A reader who shall be nameless, but who I happen to know was in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, writes “At today’s press conference Adm. Mullen, Chairman JCS, prattled the same “diversity is strength” nonsense. While they laud “diversity” the Pentagon regularly ignores great American war victories and commemorations including V-E and V-J Day. [...]

In the 1970s and 1980s, Bill James put a lot of effort into predicting how well young players would do. In 1988, he summed up 15 things he’d learned, and three of them related to forecasting young players’ development: Minor league batting statistics will predict major league batting performance with essentially the same reliability as previous [...]

When young Somali immigrants aren’t pursuing jihad in the dear homeland, some of the tribe think it’s a big yuck to assault people and put it on YouTube. Several self-appointed “stars” recently mugged it up with their real names, then knocked down old people and children–the Somali Tubers were too cowardly to pick victims strong [...]

In the New York Times here. You’ve already seen Malcolm Gladwell’s letter, with his ad hominem attack on me as a crimethinker. I’d half-assumed that the NYT would cut that part out in the interests of saving space, but they left it in. From the NYT: Steven Pinker replies: What Malcolm Gladwell calls a “lonely ice floe” is what [...]

Liberal-ish libertarian blogger Megan McArdle doesn’t really like Sarah Palin but “Y’all well know that I really don’t like Sarah Palin.  In fact, more than one of you has yelled at me about this.  And I find the whole schtick about how the media is just a bunch of elitist hooligans who are out to get [...]

Robert De Brus writes: Wall Street Journal writer James Taranto, who contributes the paper’s excellent “Best of the Web” blog, is upset that a friend and colleague, Tunku Varadarajan, has been taken to task for not taking the politically correct line on Maj. Nidal Hasan’s mass murder at Fort Hood. A business professor at New York University, [...]

Usually the cliche is “Women and Minorities Hardest Hit” but this story is about African-American men, who are hard hit by a recession that’s crashed construction, among other things.But African-Americans are just a special case of American worker displacement, tracked by VDARE.com every month on VDARE.com’s American Worker Displacement Index. And the cause of American Worker [...]

To summarize the situation, Hyatt housekeepers were forced to train their foreign replacements. A union called “Unite Here“ offered to help these workers by organizing protests and boycotts. Unite Here comes up with all sorts of reasons the Hyatt 100 lost their job, but immigration isn’t one of them. Notice how they mention outsourcing but conveniently [...]

Political correctness kills. Now we are learning that Dr. Hasan, the murderer of Fort Hood, was cut enormously more slack than any non-Muslim would have received. He retained his position only because of his minority status. “Two years ago, a top psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was so concerned about what he saw as [...]

Ann Coulter: It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: “Our diversity … is a strength.” As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has [...]

From the Drudge Report: AP Digs for Dirt in Palin Autobiography; News wire assigns 11 reporters to fact-check former governor’s book, but didn’t fact-check Obama’s… Yes, America clearly needs a close analysis of the President of the United States’ first book. But who could possibly know where to find such a thing?

A reader says that his favorite immigration rock song is Illegal Alien, by Genesis. Wikipedia says The song’s lyrics are a lighter, humorous depiction of the frustrations an illegal immigrant faces, leading up to the chorus: “It’s no fun/Being an illegal alien”. Even though the lyrics are intended as a satire and to be taken in [...]

I’ve just finished reading Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue in the pathetic hope that I might make time to write about it and find this quote on p. 338: “We got into this economic mess because of misplaced government interference in the first place. The mortgage crisis that triggered the collapse of our financial markets was [...]

In my Wednesday Taki’s Magazine column, I use a popular football argument to explain the philosophy behind why my punditry is so off-kilter from everybody else’s. Last Sunday evening, while watching the final minutes of the now famous Indianapolis Colts - New England Patriots football game, I experienced a moment of middle-aged serenity. I realized that [...]

The Washington Times’s  Jerry Seper reports on yet another reminder that American government is not truly a two-party system, but a one-party regime with a hard left-of-center wing (the Democrats) and a just plain left-of-center wing (the post-Reagan GOP). Anything to do with our awkward neighbor, Mexico, always brings out the worst in both wings of [...]

Maria Candelaria Moreno, who lives in Milwaukee, WI, and companion Ricardo Moreno Esparza, “a citizen of Mexico,” were arrested for illegal-alien-smuggling in Laredo, TX on Thursday, November 12, when U.S. Customs agents at the border crossing found an unnamed, 31-year-old Mexican woman inside Moreno’s suitcase. “The woman in the suitcase was held for removal [...]

Iconoculture’s trendspotting service always has something horrifying in it, although they don’t seem to know it’s horrifying: Fighting for an education: More Latinos joining the U.S. Army for school benefits WHAT’S HAPPENING * As Latinos fight to keep their head above water in the lagging economy, more are joining the U.S. Army. Although enlistment bonuses and military [...]

Some of this story will be old news to VDARE.com readers–Tom Piatak wrote about it in 2001. Today’s Daily Telegraph writes How Hitler and the Nazis tried to steal Christmas The Nazi Party tried their best to remove Christ from Christmas by paganising carols, producing glittering swastika, iron cross and toy grenade baubles for the fir tree, [...]

Terry McDermott blogs for the Columbia Journalism Review: Criticism of Gladwell Reaches Tipping Point … I should add here that my hatred of Gladwell is boundless, at least the equal of any critic, but I, a much more rigorous (and therefore slower and much poorer) writer, at least know its source – pure unadulterated jealousy. Gladwell’s earlier books [...]

he December issue of National Geographic carries a story about The Other Tibet which tells about the situation in Western China’s Xinjiang Province. The article quite graphically explains how the Han Chinese have invaded the province and how they have overtaken the local population. The story explains the local unrest but, of course, the [...]