Peter Brimelow will be a guest on The Bruce Elliott Show tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. ET to discuss the prospects for amnesty in 2010. The program airs in Baltimore and can be streamed here.

A reader who shall be nameless, but who I happen to know was in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, writes

“At today’s press conference Adm. Mullen, Chairman JCS, prattled the same “diversity is strength” nonsense. While they laud “diversity” the Pentagon regularly ignores great American war victories and commemorations including V-E and V-J Day. For Veterans’ Day there was not a single exhibit poster on the Pentagon concourse, but there’s always room for women, Hispanics, Asians, etc. to be commemorated. In one particularly ignominious commemoration of Black History Month, Angela Davis, the communist was even given space as an outstanding black.”

What Admiral Mullen has  said was that diversity is a “strategic imperative” and the that diversity is “our highest personnel priority.”

More than recruiting midshipmen, who, when assigned to an honor guard, can remember to bring their shoes and hat.

Liberal-ish libertarian blogger Megan McArdle doesn’t really like Sarah Palin but

“Y’all well know that I really don’t like Sarah Palin.  In fact, more than one of you has yelled at me about this.  And I find the whole schtick about how the media is just a bunch of elitist hooligans who are out to get her really grating.

That’s why I really wish the media wouldn’t act like, well, a bunch of elitist hooligans who are out to get her.  I’ve coined a new phrase to cover the situation: Palinoia.  It’s when you think people are out to get you, and then they do their best to justify your erroneous belief.” [Palinoia]

It was never erroneous, of course. Megan makes a point we’ve made here:

“Then there’s the Associated Press, putting 11 reporters on the task of “fact checking” her book.  I put the words in quotes because the CJR notes that much of this herculean feat is not checking facts, but quibbling with interpretations or sentimental boilerplate about the hearts and minds of Alaskans.  But the deeper question is how come Palin’s book gets a team of fact checkers, when books by other politicians get the standard gloss?”

Steve Sailer is one still of the few pundits who’ve read Dreams From My Father, and he was condemned in the Washington Monthly for doing so. Megan says that “There seems to be an unhealthy obsession with tearing her down.”

Which brings us straight to Andrew Sullivan.Michelle Malkin has the details on that case:It’s official: Atlantic magazine blogger suffers Palin-Induced Psychosis.

Robert De Brus writes:

Wall Street Journal writer James Taranto, who contributes the paper’s excellent “Best of the Web” blog, is upset that a friend and colleague, Tunku Varadarajan, has been taken to task for not taking the politically correct line on Maj. Nidal Hasan’s mass murder at Fort Hood.

A business professor at New York University, Varadarajan wrote piece for Forbes.com called “Going Muslim,” observing that political correctness, the fear of offending Muslims, may have led the Army to ignore the warning signs of Hasan’s impending attack.

“We are a civilized society. One of our cardinal rules of coexistence is that we (try always to) judge people only by their actions and not by their identity, whether racial, religious or sexual. This is our great strength as a society, and also, in the present circumstances, our great weakness: How to address the threat posed by the fact that, of the hundreds of thousands of Muslims in our midst, there are a few (perhaps many more than a few) who are so radicalized that they would kill their fellow Americans? Must we continue to be neutral in handling all people from different groups even though we know that there are differential risks posed by people of one group? The problem here is a heightened version of the airport security problem, where we check all people–including Chinese grandmothers–regardless of risk profiles. But can we afford that on a grand, national scale? (And I mean that question not merely in a financial sense, but also in terms of the price we’d pay in failing to detect a threat in time.)”

Varadarajan’s observation is, of course, correct. But at the end of his column, he did the smart thing and wrote that Army must be lookout for all kinds of extremists, not just Muslims. But that caveat wasn’t enough.

The diversicrats at NYU flew into a rage. A rabbi at the school’s Jewish center has ramped up a “Campaign Against Hate.” You’d think a rabbi would have better sense given what Muslims typically want to do to the Jews, but let’s leave that aside.

The president of the school joined in:

“A journalist and NYU clinical faculty member has written a piece for Forbes that many Muslims find offensive. I understand how they feel–I found it offensive, too. I am teaching Muslim students now, and I have taught them in the past; the portrayal of Muslims in the Forbes piece bears no resemblance to my experience; I disagree with the Forbes piece and think it is wrong.”

But Mr. Taranto can’t figure out why the diversicrats are upset, at least if I’m reading him correctly:

“How’s that for diversity? NYU’s Jews and Muslims are ganging up on a Hindu and accusing him of promoting “hate” — an inflammatory charge anywhere, but especially on a university campus. Yet it’s clear that Rabbi Sarna knows the charge is unjustified, since his actual criticism of Varadarajan’s work–it “does not deal sensitively enough” — is so tepid.”

Perhaps Mr. Taranto might check and rethink his support for his own paper’s editorials. The Journal is nothing if not the nation’s leading editorial page cheering immigration, and by extension, the leftist anti-West hatred that travels under the name “diversity” now appears to have victimized his friend for telling the truth — or at least trying to.

Note to Mr. Taranto: Read Ann Coulter’s latest column: Diversity is the problem.

Usually the cliche is “Women and Minorities Hardest Hit” but this story is about African-American men, who are hard hit by a recession that’s crashed construction, among other things.But African-Americans are just a special case of American worker displacement, tracked by VDARE.com every month on VDARE.com’s American Worker Displacement Index.

And the cause of American Worker Displacement is immigration.

