President Lyndon Johnson signing the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act into law, surrounded by his supporters.
President Lyndon Johnson signing the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act into law, surrounded by his supporters.
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Part 6 of 9 (Chapter 1 here, Chapter 4 Part 2 here, Chapter 5 Part 2 here)
When a term has become so universally sanctified as “democracy” is now, I begin to wonder whether it means anything, in meaning too many things. — T. S. Eliot (more…)
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Peter Brimelow
Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster
New York: Random House, 1995
Is it really wise to allow the immigration of people who find it so difficult and painful to assimilate into the American majority? — Peter Brimelow
In retrospect, the years of the Clinton administration were baffling. On the surface, the Democratic Party’s insane-asylum wing appeared to be ascendant. All the while, under the surface, conservative ideas moved from political success to success. (more…)
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The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people. — Napoleon
A negative externality occurs when one person’s business indirectly impacts someone else negatively or threatens a species. (more…)
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History is important, American history particularly so. For better or worse — and I still don’t know if it’s for better or worse — everything America does and fails to do affects the world. President Clinton was very cautious about getting involved in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s because he was thinking of the Vietnam War. George W. Bush went on to attack Iraq because he was thinking of the “lessons” of the Second World War. (more…)