July 17, 2009

I'd never thought about it much before, but reading Stephen Hunter's nonfiction book American Gunfight about the two Puerto Rican nationalist terrorists who came close to assassinating Harry Truman in his bedroom in 1950 turned me into a Puerto Rican nationalist.

Seriously, why does America rule a populous Spanish-speaking island in the Caribbean?

Well funded ethnic hucksters continue to batter their heads against the wall of Hispanic culture's traditional aversion to education. (Only 9.6 percent of fourth-generation Mexican-Americans get a post-high-school degree compared with 45.1 percent of all Americans.)

When I wrote below that the hate crimes bill had passed, the issue at the time was could they sleaze it through onto the Defense Authorization Bill, which they did, giving it a clear shot, since Obama isn't going to veto a hate crimes bill on principle, because he doesn't have that kind of principle.

Via American Renaissance, who didn't believe the story about "French youths" for a moment--in the 241 words reproduced below, the only words that even hint that these French youths are black and Arab are the last two, "ethnic minorities." And even at that, they don't actually say that the car-burners are members of minorities themselves--the could theoretically be white French communists.