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This particular point is so self-evident it doesn't even require concession. No, the point I hoped you'd concede was that America certainly has not voted for continuing immigration. The current immigration policies were instituted by intellectual and business elites; the American masses, as...

I said the way a nuclear Iran might be a danger to them (or anyone), not that it is or will be. (In your haste to read between the lines, don't forget to read what's on them.)

Do you think, Ricter, that such thinking might be a contributing factor in a crime like this? http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/nyregion/13grant.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

I wasn't suggesting it as a course of action for today. I was simply answering Ricter's charge that there's nothing that can be done. Even you agree it's a psychological block that prevents such measures from being taken today, not an actual, functional impossibility.

What did the survey actually ask? It's just seems odd that the American presence in Iraq would be a danger to Spaniards, Nigerians or Indonesians, in the way that a nuclear Iran might be. If the survey asked if America or Iran is considered a greater danger to Middle East 'stability'...

Hello, Ricter? You're not required to reply to a post contradicting your contention, but I do hope that if you don't you'll have the good manners not to simply mindlessly repeat the same thing the next time the topic pops up, as though I'd never addressed your point.

You have to be really ideologically driven to believe that "al qaeda" (ie militan muslims) aren't stronger and larger today, with many more sympathizers than five years ago. As good as it might have felt to go in and take out the Taliban, we simply have to deal with the proposition that we may...

Actually, anti-racisism activists consider that the proper term, Nik. Apparently, using 'minorities' obscures the fact that, globally, whites themselves are the minority; using 'people of color' supposedly 'empowers' those people.

Hey Ricter, since you were trained as a sociologist, I wonder if you agree with what this Professor Feagin (who is white), sociology prof at Florida Gainesville, who says "[A] black person has to view every white person as 'a potential enemy unless he personally finds out differently.' Black...

Well, I had math there. Did you find that a snap? I'm probably deluding myself, but I'm going to take another shot at finishing that math degree next year. (But I'll probably drop ot again - I guess it's genetic. :))

Haha, none. You're better than me. :) (I've made several starts, in comp sci, econ, math, but have quit for various reasons, none of them good, but never from academic difficulty.)

Well if you were "trained as a sociologist" then it sort of suggests that you might have also worked as a sociologist, or done research as a sociologist or studied sociology at grad level. Simply stating that you majored in it does't carry the same suggestiveness, and we all know that passing...

But there have been consistent majorities agreeing that "there is too much immigration". It's not the people who have decided, it's high-minded intellectual and greedy business elites. It's not a free 'free market', it's an oligopoly. Personally, I'm certain immigration could easily be...

Impressive sounding. Is what you really meant you graduated with a major in Sociology? That's not quite as impressive. [b] Only the 'exceptions' to the genetic position aren't of that magnitude. Really, what 'exceptions' are there to IQ being predictive of academic and...

Do you realize that you're essentially saying "we must have immigration otherwise immigration is going to hurt us"? Illogical. Anyway, I take it you've finally agreed that labor and capital movement aren't different sides of the same coin? That you can one without the other? Now, the...

I said someone with immoderate views could be an ET moderator; not that anyone can hold any position.

But those scientists didn't have the means that today's scientists do. And there was also a long pause in which even looking for 'racial characteristics' became frowned upon (well, it still is, but some are now undettered). Today, the IQ argument seems so powerful that really the only way...

There have, have there? Such as...what? Environment? Socioeconomic status? The same tired old list that prompted researchers to look at inherited traits in the first place? Something else? I'd love to hear it.

But why should it matter if a moderator is immoderate in his views? He either moderates effectively or he doesn't. If you claim he must subscribe to moderate views then you are being PC.

Lol. Are you serious? You're stumped as to why someone might give up ET moderator privileges? Get real. It's hardly giving away a seat on the NYSE.