By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2009

Everybody Loves A Winner And Everybody Hates A Loser

It's ironic that Obama gets elected with big plans to soak the rich at the very moment that the rich are suddenly much less soakable, but it's not really a random fluke. After all, if the markets hadn'...
By Brenda Walker on 02/28/2009

California on the Brink...

Have California's mostly human-caused disasters reached biblical proportions yet? The state has over $40 billion in debt, 10.1 percent unemployment and now a cumulative drought that is starting to bite...
By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2009

Offering Obama A Hand

Louis Soares writes in "A Postsecondary Degree or Credential in Every Pot:" In his speech to Congress and the nation Tuesday night, President Barack Obama set a bold goal of retaking America’s global l...
By Patrick Cleburne on 02/28/2009

"The Times They Are A-changin" - But which way?

With Joe Guzzardi setting a musical tone this evening, I am reminded of the smug, complacent song which bedeviled my student years: Bob Dylan’s ”The Times They Are A-changin”And the present now Will la...
By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2009

Two Predictions About Obama's Budgets

Obama's economic thinking remains stuck in 2007. He assumes he can turn American into a social democratic state by taxing the top two percent, by closing loopholes on hedgefund managers, and the like.Y...
By Steve Sailer on 02/28/2009

The Armenian Route To A Cheap But Prestigious Diploma

With everybody looking to cut down on expenses, I'm passing along a way that some Californian families could save a fortune on higher education. My wife heard this from a young Armenian-American lady. ...
By James Fulford on 02/28/2009

Listen To Marcus Epstein On The Pat Snyder Show

Marcus Epstein was on the Pat Snyder show talking about Eric Holder. The MP3 is here....
By James Fulford on 02/27/2009

Marcus Epstein On The Young Turks 7:15 p.m. ET

Marcus Epstein on The Young Turks program at 7:15 p.m. ET to debate his article Memo To AG Holder: Maybe Americans Are ”Cowards” About Race For A Reason. The show airs nationally on the Air America rad...
By James Fulford on 02/27/2009

Ann Coulter On The Clinton Administration Role In The Mortgage Meltdown

Ann Coulter locates a New York Times story about the roots of the Mortgage Meltdown back during the Clinton Administration:Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending, [By Steven A. Holmes, Septemb...
By Steve Sailer on 02/27/2009

Obama's Budget Will Solve Problem Of Rich Getting Richer

Dave Leonhardt enthuses in the New York Times: The budget that President Obama proposed on Thursday is nothing less than an attempt to end a three-decade era of economic policy dominated by the ideas o...
By Steve Sailer on 02/27/2009

Slippery Slopes And Boiling Frogs

Casey Martin, who was born with a terrible birth defect that crippled one of his legs, leaving him in recurrent pain, starred on Stanford's famous 1995 college golf team along with the full-blooded Nav...
By James Fulford on 02/27/2009

Ross Douthat On The Possibility Of A Third Party

It's worth bearing in mind that there's a third option. When Jim Fallows anticipated a different (though not entirely different) economic calamity in his big "Countdown to a Meltdown" essay for us seve...
By James Fulford on 02/27/2009

Marcus Epstein On The Radio 9:00 AM Eastern

Marcus Epstein will discuss his VDARE.com article Memo To AG Holder: Maybe Americans Are ”Cowards” About Race For A Reason on The Dale Jackson Show on Friday at 9:00 a.m. ET. The program airs in Tennes...
By Brenda Walker on 02/27/2009

Citizen Crime Victims Utilize Courts to Tackle Immigration Anarchy

In Tennessee, a couple is suing the employer of the man who killed their daughter. Hopefully they will be successful, a result that should inspire more lawsuits against the companies whose money magnet...
By Brenda Walker on 02/26/2009

Bill O'Reilly On Chandra Levy And The Salvadoran Illegal Suspect

Bill O'Reilly had a good video piece on illegal alien criminals that included some interesting statistics. A new study coming to light through the federal 287(g) program says that in the Phoenix a...
By Patrick Cleburne on 02/26/2009

Weapons to Mexico: Gun control? Mexican Failings? Or Unscrupulous Immigrant?

U.S. Is a Vast Arms Bazaar for Mexican Cartels screams The New York Times (by James C McKinley Jr. February 25 2009). Drug gangs seek out guns in the United States because the gun-control laws are far...
By Nicholas Stix on 02/26/2009

Obama on Spanish Language Radio: We Will Have a Mass Amnesty, and New Round of Chain Migration

FAIR reports that ”Barack Obama” has promised a new mass amnesty: This week, as a guest on a Spanish language radio show, President Obama stated his continued support for giving amnesty to 12 million ...
By Steve Sailer on 02/25/2009

Must Securitization Mean Secretization?

On this question of whether there's really a credit crunch, Robert Samuelson writes: "So, we've gone from too much credit to too little. Contrary to popular wisdom, banks — institutions that take depos...
By Steve Sailer on 02/25/2009

Is There Really A Credit Crunch?

President Obama announced that the economy is hurting because of a credit crunch. But my teenage son, who recently got his first credit card, is still getting a couple of offers per week for a second c...
By James Fulford on 02/25/2009

USA TODAY: "The Challenge Of Dealing With Minority Officials Who Run Afoul Of The Law Is A Pre-Eminently Democratic Problem"

This is from a USA Today article on Roland Burris's apparent perjury on his way to being appointed to the Senate. A danger for Democrats The challenge of dealing with minority officials who run afoul o...