May 10, 2009

Dept. of Unintended Humor (A.K.A. The Border Fence)

By Steve Sailer on May 10, 2009 at 11:24pm

The Washington Post announces that the Obama Administration is close to being ready to virtually resume the Bush Administration's ploy of fabricating a largely invisible and more or less nonexistent border "fence:"

David Brooks on "The Harlem Miracle"

By Steve Sailer on May 10, 2009 at 6:57pm
David Brooks writes in the New York Times:

The Harlem Miracle May 7, 2009

Elvira! She's Back in Mexico and Moving On Up

By Brenda Walker on May 10, 2009 at 4:05pm

Remember the chatty church squatter who hid among Chicago pews to escape La Migra? After much noisy drama, convicted felon Elvira Arelleno was finally repatriated to her nation of actual citizenship in 2007. But that's not the last chapter of the story -- far from it.

The Spanish Housing Bubble

By Steve Sailer on May 10, 2009 at 3:59pm

Whenever I write about the California-centric origins of our economic crash, I get comments saying to the effect of, “Hey, what about Spain? They had a huge Housing Bubble in Spain, too. Spain is totally different from California, yet the same thing happened there.”

That CRASH! was Obama dropping Enforcement.

By Patrick Cleburne on May 10, 2009 at 2:39am

Maybe it is gloom inculcated by previous generations spent on rain-swept Northern Atlantic coasts rather than sun-drenched Mediterranean shores, but I can’t share Joe Guzzardi’s radiant optimism expressed on Friday about the present situation. Although I admit he made great calls on Amnesty defeats in the past.

A Tennessee Reader Says Don't Annex Mexico—Expel California!

May 10, 2009

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05/09/09 - Saturday Forum: A Reader Says On Racial Quotas, Jack Kemp Was A Liberal; etc.

From: Kit Brewer (e-mail him)

Slate's Saletan Triangulates Against VDARE.COM's Sailer. It's A Phase He's Going Through.

By Steve Sailer on May 10, 2009 at 1:00am