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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
November 3, 2010
State Level Gains For Republicans:"The Alabama Legislature Is Republican For The First Time Since 1876."
Sometimes the State Government is more useful on illegal immigration than the Federal Government,(Arizona being the obvious example today) and Eric Erikson at Red State reports huge gains at the state level:
The real story is the underreported story of the night — the Republican pick ups at the state level.
Arizona Law Defended in the Courts and on the Streets
Your humble correspondent attended the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco Monday morning for the federal government’s continuing suit against the state of Arizona’s tough immigration law. As a non-lawyer, I found the proceedings interesting, although somewhat mysterious, given all the legalistic shorthand referring to previous cases and numbers of sections within the Arizona law in question.
A local reporter thought the judges sounded largely amenable to Arizona’s position:
Canadian Police Investigate KKK Costume At Halloween Party
The Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a man who dressed up as a member of the Ku Klux Klan for Halloween. They know he's not a member of the actual Klan, they've been apprised of the fact that this took place on October 30 at a costume party, but they're still investigating, in case it violated Canadian hate speech laws.
Ward Connerly's Ballot Initiative Cruises In Arizona
Proposition 107, banning affirmative action in government operations, won easily in Arizona 60-40 (with 92% of precincts reporting), carrying every county in the state except the Four Corners Indian reservation county.
Quantitative Easing II
The Fed wants to concoct some more money: "Quantitative Easing II."
"The political economy of the subprime mortgage credit expansion"
Here's a 2010 article by economists Atif Mian, Amir Sufi, and Francesco Trebbi on how Congresscritters voted in 2002-2007 on Housing Bubble-related bills:
Election 2010---A Grinding Trench Warfare Advance For Immigration Patriots
An Immigration Lawyer Asks Why The Ninth Circuit Panel Contains Two Hispanics
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