By Brenda Walker on 03/31/2013

Univision Provides Cultural Connection for 1.2 Million Bay Area Spanish Speakers

In a recent celebration of diversity, the San Jose Mercury-News praised the family values of Mexicans who watch television together, not like tiresome Americans who are too disconnected to view with ot...
By Steve Sailer on 03/31/2013

Being Married v. Getting Married—How Gay Marriage Will Impact Regular Marriage

Ross Douthat writes: Yet for an argument that has persuaded so few, the conservative view has actually had decent predictive power. As the cause of gay marriage has pressed forward, the social link b...
By Steve Sailer on 03/31/2013

Race Trumps Class: Happy Cesar Chavez's Birthday

Union boss Cesar Chavez was one of the leading class warriors of my youth, but today he is remembered only as the patron saint of La Raza. As I wrote in The American Conservative in 2006: In California...
By Steve Sailer on 03/31/2013

Not a White Hispanic: Google's Artists Conception Of Cesar Chavez

The Google Guys aren't really into Easter, so for today's Google Doodle, they're celebrating the birthday of Cesar Chavez by putting up a picture of somebody or other. Apparently, Google doesn't have a...
By John Derbyshire on 03/30/2013

Derbyshire On ECONOMIST Immigration Piece: "I Have Rarely Seen Elite Contempt So Brazenly Expressed."

The Open-Borders nation-haters at The Economist have come out with one of their strangest pieces yet.Titled "A bad day for foreign scroungers," it reports on how Britain's political clas...
By Anonymous Attorney on 03/30/2013

"Perry County Scumbags" v. Mayor Linda Thompson

Harrisburg mayor Linda Thompson (pictured right) fits nicely into the mold of the insane/incompetent/possibly criminal Black American Mayor. (Who will nevertheless probably be re-elected.)Recently, du...
By John Derbyshire on 03/30/2013

Radio Derb Is On The Air: The Powerball Winner Who Can't Speak English

Available as a podcast on iTunes, can be listened to or downloaded from Taki's Magazine here, with a transcript you can read here.In this week's broadcast (which by the way is unusually long—nearly 50 ...
By Steve Sailer on 03/30/2013

Washington Post:"White Men with Guns"

From the Washington Post: Opinions White men with guns  Charlotte Childress and Harriet Childress4:39 PM ET Our nation must confront why they perpetrate somany shootings....
By Steve Sailer on 03/29/2013

Sabermetrics Is Making Baseball Worse

The big lesson in late 20th Century statistical analysis of baseball was that in the ancient debate over baseball strategy between Ty Cobb (make contact, hit line drives, and steal bases) and Babe Ruth...
By Brenda Walker on 03/29/2013

Obama Administration Returns Saudis to Easy-Entry Program

The current administration is on a jihad against public safety. A couple recent examples: cutbacks of the Border Patrol and the release of thousands of foreign criminals from prison to American streets...
By Brenda Walker on 03/29/2013

Iowa Senator Grassley Reviews Mistakes of 1986 Amnesty

Senator Charles Grassley voted for Reagan’s 1986 amnesty, and has in recent years been clear in stating a basic psychological fact that should inform all legislation: “You know what I found out? If yo...
By James Fulford on 03/29/2013

The Enormity Of Democrats Ramming Amnesty/Immigration Surge Through Senate Like Obamacare

Byron York writes in the Washington Examiner: Democrats set to jam immigration reform through SenateMarch 28, 2013 | 8:00 pmGiven the enormity of the changes that would result from comprehensive immigr...
By Steve Sailer on 03/29/2013

Hispanics Delinquent On Mortgages 4.7 Times As Often As Whites

Going on a half dozen years after the mortgage meltdown that began in 2007, the evidence continues to trickle in about the key role of diversity in the disaster. Granted, there's very little demand for...
By Peter Brimelow on 03/29/2013

Lawrence Auster January 26, 1949-March 29, 2013

Laura Wood posted the announcement on View From The Right an hour ago. She reports that  he was received into the Catholic Church on Monday.Lawrence Auster was a great polemicist and patriot. If t...
By James Fulford on 03/29/2013

Bell, California Hispanic Mayor's Defense: Ignorance Of The Law...And Illiteracy!

I've written that coverage of the corruption in Bell, California under-emphasizes the Hispanic players—his kind of theft is routine in Mexico—but this was a surprise.Mayor Oscar Hernandez can't read o...
By Brenda Walker on 03/29/2013

Rasmussen Poll: 54 Percent Reject Dual Citizenship

The issue of dual citizenship is an interesting one, because it is so little discussed in the public sphere. Even so, a majority of US voters don’t think it is acceptable. My take is that Americans und...
By Nicholas Stix on 03/28/2013

The Trayvon Martin Hoax: Is George Zimmerman’s Lawyer Mark O’Mara in the Tank, or Has He Simply Surrendered?

Post #106 on the Trayvon Martin Hoax My colleague David in TN has sent me an article, from The Last Refuge. It seems that George Zimmerman’s defense attorney Mark O’Mara has been working the pro-hoax m...
By James Fulford on 03/28/2013

Will Tennesse Speech Code For Lawyers Ban "Legitimate Advocacy" On Racial Issues?

Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit)  blogs:March 28, 2013A FORMER STUDENT WRITES THAT THE TENNESSEE SUPREME COURT IS CONSIDERING ADDING A “SPEECH CODE” TO THE RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT, banning rac...
By James Fulford on 03/28/2013

Dr. Norm Matloff Vs. Stuart Anderson: Whose Thumb Is On The Scale Of “Prevailing Wages”?

Dr. Norm Matloff writes to his email list: (I consider this posting to be one of the most important ones I've written, so please bear with me.) I've long supported the H-1B reform bills authored by Sen...
By Steve Sailer on 03/28/2013

How Much Land Do Rich People Use Up? What's Really Expensive For Middle Class Families Are Poor People

From the Washington Post: As income inequality in the United States has soared and median wages have flatlined since 1980, economists have spent a lot of time debating why the top 1 percent have done ...