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| Date | July 30, 2019 3:27 PM |
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Featured Articles
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author Allan Wall
SAID IN SPANISH: Rossello Out In Puerto Rico—And Puerto Rico Should Be Out Of the U.S!.<[link removed]>
Saturday July 27, 2019
Author Lance Welton
What Makes NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’s Race-Denying Editor Susan Goldberg Run?<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire: Amy Wax, “National Conservatism,” And The Futility Of Nuance. Why Not Race Realism And An Immigration Moratorium?<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author James Kirkpatrick
Say It, GOP!—Or Just Give It Up: Open Borders Is TREASON! The Left Is ANTI-WHITE!<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author Allan Wall
MEMO ON LEAVING MEXICO: Mexicans Have Better Voter Fraud Protection—And They Don’t Like “Migrants” Either<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire: I Was A Computer Programmer. I Know Computer Programming. The Indians Programmers The Treason Lobby Wants To Import Are No Alan Turings—They’re Just CHEAP.<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER ARTICLES<[link removed]>
Blog Posts
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW Announces "Our Diverse and All-Woman Team"<[link removed]>
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author Brenda Walker
MS-13 Terrorized Los Angeles Area High School But Authorities Demanded Secrecy<[link removed]>
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author Paul Kersey
“Disgusting, Rat and Rodent Infested Mess”: President Trump Scratches the Surface About the Truth of 70% Black Baltimore<[link removed]>
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author James Fulford
“Bowie Teen”—African Arrested In Maryland For Killing Sierra Leonean Politician Father<[link removed]>
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Baltimore’s Current Carnival of Murder Can Be Timed Precisely To The Freddie Gray Riots<[link removed]>
Saturday July 27, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire's Memories Of Boris Johnson, Editor<[link removed]>
Saturday July 27, 2019
Author Brenda Walker
Mueller Hearing Highlights Democrat Damage to FBI<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Angela Saini— "Sports And IQ: The Persistence Of Race ‘Science’ In Competition"<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author Brenda Walker
Judicial Watch Ethics Complaint Against Ilhan Omar: Potential Immigration, Marriage, Tax, AND Student Loan Fraud<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Marilynne Robinson: Why Don't the Woke Care About My Leftist Puritan Ancestors Anymore?<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Zach Goldberg: Democrats Are Turning Immigration Into a Moral Ultimatum<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author James Fulford
Gerry Dean Zarazoga, Familicide And Immigrant Mass Murderer? MSM Unlikely To Say<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author James Kirkpatrick
The Altered Presidential Seal And The Farce Of Turning Point USA<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
Radio Derb Housekeeping Notes: Tracking Cosmonaut Valentina, Remembering Li Peng, "Send Derb Home", Etc.<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author James Fulford
Immigrant Mass Murder, Familicide Style: Twice-Deported Guatemalan Charged With Killing Whole Family<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author Linda Thom
Aleksandr Maslov ("California Man") Is Russian From Estonia Convicted In Scheme That Defrauded 119,000 Credit Card Holders<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author James Kirkpatrick
Breitbart Complains About NYT Publishing "Anti-Semitic" Authors; What About Anti-White Authors?<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author James Fulford
Jeffrey Epstein Found Injured In Cell—Suicide Attempt? Or Attempted Murder?<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Stephan Plainview
Antifa Memorialize Terrorist Willem Van Spronsen—Call for More Violence<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Lydia Brimelow
VDARE Quarterly Magazine is Ready!<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
Radio Derb Transcript Up For July 19: 2020 Coming, House Votes To Crush US Workers, Equal Justice (Not!), Etc.<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
NYT: "That 'Giant Leap for Mankind' Happened Thanks to Plenty of Women."<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Rep. Ilhan Omar's Grandpa's Literally Fascist Lighthouse<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author James Fulford
As With Henry Louis Gates, It Was Erica Thomas's Black Racism That Caused The Trouble<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Brenda Walker
Automation Endangers Future Jobs Economy, While Low-Skilled Foreigners Flood Open Border<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Liberals War On Noticing Latino Littering<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Annals of Projection: Turns Out Erica Told Eric, Not the Other Way Around, to "Go Back Where You Came From"<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Increasing Childishness Of Woke Culture: Black History Month Shoe Canceled for Being ...White<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author Federale
