By Peter Brimelow on 08/31/2008

With McCain As Nominee, Does It Matter That Palin Backed Buchanan?

Our Alaskan friend Ryan Kennedy writes to note that GOP VP-designate Sarah Palin was a member of the "Buchanan Brigades" that carried the state's straw poll for Pat Buchanan in 1996.Of course, this is ...
By James Fulford on 08/31/2008

Biden's Plagiaristic Past

Joe Biden's famous plagiarism scandal, in which he paraphrased a speech by British leftist politician Neil Kinnock, is described, and somewhat minimized here, in a chapter of  The Appearance of Im...
By Brenda Walker on 08/31/2008

Hmulticultural Textbook Hmongers

California legislators, like those in Washington, enjoy passing bills that cost the taxpayers money for useless projects but make the lawmakers feel virtuous in a liberal sort of way. One such is Assem...
By Patrick Cleburne on 08/31/2008

Alaska's Palin Nomination To Reignite Immigration issue?

The McCain Campaign's moronic Affirmative Actioning in selecting Alaska's first-term Governor Sarah Palin for their VP candidate is of course foolish. Republicans can only win by ensuring a high turn o...
By Paul Nachman on 08/30/2008

Reality Surfaces At A Mississippi Newspaper

In a 2004 article originally published in the New York Post, the Manhattan Institute's estimable Heather Mac Donald (also see here) tossed off a couple of paragraphs about illegal immigration that amou...
By Steve Sailer on 08/30/2008

Palin As Obamaesque Blank Slate

Gov. Palin on her morning commute to the state capitol in Juneau.   Right now, Sarah Palin appears to have some of that Blank Slate magic that propelled Obama to the nomination working for her,...
By Patrick Cleburne on 08/30/2008

For VP nominee Palin: An Alaskan Immigration question

So here we are with the Affirmative Action Presidential election. Both tickets feature someone in their 40s, each in their first terms of office in positions of any national significance. Neither would...
By Steve Sailer on 08/30/2008

Palin v. Obama On Reforming Politics

Palin's record in turning out the corrupt, nepotistic old guard in Alaska will allow her to legitimately go after Obama's role as a facilitator of the Rezko-Blagojevich corruption in Illinois. With the...
By Steve Sailer on 08/29/2008

Palin's Husband: 1/8th "Inuit" or "Eskimo"?

McCain's choice for Veep of the young lady governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, seems, initially, like a good way out of the box of Romney (who would make a decent President but a poor VP candidate) vs. Li...
By James Fulford on 08/29/2008

UCLA Professor Resigns From Admissions Committee, Alleging Affirmative Action Fraud

Professor Tim Groseclose has resigned from the Admissions Committee of UCLA, alleging that the university is illegally favoring black students in admissions. This is illegal under Proposition 209, whic...
By Steve Sailer on 08/29/2008

The Chicago Way

I moved to Chicago in 1982, not too long before Barack Obama did, but, unlike him, I can't recall that I ever once thought of getting involved in Chicago politics. To me, wanting to be a Chicago politi...
By Brenda Walker on 08/29/2008

Domestic Population Explosion Remains Unmentionable

Genuine environmentalists — not the posers in hiking boots at Sierra Club headquarters — are the toughest critics of the immigration-fueled population explosion. How is America supposed to reduce green...
By Randall Burns on 08/28/2008

GOP VP Choice—And Immigration

Reportedly, McCain has picked his running mate—and will announce his choice tomorrow. The leading candidates according to Intrade.com are Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty(odds are over 90% one of them will...
By James Fulford on 08/28/2008

More On The Howard Industries Raid—American Workers Applauded As Illegals Were Hauled Away

Predictably, the Associated Press is reporting that fear is gripping the local illegal alien community. They're in the country illegally. They're supposed to be afraid. I've added a couple of square br...
By James Fulford on 08/28/2008

Canadian Journalist Raped By Immigrant In France

There  are two stories in Canada's National Post about a young Canadian woman being raped in a refugee camp (an unofficial camp of squatters) known as "The Jungle" near Calais.[Canadian journalist...
By Brenda Walker on 08/28/2008

Friends Don't Let Friends Drink And Bullfight

I have criticized Mexican culture for its animal cruelty and extreme drinking (especially drunk driving). Both of these elements appear in this fascinating item from the La Plaza blog of the LA Times a...
By Patrick Cleburne on 08/28/2008

Howard Industries: For McCain A Question, For ALIPAC Applause

Mr. and Mrs. Billy Howard, respectively CEO and President of Howard Industries, are a working couple who know how to get things done. Married two years after Billy founded the firm, they have built up ...
By Steve Sailer on 08/27/2008

The Latest Kinsley Gaffe

An excerpt from  No Apology from Gwinnett Superintendent in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:During a discussion two weeks ago, an administrator said the disproportionate discipline of minorities...
By James Fulford on 08/27/2008

Raid In Mississippi

It's amazing that a firm like Howard Industries, which is doing some of what little manufacturing is still done in the United States, has so many alleged illegals, from so many places, in Laurel, Missi...
By Steve Sailer on 08/27/2008

Olympic Basketball Vs. The Gangsta Rap Ethos

Commenters ask why I haven't had anything to say about the U.S. gold medal in men's basketball. I haven't had anything new to say because I said it all in my American Conservative article right after t...