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10 Mar 09

To execute or not: A question of cost? - Crime & courts

  • "It's 10 times more expensive to kill them than to keep them alive," though most Americans believe the opposite, said Donald McCartin, a former California jurist known as "The Hanging Judge of Orange County" for sending nine men to death row.
04 Mar 09

New U.Va. Study Sheds Light on Foreclosures in States and Metropolitan Areas

  • Their analysis shows that most foreclosures have been concentrated in California, Florida, Nevada, Arizona and a modest number of metropolitan counties in other states. In fact, they claim that "66 percent of potential housing value losses in 2008 and subsequent years may be in California, with another 21 percent in Florida, Nevada and Arizona, for a total of 87 percent of national declines."

Fannie and Freddie Likely to Stay in U.S. Hands - NYTimes.com

We are going to be a lot more socialist.

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  • Despite assurances that the takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be temporary, the giant mortgage companies will most likely never fully return to private hands, lawmakers and company executives are beginning to quietly acknowledge.
21 Feb 09

Higher learning: More middle-schoolers leapfrog into advanced classes -- but are minorities being left behind? -- OrlandoSentinel.com

  • But the nation's foremost scholars in middle-school education are worried the fast-growing trend is leaving minority children behind. They also question whether the practice is legal because, nationwide, it has tended to result in students being segregated by race.
19 Feb 09

Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence? - Middle East Quarterly

  • While Muslim advocacy organizations argue that honor killings are a misnomer stigmatizing Muslims for what is simply domestic violence, a problem that has nothing to do with religion, Phyllis Chesler, who just completed a study of more than 50 instances of North American honor killings, says the evidence suggest otherwise.

FOXNews.com - Muslim Television Channel Founder Charged With Beheading His Wife - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

  • Muzzammil Hassan, who founded Bridges TV in November 2004 to counter anti-Islam stereotypes, surrendered to police Thursday. Hassan touted the network as the "first-ever full-time home for American Muslims," according to a press release.
02 Feb 09

VDARE.com: 02/01/09 - The Minority Mortgage Meltdown (contd.): How The Community Reinvestment Act Fits In

Steve Sailer explains how the Community Reinvestment Act let insane banks get larger while preventing wise banks from growing.

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  • One major way: by buying other banks. And to do that, you have to pass through the CRA gauntlet. If you aren’t willing to lend to people the government wanted you to lend to, then you were out of luck at mergers and acquisitions game.

James Q. Wilson: The power of his written word - Los Angeles Times

  • And yet Wilson's abiding intellectual pursuits — morality, the family and crime, to name just three — have helped shape modern Los Angeles, both through his influence on its recent leaders and through his enormous contributions to political science.
30 Jan 09

Study: Learning Science Facts Doesn't Boost Science Reasoning

  • COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A study of college freshmen in the United States and in China found that Chinese students know more science facts than their American counterparts -- but both groups are nearly identical when it comes to their ability to do scientific reasoning.
23 Jan 09

The Hispanic Challenge

  • The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Latinos have not assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture, forming instead their own political and linguistic enclaves—from Los Angeles to Miami—and rejecting the Anglo-Protestant values that built the American dream. The United States ignores this challenge at its peril.
02 Jan 09

Op-Ed Contributors - Transitions - Should the Obama Generation Drop Out? - NYTimes.com

  • For most of the nation’s youths, making the bachelor’s degree a job qualification means demanding a credential that is beyond their reach. It is a truth that politicians and educators cannot bring themselves to say out loud: A large majority of young people do not have the intellectual ability to do genuine college-level work.
29 Dec 08

VDARE.com: 12/28/08 - Sailer’s Next Big Idea: Immigration Brings "Diversity Deduction"—Not A "Diversity Dividend"

Steve Sailer is causing trouble again. Of course, he's right far more often than he is wrong.

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  • But in fact, as we’ve since seen, there is no “Diversity Dividend”. The law of financial gravity wasn’t suspended in California.

    The real—and quite frightening—question: is there a "Diversity Deduction"?
23 Dec 08

VDARE.com: 12/21/08 - Malcolm in a Muddle: Or, How Gladwell Gladhands The Cultural Establishment

  • Bottom line: Malcolm Gladwell has made a huge amount of money in this decade telling people what they want to hear.
04 Dec 08

Representative Government, by John Stuart Mill (chapter16)

  • Free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities. Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of representative government, cannot exist.
02 Dec 08

Civil rights complaint targets Wall Street rating firms - Los Angeles Times

  • In what is apparently the first legal action of its kind, an association of community-based organizations has filed a federal civil rights complaint against two of the three largest Wall Street rating firms, charging that their inflated ratings on subprime mortgage bonds disproportionately caused financial harm to African American and Latino home buyers across the country.
29 Nov 08

George F. Will - George F. Will on Bipartisan 'Socialism' - washingtonpost.com

  • Either markets allocate resources, or government -- meaning politics -- allocates them. Now that distrust of markets is high, Americans are supposed to believe that the institution they trust least -- Congress -- will pony up $1 trillion and then passively recede, never putting its 10 thumbs, like a manic Jack Horner, into the pie?
28 Nov 08

The Evidence Gap - A Big Hypertension Study, and Its Minimal Impact - Series - NYTimes.com

  • Dr. Sean Tunis, a former chief medical officer for Medicare, remains an advocate for comparative-effectiveness studies. But, as Allhat showed, “they are hard to do, expensive to do and provoke a lot of political pushback,” said Dr. Tunis, who now runs the nonprofit Center for Medical Technology Policy, which tries to arrange such trials.
21 Nov 08

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- A Checklist Of Obama's Many Promises

  • So as a public service, we've put together a handy checklist of some of the biggest Obama promises — culled from his "Blueprint for Change," his campaign speeches and advertisements.
19 Nov 08

Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font

  • Thanks in part to funding from benefactors such as billionaire George Soros, the Center for American Progress has become in just five years an intellectual wellspring for Democratic policy proposals, including many that are shaping the agenda of the new Obama administration.
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