Black History Month 2014: The History of US Foreign Aid to Haiti
Haiti The Daily Beast has a new article by a 31-year-old journalist who has figured out what is wrong with Haiti. In “The Aid Industry […]
Immigration Treason Lobby in Mississippi
How’s the League of the South and CoCC in Mississippi? A regular guy in Mississippi complains that corrupt agribusinesses interests and the slimy Barbour family […]
Music break
Heard this on Pandora – sounded Southern folksy. Can some folks who are slightly more “Southern” than I please let us/me know if this is […]
Black History Month 2014: Can The Negro Rule Himself?
Haiti Insofar as White Nationalists know anything about the history of Haiti, Dr. William Pierce’s classic ADV broadcast “The Lesson of Haiti” is usually the […]
Black History Month 2014: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Faustin I Soulouque
Haiti Of all the Haitian presidents of the nineteenth century, Emperor Faustin I Soulouque attracted the most foreign criticism, and is still considered by some […]
Caribbean Project: Labadee, Hispanolia
Haiti Reading over Steve Sailer’s column “Why Haiti Is So Hopeless,” I am struck by how little attention is paid to the relative absence of tourism […]
Who Hates Whom?
Leftist Lib Dem NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s is now arguing that Conservatives shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the state of New York. Governor Cuomo […]
Black History Month 2014: The Real Power Behind Baby Doc
Haiti In 1986, CBS aired a piece by Ed Bradley on the fall of Haiti’s “President-for-Life,” Jean-Claude Duvalier. “Baby Doc,” who ruled Haiti from 1971 […]
Having a great day on immigration
I’m really having a great day on immigration. I talked with at least 20 congressional staff members opposing amnesty, “pathway to citizenship,” expedited legal immigration […]
Caribbean Project: Benign Imperialism, US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti At the suggestion of OD commentator Michael, I bought a copy of Philippe Gerard’s Haiti: The Tumultuous History – From Pearl of the Caribbean […]
GOP’s Big Amnesty Retreat
Maryland It has the conservative world on fire this afternoon. Such is my contempt for the Republican Party that I am bringing it up here […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars
Haiti Victor Bulmer-Thomas’ The Economic History of the Caribbean Since the Napoleonic Wars is a massive 710 page analysis of the economic development of the Caribbean […]
Communist Pete Seeger Is Dead
New York Here’s some good news. Note: This is from Seeger’s Wikipedia biography, “Seeger was born at the French Hospital, Midtown Manhattan. His Yankee-Protestant family, […]
Amurrica Series: 2014 Grammy Awards
California AJ McCarron, the University of Alabama’s quarterback who recently graduated, watched the Grammy Awards and tweeted to his followers about the various “demonic” performances […]
Cobbsville: Kynan Dutton To Testify Against Craig Cobb
North Dakota Et tu, Kynan? … and now for something serious: “(Reuters) – A man charged with threatening residents of a small North Dakota town […]
Caribbean Project: Explaining The Caribbean
Caribbean I’m finally wrapping up my research. At the outset of the “Caribbean Project,” I wanted to investigate 1.) how the culture of the Caribbean […]
Caribbean Project: The Collapse of Caribbean Agriculture
Caribbean In spite of all that has been written here about the Golden Circle, the sugar plantation in the Caribbean has gone the way of […]
Caribbean Project: Treasure Islands
Caribbean Here’s an interview with Nicholas Shaxson, the author of Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens: Note: This explains what we […]
Caribbean Project: Economic Impact of the US Occupation In Haiti, 1915-1934
Haiti During the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I was struck by the fact that even university professors and high school teachers who teach history to American […]
Shocking News
Radio Derb – Shocking News I am a big fan of “Radio Derb” the weekly podcast of British ex-pat, ex- National Review writer (purged for […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Trade and Caribbean World Market Shares
Haiti In the Crossroads Haiti Debate, I came across the myth that Western countries essentially ganged up on Haiti and strangled its economy out of […]
Caribbean Project: Review: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
Haiti Laurent Dubois, a historian at Duke University who specializes in the French Caribbean, wrote Haiti: The Aftershocks of History in the aftermath of the […]
Caribbean Project: Cayman Islands vs. Haiti
Cayman Islands Imagine a place that is 60 percent multiracial, 20 percent black, and 20 percent White, but where 1.9 percent of the population lives […]
Caribbean Project: The Duvalierist Revolution
Haiti For several years now, I have used this blog to indulge in one of my favorite hobbies: in the dead of winter, usually during […]
Caribbean Project: Victor Schoelcher on Haiti
Haiti Victor Schoelcher, the most famous French abolitionist of the 19th century, whose life work culminated in the final abolition of slavery in the French […]
Share Your Ignorance
Alabama Browse through the personal library of Hunter Wallace: Note: Share with us your own books that have inspired so much hate!
MLK – Not a God, Nor a Saint, Nor… A “Doctor”
The Beast as Saint: The Truth About "Martin Luther King, Jr. WHEN THE COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER a country, one of the first things that they […]
Caribbean Project: The Demise of Haiti’s Sugar Industry
Haiti In 1789, there were 288 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Northern Province, 314 sugar plantations in Haiti’s Western Province, and 191 sugar plantations in Haiti’s […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti: The Usual Explanations
Haiti Editor’s Note: I’m compiling a list of the usual explanations for Haiti’s failure along with an explanation why each doesn’t make sense. The blows […]
Caribbean Project: Spenser St. John on Haitians
Haiti Here’s an excerpt from Spenser St. John’s “Hayti, or the Black Republic”: “The vexed question as to the position held by the negroes in […]
Caribbean Project: Haiti’s Double Debt
Haiti Here’s something that you won’t find in the Wikipedia entry about Haiti’s external debt: “Although payments were occasionally suspended, partially during 1843-8 and 1867-9, […]
Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Struck Down
Pennsylvania Here’s the latest proof of the futility of trying to reform the system: “In a strongly worded decision, a Pennsylvania state judge on Friday […]