By Patrick Cleburne on 03/18/2024

Strange Letitia James/American Irish Historical Society Goings-On. Is She Planning To Move To 5th Avenue?

On Sunday, the New York Post produced a remarkable piece of journalism: An Irish society, an unpaid loan and the hypocrisy of Letitia James, by Miranda Devine, March 17, 2024. In essence, the venerabl...
By James Fulford on 03/18/2024

Elon Musk Posts On Immigration And The Electoral College As VDARE.com Has Been Doing For Amost 25 Years

Earlier: Rotten Boroughs Redux: Black Democrat Says She Needs Illegals ”Just For Redistricting Purposes” Elon Musk has been Tweeting a lot about immigration. Like Peter Brimelow, he's an immigrant hims...
By Steve Sailer on 03/18/2024

The New Dim Age: Swedish Immigration Researcher Forbidden To Name Low Human Capital Countries

We definitely aren’t entering a Dark Age, but we seem to be entering a Dim Age in which scholars are increasingly forbidden by authorities to investigate important but politically fraught topics, such ...
By John Derbyshire on 03/18/2024

Ship Haitians To French-Speaking Africa? (No One Else Wants Them)

Most depressingly, Haiti is still in the news. What on earth can be done with the wretched place? I suppose we could send over a force to restore order. We’ve done that before, though: twice, in fact. ...
By Former Agent on 03/18/2024

Immigration Headlines [5 ITEMS!]—Iranian Assassin, Haiti Still In The Hole, And Mayorkas’s Lies, Etc.

I had missed this little item in the flood of news about the border. FBI Hunting for Suspected Iranian Assassin Who Is Targeting Former Trump Officials, by Rick Moran, PJMedia, March 5, 2024  It remi...
By John Derbyshire on 03/18/2024

It Should Be A “European Union Treaty Organization," Not NATO—And The U.S. Should Be Out Of It

It’s always gratifying to see a serious pundit take a position one has oneself taken. So it was with a warming of the heart that I saw Srdja Trifkovic’s long opinion piece in the March issue of Chronic...
By John Derbyshire on 03/17/2024

FROM DERB'S EMAIL BAG (3 ITEMS): Math, Opera, And The Contraceptive Pill Producing Ferocious Females In Ireland

Just a few. •  There’s a worked solution to the brainteaser in my February Diary here.  •  A reader of the transcript from my March 8th Radio Derb: Only because I am an opera singer (baritone) and thus...
By Steve Sailer on 03/17/2024

What Keeps Our Octogenarian Elite Going?

Al Pacino put a worthy cap on his acting career in 2019 with a wonderful turn as Jimmy Hoffa in The Irishman. Nobody would begrudge the 83-year-old Al a quiet retirement. Well, except perhaps his 52-...
By Steve Sailer on 03/17/2024

USA Today Vs. Caitlin Clark: "Women's Basketball Needs Faces Of Future To Be Black"

Women’s college basketball is popular at the moment in sizable part because of Caitlin Clark, a record-setting 6’0″ guard at the #2 ranked U. of Iowa who is sort of the Stephen Curry of women’s basketb...
By John Derbyshire on 03/17/2024

André Ventura’s Chega In Portugal—A New Recruit To National Conservatism In Europe

Mass immigration is a factor all over Europe, drawing more and more voters away from big old center-left and center-right parties. There was an illustration last weekend in Portugal, which held a parli...
By Matthew Richer on 03/17/2024

Howie Carr: Migrants In Comfort Inn In Rockland, MA Enjoying Free Dry Cleaning Service At Your Expense

Update on the migrants living in Rockland, MA. According to Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr, the migrants living at the Comfort Inn in Rockland are also enjoying free dry cleaning service. Bring you...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/17/2024

Will The 2024 Election Be Stolen? Yes. Follow Joe Fried CPA Election Central Substack To Learn How.

