To the WSJ, White Americans Don’t Count
[Patrick Cleburne] @ 3:48 am

In the 1990s, a time of rapid evolution in thinking about the Immigration issue, the post of chief cheerleader for continued influx was accorded to Julian Simon, a University of Maryland business school professor who had published a book on the subject at the beginning of the decade. As Peter Brimelow noted in his 1998 obituary, Simon’s principle method of dealing with new and uncongenial data and arguments was simple–he just ignored them. He was usually able to get away with this because in those days dissent on the immigration question was so repressed that he was often presented as an impartial witness. He rarely had to defend himself.

The Wall Street Journal published on Saturday what might be seen as a Julian Simon Memorial editorial: Immigrants and the GOP , August 30 2008: http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-130026-immigrants.html+gop . Apart from current dates and references, it could have been any time in the last several years: absolutely no notice is taken of well-known counter arguments and inconvenient facts: and there is nothing new in it.

The Journal can get away with this, of course, because of its’ rigid policy of suppressing any counter argument to its fanatical enthusiasm for reconstructing America. This is a disgrace for a periodical which used to function as an intellectual clearing-house for conservative/free market thought. Interestingly, and in keeping with this attitude, the “commentsâ€