Trump Administration To Fully Implement Expedited Removal, Too Little, Too Late?<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Sailer On Amy Wax: Integration And Immigration<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author James Fulford
Minority Occupation Turba (Mob) Goes To Home Of White Judge Who Sentenced Corrupt Black Female Judge<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
John Tanton: Mr. Smith Doesn't Go to Washington<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Paul Gottfried
Paul Gottfried On THE AGONIST: A Unique New Publication<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Brenda Walker
L.A. TIMES Says Illegal Immigration Helps Guatemala. What About U. S.?<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
The New Hierarchy of Innate Privilege: White Males As Feudal Peasants<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author James Fulford
Is Fake News Really A "Gift To The Right," And Do Minority Journalists Care?<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
The Classic Upside-Down NYT Article on #ExpressLaneErica<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
WASHINGTON POST Obituary For American Patriot John Tanton Ends By Comparing Him To A Dead Animal Poisoning A Well<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER POSTS<[link removed]>
Letters
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author VDARE.com Reader
A Reader Reports The "Verbal Lynching" Of Arizona Republican Woman Who Spoke The Truth On Immigration<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author VDARE.com Reader
A Talk Radio Listener Shares His Eyewitness Account Of Latino Littering In Mexico AND The US<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author VDARE.com Reader
A Reader Says White Prosecutor Shying Away From Putting Corrupt Black Female Judge In Prison—Is He Afraid Of The Mob?<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER LETTERS<[link removed]>
Daily Video Digest
Saturday July 27, 2019
Author Wilson Hewlett
Summer Reading for Legacy Americans and The Publix Space - VDARE.com Daily Video Extra<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author Wilson Hewlett
Naming the White-Haters, and Mueller Low Life - VDARE.com Daily Video Digest<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Wilson Hewlett
I'll Have What Mexico's Having, and Unite the Left and Right (And Israel) - VDARE.com Daily Video Digest<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Wilson Hewlett
De-Natured, and Hors d'Oeuvre: Flies - VDARE.com Daily Video Digest<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER VIDEOS<[link removed]>
Radio Derb
Friday July 26, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
Radio Derb: Amy Wax, Culturism, Boris, And Statehood For Puerto Rico (Not!), Etc.<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER RADIOS<[link removed]>
Radio Vdare
Friday June 14, 2019
Author Virginia Dare
VDARE Radio: California, Rat Infested Tunnel Edition<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER RADIOS<[link removed]>
Syndicated Columns
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author Patrick J. Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan: After Mueller Debacle, Where Do Democrats Go?<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter On Robert Mueller: "Too Corrupt for Eric Holder"<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin: NYC's Anti-Cop Anarchy—What Say You, Dante de Blasio?<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Patrick J. Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan: America: An Us vs. Them Country<[link removed]>
Books
Author Peter Brimelow
Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster<[link removed]>
Author Byron M. Roth
The Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature<[link removed]>
Author John Derbyshire
From the Dissident Right: Essays on the National Question 2001-2013<[link removed]>
Author John Derbyshire
From the Dissident Right II: Essays 2013<[link removed]>
Author Michael H. Hart
The Rise and Fall of the United States of America<[link removed]>
Author Samuel Huntington
Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity<[link removed]>
Author Michelle Malkin, John Miano
Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers<[link removed]>
Author Michael H. Hart
Restoring America<[link removed]>
Author Steve Sailer
America's Half Blood Prince: Barack Obama's "Story of Race and Inheritance"<[link removed]>
Author Ryan Andrews
The Birth of Prudence<[link removed]>
Author J. Paige Straley
Jack's Christmas<[link removed]>
Author Virginia Dare
Anthology 2015<[link removed]>
Author Virginia Dare
Anthology 2011<[link removed]>
Author Virginia Dare
Anthology 2010<[link removed]>
Author Virginia Dare
Anthology 2009<[link removed]>
Author Virginia Dare
Anthology 2004<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER BOOKS<[link removed]>
[[link removed]]
Click here<[link removed]> to order the VDARE QUARTERLY, a print journal featuring the best material from our webzine
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[[link removed]]<[link removed]>
[[link removed]]<[link removed]>
Rossello Out In Puerto Rico—Puerto Rico Should Be Out Of U.S!.<[link removed]>; Baltimore’s Current Carnival of Murder Timed Precisely To Freddie Gray Riots<[link removed]>; ETC. (56 ITEMS, 7/29/19)
