Where the Ducks Are—Why Can't McCain Court Reagan Democrats Instead Of La
Raza?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

The successor to Barry's Senate seat apparently believes that ducks come
from Mexico and speak Spanish. For in July alone, John McCain made three
separate appearances before Hispanic groups.

Last week, he spoke to La Raza (The Race), where rival Barack Obama said,
"The Latino community holds the election in its hands."

McCain would appear to agree. But are he and the GOP letting go of the
bird in the hand to grab two in the bush, which may not even be there?

Consider. Though Hispanics are 14.5 percent of the U.S. population, they
will likely constitute only 7 percent to 8 percent of the electorate in
2008.

Why? A vast share are illegal or recent immigrants who cannot vote.
Hispanic citizens also register and vote in low percentages. And they are
concentrated in New York, Illinois and California, which are out of reach
for McCain, and Texas, where McCain will win handily.

The Housing Recession: Political Correctness Makes Lenders Stupid

By Steve Sailer

dubious home loans, as exemplified by this month's failure of
Pasadena-based mortgage lender IndyMac and the Treasury Department's plan
for a taxpayer bailout of the privately-owned but "government sponsored"
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Savers are increasingly finding the value of
their assets inflated away as the Federal Reserve Board devalues the
dollar to spread around the suffering from bad loans.

Traditionally, markets work by balancing greed and fear. Why was greed
allowed to outrun fear so badly this time?

One clue comes from looking at the places with the sharpest decline in
home prices, such as California, South Florida, Arizona, and Nevada. For
example, the median price of homes sold in California last month was
$328,000, down 31.5 percent from a ridiculous $484,000 in June 2007.
Almost 42 percent of all homes sold in California were in foreclosure.

Why did the housing bubble get out of control in many heavily Hispanic
regions?

Because many important people wanted it to.

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America First
by Charley Reese

It's too bad he wasn't also the last.

Politicians and celebrities with an urge to see poverty only need to visit
the Mississippi Delta or some of the neighborhoods in American cities. If
they yearn for more exotic poverty, all they have to do is visit the
Indian reservations that do not have casinos. Any disease they are hot to
trot to cure can be found right here in the good old U.S.A.

Depressed economic conditions? We have them. Crumbling infrastructure? We
have that, too. Hunger? Yes, that too. Inflation and weak currency?
Present right here. Corruption? Our politicians can hold their own in that
dubious category. Orphans? There are plenty of those, too. There is simply
no need to travel. Any bad or sad thing you wish to see you can see here
in the U.S.

NFL IQs: The Picture

scribe Paul Zimmerman of Sports Illustrated on the average Wonderlic IQ
test scores by position of draft prospects (which I'd published in VDARE
in 2003) and plots it with offense in blue, defense in red, and the radius
of the circle proportional to the scores.

You can convert them to IQs assuming that 21 correct answers = 100 and add
or subtract 2 IQ points for each answer above or below 21. So, quarterbacks
averaged 24 right for a 106 IQ. Tailbacks averaged 16 for a 90.

Don't get too excited about minor differences between positions: I've seen
other listings of averages by position and they differed slightly. But the
overall pattern was the same.

Marginal Revolution explains the graph as "The closer you are to the ball,
the higher your score."

Okay, but why is that?

A reductionist theory of humor

Lots of theories have been constructed to answer this question, but most
haven't been terribly successful because we laugh at so many different
things. (Here's a New York Review of Books essay on some of them.) So,
let
me try out a two-stage theory, which I haven't actually tested yet
against
all the different kinds of humor, but it may be promising:

Stage One: Let's start out with a negative but useful definition of
humor:
it's not serious.

The more something seems serious but is not serious, the funnier it is.

King Lear topples rigidly to the ground -- uh-oh, that's serious. Buster
Keaton topples rigidly to the ground -- oh, good, that's not serious,
ha-ha.

A young husband and wife get into an argument over who, exactly, is the
father of her unborn child. Generally speaking, that's not funny. It's
serious.

How's the vacation going? Getting relaxed, catching up on your rest, and
enjoying life to the max?

The Ten Commandments of Race and Genetics. Not.

the growth of bioethics in American colleges. I seem to remember a few
years ago reading about the setting up of special “bioethics”
departments. MR touched upon the issue here.

Hardly surprisingly, our take on it then was that the liberal-left and
Jewish ethno-centric reactionaries were instituting a strategy to control
any damage that genetic science could do to the lovingly-constructed lie
of “Race Does Not Exist (and if it does, It Does Not Matter)”.

Ten days ago Stanford University came forward with a portentous set of
“Ten Commandments” on race and genetics. The Stanford Group of, yes,
ten not overly Jewish hard and soft science folk issued it in the form of
a letter. There have been many responses to it, but not much that I’ve
seen from the radical end of the market. So I thought I would pitch in.

The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using
racial categories in human genetics

Statement 1: We believe that there is no scientific basis for any
claim that the pattern of human genetic variation supports hierarchically
organized categories of race and ethnicity
The equality...

On Jul 21, 9:50 pm, "ScottW" hotmail.com> wrote:

What about Mary Mapes? That would make two.

Anyone else see Dr. Horrible?

Stephen