AmRen - Jared Taylor on Ta-Nehesi Coates: The New Messiah - "Between the World and Me is shockingly, appallingly bad. It is full of willful blindness, and shows a contempt and even hatred for whites that goes well beyond orthodoxy. There can be no common ground with any black who sees the world as Mr. Coates does."

His new book is even worse than you think.

A new book by the black author Ta-Nehesi Coates has touched off a contest to see who can say the most star-struck, admiring things about him. Between the World and Me is a short, mostly autobiographical book about race, racism, and white people, written as a letter to Mr. Coates’s 14-year-old son, Samori (named for Samori Touré, a 19th-century West African who fought French colonizers).

Publishers Weekly set the tone: “Coates’s compelling, indeed stunning, work is rare in its power to make you want to slow down and read every word.” Slate predicted that the book is “destined to remain on store shelves, bedside tables, and high school and college syllabi long after its author or any of us have left this Earth.” Vogue wrote: “[I]t’s hard to think of a book that feels more necessary right now. Urgent, lyrical, and devastating in its precision, Coates has penned a new classic of our time.” Vice, which I thought tried to stay out of stampedes, assured us that the book is “as important and necessary as everyone says it is.” David Brooks, the New York Times’s lap-dog conservative wrote: “Between the World and Me, is a great and searing contribution to this public education. It is a mind-altering account of the black male experience. Every conscientious American should read it.” The Atlantic published an 8,500-word excerpt. ...

http://www.amren.com/features/2015/07/ta-nehesi-coates-the-new-messiah/

F. Roger Devlin - AmRen: Atticus Finch Grows Up - "unwitting portrait of the shrill, uncomprehending liberalism that has come to dominate American thinking about race."

Atticus Finch Grows Up

The hero of To Kill A Mockingbird is now a “racist.”

Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman, Harper, 2015, 278 pp., $27.99

The newly published Go Set a Watchman is the book Harper Lee originally delivered to J. B. Lippencott Company in the spring of 1957 and that later became To Kill a Mockingbird. It presents a very different picture of Atticus Finch, the hero of Mockingbird–one that will disappoint millions of readers who admire him as courageous fighter for equal treatment for blacks. It is also an unwitting portrait of the shrill, uncomprehending liberalism that has come to dominate American thinking about race.

At Lippencott, Go Set a Watchman was assigned to an experienced editor named Tay Hohoff (1899 – 1974). She later recalled that “the spark of the true writer flashed in every line,” but she did not consider the book ready for publication. For two years, Miss Lee and her editor rewrote the work until it bore little resemblance to the original manuscript. “I was a first time writer, so I did as I was told,” recalls Miss Lee. Go Set a Watchman, then, reveals for the first time a Harper Lee unmediated by the “hands on” editing of Hohoff, and there are surprises aplenty for any American who has taken high school English. ...

http://www.amren.com/features/2015/07/atticus-finch-grows-up/

RR Watch - Ann Corcoran: Europe’s refugees: Here come the infectious diseases - For those of us who missed out on Ebola. --tma

Posted by Ann Corcoran on August 2, 2015

Invasion of Europe News….

This latest disease is not one that immediately comes to mind like TB and HIV/AIDS that we usually hear about.  BTW, American readers should know that even our “screened” refugees are permitted entry into the US with TB and HIV.

http://www.slideshare.net/saeidzaxo/diphtheria-ppt

From Outbreak News Today (never heard of it, but maybe it is time to follow this news site!).  Story titled:  ‘Europe reporting imported cutaneous diphtheria in refugees’

People are fleeing certain African and Middle Eastern countries in large numbers and many are headed to the countries of Europe. In fact, one report notes that about 5,000 people flee Eritrea each month, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN refugee agency.

One of the things that can come from refugees and asylum seekers are infectious diseases contracted in their home country.

Europe is currently reporting cases of cutaneous diphtheria in asylum seekers to several countries to include Denmark, Sweden and Germany. To date, nine cases have been reported by the three nations. ...

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/europes-refugees-here-come-the-infectious-diseases/

AFP: France, Britain present united front as anger soars over migrants - In reality, arguing over how best to be invaded. --tma

France, Britain present united front as anger soars over migrants

Paris (AFP) - France and Britain vowed Sunday that a cross-Channel migrant crisis was their "top priority" in a united front that belied simmering anger over an issue which has become a political hot potato.

Heightened security has curbed the number of attempts by migrants in the port city of Calais trying to make it through an undersea tunnel to Britain, with only 400 bids Saturday night, a police source said, compared to 2,000 earlier in the week.

Around 3,000 people from Africa, the Middle East and Asia are camped in Calais hoping to smuggle themselves into Britain, and the costly crisis has strained ties across the Channel. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/france-britain-present-united-front-anger-soars-over-173522328.html

Liberty GB: Blair and Cameron's Toothless Battle Against Islamic Extremist in the UK - Bottom line: Appealing to 'moderate' Muslims only makes them all howl like scalded cats for 'stigmatizing all Muslims.'

The British government must face facts. Whatever action it takes to counteract Islamic extremism in the UK is bound to (as the BBC puts it) "attract criticism from parts of the British Muslim community". So let's simply take that for granted.

In other words, the government will always be seen as 'alienating Muslims' or 'putting all Muslims in the same basket'. This will be the case whether or not what David Cameron does is forceful or pathetic. Any action whatsoever will produce criticism from Muslims - as well as from left-wing groups and individuals.

PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON

Despite all that, in the last few days David Cameron has said (yet again) that he hopes to encourage "Muslim reformists" and "moderates". The problem with that is these genuine reformists and moderates (the few that there are) are always violently criticised by a whole host of other Muslims. Basically, the genuine Muslim moderates are seen as Muslim Uncle Toms by the bogus moderates and by large sections of the Muslim community.

Nonetheless, Cameron has said he'll set up a "community engagement forum" which will be designed to provide a voice for Muslims fighting extremism within their own communities.

Cameron has previously talked about getting Muslim moderates to speak up. Back in 2007, for example, he said that the "hardline members" of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) were "crowding out more moderate voices". (The MCB is a sleek and sly Islamic advertising campaign aimed primarily at non-Muslims.)

And as recently as January 2015, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles wrote a letter to more than 1,000 imams and Muslim leaders asking them to publicly condemn the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in France. Guess what - the MCB and nearly all other Islamic groups criticised the letter with the usual rhetoric about 'criminalising an entire community'.

This is the catch-22.

When forces outside of the Muslim community take action against Islamic extremism, Muslims resent that precisely because it's outsiders who are taking the action.

However, when Eric Pickles asked the Muslim community itself to tackle Islamic extremism, the reaction was just as negative. ...

Libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6834-blair-and-cameron-s-toothless-battle-against-islamic-extremism-in-the-uk?utm_source=Liberty+GB&utm_campaign=f19d420d0c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8c359fa4e0-f19d420d0c-64474521

Refugee R Watch - Ann Corcoran: Is Wyoming Republican Senator Barrasso willing to colonize Wyoming with migrant workers? Sure sounds like it - “We need additional labor.”

Posted by Ann Corcoran on August 1, 2015

For new readers we have a very large archive of posts on how Wyoming Governor Matt Mead wants to open a refugee program in the only state in the nation with no formal resettlement program.  We wondered where the state’s Republican Senators are on the issue of immigration and we get a hint for one of them in a lengthy Breitbart story (hat tip: Jim) entitled, ‘No Congressional GOP Leaders Will Support Reducing Immigration.’

Sen. Barrasso: “We need additional labor.” Does he mean additional cheap labor for the Chamber of Commerce and business pals?

Breitbart reporter, Julia Hahn, who has been doing a lot of great work on legal immigration issues, including refugee resettlement, tells us this about Wyoming Senator John Barrasso:

In the Senate, for instance, while Senate Republican leaders gently and quietly opposed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 80%’s (R-FL) unpopular immigration bill once it was assured of Senate passage, they grounded their statements of opposition in vague criticisms of border security. [They are such chickens, it makes me want to scream—ed] Public comments suggest they were supportive of Sen. Rubio’s effort to drastically expand the total level of immigration into the United States. The Schumer-Rubio plan would have handed out more than 30 million green cards to immigrants primarily from countries with little to no history of Western institutions, but Sen. John Barasso (R-WY) praised Rubio’s efforts to expand the labor supply in this way:

I’m [a] child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized. Marco Rubio is working on that… We need additional labor.

Barrasso’s state of Wyoming has a population of about half a million people. Ironically, if just 1 million of Rubio’s 30 million green card recipients had moved to Wyoming — instead of more likely destinations in eastern states such as Georgia and Virginia— Wyoming could suddenly, almost overnight, have the same politics as California.

Generations of rural traditions passed down from parents to children would be electorally crowded out by the new traditions of new arrivals. Barasso never explained why he thinks adding millions of laborers from mostly poor countries would improve schools, hospitals, or job markets in states like his own, or why it would be “important for our country” to resettle millions of immigrants with green cards from non-Western countries.

Read all of Ms. Hahn’s report by clicking here. ...

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/is-wyoming-republican-senator-barrasso-willing-to-colonize-wyoming-with-migrant-workers-sure-sounds-like-it/

NewsMachete: A gentle reminder why Rick Perry is totally unsuited to be the GOP nominee - "He's not merely inarticulate. He's also dangerously ignorant."

A gentle reminder why Rick Perry is totally unsuited to be the GOP nominee

Rick Perry was asked what he thought of Mitch McConnell and John Boehner's performance. At first, he criticized them:

Well, obviously, I think they’re doing a poor job of, uh, making Americans believe that they can actually make Congress work and work with the president. Now part of that is the president’s problem, and I think — one of the things I learned as governor is you’ve got to reach out across the party lines. I’d rather have half a loaf than no loaf, and right now we’re getting a lot of no loaf. Matter of fact, we’re not even getting a slice, at this particular point in time. So… a president that actually wants to work with Congress, and I think Congress has to cross that line too.

But then, he praised them:

I think they’re working towards a… [pause] getting some [pause]… getting some [pause]… um, financial things headed in the right direction. Making some, you know, reductions in spending. Getting these agencies, but the fact is that the American people don’t really see Washington, whether it’s Congress or whether it’s the president… [pause] addressing the solutions that are facing this country.

The Congress is getting "financial things" in the "right direction"? Making "reductions in spending"? That's news to me, and to millions of Americans who follow the news every day.

Rick Perry fumbled the last time he ran for President on a softball question, when he couldn't even name the three federal departments he claimed he wanted to abolish. As you can see from the above, he's inarticulate, and we can't nominate another inarticulate nominee. That alone I think clearly disqualifies him.

But Rick Perry has just revealed a bigger problem. He's not merely inarticulate. He's also dangerously ignorant. ...

http://newsmachete.com/?news=852