By Steve Sailer on 05/31/2012

Pinker On Language Wars

Steven Pinker writes in Slate: Nature or nurture. Love it or leave it. If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.If you didn’t already know that euphonious dichotomies are usually phony dichotomies, you need...
By Steve Sailer on 05/31/2012

Loyalties: Boyish Concentric Conservatives v. Adolescent Leapfrogging Liberals

In my review of Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind, I suggested: What Haidt never quite gets across is that conservatives typically define their groups concentrically, moving from their familie...
By James Fulford on 05/31/2012

Don't Let The Media Photograph You In Front Of Your Bookshelf!

I must admit, I do this too—when a writer is photographed on the back of a book jacket infront of his bookshelf, I turn the book on its side, and try to read the titles. But I don't want other people d...
By Steve Sailer on 05/31/2012

For Liberals, Diversity Trumps Everything

Disraeli had a character exclaim in one of his novels, "Race is everything." Increasingly, it appears that for liberals, all other values, such as gender equality, are subordinate to the prime direct...
By Allan Wall on 05/31/2012

Farrakhan's Eloquence on the Southwest and Impending White Minority Status

The Blaze reports a speech delivered by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in San Diego, California, the day before Memorial Day . The title of the article sums it up: Farrakhan Laments: ‘Sad That ...
By Federale on 05/31/2012

Big Business Wants The Border Patrol To Direct Traffic At The Border—But They Should Be Doing Interior Enforcement Instead

The  Big Business outsourcers who offshore their manufacturing to Mexico, would like the Border Patrol to expedite border crossngs. They outsource to  China as well, which is trying to bypass...
By Steve Sailer on 05/31/2012

Tim Duncan Announces Shoe Deal With Florsheim

The San Antonio Spurs are now 10-0 in the NBA playoffs, as they go for their fifth NBA title since 1999 in their Tim Duncan Era. Even before this season, the Spurs' veteran Big 3 of Duncan, Tony Park...
By Steve Sailer on 05/31/2012

I hereby forgive the CIA for Abstract Expressionism

One of the interesting unanswered questions about post-WWII arts and literature (e.g., the Mad Men era) is how much was it funded and molded by the CIA as part of a "twilight struggle" to mak...
By Steve Sailer on 05/31/2012

Economists v. Child Labor and Immigration Laws

Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen links to a study of why child labor expanded so much during the laissez-faire era of the industrial revolution. The comments are mostly the usual libertarian ch...
By James Fulford on 05/31/2012

Congressman Silvestre Reyes Defeated In A Primary By Amnesty Supporter

Congressman Silvestre Reyes has just been defeated in a primary, apparently for not being pro-immigration enough. Reyes, a Democratc, was defeated by El Paso councilman Beto O'Rourke. Beto is acutally ...
By Brenda Walker on 05/30/2012

Obama Honors Anti-Borders Activist Delores Huerta

President Obama handed out Medals of Freedom on Tuesday, and they well reflected his political beliefs. Rock legend Bob Dylan got a lot of attention, and he was a famous social rebel in the sixties.One...
By Brenda Walker on 05/30/2012

Switzerland: Neighborhood Watch Observes Criminal Asylum Seekers

Swiss citizens have at times shown less interest than many Europeans in PC celebrations of diversity, as demonstrated by their voting against minaret construction (pictured below) and for deporting cri...
By James Fulford on 05/30/2012

Comparative Sentencing in England's "Increasingly Naked Police State"

Compare the sentence given to two black teenagers named Kalee and Precious by a British court in a case where they attacked and viciously beat a 41-year old legal secretary: Legal secretary attacked b...
By Paul Nachman on 05/30/2012

"Immigrants Today Aren't Einstein"

I especially liked this line in my friend James Fulford's current post concerning Ben Wattenberg's woolly-headed triumphalism about the American future: And please don't tell me about Einstein—immigran...
By Steve Sailer on 05/30/2012

Acemogluism: Daron Acemoglu Has Answers That Don't Embarass Economists

From my column in Taki's Magazine: MIT’s Daron Acemoglu is a rock star among economists, one of the ten most cited in his profession. This is largely because of the paper the Istanbul-born Armen...
By James Fulford on 05/30/2012

Englishwoman Sentenced To 21 Weeks In Jail For Shouting At Minorities On The Subway

A white English woman named Jacqueline Woodhouse has been sentenced to 21 weeks in jail by an English court for "racially aggravated intentional harassment" while drunk in the London Subway. Tube raci...
By Federale on 05/29/2012

Radical Left Confirms Railroading Of George Zimmerman

The left-wing blog Talk Left has confirmed that the conclusion of this blog that the Florida Division of Law Enforcement investigation of the Trayvon Martin shooting has been a farce from the start. &...
By Allan Wall on 05/29/2012

Allan Wall on Chuck Wilder's Talkback, May 30th at 3:20 P.M. Eastern Time

Allan Wall is scheduled to be on Chuck Wilder's Talkback show, on Wednesday, May 30th, at 3:20 P.M. Eastern Time.You can listen here and Chuck's blogspot is here....
By James Fulford on 05/29/2012

Ben Wattenberg Optimistic About American Demographics—But Are They, In Fact, American?

Veteran immigration enthusiast Ben Wattenberg is being optimistic about America's population in the Wall Street Journal—America's 21st-Century Population Edge | Birth rates are dropping all over the wo...
By James Fulford on 05/29/2012

The Queen Versus The "Rebel Regime" Of Rhodesia

Sean Gabb mentions in his Diamond Jubilee piece that in 1979, the Queen "bullied Margaret Thatcher to go back on her election promise not to hand Rhodesia over to a bunch of black Marxists." Here's t...