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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
July 12, 2009
Questions For Sotomayor
Senator John Cornyn has a list of twenty questions for Judge Sotomayor. Only three to them are about the subjects that Sotomayor is most vulnerable on:
- Question 8: Does Judge Sotomayor believe that the firefighters' claims in Ricci v. DeStefano are routine and not worthy of careful treatment?
- Question 12: Does Judge Sotomayor continue to believe that the city of New Haven should have been allowed to scrap the results of its firefighter exam on the basis of race?
40 Years Of Desegregation In Philadelphia
I'm a little late commenting on this story, which is three days old, but hey, I'm not as late as the legal profession:
After 40 years, Phila. schools settle desegregation case
By Kristen A. Graham, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 8, 2009
VDARE.com's Multilingualism
By the way, when I said below that we at VDARE.com "we don’t do a lot of bilingualism ourselves," I meant that we don't do bilingualism on principle, not because we can't.
For whom the Bell tolls...
America is a poorer place this weekend.
On Friday the BBC reported
Friday, 10 July 2009 18:30 UK
Simon Sheppard and Steven Whittle were incarcerated for four years and 10 months and two years and 4 months for becoming the first in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred via a foreign website.
The goal of the Sotomayor hearings ...
... shouldn't be to try to show that she's outside the liberal mainstream, but to show what the liberal mainstream actually is.
A Retired New York Schoolteacher Says Foreign-Born Instructors Will Trade Tough Times In The Classroom For A Green Card
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Female Journalism
The Washington Post has a long article about "colorism" and Michael Jackson by DeNeen L. Brown.
Through the Past, Darkly
The Legacy of Colorism Reflects Wounds of Racism That Are More Than Skin-Deep...
Here's an interesting (although hardly unexpected) factual excerpt:
The Economist: California v. Texas
The Economist has an editorial comparing California and Texas combining its usual unthinking prejudices with some actual insights (likely drawn from my stuff).