Countries that have significant minorities of whites or East Asians (Chinese, Koreans, Japanese), mixed with non-whites and non-East Asians, often resort to anti-white and anti-East Asian laws to seek advantages for the majority populations. A kind of affirmative action on steroids is put in place once the majority figures out that they can use race-based [...]

On a trip overseas a few months ago, in a conversion with a co-worker traveling with me, we both agreed that we couldn’t wait to get home and have some American food. My co-worker said that he was going to go out and have Mexican food with his family. That made perfect sense to me. [...]

I wrote here about the ridiculous case of a 17 year old black kid, Genarlow Wilson, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having oral sex with a 15 year old. For all the false grievances that black activists claimed about the Jena 6, six black kids who were briefly charged with attempted [...]

I am in South Korea this week. I really like this country. But as I noted before, the people here work too hard:
And someone said the real go-getters work 8-10. Now that’s the life!
Part of this, in the same post, I attributed to them playing a relentless game of economic catch-up:
The nation’s per capita [...]

I was at a resort in Pennsylvania this month attending my niece’s wedding. I noticed that some of the staff in the restaurant at the serving stations seemed to have noticeably low IQs (in my judgment). They were polite and nice and did their jobs adequately, so there were no issues with me. It is [...]

Socialized medicine rocks, well, sort of. And who said that socialism thwarts individual initiative?
Some English people have resorted to pulling out their own teeth because they cannot find — or cannot afford — a dentist, a major study has revealed.
Six percent of those questioned in a survey of 5,000 patients admitted they had resorted to [...]

For cities wanting to deal with the explosion of illegal immigrants moving to their communities, Irving, Texas, near where I live, shows the way to do it without even needing any new ordinances:
Irving’s Heritage District, City Hall and police headquarters are getting a lot of national face time these days. All for a federal program [...]

Not much in the news about this, but the fence along the southern border is quietly being built:
SAN LUIS, Ariz. — The federal government’s border fencing effort has accelerated rapidly in recent weeks with barriers rising in towns from California to New Mexico and workers completing the longest stretch of continuous fencing on the U.S.-Mexico [...]

In England, some are not quite buying that Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, is all true. A judge finds nine errors in the film.
Meanwhile, Gore may win the Nobel Peace Prize for his crusade to slow global warming. Oh brother, spare me.
But since he invented the internet, I suppose he deserves some kind of [...]

To help figure out which candidates are most aligned with your views and opinions, answer the 11 questions at this link. The site will rank candidates from the closest fit to the least close fit.
My least close fit was the Democratic candidate named Mike Gravel. This seems about right. I heard him interviewed [...]

Putin is determined to hang on to power, one way or another. He now reveals the outline of his plan:
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin appears to have solved a riddle that has puzzled Kremlin watchers and investors alike: how will Putin keep power without office?
Putin’s answer seems to be: stay in office — but [...]