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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
January 21, 2010
Campaign Finance Decision May Hurt Patriotic Immigration Reform
Republicans are cheering the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United against the Federal Election Commission that overturned parts of the McCain Feingold Act that restricted independent corporate expenditures.
I am less optimistic.
I am a pragmatist rather than an idealist when it comes to elections and electoral law. So no matter what the constitutional merits of the Supreme Court's decision, this could be a disaster for patriotic immigration reform.
Netanyahu for President!
On Wednesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Manufacturers Association of Israel in terms long overdue from an American President to the Cheap Labor Lobby:
You will not like this, but we plan to legislate strict laws and enforce them with a firm hand against the illegal employment of infiltrators and foreign workers.…
We are flooded with surge of refugees who threaten to wash away our achievements and damage our existence...
Obama on Border fence
"The situation is more grave, given the danger of terrorists and infiltrators, than I originally thought,"…"We must reinforce the border and it will be possible to minimize the infiltration of terrorists, drug dealers, and illegal workers,"…
"This issue of infiltration has become a total industry… The borders of the state cannot be porous and this is a threat on a national level,"
Excellent, right?
Boondoggle: High-Tech High School In Phoenix
I wrote an article recently for Vdare.com that describes how and why the state of Arizona is on the verge of going bankrupt. Emphasis was put on the role that the education of illegal aliens is playing in the budget crisis. The City of Phoenix has similar financial pressures -- they are even contemplating pink-slipping hundreds of police officers and even more supporting staff. Cara Liu reported for KPHO the following:
Is Facial Recognition A Non-g Factor Mental Module?
Physicists are not particularly well known for never forgetting a face, while some politicians are. Physicists tend to have higher IQs than politicians, but politicians have probably been evolving longer. So, is facial recognition just the general factor of intelligence in action once again, or is there a specifically evolved cognitive mechanism for it?
One of the more intriguing epistemological questions of recent decades has been over the prevalence of a g or General Factor of intelligence versus specific "mental modules."
A Washington D.C. Lawyer Explains What Scott Brown's Upset Victory Really Means
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01/20/10 - MIT Graduate Reader Says Race (Etc.), Not Income, Determined MA Vote
From: Charles Black (e-mail
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