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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
September 7, 2009
A New Pipeline Full Of Sob Stories
Several days back, I blogged here about a particular phony asylum case from about eight years ago that's subsequently turned into an organized campaign against deportation for the Albanian-born teenager Herta Lushlo and her mother Tatyana.
"Is Your Baby Racist?"
Newsweek runs the most unintentionally funny article of the year on its cover:
See Baby Discriminate
Kids as young as 6 months judge others based on skin color. What's a parent to do?
Obama as Ralph Ellison's "Rinehart"
A reader points out an amusing literary precedent for our protean President: When experiencing doubts about his identity while at Punahou Prep, Obama read Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Toward the climax of that African-American classic, the nameless narrator, who has been beset with identity problems of his own, puts on dark sunglasses and ventures onto the streets of Harlem.
Do Statheads Tend To Be Betting Men?
When I was a freshman in college, a high school friend whose dad was one of the top bookies in LA gave me a free subscription to his dad's football betting newsletter, the Gold Sheet, which I see has now been in business for 50 years, so it's time-tested. It's modus operandi is to barter inside information on injuries and the like, so these guys aren't just selling their opinions.
What's the Matter with Rhode Island?
It's not a very important state, but I notice that Rhode Island, in the heart of southern New England, seems to be slowly drifting toward the bottom of state-by-state statistics, turning into the West Virginia of Blue State America.
How Krugman Got It Wrong
Paul Krugman has a long article in the NYT Magazine entitled "How Did the Economists Get It So Wrong?" which demonstrates quite nicely, by all the topics it avoids mentioning, how the economists got it so wrong.
Does Liar Loan = Tax Evader?
The Liar’s Loan? study by economists Wei Jiang, Ashlyn Aiko Nelson, and Edward Vytlacil of over 700,000 mortgages issued during the Housing Bubble by an unnamed financial institution focusing on the "low documentation" mortgages brought in by independent brokers (now that's a trustworthy-sounding combination) raises questions about exactly what kind of borrower wants to pay higher interest rates
Is Obama being mau-maued in Afghanistan?
Tom Wolfe's classic study of War on Poverty handouts to "community organizers" in inner city San Francisco pointed out that most of the demonstrations and confrontations were largely staged to get money out of the government:
A Virginia Reader Invites An Ohio Reader To His Post Office, DMV Station, etc
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