So Representative Eric Cantor (R-Va) feels it expedient to curry favor with the MSM by sneering at Rush Limbaugh, and smearing the patriots who prevented the election of the RNC-preferred RINO in NY-23 this past week:

Can it be? Another Republican leader taking on Rush Limbaugh? Apparently so. And that leader is Virginia’s Eric Cantor, the second-highest-ranking GOP member in the House.

Eric Cantor takes on Rush Limbaugh, harsh GOP rhetoric Steve Padilla Los Angeles Times November 6 2009

This is derived from a Bloomberg News report

Cantor Calls for Inclusive Party, Criticizes Limbaugh Rhetoric by Lorraine Woellert November 7 2009

Cantor, when asked about Limbaugh’s comments that “Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate,” and his comparison of the administration’s health-care logo to a swastika, said the comparisons were wrong…
Cantor, 46, said Republicans must stay unified if they are to win elections. “That’s the lesson learned” from the Nov. 3 Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia and the loss of a New York congressional seat in a race that divided the party

VDARE.com is not gung-ho about Rush. He and his staff resolutely fled from various credentialed attempts to get him to just consider the Alien Nation thesis when the book was published in 1996. As Peter Brimelow said at the time of the last CPAC Conference:

…there was another reason I skipped Limbaugh: I knew, from long observation, that notwithstanding his brilliant barn-burning delivery, he wouldn’t actually say anything new, especially in the area of immigration and the National Question that are VDARE.com’s focus. I think the NR editors are mediocrities intellectually and morally, but they do know a political risk when they see one, from long practice in not taking them. And they were quite right to say of Limbaugh, in their obviously uneasy editorial on the controversy: “His views are not extreme and his manner is not, for that matter, particularly angry.”

However, the fact is that he is at present – for Immigration Patriots, Conservatives, even GOPers – our Rat.

Is Cantor? As the only Jewish Republican Congressman, he comes under vicious community pressure, which calls for sympathy. But a thoughtful analysis of his Numbers USA ranking (“B”) indicates that he is not just bad – he is dangerous.

This B rating (which puts him in the middle of the Virginia Delegation, 50th out of 176 among House Republicans, and 189th out of 535 all Congress) is achieved by subterfuge.

Cantor votes steadily for enforcement proposals. Any “Law and Order” – or even “Competent Government” - man really has no alternative.

But he utterly failed (F-) on votes to “Reduce Unnecessary Visas”, did poorly (C) on “Amnesties”. Even worse, he DODGED all votes on the “Anchor Baby Citizenship” question – the Jugular of the transformation of America effort.

It needs to be emphasized: Switzerland has quantitatively a similar immigrant issue to America. It is far less of a political threat because being born there does not make a Baby Swiss.

Eric Cantor is in favor of transforming America. He opposes any effective measure to stop it. This is no surprise. His votes are probably the most extreme expessions of his prejudices his district can be fooled into tolerating.

This man deserves no place in the GOP House Leadership.

We at VDARE.com have long had good reason to think little of The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto (a.k.a. Tarantoad), the fanatically open-borders neoconservative who polices the paper’s blog.

Possibly we will have to reconsider. On Monday he posted
In Defense of Carol Swain The Wall Street Journal October 26, 2009
which takes the astonishing step (for the MSM) of attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC to us).

This arises out of the $PLC’s attempt to harm black Vanderbilt Professor Swain for her endorsement of Craig Bodeker’s A Conversation About Race (VDARE.com discussion here).

“Carol Swain is an apologist for white supremacists,” Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center tells the Tennessean. Carol Swain is also a friend of this column. To our mind the charge seemed awfully far-fetched, so we decided to get to the bottom of it.

Because we think highly of Swain, we decided to watch the film and draw our own conclusion. Our reaction was mixed: We found the interviews fascinating but Bodeker’s narration disagreeable. We do, however, see Swain’s point about the film’s value in illuminating the subject of race in America.

Taranto’s piece is an astonishing 1,977 words long. This is because, while determined to defend Swain, he is not willing to take the position that A Conversation About Race deserves to be considered on its merit, regardless of what its Producer may have said elsewhere or had for breakfast. Anathematization by Association is a treasured part of the Neocon arsenal, as well as the $PLC’s.

So Taranto writes a long series of quibbles, finally reaching a polemically viable conclusion:

Bodeker …makes of himself an example of the phenomenon described in the publicity material for Carol Swain’s “The New White Nationalism”:
…Swain goes so far as to say that if liberals and African American leaders don’t start to address the legitimate concerns raised by the white nationalists on race matters, they risk being partly to blame for racial unrest in America.
This is a serious argument, and it deserves to be taken seriously, even by those, like the SPLC, that disagree.

