July 10, 2008

Prince William County Improvements Observed

By Brenda Walker on July 10, 2008 at 10:08pm

Golly, I can't believe the Washington Post described newly departed Mexicans in such rude terms...

The family that planted corn in the front yard of their $500,000 home is gone from Carrie Oliver's street. So are the neighbors who drilled holes into the trees to string up a hammock.

Prince William County Gets Tough

By Randall Burns on July 10, 2008 at 10:07pm

Nick Miroff writes in the Washington Post:

Since the day one year ago when Prince William County supervisors launched their crackdown on illegal immigration, the gulf between the Olivers' relief and Gonzalez's dejection has narrowed little, and possibly widened.

Vindication For Samuel Huntington

By Matthew Richer on July 10, 2008 at 8:10pm

Foud Ajami, a Middle East scholar at Johns Hopkins, had long been a vocal critic of Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations, which argued that the basis of future global conflict would not be ideological or economic, but cultural.

Voter Fraud In Alabama

By James Fulford on July 10, 2008 at 1:46pm

When I saw the headline "Voter Fraud In Alabama?" on the Volokh Conspiracy, I wondered if they in fact had enough Hispanics and other illegal immigrants in Alabama to commit voter fraud.

In fact, it's African-Americans who are alleged to have done so:

Noose Nonsense

By James Fulford on July 10, 2008 at 11:22am

Via Ohgizmo, I see that you canÂ buy a tie with a picture of a rope on it, (it's actally a picture of a rope, not a hangman's noose) that's meant to symbolize how many people feel about wearing a necktie. Aha, I thought, won't that be...insensitive? Well, the first commenter on the Ogizmo post said:

Obama's Spanish Lesson

By Marcus Epstein on July 10, 2008 at 10:03am

At a campaign event in Georgia, Barack Obama responded to a question about bilingualism,

You know, I don't understand when people are going around worrying about, "We need to have English- only." They want to pass a law, "We want English-only."

Ann Coulter, Christopher Hitchens, and Brent Bozell On Jesse Helms

By James Fulford on July 10, 2008 at 12:51am

Ann Coulter has a memorial to Helms in her column:

Last Friday, on the Fourth of July, the great patriot Jesse Helms passed away. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson also went to their great reward on Independence Day, so this is further proof of God.