On GoTrackTownUSA, 3 time All-American female distance runner Alexi Pappas writes: ALEXI PAPPAS: WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID By Alexi Pappas / TrackTown USA EUGENE, Ore. – My family stood together in the small waiting room just outside the Oval Office, nervously smiling like a group of kids waiting their turn at the top of a... Read More

A Justice Department press release: Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, August 24, 2015 Justice Department Settles Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim Against Nebraska-Based Meat Packing Company The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement with Nebraska Beef Ltd., a meat packing company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The settlement resolves... Read More

As you'll recall, the 2011 destruction of the internationally recognized Libyan government by United States airpower in effect pulled the plug that had been bottling up 1.1 billion Africans from draining into Europe. Col. Gaddafi had contracted with Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi to limit transit through Libya of sub-Saharan Africans. But the murder-by-sodomy of Col.... Read More

From an interview with Saturday Night Live supremo Lorne Michaels in a New York Times article on SNL's plans for the election:The sad thing is that I doubt if Michaels gets why it's funny that he uses one word ("caution") to describe why Romney is easily spoofable, and 39 words to describe the identical trait... Read More

"Gee willikers, Mr. President, you're really neat!"

From my new column in Taki's Magazine:Read the whole thing there.Are there any celebrities since Broyard who are now known to have passed for career purposes?I'm thinking of "passed

From an interview in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Kelly Candaele of John Heilemann, New York magazine's main political correspondent.JH: I don’t think he doesn’t like people. I know he doesn’t like people. He’s not an extrovert; he’s an introvert. I’ve known the guy since 1988. He’s not someone who has a wide... Read More

From ABC's description of Bob Woodward's upcoming book on the 2011 national debt ceiling negotiations:"Obama doesn't really have the joy of the ga

At the VDARE blog, James Fulford has contrasting videos of Barack Obama and Jesse Jackson reading Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. Jackson's version is great. I didn't make it through Obama's version, but I did like the part at 0:24 when he's stumbling around and Michelle starts clapping, perhaps in the hope that everybody will join... Read More

In the New York Times, veteran White House reporter Jodi Kantor dogwhistles desperately about the President's psyche: Four years ago, Barack Obama seemed as if he might be a deliberate professor of a leader, maybe with a touch of Hawaiian mellowness. He has also turned out to be a voraciously competitive perfectionist. Aides and friends say so... Read More

From a New York Times profile of empty pantsuit / most important Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett:Indeed.I have a question about the code for unsourc

I wanted to highlight another excerpt from my long VDARE review of David Maraniss's biography of the President:The comic books provide a whole mythos in which nobodies have fabulous secret identities: mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent is actua

The question of leadership and Obama's biography, as laboriously compiled by David Maraniss of the Washington Post (see my review here), is a puzzling one. We have a President who had every opportunity to exert leadership as a young man -- everybody who knew him considered a cool dude, he was tall, decent-looking, fairly athletic,... Read More

In VDARE.com, I have a long review of famed biographer David Maraniss's gigantic, obsessively researched book on Barack Obama's early years. It is supposed to be a pro-Obama book, but ...Got that? The future Nobel Peace Prize laureate was among the most respected dudes in the Bong Brothers. Granted, Barry was not the glue

The new revelation that President Obama spent his teen years thoroughly baked is not really that new. As I wrote in VDARE.com in March 2007: My old articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer

The late Robert Fitch, a veteran critic of New York real estate insiders, gave a speech to the Harlem Tenants Association on November 14, 2008 applying his brand of analysis to the history of Obama's rise in Chicago. And in the 1980s, the argument began to be made that the public housing needed to be demolished... Read More

I keep reading about this incident in a Tinley Park, IL restaurant, in which a bunch of leftist white thugs armed with hammers attacked a small group of diners who say they are part of a "European Heritage" organization. But I keep getting distracted by the thought that I've heard of Tinley Park not that... Read More

My old articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer

From the Washington Post:Headlines of upcoming parts of David Maraniss's series: My old articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer

Dave Weigel writes in Slate:"The media have drawn a curtain of admiring incomprehension in front of Obama's own exquisitely written autobiography," wrote the conservative author Steve Sailer in 2009. "Because few have taken the troubl

Pat Casey writes in the comments:I once counted the number of times the word "power" comes up in Dreams from My Father. It was something like 73.I'd add that Obama doesn't particularly like being a politician per se; he likes power, fame, and adulation, but he's not a political animal the way, say, LBJ was.... Read More

While writing my reader's guide to Barack Obama's memoir, I had a moment of doubt. I thought I understood the basic thrust of the guy's life -- the need to define himself as black to acquire political power, because being seen as African-American would be hugely advantageous to the career of a quite white guy... Read More

The force was powerful in 2007-2008 and remains strong today when it comes to race, although it worked best on Obama himself.For example, Jodi Kantor did a Q&A for Reddit to promote her book The Obamas. Here's the funniest line: Of course, nobody except Kantor notices that this is funny.My old articles are archived at iSteve.com... Read More

I've got another column in Taki's Magazine this week, a review of New York Times White House correspondent Jodi Kantor's seemingly perky but actually insidiously subversive book on Barack and Michelle's life together in the White House. Kantor has done some good reporting on Obama over the years. For example, she published a story in the NYT... Read More

Maureen Dowd writes in the NYT about how the Cool Black President she thought we were electing turned out to be less entertaining than she had expected from all those years watching Cool Black Guys on TV:They still believed, as their friend Valerie Jarrett once said, that Obama was “just too talented to do what... Read More