June 1, 2009

Sotomayor On Ricci

By Steve Sailer on June 1, 2009 at 11:40pm

The Weekly Standard has a transcript of a WSJ link to oral arguments in 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals hearing of the Ricci case:

Marriage Tribalism Promoted by NPR

By Brenda Walker on June 1, 2009 at 11:03pm

NPR has been accumulating a series of mostly sob stories, Immigrants' Children: A Foot In Two Worlds.

In an earlier America, the actual immigrants were understood to perhaps have remaining ties to the old country, but the kids were expected to become assimilated Americans through their school experience and just living here.

Stupid immigrant versus annoying immigrant (illegal alien?)

By Paul Nachman on June 1, 2009 at 3:34pm

Things were hopping in Aloha, Oregon, a southwest suburb of Portland, on Memorial Day:

For most folks it's not a dilemma. Given a choice between "a day without sunshine" and a day without jail time, most people will skip the orange juice and stay out of jail.

But Raibin Raof Osman isn't most people. The 20-year-old Aloha man had a sleep-over at the Washington County Jail on Memorial Day after calling 9-1-1 to complain that McDonald's left out a box of orange juice from his drive-thru order.

Lindsey Graham, Sotomayor, and Guns

By Patrick Cleburne on June 1, 2009 at 3:19am

In some ways the most deplorable result in the ‘08 election cycle was the achievement by the despicable Lindsey Graham (Scalawag-SC) of a second Senate term.

This was the Lindsey Graham who burbled