Instapundit liked this headline:

Raceless Female Raped by Raceless Male at a Party Hosted By a Raceless Fraternity in the Same City Where Rich White Boys Raped A Poor Black Stripper

One of the commenters at the blog Confederate Yankee had this to say:

Given the 60 year record of bigotry in the MSM/DCN the answers are clera. Victim - white; rapist - black. When a criminal’s race is not mentioned you knows the race is black.[Typo or typos in original.]

That 60 year record, of concealment, is what I was talking about in my article on the Associated Press Stylebook, where I traced the the “race of the criminal is irrelevant” custom to 1946, in the New York Times.

In fact, the fraternity in question is a traditionally black fraternity, (as with traditionally black colleges, black fraternities seem to be exempt from the Civil Rights Act of 1964) and the alleged victim is white.

K. C. Johnson reminds us that since this is the same police force that investigated the Lacrosse players, the presumption of innocence applies quite strongly but says

That said, the silence of the Group of 88, the potbangers, and the clarifying faculty to this event is remarkable.Durham-in-Wonderland: Arrest in Rape Case

Supreme Court Accepts Second-Class Religious Status for Christianity

VDare.com readers who follow our War Against Christmas Competition may remember that I wrote about the case of Andrea Skoros v. City of New York last December. Mrs. Skoros, after failing to get the attention of New York City Department of Education bureaucrats, finally took the city and the Dept. of Ed’s chancellor, former Clinton Administration lawyer Joel Klein, to federal court. Mrs. Skoros’s complaint is that the Dept. of Ed’s policy that permits “holiday” display of Menorahs and Moslem moons and stars while forbidding Christian nativity scenes or cr�ches of any sort violates the Establishment Clause (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof) of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which the Supreme Court applies against the states through its incorporation doctrine of the 14th Amendment. Assuming the incorporation doctrine is good law (which all federal courts do although that is a very dubious proposition), Mrs. Skoros is surely right.

Unfortunately, being right on the law is no guarantee that our federal courts will vindicate a citizen’s rights - they prefer putting Border Patrolmen in jail for doing their jobs. After a U.S. District Judge found against her, [Decision in PDF ] and a divided Second Circuit appeals panel upheld the district judge’s ruling,[PDF ] Mrs. Skoros petitioned the Supreme Court to hear her case.

That the Supreme Court has now declined to do. [Denial of Certiorari PDF ] This is very bad news on several levels. On the technically legal level, the Court had a good, one might say Heaven-sent, opportunity to resolve a split among the federal appeals courts, that legally irksome state when different circuits reach different conclusions about constitutional issues. Most constitutional lawyers would argue that resolving such splits is a primary Supreme Court function. While a federal appeals judge on the Third Circuit, now-Justice Samuel Alito participated in a ruling that display of a nativity scene on government property did not violate the Establishment Clause. The Second Circuit’s Skoros decision is clearly in conflict with the Third Circuit’s interpretation. Evidently, even with President Bush’s new appointees on the Court, and Sandra Day O’Connor mercifully gone (is it mere happenstance that stripping the Cross from William and Mary’s Wren Chapel coincides with her arrival in Williamsburg?), ruling that Christianity is a faith on a par with Judaism and Islam in America is too hot an issue for the Supreme Court to take on.

And that is the really bad news, transcending legalisms. In the post-Constitutional republic we live in, the Supreme Court has succeeded (often with the collusion of responsibility-ducking Congressmen) in making itself the final arbiter of social issues in America. Just on the face of it, in denying certiorari to Andrea Skoros the Court seems to be saying that it has no opinion or is neutral on the questions she raises. In effect, though, by upholding the Second Circuit decision, which accepted most of the NYC Dept. of Ed’s specious excuses for discriminating openly against Christianity, the Supreme Court has tacitly ratified them.

So now promoting pluralism through multicultural holiday displays is a valid excuse for banishing the symbols of the nation’s founding, traditional and still majority faith, Christianity, while featuring those of a minority faith, Judaism, and an upstart religion in America, Islam. NYC’s Dept. of Ed, America’s largest school district, is clearly engaged in multicultural propaganda and programming of the unfortunate children entrusted to its care, and that is no problem for our Supreme Court.

How can one avoid the conclusion that a majority of the justices are sympathetic to this anti-Christian farrago of deconstruction? I and others had hoped that justices such as Scalia, Thomas and Alito would want to tackle these issues. If they did, they were outvoted by the Court’s militant secularists.

