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National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein| American Job Displacement Continues In November—But Bernanke Plans To Suck In More Immigrants Anyway!

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has just announced that he is tying interest rates to unemployment. [Bernanke Wields New Tools to Reduce Unemployment Rate, by Caroline Salas Gage & Craig Torres, Bloomberg, Dec 13 2012.]

Jonah Goldberg To Christian Republicans: Disappear!

On the same glorious day when the Wall Street Journal ran a feature piece by Straussian Peter Berkowitz [email him] instructing conservatives to surrender on Big Government and gay marriage [Conservative Survival in a Progressive Age, December 12 2012], another Conservatism Inc.

Obama's Electronic Medical Records Scam

Republican Retreat—Or Rout?

Given the expectations raised by the Republican punditocracy—that Mitt was headed for a big victory—the jolt of defeat hit especially hard.

Now, what had seemed an orderly retreat has taken on the aspect of a rout, with Beltway Republicans calling for abandonment of fixed positions all along the line.

Christmas for Obama Bundlers

Tom Wolfe’s BACK TO BLOOD—A Confederate Looks At Miami’s Cubans

Remember last spring when the Main Stream Media kicked off the Obama re-election drive by inflating a local police blotter item—the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida—into the latest Hunt for the Great White Defendant?

Our Collapsing Economy and Currency

Astonishing Immigration Patriot Victory In Montana—No Thanks To GOP, Which Ran Away (And Lost)

 The November 6 election had some more under-reported good news for immigration patriots: Montana’s Legislative Referendum 121 [LR-121, pdf, see pp.

Ted Cruz: Wobbling, But Still Worthwhile for Immigration Patriots

When Barack Obama took office in January of 2009, there was not a single Hispanic Republican in the US Senate.  The consolation prize for professional panderers, after Mitt Romney’s dismal showing among Hispanics in 2012, is that there will be two Hispanic Republican Senators when Bar

Stirrings of Secession

"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another ..."

John Derbyshire’s Google Reader: Keeping Up With The Dark Enlightenment

What I want to know at this moment (Wednesday afternoon) is: What's happened to Discover Blogs?

I ask because Discover Blogs is (not "are"—it's a single line item) one of the stops on my morning trawl through Google Reader. I click on that stop and up comes a list of posts from half a dozen science blogs, with a bias towards the life sciences. There are several posts every day: a mean of 5.58 for the past month, with mode 6, median 6.48, and standard deviation 2.64…sorry, science blogs do that to you.

Democrat Screams: Amnesty Without Teeth Will Be Disastrous!

 Ross Douthat’s recent excellent New York Times  column (The Demographic Excuse, November 10, 2012) echoed the argument by Politico analyst Sean Trende (see James Antle’s review  of Trende’s