Featured Articles
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author Allan Wall
SAID IN SPANISH: Rossello Out In Puerto Rico—And Puerto Rico Should Be Out Of the U.S!.<[link removed]>
Saturday July 27, 2019
Author Lance Welton
What Makes NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’s Race-Denying Editor Susan Goldberg Run?<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire: Amy Wax, “National Conservatism,” And The Futility Of Nuance. Why Not Race Realism And An Immigration Moratorium?<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author James Kirkpatrick
Say It, GOP!—Or Just Give It Up: Open Borders Is TREASON! The Left Is ANTI-WHITE!<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author Allan Wall
MEMO ON LEAVING MEXICO: Mexicans Have Better Voter Fraud Protection—And They Don’t Like “Migrants” Either<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire: I Was A Computer Programmer. I Know Computer Programming. The Indians Programmers The Treason Lobby Wants To Import Are No Alan Turings—They’re Just CHEAP.<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER ARTICLES<[link removed]>
Blog Posts
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW Announces "Our Diverse and All-Woman Team"<[link removed]>
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author Brenda Walker
MS-13 Terrorized Los Angeles Area High School But Authorities Demanded Secrecy<[link removed]>
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author Paul Kersey
“Disgusting, Rat and Rodent Infested Mess”: President Trump Scratches the Surface About the Truth of 70% Black Baltimore<[link removed]>
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author James Fulford
“Bowie Teen”—African Arrested In Maryland For Killing Sierra Leonean Politician Father<[link removed]>
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Baltimore’s Current Carnival of Murder Can Be Timed Precisely To The Freddie Gray Riots<[link removed]>
Saturday July 27, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire's Memories Of Boris Johnson, Editor<[link removed]>
Saturday July 27, 2019
Author Brenda Walker
Mueller Hearing Highlights Democrat Damage to FBI<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Angela Saini— "Sports And IQ: The Persistence Of Race ‘Science’ In Competition"<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author Brenda Walker
Judicial Watch Ethics Complaint Against Ilhan Omar: Potential Immigration, Marriage, Tax, AND Student Loan Fraud<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Marilynne Robinson: Why Don't the Woke Care About My Leftist Puritan Ancestors Anymore?<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Zach Goldberg: Democrats Are Turning Immigration Into a Moral Ultimatum<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author James Fulford
Gerry Dean Zarazoga, Familicide And Immigrant Mass Murderer? MSM Unlikely To Say<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author James Kirkpatrick
The Altered Presidential Seal And The Farce Of Turning Point USA<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
Radio Derb Housekeeping Notes: Tracking Cosmonaut Valentina, Remembering Li Peng, "Send Derb Home", Etc.<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author James Fulford
Immigrant Mass Murder, Familicide Style: Twice-Deported Guatemalan Charged With Killing Whole Family<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author Linda Thom
Aleksandr Maslov ("California Man") Is Russian From Estonia Convicted In Scheme That Defrauded 119,000 Credit Card Holders<[link removed]>
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author James Kirkpatrick
Breitbart Complains About NYT Publishing "Anti-Semitic" Authors; What About Anti-White Authors?<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author James Fulford
Jeffrey Epstein Found Injured In Cell—Suicide Attempt? Or Attempted Murder?<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Stephan Plainview
Antifa Memorialize Terrorist Willem Van Spronsen—Call for More Violence<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Lydia Brimelow
VDARE Quarterly Magazine is Ready!<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
Radio Derb Transcript Up For July 19: 2020 Coming, House Votes To Crush US Workers, Equal Justice (Not!), Etc.<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
NYT: "That 'Giant Leap for Mankind' Happened Thanks to Plenty of Women."<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Rep. Ilhan Omar's Grandpa's Literally Fascist Lighthouse<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author James Fulford
As With Henry Louis Gates, It Was Erica Thomas's Black Racism That Caused The Trouble<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Brenda Walker
Automation Endangers Future Jobs Economy, While Low-Skilled Foreigners Flood Open Border<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Liberals War On Noticing Latino Littering<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Annals of Projection: Turns Out Erica Told Eric, Not the Other Way Around, to "Go Back Where You Came From"<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Increasing Childishness Of Woke Culture: Black History Month Shoe Canceled for Being ...White<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author Federale
