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NYAG Letitia James vs. Donald Trump—Not Just Politicized Justice, But Peculation?
• March 23, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] See also: Manafort, Marlborough, And Robert E. Lee: Criminalizing Policy/ Personnel, Differences— U.S. Politics Regressing To The Primitive Settling in the U.S.A. in my forties, I brought with me from the Mother Country some preconceptions. Foremost was the U.S.A. I'd seen from a distance... Read More
Bloodbaths, “Wet Work” and the Non-Zero Chance That Donald Trump Will be Assassinated (By A Drone?)
• March 22, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Colorful rhetoric was in the news this week, the color being red. Campaigning in Ohio for a Republican Senate candidate in last Tuesday's primary, Donald J. Trump had words to say about automobiles being imported from China. The actual words: The Regime Media promptly... Read More
On St Patrick’s Day—Are the Irish Rebelling Again?
• March 16, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Earlier: St. Patrick's Day Is NOT Immigration Day—Irish-Americans Are White, And Being Replaced Like The Rest Of Us Tomorrow, Sunday March 17th, we mark St. Patrick's Day. I'm sure you all know the story of St. Patrick, but I'll offer a very brief reminder.... Read More
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Canada, Britain, Slipping Into Soft Totalitarianism
• March 10, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] See earlier: Majority Deport: Canada's Pre-Crime Hate Speech Law and Sam Melia: UK Man Convicted Of Hate Speech For Saying ”It's OK To Be White” And "Reject White Guilt,” Etc. Two items here on the rapid decline of free speech in parts of the... Read More
America’s Law Problem—Does It Mean A Wave of Squatters?
• March 1, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Mr. Bumble, the beadle in Dickens’ Oliver Twist, was present when his wife sold stolen goods. He therefore shared responsibility for that offense, he was told, because “the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.“ Mr. Bumble, a man of spirit, replied... Read More
FEBRUARY DIARY [9 ITEMS!]: Immigration Patriot Triumphalism? Mass Deportations? Uhtceare? ETC. ETC!!!
• February 29, 2024
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I think I'm detecting some faint stirrings of triumphalism among my fellow immigration restrictionists. My boss Peter Brimelow is smiling over at X about an exit poll from the February 24th South Carolina primary. Immigration led as "Most important issue" with 41 percent of those polled. Peter: "VDARE has waited a long time for this."... Read More
Letitia James's Totalitarian Justice In New York
• February 27, 2024
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The biggest news story of the last few days has been the ruling by a New York Court that Donald Trump had, over several years, overvalued some of his properties in filings with banks and insurance companies. The prosecutors argued that those overvaluations got the Trump Organization better terms than it would otherwise have got... Read More
White Men Need Not Apply—In New York State, Hollywood, or Google Gemini
• February 24, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I hope readers will forgive me for yet another long grumble about New York State, where I live. I believe there are some general deductions to be made—issues bigger than just the Empire State. I opened my January Diary with the plain declaration that... Read More
Biden, Adams vs. Noboa, Bukele. Which Way America?
• February 17, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I started out my January Diary grumbling about New York, the state of which I am a tax-paying resident. Quote from me: "I love my country but I don't much like my state." Well, as bad as New York State may be, New York... Read More
Just WHY Did the US Deep State Declare War On Russia?
• February 10, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Yesterday, I mentioned David Goldman's scorn in his recent Asia Times piece (Mike Pompeo’s four China mistakes in one sentence, January 31, 2024) for what I called "our foolish and feckless China policy." I was still chuckling over Goldman’s critique when I settled down... Read More
On Chinese New Year’s Eve, Why Is U.S. China Policy So Foolish and Feckless?
• February 9, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] As I write this, I hear food preparation noises—the clatter of pots and pans, perhaps. That's because this evening, February 9th, is Chinese New Year's Eve (the Language Police now demand we call it Lunar New Year) so there is some serious food prep... Read More
The Coming Null-T Annulment?
• February 3, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Back at the beginning of the Biden administration—the very beginning: I'm looking at my podcast dated January 22, 2021, two days after the inauguration —I tried to float a meme. That's a thing I have tried many times to do, with no success; but... Read More
Communist Coup Official!—Ivy League Elite Overwhelmingly Thinks Americans Have Too Much Freedom
• February 2, 2024
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Earlier (by Sam Francis, 2002): Poll Exposes Elite-Public Clash On Immigration [Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I had never heard of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity until this week, when a reference to them showed up on Twitter. Going to their website I see that they are a lobby... Read More
JANUARY DIARY [8 ITEMS!] Squatter Story from Awful New York State; Epileptic Dwarf Pilots?; Saluting All Over; Lessons In ...
