Writing in today’s Daily Telegraph, former Thatcher Cabinet Official Norman Tebbit declares that Britain needs a moratorium on legal immigration.

Tebbit explains,

“The projections from that inflow confirm that our population will rise by 10 million within 25 years, nearly 70 per cent by new immigration unless something is done. That is the population of another London, or seven Birminghams. At present the population of the UK is set to rise to 70 million.

“This would be bad enough if we could be confident that the newcomers and those born of earlier immigrants were all determined to integrate into our society. At present, despite the integration and assimilation of very many immigrants and their descendents, there is no evidence that the pace of integration is fast enough to avoid a state of voluntary apartheid. We are, as Trevor Phillips has said, ‘sleepwalking into segregation’ and the consequences of that can be seen in other parts of the world.”

Lord Tebbit seems to understand the urgency in halting immigration into his native homeland. America’s political elite remains clueless in grasping the magnitude of the problem of allowing current U.S. legal immigration levels to continue apace.

Tebbit however argues,

“It seems to me that we must assert that we need to aim for a zero net immigration policy. We cannot achieve that while our frontiers are open to EU citizens, and although that is not too threatening at present, some of the prospective new member states would act like wide open doors to Third World migration. We need a decent policy of giving sanctuary to true refugees … but we must close the door to others and start serious work on deporting those here illegally, as well as reinstating proper border controls. It would also require changing our law to prevent judges and others simply claiming that foreign law overrides the laws of this country.”

When will we ever learn this lesson on this side of the Atlantic?

Lost in the MSM’s coverage of the aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake is any sensible, realistic analysis of what happens next, and next, and next, ad infinitum. Garrett Hardin’s maxim that you “can’t just do one thing” foretells of the likely permanent albatross for the U.S. and other western nations.

It isn’t simply a question of pumping in immediate supplies, pulling survivors from the rubble, placing orphans in homes, etc. This is merely the first stage of an endless ordeal.

When Montgomery County (Maryland) firefighters assisted the “victims” of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, members of the county’s SWAT team were assigned to protect the firefighters.

The same scenario is unfolding on a larger scale in Haiti where looting and roving gangs of machete-wielding natives are threatening an already unstable environment. U.S. Marines and other military forces have been dispatched to stabilize the relief efforts.

In Newsweek’s feature article, President Obama writes “In the days, months, and years ahead, we’ll need to work closely with the government and people of Haiti to reclaim the momentum that they achieved before the earthquake,” … “The United States will be there with the Haitian government and the United Nations every step of the way.”

Obama could have added “decades” and beyond to the duration of assistance.

Whatever transpires will ultimately not be good enough for our expert media celebrities who are on the scene grumbling about logistical and other “problems”. Anderson Cooper is leading the MSM melodrama in high-frustration mode as a CNN correspondent in Port Au Prince.

The expectations will exceed the realities of what can realistically be accomplished and sustained in Haiti. Here’s what we can expect: Aid levels will be insufficient or botched in terms of deliveries to the needy; infrastructure assistance will be less than adequate; lawlessness and anarchy will require a permanent security presence from UN and U.S. troops; corruption will undermine some of the aid; whatever is rebuilt will eventually deteriorate again and the “Island of the Damned” will continue to be what as it has been since independence — an unlivable hell on earth. Critics will invoke “memories” of Katrina to deflect the real problem facing Haiti’s future: a population unable to govern or sustain itself.

Little has changed in the 120 years since Sir Spencer St. John, “Her Majesty’s Minister Resident and Consul-General”, described Haiti (“or the Black Republic”) as a corrupt peasant society rampant with voodoo and cannibalism. Chances are 10, 20, or 50 years from now Haiti will pretty much resemble its post-independence national character as a destitute and uncivil society.

The East Bay Express reported on December 23, 2009 that Berkeley High School is seriously considering a proposal to “eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students”.

The newspaper disclosed that the “proposal would trade labs seen as benefiting white students for resources to help struggling students”. In other words, science labs are not benefiting “struggling” black and Hispanic students so let’s close them down and redirect the funds to remedial programs.

The Express noted, “[t]he proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High’s School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley’s dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

“Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous.”

Under the Obama administration’s “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”, California received $18.716 billion in additional education spending for Child Care Development, Head Start, the State Stabilization Fund, Title I for disadvantaged students, Special Education, Education Technology and the National School Lunch Program.

