“The Next Big Headline: Most Births Minority in 2011“, wrote Ed Rubenstein in mid-2007. He was almost right: today’s big headline is the Census Bureau’s prediction, as AP put it: White Americans no longer a majority by 2042.

For the record, whites were almost 90% of the population in 1960.

It’s odd how this story, which was already obvious from demographic trends when I published Alien Nation in 1995, is periodically discovered by the Main Stream Media. Didn’t they listen to what I was saying?

It’s also odd how completely the fact that this unprecedented transformation is entirely self-induced, through immigration policy, is glossed over. You’d think non-whites had suddenly started sprouting from the ground.

In this respect, CNN’s story Minorities expected to be majority in 2050 was unusual. It quoted Dave Waddington, chief of the Census Bureau’s population branch:

Waddington said the timelines are not written in stone. “It’s a projection. And things like the baby boom generation couldn’t be predicted.” Major changes in policy affecting families and children, or a major policy affecting immigration, could have an impact on the expectations, he said.

VDARE.COM’s emphasis.

There are many stories like this one all across America, where a drunk driving illegal alien has killed an innocent citizen, because Washington refuses to control the border and enforce immigration law.

In a case like this one, where the perp was also killed, there is often little enthusiasm in the press to investigate the cause of the crime. Because there will be no trial, the authorities don’t much pursue the identity or background of the drunk driver. Many in these groups want no bad news about diversity, so the press often overlooks the ongoing carnage caused by open borders.

An exception is North Carolina columnist Ed Johnson who reflected on the loss of his friend, Lewis Fetterman (pictured), in an opinion piece, My friend is dead (Dunn Daily Record, August 12, 2008).

Lewis Fetterman was one of the nicest guys you’d ever meet. He was tall, thin, and had gray hair that was cut evenly on all sides in a way that reminded me of a mushroom. We often sat together at lunch. He was usually quiet. It seemed as though he was always smiling.

I lost my friend Lewis on March 15 when an intoxicated, undocumented alien drove into him.

Who knows how many Americans have been killed like this by illegal aliens? I suspect the number is larger than the total of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. After all, CNN reports that more than 6,000 people have been killed along the Mexican border during just the last two years.

What could our federal government have done to prevent the death of Lewis Fetterman and others like him? Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution says, “The United States… shall protect each [state] against invasion.” With there now being at least 12 million people here illegally, clearly we’ve been invaded. The President and members of Congress have failed their Constitutional duty to protect us. [...]

More about Lewis Fetterman and his preventable death: Head-On Crash Kills Campbell Professor, 2nd Driver (WRAL, March 16, 2008).

NEWTON GROVE, N.C. — A head-on, two vehicle crash Saturday night on U.S. Highway 701 in Sampson County claimed the lives of a Campbell University pharmacy professor and a second driver and injured a third person, the Highway Patrol said.

Lewis M. Fetterman Jr.,  58, of Clinton, was driving a Chrysler minivan south when a northbound 1992 Ford crossed the highway and they collided head-on, troopers said. The Ford driver, Alejandro Antonio Rivas, also died. [...]

Troopers said Rivas, of 264 Preston Lane, is thought to have had alcohol in his system. Toxicology reports have not been released yet. The 46-year-old was not a licensed driver, troopers said.

Lewis Fetterman was an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Campbell. He held a doctorate in analytical chemistry.

“He was viewed as a strong, forthright, Christian, gentleman scholar and I think we’re all deeply saddened by his loss,” said Dr. Thomas Holmes, associate dean of pharmaceutical sciences at Campbell.

Another tragic victim of open borders.

Scientific American has an article, “High Aptitude Minds,” by Christian Hoppe and Jelena Stojanovic on the relationship between brain size and IQ:

Most studies show that smarter brains are typically bigger—at least in certain locations. Part of Einstein’s parietal lobe (at the top of the head, behind the ears) was 15 percent wider than the same region was in 35 men of normal cognitive ability, according to a 1999 study by researchers at McMaster University in Ontario. This area is thought to be critical for visual and mathematical thinking. It is also within the constellation of brain regions fingered as important for superior cognition. These neural territories include parts of the parietal and frontal lobes as well as a structure called the anterior cingulate.

But the functional consequences of such enlargement are controversial. In 1883 English anthropologist and polymath Sir Francis Galton dubbed intelligence an inherited feature of an efficiently functioning central nervous system. Since then, neuroscientists have garnered support for this efficiency hypothesis using modern neuroimaging techniques. They found that the brains of brighter people use less energy to solve certain prob­lems than those of people with lower aptitudes do.

