By Peter Brimelow on 09/30/2008

Brimelow On The Bailout, The Patriot Party, And The `87 Crash

As in the 2006-2007 Amnesty Wars, the House Republicans yesterday heroically confirmed their emergence as America's Third Party—the Patriot Party—by rejecting the bipartisan bailout Bill. The resulting...
By Steve Sailer on 09/30/2008

Video: Burning Down the House (Rove-Bush Style)

A reader has put together a helpful video mashup of George W. Bush's wonderful 2002 speeches on lowering mortgage credit standards for minorities along with snark comments. ...
By Steve Sailer on 09/30/2008

The Two Problems

Let me suggest a conceptual distinction to make things clearer. Economically, we face two related but distinguishable problems. First, due to post-modern financial engineering, Wall Street has created ...
By Paul Nachman on 09/30/2008

DON'T Support Your Local College!

Rob Oden, the current president of Carleton College, my undergraduate alma mater, recently emailed the college's diversity news to all of us alumni. Here is the core of his glad tidings:Our campus com...
By Peter Brimelow on 09/30/2008

Happy Michaelmas! (And Rosh Hashanah)

In the middle of the financial meltdown, Congress is taking Tuesday off, because it's Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. So are a surprising number of American schools. If the same dynamic were at wor...
By Brenda Walker on 09/30/2008

Political Leaders Are Not Interested in Gathering Illegal Alien Crime Data

This article considers the sometimes confusing information about the prevalence of illegal alien criminals: [Lack of data for tracking illegal immigrant crimes, KTAR 92.3 Radio, Phoenix AZ, September ...
By Steve Sailer on 09/30/2008

Do We Live In A Republic After All?

Invited members of the Great and the Good had spent a few days in a conference room, where they decided to give the Treasury Secretary power to give away $700 billion dollars. But then, this quaint bod...
By Steve Sailer on 09/29/2008

Speculators in Exurban Bubble Markets

With the financial crisis, we might start seeing a few more defaults in the Greenwich, CN area (we can all hope, can't we?), but so far, the defaults have tended to hit very marginal areas hardest. Her...
By Steve Sailer on 09/29/2008

Paul Newman, RIP

Rather than mention all the great performances Paul Newman gave, I'd like to recall a role he chose to give up. One of my favorite movies is John Huston's version of Kipling's short story "The Man Who ...
By Patrick Cleburne on 09/29/2008

Austrians prefer Austria to be Austrian

Get out the ear plug—the two right wing parties in Austria collectively took 29% of the vote in Sunday’s election. The Freedom Party gained a 7% share to have 18%, and the Alliance for Austria’s Future...
By Patrick Cleburne on 09/29/2008

So, Who and What cost us $700 Billion?

As I write, the House Republican leadership is calling on its troops to support the Bailout Bill. So maybe the GOP House group’s bright shining moment of courage, which so excited the respect of Peter ...
By James Fulford on 09/28/2008

Illegals In Winston-Salem

The Chief Of Police in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, seems interested in running a sanctuary city: The Winston-Salem Police Department's primary job is protecting residents and arresting criminals — n...
By Patrick Cleburne on 09/28/2008

James Pinkerton Gets It (2)

Last year we commended James Pinkerton’s column denouncing the Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration STRIVE Bill as second to none in elegant and reasoned ferocity.The great strength of An immigration bill ...
By Brenda Walker on 09/28/2008

Wachovia Latest Diversity Debauched Bank To Seek Help

Wachovia Corporation is one of the many financial institutions loaded up with junk mortgages trying to rescue itself from the brink of oblivion. As concern spread on Friday that more banks might run in...
By Randall Burns on 09/28/2008

McCain's Impending Defeat and Immigration

According to Intrade.com, the debate last night was pretty bad for McCain. Even prior to the debate, the electoral map was favorable to Obama, with him picking up states like Nevada, Colorado and Iowa ...
By Peter Brimelow on 09/27/2008

The House Republicans, the Wall Street Bailout, and the LTCM Crisis

Hmm - The White House, The Democratic Congressional leadership, most Republican Senators who aren't hiding, and the MSM versus - the House Republicans. That is the Bailout Battle.This is exactly the id...
By Brenda Walker on 09/27/2008

Tancredo Urges No Bailout Goodies for Illegal Borrowers

While much of Congress has been trying to figure how high (in billions) to jump in order to further Washington's new, worst-of-all-worlds socialism, the Colorado Representative has tried to remind his ...
By James Fulford on 09/27/2008

Debate Blogging

Debate blogging will not take place, because neither candidate said anything interesting.[See transcript.] Nothing about immigration, affirmative action, or the causes of the "Diversity Recession." Jus...
By Steve Sailer on 09/27/2008

If McCain Drops Out ...

If, by any chance, McCain gets even more erratic and drops out of the race (which seems like a low probability, but not out of the range of possibility) and the GOP needs a replacement in a hurry, they...
By Henry Eustace McCulloch on 09/27/2008

Where Does Rhode Island's Incestuous And Corrupt Political Culture Come From? (Hint: It's Not The Descendants Of Roger Williams)

Matthew Richer gives an interesting overview of patriotic Americans’ efforts to keep Rhode Island American. Richer notes the deleterious effect current mass immigration is having on the Ocean State . ...