February 8, 2009

<font color=black>Daniel Seligman, RIP</font>

By Steve Sailer on February 8, 2009 at 7:40pm

Dan Seligman, my role model as a quantitative journalist, has died at 84. Dan was the Bill James of public policy journalism.

I can recall sitting up all night in 1981, when I was supposed to be writing an MBA term paper at UCLA, with a shelf full of bound volumes ofÂ Fortune, reading years worth of his Keeping Up column.

Yet Another New York Times Editorial Denouncing "Nativists!"

By Steve Sailer on February 8, 2009 at 7:31pm

Here's the third (or maybe the fourth) editorial in the last week from theÂ NY TimesÂ about the horrifying Nativist Menace:

'The Nativist Lobby'

ByÂ The Editorial Board

RNC's Steele: Is Speaking Ability Guarantee Enough?

By Patrick Cleburne on February 8, 2009 at 5:26am

Seems in my early Friday blog on new RNC Chairman Michael Steele I just got under the wire to be able to say:

But before attention shifts to watching if Steele behaves like a typical black politician with access to spoils, let us consider why Steele won, and why it is a disaster.