By Steve Sailer on 07/31/2009

The Lesson From Thursday's "Teachable Moment" ...

When you are falsely accused of racism, don't apologize. Here are headlines from WashingtonPost.com: Obama's Backyard Summit Officer says there was "no tension" at meeting with scholar, but there were ...
By Steve Sailer on 07/31/2009

Obama's IQ: A Clue from a 1966 Joan Didion Essay

I'm reading Joan Didion's 1968 collection of articles, Slouching towards Bethlehem, one of the influential minor masterpieces of early New Journalism, along with Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Norman M...
By Steve Sailer on 07/31/2009

Henry Louis Gates, Pointy-Haired Boss

Craig Offman wrote a Salon article in 1999, The Making of Henry Louis Gates, CEO, on the making of the Encarta Africana encyclopedia, "edited" by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah with fun...
By Steve Sailer on 07/31/2009

Less Beer, More Cigarettes For Obama

Obama's pseudo-regular guy Beer Summit raises an interesting angle: A responsible press would encourage Obama to smoke more and drink less. Obama comes from two long lines of alcoholics: His father die...
By Steve Sailer on 07/31/2009

Contempt of Cop v. Contempt of Court

The fairly arbitrary exercise of judges' power to cite, fine, and even imprison for "Contempt of Court" hasn't much been criticized in four decades. The last time I can recall a harsh spotlight being s...
By James Fulford on 07/30/2009

Quote Of The Day: "Well, Good For Them"

In Lawrence Block's novel, Tanner On Ice, Evan Tanner wakes up after being frozen for 25 years, going directly from Nixon's first term to Clinton's second, and being surprised to see that that Communis...
By James Fulford on 07/30/2009

Steve Sailer on Chuck Wilder today at 4:34 p.m. ET (1:34 p.m. PT)

Steve Sailer will be a guest on the Chuck Wilder Show today at 4:34 p.m. ET (1:34 p.m. PT) to discuss the Gates arrest controversy as a "teachable moment" about race in America. The show can be streame...
By Steve Sailer on 07/30/2009

Breaking Into Your Own House

Throughout StupidGate, whenever anybody rhetorically says, "Officer Crowley should have left as soon as Professor Gates showed ID demonstrating he'd broken into his own house!" I've had in the back of ...
By Steve Sailer on 07/30/2009

My New Taki Column: Gates, Obama, And The Black Overclass

The beginning of my new column in Taki's Magazine: Countless pundits have debated whether the Henry Louis Gates Jr. brouhaha is about race or class. In truth, Barack Obama’s maladroit but heartfelt int...
By Steve Sailer on 07/29/2009

Why is the Fundamental Constant of Sociology so Fundamental?

La Griffe du Lion's great term for the one standard deviation gap between whites and blacks in just about any measurement that's related in some way to cognition—the Fundamental Constant of Sociology —...
By Steve Sailer on 07/29/2009

How much does Mayor Bloomberg want to be President?

Billionaire media monopolist Michael Bloomberg, the Silvio Berlusconi of America, recently had the law amended so he could run for a third term as mayor of New York this fall.Bloomberg is now 67, so if...
By Steve Sailer on 07/29/2009

Pilots, Self-selection, and the g Factor

As I've mentioned, one of the rules of polite journalism in discussing testing firefighters is to assume that paper and pencil tests must be irrelevant to the obviously moronic job of spraying water on...
By James Fulford on 07/29/2009

Peter Brimelow on Lee Rodgers Show

Peter Brimelow will be a guest on the Lee Rodgers Show on Wednesday at 10:05 ET to discuss a range of recent issues. The program airs in San Francisco and can be streamed live here....
By Brenda Walker on 07/29/2009

Jobless Recovery: "No Net New Jobs for the Next Four or Five Years"?

Wall Street has appeared peppy in recent days, but the American worker has been warned that a "jobless recovery" is looking more likely [Fed Sees Heightened Joblessness Drawing Out Recovery, Washingto...
By Steve Sailer on 07/29/2009

Sailer's Law of Female Journalism

A cover story on Slate.com today (#4): Hair Raising: Can a shocking YouTube video of a girl getting her curls brushed change attitudes about black hair? By Teresa Wiltz This is another example of Saile...
By Rob Sanchez on 07/28/2009

Rob Sanchez On Chuck Wilder 1:34 PM PST/4:34 Eastern

I will be on the Chuck Wilder talk-radio show on Tuesday July 28, at 1:34 PM PST. I will probably on until the top of the hour.Wilder's show is available online in streaming audio which can be listened...
By Nicholas Stix on 07/28/2009

Gatesgate Lesson: If You Think You See Two Black Males Committing a Crime, Don't Call 911

The white woman who on July 16 called in what appeared to be a break-in in progress at the Harvard University-owned property at which tenured racist Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. resides now wants the ...
By Ellison Lodge on 07/28/2009

Washingtondcescortsnews.com picks up David Keene

For some reason, a blogger named "larrylibido" reposted my piece on David Keene and the ACU's attempted Sellout to FED Ex on the site: washingtondcescortsnews.com.  The site advertises, "See the ...
By Steve Sailer on 07/28/2009

Alberto Gonzales Versus a Beneficiary of Bias

Michael Cammarata October 5, 1978 - September 11, 2001Last week, Federal District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis upheld the Bush Administration's 2007 Vulcan Society lawsuit, which was filed in the name of...
By Steve Sailer on 07/28/2009

Who can take "Vulcan Society" to the Supreme Court?

Last week's federal district court ruling in Vulcan Society v. New York throwing out the written tests used to hire some of the 343 firemen who died on 9/11 should be taken to the Supreme Court posthas...