By James Fulford on 10/31/2012

October 31—Hurricane Sandy Interfering With Polls—Romney's White Share (Probably) 58 Percent

Owing to Hurricane Sandy, RealClearPolitics polls  have not been updated since the 28th.  Rasmussen Reports is in bad shape, with Asbury Park, New Jersey still under water, but they have rele...
By Brenda Walker on 10/31/2012

Michigan Taxpayers Soaked for $1 Billion Annually in Illegal Alien Costs

Michigan has been a hard-luck case in the Rust Belt, having lost most of its auto and manufacturing industries over the last few decades. The September unemployment rate was 9.3 percent.So blowing a bi...
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2012

The American Conservative symposium on Romney v. Obama

The whole gang at The American Conservative magazine, myself included, weighs in with their personal perspectives about the choice between Obama and Romney.   Read the whole thing there....
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2012

I've Finally Figured Out Who Obama Really Is

That headline is semi-serious: at this late date, I've come up with a sort-of-new theory on Obama. It's neither terribly scandalous nor laudatory (so nobody will pay attention to it); it just makes m...
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2012

What's The Matter With The Democrats?

Here is an article I wrote for The American Conservative in the summer of 2006 on the inherent weaknesses of the Democratic Party. As it turned out, the Democrats whomped the Republicans hard that No...
By Federale on 10/31/2012

Immigrants In Uniform—The MAVNI Program Is A Bad Idea

Unsurprisingly the neo-cons at Commentary have endorsed the restart of the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI ) program. MAVNI evolved out of the disastrous decision to include i...
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2012

NBA Team Accused Of Discriminating Against Black Basketball Players

Business Insider reports: The Minnesota Timberwolves go into the season with only five black players on their 15-man roster, and some people are calling it a conspiracy.  From Jerry Zgoda and De...
By James Fulford on 10/30/2012

October 30—Romney's White Share Still At 58 Percent, So Even If Whites Are More Likely To Show Up At The Polling Place, He's Still In Trouble

Hurricane Sandy is interfering with polling—Rasmussen Reports notes that Rasmussen Reports is based in Asbury Park, New Jersey and we were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. We are operating on battery power...
By Steve Sailer on 10/30/2012

Obama v. Romney Demographics: Draw Your Own Conclusions

From my recent article:Feel free to pass this graph around and see what conclusions people come up with. They can read up on the methodology here....
By Steve Sailer on 10/30/2012

The Gap is Closing!

Speaking of Arthur Jensen, Occidentalist has a table listing all 40 academic studies he could find of the white-black gap in average IQ in the U.S. They range from 1918, when it was measured at 17 po...
By Steve Sailer on 10/30/2012

The World's Most Boring Profound Insight

Brain science reporter Benedict Carey has another good piece in the NYT: That Guy Won? Why We Knew It All Along  By BENEDICT CAREY  The economy, “super PAC” money, debate performances, the ca...
By Brenda Walker on 10/30/2012

San Francisco Hispanics Trash Their Neighborhood to Celebrate World Series

San Francisco baseball fans were thrilled to see the Giants sweep to victory in four straight World Series games against the Detroit Tigers. However, some diverse residents of the city thought that rio...
By Steve Sailer on 10/30/2012

"The Daily Mail" on Arthur Jensen

The most obvious impression a fair-minded observer derives from a sustained exposure to the work of the late Arthur R. Jensen (1923-2012), professor of psychology at Berkeley, is that Dr. Jensen was a ...
By Steve Sailer on 10/30/2012

The Journal "Intelligence" on Arthur Jensen

A 1998 special edition of the scientific journal Intelligence, entitled "A King among Men: Arthur Jensen," was devoted to analyses by 13 leading experts of the career of the great psychometri...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2012

More on Arthur Jensen, 1923-2012

Here's my 2002 review in VDARE.com of Intelligence, Race, and Genetics: Conversations with Arthur R. Jensen, in which the brilliant interviewer Frank Miele leads the Berkeley psychologist through an ac...
By James Fulford on 10/29/2012

October 29: Romney's White Share Dropping

Peter Brimelow is unable to do the white share update today because electrical outages caused by Hurricane Sandy.Rasmussen Reports this morning (October 29) shows Romney's lead over Obama down by anoth...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2012

Arthur Jensen, RIP

The great IQ scientist has died at the age of 89.Here's my review of his 1998 magnum opus, The g Factor.[VDARE.com Note: This was written at the request of National R...
By Peter Brimelow on 10/29/2012

Oct. 28: Romney Ripple Or GOP Glacier? Romney Stalls Within Margin Of Error Again, White Share Below 60%

Not so much a Romney Ripple, maybe a GOP glacier: Sunday's polls show no further progress, maybe a little melting, but still generally ahead although within the margin of error. Romney's white share is...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2012

Ben Franklin: "Britain was formerly the America of the Germans"

For those interested in questions of deep ethnic roots, discuss. Note: Franklin used this device to make a topical political point in favor of American liberties in the colonists' dispute with th...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2012

Hurricane Sandy Prediction

Prepare for a lot of retrospectives in the media on the Republican President's failure regarding Hurricane Katrina....