May 13, 2009

An Outer Space Border Fence?

By Steve Sailer on May 13, 2009 at 9:03pm

The Bush-Obama Administration has pledged billions of dollars to build a "virtual fence" of sensors on the Mexican border to notify the Border Patrol when and where illegal aliens cross it. As a commenter suggested, if the ungrateful public turns out to be unmollified by that, the Bush-Obama Administration would no doubt be willing to consider making the invisible fence twice as tall.

The Obama Family's Personal Financial Strategy

By Steve Sailer on May 13, 2009 at 9:01pm

A NY Daily News article by Richard Henry Lee looks over the Obama family's tax returns. In brief, the First Family's personal financial master plan in the 1996-2004 era resembles the business plan of the Underwear Gnomes on South Park. The Obama thinking appears to have been:

1. Borrow against home equity and consume.
2.
3. Get rich!

But, hey, it worked.

Lee writes:

Pew Hispanic Center On Minority Mortgage Meltdown

By Steve Sailer on May 13, 2009 at 9:00pm

In "Through Boom and Bust: Minorities, Immigration, and Homeownership," The Pew Hispanic Center has run an interesting (but not terribly well specified) multiple regression analysis of foreclosure rates by county. The reports says, "foreclosure statistics by race, ethnicity or nativity are currently not available. However, the relationship between demography and foreclosure activity at the county level is discerned in this report through the marriage of different sources of data."

The ACLU's New Wrinkle On Racial Profiling (With Illegal Immigration Connection)

By Paul Nachman on May 13, 2009 at 5:19pm

An article in the North County Times, serving San Diego County, (ESCONDIDO: Maher supports licenses for illegal immigrants, by Edward Sifuentes, May 11, 2009), is mostly about the feckless police chief in Escondido, CA, Jim Maher, urging that illegal aliens in California be allowed driver's licenses.

Most unpopular Brimelow article ever

By Peter Brimelow on May 13, 2009 at 12:52pm

I don't like to mix my political and financial journalism - because the former usually causes diversity-loving liberals to try to get me fired from the latter - but Market Watch today has a column by me today discussing an idea I first proposed in Forbes years ago, which turned out to be my most unpopular article ever: that congressional salaries are very low by historic standards, and that congressmen should be paid the capitalized value of all benefits and staff costs in one lump sum at the beginning

The Kvetcher: A Daniel come to judgement

By Patrick Cleburne on May 13, 2009 at 1:20am

With the stunning courage (and intellectual integrity) which is his trademark The Kvetcher picked right up on our Kevin MacDonald piece last night about the Hate Crime Bill:

Jews and the Hate Crimes Bills

Who Rules America?

By Paul Craig Roberts on May 13, 2009 at 12:00am