See earlier by Thomas O. Meehan: Diversity Is Strength! It’s also…Degraded Hiring Standards And Indian Professional Ethics

“Merit-based immigration” is seen as the gold standard of immigration reform by many Republicans and conservative policy wonks. But it could lead to their political ruin.

We already have a clear window into what a merit-based policy could bring to the political landscape: look at the Indian colonization of Seattle's Eastside—the area across Lake Washington from Seattle which stretches from Sammamish in the south to Bothell in the north. It has been transformed, in roughly 25 years, from a region that leaned Republican into a cesspool of socialism.

It all started with the rise of Bill Gates' Microsoft in Redmond, followed by likeminded corporate titans who gorged themselves on the delights of Indian staffing agencies that exploit the H1-B visa program. Once a foreign worker's H1B status expires in six years, them it's time for an employment-based green card. These green cards have for years been handed out like popcorn with curry on top to almost any Indian techie who agrees to work for, on average, one-third lower pay than American tech workers. [ Wages Falling But Congress Wants MORE Guest Workers, by Leo Hohmann, WND.com, March 16, 2016]

In 1969 the first Indian-migrant family arrived in Redmond [ What It Was Like To Be Redmond's First Indian Family, by Liz Jones, Kuow.org, November 18, 2014]

By 2014 Redmond had 7,921 Indians and Microsoft had transformed the city's demographics [ Redmond, WA Population and Races, USA.com, 2010-2014 statistics] Read more >>

"Ten days ago, President Trump was saying 'the United States should withdraw from Syria.' We convinced him it was necessary to stay."

Thus boasted French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday, adding, "We convinced him it was necessary to stay for the long term."

Is the U.S. indeed in the Syrian Read more >>

Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively on VDARE.com

In my infamous column "The Talk, Nonblack Version" at TakiMag, six years ago this month, I introduced the ad hoc abbreviation IWSB for "Intelligent and Well-Socialized Blacks." I then advised the nonblack youth of America as follows:

You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.

I can't really claim to have been very energetic about taking my own advice here, but there is a tiny handful of IWSBs whose acquaintance I appreciate and whose company I enjoy. There are others I've never met who I feel sure I'd get on well with, based on their writings and things I've heard about them.

Here are three IWSBs: Jason L. Riley, John McWhorter, and Glenn Loury.

Jason Riley writes for the Wall Street Journal, often very sensibly but sometimes not: ten years ago he published a book titled Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders.

Hey, it's the Wall Street Journal Riley works for. Like I said, everyone's entitled to an opinion; and Riley's book is not explicitly anti-white like some others in the genre e.g. His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S. by Geraldo Rivera.

So far as I can gather from the reviews, Riley’s book just the old economists' flapdoodle about human beings being featureless units of production and consumption; and the more people you have, the bigger your GDP …

Which of course is true: As I always mention at this point, Bangladesh has a way bigger GDP than Luxembourg.

John McWhorter teaches linguistics at Columbia University. He also does lecture series for the Great Courses company, one of which I've mentioned with approval. This guy I do have some slight personal acquaintance with: I joined him and a mutual friend for lunch once, and found him very agreeable company. Read more >>

Unless it involves mocking President Trump’s supposedly "small hands," there is nothing that horrifies our multiculturalist masters more than judging by appearances.

It is impossible, they claim, to infer anything about how someone is likely to behave by their gender or because they are from a particular ethnic group. Everyone is unique (but also, somehow, equal). Judging by appearances is not just superficial but plain evil.

It will be fascinating to see what they’ll make of the recently-published book by British academic Dr. Edward Dutton titled How To Judge People By What They Look Like , which argues that even within races and sexes you can, with a fair degree of accuracy, infer people’s personalities from appearances. You may even get an inside track on how smart they are by taking a good look at their physical characteristics, according to Dutton.

"You can’t judge people by what they look like! It’s drummed into us as children," writes Dutton, an adjunct professor of anthropology at Oulu University in northern Finland. "It is utterly false."

But Dutton makes a provocative case for resurrecting the ancient art of physiognomy—judging character from the face. He argues it should never have been dismissed as pseudo-science.

Indeed, his research goes way beyond making inferences from the face. He writes: Read more >>

Antifa, paramilitary enforcers for America’s Emerging Totalitarian Left, appears on a roll right now, suppressing conservative Christian World In Review events in the Midwest this last weekend [ Antifa And The SPLC Successfully Shut Down Four Anti-Islam Conferences , by Jim Simpson, Daily Caller, April 12, 2018] and basking in Main Stream Media praise [ Is Antifa Counterproductive? White nationalist Richard Spencer would beg to differ , by Natasha Leonard, The Intercept, March 17, 2018] for mugging the Alt Right (with a little help from Democrat politicians, pundits and police). But there’s the sage advice of Morton Blackwell: Remember the other side has troubles too.

In fact, the very site of Antifa’s successful action (i.e. illegal violence) against Richard Spencer was also the start of Antifa infighting that moves from the internet to the streets.

Spencer was slated to speak at Michigan State University on March 5th. He did manage to do that, barely, but (as at Charlottesville) the police outside the event made little effort to contain the Antifa besiegers, so several brawls broke out between them and people trying to get in. Several arrests were made—here are details on a Spencer supporter who was arrested, and information about how to help him.

But few know that, after that brawl, members of different Antifa groups then when at one another. In the months prior to the event, tension between the Great Lakes Antifa (GLA) and the Nashville Anti-Racist Action (NARA) had been steadily building. And when both crowds were in the same place at the same time, it got violent. Read more >>