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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
May 7, 2008
Failure Is Always An Option
The California Department of Education offers a potentially rather nifty service to parents on its official website: It provides recommended reading lists customized based on the kid's grade level (K-12) and test score on the California Reading Arts exam, with 13 progressively harder lists at each grade level:
The Cost Of Bloc Voting
This is from Time Magazine's website--black voters in Indiana felt ignored by both Barack and Hillary.
Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2008
National Review Defends "Identity Politics for White People"
I have to admit that once in awhile National Review produces some good material. Jim Geraghty’s Campaign Spot blog chastises the pundit class for denouncing white working class voters as as racists solely because they didn’t vote for Barack Obama.
Among the highlights:
"Finland, The Cool Attic Of Europe"
Ilkka Kokkarinen sends a link to a Finnish government video recruiting skilled immigrants from other European Union countries. It provides some insight into Finns' quietly self-confident sense of their competitive advantages in appealing to the kind of people they want:nlan
Canadian Invasion vs Mexican Invasion
Canada has socialized medicine, which means overuse of non-essential services, and rationing of essential ones. As a result, at least a hundred women with high-risk pregnancies have had to come south of the Canadian border to get emergency free-enterprise medicine.
Creativity vs Personality
Here's Picasso's 1943 sculpture Bull's Head, which H.W. Janson's 
standard college textbook on art history uses in the introduction to illustrate the concept of "creativity."
Is The History Of Art A Hoax?
Short answer: No.
But, a lot of people suspect it is, so it's worth exploring the question.
In 1993, I attended the enormously popular exhibition at the formidable Chicago Art Institute of the paintings of the Belgian Rene Magritte, a commercial artist in dreary Brussels who did witty Surrealist paintings in his off-hours.
The Houston Area Survey: Rotten To The Core
Last week I reported on the efforts in Houston to mask the data on attitudes to immigration revealed by a local opinion survey. (Un PC Results from The Houston Area Survey April 29).
Two Houston Readers Cheer On Cleburne vs. Chronicle
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