BUCHANAN DECLARES: DEATH OF THE WEST

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[Blade]

Our population may be larger but we have TONS of open space, particularly in the Great Plains and out west.

Why do we need more immigrants? I mean the question in all seriousness.

Is there not enough traffic out there for you?

[Clemenza]

Actually, Chronicles is fine when they talk about literature and Tom Fleming is always a joy to read. Nevertheless, Francis and Richert are alarmists (the former is also a total a-shole as a person. I met him a few years back).

No. I DO NOT read National Review. I prefer Liberty</> and Reason.

[riri]

My husband is half Asian..his mother came here from Thailand. Albeit, she came here eduacted through the military and trained as a nurse.However, she still speaks broken English, primarily associates only with other Asians and I detect a bit of bitterness in her toward "white" people in general.

Her children are completely American. All three, college educated (self funded), hard workers and , well, her grandchildren (my kids) couldn't get any more American..LOL

[Osinski]

Your take is predictably interesting as well. I am the eternal optimist. That doesn't mean that I'll say the glass is full when it's half full. On the other hand, you'll argue that one who points out the glass is half full means the person is a conspiracy theorist.

I guess you don't keep up on the Nasdaq, the 30 year bond, the unemployment numbers, the homeless numbers, or even the Enron debacle and the ties to Bush. Get ready with your tin foil hat mantra.

[Catspaw]

I hope not. Although I can tell you as a Miami resident, that relatively few Cubans are coming to this country at the present moment (the biggest wave came in the 1960s-70s).

There is a certain irony when I encounter threads in which a freeper starts ranting about "the browns" or Hispanic/Latino immigration and I ask if Cubans are in that group--and should be treated with the same hostility--the answers are Spin Central.

BTW, I've got a cousin who lives in Miami--and married to a Cuban-American. The next time we're down, save me a plate of black beans & rice, a Cuban sandwich & a really big piece of key lime pie (never mind the piece--make it a whole pie).

[Brownie74]

Time for the illegals to go home, and to eliminate the family reunification act.

You are preaching to the choir when you are talking about the family reunification act. Even if you are talking about a small family of a husband, wife, and 2 children, then you increase the factor by 4. Three million becomes twelve million - and this does not include aunts, uncles, cousins etc.

There is also an estimated 15,000,000 illegal aliens of other nationalities out there. Vietnamese, Korean, Cambodian, Laotian, etc. They have already said they want the same treatment that the Mexicans get.

Can you spell 70,000,000 more people in America.

[CubicleGuy]

The Christian religion is dying because few practice it.

Few practice it because it has become so fragmented, nobody can say for sure what it is.

What if eight or ten different corporations were allowed to manufacture a product with slightly different specifications, but they were all allowed to call their various products by the same name?

It's conceivable that the "real" or original product could be killed off by a "new and improved" version by some other manufacturer. Or, as time passed, the original product, now being manufactured by third and fourth generations of management, could be slowly but inevitably modified and eventually turned into something completely unrecognizable to the original product developer.

[IowaHawk]

Pitchfork Pat Pans Perot; Picks Paranoid Party Prexy Push

[Petronski]

Buchanan's ideas are borrowed from the 19th century. We have already seen where such isolationism leads us (WWI, Pearl Harbor, etc), and it ain't pretty. Sad to say, the world does need a policeman. Our military is the only insulation that we have against tyranny.

Bravo, and worth repeating!

[Osinski]

Save your banter for someone who finds your posts intelligent or amusing.

[bimmer]

You got that right! Last time I was in Bozeman, Montana I didn't encounter a single Latino.

[Clemenza]

Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Jose Clemente Orozco, Juan O'Gorman (all artists), Octavio Paz (winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, and praised by Tom Fleming to boot). Let's not forget the great ruins of Palenque and Teotihuacan, all of which put the Egyptians to shame.

[gjenkins]

"I mean, get real."

Let's do get 'real'. We are largely a simple democracy which is holding on to its republic form and founding principles (individual sanctity and liberty) by tradition. We no longer teach our children theses ideas, and we no longer require imigrants to understand them let alone to believe them. The numbers are against us in holding on to what little we have left. The right has ideologically bought into democracy. Numbers are all that matter, and gues what, the vast majority of the world are racist and do not respect individual rights. What do we do? Which is worse isolationism or global socialism? There is no alternative to these choices in American politics.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

No welfare state at the time.

No Irish affirmative action at the time.

Tammany Hall. It isn't so much immigrants who are taking up affirmative actions slots (Asians certainly get no benefit from AA), but native-born minorities.

No Multiculturalism at the time.

Catholicism was seen with much the same jaundiced eye.

Besides, multiculturalism tends to be a phenomenon of native-born, overly-idle leftists. Yeah, we'll get a few native rites for a generation or two, then they'll either disappear or be moderated into the mainstream, like St. Patrick's day and Christmas trees. Your argument ignores the current historical context.

[PuNcH]

it will not resonate with the majority of Americans because of its racist sounding beat.

That is because europeans have been conditioned to believe that their own self-preservation is racist.

[Bush2000]

What qualifications would you set?

How about running for a local town council or school board first? The guy has never been accountable to the public for anything.

Someone who never 'wrote a book', was 'never an advisor' to 3 presidents, never 'syndicated in the press' across the nation, never attended a 'world summit'?

Hell, James Carville was an advisor to Clinton. That's hardly what I'd consider a ringing endorsement. You want him to run for public office, too?

Pat has made a good living on the open market. Since he graduated from college, the country has paid him well to speak, write and serve his country. The truth can't be stopped and Pat has more of it than any other 10 people coombined.

That's not the issue. The issue is his qualification to lead. And he has not demonstrated that capacity in any regard.

[FITZ]

I believe it DOES improve Mexico when they rid themselves of the Mestizo Indians who come to California. They're pretty much out-casts in Mexico, and Fox is delighted to "get rid" of them.

They only think it improves them, it allows them to keep a corrupt system that prevents a middle class. Instead of following Japans example -- and Mexico has huge amounts of natural resources unlike Japan, Mexico believes an endless dumping of it's unwanted people will preserve a two class way of life. For a while it will but when the US collapses, Mexico will also collapse.

[Right_in_Virginia]

It aint about race. It's about culture.

I agree. Until the 1960's, American history, the English language and the basics of the American politcal system were formally taught in public schools.

We used the public education system to help us become one out of many .

Now our schools are working overtime to celebrate diversity. actively promoting the "many" and not the "one".

It's tough to see how a nation "hangs together" without a common thread.