June 30, 2008

Mexican-Olympian Americans

They're resented by both underachieving Mexican athletes, and patriotic Americans--athletes who live in the US, and have US birthright citizenship, but compete for Mexico in the Olympic Games:

Tomato-Picker Brain Surgeon Now Featured on Reality TV

I wrote about this doctor in May: Brilliant Neurosurgeon Discovered in Tomato Fields! Dr. Quinones was an illegal alien who managed to work America's diversity-obsessed education system to become a surgeon.

Spinning Cannon

The defeat of amnesty enthusiast Chris Cannon by Jason Chaffetz in the Republican primary in Utah's 3rd District   has been a blow to the pro-immigration right.

David Wasserman, the U.S. House editor for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, dismissed labels calling this a bellwether race. He said there are unique circumstances with this race and that anti-incumbent, anti-Washington sentiment didn't spell Cannon's defeat.

I'm Not Making This Up

Here's an editorial from the Dallas Morning News that I swear I'm not making up:

Editorial: So much vibrancy to build on

The trick is getting diverse groups to building [sic] a community together

The Wars of Religion Return

Slavery, Immigration, And The Press--Update

Over a year ago, I did a post about an Indo-American couple, immigrants to the United States, who were keeping their two Indonesian maids in horrible conditions of slavery and torturing them. One of the more memorable details, via Fox News: