November 30, 2009

Why Are Armenians Good At Chess?

By Steve Sailer on November 30, 2009 at 11:38pm

The Prospect (U.K.) has a long article, The Lion and the Tiger, by David Edmonds on the latest Armenian chess savant, Levon Aronian, who may follow in the footsteps of world champ Tigran Petrosian. (Levon means lion, Tigran tiger). Like the great Gary Kasparov, Aronian is half-Armenian, half-Jewish. Edmonds writes:

Regional Supercities And Race

By Steve Sailer on November 30, 2009 at 11:35pm

Reporters have a lot of leeway in how to spin a story by what quote they put at the end, unanswered. For example, the Washington Post's article on white politician Mary Norwood's bid to become the first non-black mayor of Atlanta in 36 years ends with an unanswered (and thus tacitly approved) expression of pure racial animus:

Hamlet as War President

By Patrick J. Buchanan on November 30, 2009 at 2:00am