By Patrick Cleburne on 11/30/2012

Good News: GOP Cheap Labor Lobby Servant Blows Custom-Built House District

David Rouzer (R) with Primary foe Pantano - Votes, not just money, needed in elections. Politico reports Rouzer concedes in N.C. By Alex Isenstadt  11/28/12 Republican David Rouzer has conceded t...
By James Fulford on 11/30/2012

Nationalist Backlash In Britain—BNP And UKIP Beat Mainstream Tories In By-Election

The UK doesn't a have two-party system, it has a multi-party system, but there are similarities between the mainstream left party (Labour) and the Democrats, and the mainstream right party (Tories) a...
By Steve Sailer on 11/30/2012

Making America More Like Mexico Is Depressing To Mexican Fertility

From the Washington Post: By Tara Bahrampour, Published: November 29  Tarara Boomdeeay, what a great name ... The U.S. birthrate plunged last year to a record low, with the decline being led by i...
By Steve Sailer on 11/30/2012

"Sabermetrics: The Dissertation!"

Bob Ngo, a sociology Ph.D. student at UC Santa Barbara is writing his dissertation on the "Sabermetric Movement in American Baseball." He's blogged a few of his notes about sabermetricians: By this ti...
By Steve Sailer on 11/30/2012

"Ballmoney"

Instead of having Brad Pitt play Billy Beane in Moneyball, I'd have Philip Seymour Hoffman play, uh, Jim Williams in Ballmoney, the tragic story of bearded, pudgy former boilerroom attendant at a can...
By Brenda Walker on 11/30/2012

Bosnian War Criminal Nabbed in Utica

America! Is there anywhere else on earth that’s half as welcoming?? This country’s openness to outsiders is remarkable and draws a diverse assortment of newbies in search of a better life.The welcome m...
By Brenda Walker on 11/30/2012

US Birth Rate Falls, Led by Immigrants

How bad is the American economy? It’s so bad that even the famously fertile immigrants are having fewer babies. It’s normal for the birth rate to decrease during a long period of economic contraction, ...
By John Derbyshire on 11/30/2012

Radio Derb: Zzzzzzzzzz

In my November 24th edition of Radio Derb I noted the Boring 2012 conference in London, "a celebration of the prosaic and the mundane."Slate.com, which has more money than we do, actually sent a corres...
By Steve Sailer on 11/30/2012

WSJ: "The Racializing of American Politics"

The big money conservative press is starting to get alarmed by all the in-yo-face-white-boy chest-thumping since the election (much of it coming from white boys, of course). Here's another column from ...
By Steve Sailer on 11/30/2012

Why Asians Vote Democratic (cont.)

From an email:"What you write about assimilation is important, probably the most important single issue, just impossible to write about openly. Huntington explained this in Who Are We, which was an imp...
By Steve Sailer on 11/29/2012

(Lawrence ) Downes Syndrome—At The New York Times, Diversity Is For The Little People

New York Times editorials about how Racist Republicans must agree to More Immigrants Now are mostly written by Lawrence Downes. But how diverse is he? In general, the New York Times Editorial Board is ...
By Steve Sailer on 11/29/2012

Golf Course Architecture As The WASP Art Form

Click picture to see more of the Pacific While the world of architecture increasingly evolves toward in-your-face buildings designed by starchitects like Thom Mayne, the high end of the world of golf ...
By Steve Sailer on 11/29/2012

London School Blog

James Thompson, a veteran psychologist at University College London, has started a blog called Psychological Comments....
By Steve Sailer on 11/29/2012

Education Realist Explains Charter Schools

From Education Realist The Parental “Diversity” Dilemma By educationrealist... Look at the history of most progressive charters and you’ll find they are initiated by white people who fit into on...
By Steve Sailer on 11/29/2012

Nate Silver in 2009 v. a proto-Mommy Blogger in 1989: Who Was More Right About Baseball Steroids?

Nate Silver, whose book I review here, is approaching the totemic status of Charles Darwin as a signifier of Science, Honesty, and the Triumph of the Democrats. This isn't his fault, but it's hard to ...
By John Derbyshire on 11/29/2012

Brett Stevens vs Brett Stephens: Onomastic Quicksand

In my column this morning I wrote Brett Stevens' name as "Brett Stephens." (Now corrected.) That is roughly equivalent to mis-spelling "Peter Brimelow" as "Luis Gutiérrez."The Stevens-with-a-v is a Dis...
By Steve Sailer on 11/28/2012

Counting By Ancestral Background: Mandatory For Some, Forbidden For Others?

Over at Marginal Revolution, economist Tyler Cowen links to Ron Unz's The Myth of American Meritocracy, saying:There is a new and stimulating piece by Ron Unz, in The American Conservative. The article...
By Steve Sailer on 11/28/2012

Harvard / Yale Degrees Among Presidential Candidates

Ron Unz's article on elite college admissions reminds me that they seem to be doing something right in terms of polishing up their brand names, which have never been glossier. For example, consider the...
By Federale on 11/28/2012

NYT Ignores Possible Immigration Fraud Aspect Of Mohammed Video Story

It’s amazing how so few words can inform...if one has the knowledge to understand. In this case it is fascinating, but simple story of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the maker of the infamous Mohammed video...
By Federale on 11/28/2012

Red Chinese Taking Citizenship Seriously

China, though it is remarkably open to "Overseas Chinese" is apparently intolerant of its citizens who naturalize elsewhere:Xinhua November 28, 2012Billionaire Quits Political Post After Citizenship Ch...