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Immigrant Activists Deliver Pink Slips To Heritage’s Jim DeMint

Immigrant Activists Deliver Pink Slips To Heritage’s Jim DeMint: On Wednesday, a group of immigrant activists jointly organized by the Center for Community Change and Fair Immigration Reform Movement demanded former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) to resign as president of the Heritage Foundation. DeMint was an enthusiastic leader at the forefront of a flawed immigration study co-authored by Jason Richwine who argued that Hispanics [...]/p

24 Harvard Student Groups: Graduating Jason Richwine ‘Debases All Of Our Degrees’

24 Harvard Student Groups: Graduating Jason Richwine ‘Debases All Of Our Degrees’: In response to the news that Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government bestowed a doctrate upon disgraced former Heritage staffer Jason Richwine, 24 student groups at the elite university released a strongly worded letter condemning the decision to approve Richwine’s dissertation: We are deeply concerned with the academic integrity and the reputation of Harvard Kennedy School [...]/p

Disgraced Former Heritage Employee Says Author Of Racist Book Was His ‘Childhood Hero’

Disgraced Former Heritage Employee Says Author Of Racist Book Was His ‘Childhood Hero’: Jason Richwine, the former Heritage Foundation staffer who wrote a PhD dissertation claiming that “new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren,” told the Washington Examiner’s Byron York that such quasi-eugenic ideas have fascinated him for a long time. Indeed, Richwine identified Charles Murray, co-author of the Bell Curve, as a “childhood hero.” Murray’s [...]/p

Top Conservative Publication Defends Linking Hispanics To Low IQ

Top Conservative Publication Defends Linking Hispanics To Low IQ: Last week, a coauthor of the Heritage Foundation’s shoddy immigration report, Jason Richwine, resigned after it emerged that his PhD dissertation argued that Latinos and blacks were genetically intellectual inferior to white people. Monday morning, the flagship conservative journal National Review published a piece arguing that Richwine’s work was legitimate academic inquiry and that Heritage [...]/p

Seven Outlandish Things The Heritage Foundation’s Remaining Employees Believe

Seven Outlandish Things The Heritage Foundation’s Remaining Employees Believe: Late in the day Friday, the Heritage Foundation announced that Jason Richwine, the co-author of their widely criticized immigration report, was no longer employed by the conservative think tank. Shortly after the immigration report was released, the Washington Post’s Dylan Matthews reported that Richwine’s PhD dissertation claimed that “new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children [...]/p

Heritage Study Author: ‘Hispanic Immigrants Will Have Low-IQ Children’

Heritage Study Author: ‘Hispanic Immigrants Will Have Low-IQ Children’: The Heritage Foundation’s analysis of the economic consequences of immigration reform uses absurd methodology to come to conclusions entirely at odds with the organization’s own findings in 2006. Perhaps one explanation for this incoherence is that one of the paper’s coauthors, a new hire, opposes Hispanic immigration because he thinks Latinos are stupid. Jason Richwine [...]/p

Major Anti-Immigrant Organizations Have Ties To Racist Pseudoscience

Major Anti-Immigrant Organizations Have Ties To Racist Pseudoscience: The newest study meant to discredit immigration reform was revealed on Wednesday to be co-authored by a man who believes that Latinos have inherently lower IQs and therefore should not be allowed to be United States citizens. Eugenics — the idea that a race of people is somehow genetically inferior to another — has been [...]/p

11 Reasons You’re Glad Jim DeMint Is Leaving The Senate

11 Reasons You’re Glad Jim DeMint Is Leaving The Senate: In an unexpected move, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), an arch-conservative and leader of the Tea Party movement, is resigning his seat in order to head up the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington DC. DeMint has been among the most extreme members of the Senate since first getting elected in 2004, drawing a [...]/p

Behind the bogus anti-Obama welfare ads? The Heritage Foundation guy who said poverty's no big deal

Behind the bogus anti-Obama welfare ads? The Heritage Foundation guy who said poverty's no big deal
"The Obama-gutted-welfare-reform ad that Team Romney keeps touting because this lie works so well is the brainchild of Robert Rector. He's a senior researcher at the right-wing Heritage Foundation who has issued ludicrous pronouncements, excuse me, scholarly ludicrous pronouncements, about how poverty doesn't hurt kids and, in fact, barely exists in America. As Laura Clawson reported, Rector has said that people with air-conditioning, personal computers and cable TV aren't really poor. And argued that the whole concept of trying to lift people out of poverty doesn't fly.

It was all baloney. Just like the welfare ad. The ad claims President Obama demolished the 1996 welfare reform act's key change, moving people from public assistance to jobs. That claim has been thoroughly debunked which, of course, like all Team Romney's other lies, hasn't stopped the campaign from repeating it over and over."