By Steve Sailer on 03/31/2011

Obama's War

Two weeks ago, Barack Obama started America's war with Libya. I can recall my amazement as I typed the title for my blog post: Are we at war with Libya?As with so much about the President, his big pict...
By Steve Sailer on 03/31/2011

The View From Pyongyang

In "Protips for Increased Dictator Longetivity," The Cold Equations draws attention to the view of a North Korean official on the fate of Libya's seven-year-long accord with Washington: An unidentif...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/31/2011

Miami Tennis: Treason Unleashed

The combination of the internet and modern filming technology is politically devastating, as ACORN discovered. (Don’t neglect this Jon Stewart classic.) It has broken the MSM censorship lock on signifi...
By Rob Sanchez on 03/31/2011

House Judiciary Hearing on H-1B 3/31/2011

The House Judiciary is having a hearing on H-1B Thursday, 3/31/2011. The subject line of the hearing is: "Visas: Designing a Program to Meet the Needs of the U.S. Economy and U.S. Workers".Details abou...
By Anonymous Attorney on 03/30/2011

Are Multiracial Societies Physically Painful to Live In?

I've long had a suspicion that life in a multiracial society isn't just confusing and inefficient: it might actually be mentally and physically harmful. Why? Robert Putnam observed that people in multi...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/30/2011

Libyan Involvement To Trigger Third-World Invasion of U.S. As Well As Europe?

Italian Police try to contral Tunisian migrants at food distribution center on Lampedusa: The tiny Italian fishing island which now has MORE migrants fleeing Tunisia and Libya than inhabitants, Daily ...
By Steve Sailer on 03/30/2011

"Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century"

From my review of a new biography of Robert A. Heinlein in Taki's Magazine: The rise of the nerds to mainstream dominance is one of popular culture's most important developments over the last generatio...
By Steve Sailer on 03/30/2011

Charlie Trotter

From the NYT, a story by David Kamp about a great artist who isn't trendy anymore: Charlie Trotter, a Leader Left BehindThough [chef Charlie Trotter] can be genial and very funny, he has never been ab...
By Steve Sailer on 03/30/2011

Not From The Onion—Obama Wants Gun Control In America, But May Arm Libyan Rebels

In the Comments, Bantam juxtaposed a couple of recent articles, so I'll run with his lead. First, President Barack Obama penned an Op-Ed for the Arizona Daily Star calling for a calm, rational discussi...
By Anonymous Attorney on 03/30/2011

Getting Into Amherst These Days

NPR recently treated listeners to a "behind the scenes" look at the work of Amherst's admissions committee.[Behind The Scenes: How Do You Get Into Amherst? by Tovia Smith, NPR, March 28, 2011] The quot...
By Steve Sailer on 03/30/2011

PC-Whipped

Matthew Yglesias explains that a reason why there aren't many women in engineering is because: Women Engineers Are Jerk-AverseAnna North notes new research on why women leave the science and engineeri...
By Brenda Walker on 03/29/2011

White House Advisor Reviews Hispanic Education Challenges

An interview with a Hispanic education advisor in the White House indicates an interesting combination of honesty and entitlement. Juan Sepulveda admits that Hispanic students are at rock bottom of a...
By Steve Sailer on 03/29/2011

Obama Tosses Value Added Assessments Under The Bus

From a transcript of Obama being interviewed by blue-eyed Jorge Ramos on Spanish-language Univision (Obama was getting an English translation in his ear piece — he speaks only English, which has obvi...
By Steve Sailer on 03/29/2011

Obama Passes The Affairs Of State Test

Over Libya, the President has certainly shown that he can dissemble about military and diplomatic affairs with the best of them.Can we make Libya more like Kosovo rather than Afghanistan? We badly scr...
By Paul Nachman on 03/29/2011

Michael Barone Stumbles On A **TRUTH**, But Rushes Away, Unperturbed

Michael Barone, whose principal reputation is as dean of American political minutiae, has always struck me as, at best, a bland commentator on immigration, no more invested in the subject — as a person...
By Brenda Walker on 03/29/2011

Obama on Univision: We Want Illegals to Succeed

On Monday, post-American President Obama appeared on the Spanish network Univision to chat and take questions from non-reporters. (I can’t remember the last time he had a town hall with Americans in En...
By Anonymous Attorney on 03/28/2011

Black Rapist Denied Jury of Black Rapists

The Supreme Court has just "benchslapped" the notoriously nutty Ninth Circuit for voiding the conviction of a black rapist who whined that the jury contained but a single African-American. Supreme Cour...
By Steve Sailer on 03/28/2011

Efraim Diveroli in Rolling Stone

A few years ago, the story of the two Miami youths, Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, who won a $300 million dollar contract from the Pentagon for ammo for Afghanistan, which they fulfilled with il...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/28/2011

A Treat! - View Justice's Racial Spoils Operative Loretta King

Loretta King, named by Nicholas Stix today as responsible for the Justice Department’s attempt to convert New York’s Fire Department into an income redistribution mechanism for less able Blacks, was th...
By Nicholas Stix on 03/28/2011

Justice Department Quota Queen Loretta King: FDNY Must Pay Minorities for Failing; Will Whites Have to Pay Blacks and Hispanics for Murders, Too?

(Beginning at about 4:14 of the Fox News clip,Washington Times writer Quin Hillyer discusses outlaw Justice Department quota queen Loretta King, who is behind this, as well as so ma...