Welmer

The fundamental difference between the Democratic and Republican parties lies in the demographics of their constituencies. Where the Republican base is homogeneous, the Democrats’ is diverse. Republicans are overwhelmingly white and working to upper-middle-class. Some Republicans are very rich, to be sure, but only a tiny minority. Quite a few Asian Americans are Republicans, but [...]

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I recently read Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s Story of Race and Inheritance, Steve Sailer’s analysis of Obama’s autobiographical “Dreams from my Father,” and I found it to be a great exposé of the character of the candidate. Because I can relate closely to several key aspects of his early life, I am quite interested in [...]

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A reader sent me an article pointing out that sex-chromosome chimerism has been found to be quite common in sheep. The estimated rate of sex-chromosome chimerism in sheep is over 4%, but I suspect it would be found to be somewhat higher with more extensive tissue testing. This is relevant to the Chimera Hypothesis due [...]

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