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.
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.