• February 1, 2024
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I love my country but I don’t much like my state. If I could start over, New York would, from what I know of the other forty-nine, rank very low in my preferences for a state to live in—down in the mid-forties, I’m pretty sure. A criminal-coddling, corrupt Governor competing with Gavin Newsom in clueless... Read More
How MANY Indian Immigrants Do We Want? or ARE WE NOT ALLOWED to ASK?
• January 27, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Recently, I applauded Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s challenge to the Biden Regime’s treasonous determination to open the border to illegals (which continues). But I noticed the paradox that Abbott was doing this from India where he travelling to express support for India legal immigration... Read More
Abbott Opposes ILLEGALS At Texas Border —But Recruits LEGAL Immigrants In India
• January 26, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has been in the headlines this week. Even before those headlines, Abbott has become something of a hero to many (not all) immigration patriots this past three years. Under his Operation Lone Star, Texas state troopers have been arresting... Read More
Is the Blinken/ Mayorkas Gang of Two Plotting AMNESTY with AMLO? Why Do We Let Them?
• January 19, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] One heartening result from the Iowa caucuses is the one noted at length by our own correspondent Washington Watcher II on Tuesday: the salience of the immigration issue as a top concern among Iowa caucus goers, and among Republican voters in general, nationwide. The... Read More
Amy Wax, A Heroine for Our Time, vs. the "Midwit Gynocrats"
• January 12, 2024
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I'm not sure what the etiquette is for a podcaster borrowing clips from another podcaster, but here's where I shall find out. The other podcaster I'm going to plagiarize here is Richard Hanania, whose book The Origins of Woke came out last year to... Read More
There IS (Partial and Incremental) Hope On Immigration!
• January 5, 2024
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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] It’s my New Year podcast! As is customary, I'll take a quick glance back, and then one forward. I shall strive to be a little more upbeat than Robert Burns addressing his mouse. To a Mouse, by Robert Burns, 1759-1796 For immigration patriots the... Read More
DECEMBER DIARY: [7 ITEMS!] Eartha Kitt, Cold War Poetry, Espionage Failures, and Gadgets Galore, ETC.
• January 1, 2024
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People grumble about the corny old Christmas music played in department stores and other public places at this time of year. Not me: I love it. A lot of the voices I’m hearing are those that made an impression on me back in my childhood and early teen years, when I was most impressionable. Eartha... Read More
Home for Christmas!—and Podcasting, Against Rosie’s Advice
• December 22, 2023
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Earlier: Derb’s Disastrous December—A Sick Note For The Missing Podcast and Derb’s Disastrous December Continues [Adapted From Radio Derb, which will be posted later tonight] And Radio Derb is on the air! [And on pixel here!]. Greetings, listeners, from your domestically genial ho-ho-host John Derbyshire this Friday evening, December 22nd 2023. This week's podcast is... Read More
Give 'Em An Inch, They Take A (Harvard) Yard
• December 15, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Can I call 'em, or what? Yes, folks: You heard it here first. On November 10th, seven weeks ago, I wrote: Reading the news about our universities taking the side of Hamas after October 7th, I was a bit surprised to see that the... Read More
Another Cup of Cruelty In the Shameful Chauvin Story
• December 2, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Earlier, May 30, 2020: Even Right Abandoning Accused Minneapolis Cop—But They Shouldn't and March 31, 2021: Ann Coulter: Derek Chauvin, Human Sacrifice Last week, I mentioned in passing the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of an appeal by Derek Chauvin, the cop who was restraining... Read More
NOVEMBER DIARY [11 ITEMS]: Hyperinflation Centenary; Elon's Biography; Derb On AI; and Goodnight, Henry Kissinger; ETC.!!
