By Steve Sailer on 05/31/2008

The Few, The Brave, The Other

Modern Western culture, dominated as it is by status striving among whites to score points off each other by most fervently embracing "The Other," has largely become dependent upon a tiny handful of Ot...
By Nicholas Stix on 05/31/2008

Justice Delayed In Knoxville—But Why?

On May 15, Knox County (TN) Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner rescheduled the trial of Knoxville Horror defendant George Geovonni ”Detroit” Thomas for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Channon...
By Steve Sailer on 05/30/2008

Jared Diamond: Life Is Full Of Interest In The New Guinea Highlands

Winston Churchill learned in 1897 while fighting the feuding Pathan tribesmen of what's now the Pakistan-Afghanistan border: "Every family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud. The numerous tr...
By Steve Sailer on 05/30/2008

Obama as the Rovian 51% candidate

David Axelrod has built Barack Obama's campaign around the old 1968 Nixon slogan of "Bring Us Together," rhetorically running against Karl Rove's central idea that you only need 51 percent to win. The ...
By Steve Sailer on 05/30/2008

Assassination Threats Against Tom Tancredo

The fine reporter Ralph Z. Hallow has an interesting interview with Tom Tancredo in the Washington Times. Tancredo remains perhaps the most modest of all the politicians who have had an important impac...
By Steve Sailer on 05/30/2008

Hillary's "Assassination" Gaffe

I've been losing interest in the campaign, so I'm way late on this, but isn't it obvious that the berserk over-reaction by Obama supporters to Hillary mentioning that Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated...
By Steve Sailer on 05/30/2008

Mexican-Americans vs. Mexican Tackiness

Here's an amusing article by Hector Becerra in the LA Times about how American-born Mexican-American politicians are allowed to say in public what everybody feels in private: that Mexican immigrant nei...
By Allan Wall on 05/30/2008

Hillary and Obama Campaigning in Puerto Rico

On the same day (May 24th, 2008), Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were campaigning on the Caribbean isle of Puerto Rico, where a Democratic primary (with 55 delegates up for grabs) is scheduled for...
By Brenda Walker on 05/29/2008

Mexicans Love Jesus Art (Particularly When It's Made of Cocaine)

Mexicans are so darn inventive when it comes to smuggling. They have stuck a girl in a pinata, crammed a woman into a dashboard and encased a man in a car seat. Is there anything they won't do to smugg...
By John Miano on 05/29/2008

Fred Barnes's New Math ON H-1B Visas

Much of the public is aware that the folks in D.C. use a different form of mathematics than the rest of the world uses. Fred Barnes of ”The Beltway Boys” gives some good examples of this ”New Math” tod...
By Steve Sailer on 05/29/2008

Are Albinos Smarter?

Sometimes appearance changes over the generations when behavior is being selected. For example, when Soviet classical geneticist Dmitri Belyaev lost his high ranking position due to Lysenkoism becoming...
By Steve Sailer on 05/29/2008

Stuff Whiterpeople Like #101: Being Offended

Things have been slow lately at Stuff White People Like as Christian Lander and Co. work on their upcoming book (2/3rds new content!), for which Christian got a $350,000 advance. He's back today, thoug...
By Patrick Cleburne on 05/29/2008

Scandal!!! Feds Employ On Genetic Considerations!!!

Neatly fitting with National Review’s puerile (and peculiar) effort to deny the implications of modern genetic science, and Steve Sailer’s crushing refutation of it ( “National Review “Determined” To I...
By Randall Burns on 05/29/2008

Agricultural Automation and Immigration

A reader recently forwarded this to me: At 3 tons of olive yield per acre the cost for mechanical and hand picking is about the same. With higher yield per acre the cost of mechanical picking would see...
By Marcus Epstein on 05/28/2008

Importing Corruption at the Border—New York Times Version

Tuesday's New York Times had a front page feature entitled "As Border Efforts Grow, Corruption is on the Rise." [By Randal C. Archibold And Andrew Becker, May 27, 2008]The implication is that border s...
By James Fulford on 05/28/2008

Hispanic Border Patrol Corruption

PBS has a show called "Mexico: Crimes At The Border" about human smuggling and other crimes. There's a page on the PBS site called "Corrupted Gatekeepers" which features nine corrupt Border Patrol and ...
By Brenda Walker on 05/28/2008

Prison Diversity to Be Pumped Up

California prisons are embarking on a dangerous program of social engineering—as a result of a court ruling—that cells will not be segregated on the basis of race. Prisons are among the most violently ...
By James Fulford on 05/27/2008

McCain Bad Enough On Immigration To Make Conservatives Consider Voting For Bob Barr

While Barr may be a backslider on mass immigration, he's no John McCain. "John McCain's consistently weak position on illegal immigration and support for a 'comprehensive reform' is going to backfire w...
By James Fulford on 05/27/2008

Journal Editorial Report: "The Worst Show On A Cable News Network"

Slate Media critic Jack Shafer says that the Wall Street Journal Editorial Report is "The worst show on a cable news network." He has specifics about the style Hosted by Wall Street Journal Editorial ...
By James Fulford on 05/27/2008

Youtube Cartoon History Of Illegal Immigration

This is from Glenn Beck in 2006—I found it interesting that in referring to Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback", he felt he had to precede the reference with "Warning: Historically accurate but politicall...