Since this isn’t clearly enough emergency aid, the recommendation is to close science labs because whites benefit at the expense of underprivileged minorities.

This is precisely the outcome that Michael Levin, author of Why Race Matters
, had predicted a decade ago, namely one sinister way of “leveling” the education playing field for “disadvantaged” minorities is impeding the education of whites.

The answer to Berkeley’s education problem of not leaving “struggling” [black and Hispanic] students behind is to shelter them at the expense of white students who excel in science.

President Obama will recognize Project Exploration, an organization working to insert ethnic minorities into science education, with a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring during a White House ceremony today. Project Exploration co-founder and Executive Director Gabrielle Lyon served as a Fellow with the $outhern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project. Lyon interviewed Bill Ayers for the Teaching Tolerance site in 1998.[An Unconditional Embrace,Spring 1998]

In the interview, Ayers, former Weather Underground fugitive, radical educator and self-described communist, is merely described “as a civil rights organizer, radical anti-Vietnam War activist, teacher and author” without any extended discussion of his extremist ideological views or militant activities with a group of revolutionaries that bombed American installations.

Lyon asked Ayers about the effectiveness of the educational system as a vehicle to bring about “social change”. Ayers replied: “Because I began teaching right after my release from jail, I’ve always linked teaching to social justice. There’s a whole group of teachers who came out of the ’60s who asked themselves, ‘What can I do with my life that would be consistent within an agenda of social change and hopefulness towards a more humane social order?’ The most common choice has been to teach; teaching is seen as an extension of their involvement in social change.”

Lyon also served as the director of the School Change Institute at the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ayers co-founded the Small Schools Workshop in 1992. Mike Klonsky serves as the national director of the Small Schools Workshop. In the 1970s, according to Wikipedia, Klonsky became a leader in the New Communist Movement and “was one of five S.D.S. members arrested on May 12, 1969, when prank phone calls sent police and firefighters to the S.D.S. offices in Chicago. “In the 1970s he headed the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), in which role he was one of the first westerners allowed to visit the People’s Republic of China.

After Lyon posted commentary on the Huffington Post site, Klonsky tweeted “Gabe Lyon, a real science educator, at Huff”.

Honoring radical educators with communist mentors: Change you can believe in!

Charles Bloch’s article about Human Events distancing itself from Pat Buchanan’s recent column “Did Hitler Really Want War?” picks away at the sore that blights the American Right: the modern “conservative” establishment–what has been called “Conservatism, Inc.”.

The growing menace of political correctness, and increasing political persecution from the intolerant radical Left, such as the $PLC, reveals the spinelessness of Conservatism, Inc. in defending historically core positions of the political Right.

The fact that all too many conservative careerists require backbone replacement surgery has allowed the political adversaries of the Right to gain the moral high ground in terms of what is acceptable and off-limits from civil discourse.

As a fixture on the Washington political scene, Human Events and other editors and owners of “conservative” publications (including “conservative” pundits and columnists, such as the late Robert Novak) tread carefully around “controversies” that can run afoul of the “PC” police. They crave political access — accessibility to political insiders on Capital Hill and various executive department offices — and accessibility requires acceptance. Anything that jeopardizes this fragile arrangement must go. Principled viewpoints are all too easily smeared as politically incorrect. Hosting parties for congressional candidates, politicians, committee chairmen, and key staff members and journalists from the MSM are more important than speaking candidly about politically inconvenient truths.

Pat Buchanan is one of the few remaining exceptions to this trend. He believes in speaking freely in a “free” society and letting the chips fall where they may.

The real irony is that Buchanan’s recent column would have fit right in with the pro-isolationist views of the founding editors of Human Events (Felix Morley and Frank Chodorov). The America

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Ted Kennedy’s death on Wednesday–in essence the passing of a senator–produced a never-ending tsunami of retrospectives. Newscasts, from CNN to PBS’ News Hour with Jim Lehrer, devoted entire programs to Ted Kennedy’s passing. The funeral on Saturday is likely to trigger another wave of retrospectives by the MSM.

The enshrinement of the deceased exposes the unfiltered liberal biases of the Mainstream Media elite. On CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, the gestures of John King and Gloria Borger–tilting the head, raising the eyebrows, batting the eyelashes–reflected a typical display of awestruck sentiment. Historian Douglas Brinkley summarized Kennedy’s legacy as if his political contributions ranked with the Founding Fathers.

