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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
May 12, 2009
The Real American Dream
I don't know why people speak so highly of dreams all the time: e.g., the American Dream, "I have a dream," Dreams from My Father, etc.
If my dreams are representative, then the real American Dream is that you're in the classroom for your final exam but you haven't attended a class or opened the book all semester, and for some reason you're wearing your pajamas, and you really have to go to the bathroom.
Obama's Universal Preschool Push
One of the signature fads of the Obama Era is "Universal Preschool." A new book, Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut, by veteran education pundit Chester E. Finn Jr., explains the political sleight of hand involved:
Charles Murray on David Brooks's "The Harlem Miracle"
On the blog of AEI's magazine The American, Charles Murray writes a brief response to David Brooks' "Harlem Miracle" column about the Harlem Children's Zone charter school "eliminating" the white-black gap:
It will be wonderful if the results are as good as they sound, but hold the champagne.
The Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC) gets an "F"
The April/May edition of the American Institute of Philanthropy’s Charity Rating Guide & Watchdog Report has just snailed in.
AIP is an admirable outfit dedicated to the notion that Charities should actually spend most of the money they raise on the cause for which they raise it. Many Charities apparently do not agree.
A Wisconsin Reader Warns American Men Looking For Foreign-Born Brides: Don't Do It!
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05/11/09 - An Iowa Reader Calls Religious Left's Postville Showboating "Disgusting"
From: Eddie Bockman (e-mail him)