By Peter Brimelow on 04/30/2011

Intelligence Squared Debate Livestreamed Tuesday + Demo Sunday

I'll be at the Intelligence Squared debate featuring Tom Tancredo and the appalling Tamar Jacoby at New York University Tuesday night, May 3 (details here). But if you can't make it, it will be livestr...
By Steve Sailer on 04/30/2011

Suburban Idylls

Jim Manzi in National Review and Megan McArdle in the Atlantic were struck by my nostalgic  quote yesterday from Paul Krugman about his idyllic upbringing i...
By Brenda Walker on 04/30/2011

Jobs Americans WOULD Do: McDonald's Gets One Million Job Applications on One Day

On April 19, the popular restaurant chain held a widely publicized employment day across the country which drew large crowds. Now the figures are in, and the McDonald's company reports that more than o...
By Brenda Walker on 04/30/2011

Egyptian Christians See No Benefit from Political Change

The glorious ”Arab Spring” of supposed peace and justice in the Middle East has not brought improvement to the lives of Egyptian Christians. In fact, attacks against them by Muslims have actually incre...
By James Fulford on 04/29/2011

Reason.com: Libertarians For Minority Statism

Over at Reason.com, Nick Gillespie attacks John Derbyshire's objections to open borders Libertarian Gary Johnston by using us as a stick to beat him and NR: "Over at National Review, whose history of i...
By Brenda Walker on 04/29/2011

Canada: Asylum Seeker Saga Unfolds, with Camp of the Saints Undertones

In October of 2009, the freighter Ocean Lady appeared off the coast of British Columbia carrying a cargo of 76 Tamil men from Sri Lanka who sought asylum in Canada. They were promptly taken by the RCMP...
By Brenda Walker on 04/29/2011

Danes Permit Dangerous Mega-Mosque

There's bad news from Denmark, a country which had been so courageous in standing up for free speech during the Mohammed cartoons controversy. Now it is showing signs of weakness in the face of insiste...
By Brenda Walker on 04/29/2011

Britain: Muslim Unfriendlies Threaten Royal Wedding

Unwise immigration over decades has made Britain a more dangerous place, where thousands of Muslims constitute a fifth column dedicated to destroying the society using violence. In 2005, Sons of Alla...
By Steve Sailer on 04/29/2011

Paradise Lost

With the recent HBO adaptation of James M. Cain's remarkable 1941 novel Mildred Pierce, with Kate Winslet in the title role as the Glendale housewife during the Depression who works her way up to ownin...
By Steve Sailer on 04/29/2011

Aspie Economists

Here's a long article by Benjamin Wallace-Wells on Paul Krugman's personality, such as it is. Economists have been called "worldly philosophers," but a lot of them come across as being awfully out of t...
By Peter Brimelow on 04/28/2011

A New Economic Form: Why VDARE.com asks for money

On Tuesday night, we blocked VDARE.com's home page with our latest fundraising appeal, written by our Executive Directrix Crystal (picture provided), accusing the overwhelming proportion of readers who...
By Brenda Walker on 04/28/2011

Increase in Hispanic Voters Noted

The Pew Hispanic Center has a new report on the increasing number and percentage of latino voters, particularly focusing on the 2010 election.The numbers keep inching up, because immigration-fueled d...
By Brenda Walker on 04/28/2011

Moscow Mosque Mania

In Russia, Muslims don’t seem to have a very good reputation. A series of terrorist attacks, like the horrific Moscow theater attack and the Beslan killings of 186 schoolchildren may have left a mark o...
By Brenda Walker on 04/28/2011

Mexifornia Is Next on Gutierrez` Amnesty Demand Tour

Rep Luis Gutierrez has been traveling America in recent weeks with a 20-city Amnesty Expedition, similar to the one he made in 2009, which I documented first hand (Speaker Pelosi Boards Gutierrez Amnes...
By Steve Sailer on 04/28/2011

What if Lolo Soetoro were Obama's father? (A Hypothetical)

No, I'm not suggesting a new paternity theory to go along with all the wacky ones we already have. Instead, I'm suggesting a thought experiment to assess the impact that being able to self-identify ...
By James Fulford on 04/27/2011

Brutal Beating, Kicking Of Chinese Food Deliveryman By Four Black Teens In New York

This video in the story Brutal Attack On Food Deliveryman Caught On Tape In Morningside Heights, April 27, 2011 10:45 AM clearly shows the faces of three of the four suspects, and what the story says i...
By Steve Sailer on 04/27/2011

Pew Hispanic Center: Latino Electoral Tidal Wave MIA Yet Again

From the Washington Post: Latino and Asian voters mostly sat out 2010 election, report says By Shankar Vedantam, Tuesday, April 26, 6:07 PM A record 14.7 million Latino voters sat out the 2010 midterm...
By Steve Sailer on 04/27/2011

Atlas Shrugged: Part I

From my movie review in Taki's Magazine: Atlas Shrugged: Part I is the most universally despised movie of 2011, but I liked it. Critics hate this adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1957 cult novel for predictabl...
By Steve Sailer on 04/27/2011

Caplan, Kardashian, Lohan, and a `98 Accord.

Bryan Caplan, author of Selfish Reasons to Have More Children, responds to the joke in my review about how I hope that people who like his book have more children and people who prefer watching the K...
By James Fulford on 04/27/2011

Patriotic May Day Demonstration In New York

From American Rattlesnake: Stand Up For America (In New York!) April 23, 2011 By G. Perry Update: The starting time has been moved back to 2 PM. Be sure to adjust your calendars accordingly. May Day...