There’s a new WSJ editorial, online for free, about Judge Stephen Breyer, who shut down the “no-match” program. They approve:

Messed Up Manhunt - WSJ.com
Messed Up Manhunt
October 18, 2007; Page A16

A federal judge in San Francisco has put a crimp in the Bush Administration’s plans to solve the country’s illegal immigration problem on the backs of small business. The White House should rejoice at this defeat, and move on to Plan B.

A reader asks “So are we to disregard all the editorials denouncing the “out of control” 9th Circuit for decisions enforcing environmental laws big business doesn’t want enforced?” In which connection, it’s worth mentioning that when Elliott Spitzer decided to give licenses to illegals, it was the first thing he’d done in years that the WSJ liked.

When you think of illegal alien drivers who kill, you don’t generally think of women. But Yesenia Angulo-Gastelum is a vile creature who ran down a man on a bicycle early in the morning and left him to die, because she didn’t want to be deported.

She actively covered up her crime and only came to justice because her boyfriend ratted her out to police. Her sentence was less than four years in prison.

Angulo admitted in court on Aug. 20 to leaving the scene of a collision that killed 37-year-old Micheal Boulden, the ASU Foundation’s former chief of staff.

He was riding his bicycle east on Pinnacle Peak Road at 6 a.m. on Feb. 18 when Angulo, who was also driving east on her way to work, struck Boulden.

Boulden was later pronounced dead at the scene.

By the time police caught up with her, Angulo had repaired her broken windshield and tried to repair some of the other damage.
[Woman gets maximum sentence in ASU hit-run, East Valley Tribune 10/12/07]

The man she killed was 37-year-old Michael Boulden, who had been an official with the ASU Foundation, a non-profit which supports Arizona State University. He had a three-year-old daughter, Maya.

Sara Carter of the Inland California Daily Bulletin has done a lot of good work on border issues in the past–this is an important story about the Mexican Army’s repeated invasions of US soil.

DailyBulletin.com - Armed standoff along U.S. border Police face Mexican military, smugglers
By Sara A. Carter and Kenneth Todd Ruiz, Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI.

See her interviewed on Youtube or go here for the WMV file.

But see also Vdare.com, where we’ve been saying this for years:

• Abolishing America (contd.): Mexican Army, Police Ignore Border
• Memo From Mexico, By Allan Wall The Border Is Already Militarized—On The Mexican Side!
• SALUTE-ing Mexico’s Proliferating Military Incursions By Jon E. Dougherty

This game is something that university students are likely to be subjected to for four hours or more, when they could be learning something, drinking beer, or listening to an Ann Coulter speech:

The Game of Oppression is designed to be played by 10 to 20 players at a time, with half playing as active participants and the other half as observers. The optimum amount of time allotted to play is four hours to ensure proper facilitation and personal engagement, but the game can be played in a minimum of three hours. The goal is to achieve “enlightment.” To do this, the active participants move their pawns around the game board and respond to statements on the playing cards. After a set period of time, the two groups switch roles. At the end of the game, all players participate in a reflection and group discussion period to synthesize the game experience for each participant.The Game Of Oppression–National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA).Publications

Conservatives don’t like it, and Eric Stoller, who is some kind of anti-racist loon, doesn’t like it either.

I spoke with a colleague who attended the presentation about the “game.” She was appalled. My colleague is White and she said that this “game” does not create a “safe space” and that it is basically an exercise in tokenization. Further reading of the game’s description says that the game’s goal is to help participants “achieve enlightenment.” The game is somehow supposed to do this in 3 to 4 hours!The “Game of Oppression” » Eric Stoller’s blog

If I were him, I would make snarky remark about the fact that it comes, (really!) “10 colored pawns.”

But seriously, even if you were to concede that the state of black America is due to oppression, no one could believe that there is more than one oppressed group on a college campus--and that group is white people. And it’s gameplayers like NASPA who are doing the oppression:

The darkest nightmare of the literature on power is George Orwell’s 1984, where there is not even an interior space of privacy and self. Winston Smith faces the ultimate and consistent logic of the argument that everything is political, and he can only dream of “a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.”

Orwell did not know that as he wrote, Mao’s China was subjecting university students to “thought reform,” known also as “re-education,” that was not complete until children had denounced the lives and political morals of their parents and emerged as “progressive” in a manner satisfactory to their trainers. In the diversity education film Skin Deep, a favorite in academic “sensitivity training,” a white student in his third day of a “facilitated” retreat on race, with his name on the screen and his college and hometown identified, confesses his family’s inertial Southern racism and, catching his breath, says to the group (and to the thousands of students who will see this film on their own campuses), “It’s a tough choice, choosing what’s right and choosing your family.”[Thought Reform 101By Alan Charles Kors, Reason Magazine, March 2000]

Back in August, I pointed out that subprime crisis was in part the result of years of government efforts to prevent “discrimination” against minorities in the mortgage market. Now, the NYT reports — unwittingly, of course — that the current subprime mortgage crisis is in part an outgrowth of the long government war on redlining:

Study Finds Disparities in Mortgages by Race

By MANNY FERNANDEZ

October 15, 2007

Home buyers in predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhoods in New York City were more likely to get their mortgages last year from a subprime lender than home buyers in white neighborhoods with similar income levels, according to a new analysis of home loan data by researchers at New York University.

The analysis, by N.Y.U.’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, illustrates stark racial differences between the New York City neighborhoods where subprime mortgages — which can come with higher interest rates, fees and penalties — were common and those where they were rare. The 10 neighborhoods with the highest rates of mortgages from subprime lenders had black and Hispanic majorities, and the 10 areas with the lowest rates were mainly non-Hispanic white.

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This is Ann Coulter on immigration as terrorist threat, and liberals unwillingness to deal with it:

This is a country virtually designed for terrorist attacks. America is a big multicultural society full of densely packed cities with large foreign-born popula­tions—and hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. Try this with another country: Hello, Indian Embassy? I would like to emigrate to your country. I have no money, no ambition, and no prospects, but I hear you have a generous welfare program and I want to start a big family and bring my extended family with me, all of whom consider your nation the Great Satan.

Foreigners were relentlessly staging raids on our border, which was defended by a hapless bunch of incompetents at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. But the only complaints about the INS came from conservatives. Liberals view their own noncompliance with immigration laws as a sort of friendly-neighbor program. They think America is a department store, and that no one can be denied entry. Los Angeles police officers are expressly prohibited from even ques­tioning suspects, witnesses, or crime victims—anyone—about their immigration status. When he was the avenging law and order mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani bragged about the city’s refusal to cooperate with the INS in turning over illegal immigrants. His succes­sor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, believes the greatest threat to public safety in New York City is passive smoke. Bloomberg would only crack down on illegal immigrants if he caught them smoking.[Ann Coulter, Treason.2003]

When Peter Brimelow was writing Alien Nation, he did check with the Embassies of Foreign countries, and getting mostly negative responses, and the Indian Embassy was special:

My favorite was India.. When we called them up, the first official we got said, “Are you of Indian origin?” When we said no, he said “Submit your question in writing to the Embassy” and then he hung up!