Recently it seems to have dawned on GOP Apparatchiks that the 2024 election is likely to be stolen. The first step, of course, is to recognize that the 2020 election was stolen: How West Virginia’s Mac...
By Steve Sailer on 03/16/2024

Grade Inflation At Harvard—It's Getting Worse

Also, note that student quality at Harvard has probably declined in this decade due to SAT/ACT no longer being mandatory. So the recent grade inflation is even worse than it looks. Grade inflation, wh...
By Steve Sailer on 03/16/2024

1927 Cancel Culture: Irish Societies Didn’t Like THE CALLAHANS AND THE MURPHYS

The famous saying about old-time Hollywood movies is that they were made by Jews for Catholics about Protestants. One time Protestants tried making a silent movie about Catholics, the 1927 silent com...
By James Fulford on 03/16/2024

Lydia Brimelow On The Tom Woods Show: ”Lawfare Against Normal People Is Here”

Lydia Brimelow is on Tom Woods Show talking about Letitia James’s lawfare against VDARE.com: Tucker Carlson recently interviewed Lydia Brimelow of the VDARE website on the lawfare directed against the...
By Matthew Richer on 03/15/2024

Migrant Rapes Child At Rockland, Massachusetts Hotel

I blogged recently about Governor Maura Healey’s Administration paying $64 a day to feed each migrant currently placed in Massachusetts hotels. One of those hotels was recently the scene of a rape comm...
By Paul Kersey on 03/14/2024

In 1920, The NAACP Worried The U.S. Occupation of Haiti Would Make Blacks Look Bad—Look At Haiti Now!

Back before the United States of America entry into The Great War, the U.S. Marines engaged in an occupation of Haiti. This started in 1915. By 1920, black leaders in America were particularly worried ...
By Lydia Brimelow on 03/14/2024

VDARE Credit Card Donations Cancelled (For Now?) But E-Debits Available!

We announced on February 20th that GabPay had saved our online payments. Unfortunately, we are now experiencing another outage. The bank that underwrites the credit card processing—that is, not a bank ...
By Steve Sailer on 03/14/2024

Algebra For Everyone: Stanford Keeps Kids With 2 Digit IQs From Graduating High School Because It Won’t Admit Its Dumping SAT Was Stupid

Earlier: Sailer In TakiMag: Eliminating College Application Test Score Requirement Turns Out To Have Been A Bad Idea. Who Could Have Known? In recent years, there has been a surprisingly reasonable p...
By Steve Sailer on 03/14/2024

NPR: "In the World of Medicine, Race-Based Diagnoses Are Still Very Real"

It may seem as if Craig Venter’s sales spiel at the 2000 Rose Garden Ceremony for the Human Genome Project becoming the conventional wisdom of the 21st century—race does not exist biologically—is merel...
By Steve Sailer on 03/14/2024

Kids These Days: ”Nearly 30% Of Gen Z Women Identify As LGBTQ, Gallup Survey Finds”

Nearly 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ, Gallup survey finds Women ages 18 to 26 were more than twice as likely to identify as LGBTQ than their millennial counterparts, the survey found. March 13...
By Steve Sailer on 03/14/2024

"What A Ridiculous Case!"—The "Furious Race Storm" At LA's Hillcrest Golf Club Where Kamala Harris Is A Member

From the Daily Mail: Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff are caught up in scandal over their elite Hillcrest Country Club that’s been labeled a ‘racist aristocracy’ that ‘disregards reports of sexual ass...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/14/2024

West Point Dumps MacArthur Formulation: Elevates Army Loyalty Above Country. Democrats Plan Military Government?

Zero Hedge has relayed today from The College Fix the significant news West Point Ditches “Duty, Honor, Country“ From Mission Statement, by Tyler Durden, March 14, 2023. The United States Military Acad...
By Steve Sailer on 03/14/2024

What’s The Matter With India?

Investor and Financial Times columnist Ruchir Sharma expands upon the concept of India as post-modern and pre-modern, as brought to our attention by iSteve commenter JohnnyWalker123: In a country [In...
By John Derbyshire on 03/13/2024

Radio Derb Transcript For March 8: SOTU Report, Flying Illegal Aliens In, The Sam Melia Case, And Multiculturalism, The Destroyer Of Worlds, Etc.

