March 8, 2009

Quote Of The Day:"Do You Promise To Leave After 200 Years?"

In May of 2001, there were riots in Britain by "Asians" which means, in this context, Muslims whose parents came to Britain from Pakistan or Bangladesh. John Derbyshire did a column explaining this and saying that many of these young men were saying

Interethnic Marriage Declining For Asians And Latinos (As Predicted On VDARE.com Eight Years Ago)

A couple of years after I wrote about Qian and Lichter's study here, Annie Gowen reports today in the Washington Post, "More Young Adults Are Seeking Partners of Same Ethnicity:"

Could Bloomberg's Al Hunt have illegal Domestics?

In a sense, the great winner of the 2008 Presidential election cycle was the MSM.

How Random Is Admission To Charter Schools?

You often read articles about charter schools whose students do wonderfully on standardized tests even though admission is by random lottery. The implication is that all we have to do to Fix the Public Schools is to do in all the other schools in America whatever it is that works so wonderfully at this one school with its (presumably) representative student body.

Why Did Asians End Up In San Gabriel Valley Rather Than In San Fernando Valley?

When I was a kid in the San Fernando Valley, the huge suburb northwest of Los Angeles, Asian-Americans were widely distributed all over Southern California. Over time, though, they came to congregate in the huge San Gabriel Valley, a suburb northeast of Los Angeles. Thus, Asians seem no more common in the San Fernando Valley today than 30 years ago.