Perhaps it is only when one is involved with a dissenting opinion site like VDARE.com does a full comprehension of how savage the opinion repression in the MSM actually is really dawn. There is a an instinctive presumption that if all the MSM can find to offer is NeoCon versus Liberal Democrat, maybe no one else can talk.

That is not true.

We get huge volumes of sympathetic eminently publishable material- far more than we can handle.

I commend a recent post on the jones family as an antidote to the view of Founding Stock illiteracy. (Discovered through a stray link to VDARE.com.)

Any writer can see this very thoughtful post involved an enormous amount of work. And there is definitely no check in the mail!

But with men like these out there, the Country will not die.

Consider the following excerpts (emphasis added) from the text of a recent speech, “A New Era Begins.” The speaker is an ardent admirer of Barack Obama:

I was standing on the Washington Mall on Inauguration Day, alongside nearly two million other people, and proudly watched the first African American take the oath of office in our nation’s history. That alone made the day deeply memorable, joyful, and historic. But I couldn’t help but think — and I’m sure that millions of others had the same thought — that the transfer of power from Bush to President Obama not only tore down a barrier that once was thought near impenetrable, but also signified the fading away of one era and the beginning of another.

It was hard not to think on that cold day in our nation’s capital that the worst of the past 30 years of right-wing extremist rule is behind us and that an era of progressive change is within reach, no longer an idle dream.

Just look at the new lay of the land: a friend of labor and its allies sits in the White House. Larger Democratic majorities control Congress. A feeling of renewal and hope is in the air. Public opinion polls show a high favorability rating for our new President. And the labor and people’s movement that was so instrumental to the election’s outcome, after a short holiday pause, is off and running.
First, we have to support the passage of the President’s stimulus bill in the Senate.

Second, we have to block any Republican efforts to derail the nomination of Hilda Solis, the nominee for the Secretary of Labor. This is the first round in the battle to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, which will dramatically expand the right to join a union in this country. Some may think this is a struggle of only the labor movement. But nothing could be further from the truth. A bigger labor movement in this country would strengthen the struggle on every front. No one expressed this point better than Martin Luther King toward the end of his life.

Third, we have to join others in resisting evictions and foreclosures—not to mention cutbacks and layoffs at the state and city level.

Fourth, the wars of occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan have to be brought to a close. As former President Lyndon Johnson realized too late, wars of occupation (in his case, Vietnam) can quickly ruin a presidency that has great promise.

In any case, we have our work cut out for us. But I think we can confidently say that change is coming. And we will build a more perfect union.
Yes, we can.

The speaker: Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA.

Black conservative Elizabeth Wright writes like the reincarnation of my journalistic hero, George S. Schuyler (1895-1977), whom no less than H.L. Mencken considered America’s greatest editorial writer.

The Slim Times’ recent series of race-baiting editorials demonizing the immigration reform movement (not to be confused with its countless other race-baiting editorials demonizing other reform movements), managed to incur Miss Wright’s wrath, which as with Schuyler, is a wondrous thing to behold, as long as one is not on the receiving end of it.

“Who started the lie that the Founders of this nation expended their energies, in order to create a haven for the rescue of the world’s displaced populations? Did it come about chiefly from cynical 19th century industrialists eager only for cheap labor, who sought to soften their true motives by wrapping them in sentimental bombast?

Was the lie then perpetuated through the fantasies of some early lucky refugees who found their way to these shores, and who desired to make the path to the Golden Door easier for their family and kin left behind?

Or was the lie deliberately concocted by those who despised the country’s powerful and entrenched establishment, with the expectation that making mass immigration a national religious mandate might eventually unglue said establishment?

When restrictive immigration laws were changed in the 1960s, who expected to benefit most from the mass influx that inevitably would begin to stream from around the world?

I ask these questions in light of the New York Times’ recent editorials [here and here and here,] denigrating those Americans who campaign, through organizations and modest media outlets, to regain control over our borders, in order to preserve the traditional cultural integrity of the United States. The Times and its comrades share the presumptuous notion that the US is the rightful destination of every conceivable population on earth. They send the word far and wide that, if you’re hurting in the land of your birth, then you have a right to alleviate that hurt by transporting yourself to the USA, no matter what stress is put upon the resources of American citizens.”

[The New York Times, the Watchdogs, and the crusade to destroy the immigration reform movement by Elizabeth Wright, Issues & Views, February 12, 2009.]

Miss Wright puts in a good word for VDARE.com founder Peter Brimelow, FAIR, CIS and NumbersUSA, while burying in scorn and mockery the SPLC and ADL, in one of the most powerful yet succinct criticisms I have yet read of them. Read the whole thing.

For a couple of years, I’ve been pointing out that because African-American culture has become so narrow and inward-looking, it’s now having a harder time producing high achievers outside of Officially Black fields such as basketball, football, and some forms of entertainment. Thus, the black race is increasingly represented at the top of many categories by half-black individuals (typically raised by white mothers or white maternal grandparents). Barack Obama is only the most obvious example of the rise of this New Mulatto Elite. (In contrast, the Old Mulatto Elite, such as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, generally had white ancestors in the paternal line.)

