By Athena Kerry on 01/31/2013

Jamaican Immigrant Double Murder in Englewood NJ

The New York Daily News reports today that Michael Brady, a Jamaican immigrant, was arrested for brutally stabbing his girlfriend and suffocating her 5 year old daughter.(Man arrested for killing Engle...
By Steve Sailer on 01/31/2013

Oscar nominations by gender - Costume

There have long been quiet but persistent complaints of discrimination against women fashion designers in the NY-Paris-Milan world of haute couture. This 2005 NYT article lays out the evidence than an...
By James Fulford on 01/31/2013

Tom Tancredo: Amnesty Will Not Draw Hispanics to the GOP

Tom Tancredo has a column on Townhall.com saying something most of our readers already know, but which needs repeating in the TownHall.com circle (links added by me, because Townhall doesn't bother) : ...
By Patrick Cleburne on 01/31/2013

Honoring Election Pledges!!!! Nebraska’s Senator Deb Fischer Rejects Amnesty

Nebraska's Deb Fischer: " "You cannot reward people with citizenship who have broken the laws" Apparently Rubiomania has not spread to Nebraska yet-Sen. Deb Fischer said Wednesday she will not support ...
By Brenda Walker on 01/31/2013

Robert Rector: New Amnesty Will Cost Trillions of Taxpayer Dollars

A few sovereignty defenders like Senator Jeff Sessions have begun to pipe up about mega amnesty’s mind-blowing cost to be paid by unwilling citizens, a message that hasn’t broken through to the dinosau...
By Brenda Walker on 01/31/2013

Arizona Rancher: Border Is Not Secure

When the Gang of Eight amnesty Senators outlined a framework for their anti-sovereignty scheme, a basic piece was the commission that would decide when the Mexican border was secure. That board would c...
By Patrick Cleburne on 01/31/2013

One Old Vet's Daily Summary

Yesterday I noted that One Old Vet is a better supplier of immigration news aggregation than the possibly ADD-afflicted Drudge Report.The story volume is so huge that OOV has taken to running a daily s...
By Matthew Richer on 01/31/2013

Deval Patrick Picks Next Massachusetts Senator

Everyone is trying to figure out why Gov. Deval Patrick appointed William “Mo” Cowan as the interim senator from Massachusetts.[A mentor to many, he made his own way:  For Mo Cowan, a path that be...
By James Fulford on 01/31/2013

"The Fix" In The Washington Post: "Why George W. Bush was right"

The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza has a blog post on amnesty:Why George W. Bush was right Posted by Chris Cillizza on January 31, 2013 at 11:57 amGeorge W. Bush was president of the United States l...
By Paul Nachman on 01/31/2013

Anti-Amnesty Preparation: See FAIR's Report And, Thereby, Know That EVERY Enforcement Promise Is A Lie

With the Senate version of the immigration coup de main against the American people launched by Rubio and the Gang Of Eight, and with The Little Prince himself announcing his own "Four-part plan" in Ne...
By John Derbyshire on 01/31/2013

Dr. Crippen, Call Your Office

In regard to the cross-linguistic ambiguity of the word "gift," a reader who is acquainted with yet another Germanic language tells me that in Norwegian, the noun gift means "poison" but the verb ...
By Paul Kersey on 01/31/2013

Congratulations, SPLC, Tim Wise—Atlanta Black Gunman Nkosi Thandiwe Says He Shot Three White Girls Because Of Anti-White Lessons He Learned In College

Taking the concept of “white privilege” to its logical conclusion. This is what Nkosi Thandiwe has done in Atlanta, Georgia. He shot three white girls. One white girl is dead; another is paralyzed; ano...
By John Derbyshire on 01/31/2013

Where Is The Middle Class?

Suddenly everyone's linking to this histogram. I did yesterday (ante-ante-ante-ante-penultimate paragraph here).  I got to it from TechCrunch, via Parapundit.  I just noticed that Steve ...
By Steve Sailer on 01/31/2013

Neill Blomkamp's "Elysium"

Here's the plot description of Boer-Canadian director Neill Blomkamp's second movie (following "District 9"), scheduled for release in August: In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very we...
By Steve Sailer on 01/31/2013

Oscar Nominations By Gender—Writing

As you know, I love lists of people assembled by other people for other purposes than my own. Lately I've been tabulating lists of Oscar nominees over the decades, which provide unanticipated insight...
By Patrick Cleburne on 01/31/2013

Senator Vitter on Rubio's Amnesty Plan: "I Think He's Nuts"

Vitter versus Rubio: Patriot versus ??? So far my favorite response to the effort to float Amnesty through on a wave of Rubiomania is that of Louisiana Senator David Vitter on Laura Ingraham’s show: V...
By James Fulford on 01/30/2013

Lamar Smith And Richard Viguerie On The Senate Betrayal: "Other Than THAT, The Gang Of Eight Immigration Plan Is A Great Idea."

From Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQCongressman Lamar Smith Gets It On Immigration By CHQ Staff | 1/30/13Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX-21) said the immigration-reform principles floated by a bipa...
By John Derbyshire on 01/30/2013

Regression Towards The Mean—A Primer

I had a go at explaining regression towards the mean here....
By John Derbyshire on 01/30/2013

Again, Again, And Yet Again

My colleague Nicholas Stix, writing about Colin Powell, tells us that "In German, 'Gift' means 'poison.'"It might be worth reflecting that to a German-tuned ear, "VDARE" sounds like "wieder," which mea...
By James Fulford on 01/30/2013

"Do They Ever Catch Nigerian Con Men?" No, They Catch "Greenwich" Men

The Deceptology blog has amusing optical illusions, magic tricks, and tales of fraud. This one, about a Nigerian con man, is about his deception, but there's another one embedded in it: Do they ever c...