April 18, 2009

Long LA Times article on Greg Cochran

Here's Karen Kaplan's profile in the Los Angeles Times of Gregory Cochran: "Jewish Legacy Inscribed on the Genes." (It's now the most emailed article on the LA Times website and the second most heavily viewed article.)

VDARE.COM fundraiser temporarily suspended because of PayPal problem - many thanks!

PayPal hiccupped this morning and forced us to suspend our fund-raising campaign. This is a relief, in a way, because I hate stopping postings on VDARE.COM, although it does convey the seriousness of our struggle. But I do want to take this opportunity to extend a personal thanks to those of you who have rallied round. Not only are you helping us recover from losing a major donor, but you make us feel much better!

"Spengler" Outs Himself

Speaking of interesting but overconfident Internet pundits, a few years ago, a reader pointed out to me that "Spengler" was very likely David P. Goldman, a former high-ranking member of the Lyndon LaRouche cult.

I posted on October 27, 2006:

"Who do you have to sleep with in this town to get your blog compared to Montaigne's Essays in The Economist?"

Now we may have a clue to the answer to that old question in Johann Hari's bedazzled tongue-bath of Andrew Sullivan, the Barry Bonds of bloggers.

Immigrants and Rape in Norway

A reader sent this to me:

Rolleiv Solholm writes in the Norway Post:

The Oslo Police have over the past three years investigated 41 cases of aggravated sexual assault, which resulted in rape. All of them were carried out by non-western immigrants to Norway.
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Most of the rapists have a Kurdish or African background, NRK reports.

[Immigrants behind most cases of aggravated sexual assault , Apr. 17, 2009]

Russians Arrested for Sturgeon Poaching near Sacramento

A couple years ago I wrote that immigrants are overrepresented among poachers because many cultures do not value species protection: Diversity Is Strength! It's Also Poaching.

(In contrast, American hunters and fishermen are some of our best conservationists because they want their sports to continue.)