By Steve Sailer on 12/31/2012

Inequality And Murder Rates

One of the standard acceptable explanations for high crime rates is "inequality."  The most realistic implication is that the poor are driven mad by the sight of the rich, and thus engage in crim...
By Steve Sailer on 12/30/2012

Dress for Bias

Back in 1980, I read John T. Molloy's advice book Dress for Success. It was aimed at the large number of men who don't particularly care about looking good, but who don't want to look bad. It wa...
By Steve Sailer on 12/30/2012

Classic From The Files: Why Do Car Salesmen Dress Like That?

About a decade ago, Edmunds.com paid journalist Chandler Phillips to get sales jobs at a couple of L.A.-area new car dealerships and then write "Confessions of a Car Salesman" about what he'd learned. ...
By Steve Sailer on 12/30/2012

Girlthink on "Les Miserables"

From the Washington Post: Why we love ‘Les Miserables,’ despite its miserable gender stereotypes  By Stacy Wolf, Published: December 28  Stacy Wolf is a professor of theater at Princeton Univ...
By Steve Sailer on 12/29/2012

UrbanBaby.com And "Profiling"

A reader commends to me the discussion site UrbanBaby.com for the displaying the id of upper crust white new mothers and mothers-to-be as they confront realities associated with reproduction, causing t...
By Steve Sailer on 12/29/2012

National Mass Shooting Toll Since 1980s = Chicago's 500 Homicides In 2012

Mother Jones has a useful graph: So, the total number of fatalities from mass shootings since some point in the 1980s is roughly the same as the total number of homicides in Chicago this year (500). O...
By Steve Sailer on 12/27/2012

Ron Unz Gets David Brook's "Sidney Award"

From the NYT: The 2012 Sidney Awards IBy DAVID BROOKSAt the start of the 1980s, about 5 percent of Harvard students were Asian-American. But the number of qualified Asian-American applicants rose so th...
By Steve Sailer on 12/27/2012

Quentin Tarantino's Next Movie: "The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion National Park"

Coming in the Summer of 2016:  In late 2008, following the horrifying defeat of gay marriage at the polls in California, fiances Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Madsen (the ear-cutting Mr. Blonde fr...
By Steve Sailer on 12/27/2012

India Starts To Notice That Pervasive Infant Malnutrition Is A "National Shame"

To a lot of Westerners, India seems cooler than China because it is diverse, democratic, and "postnational," while 21st Century China resembles a homogenous, authoritarian, competent, boring un-Davos...
By Steve Sailer on 12/27/2012

The Jobs Americans Just Will Do

The NYT is worried that the energy boom in eastern Montana has created too many high-paying jobs for Americans. This time, instead of the natural gas rotting in the ground, the problem is t...
By Brenda Walker on 12/27/2012

Mexico 2012: the Year in Narco-Crime

December’s end brings lists of the year’s best, worst, most memorable and other supposedly reflective products of the dinosaur media. Such inventories are easy to concoct, and can be assembled weeks in...
By Nicholas Stix on 12/26/2012

Why is Breitbart Promoting the Central Park 5 Hoax?

Is this Breitbart, or the Village Voice? I have just become acquainted with a “conservative” movie critic named Christian Toto. Toto—the man, not the dog—has all sorts of Republican bona fides: Not on...
By Patrick Cleburne on 12/26/2012

War On Christmas Gets Reported - From Israel

Safed College Christmas tree before suppression As Peter Brimelow noted in his essay this year on the War Against Christmas, reporting War On Christmas incidents appears to be taboo now in the MSM: …...
By John Derbyshire on 12/26/2012

I'm Eccentric, You're Weird, He's Crazy—What, If Anything, Can We Do About Crazies?

Another week, another crazy shooting, and much chatter about mental health.   Last weekend's Radio Derb (here, here, and on iTunes) had a go at the topic in reference to the Connecticut school sho...
By James Fulford on 12/26/2012

Piers Morgan, Mark Steyn, And Peter Brimelow—Which British Journalists Can Be Deported?

People occasionally object to Peter Brimelow, an “immigrant himself” doing the patriotic immigration restrictionist activism  that native Americans won’t do. Several of our unhappy readers have ...
By Brenda Walker on 12/26/2012

Bethlehem Christians Face Their Own Eradication

One of the more depressing aspects of the Christmas season is the attention paid to the worsening situation of Christians who live in the Holy Land. The few remaining hope to leave, as their position b...
By Paul Nachman on 12/25/2012

Thomas Sowell On The War On Christmas

Just a paragraph in one of his Random Thoughts columns. The annual outbursts of intolerance toward any display of traditional Christmas scenes, or even daring to call a Christmas tree by its name, sho...
By Brenda Walker on 12/25/2012

Obama Plans to Give Immigrants an Easier Path to Purchasing Firearms

President Obama is sending signals that his second term will assault citizenship in even more targeted ways. Not only has he promised to reward millions of lawbreaking illegal alien foreigners with all...
By Steve Sailer on 12/25/2012

Theodore Dalrymple On The Latest Shooter

Essayist Theodore Dalrymple is also psychiatrist Dr. Anthony Daniels. I've been to a couple of conference cocktails parties where he's stepped to the side to take calls from patients or loved ones of p...
By Steve Sailer on 12/25/2012

Government Jobs And Veterans Preferences: The Military-Governmental Complex

Foseti, who has a nice job with the federal government in D.C., writes how to think about pay for government jobs here.  In passing, he mentions how important being a veteran has become for your ...