Steve Sailer: iSteve
May 16, 2009
NYT: "World Ends, Women and Minorities Hit Hardest"
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Evidently, the New York Times just doesn't get New York Times jokes. Here's today's actual NYT headline: "Minorities Hit...
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"My Personal Credit Crisis"
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The New York Times Magazine features a long article, My Personal Credit Crisis , by Edmund L. Andrews about America's least sympathetic...
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May 15, 2009
Are real estate prices declining at the seashore due to global warming?
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In Southern California, the closer somebody's house is to the ocean, the more likely they are to passionately believe that global warmin...
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May 14, 2009
Cousin Marriage v. Democracy
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Here's the opening of an interesting new paper that will be presented at this year's Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting a...
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Italian politics
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A reader who enjoyed my review in The American Conservative of "Il Divo," the complex Italian movie about Giulio Andreotti, seven...
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May 13, 2009
Pew Hispanic Center on minority mortgage meltdown
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In " Through Boom and Bust: Minorities, Immigration, and Homeownership ," The Pew Hispanic Center has run an interesting (but not ...
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May 12, 2009
The Obama Family's Personal Financial Strategy
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A NY Daily News article by Richard Henry Lee looks over the Obama family's tax returns. In brief, the First Family's personal financ...
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An outer space border fence?
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The Bush-Obama Administration has pledged billions of dollars to build a "virtual fence" of sensors on the Mexican border to notif...
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Yeah, But I'm Huge in Finland
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In the 1970s, there was an LA rock band called Sparks who played local clubs and only got on the radio on Rodney Bingenheimer's show on ...
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Alex, Manny, and ... Tiger, too?
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Over at Taki's Mag , I try to figure out why the world's highest paid athlete, Tiger Woods, suddenly developed fairly massive muscle...
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May 11, 2009
Charles Murray on David Brooks's "The Harlem Miracle"
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On the blog of AEI's magazine The American, Charles Murray writes a brief response to David Brooks' "Harlem Miracle" colum...
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The real American Dream
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I don't know why people speak so highly of dreams all the time: e.g., the American Dream, "I have a dream," Dreams from My Fa...
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Obama's Universal Preschool Push
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One of the signature fads of the Obama Era is "Universal Preschool." A new book, Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut , by veteran edu...
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May 10, 2009
Fannie and Freddie: The Government Sponsored Thingamabobs that Are Eating Your Retirement
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Zachary A. Goldfarb reports in the Washington Post: Fannie Loses $23 Billion, Prompting Even Bigger Bailout Fannie Mae reported yesterday ...
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Why not Canada?
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Various economic commentators such as Tyler Cowen are scratching their heads over why the single country most similar to the United States,...
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Obsessive Housing Disorder
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Steve Malanga has a good qualitative history of the failures of the federal government to promote homeownership among marginal families from...
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May 9, 2009
Dept. of Unintended Humor
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The Washington Post announces that the Obama Administration is close to being ready to virtually resume the Bush Administration's ploy ...
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The Spanish Housing Bubble
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Whenever I write about the California-centric origins of our economic crash, I get comments saying to the effect of, "Hey, what about S...
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