By James Fulford on 12/31/2008

Last Day To Donate For A 2008 Deduction

This is the last day for last-minute tax tips. One tax tip comes from Tax Update Blog—Charge Those Deductions: Today is the last day for most 2008 tax deductions. If you use your credit card to pay for...
By Steve Sailer on 12/31/2008

Who Has Turned Out To Be Right In The Limbaugh-Black QB Controversy?

Back in 2003, Rush Limbaugh got himself in all sorts of trouble for saying during his (brief) tenure as a pregame show analyst for ESPN that Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb wasn't as good as the ...
By Steve Sailer on 12/31/2008

Shocking News: College Football And Basketball Players Not As Smart As Their Classmates

A new report: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, December 28, 2008 Football and men’s basketball players on the nation’s big-time college teams averaged hundreds of points lower on their SATs th...
By Brenda Walker on 12/31/2008

Narco-culture Marinates Mexico

Mexico used to be a nice country, pleasant and safe to visit. But its new identity as the narco-hub of the Western Hemisphere has turned it into one of the most dangerous places on earth, where cartels...
By James Fulford on 12/31/2008

"Black Male" In Google News

I got an email inviting me to Google the phrase "black male" in Google News, and see what the result was, and to what extent the resulting stories   were blamed on white people. The phrase black m...
By James Fulford on 12/30/2008

British Censorship Czar Expects To Cooperate With Incoming Obama Administration To Control The Internet

UK MP Andy Burnham's formal title is Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport. Apparently this portfolio carries with it the responsibility of censoring the entire internet. In an interview in...
By Steve Sailer on 12/30/2008

More On Homicide Trends

James Alan Fox of Northeastern University, whose study of homicide trends provided the basis for a somewhat misleading article in the New York Times today,[Murders by Black Teenagers Rise, Bucking a Tr...
By Brenda Walker on 12/30/2008

Cultural Brutality Noted among Iraqis

The Washington Post observed in its article about female genital mutilation among Iraqi Kurds that more than 60 percent of women have undergone the procedure. While Islamic apologists insist that the ...
By Linda Thom on 12/29/2008

Census New Year's Population Estimates

Well, here it is from the Census Bureau: Net migration will add one additional person to the population every 36 seconds. [Census Bureau Projects U.S. Population of 305.5 Million on New Year's Day ] Fr...
By James Fulford on 12/29/2008

Video—Victim Of Racial Harassment Policies

Keith John Sampson, a janitor and student was charged with "racial harassment" by an African-American co-worker for reading what is an actual anti-racist book, Notre Dame Vs. the Klan: How the Fightin...
By Steve Sailer on 12/29/2008

Homicide Rates: Back toward Crack among Blacks

After a huge dropoff with the ending of the crack wars around 1995, the black homicide perpetration rate has turned up again in this decade. For black male 14-17 year olds, according to tables prepared...
By Randall Burns on 12/28/2008

Thomas L. Friedman On Unrestricted Immigration—Who Is Really The Idiot?

Thomas L. Friedman writes in the New York Times corporate infomercial: Landing at Kennedy Airport from Hong Kong was, as I’ve argued before, like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones. The ugly, lo...
By Brenda Walker on 12/28/2008

Somali Diversity-Fest Lobbed into Lewiston

Multiculturalism enthusiasts like to spin the story that today's tribal refugees are just like Americans' immigrant ancestors who came here over hundreds of years. However, European immigrants didn't p...
By Peter Brimelow on 12/28/2008

In Memoriam: Samuel P. Huntington - Quiet Friend of VDARE.COM

Harvard's Samuel P. Huntington, whose death at the age of 81 has just been announced, played a quiet but significant role in the genesis of VDARE.COM. After patriotic immigration reformers were purged ...
By Steve Sailer on 12/28/2008

"Valkyrie," With Tom Cruise

"Valkyrie," with Tom Cruise as Col. Stauffenberg, who led the July 20, 1944 assassination and coup plot against Hitler, is a fairly decent movie that never quite overcomes the obvious problems with mak...
By Brenda Walker on 12/28/2008

Corruption In Mexico—Presidential Detained Guard In Drug Case

It's another day at the office for corruption-riddled Mexico... Mexico's drug corruption scandals reached into the presidential guard as authorities identified one officer as a possible spy for the cou...
By Peter Brimelow on 12/27/2008

"Russian Germans" - And The War Against Christmas

We recently had a typically learned VDARE.COM discussion about the "Russian Germans", a distict ethnic group in some Western states. (See here and here). It inspired me to retrieve and post a column I ...
By James Fulford on 12/27/2008

New York Times Immigration Craziness

The New York Times has an editorial so bad, it's difficult to believe: December 26, 2008 Editorial Getting Immigration RightIt’s way too early to tell whether the United States under President-elect Ba...
By Steve Sailer on 12/27/2008

The Place Name That Changed, Then Changed Back

Which country is this? It's almost forgotten now, but, in the manner of Bombay—>Mumbai, in the middle of the 20th Century, one well-known Western European state recurrently tried to persuade Angloph...
By Steve Sailer on 12/27/2008

Frog-Boiling And Credit Rating Corruption

The three main government-approved credit rating agencies — Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch—notoriously failed in recent years in rating complex structured financial assets.My vague impressio...