Now, Michael Lewis (author of Moneyball on the impact of Bill James-style statistics on baseball) has a New York Times Magazine article, “The No-Stats All-Star,” on Shane Battier, a Houston Rockets NBA player whose contributions to winning only appear in the newest and most sophisticated basketball statistics. In all the old basketball statistics, he just looks like a slow, not very springy player with a white mom. (Here’s a video of Battier singing a country song in a karaoke bar.) But the Rockets brain trust gives him (and nobody else on the team) all their super-sophisticated stats and he digests them before each game to understand how to shut down the opponent’s best player, such as Kobe Bryant of the Lakers.

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I had filed Greg Siskind’s Blog in my folder “VDARE links – Hostile” folder. So I was rather surprised to see:

11 INDICTED IN H-1B FRAUD CASE

ICE has announced the arrests of eleven individuals in seven states as part of an investigation in to visa and mail fraud. The arrested were employees of Vision Systems Group, Inc., a New Jersey company that is a so-called “job shop” placing IT workers from India. According to USCIS:

This investigation involves companies that sponsor primarily H-1B non-immigrants, or temporary
workers in specialty occupations that require particular expertise. The companies that are the subject of this investigation have asserted that the foreign workers have been brought to the U.S. to fill existing vacancies. However, the companies allegedly have not always had jobs available for these workers…In some cases, the foreign workers have allegedly been placed in jobs and locations not previously certified by the Department of Labor, displacing qualified American workers and violating prevailing wage laws. The companies and foreign workers have allegedly submitted false statements and documents in support of their visa petitions.

Suskind comments

As long time readers of this blog know, before issuing draconian new reforms to the H-1B system, we should first enforce the regulations on the books. The Labor Department needs more funds to do a better job enforcing existing rules and employers abusing workers and flouting our laws need to see more of these kinds of headlines.

“A Comment” adds

It appears US attorney is going to spread the dragnet to net more companies soon. A majority of H1B dependant body shoppers “employers” run by Indian folks follow the same playbook, so more arrest would not suprise anyone who knows how H1B loopholes are exploited.

Vision Systems has been around for a while. Its website boasts that a person called (NJ) Assemblyman Upendra J. Chivukula graced their 10th Anniversary bash.

Demand U.J. Chivukula resign in penitence for being associated with this criminal US-wage-undermining gang

Thank Greg Siskind for his honesty

Near Buffalo, a Muslim man, Muzzammil Hassan, reportedly murdered his wife Aasiya by beheading, a custom associated with his religion. Curiously, he was involved in an Islamic television enterprise (Bridges TV) to “portray Muslims in a more positive light.”

Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday.

Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.

“He came to the police station at 6:20 p.m. [Thursday] and told us that she was dead,” Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said late this morning.

Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business, Bridges TV, on Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers went to that location and discovered her body.

Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light. [...]

Authorities say Aasiya Hassan recently had filed for divorce from her husband.
[Prominent Orchard Park man charged with beheading his wife, Buffalo News, Feb 13, 2009]

The Voice of America had a puff piece about the accused headchopper in 2004: Muslims in America Reach Out.

Muzzammil Hassan came to America from Pakistan 25 years ago. He became a successful banker in Buffalo, New York, near the famed Niagara Falls.

While he and his wife were happy to be in the United States, they were upset by the negative perceptions of Muslims, and particularly how this perception might affect their children.

That is how they came up with the idea of Bridges TV.  Mr. Hassan’s wife challenged him to start it.

Isn’t that a nice story? The ending didn’t go so well for Aasiya Hassan, however.

Are we diverse enough yet?

The late Daniel Seligman, who more or less invented the kind of heavily quantitative journalism I practice, loved gambling. (Here’s his 1997 City Journal story about the regular poker game he’d been in for 43 years.)

In this 1989 column, he makes an important point about hiring discrimination by invoking his favorite hobby:

April 10, 1989
BIAS IN THE CASINO

Although generally loath to talk up the competition, we find ourselves again recommending instant acquisition of the Journal of Vocational Behavior, last plugged here on August 3, 1987. This scholarly bimonthly has brought forth another blockbuster special issue on employment testing. For those predisposed to think of this subject as not too sexy, we should add that certain themes elaborated in the Journal are rousing animal passions along the Potomac.

A thought you could take away from the special issue is that policymakers will soon be driven to choose between two competing values in the workplace. Value No. 1 is economic efficiency. Value No. 2 is increased opportunity for minority workers. Under the gun nowadays is the U.S. Department of Labor, which seems reluctant to admit there is any tension between those values.

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From the late Dan Seligman’s Keeping Up column in Fortune:

August 14, 1989
ALL IN THE, ER, FAMILY

Perplexities abound when you ponder the instantly famous ruling just issued by the New York Court of Appeals. For openers, how do you parse the lead sentence of the ACLU press release enthusiastically exegetizing the ruling? Loopy lead: “In a landmark ruling for lesbian and gay rights, the [court] ruled . . . that a gay man could be considered a family member of his deceased lover.”

Huh?

Perplexity No. 2 is the suddenly unsettled question of what a family is. That question got to be burning in the Big Apple because of the city’s rent-control laws, which have long allowed resident family members to continue expropriating the landlord’s property rights upon the lessee’s death. In deciding that lovers without wedding licenses were now entitled to get in on this game, Judge Vito J. Titone derided notions of familialism based on “fictitious legal distinctions or genetic history.” What really mattered, he said, was a long-term relationship “characterized by an emotional and financial commitment and interdependence.” Noble fellow, eh? But how will the rent-control bureaucracy gauge the emotional [commitment level]?

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Q. If we nationalize the banks, will we see them used in service of a nationalist economic policy?

A. Don’t be silly.