Kathy Shaidle was making a slightly different point but it also applies to why blacks and Mexicans are unlikely to ever vote Republican in large numbers:

Conservative talk a lot about taxes. But nearly half of Americans don’t pay income tax anyhow.

When a conservative hears the phrase “income tax”, he thinks: “tax“.

When an Obama voter hears the phrase “income tax,” he thinks: “income.”

Because poor people plan their lives (to the extent you can call it planning) around their income tax returns, which they spend on hair weaves, fake nails, tire rims and other essentials.

But effective communication will involve a lot of pain. Careerist hacks don’t want to make factual observations related to class behaviours. Even if voters embrace them — and millions of grateful voters would — the media would crucify them.

Another thing we need is more visual input, in the spirit of Robert Stacy McCain’s Rule 5. For example, when I wrote

One part of American Apparel’s appeal is their advertising, featuring pictures of young women in, and half out of, their products. This is disapproved of by feminists but approved of by red-blooded American men.

I should have included a picture. For example, I don’t know if the young lady pictured at right has green card or not, but it she does, I don’t see where she could carry it.

For example, instead of Steve Sailer’s excellent blog on Walter Kirn’s  NYT article endorsing racial preferences for minorities like  the ones affecting New Haven’s Frank Ricci, we could have pared it down to this paragraph:

“Kirn might be a little personally biased about the Ricci white firefighter case, since, judging by Jezebel’s brusque summary of Maggie McGuane’s 2007 article in Vogue about how her boyfriend’s son is enlisting in the military, his ex-wife may have cuckolded him with a white firefighter.”

Although there are still pockets of injustice in America, such as those blue collar families in the New Haven area who keep minorities down by encouraging and instructing their own sons in the study of how best to rescue people from burning buildings, it’s heart-warming to see that a complete outsider like Emily Bazelon can become the MainStream Media’s all-purpose Supreme Court oracle, despite her suffering from such unfair hindrances as being a woman, a relative of best-selling feminist Betty Friedan, the granddaughter of the most powerful non-Supreme Court judge in America during her childhood (David Bazelon), having some kind of wacky Truman Capote Creative Writing fellowship at Yale Law School, and suffering from PCS (Pervasive Cluelessness Syndrome).

In this long interview in the New York Times, Bazelon asks Ginsburg the kind of fearless, hard-hitting questions you’d expect from her, such as:

Q: Can I bring up the Ricci case, brought by the New Haven firefighters?

In her unintentionally revealing way, though, Bazelon does allow us to get an eye-opening view of Judge Ginsburg’s judicial philosophy, which, to summarize the interview, would appear to consist primarily of:

Q. Who?
A. Women!
Q. Whom?
A. Men!

We already know that freedom of speech in not a value of Islam, and further that its followers often engage in intimidation to shut up dissenting voices. In Britain, three Muslims were sentenced to prison for firebombing an editor’s house, whose company was publishing a novel (The Jewel of Medina) based on the life of one of Mohammad’s wives.

A fanatic who once paraded his baby in an ‘I love al-Quaeda’ hat was today jailed for firebombing the home of the publisher of a novel about Mohammed.

Ali Beheshti, 41, a follower of hate cleric Abu Hamza, poured diesel through the letterbox of the £2.5million house and set it alight to ‘punish’ owner Martin Rynja.

The attack came weeks before Mr Rynja’s publishing company was due to release The Jewel of Medina, a fictional account of the Prophet’s child bride. ['If you choose to live in this country, you live by its rules', says judge as she jails Muslim extremists for arson attack on publisher's home July 8, 2009 ]]