The Radio Derb Transcript is up for March 8, 2024. Go here to read or listen. 01:32  Looking forward to the SOTU.  (From Thursday afternoon.) 11:26  SOTU!  (From an old-fashioned guy.) 20:31  Flying il...
By Former Agent on 03/13/2024

Drew Tipton: Coward Judge Upholds So Called Parole

When I was on the job as a Border Patrol Agent, parole was rarely doled out. It usually really was reserved for people serving as witnesses, or, even for those who were charged with a crime. They would...
By James Fulford on 03/13/2024

How Many "Gotaways“ On The Border? Possibly Three Times The Number Interdicted

An Army officer writes to libertarian Matt Welch on his Substack: Mailbucket #3: Immigration from the Inside, by Matt Welch, The Fifth Column (A Podcast), March 13, 2024. Emphasis added:  I just liste...
By Steve Sailer on 03/13/2024

Has the Theory of ”Racialized” Running Performance Been Debunked?

Earlier: ”Track and Battlefield”: Sailer and Seiler on Women in Combat from 1997 With the Olympics coming up this summer in Paris only three years after the COVID-delayed Olympics in Tokyo, here’s a pr...
By Steve Sailer on 03/13/2024

Sailer In TakiMag: Eliminating College Application Test Score Requirement Turns Out To Have Been A Bad Idea. Who Could Have Known?

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine: The Times They Are a-Changin’Steve Sailer March 13, 2024 Why is Trump ahead in the polls over Biden, even though several traditional measures of electoral via...
By Peter Brimelow on 03/12/2024

DEATH BY SUBPOENA: Lawfare Comes For DEI Hero Chris Rufo (As Well As VDARE.com)

As our faithful readers know all too well, VDARE.com is in the process of being financially lynched by enormous subpoena demands from rogue New York Attorney Letitia James. More famously, she also has ...
By James Fulford on 03/12/2024

"Criminalizing Politics"—We've Been Experiencing It For A Long Time (And Now It's Personal)

Earlier: “WHAT VDARE.COM NEEDS NOW IS A MIRACLE”—Peter And Lydia Brimelow On NYAG Letitia James’ Lawfare Steven Calabresi [Email him] is a law professor at Northwestern and a director of the Federalist...
By James Fulford on 03/12/2024

Hazelwood East: White Girl Beaten In 97 Percent Black School In St. Louis

Earlier: Nicholas Kristof, NYT: ”If Only There Were A Viral Video Of Our Jim Crow Education System” and Contra Nicholas Kristof, There Are LOTS Of Viral Videos Explaining De Facto School Segregation. J...
By Federale on 03/12/2024

Many "Human Trafficking Arrests" Are Really Just Prostitution Raids

There is a periodic panic about “Human Trafficking” arrests, which then turn out to be just your typical vice raids on prostitutes and customers. It is getting so tiresome. The Yellow Press trumpets th...
By Paul Kersey on 03/12/2024

Pittsburgh Police, Influenced By The “Defund the Police“ Movement, Won’t Respond to “Non-Emergency“ Calls

Where were you at the end of the American Dream? Pittsburgh Police Are No Longer Responding To “Non-Emergency” Calls; Report Zero Hedge, March 11, 2024: WPXI Channel 11 out of Pittsburgh reports that ...
By Paul Kersey on 03/11/2024

Ahmaud Arbery Versus Laken Riley—The Latter Was A Real Jogger

Earlier: Joe Biden Wants To Talk About Black “Jogger” Ahmaud Arbery—Why Won’t He Talk About These Raped/Murdered White Joggers? Ahmaud Arbery and Laken Riley died nearly four years apart (February 23, ...
By Steve Sailer on 03/11/2024

