September 14, 2009

"J.T. Marlon" And The SPLC

The top story in today's Washington Post:

Immigration Overhaul Supporters Ratchet Up Rhetoric
By Spencer S. Hsu

In a sharp change of rhetoric by liberal supporters of an immigration overhaul, advocates Monday called a main opposition group a "hate group" based on its founder's ties to white supremacists and interest in racist ideas, such as eugenics. ...

Video: Hidden Cameras On The Arizona Border

Good for the Center For Immigration Studies for doing this--but why can't the Border Patrol do it?

"In The Future..."

Instapundit:

THE AFL-CIO STEPS IN IT: “A union official backed away Friday from an analogy in an e-mail in which he had linked Volkswagen’s Nazi past to the use of Hispanic workers building the automaker’s Chattanooga plant.”

In the future, everyone will be a Nazi for 15 minutes

Little Green Footballs Attacks The Other McCain

Here's how I described the website Little Green Footballs in a column a while back:

"The Recession's Racial Divide"

From the New York Times, a new entry in the sweepstakes to put a politically correct spin on the emerging facts about the mortgage meltdown

The Recession's Racial Divide

Brenda Walker will be on Chuck Wilder 1:34 PT (4:34 ET)

Brenda Walker will be a guest on The Chuck Wilder Show this afternoon at 1:34 PT (4:34 ET) to discuss Obamacare and illegal aliens. The program can be streamed live here.

Intelligence and Conscientiousness

Over recent decades, psychologists have converged on a model of personality sometimes called the Big Five Factors Plus IQ.

People Who Died

Here's a headline in the NYT that's representative of a trend I've been noticing in the obituaries for about 5 years now:

Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead at 60

The ex-rock figures who show up in the obituaries tend to die around age 60.

War On Christmas 2009: Will "Christmas" Be A "Hate Crime"?

In retrospect it's clear that the backlash against the War Against Christmas, entirely grass-roots and spontaneous, was a precursor of this year's Tea Parties and Town Hall uprisings, stunning the Establishment Left, but almost equally discomforting to Establishment Right, notwithstandi

Globalism vs. Americanism