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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
June 30, 2009
The Intellectually Feeble Left Wing Of The Supreme Court
Half Sigma offers a lucid review of Justice Ginsburg's dissenting opinion in Ricci:
I Think The Who Had A Song About This
From AOL News:
A Swedish couple's decision to keep their toddler's gender a secret is stirring debate, especially now that the parents are expecting a second child.
Eugene Volokh On The ADL and Free Speech
First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh writes
Why South Africa isn't going to be Zimbabwe South
People always get mad at me whenever I suggest that Zimbabwe might hold some suggestions about South Africa. Yet, it's as if something happened to Canada, you wouldn't be too surprised if it later happened to the U.S.
They tend to sputter when denouncing the very idea that Zimbabwe isn't just South Africa with a 14 year head start. Everything is so different!
The Left Took An Intellectual Drubbing On Ricci
The ignorance and just plain dumbness of the purveyors of conventional wisdom is one of the most obvious lessons of the Ricci case. They got drubbed in the Supreme Court decision in large part because they don't know anything about topics like testing and couldn't think rationally about it even if they did.
Consider this statement today from the Washington Post-owned Newsweek by Slate's regular Supreme Court reporter Dahlia Lithwick:
Ricci and Unions
Something worth thinking about is the valuable role the firefighter's union in New Haven played in keeping the politicians from getting their hands all over the fire department. It was the union that had negotiated the compromise by which 60% of the weight would be given to a written test (i.e., objective and blind-graded), while the city