Today’s Strict immigration rules may threaten Japan’s future (by Chico Harlan, Washington Post, July 28, 2010) is essentially the same as a New York Times version almost exactly five years ago, which Jared Taylor debunked for us here. The fundamental economic point is that labor is only a small component of the factors of production: [...]

In southern Arizona, cartels are flexing their power by increasingly encroaching into US territory. Interior enforcement against Mexican drug cartels now includes signs warning citizens to avoid border-area parks because they are dangerous. In fact, Arizona Governor Brewer expressed her disappointment with the warning signs as a symptom of Obama’s refusal to deal with border [...]

From the LA Times: Federal judge blocks key parts of Arizona immigration law The ruling halts implementation of parts of the law that require police to determine the immigration status of people they stop and suspect of being in the U.S. illegally. By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2010 So the will of the people of the [...]

Newsweek asks: Why Do IQ Scores Vary By Nation? Global differences in intelligence is a sensitive topic, long fraught with controversy and still tinged by the disgraceful taint of pseudosciences such as craniometry that strove to prove the white “race” as the most clever of them all. But recent [...]

Oliver Stone’s documentary “South of the Border” follows him around South America as he interviews various left-of-center politicians about how they stood up to American imperialism in the form of George W. Bush. Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is the star. He’s quick-witted, engaging, a natural big man. As Chavez is showing [...]

From the LA Times: Oliver Stone has apologized for his anti-Semitic rant, but is the damage already done? Patrick Goldstein The Big Picture It’s such a quintessentially American thing to do that I’m surprised that someone hasn’t already engraved it on our $20 bills: If you shoot off your mouth and hurl stupid insults at innocent people, [...]

Libertarian economists Tyler Cowen and Adam Ozimek are worried that a potential nominee for head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren, might (or might not) favor legal restrictions on high interest loans. Ozimek writes: My concern is that the agency will go for [...]

As I have indicated before, I have a lot of professional respect for the blog Angry White Dude. Polemics do not come easily to most Americans. LEFTIST BLACK PREACHERS CAN GO TO HELL! Monday July 26, 2010, however commands my appreciation for a different reason. It has a video clip of a black clergyman, supposedly Shirley [...]

I’m visiting in Mexico again, and last night watched a Mexican TV news broadcast. Since Arizona’s SB 1070 is scheduled to take effect in a few days, the broadcast devoted several segments to attacking SB 1070, calling it “the law of hate”. In one segment, they interviewed an illegal alien who has lived a number [...]

It’s a disease most of us forgot about, but it’s back and potentially badder than ever — and in California at least 6 children have died of it. Pertussis isn’t just for kids either! So, why all the sudden whooping cough? Whoops! Whooping cough is on the rise in industrialised countries, despite long-standing vaccination programmes. Now researchers [...]