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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
October 21, 2009
"No Country Left Behind"
I was looking at the Wilson Center on the Hill website for an immigrant enthusiast event that I planned to make fun of, when I came across this item from June:No Country Left Behind: Bringing the U.S. Up to International Standards. Various academics are worried that the US doesn't do as well in academic performance as other countries. What other countries? Finland, South Korean, and Singapore.
Good News! Government Solves Annual Harvest Worker Shortage.
This is the first autumn in memory when we haven't been deluged with articles about how we're all going to starve because of looming shortages of illegal aliens to pick crops.
Hiding in Plain Sight
From my Wednesday Taki's Magazine column:
Everybody complains about how dumbed-down movies have gotten. Here, for example, are representative quotes from A.O. Scott of the New York Times in “Spoon-Fed Cinema” bemoaning the state of cinema c. 2009: “infantile,” “male immaturity,” and “a program of mass infantilization.”
San Francisco No Sanctuary For Teenage Illegals
This is a good sign:
No sanctuary for supes' immigrant youth law
By Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle
October 21, 2009
(10-20) 21:37 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed legislation requiring that undocumented youth be turned over to federal immigration officials for possible deportation only after they're convicted of a felony - not upon their arrest.
Sri Lankan Immigrant Leads Insider Trading Scam
Timothy Prickett Morgan writes:
According to a report from the Associated Press, six people were arrested today as part of an insider trading case, including Bob Moffat, senior vice president and general manager of IBM's Systems and Technology Group; Rajiv Goel, director of strategic investments at Intel Capital; Anil Kumar, a director at management consultancy McKinsey & Co; and Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of the $7bn Galleon Group hedge fund.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's finances
Here's an article based on the tax returns of F. Scott Fitzgerald from 1919 to 1940.
WaPo: Quarterbacks Gone Wild
From the Washington Post:
The wide-open era
Led by some of the NFL's current greats, quarterback play is as exciting and efficient as ever"There are a lot of quarterbacks playing at a high level, more than I've seen in a long time," former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann said.
If this indeed becomes one of the greatest seasons for quarterbacks, collectively, in league history, the question will be: Why now?
Rep. Giffords' Bill To Triple H-1B Visa Cap
H-1B legislation has been quiet for awhile, but it looks like that is going to change.