Taranto correctly concludes

dismissing Swain as “an apologist for white supremacists” is the tactic of one who is trying to shut down, not encourage, debate.

What is going on here? Neoconservatives have previously been happy to benefit from the demonization process.

Is it just that Taranto has some kind of (an ideological) crush on Swain? Or could it be that the $PLC’s increasing targeting of mainstream political and Christian groups for fundraising scares is being perceived as too provocative?

In any case, what a triumph for Carol Swain. She elicits an extremely rare MSM condemnation of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and she causes the appearance of an extensive and not wholly hostile discussion of A Conversation About Race into a major outlet.

And what an embarrassing contrast to the ineffectuality of FAIR

The news that the huge acceleration of the immigrant influx into the UK under the Tony Blair Prime Ministership was the result of deliberate anti-historic nation malice – reported by Brenda Walker and Steve Sailer yesterday – will not surprise regular VDARE.com readers.

Exactly the same appears to have been the case with the US 1965 Immigration Act. See Norbert Schlei—Guilty of Malice Aforethought in America’s Immigration Disaster?

Andrew Neather, whose urge to boast surfaced this confession in the charmingly titled article Don’t listen to the whingers - London needs immigrants London Evening Standard 23.10.09

is, for the age of Google, very elusive to research. Although the name might be thought to be English, it was virtually unknown in Ancestry.com’s benchmark 1891 Census sweep – recently adopted perhaps?

But a familiar pattern emerges from the article (which is notable for the contempt it evinces for any British not living in London):

I wrote the landmark speech given by then immigration minister Barbara Roche in September 2000, calling for a loosening of controls. It marked a major shift from the policy of previous governments: from 1971 onwards, only foreigners joining relatives already in the UK had been permitted to settle here.

…despite Roche’s keenness to…be upfront, there was a reluctance elsewhere in government to discuss what increased immigration would mean…Roche was unusual in that she was a London MP, herself of east European Jewish stock.

Well,well.

Further supporting my contention on Saturday that the Galleon insider trading case demonstrates how much Wall Street has become Minority Occupied Territory is Galleon Sinks; Informant Surfaces By SUSAN PULLIAM The Wall Street Journal October 22 2009

The informant who touched off the insider-trading case is identified by a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint as “Tipper A” … According to people familiar with the matter, the informant is Roomy Khan… The last listed address for Ms. Khan, 51 years old, and her husband, Sakhawat Khan, is Atherton, Calif.

The WSJ notes

In July 2007, the informant identified as Ms. Khan “arranged to pay” $10,000 to a junior Moody’s analyst for inside information on a takeover of Hilton, the complaint said…The former Moody’s junior analyst, identified by someone familiar with the matter as 27-year-old Deep Shah, denied Wednesday that he passed any confidential information in exchange for money, as alleged. Reached in Mumbai, he said: “I don’t know anything about this.”

The Journal further reports

The evolving details show how Mr. Rajaratnam allegedly gleaned inside information from a circle of technology analysts he had known since the 1990s, when he was an analyst at investment bank Needham & Co. They include two other cooperating witnesses: California hedge-fund managers Choo Beng Lee, who also worked at Needham, and Ali Far, who once worked at Galleon,

Do I see a pattern?

Insider trading, of course, is extremely attractive because a couple of phone calls can reap millions. Pity Vivek Kundra’s hard-working former colleagues:

Farrukh Awan…and his boss, Yusuf Acar, were fired after federal authorities accused them of asking government contractor Sushil Bansal for cash so they would approve Bansal’s employees for jobs at the city’s technology office…Awan worked for Bansal’s Advanced Integrated Technologies Corp…before being hired as a full-time city employee in 2006. By then, authorities say, Awan had already conspired with Bansal to receive kickbacks based on the hourly wage Bansal’s workers received at the technology office…One of Bansal’s employees, Sarosh Mir, has pleaded guilty to submitting inflated time sheets to the city, sometimes for employees who did not work for the District.

Another guilty plea expected in D.C. tech office kickback scheme By: FREEMAN KLOPOTT The Examiner October 23, 2009

All these details…so much administration. In the two years Kundra was “Chief Technology Officer” for the District of Columbia wouldn’t he have sensed something was going on right under his nose? But since he is protected by President Obama’s racial predelictions it does not matter.

I see the redoubtable Carol Swain will appear on the equally redoubtable Lou Dobbs’ radio show at 3-35 pm EST to discuss her latest brawl with the Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC to us). Check for radio stations here.