And so piece-by-piece the abolition of America, the dismantling of the country our colonial ancestors founded, that their descendants and so many immigrants who followed them built into a great nation, proceeds apace.

It was probably na�ve to think that today’s Supreme Court would acknowledge that the Christian religion is an essential element of our national life, and has been since long before independence. But it should not have been too much to ask the Court to check this ACLU-style abuse of the faith and good will of New York City’s Christians.

Their refusal to do so means that the Dept. of Ed’s anti-Christianity policy will now become an acceptable standard for any school district that wants to drive any mention of the Christian faith out of its schools - and we are all the poorer for it.

Pat Buchanan wrote in The Death of the West that large sections of Siberia would be reclaimed by China in the next few decades.

Jonah Hull writes in Aljazeera:

The authorities in Blagoveschenck, a city in Russia’s far east, are introducing immigration restrictions in the hope of curbing a rising tide of migration from China.

A Russian agriculture and gold mining outpost for 150 years, the city of Blagoveschenck is situated on the bank of the Amur river.

It is a year-round crossing point for Chinese coming into Russia.

With more than seven million Chinese nationals already living in three regions on the Russian side of the border and more than 100 million in the equivalent border regions on the Chinese side, some of the locals are concerned that the number of migrants into Russia could grow out of control.

Consequently new migration laws are being put into place to restrict the entry of Chinese migrants into Blagoveschenck.

Alexander Migulya, the city’s mayor, told Al Jazeera that although the Chinese are welcomed in terms of tourism and cultural exchange, they are only “visitors” to Russia.

He said: “We have friendly relations with our very close neighbour, but I would like to underline that there is no integration…”

The article concludes:

“Our business is part Chinese, part Russian. Russians are more technically skilled, but when it comes to construction you need Chinese … they work from early morning until late at night,” she said.

“And they don’t need days off.”

Few in Blagoveschenck want the Chinese to leave and many believe they will find a way around the new restrictions.

This article is being discussed at Frontierist News.

The integration of Russia and China has some fundamental differences between the integration of the US and Mexico. Much evidence suggest the Chinese workforce clearly has a high tendency to acquire education when those opportunities are made available. Migrants are if anything likely to be more ambitious in that respect than the average Chinese-and more talented on the average. China has significant manufacturing capability that Russia lacks–and huge foreign exchange resources. In short, China has a lot more to offer Russia than Mexico has to offer the US. Perhaps, they will work out a mutually beneficially arrangement.

The big way I can imagine this working out is if Russia seriously ramps up–and commercializes– its space program with revenues obtained from this defacto sale of territory so that the resources available to the average Russian increase markedly. If they don’t, I’d expect a significant reaction here.

Just hear me out on this…

Home Depot–the world’s largest home improvement store–just announced a 28% drop in fourth quarter profits.

Now then, anybody who has stepped foot in a Home Depot even to just use the restroom knows that these places are manned by the most insufferable band of fools to be found in retail. No–not all of them–there are a few who can make correct change–but a remarkably high percentage ok?

True story: Several years ago I needed to hang some pictures in my house so I went to the HD to pick up some wall screws or whatever you call them. I stopped the first person I identified as a possible employee which is to say the first person I encountered wearing a bright orange apron and a vacant expression.

This is what I said: “Can you tell me where I can find the type of screws to hang pictures…I think they are called ‘wall screws’ or ‘hanging screws’?”

She said “Are they the kind that go in the wall to hang things?”

Holey moley! Can’t get anything past that one!

As much as I want to attribute the HD profit loss to the monkeys running the circus, I don’t think that’s it–I think Home depot is finally feeling the heat. People are fed up with their garbage and taking their money elsewhere.

We’ve all seen the hordes of illegal aliens loitering out front of the stores, waiting for some construction company in need of cheap labor to pick them up. We’ve all seen the love affair between La Raza and Home Depot. We’ve all seen the Home Depot ignore the demands from Americans to stop aiding and abetting illegal immigration.

So people got busy…and started efforts such as Save our State.

Here is the story for more information about the plunge but there is no mention of what caused the 28% loss.

I just know I stopped shopping there for these specific reasons and I refuse to believe I am alone in this. I think we’re making a difference, people! I think we sent a message to Home Depot and all their slippery friends:

If you choose illegal immigrants over Americans, Americans will choose your competitor over you.