March 31, 2009

Latest Forbes Billionaire List Includes Nine Mexicans (One of Whom is a Drug Cartel Chief)

By Allan Wall on March 31, 2009 at 7:48pm

Forbes has come out with its latest list of billionaires.

The 2009 list includes nine Mexican billionaires.

Santa Clara Familicide Was Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome--If You Read The Indian Press

By James Fulford on March 31, 2009 at 2:46pm

A reader writes:

The recent Rivermark (Santa Clara) family murder suicide involved Indian
nationals. Ethnic details only available in foreign sources. See here:Indian in US Kills Six Relatives, Self

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Policeman And Dog Face Down (Hispanic?) Mob Of 60

By James Fulford on March 31, 2009 at 12:57pm

This story from Modesto doesn't use the expression "Hispanic mob" because that would be wrong:

Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009
Officer, dog square off against Modesto mob of 60
By Leslie Albrecht
lalbrecht@modbee.com
Modesto Bee
A Modesto police officer had to pull his gun to keep a hostile crowd at bay early Sunday.

"Adventureland"

By Steve Sailer on March 31, 2009 at 11:17am

Here's the opening of my review from The American Conservative of the film opening this Friday:

Mid-20th Century American writers competed on their dust flaps to list the most jobs held. The more proletarian occupations an author enumerated, such as short order cook, hod carrier, and lobsterman, the more legitimate was his assault on the Great American Novel.

Picture Worth A Thousand Statistics

By James Fulford on March 31, 2009 at 9:27am

Here's the picture that accompanies Senator Jim Webb's Parade article Why We Must Fix Our Prisons, [March 29, 2009] mentioned by Randall Burns, below.

Inmates at a facility in California, a state that spent almost $10 billion on corrections last year.

Prison and the National Question

By Randall Burns on March 31, 2009 at 1:04am

Sen. Jim Webb writes in Parade:

In 1984, Japan had a population half the size of ours and was incarcerating 40,000 sentenced offenders, compared with 580,000 in the United States. As shocking as that disparity was, the difference between the countries now is even more astounding--and profoundly disturbing. Since then, Japan's prison population has not quite doubled to 71,000, while ours has quadrupled to 2.3 million.[Why We Must Fix Our Prisons, March 29, 2009]