By Allan Wall on 03/31/2009

Latest Forbes Billionaire List Includes Nine Mexicans (One of Whom is a Drug Cartel Chief)

Forbes has come out with its latest list of billionaires. The 2009 list includes nine Mexican billionaires. Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim is currently rated as the world's third-wealthiest man, w...
By James Fulford on 03/31/2009

Santa Clara Familicide Was Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome—If You Read The Indian Press

A reader writes: The recent Rivermark (Santa Clara) family murder suicide involved Indian nationals. Ethnic details only available in foreign sources. See here:Indian in US Kills Six Relatives, Self &n...
By James Fulford on 03/31/2009

Policeman And Dog Face Down (Hispanic?) Mob Of 60

This story from Modesto doesn't use the expression "Hispanic mob" because that would be wrong: Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009 Officer, dog square off against Modesto mob of 60 By Leslie Albrecht lalbrecht@modb...
By Steve Sailer on 03/31/2009

"Adventureland"

Here's the opening of my review from The American Conservative of the film opening this Friday: Mid-20th Century American writers competed on their dust flaps to list the most jobs held. The more prole...
By James Fulford on 03/31/2009

Picture Worth A Thousand Statistics

Here's the picture that accompanies Senator Jim Webb's Parade article Why We Must Fix Our Prisons, [March 29, 2009] mentioned by Randall Burns, below. Inmates at a facility in California, a state that...
By Randall Burns on 03/31/2009

Prison and the National Question

Sen. Jim Webb writes in Parade: In 1984, Japan had a population half the size of ours and was incarcerating 40,000 sentenced offenders, compared with 580,000 in the United States. As shocking as that d...
By James Fulford on 03/31/2009

Dr. Norm Matloff: IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring

Dr. Norm Matloff writes: Just when you had thought you'd heard everything—IBM has filed a patent on methods to optimize offshoring. Norm IBM files for patent on offshoring jobs Seeks to protect tax inc...
By James Fulford on 03/31/2009

Asian Who Idolized Cho Seung Hui Goes On Trial For Threats To Survivors

The Washington Post story about Filipino-American accused John Balasta Napa, pictured at right, says "He's a pretty intense individual," said Seda, who participated in the search of Napa's house. He sa...
By Paul Nachman on 03/30/2009

"Illegal Alien," Redux

In one of Joe Guzzardi's two columns on 3/27/09, he raised the familiar subject of "illegal alien" as a technically correct term that the delicate souls of the no-borders lobby can't abide. Joe cited ...
By Peter Brimelow on 03/30/2009

Brimelow "Extreme"? Houston Chronicle Readers Maul Monty

"GOP must call Obama’s bluff on immigration" [Houston Chronicle, March 29] seemed like an interesting headline. But the article, by Jacob Monty, was just the usual once-more-into the breach boosterism ...
By Steve Sailer on 03/30/2009

Obama Administration Cracking Down On The Border ... The Canadian Border

From the Toronto Globe & Mail: Janet Napolitano has a message for Canadians: It's a border. Get used to it. The new Homeland Security Secretary had only stern comments yesterday about the state and...
By Steve Sailer on 03/30/2009

Do Indians Just Like Memorizing Stuff?

Here's a curious op-ed by Ashok Mitra in the Calcutta Telegraph that makes me fear I missed the point of "Slumdog Millionaire." I assumed that "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" was just a passing fancy ...
By Brenda Walker on 03/30/2009

Pelosi Polling Plunges

According to the Rasmussen pollsters, the Speaker's favorability ratings have dropped rather substantially during a two-week period. Perhaps the public was turned off by her obnoxious performance in Sa...
By James Fulford on 03/30/2009

Immigrant Decapitation Syndrome

We've talked about "Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome" but this is a revolting new trend—a Haitian immigrant named Kerby Revelus killed two of his sisters, stabbing a 17-year old girl to death and decapi...
By James Fulford on 03/30/2009

Bloody Mass Murder Stems From Mass Immigration

This wouldn't have happened in the US except for mass immigration: Editorial: Bloody mass murder stems from drug trade Saturday, March 21 Greensboro [NC] News-Record A mass murder in a small North Caro...
By Steve Sailer on 03/29/2009

Maureen Dowd: "Blue Eyed Greed?"

As I've mentioned before, many a female pundit's output consists in large part of demands that society's structures and values be revolutionized so that she, personally, will be considered hotter-look...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/29/2009

H-1Bs: A Chance to Protest: (Remember, Obama loves Indians)

Carrie’s Nation has come up with another excellent post: Steve Hamm and Barack Obama Need an Earful from You. This alerts us all to the interesting fact that Steve Hamm, the Business Week journalist wh...
By James Fulford on 03/29/2009

Mexican "Refugees" From Drug Violence Heading To Canada

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports that Mexicans are trying to enter Canada as "refugees" from the drug violence, and the usual complainers are complaining. Canada ignores drug violence in M...
By James Fulford on 03/28/2009

The Other McCain On Ransom Note Racism And Republican Cowardice

It occurs to me that it's very strange to link to an R. S. McCain post on "Ransom Note Racism," the technique of maligning conservatives by quoting snippets of their speeches and writings out of conte...
By Steve Sailer on 03/28/2009

JournoList: Unclear on the Concept

The point of having an invitation-only closed email list is to let people say and hear in private the insightful things that it would be bad for their careers to say and hear in public.Yet, the liberal...