February 8, 2009

Daniel Seligman, RIP

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

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 of Fortune, reading years worth of his Keeping Up column.

The first time I ever spoke about becoming a professional journalist was 15 or 20 years ago when I mentioned to my wife that if Seligman ever retired from writing his "Keeping Up" column for Fortune, I'd make a good replacement.

Yet Another New York Times Editorial Denouncing "Nativists!"

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

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

'The Nativist Lobby'

By The Editorial Board

RNC's Steele: Is Speaking Ability Guarantee Enough?

By Patrick Cleburne on February 8, 2009 at 6:26am

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.