Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S. - NYTimes.com

Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S. - NYTimes.com

After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.

New Dissent in Japan Is Loudly Anti-Foreign - NYTimes.com

New Dissent in Japan Is Loudly Anti-Foreign - NYTimes.com

No such estimates exist for the size of the new Net right. However, the largest group appears to be the cumbersomely named Citizens Group That Will Not Forgive Special Privileges for Koreans in Japan, known here by its Japanese abbreviation, the Zaitokukai, which has some 9,000 members.

The Zaitokukai gained notoriety last year when it staged noisy protests at the home and junior high school of a 14-year-old Philippine girl, demanding her deportation after her parents were sent home for overstaying their visas. More recently, the Zaitokukai picketed theaters showing “The Cove,” an American documentary about dolphin hunting here that rightists branded as anti-Japanese.

In interviews, members of the Zaitokukai and other groups blamed foreigners, particularly Koreans and Chinese, for Japan’s growing crime and unemployment, and also for what they called their nation’s lack of respect on the world stage. Many seemed to embrace conspiracy theories taken from the Internet that China or the United States were plotting to undermine Japan.

New Dissent in Japan Is Loudly Anti-Foreign - NYTimes.com

New Dissent in Japan Is Loudly Anti-Foreign - NYTimes.com

“These are men who feel disenfranchised in their own society,” said Kensuke Suzuki, a sociology professor at Kwansei Gakuin University. “They are looking for someone to blame, and foreigners are the most obvious target.”

The Associated Press: Beck rally on anniversary of King's 'Dream' speech

The Associated Press: Beck rally on anniversary of King's 'Dream' speech

The event's website says the "Restoring Honor" rally is to pay tribute to America's military personnel and others "who embody our nation's founding principles of integrity, truth and honor." It urges citizens to attend and "help us restore the values that founded this great nation."

Beck has called Obama "a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

"I'm not saying he doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem," Beck said. "This guy is, I believe, a racist."