obama has granted (some) Cuban-Americans a veritable banquet of cake along with its eating, while the rest of the "Hispanic" rabble are allowed entry into the banquet hall only to clear the tables, wash the dishes, and mop the bathroom.
Leave it to the MSM to continue scribbling and gabbing about "Republicans pandering to Cuban-Americans." Just maybe this traditional Republican "pandering to Cuban-Americans" simply boils down to more obviously sharing their anti-totalitarian convictions and typically middle-class social and economic concerns.

Tea Party Movie - Johnny Tremain **Bumped**

Since there are a lot of Tea Party events going on http://brianleesblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/nationwide-tea-parties.html, in this era of Big Deficits and Taxation

Click these three sites to get started and see what IS going on.

http://www.reteaparty.com/,

http://www.taxdayteaparty.com/

http://www.aftertheteaparty.com/

and various local ones such as this one

http://elpasoteaparty.blogspot.com/ and others in other localities.

such as mailing Tea Bags and having Tea Parties on April 15,I wanted to let you know about this movie that might get you in the spirit of things.

You can get it from your library's Interlibrary loan dept. here http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37543183&referer=brief_results

or from amazon here http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Tremain-Hal-Stalmaster/dp/B00005JM6F/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1237236634&sr=8-3

or from your video store!

Looking for a way to make the American Revolution come alive? Based on Esther Forbes's book of the same name, Johnny Tremain takes place in Boston from July 1773 through April 1775, and tells the story of a young apprentice silversmith drawn into a fight for human rights. When an accident cripples Johnny Tremain's hand and ends his hopes of becoming a great silversmith, Tremain finds himself without work and accused of a crime he did not commit. Sons of Liberty members Paul Revere and Josiah Quincy are outraged by the circumstantial case against Tremain, agree to represent him free of charge, and win his acquittal in court. Through association with his new friends, Tremain begins to better understand the current political climate, and eventually joins them in the battle for freedom. Tremain's involvement in the emptying of British tea into Boston Harbor, the arrival of the Redcoats in Boston, and the beginnings of the American Revolution at Concord is powerful and moving. The costuming is splendid, the music patriotic, and the dialogue well crafted.The film stars Hal Stalmaster as Johnny Tremain, costars Luana Patten and Jeff York, and runs 80 minutes. This classic Disney film is wonderful entertainment and a fairly faithful representation of a crucial period in American history. (Ages 8 and older)

Return to the days that sparked the American Revolution, now on Disney DVD for the first time! Meet young Johnny Tremain, a silversmith's apprentice with dreams of learning the trade and making his own way. When a terrible injury ends his hopes, he joins the emerging Sons Of Liberty. The Redcoats are coming as you journey back to the Boston Tea Party, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, and Lexington Green, where tyranny was vanquished by an idea -- freedom for all! Based on the classic novel by Esther Forbes, you won't want to miss one historic moment of Disney's classic adventure and liberty's rising light.