Samuel Johnson Kicking The Stone—“I Refute It Thus!“

Earlier, by John Derbyshire: Kicking The Stone: The Hard Reality of Race Relations Few realize this, but the last few decades have witnessed an explosion in the numbers of realistic bronze statues. F...
By Steve Sailer on 03/11/2024

Angus Deaton Rethinks His Economics On Free Trade, Unions.... And Immigration

Angus Deaton was fortuitously awarded the (semi-) Nobel Prize in economics just a few weeks before his landmark paper (with his wife Ann Case) on the rise of “deaths of despair” among the American wh...
By John Derbyshire on 03/10/2024

Merrick Garland Opposes Common-Sense Voter ID Laws Because He Claims It's Still 1954

The ideas I promote here on VDARE.com seem to me like plain common sense. A constitutional requirement that the President should ”from time to time” report to Congress on the state of the Union should ...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/09/2024

ZeroHedge: Feb Saw Record Immigrant Job Scarfing. No Job Growth For Americans Since 2018

For almost 19 years Peter Brimelow and Ed Rubenstein published monthly an analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, focusing on the displacement of American workers by the ‘foreign-born.”...
By Steve Sailer on 03/09/2024

WAPO’s Philip Bump: Only Bad People Predicted How Bad DEI Would Get In Colleges... In 1993

I started writing opinion journalism in 1990 during the Political Correctness era, so I recall vividly that Woke 2020s are much like the PC era of the early 1990s, only more so. Basically, we had the...
By Federale on 03/09/2024

Non-Profit Corporations, Non-Governmental Organizations, And Foreign Governments All Aiding The Invasion Of The U.S.

The untold story of the ongoing invasion of the United States by illegal aliens is how it changed from an unorganized process to one dominated by drug cartels, and from theirs to an invasion being fund...
By John Derbyshire on 03/09/2024

Trump Victor On Ballot Access And Primaries Looks Hopeful, But The Left And The Deep State Are Still Out There

In a unanimous ruling on Monday the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an attempt by authorities in Colorado, including that state’s Supreme Court, to disqualify Donald Trump from appearing on this year’s ...
By John Derbyshire on 03/09/2024

Haiti’s Latest Descent Into Chaos So Bad Haitians Can’t Even Get To The Airport To Be Admitted Illegally By Biden

Earlier: Haiti’s Story Is Appalling And Depressing—And There Are People Who Blame This On Whites and Was Henty Right In 1899: There’s No Hope For Haiti? Shed a tear for Haiti, which is a strong contend...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/08/2024

Can Black Women Be Trusted With Power? No. They Hate Blondes Too Much.

Last week I posted CBS/ Catherine Herridge Scandal Raises Crucial Question: Can Black Women Be Trusted With Power? In the first instance this discussed the curious action of the new CBS News President,...
By Steve Sailer on 03/08/2024

NYT: How Did Christopher Nolan Get Away With Making "Oppenheimer" About "Powerful and Privileged Men?"

From the New York Times news section: The Oscars Now Have D.E.I. Rules, but Some Say It’s Just a Performance How “Oppenheimer,” a movie about the men who developed the atomic bomb, met the new stan...
By James Fulford on 03/08/2024

Katie Britt’s SOTU Response Attacks Biden On Border, Fentanyl, Sex Trafficking, And Laken Riley—But Doesn’t Use The Word Immigrant

Katie Britt is the young—for a Senator—woman who gave the response to the Biden’s  SOTU literally from her kitchen table, because in addition to being the junior Republican Senator from Alabama, she’s ...
By Former Agent on 03/08/2024

Biden's SOTU: ”How Many Of The Thousands Of People Are Being Killed By Legals?”