• December 1, 2023
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This month, November 2023, marks [sic] a hundred years since the peak of the hyperinflation that afflicted Germany after World War One. In my English adolescence I knew an elderly couple of Silesian Jews, the ”Kellermans,” who had themselves been adolescents in Germany when hyperinflation hit. They had lurid tales about it: kitchen cabinets stuffed... Read More
Flickers of Sanity Against the Great Replacement In Europe—Especially In Ireland
• November 24, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Earlier: For Immigration Patriot Nationalist Parties, The Fences Are Coming Down All Over Europe There are flickers of sanity against the Great Replacement over in Europe—especially in Ireland, a proud member of the European Union and a popular destination for illegal aliens from Africa... Read More
Lessons from Britain’s National Extinction—Its Deep State Is As Bad As Ours
• November 18, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I'm going to speak at length here about recent lessons from Britain, not because of lingering affection for the land of my birth, nor because I think it's of world-shaking importance in itself, but because of the parallel tracks that recent British and American... Read More
Giggling Judge, Gloating AG—VDARE Mugger Letitia James's Trump Show Trial
• November 11, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] See also: VDARE.com LAWFARE CRISIS INTENSIFIES—Federal Court Judge Frederick J. Scullin Dodges Protecting Our (And Our Writers’) 1A Rights From “Hyperpoliticized” NYAG Letitia James In my column last night, I talked about Trump in Hialeah, and the possibility of him regaining the Presidency and... Read More
Some Good Talk About Immigration At GOP Debate, Trump Rally—and Some Signs It’s Serious
• November 10, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] See also: VDARE.com VIDEO SUPERCUT: Immigration At THIRD GOP Debate—”What We Need To Do Is Stop Using Our Military To Protect Somebody Else's Border...” Wednesday’s GOP Presidential candidates’ debate in Miami, Florida was the third in this cycle. President Trump staged a competing rally,... Read More
So Now "Picnic" and “Good Morning” Are Racist?
• November 3, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] In common with most sensible people, I believe that public funding for higher education in the United States, including student-loan support, should be strictly limited to mathematics and the real sciences—physics, chemistry, biology, and a few borderline areas like linguistics. If you want to... Read More
OCTOBER DIARY (10 ITEMS): The British Empire—for and Against; Orwell in Burma; Racism Against Derb; ETC. ETC.!!
• November 2, 2023
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Derivatives of the word ”colony” have been prominent in this month’s commentary, most notably ”decolonization.” I gave the subject of colonialism a good workover back in my March Diary: the segments headed ”Gilley on colonialism” and ”Reason and authority.” The Gilley in that first segment heading is Bruce Gilley, Professor of Political Science at Portland... Read More
Regulation—A Way for Patriots to Fight the Treason Lobby!
• October 28, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] My friend and occasional VDARE.com contributor Bob Weissberg is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science, with many decades of teaching that subject at New York University and the University of Illinois. Bob actually describes himself as "a recovering academic". Bob once told me that... Read More
Glimmers of Immigration Sense In Europe—But Not, Alas, In Britain
• October 27, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Over in Europe, there have been some glimmers of sense on the issue of mass immigration: Switzerland held a general election last Sunday. Result: a big advance for the Trumpish SVP party, which favors stricter control of immigration. The SVP actually has an explicit... Read More
Notwithstanding Gaza, Immigration Wars Are Raging Across the World
• October 21, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Here's a roundup of short news items about immigration. I'll take them in expanding order by geolocation: first provincial, then national, finally global. “Provincial,” for this Long Islander, means— New York City and environs. As I have been reporting, the city has been coping,... Read More
US Legislative, Executive, Judicial Branches All Collapsing Under Immigration, Diversity Stress
• October 20, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I seem to have been seeing recently, in my daily sifting of news and opinion outlets, more than the average quantity of reports of Americans' negative feelings about the state of our Union. State-of-the-Union-wise, if not totally disgruntled, we are far from being gruntled.... Read More
Democrats Wavering On Illegal Immigration?!!—But LEGAL IMMIGRATION Still Quietly Destructive
• October 6, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Strange things are happening on the immigration front. The Biden administration is going to build a wall! Before you start cheering, please note that they're only going to build a 20-mile section in Starr County along the Rio Grande in Texas. That's one percent... Read More
SEPTEMBER DIARY [7 ITEMS] "Doomed, Doomed" By AI; the Value of Forms; Hubble and Schrödinger At 100, and Unreasonable Ang...
• October 2, 2023
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As advertised in my September 22nd podcast, I have been listening, via Audible, to Mustafa Suleyman’s The Coming Wave, just published this month. If you’ll excuse me repeating myself: He sure does. No one knows better than Suleyman how fast things are moving in those two areas of technological advance. That phrase in the book’s... Read More
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"Preventable Evils"?—Lawfare Crippling European (And U.S.?) Immigration Patriots
• September 22, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] There are currently three world-wide waves of illegal immigration roaring up the beach: The wave coming north and west from Africa and the Middle East, across the Mediterranean to the European Union. The smaller, but still dramatic wave, of illegals coming across the English... Read More
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"The City We Knew, We’re About to Lose." Why NYC Mayor Adams Was So Wrong About Immigration’s Impact
• September 8, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] See also Biden Regime Replaces Remain-In-Mexico With Remain-In-Texas New York City Mayor Eric Adams is feeling the heat being generated by the tens of thousands of illegal aliens pouring into his city, causing excruciating administrative and budgetary dilemmas for the city government. It’s hard... Read More
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"This Is Not A Normal Situation"—Ferocious Proud Boy Sentences Show U.S. Moving Beyond Electoral Solutions
• September 1, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] See also: Tale Of Two Inaugurations: D.C. Judges Rescued Anti-Trump Inauguration Day Rioters In 2017 But Go Berserk On Jan 6 Protesters Sentences were handed down on Thursday this week against two January 6th demonstrators, members of the Proud Boys group that was created... Read More
AUGUST DIARY [8 ITEMS]: Dare Call It Communism?; Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and A Japanese POW; Confessions of A Linguistic Dunc...
