February 13, 2009

New York Daily News Improves: They Now Twist My Words Instead Of Fabricate Them.

By Marcus Epstein on February 13, 2009 at 6:03pm

As James Fulford noted, after much fanfare the New York Daily News finally posted a correction of the falsehoods in their smear of me.

Initially the piece by Dolores Prida (email her) claimed.

The Case Of The Racist Libertarian

By James Fulford on February 13, 2009 at 2:58pm

Megan McArdle writes in the Atlantic:

Arnold Kling compares the Obama and Bush administrations to gangs of thugs raiding his home.Â James Wolcott accuses him of racism.[Libertarians better shut up for the next four years]

"Hate Stats"

By Steve Sailer on February 13, 2009 at 12:54pm

To expand up Joe Guzzardi's coinage "hate facts," now we see that the Prime Minister of Britain is on verge of an aneurysm in his rage over the publication in easily-comprehensible form of a few statistics about immigration. From The Times of London:

Statistics chief Karen Dunnell inflames row over foreign workers

Dolores Prida, Corrected

By James Fulford on February 13, 2009 at 11:45am

An interesting correction to Dolores Prida's column Assimilate this.

"CORRECTION: An earlier version of this column incorrectly quoted a report by Marcus Epstein of American Cause saying that white voters are â€śmore importantâ€ť than Hispanic voters. Those comments were not in the report and were not said by Epstein. The Daily News regrets the error."

Immigration Weakens Freedom Of Speech

By James Fulford on February 13, 2009 at 9:15am

Scott McConnell writes in the American Conservative's blog:

One of the sharpest arguments in favor of immigration restriction was made, I believe, by Peter Brimelow in his book Alien Nation. My recollection is that it was more an aside in the introduction than a developed argument, (which if correct would be a shame), but the essence of it was the multiculturalism would inhibit and eventually render impossible a fully free society.

Texas Government Plan For Massive Mexican Invasion: Immediate Surrender

By Brenda Walker on February 13, 2009 at 8:56am

The good news is that Austin is thinking about what to do if Mexico goes kablooey. The bad news is a posture of submission to invasion rather than border control.