April 30, 2010

Linda Greenhouse Really Doesn't Get It

Linda Greenhouse's emotional outburst shows that she apparently not only sympathized with illegals, she seems to have no concept of national sovereignty at all.

Did Everybody Get The Latest Watsoning Backwards?

A reader writes regarding the Watsoning of Harvard Law student Stephanie Grace:
What's really strange is that, if you read Grace's email with a modicum of care, it seems like she is writing to people who firmly believe that racial differences in IQ have a genetic basis, and she is telling them she's still not convinced.  No one has pointed this out, as far as I can see.  So will the addressees get outed/Summersed etc.?

Here is what was leaked from the email:

Harvard Pulls A Larry Summers On Ex-Crimethinker

From today's Boston Globe:

How To Fix The Financial Ratings Firms

The three main firms that rate financial instruments, which failed so badly during the Housing Bubble at rating mortgage-backed securities have notoriously had a conflict of interest since the early 1970s. They used to be paid by buyers of financial instruments, who thus wanted honest evaluations, but Information Wants to Be Free! (In other words, the spread of the photocopier made it hard to make money out of being paid by buyers.)

Two Tea Party Stories, One Opinion: Tea Partiers Aren't Racist

Take a look at these two stories, the first from the libertarian Cathy Young:

in which Ms. Young absolves the Tea Partiers of the sin of racism, and

Tim Blair Goes To...

Australian journalist Tim Blair travels a bit, in the hopes of finding new and interesting roads to drive on, and recounts this personal experience:

Twins

Here's an interesting joint interview from The Believer with Steve and Mark O'Donnell, two identical twin writers who were the youngest children in a family of ten children. There's nothing flabbergasting in it, but if you want to hear two very witty and perceptive twins talk about being twins, this is it.

Peter Brimelow will be on the Stu Breyer Show for tomorrow at 11:05. AM ET

Peter Brimelow will be on the Stu Breyer Show for tomorrow at 11:05. AM ET
The Stu Breyer Show is not available online but can be heard in New London, Groton and Norwich, CT on WICH 1310 AM.

Imagine A World Without VDARE.com—But With Your Help, It Doesn't Have To Happen!

Last year Nicholas Stix wrote

"Imagine a typical day—I'm addressing patriots here. You get a few minutes, and start typing "V-D-..." on your computer screen, until your pc remembers the rest of the URL, and voila … nothing. "