By Brenda Walker on 10/31/2013

Rep. McCaul Says No to Amnesty Conference

Texas Congressman Mike McCaul (R-TX) appeared on the Laura Ingraham radio show Wednesday and was refreshingly clear in denouncing the idea of House members conferencing with the Senate to legalize mill...
By James Fulford on 10/31/2013

War On Christmas: Posthumous Spenser Book "Silent Night" Is A "Holiday" Novel

The late Robert B. Parker, author of the Spenser novels,  was, I hate to admit, a conventional mid-century liberal in many ways. (He was, after all, from Massachusetts.)Still, he had a contempt fo...
By Federale on 10/31/2013

Center For Immigration Studies Confirms The Obama Regime Administrative Amnesty

The Center for Immigration Services (CIS) has confirmed the ongoing Obama Regime Administrative Amnesty and exposed the Regime and Barack Hussein Obama as the liars they are. Center for Immigration Ser...
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2013

The View From The Trenches On David Coleman's Plan To Revamp The SAT

Two comments from readers of Inside Higher Ed on the new College Board president David Coleman's plan to introduce an all new Common Core-ized SAT college admission test in 2015: john • a month ago ?&...
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2013

David Coleman Is Redesigning The SAT. Does He Know What He's Doing?

In 1994, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray pointed out that the SAT was such an effective college admission test that it was having profound effects on society as a whole (with Herrnstein more po...
By Brenda Walker on 10/30/2013

Pakistani Girl Is Raped and Buried Alive

Pakistan is a bad place to be born female because of the brutal misogyny deeply embedded in Islam and the tribal culture. A 13-year-old recently had to dig herself out of a muddy grave after being rape...
By Brenda Walker on 10/30/2013

Heather Mac Donald Is Interviewed about California's Prospects

The California scholar has written informatively about Hispanic culture, illegal alien crime, high school dropout diversity and other topics. PJ Media blogger Ed Driscoll recently talked with Heather ...
By Federale on 10/30/2013

Chinese Takeover Of San Francisco Continues Apace

San Francisco is a beautiful city ruined by its inhabitants; militant homosexuals, hipster leftists, and a ubiquitous Neo-Marxist political machine run by millionaire leftists like Dianne Feinstein, Ba...
By Brenda Walker on 10/30/2013

Rasmussen Poll: Voters Split Evenly between Obama and Tea Party with 42 Percent Each

Tuesday’s poll data was quite a surprise considered from the viewpoint of the efficacy of the propaganda media. The drumbeat Opravda voices have been incessantly insisting the Tea Party to be evil and ...
By Steve Sailer on 10/30/2013

Nature, Nurture, and NASCAR

From my new column in Taki's Magazine: There was a fair amount of national media excitement this weekend over the news that Darrell Wallace, Jr. had won a NASCAR race. As a Southern Californian, my a...
By Allan Wall on 10/30/2013

Amnesty Lobbyists Assault Capitol Hill (Has Your Representative Heard From You?)

On the 29th of October, Capitol Hill was assaulted by hundreds of amnesty promoters. Their goal: to push for amnesty among House Republicans. (For a before-the-fact treatment, see my article House Repu...
By Steve Sailer on 10/30/2013

David Coleman: Architect of the Common Core and, soon, the SAT

As I've mentioned before, relative to the usual quality of educational standards writing, the new Common Core standards reflect a fine masculine intelligence. The author clearly understands how a hi...
By Steve Sailer on 10/30/2013

"Restriction Of Range:" It's Not Just A Statistical Problem, It's A Desirable Lifestyle

From Quartz: POWER OF MYTH  There’s one key difference between kids who excel at math and those who don’t  By Miles Kimball and Noah Smith October 27, 2013  Miles Kimball is an economic...
By Patrick Cleburne on 10/29/2013

REDSTATE's Erickson Savages NATIONAL REVIEW: VDARE.com Applauds

One McCain is too many! I have taken RedState’s Erick Erickson very seriously since I saw he was the only other writer calling for a filibuster against Commissar Kagan’s coronation to the Supreme Cour...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2013

Reparations for the West Indies?

Have you noticed that the more we get into the Age of Obama, the more we are lectured to focus on the Age of Slavery? Here, for example, is an op-ed in the NYT: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery&nbs...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2013

The Robots Are Coming! (But Where Did All The Robots Of Yesteryear Go?)

Robots have been back in the news for several years, with many weighty discourses about the future of the economy after the robots have taken over. This always reminds me that back around 1984, the P...
By Brenda Walker on 10/28/2013

Kenya "Repatriates" (Deports) Illegal Somalis After Nairobi Mass Murder—Why Doesn't The US Ever Do This?

In Kenya, the government is beginning to deport, er “repatriate” Somalis after the horrific Nairobi mall attack in September. The BBC report linked below didn’t like the word “deport” apparently, becau...
By Steve Sailer on 10/28/2013

Which Frenchwoman Most Deserves Recognition In The Panthéon?

An NYT op-ed: Why So Few Women in the Panthéon?  By ROBERT ZARETSKY HOUSTON — In the politics of national identity, as with the politics of real estate, there are three cardinal rules: location, l...
By John Derbyshire on 10/28/2013

Housekeeping Notes: John Derbyshire Speaking At H.L. Mencken Club, Etc.

Just some housekeeping notes. (1) The November issue of The American Spectator is now out.  It includes (p.54) my review of Lee Billings’ new book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Li...
By James Fulford on 10/28/2013

Mickey Kaus: "Should Marco Rubio be forgiven?" Briefly, No

Via Twitter:Should Marco Rubio be forgiven? http://t.co/HGvvj7HvM7— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) October 27, 2013 The answer to the question "Should Marco Rubio be forgiven?" is briefly, "No."[T]he level ...