June 11, 2009

"Benjamin Schwarz's Laments The End Of California's Modest Dream"

In the new July-August Atlantic, Benjamin Schwarz reviews the latest volume of Kevin Starr's history of California: Golden Dreams: California in the Age of Abundance: 1950-1963.image

Logic and Luck

The root of Obama's Sotomayor Problem is this: Having decided for political reasons that he wanted a female Hispanic who was liberal on affirmative action and not too old and had plausible credentials, Obama then ran into a reality that is unpleasant but was logically inevitable: There just aren't that many Wise Latinas (whether self-proclaimed or not) out there. After all, if there were, then they wouldn't need affirmative action to avoid the "cultural biases" that cause disparate impact, now would they?

Sean Gabb On Chuck Wilder, 3:30 PM Eastern

Dr. Sean Gabb will be on The Chuck Wilder Show today at 3:30 p.m. ET to discuss his VDARE.com article, "England: The Peasants are Revolting." The program airs in Los Angeles and can be streamed live here.

Holocaust Museum shooting - Quick, let's suppress Free Speech!

The rush of media lemmings to attempt utilizing yesterday’s peculiar Holocaust Museum shooting to rescue the Hate Crimes Bill is producing some clear examples of the anti-free speech motives of this crowd.

The leftist media gad fly website TPMMuckraker says it directly in
When it comes to hate crimes, there's no such thing as "acting alone" June 10, 2009,

The Kvetcher...Wise but lonely.

With the reasonableness which has become his trademark, The Kvetcher has posted a comment on the Jewcy website suggesting that his fellow Jews having hysterics about the BNP’s recent European Parliament <</p>

Dear David Letterman