April 8, 2009

Stunning News: Obama Administration Opposes Equal Treatment Under The Law

David G. Savage reports in the LA Times:

Frank Ricci -- a firefighter in New Haven, Conn. -- spent months listening to study tapes as he drove to work and in the evenings, preparing for a promotional test. It was a once-a-decade chance to move up to a command rank in the fire department.

Ricci earned a top score but no promotion.

Modern Day Slavery And Visa Violators In The <i>LA Weekly</i>

A familiar story in the LA Weekly:

Enslaved in Suburbia: Inside the World of Trafficked Indentured Servants and the Visa Violators Who Care for Our Old
Two women, two fractured American dreams
By Gendy Alimurung
LA Weekly,
February 18, 2009

Update On Korean Retreat Center Shooting--Shooter Was 69 Year-Old Asian, Knocked Unconscious By Victims Who Fought Back

Only one person was killed in the attack, and four wounded, including the alleged attacker, who is supposed to be at least wounded in this situation.

"The Great Black Hope" in Claremont Review of Books

Here's a good article by Barry Latzer in The Claremont Review of Books, which draws upon an argument I made back in my 1999 debate in Slate.com with freakonomist Steve Levitt over the falling crime rate in the 1990s: that one explanation for the sharp decline in black juvenile homicide rates beginning in 1995 was the dawning realization among black youths from watching older

We Don't Need No Steeenking Proposition 209

The AP reports on the declining rates of admission to the University of California:

The low admission rate reflects UC regents' decision in January to reduce freshman enrollment by 2,300 students, or 6 percent. Enrollment will be cut at the Davis, Irvine, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz campuses; remain the same at Berkeley and UCLA; and grow at Merced.

Stuart Anderson Stubs His Toe On C-SPAN

Stuart Anderson [VDARE.COM NOTE: A notorious open borders fanatic, see his review of Alien Nation] appeared on CSPAN. You can see the video here.

Mass Shooting At Korean Retreat Center--MSM Won't Say Who Did It

The most recent shooting suspected to be in the Immigrant Mass Murder category (four shot, only one dead) took place at a retreat in California occupied by Korean nuns and priests. (The Kkottongnae Brothers and Sisters of Jesus.)The investigation is hampered by the fact that almost no one on the scene speaks English.

Tom Wolfe's Lack Of Southern White Guilt

David Denby, the lesser of the two New Yorker movie reviewers, has written a short book entitled Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation.

The book doesn't sound terribly interesting, but part of Michael C. Moynihan's review in Reason caught my eye:

Dr. Norm Matloff In UC Davis Alumni Magazine

Dr. Norm Matloff writes:

I've always been grateful to my university for allowing me to speak freely on the H-1B issue, and even giving me an award for it. The cover story of this month's issue of the UC Davis alumni magazine has the following theme :

Is the FBI Finally Wising Up?

Muslims residing in the San Francisco Bay Area have become miffed at the FBI finally ending its cozy relationship to the reputed terrorist front group, CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations).