March 9, 2006

New Field Poll: Most Californians Says Illegal Immigrants Hurt The State

How many times have you participated in an annoying field poll telephone call and you only hear the last part of the question?

That's probably because they only seem to call when you have dinner on the stove, somebody knocking on the door and children following you around with 247 different school forms that need to be signed by tomorrow morning--under those circumstances you would say "uh-huh, sure I do" to just about anything to get off the phone!

The headline in the San Francisco Chronicle was this:

FIELD POLL [3/09/06]

Read Almost The Whole Thing

One of the Instacliches of blogging is "Read the Whole Thing." In the case of veteran economics pundit Robert J. Samuelson's new Washington Post column on immigration, however, that's a worthy statement (except for maybe the weak last paragraph):

Mexico Addresses Machismo -- Sort of

The famous piggyman behavior of the Mexican male has been met with disapproval by the big brains in Mexico City, who have decided that something must be done to lessen the everyday harassment that half of women workers suffer ["Sex dolls fight Mexican machismo"].

A Reader Crunches Census Bureau Data to Get to the Bottom of the Fiancée Visa Quandary

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A Reader Asks What All the Fuss Is About; He Says Illegal Aliens Don't Need Any Help

From: Brendan Gordon