Politics
Why do American candidates run Spanish-language political ads? Don’t they understand that our national language is English ? Don’t they know English ability is a requirement of naturalization? Don’t they realize that the use of Spanish-language political ads is downright divisive? Or is it just that they don’t care? At least if candidates are lying […]
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Mitt Romney was in Philadelphia, visiting an inner city charter school. Plenty of protestors, including the mayor of Philadelphia, were outside the school. Inside the school, Romney made a rather amazing claim, stating that “…the gap in educational opportunity and achievement of people of color in this society, I believe, is the civil […]
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Several months ago I had a VDARE.COM article entitled “Department of Labor’s Hilda Solis to American Farmers – Replace your Nephew with an Illegal Alien!” It’s about the meddlesome system of changes in regulation designed to make it harder for young people to work on family farms. These rules would not have been voted on in […]
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the early hours of April 6th, two men, Jacob England and Alvin Watts, entered a predominantly black neighborhood and started shooting people. They shot 5 black people, 3 of whom died. Police arrested the perpetrators two days later. They confessed and were charged with three counts of first degree murder and […]
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Recently on VDARE.com, I discussed the Puerto Rican question in an article entitled ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre! Free Puerto Rico (and the U.S.) Now! My position is that Puerto Rico is a distinct society and should not become the 51st state of the U.S.A. Instead, it should be granted its independence. My column received a […]
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Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul all apparently agree on one thing: if Puerto Rico votes for U.S. statehood, it should become a U.S. state. Which may be about to happen. In late December of 2011, Puerto Rico’s governor Luis Fortuno signed legislation authorizing a referendum on Puerto Rico’s status, to be held on […]
Just what were they thinking in the U.S. Justice Department? What were they thinking when they cooked up a scheme to allow thousands more weapons to be smuggled to Mexican drug cartels? And will anybody ever be held accountable for it? It’s not as if there weren’t enough weapons floating around Mexico. There are plenty […]
This year, 2011, marks the centennial of the birth of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who served as President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. In the conservative movement and the Republican party, Reagan is considered the exemplary Republican politician of the 20th century, and many of us were greatly influenced by him. Reagan has his […]
Syria is in turmoil. Throughout the year, an uprising has shaken the country, security forces have defended the regime and thousands have died. There have been calls for the U.S. to intervene. Senator John McCain, for one, is open to the possibility of U.S. military intervention. Is this a good idea? To read the entire […]
The drug war in Mexico continues, with all its violence, mayhem and loss of life. Among the various factors contributing to this disastrous situation is the growing demand for illegal drugs on the U.S. side of the border. To put it another way, American narcotics purchasers are the principal financiers of the Mexican drug cartels. […]
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