Both parties deserve congratulations. Taking on the $PLC is considerably more dangerous than challenging the Pope in Medieval Europe.

This particular fight started when Swain defended herself on The Huffington Post after being smeared in the $PLC’s HateWatch:

Guilt by Association: The Southern Poverty Law Center Hurls a Punch October 12, 2009

I linked to the article criticizing film maker, Craig Bodeker for a DVD he produced called a Conversation About Race, for which I wrote a blurb recommending the documentary film for classroom use. Using the tactic of guilt by association and a highly selective list of the film’s reviewers, the SPLC’s article stated:

Bodeker’s documentary has received most of its praise from hate publications and groups, including Vdare.com, The Occidental Quarterly, the National Policy Institute, American Renaissance and the Council of Conservative Citizens’ Citizens Informer. (One so-called mainstream fan of the film is the controversial black scholar Carol Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University and a member of the National Council for the Humanities…

(The VDARE.com citation was originally hyperlinked, but the Left protocol is never to link to opponents).

Here is Athena Kerry’s review of a Conversation About Race.

Swain’s local newspaper then attacked her
Vanderbilt professor slammed for backing film that calls racism a myth By Janell Ross The Tennessean October 17,2009

Swain, a professor of law and political science, said in an interview with The Tennessean that she feels as if she has “been attacked” by the group.
Mark Potock, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, responded, “If that is what she believes, she is suffering from some sort of low-grade megalomania.”

Getting named by the $PLC in a context like this is a frequently lethal experience, and Potock is showing his employer’s characteristic intellectual dishonesty in his response.

It is a real culture clash. Carol Swain adheres to the Anglo-Saxon tradition of debate:

Swain sees things differently. If there are going to be conversations about race, she thinks they have to include what the Southern Poverty Law Center may consider extremist or hateful positions.
“My fear is that unless we create forums for people to safely and openly express themselves, then you are going to drive more young people into these extreme groups.””

Potock and the $PLC adhere to the contemptible civic traditions of Czarist and Stalinist Russia.

The Swain/Dobbs interview should be worthwhile.

Carol Swain’s courage puts the ineffectual FAIR reply to the SPLC to shame

Rob Sanchez’ excellent blog Rep. Giffords’ Bill To Triple H-1B Visa Cap theorizes that Giffords (D-AZ8th) has come under the influence of Indian contributors.

If so, she has company. Political contributions by Indians, overwhelmingly to Democrats, are becoming significant. Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Fund chief indicted for insider trading last week, gave the Obama Victory Fund $30,800 last year.

But why is Giffords getting involved? She won Arizona’s 8th district in 2006 from the GOP by pretending to be sensible on Immigration, while the Bush hacks in Washington sabotaged the campaign of the Republican candidate - who really was sound on the issue.

Subsequently she has mainly laid low on the matter while establishing her Treason Lobby credentials by grading C- in the Numbers USA evaluation system.

No doubt she feels she can safely launch this attack on middle-class Americans, because, as Sanchez pointed out, Arizona is not a high tech state. The immigration problem there is inundation by low-skilled Hispanics.

But why take the lead, when the High-tech cheap labor hogs have dozens of other Congressthings in their pocket?

My guess is because of who she is. This is a case of hearing Ancestral Voices. To appease those shades, Americans in general have to suffer.

On Wednesday James Fulford reported on a very alert item by the blog Nation of Cowards: Chi-Trib Mug Shots: Focusing On White Criminals? This pointed out and illustrated that the Chicago Tribune (owned since December 2008 by billionaire Sam Zell in one of his less inspired purchases) was skipping numerous pictures of blacks accused of violent crimes in order to present white faces in its “Mugs In The News” feature. This was apparently a habit.

On Sunday NOC posted Vdare & NOC gets Results! which says (and illustrates) that since the last items

I’ve been monitoring the front page which for a day or two actually got more racially balanced…And then just that quick, was gone…

That’s right, the mugs, which as far as I can tell were actually a new addition to the front page, have been pulled off!

NOC goes on

…the mugs appeared to be a recently added regular feature…all I was asking for was fairness, racial fairness, so if they pulled the mugs from the front page for this reason it seems to me that they would rather lose what I’ll wager was a popular feature (crime stuff always is) rather than admit the ugly racial truth.

Tell me again, why is the Three Monkey Media dying again?

Nation of Cowards says

The Trib forts up like no paper I’ve ever seen, you can’t talk to anybody, ever.

But you can complain about this anti-white dishonesty here.

Well done, Nation of Cowards!

