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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
January 31, 2009
James Q. Wilson on "The DNA of Politics"
James Q. Wilson writes in City Journal on The DNA of Politics: Genes shape our beliefs, our values, and even our votes (the picture is of Polish president Lech Kaczyński, right, and former prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczyński, who are identical twins):
Don't Mention The Luo
The New York Times frontpages a long and peculiar story on the Kenyan election a year ago: Secrecy Surrounds Kenyan Election Poll. As you'll recall, controversy over the vote-counting ended with a 1000 people getting killed before a powersharing agreement in which the Kikuyu president gave the Luo tribe's paladin, Raila Odinga, the #2 job in the government.
Paging Dr. Malthus: Insolvent Iraqi immigrant's 8 illegitimate infants
This octuplets story really puts the capstone on the Bush years. It's beyond the powers of parody. It's got everything that made the Bush Years the Bush Years: Iraqis, immigrants, illegitimacy, and insolvency.
The hospital is claiming it expects to spend $3.2 million on care for the eight babies.
By the way, here's my 2006 article on the LA illegal immigrant woman with six kids who had fertility treatments, but she only then had quadruplets, so she's a piker compared to this lady.
The Kvetcher gets serious.
Tedious Day-job considerations have kept me from noticing The Kvetcher’s valiant anti Muslim immigration posting on the mainstream Jewish website Jewlicious. I understand this was the first immigration/dissident voice raised on this site. (Applaud Jewlicious)
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