By Steve Sailer on 01/31/2008

Tiger Woods And Barack Obama

Barack Obama has been compared to Tiger Woods so many times (Google finds 290,000 pages where they are both mentioned, although no doubt a large fraction are "And in other news" references rather than ...
By Steve Sailer on 01/31/2008

Voter Awareness

A reader writes: On the subject of voter ignorance, one of the great revelations to me has been the research tending to show that the voters most likely to keep an open mind about candidates are a...
By Steve Sailer on 01/31/2008

Why Is McCain Perceived As The Anti-Bush?

Greg Ransom writes:  If we take a look at the Florida exit polls, we see that Romney handily defeated McCain 35% to 31% among GOP voters who have a positive opinion of the Bush Presidency. But Mc...
By Bryanna Bevens on 01/31/2008

Giuliani Endorses McCain! I Suppose The Arizona Man Is Picking Up Friends!

Ok, at the risk of sounding repetitive or cynical....SO WHAT!!!!!!What that headline really says is: Mobster Wants The Flip-Flopper (From Who Knows What Party) To Be President!There's a surprise...what...
By Bryanna Bevens on 01/31/2008

Gov. Schwarzenegger To Endorse Mc Cain Tomorrow! Umm, Is That Supposed To Be A Good Thing?

According to Senior Gubernatorial staff (via the LA Times), Arnold Schwarzenegger will announce his endorsement for Senator John McCain's Presidential campaign tomorrow.Hmm...let's think this through f...
By James Fulford on 01/31/2008

Religious Left Alert—New Baptist Covenant With Immigration Enthusiasts

There's a story about a group of liberal Southern Baptists, including Jimmy Carter, who are starting a new group that will not be part of the Religious Right, but the Religious Left instead. [New Bapti...
By James Fulford on 01/30/2008

San Diego Gang-Rape Case Coverage Colorless—Except When "Racism" Is In Question.

This story, which is about the forcible rape of white female college students by black criminals, does not contain the words black or white. I guess they just don't think anyone would be interested in ...
By Steve Sailer on 01/30/2008

Election Commentary

I guess I'm supposed to provide some primary punditry ... hmmhmhh ... Okay, in the Florida primary, the winner was McCain and the big loser was former frontrunner Giuliani who skipped all those earlier...
By Marcus Epstein on 01/30/2008

Predicting The McCain Spin, Win Or Lose

I’m not good at forecasting elections, but I am confident in my prediction of how it will be spun.If John McCain gets the GOP nomination, he will still lose the Hispanic vote by a large margin.If he wi...
By Joe Guzzardi on 01/30/2008

Memo to McCain: Don't Count Your Pollos Before They Hatch!

I predicted last summer when Rudy Giuliani was riding high, and I projected again during one of his many swings through California , that the former New York would never get the GOP presidential nomina...
By Patrick Cleburne on 01/30/2008

Goodnight, my someone

So it appears that John McCain has won in the Republican Florida Primary. As Peter Brimelow remarked the other day, the intense tribalism of this year’s contests is breathtaking, as is: how complacentl...
By James Fulford on 01/29/2008

Joe Guzzardi's Latest Immigration PodCast: How The Democrats Boxed Themselves In On Immigration and Why McCain Will Not Be The Guy

Listen to Joe Guzzardi on the Immigration PodCast hosted by Todd Hartley. Joe's latest interview is here....
By James Fulford on 01/29/2008

Bush's State Of The Union Address Blames Congress For Not Passing Amnesty, Ignores Legal Immigraion

Bush's State of the Union has a section blaming Congress for failing to "address" immigration: The other pressing challenge is immigration. America needs to secure our borders — and with your help, m...
By James Fulford on 01/29/2008

Ron Paul And Reason

There's a thread on Reason's Hit and Run blog ["Ron Paul’s candidacy is proving the irrelevance of libertarianism" Matt Welch | January 28, 2008, 5:04pm] criticizing John Derbyshire's VDARE.com, Parado...
By Paul Nachman on 01/29/2008

A New Civil Right Discovered!

According to the Birmingham News [Unlicensed driver laws on increase, by Kent Faulk, January 27, 2008], police in a number of Alabama cities may now impound the car when they make a traffic stop and di...
By Brenda Walker on 01/29/2008

San Francisco Bay Sucks Up Chinese Oil

In the San Francisco Bay Area, the Nov 7 oil spill from the China ship Cosco Busan was a big deal, with many beautiful beaches ruined for months if not longer. Now we learn the Coast Guard was slowed i...
By James Fulford on 01/29/2008

The New Elvira—Will DHS Stop Playing This Game

The medieval right of sanctuary was supposed to give miscreants a chance to get right with God before they were executed, and only last 40 days at most, anyhow. No such right exists in American law. Bu...
By Peter Brimelow on 01/28/2008

SC Dem Primary: Tribalism = Webb More Than Ever?

There's been a lot of happy burbling about Barack Obama's victory over Hillary Clinton in Saturday's South Carolina Democratic primary shows that he can create a rainbow coalition, but of course it's w...
By James Fulford on 01/28/2008

Trashing The Border, Again

When Emma Lazarus talked about the "wretched refuse of your teeming shore," this is not what she had in mind: Green Valley News & Sun - News > News > Volunteers clean up trash left by illegal...
By Patrick Cleburne on 01/28/2008

Kevin MacDonald on NeoConservatism: Bad News and Good News

Kevin MacDonald has just published on his blog The Neocons as a Hostile Conservative (!) Elite, which essentially is an updated and simplified reprise of his Thinking About Neoconservatism, possibly th...