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A point that’s often overlooked in the anthrax case is that mad scientist Bruce Ivins had at least two counselors over the years who were disturbed enough by what he said during therapy sessions to alert the authorities that he was likely to murder somebody.

His 2008 counselor, who led a group therapy session for substance abusers, had to get a judge to issue a restraining order against Ivins after he threatened to murder her, along with his colleagues at work. This poor woman has had her dirty laundry aired all over the Internet by people trying to discredit her. Of course, Ivins made threats in front of his therapy group, so if you don’t believe the group leader, you could just ask the other members of the group. But, I guess, the theory then would be that they are all drunks and pill-poppers too, so you can’t believe them either … or something.

Tellingly, Ivins’ therapist in 2000 went to the cops, too, because Ivins had told her he intended to poison a young woman if she lost a soccer match. Fortunately, her team won.

That’s like Anton Chigur demanding the that gas station clerk in “No Country for Old Men” flip a coin to see if he lives or dies. It’s just not sane.

For me, that evidence that he was homicidally loony many years before the FBI had ever heard of him is, more than anything else, what caused me to change my evaluation of the case against Ivins from Plausible to Highly Probable. When a suspect kills himself, that’s usually a sign of guilt. Perhaps, though, the FBI badgered an innocent man into suicidal depression?

But, it now turns out that Ivins had boasted about much of the modus operandi of the 2001 attacks in 2000–poisoning people and taking long drives to anonymously mail things without anybody noticing.

Moreover, it appears that the FBI was not in contact with his 2000 counselor until this summer. Evidently, they had settled upon him as the main suspect before talking to his 2000 counselor.

Strangely enough, it was Ivins himself who set in motion the surfacing of his 2000 therapist. Why did he do it? The Washington Post reported on August 7 about his 2000 counselor, who has had the good sense to stay anonymous and not endure the kind of abuse to which his 2008 counselor has been subjected:

The counselor had not heard from Ivins for years until he called out of the blue about two months ago. Politely, “he asked whether I remembered him,” she said. And he asked whether she could give him his records for his attorney.

When FBI agents called her late last month [July] — near the day [July 29, 2008] Ivins swallowed a lethal dose of Tylenol — she replied, “In all my 25 years of counseling, there is only one client the FBI would call me about.”[Acquaintances and Counselor Recall the Scientist's Dark Side, August 7, 2008]

So, why did Ivins’ attorney want Ivins’ psychiatric records from 2000?

The only rational explanation that I can come up with is that his attorney was considering, with Ivins’ cooperation, a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity plea in the anthrax terrorism case.

Ivins would have been crazy not to plead insanity!

Judging from what we’ve seen of Ivins emails, you could make a decent argument that he was close to legally insane in 2000. My vague impression is that he wasn’t quite as crazy in 2001, perhaps due to the medication he’d been prescribed: I haven’t heard about as many deranged emails from 2001 as from 2000.

In summary, we should have a national commission to investigate the anthrax terrorism. Put on it non-politicians who could master the genetics and the criminal investigation — Henry Harpending, Vincent Bugliosi, Richard Posner, people of that caliber. My guess would be that Ivins will turn out to be the killer.

By the way, Science has a helpful article on the genetic side of the FBI’s case.

One of the endless problems of nationalism is finding low friction borders for nations. Oceans clearly work the best, but what else can be used?

At first glance, rivers look like they’d make good borders because they are line-shaped and they are moderately defensible in case of war. In reality, though, navigable rivers typically run through the heart of a nation (the Nile, the Mississippi, the Thames, the Volga, the Yellow, the Ganges, etc.). Indeed, nations are most likely to rise up along both banks of a mighty river.

Mountain ranges, such as the Pyrenees dividing France and Spain, seem more promising. They are military defensible and they reduce cultural and economic interchange, so the people living in the flat lands on either side of a big range tend to see themselves as different peoples.

The problem tends to be, however, that few mountain ranges are uninhabited. The mountaineers generally are often ornery folk who don’t like being shoved around by flatlanders, and they live on both sides of the border. The Pashtuns who live on both sides of the Khyber Pass are the classic example. What could be a more logical place to draw the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan than the rugged mountains pierced by the famously narrow Khyber Pass? Yet, that logical border seems nonsensical to the millions of Pashtuns who live in the region and pay no attention to that line.

Similarly, the ridgeline of the Greater Caucasus mountains makes a perfectly sensible border between Russia and Georgia, except to the Ossetian-speaking peoples who live in those mountains, both north and south of the border.