I didn’t watch the State of the Union address and I cannot say I regret it. From what I gather, the Border Patrol Union was correct when it predicted Biden would blame Trump for everything. Attack, att...
By Steve Sailer on 03/07/2024

Biden Racial Equity Policies Succeeding: ”Minorities In The Federal Workforce Increase And Whites Decrease”

    September 2020 September 2021 September 2022 September 2023 % Change Employment% Black Employees 397,587 398,560 397,896 416,517 4.76% 18.44% Asian 137,980 142,274 146,017 153,594 11.32% 6.8...
By Paul Kersey on 03/07/2024

2024 Miami Beach Cancels Spring Break To Avoid Black Shootings

Earlier: Will The NAACP Travel Advisory Keep Black Spring Breakers From Rioting In Florida? Did you ever wonder why Jim Crow existed? Did you ever wonder why Sundown Towns existed? Well, in 2024 Miam...
By Steve Sailer on 03/07/2024

Crime And Punishment: What’s The Matter With Louisiana?

Earlier (2021) Murder Rates: What’s The Matter With Louisiana? Not surprisingly, after the huge increase in murders and more general chaos during the George Floyd racial reckoning, various localities...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/07/2024

The Lesson Of WHITE RURAL RAGE: They Hate Us. They Will Always Hate Us.

On Sunday Paul Kersey in WHITE RURAL RAGE: THE THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY—Another Piece Of Anti-White Hate from Our Elite really said all that needs to be said about this vicious piece of ethnic inci...
By Steve Sailer on 03/06/2024

Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu): ”We Must Dismantle Violence Against Black Women”

Of course, most murdered black women are murdered by black men. For example, an old study of 2000 data by the Violence Policy Institute found: Ninety-five percent (575 out of 603) of the homicides o...
By John Derbyshire on 03/06/2024

Radio Derb Transcript Up For March 1: American Law—All Too Alterable, Geopolitics 2024, Un-PC MARY POPPINS, And Where To Put The Gazans?, Etc.

The Radio Derb Transcript is up for March 1, 2024. Go here to read or listen. 03:16  America’s law problem. (Criminal Division.) 09:15  The law favors squatters.  (Civil Division.) 15:03  All too alter...
By Steve Sailer on 03/06/2024

Sailer In TakiMag: The Blame Game And Affirmative Action

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine: The Blame Game Steve SailerMarch 06, 2024 One of the stranger aspects of the long-running American affirmative action debate is that both supporters and criti...
By Steve Sailer on 03/06/2024

How Do Liberals Justify Affirmative Action?

From iSteve commenter jb: … how I think liberal affirmative action supporters actually justify AA in their own heads (as opposed to the lazy “it must be because they hate white people” thinking I s...
By Steve Sailer on 03/06/2024

Sailer: Thinking About Senate Candidate Steve Garvey’s Baseball Career For 53 Years

How good a baseball player was first baseman Steve Garvey, who will face Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff in the runoff for a California seat in the U.S. Senate? I’ve been thinking about Garvey’s baseball...
By Steve Sailer on 03/06/2024

The Social Construction Of Left-Handedness: Hockey Vs. Baseball

Handedness in sports offers an interesting example of both nature and nurture. Which hand you throw with seems to be quite innate. On the other hand, how you swing a stick two-handed seems influenced...
By Anne Wilson Smith on 03/06/2024

Charlottesville: Thomas Rousseau Released On Bond In “Extraordinarily Weak“ Marching With Torch Case

Earlier, by Charlottesville Survivor: Charlottesville 2017 Protestor Thomas Rousseau’s Arrest Shows U.S. Has Hostile Occupation Government—Not A Government Of Laws On February 23, 2024, Thomas Rousseau...
By James Fulford on 03/05/2024

Far-Left, Pro-Criminal Judge Pooja Vaddadi Slammed By Seattle City Attorney Is “First-Generation Indian-American“

The Post Millennial reports:  The Seattle City Attorney has issued an Affidavit of Prejudice in an attempt to preclude a radical judge from hearing any criminal cases brought by the office. On Friday...
By Steve Sailer on 03/04/2024

The Era Of Small Data—Governments Hiding The Bad News About Immigration

We are supposed to be living in an era of Big Data, but there are strong trends toward institutions restricting data as researchers come up with inconvenient findings. For example, Tory MP Neil O’Bri...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/04/2024

Affirmative Action Hero Edward Blum Challenges Minority Occupation Regime At The Smithsonian.