Black Males Hit Extra Hard By Unemployment

by Cheryl Corley

African-American Male Unemployment

The unemployment rate for all African-Americans is about 50 percent higher than the nation as a whole — and even higher for African-American males.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Credit: Nelson Hsu/NPR

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The country’s spiraling unemployment rate is taking a particular toll on men as the recession continues to roil male-dominated industries, such as manufacturing and construction.

This “he-cession,” as it’s sometimes called, has hit African-American men especially hard, increasing their unemployment rate to more than 17 percent last month.[MORE]

Ann Coulter:

It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: “Our diversity … is a strength.”

As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and Catholic populations, Canada with its French and English populations, Israel with its Jewish and Palestinian populations.

Or consider the warring factions in India, Sri Lanka, China, Iraq, Czechoslovakia (until it happily split up), the Balkans and Chechnya. Also look at the festering hotbeds of tribal warfare — I mean the beautiful mosaics — in Third World hellholes like Afghanistan, Rwanda and South Central, L.A.

“Diversity” is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: “Cancer is a strength!” “Pollution is our greatest asset!”

A reader says that his favorite immigration rock song is Illegal Alien, by Genesis.

Wikipedia says

The song’s lyrics are a lighter, humorous depiction of the frustrations an illegal immigrant faces, leading up to the chorus: “It’s no fun/Being an illegal alien”. Even though the lyrics are intended as a satire and to be taken in jest, the song can rarely be heard on United States radio stations because of its perceived offensiveness toward illegal aliens.

I hate that–it’s legitimate to worry, up to a point, about offending racial groups, but it’s not legitimate to worry about offending illegal aliens.

Iconoculture’s trendspotting service always has something horrifying in it, although they don’t seem to know it’s horrifying:

Fighting for an education: More Latinos joining the U.S. Army for school benefits

WHAT’S HAPPENING

* As Latinos fight to keep their head above water in the lagging economy, more are joining the U.S. Army. Although enlistment bonuses and military pay are welcome, the lure of a higher education has proven to be a strong incentive.
* A study by the RAND Corporation found that Latino young adults are most responsive to the military’s educational benefits, whereas black Army applicants respond most to salary and bonus incentives, and whites to military pay (CNN.com 10.21.09).
* According to the study, the percentage of Army recruits who were Latino rose from 6.6% in 1994 to 11.4% in 2007.

WHAT THIS MEANS TO BUSINESS

* Steady pay, job training and the opportunity to serve their country is helping to increase military recruitment among young adults overall. But for Latinos, the promise of higher education is a bonus that’s most attractive.
* Companies that are hiring can look to Latino military veterans who’ve taken advantage of educational benefits.

Great! Latinos,(which frequently means immigrants, and sometimes illegals) having colonized the military, can then take the jobs when they get back.

Here’s an article I wrote about the whole foreign legions problem before 9/11, and here’s the Onion News Network’s satirical take on this idea:

Some of this story will be old news to VDARE.com readers–Tom Piatak wrote about it in 2001. Today’s Daily Telegraph writes

How Hitler and the Nazis tried to steal Christmas
The Nazi Party tried their best to remove Christ from Christmas by paganising carols, producing glittering swastika, iron cross and toy grenade baubles for the fir tree, research for a new exhibition has found.

Published: 8:53AM GMT 17 Nov 2009
Many of the changes made under Hitler, put in place to remove the influence of the Jewish-born baby Jesus, are still in use today, much to the alarm of modern Germans.

The swastika-shaped baking trays and wrapping paper adorned with Nazi symbols have long gone, but traces of the Third Reich Christmas can still be found in the subtly rewritten lyrics of favourite carols.

The discoveries have been highlighted by a new exhibition at the National Socialism Documentation Centre in Cologne.

“I always thought that Unto Us a Time Has Come was a song about wandering through winter snow,” said Heidi Bertelson, 42, a lawyer who visited the exhibit told Times. “I didn’t realise that Christ had been excised.”

In 2001, Piatak quoted Father Gereon Goldmann’s autobiography, The Shadow Of His Wings:

As a conscript in the SS, Goldmann was forced to celebrate not Christmas, but a bizarre winter holiday concocted by the Nazis:

“On Christmas Eve, there was a celebration, not a Christian one, but a pagan German Julfest. We were all together and had to sing some trash about the night of the clear stars and other sad substitutes for the true Christmas message.”

As shocking as it may sound, the contemporary public observance of Christmas in America bears a much closer resemblance to the Nazis’ Julfest than to the Christmas that enticed [Whittaker] Chambers. And this extraordinary transformation has occurred in a generation.[More]

And it’s starting again this year–see the Catholic League’s latest list: WAR ON CHRISTMAS COMMENCES November 3, 2009.

UPDATE: Check out the Google News on “War Against Christmas” and “War On Christmas.”

A lot of it is “War On Christmas Denial”–no such thing is happening, they say, they say.

F. Roger Devlin writes:

After mentioning Three Dog Night in my last piece, I got to thinking about whether there were ever any rock-n-roll records about immigration. I believe Led Zeppelin once did an “Immigrant Song,” but it’s not quite what I have in mind. I guess it isn’t the sort of thing that makes people burst into song. However, in 1976 the band Steely Dan did a song about Puerto Ricans coming to New York. They face various hardships (including violent blacks!) until they learn how to play the welfare system. Then they write home and tell Uncle Tio to come along and bring the whole family. The song is called “The Royal Scam.”

They are hounded down
To the bottom of a bad town
Amid the ruins
Where they learn to fear
An angry race of fallen kings
Their dark companions

Lyrics