Immigration from countries with relatively high birthrates does not, as commonly claimed, help a host country reverse or even halt the decline in its own birthrate, writes Mark Krikorian in The American Mind. Krikorian cites studies concluding that high immigration actually lowers the propensity of locals to make their own babies. Other than Israel, writes Krikorian, every advanced country in the world now faces demographic disaster.
Blueprint for Alberta?
Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
