March 12, 2009

Sen. Roland Burris: Another Bogus Black 'Leader' Goes To Washington

By Dave Gorak on March 12, 2009 at 5:00pm

A few years ago two associates of mine, who are long-time activists in the immigration reduction movement, met with then Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, now sitting in President Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat thanks to the disgraced former governor of that state, Rod Blagojevich.

Wadhwa/Hira Spectacle On CNBC

By James Fulford on March 12, 2009 at 4:15pm

Dr. Norm Matloff writes:

This past Monday, CNBC ran a "debate" between Vivek Wadhwa and Ron Hira. As many of you know, Vivek is a former CEO who now writes and does academic research on the tech industry, and Ron is a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and who also does research on the tech industry.

The Kvetcher: "Progress By Pesach" fraud?

By Patrick Cleburne on March 12, 2009 at 1:36pm

In his unswerving drive for popularity in the mainstream of conventional Jewish opinion, The Kvetcher has turned his attention to the claims being made by the Progress By Pesach

NYT: Cut back on LSAT to benefit Non-Asian Minorities

By Steve Sailer on March 12, 2009 at 12:56pm

The NYT claims "Study Offers a New Test of Potential Lawyers:"

The LSAT, as the half-day exam is known, does not claim to predict much beyond a studentâ€™s performance in law school. But critics contend that it does not evaluate how good a lawyer someone will be and tests for the wrong things. They also say it keeps many black and Hispanic students â€” who tend to have lower scores â€” out of the legal profession.

Derb On Me In Taki's

By Steve Sailer on March 12, 2009 at 12:56pm

John Derbyshire has a very kind essay on me up at Taki's Magazine: "Sailer-ism."

Boiler Room And "Predatory Lending"

By Steve Sailer on March 12, 2009 at 12:56pm

While reading up onÂ Ameriquest, the top subprime mortgage originator in America before going belly-up in 2007, I was struck by this bit from a 2005Â LA Times article by Mike Hudson and E. Scott Reckard:

Obama's War On Carbon Emissions

By Steve Sailer on March 12, 2009 at 12:55pm

Shouldn't Obama call off his war on carbon emissions "for the duration" of the economic downturn? If the economy is roaring back in 18 months, swell, let's all start fighting carbon again then. But if we're in for a decade-long depression, then carbon emissions will be way down by themselves, and the last thing we should be trying to do is make energy, the main driver of economic growth, even more unaffordable.