Thursday’s Washington Post contains three front-page articles, four columns on the op/ed page (with six mini-retrospectives), a timeline with photographs that stretch across the span of two pages, five pages in the national section, and a “Style section” piece by Lois Romano. Friday’s Post contains two front page articles, multiple pages of coverage in the national section, and another column on the op/ed page.

The coverage is what one would expect from the death of a former president. Why all the attention over the death of this U.S. senator?

Part of the explanation is the Kennedy mystique–the death of the last prince of “Camelot”. Post columnist Eugene Robinson noted that Kennedy was “a prince fated never to be king”.

Another major factor is that Kennedy epitomized everything the MSM embraces: unrestricted mass immigration; “civil rights” also known as quotas, preferential treatment, and set-asides; public school desegregation via forced busing; the Equal Rights Amendment; socialized medicine (or “universal health care” widely touted as the “public option”); and Barack Obama.

MSM journalists, editors, reporters, and commentators identify with Kennedy’s political and social outlook–one defined by a rabid egalitarian liberal ideology.

Commentators on the airwaves talked in generic terms about how Kennedy “changed America” and left his “impact” on the nation without explaining the ramifications of his impact. Will the America of the future look like the America of the past? Will it resemble more and more the turmoil and ethnic strife of a Third World nation? How much public debt, how much more government, how much more federal regulation, how many more quotas, how many more egalitarian social policies are we willing to finance, support and shoulder as a nation? These questions will remain unanswered because the MSM will avoid any substantive critique or sustained discussion of Kennedy’s real legacy.

It should be noted that Editor & Publisher magazine combed though the obituaries of Sen. Kennedy to see how long it took for them to bring up the Chappaquiddick incident.

Here are the top results:

• Boston Herald — 10th paragraph

• Boston Globe — 5th paragraph

• New York Times —14th paragraph

• New York Post — 14th paragraph

• New York Daily News —13th paragraph

• Washington Post — 9th paragraph

• Wall Street Journal — 6th paragraph

• Los Angeles Times — 12th paragraph

• Chicago Tribune — 12th paragraph

• Miami Herald — 10th paragraph

• Reuters —18th paragraph

• USA Today —19th paragraph

• Politico–24th paragraph

• The Hill — NO MENTION

• Roll Call — 25th paragraph

• National Journal — 11th paragraph

• Times of London — 8th paragraph

Syndicated columnist, author, and political commentator Robert D. Novak, 78, died earlier today from complications of a brain tumor.

Journalists are sentimental about themselves (remember the Tim Russert grief fest?) and the major news networks, such as CNN, are running lengthy reminiscent retrospectives of Novak.

The author of several books including his 2007 memoir The Prince of Darkness,, Novak cultivated an image as the quintessential “conservative” maverick. By reputation, he was one who challenged the GOP, broke ranks with neoconservatives over Israel and the war in Iraq, expressed skepticism over the official storyline of the  savage attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli jets and torpedo ships, eventually became entwined in the Valerie Plame-CIA leak scandal, and out-scooped other reporters on numerous occasions.

In reviewing Novak’s memoir, I argued that this view was significantly at odds with reality.

Novak was first and foremost a Washington insider’s insider. He ranked third in most appearances on “Meet the Press” and worked as a CNN commentator for 25 years. He was a master at leeching onto divisive figures inside various administrations (Karl Rove is one example) who ultimately would serve his own ends, secure his reputation and advance his own career. He was skilled at the art of dodging career-ending encounters that would put him at odds with the media elite.

As an assistant editor for the Evans-Novak Political Report, I served as a liaison between my employer (Eagle Publishing) and Novak’s staffer writers Tim Carney and David Freddoso. Although at the time I was involved in editing three separate and distinctly unique publications, my editorship of The Occidental Quarterly with Sam Francis ran afoul of the politically correct mothership, Eagle Publishing, after the $PLC’s Heidi Beirich called Novak’s office to inquire as to my employment status.

Despite my nearly three years of diligent work, it was Novak’s nervousness at having to answer to a far-left ideological, obese hack that began the process that caused Eagle to force me to resign as managing editor of Human Events. Jeff Carneal, Eagle’s president and fairy godmother of political correctness there, ordered that I leave the office immediately. At least I had driven to the office that fateful day and was able to grab my mementos on the way out.

Novak talked tough about freedom and liberty. But he didn’t defend mine. Nor, in his politic avoidance of emerging National Question issues, was he defending America’s at the end of his life.

