NIGHT
By Steve Sailer on 06/30/2009

Why South Africa isn't going to be Zimbabwe South

People always get mad at me whenever I suggest that Zimbabwe might hold some suggestions about South Africa. Yet, it's as if something happened to Canada, you wouldn't be too surprised if it later happ...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/30/2009

The Left Took An Intellectual Drubbing On Ricci

The ignorance and just plain dumbness of the purveyors of conventional wisdom is one of the most obvious lessons of the Ricci case. They got drubbed in the Supreme Court decision in large part because ...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/30/2009

Ricci and Unions

Something worth thinking about is the valuable role the firefighter's union in New Haven played in keeping the politicians from getting their hands all over the fire department. It was the union that h...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/30/2009

You Can Always Count On Emily Bazelon...

to be both boring and revealing at the same time. In Slate today, Bazelon writes: Lead plaintiff Frank Ricci, on the other hand, framed his victory in terms that evoke America, the land of opportunity:...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/30/2009

UPDATED: Mr. Ritholtz has a question

In this afternoon's comments on my morning post offering to debate him on whether or not "Diversity was a major factor in the mortgage meltdown," investment adviser, blogger (The Big Picture), and auth...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/29/2009

Justice Alito Delivers The Inside Story On How DeStefano Did Ricci Wrong

The concurring opinion in the Ricci v. DeStefano case (won by Ricci on a 5-4 vote) by Justice Sam Alito, with Thomas and Scalia supporting, attacks the trustworthiness of Ginsburg's retelling of the Ri...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/29/2009

Supreme Court Rules 5-4 For Frank Ricci / Against Sonia Sotomayor

Swing Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion is fairly narrow, yet broader and braver than my prediction that he'd merely send it back down for retrial on the facts. It's a sizable defeat for the O...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/29/2009

Blusterin` Barry

Blogger Barry Ritholtz blusters: I’ve run out of patience with tired memes and discredited claims by fools and partisan.The rhetoric of those pushing nonsense on the public in an attempt to confuse rat...
Read more >>
By James Fulford on 06/29/2009

La Raza Conference: "If The American People Find Out That This Bill Is About Giving Health Care To Non-Citizens, They Will Rise Up Against It."

This is from Doug Ross @ Journal, quoting a woman named "Suzanne" who was on Mark Levin's show I want to tell you that last week I attended a conference on health care reform sponsored by La Raza. And ...
Read more >>
By Peter Brimelow on 06/29/2009

Ricci wins!...

on a 5-4 ideological split....
Read more >>
By Peter Brimelow on 06/29/2009

Paul Gottfried's Encounters and the Heritage Foundation

I hope to post in a few days an excerpt from Paul Gottfried's new memoir Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers but here are his mordant comments on his book's recepti...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/29/2009

Fire Dept. Diversity Promotions, Chicago-Style

Here's a great John Kass column from the Chicago Tribune on February 14, 2009 (or as the day is known in Chicago history, St. Valentine's Day) that's highly relevant to the Ricci case. The background i...
Read more >>
By Brenda Walker on 06/29/2009

Indians Lose Interest in Long-Term Visits

Opportunists, er immigrants from the Subcontinent are coming to America in fewer numbers, since the gravy train is no longer as promising as before.Not that long ago, Indians were congratulating themse...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/28/2009

The Great Divide

Popular liberal economics commentator Barry Ritholtz has posted what struck me originally as a curious response to Connie Bruck's New Yorker article on Angelo Mozilo, which touched in surprising measur...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/28/2009

The Secret History of the Stonewall Riot

In "Stonewall at 40," Frank Rich celebrates in the NYT the June 28, 1969 Greenwich Village drag bar riot that symbolically launched the gay liberation era: On Monday, President Obama will commemorate S...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/28/2009

Interview with Richard Nisbett at HBD Books

Here's a probing interview with Richard Nisbett, author of Intelligence and How to Get It , at HBD Books....
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/28/2009

"Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star"

I just realized that my review of David Spade's 2003 movie "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" has not been available on the Internet for the past half decade. I also just realized that in those years,...
Read more >>
By Patrick Cleburne on 06/28/2009

Schumer makes Nice: Meaning What?

Dena Bunis, Washington Bureau Chief of The Orange County Register, is a consistent, if very measured, scource of key stories on the Immigration War. Democrat talks tough on illegal immigration Friday J...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/28/2009

"Slumdog Millionaire"

Traditionally, I post on iSteve teaser excerpts from my movie reviews when I write them, then post the whole thing here months later after the DVD comes out. So, here's last winter's full-length Americ...
Read more >>
By Steve Sailer on 06/28/2009

The White Michael Jackson ...

... was Donny Osmond of the Osmonds, who was a regular on network television from age five.The Mormon Osmond Brothers had a Jackson 5 sound-alike #1 hit with "One Bad Apple" released when Donny was 12 ...
Read more >>
POPULAR TAGS

Sailer Strategy

Charlottesville Narrative Collapse

War On Christmas

Hate Hoaxes

Gun Control

Tech Totalitarians

Anarcho-Tyranny

Achievement Gap

White Guy Loses His Job

GOP Share Of The White Vote

Birthright Citizenship Reform

Automation

impeachment

not reporting race

Immigrant Mass Murder

Anti-White Hate Crimes

Diversity Is Strength

Administrative Amnesty

Minority Occupation Government

Donald Trump Insurgency