The great modern hero of the Affirmative Action Wars, Edward Blum, has struck again. In June last year Blum managed to corner the Supreme Court and extract the constitutionally inevitable ruling they h...
By Steve Sailer on 03/04/2024

Ross Douthat Mentions “Anti-Whiteness“ In The NEW YORK TIMES

From iSteve commenter jb: OT, but I noticed that Ross Douthat’s most recent op-ed uses the term “anti-whiteness”, and I suddenly wondered how often that term had appeared in the New York Times. It ...
By Former Agent on 03/04/2024

Immigration Headlines [6 ITEMS!] Lara Logan, MSM "Errors," Dueling Surveys, And Chicago Homeless Vs. Venezuelan Illegals, Etc.

Immigration headlines from around the web: Lara Logan on Illegal Immigration In this video, Lara Logan describes the rolo of NGOs as proxies for the government. Interestingly, she claims that even be...
By Paul Kersey on 03/03/2024

WHITE RURAL RAGE: THE THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY—Another Piece Of Anti-White Hate from Our Elite

Every individual in a position of power/authority within the private or public sector has one job: to ensure that implicit whiteness doesn’t become explicit. That’s it. Possibly The Most Overtly Rac...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/03/2024

Queens Landlord Enriched By Biden Immivasion—Neighborhood Destroyed

Here is a classic demonstration that the Biden Immivasion can benefit the owners of capital, while degrading the living standards of ordinary Americans. More than 70 migrants found living in Queens ba...
By Steve Sailer on 03/03/2024

Has Any Supporter Of Affirmative Action Admitted Why It's Necessary?

Earlier: JOHN DERBYSHIRE: “Nobody Wants An 0.76 Percent Black Harvard. The Oceans Would Boil, The Earth Would Crash Into The Sun.” From the Daily Mail: Controversial Cambridge University fellow spa...
By Steve Sailer on 03/02/2024

Majority Deport: Canada's Pre-Crime Hate Speech Law

Earlier: Lethal Black Social Media Beefs: Why Aren’t Social Media Companies Pressured To Do Something About All The Incitements To Murder On Their Platforms? From the Toronto Globe & Mail: Just...
By Steve Sailer on 03/02/2024

”Humorism” Slams Tim Dillon As White Nationalist For Quoting Steve Sailer

From Humorism, a website that treats humor ideologically: Tim Dillon Goes Full-Blown White NationalistSeth Simons Feb 5, 202414 min “If Jesus were to come back, he would even say, ‘Enough with the re...
By Steve Sailer on 03/02/2024

Flight From White In The Chicago Police Department

From WGN TV in Chicago: Chicago officer sues city over inability to change ethnicity in personal files: Court docs by: Neshmia Malik Posted: Feb 28, 2024 / 05:52 PM CST CHICAGO — A Chicago Police o...
By Steve Sailer on 03/02/2024

Is The Fertility Decline Due To Lack Of Experience With Big Families?

As a rare Baby Boomer only child, I can recall my deplorable status leading to more Christmas presents being much commented upon in the 1960s: Personally, I thought being an only child was fine. [Com...
By James Fulford on 03/01/2024

Laken Riley, Venezuelan Rapists, Per Capita Crime Rates, And Hispanic "Identities"

A woman named Laken Riley was apparently killed by a Venezuelan illegal named Jose Antonio Ibarra in Athens, GA, while she was out jogging, like Iowa’s Mollie Tibbetts in 2018. The assumption is that h...
By Patrick Cleburne on 03/01/2024

UK’s DAILY MAIL Carries Fine, Cogent Trump Op-Ed On Biden’s Immivasion Betrayal. But Why Not NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, Or WASHINGTON POST?

America’s Newspaper of Political Record—the UK’s Daily Mail—has posted a first-class op-ed by Donald Trump: ’Joe Biden created this illegal migrant invasion—and only I can stop it’: As BOTH 2024 frontr...