February 15, 2009

The Daily News's Dolores Prida: Avoiding A Dialogue With Our Readers, Or Us?

The Daily News's Dolores Prida sent me an e-mail acknowledging her error in her February 11 smear against me, but says it pales in comparison to the “hate speech” VDARE readers sent her.  She asked me how she could have a “dialogue” with my “followers”

Thomas Friedman's Selective Knowledge Of History

Thomas Friedman shows a remarkably selective knowledge of history:

White Collar Homelessness and Immigration

Shannon Moriarity writes at Change.org:

As unemployment becomes worse, community-based organizations are noticing a change in their clientele. Shelters are seeing clients who are more representative of the newly unemployed. Here's what one non-profit, Partnering for Change, reported on their blog just last week:

"Montreal Massacre movie depicts killer as non-bearded non-Muslim for some wacky reason"

Don't see how we can improve on Kathy Shaidle's headline on her Five Feet Of Fury blog item about the new film on the 1989 massacre of 14 female engineering students by, well...

What's Wrong With This Headline?

This story is from Western Canada, where immigration used to mean farmers from the Ukraine and one (1) Chinese restaurant per largish town. Calgary, Alberta is due north of Missoula, Montana:

Calgary's immigrant women face challenges

Updated Sun. Feb. 15 2009 1:13 PM ET

The Canadian Press

I Really Need To Post More Short Items Like This

Really, I'd do more blogging if I could manage to do this:

MEXICO: A Western Somalia?

Tom Friedman Disses Mexicans

Tom Friedman, the Malcolm Gladwell of the New York Times, has a brainstorm in "The Open-Door Bailout:"

RNC Chairman Steele's election: A Matter of Blood - and Money?

We at VDARE.com have long been deeply unimpressed with Michael Barone, whose space consumption in MSM opinion slots is matched by the crushing inaccuracy of his pet forecasts.

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