Trump Administration To Fully Implement Expedited Removal, Too Little, Too Late?<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
Sailer On Amy Wax: Integration And Immigration<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author James Fulford
Minority Occupation Turba (Mob) Goes To Home Of White Judge Who Sentenced Corrupt Black Female Judge<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
John Tanton: Mr. Smith Doesn't Go to Washington<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Paul Gottfried
Paul Gottfried On THE AGONIST: A Unique New Publication<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Brenda Walker
L.A. TIMES Says Illegal Immigration Helps Guatemala. What About U. S.?<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
The New Hierarchy of Innate Privilege: White Males As Feudal Peasants<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author James Fulford
Is Fake News Really A "Gift To The Right," And Do Minority Journalists Care?<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
The Classic Upside-Down NYT Article on #ExpressLaneErica<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Steve Sailer
WASHINGTON POST Obituary For American Patriot John Tanton Ends By Comparing Him To A Dead Animal Poisoning A Well<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER POSTS<[link removed]>
Letters
Sunday July 28, 2019
Author VDARE.com Reader
A Reader Reports The "Verbal Lynching" Of Arizona Republican Woman Who Spoke The Truth On Immigration<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author VDARE.com Reader
A Talk Radio Listener Shares His Eyewitness Account Of Latino Littering In Mexico AND The US<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author VDARE.com Reader
A Reader Says White Prosecutor Shying Away From Putting Corrupt Black Female Judge In Prison—Is He Afraid Of The Mob?<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER LETTERS<[link removed]>
Daily Video Digest
Saturday July 27, 2019
Author Wilson Hewlett
Summer Reading for Legacy Americans and The Publix Space - VDARE.com Daily Video Extra<[link removed]>
Friday July 26, 2019
Author Wilson Hewlett
Naming the White-Haters, and Mueller Low Life - VDARE.com Daily Video Digest<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Wilson Hewlett
I'll Have What Mexico's Having, and Unite the Left and Right (And Israel) - VDARE.com Daily Video Digest<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Wilson Hewlett
De-Natured, and Hors d'Oeuvre: Flies - VDARE.com Daily Video Digest<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER VIDEOS<[link removed]>
Radio Derb
Friday July 26, 2019
Author John Derbyshire
Radio Derb: Amy Wax, Culturism, Boris, And Statehood For Puerto Rico (Not!), Etc.<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER RADIOS<[link removed]>
Radio Vdare
Friday June 14, 2019
Author Virginia Dare
VDARE Radio: California, Rat Infested Tunnel Edition<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER RADIOS<[link removed]>
Syndicated Columns
Thursday July 25, 2019
Author Patrick J. Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan: After Mueller Debacle, Where Do Democrats Go?<[link removed]>
Wednesday July 24, 2019
Author Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter On Robert Mueller: "Too Corrupt for Eric Holder"<[link removed]>
Tuesday July 23, 2019
Author Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin: NYC's Anti-Cop Anarchy—What Say You, Dante de Blasio?<[link removed]>
Monday July 22, 2019
Author Patrick J. Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan: America: An Us vs. Them Country<[link removed]>
Books
Author Peter Brimelow
Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster<[link removed]>
Author Byron M. Roth
The Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature<[link removed]>
Author John Derbyshire
From the Dissident Right: Essays on the National Question 2001-2013<[link removed]>
Author John Derbyshire
From the Dissident Right II: Essays 2013<[link removed]>
Author Michael H. Hart
The Rise and Fall of the United States of America<[link removed]>
Author Samuel Huntington
Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity<[link removed]>
Author Michelle Malkin, John Miano
Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers<[link removed]>
Author Michael H. Hart
Restoring America<[link removed]>
Author Steve Sailer
America's Half Blood Prince: Barack Obama's "Story of Race and Inheritance"<[link removed]>
Author Ryan Andrews
The Birth of Prudence<[link removed]>
Author J. Paige Straley
Jack's Christmas<[link removed]>
Author Virginia Dare
Anthology 2015<[link removed]>
Author Virginia Dare
Anthology 2011<[link removed]>
Author Virginia Dare
Anthology 2010<[link removed]>
Author Virginia Dare
Anthology 2009<[link removed]>
Author Virginia Dare
Anthology 2004<[link removed]>
SEE OTHER BOOKS<[link removed]>
[[link removed]]
Click here<[link removed]> to order the VDARE QUARTERLY, a print journal featuring the best material from our webzine
DONATE<[link removed]>
QUICK LINKS
VDARE.com Front Page<[link removed]>
Past Bulletins<[link removed]>
VDARE Foundation
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Litchfield, Connecticut 06759
Unsubscribe<[link removed]>
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