July 6, 2009

Easy Offers

Prominent man of letters Walter Kirn writes an essay in the New York Times Magazine "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Aptitude," in which he explains (to the extent that "explain" can be used to characterize his effort):

1. He wants you to know that he got very high SAT scores, which helped get him into Princeton
2. But he's not all stuck up over it; in fact, he says he's really not that smart

All-Star Break

With baseball's All-Star game coming up and Dominican star Manny Ramirez back from his 50 game suspension for steroids, here's the full-length version of my review from The American Conservative of the film "Sugar:"

Why The Ricci Case Is The Exception Instead Of The Rule

Here's an old column I wrote in for Taki's Magazine on May 20, 2009, that I forgot to post a link to because I was traveling:

Jackhammer Out That Annoying Poem Attached to Lady Liberty? Yes!

The common-sense opinion piece excerpted below comes from an unlikely source, Roberto Suro, who was the Director of Pew Hispanic Center until 2007 after founding it in 2001.

Immigration Debate "A Part Of Hate"? Give To VDARE.COM—While Sen. Feinstein Lets You!

TONIGHT! Patrick Cleburne on the Democrats' drive to criminalize speech; Patrick J. Buchanan on Affirmative Action at Annapolis; etc. etc! Scroll to bottom, conveniently just below donate info.