Apparently nobody except we happy few at VDARE.COM wants to notice that GOP Presidential nominee John McCain easily carried the white a.k.a. American vote and would have won the presidency as recently as 1976, but for the racial shift driven by policy-induced immigration.

Last week, we also reported that Republican turnout was sharply down in this election.

Today, the Boston Globe confirms this: Voter turnout didn’t set record: Democrats’ passion wasn’t matched by GOP, by Brian C. Mooney, November 14, 2008.

Turnout in last week’s election increased from four years ago but fell far short of some forecasts largely because many Republican voters either stayed home or left blank the presidential section of their ballots.

[My emphasis]

Of course, this is hardly surprising given that McCain ran away from the issues that would have motivated his base.

It’s bad enough when professional ID thieves distribute fake or stolen Social Security numbers to illegal aliens, but the school system of a major city is doing the same thing as a matter of policy–a disturbing marker in the decreasing respect for law in America.

There’s no mention of possible prosecution in the article, which is a little sketchy about the legal aspects of the case.

“Years after being advised by a state agency to stop, the Dallas Independent School District continued to provide foreign citizens with fake Social Security numbers to get them on the payroll quickly.

Some of the numbers were real Social Security numbers already assigned to people elsewhere. And in some cases, the state’s educator certification office unknowingly used the bogus numbers to run criminal background checks on the new hires, most of whom were brought in to teach bilingual classes.

The practice was described in an internal report issued in September by the district’s investigative office, which looked into the matter after receiving a tip. The report said the Texas Education Agency learned of the fake numbers in 2004 and told DISD then that the practice “was illegal.” [Dallas ISD faulted for using fake Social Security numbers, By Tawnell D. Hobbs, The Dallas Morning News, November 14, 2008]

An irony of the furious displays of hatred by SWPLs toward Mormons over the last ten days — in the demonology of the conventional wisdom, “outside agitators” from mighty Utah hijacked the democratic process in tiny, impoverished, defenseless California and brainwashed white Californians into voting against gay marriage — is that the Democrats had had a chance to make inroads with Mormons, which they’ve now blown. Indeed, the GOP share of the Presidential vote in Utah fell by something like 9 points from 2004 to 2008. I suspect, perhaps without much evidence, that the rude handling of the Mormon paladin Mitt Romney in the GOP primaries last winter had something to do with Utah’s decline in enthusiasm for the GOP.

But, the possibility of sizable long-term Mormon defections to the Democrats, which seemed plausible on the morning of November 5th, is likely now gone for decades, now that Mormons have taken on the Emmanuel Goldstein role for SWPLs.

On GNXP, Razib has a thought-provoking post on more fundamental issues about Mormons. The comments are excellent, too. In general, Mormonism functions as a sort of Swedish welfare state without the state for church members.

Mormon America is a representative of the New England Puritan cultural tradition in “Red America.” …

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Fox News currently has an article [Veteran Crime Reporter Shot Dead in Mexico Border City, November 13, 2008] that includes, almost as an afterthought, these final two paragraphs:

On Wednesday, an anonymous banner appeared at the door of a public Juarez kindergarten, threatening to attack the school’s children if the teachers don’t hand over their Christmas bonuses.

Classes were immediately suspended as police decided what security measures to take.

(Hat tips to Gene Cafarelli of Arizona’s Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and to Glenn Spencer’s omnipresent American Patrol Report.)

It’s actually an Associated Press article, and USA Today printed a fuller version that also describes violence aimed at the U.S. consulate in the northern city of Monterrey:

In separate incidents last month, an unexploded grenade was tossed at the consulate and gunshots were fired, prompting officials to suspend visa services.

(Whom could we bribe in the U.S. government to shut down such visa services for good??)

As Mexicans’ behavior in Mexico becomes ever more egregious, articles such as Christopher Manion’s 2001 classic Cultural Suicide become ever more salient for American citizens who recognize the fragility of our national future, given that we abut a neighbor like Mexico.

But, in an important sense, we Americans have driven Mexico’s descent into chaos by making recreational drugs illegal, thereby making their illicit supply highly lucrative. As detailed in the 2000 book Drug Crazy:How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out by Mike Gray, Americans used to live with such drug use. Certainly there were private tragedies from drug abuse, but that regime didn’t lead to society-wrecking crime.

(The same is true with alcohol today: Some people destroy themselves, but they don’t need to lead lives of crime to do so. The tragedies are personal and limited, not societal.)

Another Sanctuary City horror story from San Francisco… Rony Aguilera had been previously arrested for a violent assault in 2007, but was not turned over to federal immigration authorities because of the city’s policy of protecting dangerous foreign criminals. authorities have charged him with stabbing a 14-year-old boy to death last July.

A teenager accused of stabbing a 14-year-old boy to death in a gang-motivated attack had been given sanctuary from deportation under San Francisco’s previous practice of shielding young illegal immigrant felons from federal authorities, records show.

Rony Aguilera, 17, known as “Guerrillero,” has been charged as an adult in the July 31 sword attack in the Excelsior neighborhood that killed Ivan Miranda, who police say was an innocent victim caught up in an act of gang vengeance. Authorities believe Aguilera is an illegal immigrant from Honduras, but he was never referred to federal officials after being arrested last year in an assault case, according to records reviewed by The Chronicle.

Aguilera is the second person this year to be charged with murder in San Francisco after having been protected from possible deportation, under city officials’ now-discarded interpretation of a sanctuary ordinance that bars agencies from cooperating with federal efforts to round up illegal immigrants.

In June, Edwin Ramos, now 22, an alleged illegal immigrant from El Salvador who compiled a record of gang-related crimes as a juvenile, was accused of fatally shooting Anthony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, in their car in the Excelsior. [Suspect in boy's slaying avoided deportation, by Jaxon Van Derbeken, San Francisco Chronicle, November 14, 2008]

The space program was a lot of fun when I was a kid in the 1960s, but it turned out we were all dressed up in our spacesuits with no particular place to go. The rest of the solar system just isn’t very habitable. Venus isn’t like the Congo and Mars isn’t like Bolivia, the way Heinlein hoped they would be back in the 1950s.

Various Presidents have enunciated various space program goals in recent decades, but not much gets done because it’s hard to figure out why we want to spend vast amounts of money to go there.

So, here’s a space program goal where we are currently making progress and could actually accomplish within a few decades:

Discover human-habitable planets around other stars.

I’m not at all saying that we should go to these other planets. We can leave that insanely expensive project for future centuries. But finding destinations would keep alive the grandest dream of the human race: to spread out across the galaxy. Personally, I would like to die knowing that my species’ fate isn’t forever tied to just one planet.