As usual, the offshore media is more candid than the American: Bloomberg’s Galleon’s Rajaratnam Charged in Biggest Hedge Scheme By David Glovin, Katherine Burton and David Scheer Oct 16 2009 pussyfoots around:

“The defendants operated in a world of, you scratch my back, I’ll scratch your back,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said at a press conference today. “Greed, sometimes, is not good…
The SEC’s complaint said that Rajaratnam didn’t deserve his reputation for “genius trading strategies” or “astute study of company fundamentals or marketplace trends.”
“Raj Rajaratnam is not a master of the universe, but rather a master of the Rolodex,” Robert Khuzami, director of enforcement at the SEC, said at the press conference.

The Indian Diaspora web site Thaindian.com gets straight to the point:
World’s richest Sri Lankan, two Indian Americans charged with insider trading by IANS October 17th 2009

“This is not a garden-variety insider trading case,” Preet Bharara, Indian-American US Attorney for Manhattan, said… One of the criminal complaints accuses Rajaratnam of conspiring with Intel Capital treasury department managing director Rajiv Goel and Anil Kumar, a director of McKinsey & Co.

Of course, Rajaratnam ( a major Democratic donor) may be innocent. And he may be acquitted (a different thing).

But we are going to see a lot more of this sort of news, as I said at the time of the Vivek Kundra mess. Introducing clannish ethnic groups from deeply corrupt cultures into a society with a more honest (and therefore less protected) tradition can only have one result.

The only reason why more of it has not been detected yet on Wall Street is that most of the Asians there are still very junior. As I have seen myself, it is very common to attend analyst meetings now where half those present are either South or East Asian. Usually less a third are white men – and that includes Jews.

As for WASPS, as our correspondent Henri Roussseau noted, forget it.

Why is this happening? Lies frequently bandied about include ability and cheapness. These are nonsense. Hiring on Wall Street is a process of intense cronyism – and increasingly it would seem, racially motivated. Large firms will be/are experiencing the process laid out here.

21st Century Wall Street – Minority Occupied Territory.

The move by the Obama administration to cripple the anti-illegal alien activity of patriot Sheriff Joe Arpaio has rightly caught the imagination of many. (Feds limit Arizona sheriff’s immigration powers By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press October 06, 2009 Hat tip American Renaissance) Even some politicians have noticed: Franks rips Obama administration for Arpaio move yourwestvalley.com October 07 2009

But, as the industrious Federale blog has documented with two fine postings, the dismantling of enforcement by Obama’s people is proceeding rapidly and on a wide front.

Announcing The End Of Work Site Enforcement reports

Marcy Foreman, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Investigation announced that the enforcement of immigration laws against illegal aliens at their work sites has effectively ended. http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/news/2009,1007-forman.pdf

While claiming that work site enforcement (WSE) is a priority for ICE, the memorandum actually describes the end of WSE. Extensive new paperwork requirements are imposed with offices required to report 14 days in advance to HQ to get approval, which, of course, will not be coming. It also requires search warrants, arrest warrants and an commitment by U.S. Attorney’s Offices to prosecute. As I described previously, that is unlikely. Assistant United States Attorney’s are notoriously lazy and refuse to prosecute most federal crimes that law enforcement agencies bring to them. In areas like New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco this means a defacto amnesty for illegals…

While Club Fed notes

John Morton, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has apparently decided on how to hold illegal aliens in custody. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091006/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_immigration_detention_reforms (h/t American Patrol http://www.americanpatrol.com/) He will put them in hotels and nursing homes. All those are well known for their high security, as no one ever escapes from a hotel

This matter was also dealt with Wednesday in The Washington Post: Immigration Officials Weigh Less-Restrictive Detentions by Spencer S. Hsu October 7, 2009 which allowed Bush Administration Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Julie Myers Wood to land a good blow

Julie Myers Wood, who led ICE from 2006 to 2008, warned that less-restrictive detention facilities can be expensive and, because some illegal immigrants may flee, would not have the same deterrent value… ICE detention “is becoming the new drop house,” she said, referring to the temporary quarters where some smugglers drop off their customers before they disperse into the country, and “that’s what smugglers are going to plan on if you set up facilities that are less secure.”

Like their response to “Catch and Release“.

I value Federale very highly because its writer actually understands how the Feds work.

The stopping of WSE is particularly poignant in these times of joblessness. As the Howard Industries raid showed, eliminating illegal aliens is an immediate and direct benefit to Americans. That is why an immigration moratorium should be first priority in Washington.

But the fact is, the Democratic elite cares far more about brown illegals than it does about American workers – of any race

The liberal British newspaper The Guardian produced on Sunday Will California become America’s first failed state? Paul Harris Sunday 4 October 2009

California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike. So what has gone so catastrophically wrong?

