July 1, 2008

Richwine Tells Krikorian: The Problem is "Them"

This afternoon, the American Enterprise Institute held a panel [video and audio will be up later] on Mark Krikorian’s latest book The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegalimage

Rasmussen: The Media Doesn't Get Immigration

The media doesn't understand how Americans think about illegal immigration,  says Rasmussen Reports, and this may be linked to why the government seems not to get it either.

Following the lead of the United States Senate, most media coverage of the immigration debate misses the point.

Cheap Gasoline Was A Social Lubricant

In 1968, when my late father-in-law, a classical musician, had to sell his two-flat on the West Side of Chicago because his children were suddenly getting mugged on the sidewalk, getting only a fraction of what it had been worth two years before he moved 63 miles out of town, but commuted daily to the Lyric Opera House downtown. Why not? Gas was $0.29 per gallon.