October 7, 2005

More Republican scandals

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With Karl Rove scheduled for a fourth round of testimony in the Valerie Plame outing, Larry Franklin pleading guilty to three felony counts,...

Levitt complains he's not getting enough love from the NYT

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On his Freakonomics.com blog, Steven D. Levitt complains about a New York Times article entitled " New York's Falling Crime Rate ...

Michelle Wie goes pro at age 15

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Just before her 16th birthday, Hawaiian golfer Michelle Wie declares herself a pro and signs about $10 million in endorsement contracts. ...

"Attorney Bob Loblaw" - Repeat three times quickly

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Best character name of the year is Scott Baio's lawyer on Arrested Development , "Bob Loblaw." Saying "Attorney Bob Lobl...
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October 6, 2005

Slate.com implies blacks are morons

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" Hey, Moron, Uncle Sam Wants You! " is the charming teaser link Slate.com h...

Nobel Foundation shows more backbone than Larry Summers

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You may have noticed that, even in the wake of the Larry Summers brouhaha, all 8 winners of the three Nobel Prizes in the hard sciences th...

The NYT finally reveals a big truth about school testing

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"One Secret to Better Test Scores: Make State Reading Tests Easier" By MICHAEL WINERIP PARENTS are delighted ...

Answer to the Flagpole Question

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A. "Sergeant, erect that flagpole." In other words, if the sergeant knows how to do it, then there'...

A great military officer qualification test question

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Although Malcolm Gladwell claims in his latest New Yorker article that the Marines aren't much interested in whom they select to be a...
October 5, 2005

Milestone?

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iSteve.com's SiteMeter says the daily average of unique visits is now up over 5,000, with page views daily at 8,295. (Most observers bel...

Words of wisdom from James Q. Wilson on crime rates and race

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With all the nonsense being spouted about race and crime since New Orleans, it's worth turning to America's leading expert on crime,...

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Crime statistics: Government agencies are normally ultra-enthusiastic about breaking out Hispanics as a separate demographic category ... e...

Nicholas Wade of the NYT

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Perhaps the single most important figure in the United States in the spread of realism about human genetic biodiversity is the New York Time...

Don't they have fact-checkers at The New Yorker anymore?

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Remember how in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, the hapless narrator (known only as "you" in that second person, pr...

Steve Sailer: Anti-Whiteist?

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" Sailing Off Course, Part I " is a long attack by J.B. Cash of CasteFootball.us on my writings on sports ...
October 4, 2005

Saletan's suburb

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Slate's national correspondent William Saletan has denounced both Bill Bennett and myself in an article entitled " Natural Unborn...

Slate says blacks are dumber than average!

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This is almost too good to be true! Just hours after Slate published William Saletan's incredibly strained condemnation of Bill Bennett...
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Saletan's Hypocrisy

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In his Slate article " Natural Unborn Killers: The bigotry of Bill Bennett's low expectations ," William Saletan enunciates...