In case anyone missed this broadcast the first time around our favorite radio patriots James Edwards and Eddie Miller featured a rebroadcast of one of David’s greatest interviews ever on their excellent radio program last Friday. The Political Cesspool is an all volunteer outreach effort that has resulted in some of the best Paleo-Conservative/Populist talk radio that you will hear anywhere. Be sure to check out their website, blog articles, forum and their amazing show archive. You can take a swim in The Political Cesspool every Monday through Friday at 7pm to 9pm CST on AM 1380 WLRM in Memphis or listen to the simulcast worldwide on the Internet, tell a friend! – Staff

The Political Cesspool 6/29/2007
FIRST HOUR: James and Eddie round out the week with more explosive coverage of issues from an unapologetic paleoconservative point-of-view. SECOND HOUR: (Classic Interview) DR. DAVID DUKE - Re-broadcast of a classic interview we conducted with Dr. David Duke.

The Immigration Bill: One Week Later

By Winston Smith

An animated James Edwards opened last Thursday’s radio broadcast of The Political Cesspool with the triumphant observation, “What a difference a day makes!” to describe the emotional roller coaster ride from despair to joy over the deceased Immigration Reform Bill. On Wednesday, millions of Americans were preparing themselves for the mass media town criers to announce that the United States Senate had thumbed their arrogant and insulated noses at the stated will of the people they are supposed to represent, and passed legislation that would have certainly hastened the obliteration of American culture. 

For many of us, the spectacle was a jaw-dropping display of senate culture. We read the polls and surveys that showed between 80% and 90% of Americans disapproved of the Immigration Reform Bill, and we wondered why that bill was even being discussed. It seemed the more we demanded answers, the more our elected senators stuffed their fingers into their ears and chanted, “NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!” to drown out our voices. California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein implored her fellow senators to ignore the angry phone calls and emails from their constituents. Pennsylvania’s Arlen Specter read from 18^th century Ireland’s Edmund Burke, who said elected representatives must enact their own will over the will of the people they represent. Many Americans were scratching their heads and asking a question that one senator asked; “What part of ‘no’ do they not understand?” Just before the vote was taken on Thursday, South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint summarized the American peoples’ sentiment that had crystallized the day before: “This immigration bill has become a war between the American people and their government. This vote. . .is really not about immigration, it’s about whether we’re going to listen to the American people.” 

And so the sun set on Wednesday, and many of us shook our heads, shrugged our shoulders, muttered something like, “What’s the use?” and went to bed, anticipating the very different America that we were sure was going to be spawned the next day. 

Then, Thursday came, and a mysterious, wise, and benevolent Providence had other plans, unleashing a tsunami of angry American voices that overwhelmed senate email inboxes, phone switchboards, and the senators themselves, and forced them to do what the Constitution requires them to do – represent US. Yes, what a difference a day makes! 

Or does it?

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Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Oh, Wait, Make That “Weakness”

By Steve Sailer

We will be celebrating a happy Fourth of July this week. The American public has declared its independence from the Washington insiders who tried to slip amnesty past us on the Q.T.

Still, no matter how long the odds were against us, winning a battle like this isn’t the same as winning the war. After relaxing over the Glorious Fourth, it will be time to begin a counter-offensive. It promises to be a long, hard slog.

One striking aspect of the last six weeks’ debate is how decisively patriotic immigration reformers won the intellectual battle. The inanity of the other side’s talking points, based as they were on mindless sentimentalism toward illegal immigrants and mindless hatred toward patriots, was never more obvious.

One of the roles that VDARE.COM plays in the broad immigration restrictionist coalition is to be the Research & Development arm. By choosing this untrodden path, far from the highway of political correctness, we’re able to follow logical connections all the way through - an opportunity denied to all those who heed the big signs in their heads flashing “Uh-Oh, Better Not Go There, Bad for My Career.”

(You listening, David Frum?)

Nothing illustrates the vapidity of mainstream intellectualizing about immigration than the ironic story of social science superstar Robert D. Putnam. [Send him mail]

Last month. Putnam finally published an article about his lavishly-funded 2000 survey of 41 American communities that found that ethnic diversity, especially immigrant diversity, damages trust and “social capital.”

Putnam’s data is important, but the spin he worked on for five years to prevent it from being used by “racists and anti-immigration activists“ is in some ways even more significant.

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