A new report to be released on April 14 will document rampant abuse in the collection of fraudulent income tax refunds from the IRS, especially by illegal immigrants.
The 51-page report, The Earned Income Tax Credit and Illegal Immigration: A Study in Fraud, Abuse, and Liberal Activism, by financial analyst and VDARE.COM contributor Edwin Rubenstein, will be released at a News Conference at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The study documents the “perverse childbearing incentives” which “are more acute among immigrant households” and details the overall role that the EITC contributes to population growth.
Speaking at the news conference (during the release of the report) will be:
Ed Rubenstein, James R. Edwards, Jr., a principal at the MITA Group, a Washington-based government affairs firm, and a consultant and public policy expert, author, and former Lincoln Fellow of the Claremont Institute, and Wayne Lutton, editor of the Social Contract and co-author of The Immigration Time Bomb.
“The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the United States — and the most illegal-immigrant friendly,” explains Edwin Rubenstein, author of the new report. “In 2007, more than 23 million households received more than $47 billion in the EITC payments.”
But “between one-quarter to one-third of all EITC claims are ‘improperly paid’ according to the General Accounting Office. The EITC — like most of the tax code — operates on the honor system. This is very different from welfare and food stamps where applicants are interviewed and required to present proof of eligibility,” Mr. Rubenstein said.
For more information on the news conference and to download a copy of the report [PDF]visit the Social Contract website: www.thesocialcontract.com

The news coverage of violent crimes and sociopathic conduct (soaring AIDS rates) in the greater Washington, D.C.-area routinely contains the not so mysterious guess-the-race-of-the-perpetrator missing feature. As Nicholas Stix has pointed out, the “Mainstream Media” (MSM) deliberately avoid any mention of the race of a violent suspect in crime coverage.

Three articles in yesterday’s WP focus on the run-of-the-mill homicide and fatality — events that seem to dominate local minority areas, reflecting an uninterrupted business-as-usual string of events uncommon in largely white suburban and exurban communities.

“Police Kill Man Who Had Gun At Restaurant in Temple Hills”is one two-column article next to the three column story “2 Mothers, 2 Daughters Dead; Pr. George’s Police Seek Link” (as if there is some mystery as to the nature of the perpetrator in these double-homicides) on the front page of yesterday’s Metro section.

Below the fold at the bottom of the front page is clueless Courtland Milloy’s column on the AIDS crisis in the District of Columbia (rates are now higher than in West Africa) as if the epidemic is the result of an insufficient “public awareness campaign” (“focus groups”, “data”, and “money”) to combat “unprotected” sex.

Not to mention yesterday’s prize-winner for obfuscation: “‘Scary Drug’ Makes Comeback” on the rebound increase in use of PCP among D.C.’s violent suspects. (A more accurate headline would be: “Scary Drug Makes Comeback Among Scary People”.)

What did Damon D. Taylor, Charlese J. Hall, and Derek J. Green have in common before shooting his mom in bed (Taylor), stabbing her 7-year-old daughter to death (Hall), and driving his car on a sidewalk at 60-mph and paralyzing a pedestrian after pinning her against another car (Green): they were high on PCP.

Night after night on the local evening newscasts violent crimes are reported in Baltimore and the District of Columbia as if the race of the suspect was an irrelevant coincidence not worth disclosing.

Yesterday’s Associated Press account describing the NAACP’s class action lawsuit filed against two major banks [NAACP Says Bank Giants Steered Blacks To Bad Loans, by Jesse Washington, Associated Press, March 13, 2009] in Los Angeles raises the idea that blacks were (yet again) victims of “racism” because a disproportionate number of blacks were more likely to receive sub-prime loans. The lawsuit claims that Wells Fargo and HSBC were “forcing” blacks to buy “sub-prime mortgages while whites with identical qualifications got lower rates.”

The irony of the sub-prime problem seems lost on Melissa Murray, vice president of corporate communications for Wells Fargo & Co.: “We have never tolerated, and will never tolerate, discrimination in any way, shape or form in any of our business practices, products, or services,” Murray said.

Perhaps if banks had discriminated, i.e. maintained strict standards in scrutinizing the credit ratings of some of these borrowers then the banking industry may have avoided the brunt of the sub-prime meltdown.

What’s next a class-action lawsuit against furniture retailers claiming blacks were “forced” to buy furniture on time?