"What’s interesting is the way that the theory of natural selection (which was originally put forward to explain how mechanistic laws could govern a universe that so powerfully appears to be ordered and purposive)"

Natural selection has nothing to do with "the universe" and has nothing to do with cosmology.

Interesting bit from john Derbyshire this week:

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that in the year ending July last, 50.4 percent of births in the U.S.A. were black, Hispanic, Asian, or mixed-race. So our youngest population cohort is now majority-minority. The oldest one, the 40 million of us who are 65 or older, is 80 percent non-Hispanic white. Cycle the clock a couple of decades, and you'll have a still-mostly-white older population being taxed to educate mostly-nonwhite schoolchildren, then a mostly-nonwhite workforce being taxed to support a mostly-white population of retired geezers. What could possibly go wrong?

http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/RadioDerb/2012-05-18.html

I was thinking of Robert Putnam's research showing what to me seems pretty intuitive: diverse communities are the ones with the lowest social capital and lowest levels of social trust, and highest levels of alienation and selfishness.  Democrats do use "diversity policy" to sow discord and division, but racial diversity does much the same thing even without them adding to it.

We can't heal now, no matter what we do. Nothing destroys a community like too much racial diversity, and now the die is cast.

I thought those pics of Obama campaigning were photoshops from The Onion when I first glanced at them.

This reminds me of a story about my favorite film director:  when the writer Michael Herr called up his old friend Stanley Kubrick and asked him how he was doing, Kubrick replied with "I'm still fooling them, somehow."

According to Ed Morrisey at HotAir, the crosstabs for that poll are D/R/I 33/36/31. That's just an awful sample that really understates the Democrat's strength. That kind of thing is why I just can't take Rasmussen seriously.

The Washington Post has now corrected the story, but without even acknowledging that they made a correction.

When we're done here, ya'll be wearing gold-plated diapers.

At the very least, the fear among conservatives that Romney will be "another McCain" should have been alleviated over the last few weeks.  He plainly does intend to fight.

Because he couldnt possibly win. Indeed, we may lose this year specifically because of him.

Republicans must point out (and they will have to do it in an extremely subtle way) how Asian-Americans are hurt by affirmative action programs that help blacks and latinos.

Mandy, Candy and Brandy are off the streets and back in gainful employment.

There is no evidence whatsoever that Hispanics are any kind of swing vote, no matter what we do. What we need is more of the white vote.

Well, the big problem is that Latinos don't vote that much. White people are where its at for the GOP, and what you want is a larger share of their vote. And they are apt to be turned off by another round of Dream Act debate.

If we do this, the standards for "going to college" had better be damned high. Actually graduating. with a degree in a useful subject, etc.