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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
February 12, 2009
News Flash: Canadian Immigrants Assimilate Better Than Mexicans
It's amazing the groundbreaking research coming out of academia these days. A recent investigative project in an American university actually discovered that Canadian immigrants to the U.S. are the best assimilators, and assimilate much better than Mexicans.
What will they discover next?
More Seligmania
From the late Daniel Seligman's Keeping Up column in Fortune:
September 10, 1990,
Daily News' Dolores Prida Wants To Suppress VDARE.COM (and Marcus)
Hmm I just posted a speech called "America's Egalitarian Temptation - Stalinism's Unquiet Ghost" and here is somebody called Dolores Prida proving me right in the New York Daily News (Assimilate this, February 11).
Daniel Seligman's Prescient 1989 Column On Mortgage Discrimination
Daniel Seligman, who died last week at age 84, was my role model as a quantitative journalist. From the 1970s into the 1990s, he wrote a blog-like column of multiple short items in Fortune, distinguished by his quantitative bent. Like me and unlike most journalists, he loved to count things.
Are Standards Of Artistic Beauty Universal?
This is a big question raised by Denis Dutton's book The Art Instinct,
All Cheddar Is Not Created Equal
Driving to work the other day, I heard a remarkable ad on the radio for Cabot cheese (click on "Cheddars Are The Same")
Alex Rodriguez v. Mickey Rourke
The highest paid baseball player, Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees, is in the doghouse because his failure to pass a steroid test in 2003 was leaked to the press recently. The Yankees recently gave Rodriguez a huge long-term contract extension because he's on track to eventually surpass Barry Bonds as the all time home run leader, and they figured all the hoopla over a "clean" athlete breaking Bonds's tainted record would provide them with a financial windfall.
If Lending Is Really Frozen ...
... how come my teenage son keeps getting a couple of offers of preapproved new credit cards each week?
Dennis Dutton's <i>The Art Instinct</i>
Philosopher Dennis Dutton, who runs the universally admired Arts & Letters Daily website that highlights three worthy highbrow articles each day, has an excellent new book out called The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution.
VDARE.com: Why YOU Should Support VDARE.COM—Our War Against Christmas Competition
Why YOU Should Support VDARE.COM—Our War Against Christmas Competition
Tonight we begin our War Against Christmas Competition—offering a prize for the most outrageous attempt to abolish Christmas.