Back to the ‘70s! This was the sort of thing one got used to seeing in foreign newspapers in the dark days between the Watergate coup d’état and the Reagan rescue.

While colorful and fact-festooned, this article is quite useless as piece of analysis. It has been carefully written not to offend the fashionable Left, producing this gem:

But amid the crisis there are a few sparks of hope for the future…. Take Anthony “Van” Jones, a man now in the vanguard of the movement to build a future green economy, creating millions of jobs, solving environmental problems and reducing climate change at a stroke. It is a beguiling vision… Obama came to power and Jones got the call from the White House. In just a few years, his ideas had spread from the streets of Oakland to White House policy papers. Jones was later ousted from his role, but his ideas remain…

Yes, that Van Jones (who was otherwise unidentified).

Well might thread commentator jmac43 say:

The author has “overlooked” the millions of illegal aliens that have taken up residence in California that have bankrupted schools, medical facilities, prisons, and social aid networks. If a person wanted to solve California’s financial problem all they would need to do is find the cost per illegal alien and multiply it per the number of illegal aliens in California and the resultant figure will wipe out the “Overpowering” debt the state is dealing with. But with the simple answer of deporting all the illegals (President Eisenhower deported 13 million in the 1950s) the politicians are refusing to do to protect American citizens…

The problems in California are ones made by politicians refusing to deal with illegal aliens and not one of citizens not being taxed enough…

While the invasion continues thousands of Americans are leaving California each week to escape the invaders, however the ones leaving are the responsible taxpaying workers which increases the financial drain.

The politicians are on a slippery slope but it is one of their own making.

Paul Harris does have the excuse that he is a foreigner needing to make his way on the East Coast cocktail circuit.

That does not excuse the shockingly dishonest essay Who killed California by Troy Senik, which just appeared in the “Inaugural Issue” of National Affairs, the successor magazine to Irving Kristol’s The Public Interest (the archive of which it carries).

A native of California, Senik

lives in Southern California, where he is writing on national issues and working on a reform agenda to strengthen the California Republican Party… He has referred to his views as neolibertarian, embracing a strong foreign policy but minimal government interference in domestic affairs

The blog Mangan’s instantly identified the problem: Neocons Ask: Who Killed California? Saturday September 26 2009. With disdain Mangan’s quotes:

And fiscal troubles are just the tip of the iceberg. California’s percentage of adults without at least a high-school education is the second-highest in the nation (and the fact that 72% of those without diplomas are immigrants only fuels the state’s growing problem of social stratification). The Commonwealth Fund has ranked the quality of California’s health care lowest of the 50 states. The state has the highest rate of criminal recidivism in the country…

and says

The (italicized) mention of immigrants above is the only place that this issue is touched on in the entire article.

This is in over 6,000 words!

Of course, there is some good wonkery in the essay. Peter Brimelow wearing his Worm in the Apple hat will doubtless be pleased to see three paragraphs – 463 words – devoted to complaining about the California Teachers Union. But significantly the extensive discussion of the various policy-making referendums which shaped the state’s affairs completely ignores Proposition 187, passed with 59% support in 1994 but murdered by Federal Judge Mariana Pfaelzer with the connivance of the state’s political elite.

Proposition 187 would have had a profound impact on the state’s illegal problem. It stipulated

1. All law enforcement agents who suspect that a person who has been arrested is in violation of immigration laws must investigate the detainee’s immigration status, and if they find evidence of illegality they must report it to the attorney general of California, and to the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
2. Local governments are prohibited from doing anything to impair the fulfillment of this requirement.
3. The attorney general must keep records on all such cases and make them available to any other government entity that wishes to inspect them.
4. No one may receive public benefits until they have proven their legal right to reside in the country.
5. If government agents suspected anyone applying for benefits of being illegal immigrants, the agents must report their suspicions in writing to the appropriate enforcement authorities.
6. Emergency medical care is exempted, as required by federal law, but all other medical benefits have the requirements stated above.
7. Primary and secondary education is explicitly included.

Prominent is marshalling stupid GOP leaders to oppose 187 was Irving Kristol’s son, Bill. (He is a member of the National Affairs’ Publication Committee.)

Historical causation is intricate. Of course, having a Democratic party owned by certain ethnic minorities deeply saturated in socialist prejudices was going to be a problem. It has been in many US states. But faced with the lethal threat of inundation by economically low quality Hispanics, Californians reacted wisely. They were robbed of the fruits of that wisdom by Neoconservatives, who proceeded to block reconsideration at the State or Federal level for almost a generation.

The problem is still here – only massively worse. No wonder they don’t want to talk about it.