• August 31, 2023
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The other day I gave a passing mention to Adam Ellwanger, Professor of English at the University of Houston. Prof. Ellwanger had posted an excellent piece August 14th at The American Mind on terminological creep, citing as an example the creep from "illegal alien" via "illegal immigrant," then "undocumented person," through to "migrant worker," the... Read More
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How We Got In Immigration Mess—Our Lawless Ruling Class Wants Us There
• August 18, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] In a recent post , I discussed an article by Adam Ellwanger, Professor of English at the University of Houston. Professor Ellwanger tracks the way we have, across the years, most commonly referred to illegal aliens. He reports that we started by referring to... Read More
Billions for the Taliban, Billions for Ukraine, and Billions for Illegals...But NO Billions for Immigration Enforcement
• August 15, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] I’ve written two columns about the late Calvin Coolidge this month (here and here) in honor of the 100th anniversary of him being sworn in as President. Engaging with the thirtieth President again these few days, I've been particularly impressed by his thrift. Public... Read More
Beyond the Hulk Hysterics, Signs of An Immigration Patriot Left?
• August 12, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] The political Left in advanced Western countries is now firmly in the hands of world-saver anti-nationalist activists. The smart ones have law degrees, the midwits have degrees in Grievance Studies, but they all agree that the nation-state is a shamefully white-supremacist idea and unlimited... Read More
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Calvin Coolidge, David Brooks and the Limits of "Meritocracy"
• August 5, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Last week, Mrs. Derbyshire and I attended the centenary celebration in Vermont of the ascent to the Presidency, in the early morning hours of August 3rd, 1923, of Calvin Coolidge, who subsequently went on to sign the 1924 Immigration Act, the moratorium model for... Read More
JULY DIARY: The Devil Wears Cerulean; China Turning Anti-Western; IQ Declining, But Faster for Blacks? ETC. [16 (!) ITEMS]
• August 1, 2023
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The 1890s is known as the Mauve Decade. I don't know why it took so long for mauve to sweep the world of fashion; a fabric dye for the color was actually discovered (invented?) in the 1850s. These are the mysteries of sociology. I'm developing a theory that this decade, the 2020s, may be the... Read More
Race Denialism—the Evil, Poisonous, Scientifically Illiterate Doctrine of “Disparate Impact” Strikes Again
• July 29, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Last week I mentioned the 13 million dollar payout from New York City to Antifa who got their hair mussed by the NYPD during the George Floyd riots. That’s nothing to the 1.8 billion-dollar settlement to blacks and Hispanics who failed the teacher-licensing exam... Read More
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It’s 100 Years Since Calvin Coolidge, Who Signed the 1924 Immigration CutOff Into Law, Was Sworn In As President!
• July 28, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Next week is a very special week for American patriots who believe in personal liberty, minimalist government, minding our own national business, and strict limits on immigration. At 2:47 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on August 3rd, 2023—early next Thursday morning—it will be precisely one... Read More
Jason Aldean, Eric Adams and the Strange Rise of the City Bumpkins
• July 21, 2023
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com] Here's the intro paragraph from Herb Scribner’s July 20, 2023 Washington Post story The outrage over Jason Aldean’s â€Try That in a Small Town,’ explained The Post then gives us sample lyrics. I'll give you a few more than they give you. The song... Read More
Welsh Don’t Want to Repeat Open-Borders Mistake
• July 14, 2023
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Earlier: The Fulford File | ”Actually, There Has Always Been Migration”—But In Those Days They Called It Invading! Here’s a cheering story from across the pond, actually from Wales. We don’t say much about Wales here at VDARE.com. They are a quiet people—well, except when they’re singing— and keep mostly to themselves. The Welsh really... Read More
DERBYSHIRE AT the CASTLE: “WE ARE DOOMED”—Fourteen Years On
• July 12, 2023
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James Fulford writes: John Derbyshire is, as VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow has said, one of the two actual geniuses, or possibly genii, who work for VDARE.com.(The other is Steve Sailer.) We say of him in our writers blurb that he writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This... Read More
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John Derbyshire writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him. He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. His most recent book, published by VDARE.com com is FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle).His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.