By James Fulford on 10/31/2011

What To Dress Up As On Halloween: Not Blackface

One of the main problems with  Halloween is that different cultures have started to object to Americans dressing up as them. Youth for Western Civilization has a post titled We're a Culture, Not a...
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2011

"The Better Angels of Our Nature" by Steven Pinker

My long review of Pinker's important book on "Why Violence Has Declined" is now up at The American Conservative website. An excerpt:Encouraging as all this is, Better Angels can be a frustrating read,...
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2011

Herman Cain Accused Of Sexual Harassment

In 1991, a black conservative, Clarence Thomas, was accused of flirting with a black woman. This was the biggest news in the history of the world for about a week. (If you are too young to remember thi...
By James Fulford on 10/31/2011

Global Warming Update

The global warming in New England is fairly deep on the ground, leaving some of VDARE.com's Editorial Collective without electrical power. Instapundit says"CONNECTICUT LIGHT & POWER CUSTOMERS TOLD ...
By James Fulford on 10/31/2011

Accused NYPD Ticket Fixers Not Quite As Multicultural As Regular Criminals

The NYPD has many good traditions, but also some bad ones, one of which is corruption. The  group below has been accused of corruption, specifically ticket-fixing. Looking at this group, my first ...
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2011

Making The World Safe For Polygamy, One Predator Drone At A Time

By Adam Nossiter in the NYT:TRIPOLI, Libya — It was just a passing reference to marriage in a leader’s soberly delivered speech, but all week it has unsettled women here as well as allies abroad.&nb...
By Allan Wall on 10/30/2011

No Solution for Long-Term Medical Costs of Unauthorized Aliens?

Todd Ackerman's article in the Houston Chronicle poses a difficult problem but, of course, doesn't even attempt to get at a real solution besides soaking American taxpayers while making them feel gu...
By Brenda Walker on 10/30/2011

Muslim Brotherhood Is Busy Working for Worldwide Sharia

>Hostile Muslims who support the ideology of planetary jihad must be feeling pretty good these days. A couple of their top guys (Osama & al Awalaki) got whacked, it’s true, but the whole “Arab S...
By Steve Sailer on 10/30/2011

Breaking News: Tyler Perry Fans Don't Like Yosemite

From the L.A. Times:Yosemite seeks a more diverse visitor base Only about 1% of the nearly 4 million people who visit the national park each year are black, and the park system remains largely th...
By Brenda Walker on 10/30/2011

Rep. Gallegly Notes Feds Distributing Billions of Dollars to Illegals

It’s not news that illegal aliens receive billions of dollars annually in tax refunds even though they pay no income tax, although when the Chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee mentions that ...
By Brenda Walker on 10/30/2011

Larger Islamist Threat Overlooked following US Smackdowns of al Qaeda

From one viewpoint, the American efforts against certain jihadist enemies has been going great: several top bad guys like Osama and al Awlaki have been dispatched to Allah by our excellent armed forces...
By Brenda Walker on 10/30/2011

Nun-Killing Drunk-Driving Illegal Alien to Face a Judge

Usually the government prefers a plea deal to a trial in controversial cases where illegal alien criminals are involved. The details often reveal authorities’ continuing malfeasance and unwillingness t...
By Patrick Cleburne on 10/29/2011

Asian "Birth Tourists" Prove "Birthright Citizenship" Problem

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Sweet - but contemptuously exploiting Birthright Citizenship loophole MNSBC has come up with a classic: Born in the U.S.A.: Bir...
By Patrick Cleburne on 10/29/2011

Obama Cripples Border Patrol - Where is GOP?

Border Patrol Checking Public Transport: Too Effective - Forbidden! Last August the Obama Administration quietly indicated the intention to abandon enforcement against some hundreds of thousands of ap...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2011

What's The Secret Of Herman Cain?

The NYT has a column quoting various pundits puzzling until their puzzlers are sore over the mystery of Herman Cain's rise to the top of the GOP presidential polls. How can some random corporate exec...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2011

Why there was no Autumn of Love

A few readers have asked about my assertion below about the causes of the quick collapse of the Haight-Ashbury Summer of Love in 1967 ("If you're going to San Francisco / Be sure to wear some flowers...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2011

Burning Man as a Whitopia

Black journalist Rich Benjamin coined the word "whitopia" a few years ago for a place white people move to. Most of them tend to be in the Great Basin between the Sierras and the Rockies. Perhaps th...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2011

Occupy Wall Street: Too White

From the NYT:Two weeks into Occupy Wall Street’s takeover of Zuccotti Park, a group of Bronx community organizers and friends rode the subway down to Lower Manhattan to check out a movement they sup...
By Steve Sailer on 10/28/2011

Not Quite Getting The Joke: Firemen And "Human Capital"

Here's an article from Inside Higher Ed about the growing demands for firefighters to have college or even advanced degrees.  The commenters at Marginal Revolution don't get what's going on: hirin...
By Steve Sailer on 10/28/2011

Dept. of Wishful Thinking:"Dictators Get the Deaths They Deserve"

From the NYT: Dictators Get the Deaths They Deserveby Simon Sebag Montefiore How about Mao? Died at 82. How about Stalin? I read a book about Stalin once. He lived his three score and ten and died on h...