By James Fulford on 10/31/2008

Blog Reactions To Steve Sailer's Book

Blog reactions to Steve Sailer's book can be read here. Mostly positive, and I thought this one was funny: The good news is that  Steve Sailer has finally written a book. The better news is that ...
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2008

It's David Axelrod's Reality Show ...

and we're just living in it. From the NYT: Following the Script: Obama, McCain and ”The West Wing’ By BRIAN STELTERWhen Eli Attie, a writer for ”The West Wing,” prepared to plot some episodes about a y...
By James Fulford on 10/31/2008

"Tyranny Of Nice"—Canadian Hate Speech Laws Exposed

Kathy Shaidle has a book! Shaidle, who wrote First They Came For...Canadian "Hate Speech" Totalitarianism Is Not New, for us, has an entire book on the subject of Canada's Human Rights commissions. It'...
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2008

What's Obama's SAT Score Secret?

One of the oddities of Presidential races is that so little actual information about the candidates is generated by the press. Reporters seem to envision their role not as digging up facts, but as rath...
By Steve Sailer on 10/31/2008

Infrastructure Blowout

This week, everybody who is anybody has started demanding a huge increase in government infrastructure spending to prevent the country from falling into recession. Doesn't anybody have any idea how lon...
By Patrick Cleburne on 10/31/2008

Wrong On South Africa—And What Else?

Hard on Ilana Mercer’s lucid summary here of the upcoming South African disaster: Black Rule Brings Inevitable To South Africa. New York Times Reports It, Sort Of. October 19, 2008 comes high-quality p...
By Brenda Walker on 10/31/2008

Previously Arrested Illegal Charged in Death Of Phoenix Officer

A young Phoenix police officer was killed a few days ago, and  a previously arrested illegal alien  has been charged with his killing. The alien is Salvador Vivas-Diaz, who had been sent ho...
By Matthew Richer on 10/30/2008

Obama Blows off Aunt Zeituni

In a follow-up to their story about Barack Obama's half-brother who lives in a Nairobi slum, the London Times reports that Obama's Aunt Zeituni now lives in one of Boston’s oldest public housing projec...
By Brenda Walker on 10/30/2008

Medical Care For Illegals—A Lifetime "Investment"

With California very deep in a financial hole this year (Governor warns of possible $10 billion deficit), wasting the taxpayers' money on services for illegal aliens must stop. It would be easy enough ...
By James Fulford on 10/30/2008

The Sailer Book Title And The Lawsuit Of Azkaban

Commonreader links to Steve Sailer's new book (thank you!) and one of her commenters says "My question is, will J.K. Rowling sue?" Answer: no, it can't be done. We're not violating Ms. Rowling's copyri...
By Peter Brimelow on 10/30/2008

Brimelow Presidential Endorsement

We don't endorse candidates here at VDARE.COM, but I just participated in two presidential endorsement symposiums, at The American Conservative here and at Takimag.com here. The latter was written aft...
By James Fulford on 10/30/2008

Voting As An Intelligence Test

The New York Times is concerned, and  David Weigel  of Reason is insouciant, about the design of North Carolina's ballot, which allows voters to vote the straight party ticket but makes the...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2008

I Had Not Realized Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman Is This Stupid

From exchanging emails with him, I've known for a decade that Paul Krugman was an egomaniacal jerk, but he was always described as being intelligent. Yet, here are parts of a 1998 column he wrote in Sl...
By Matthew Richer on 10/29/2008

Deval Patrick Watch: Patrick Crony Indicted

Massachusetts State Sen. Diane Wilkerson has long been the Marion Barry of Boston–a comically corrupt black politician who somehow always gets re-elected. Wilkerson’s many scandals include a guilty ple...
By Nicholas Stix on 10/29/2008

More Racial Profiling Pseudo-Science

Tenured antiversity activists who scream "racism" at the drop of a pair of handcuffs can produce new "studies" "proving" that police are racially profiling blacks in their sleep. Their formula is to t...
By Steve Sailer on 10/29/2008

Notice How the GOP Gets Denounced For Racism Even When They Absolutely Won't Mention Anything Touching Race?

Let’s be honest here: All the hate over the topic of race is on the left.The obvious fact is that the GOP is totally terrified of being accused of being racist. McCain categorically denounced the menti...
By Brenda Walker on 10/29/2008

Mexico: Cartel Spies Occupy a Top Office

It's hard to keep up with the many Mexico-tailspin stories as the corruption and violence continue to become ever more extensive. Just when you think the failing state can't get any worse, it does. For...
By Peter Brimelow on 10/28/2008

2008's Crises and the Return of the Nation-State

Editing VDARE.COM, I spend a lot of time taking the word "nation" out of writers' copy. What they mean is what in British English would be called a "state". But as I wrote in Alien Nation: American edi...
By Steve Sailer on 10/28/2008

$2.7 Billion Federal Nature-Nurture Study To Start

The NYT reports: 21-Year Study of Children Set to BeginBy KATE MURPHY After nearly a decade of planning, researchers will begin recruiting pregnant women in January for an ambitious nationwide study t...
By Randall Burns on 10/28/2008

Nancy Pelosi's Emergence into Sanity

I thought Quentin Simpson's recent letter [A New York Reader Notes That Nancy Pelosi Agrees With Joe–No Amnesty! ] was rather interesting.I think it is good Pelosi is starting to appropriately value US...