May 19, 2009

John McWhorter On How Archaeology Is Racist

By Steve Sailer on May 19, 2009 at 10:03pm

In the New Republic, John McWhorter has a column up, including vague swipes at me, resenting the fact that most evidence of a Stone Age great leap forward in culture comes from Europe.

Hispanic Father Bites Out Four Year-Old Son's Eyes: Headline Calls Him "Bakersfield Dad"

By James Fulford on May 19, 2009 at 8:46pm

I am not claiming this is typical of Hispanic immigrant behavior, although the risk of a crazed attack by a PCP using father is higher in the barrio than it is in Greenwich, Connecticut, or Anchorage, Alaska. What I am claiming is that the headline is typical of American newspaper writers. Angelow Mendoza, the accused, (immigration status not reported) is called a "Bakersfield Dad" in the headline. But obviously we're not looking at Dwight Yoakum here.

Anti-Jihad Symposium in Nashville

By Thomas Allen on May 19, 2009 at 12:03pm

New English Review will be hosting one of the major anti-jihad events of the year in Nashville, TN, May 29th and 30th. Sign up here for “Understanding the Jihad in Israel, Europe and America.” Geert Wilders will address the symposium via live telecast. By definition the symposium will deal with immigration and I will attempt to explain why exponentially expanding Somali immigration to the U.S.

California Caused The Meltdown--SacBee

By Steve Sailer on May 19, 2009 at 12:02pm

California's top political columnist, Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee, writes:

Memo to Californians from everyone else in the world: You folks out there in sunshine land caused this historic global recession, and it's time for you to mend your ways.

Farfetched? Not really.

Mozilo Mania

By Steve Sailer on May 19, 2009 at 11:59am

Joe Weisenthal at Clusterstock is reading up on one of the central figures in predatory securitizing, Angelo Mozilo of Countrwide, the country's largest mortgage originator during the Housing Bubble. His take on it is that Mozilo wasn't a cynic, he was a believer in the profitability of lending money to traditionally underserved borrowers:

Mozilo viewed himself as something of a populist, fighting for the little guy -- as did the editors of La Opinion.

Memo From Middle America (Formerly Known As Memo From Mexico), By Allan Wall

By Allan Wall on May 19, 2009 at 1:00am

The U.S. Government Has Become Patently Anti-Christian

By Chuck Baldwin on May 19, 2009 at 1:00am

All the News That's Fit To Suppress

By Michelle Malkin on May 19, 2009 at 1:00am