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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
April 9, 2009
Immigrant Daughter-Selling Dad Gets Permissive Plea Arrangement
The immigrant father who sold his 14-year-old daughter for a pile of beer and cokes has accepted a very lenient plea bargain. Marcelino de Jesus Martinez (shown) got a hand-slap deal and may be deported at the end of his dinky little jail sentence in a month or so. He could have faced a sentence of 10 years in prison had the case gone to trial, but legal authorities prevented that outcome by offering a deal he couldn't refuse.
Problem Solved! (Dominican Third Basemen Importation And American Player Displacement Act Of 2006)
I totally missed this when it happened in 2006, but I'm happy to report that the pressing national problem of not enough Dominican third basemen playing for the Peoria Chiefs minor league team was totally solved by Congress and President Bush in 2006. There are some jobs Americans just won't do!
Sen. Diane Feinstein proudly announced on 12/11/06:
"Genes, Neuroscience, and Free Will" at AEI
A panel discussion on April 24th, from 10 to 12, at the American Enterprise Institute in DC:
As we learn more and more about the extent to which heredity equips people with personality, attitudes, and convictions, what happens to free will and human agency? Will this new understanding undermine, if not destroy, the possibility of holding people morally and legally accountable? In short, will science defeat free will?
Classical Composers: Scholarly Vs. Popular Favorites
At GNXP.com, Agnostic has created a spreadsheet of Western classical composers contrasting their popularity with the classical music-listening public (as determined by the number of recordings of their music offered for sale by Amazon.com--Mozart leads with 13,540, followed by Bach and Beethoven) versus their prominence in scholarly histories and encyclopedias of music, as tabulated by Charle
Epstein On Obama's Immigration Initiative - Curtis Silwa Show 10:20 p.m. ET
VDARE.com's Marcus Epstein will be on the nationally syndicated Curtis Sliwa Show tonight at 10:20 p.m. ET to discuss President Obama's immigration policy. The interview can be streamed live here.
Color Me Not Amazed
From the Claremont Review piece discussed by Steve Sailer below:
A big reason for this inability is the academy's refusal to deal candidly with questions of race. Although African-Americans are disproportionately involved in violent crimes, non-academics will no doubt be amazed to learn that few criminologists analyze in a frank, straightforward manner the role of African-Americans in crime.
NYT: "Obama to Push Immigration Bill Despite the Risks"
Obama wants to do this. He knows it's politically stupid, but he doesn't care, he wants amnesty and he wants it soon.
Julia Preston reports in the New York Times:
Muscularity And Race
Here's a press release about an article in the British Journal of Nutrition entitled "BMI Not an An Accurate Obesity Measurement":
“This [Body-Mass Index] scale was created years ago and is based on Caucasian men and women,” says Bray, “It doesn’t take into account differences in body composition between genders, race/ethnicity groups, and across the lifespan.”
A California Reader Wonders If Illegal Aliens Would Prefer To Be Called "Wetbacks"
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