October 31, 2009

Day Of The Dead/Halloween/All Souls/All Saints

This is a typically triumphalist "Day of The Dead" story.

H-1B Visa Fraud Makes for a Different Type of Cemetery Plot

An immigration attorney named Kelly Einstein Darwin Giles and two others were arrested on suspicion of selling dozens of fake H-1B visas for $6,000 to $50,000.

Are Liberals Or Conservatives Smarter?

Jason Richwine considers the evidence.

Daniel Dravot On Nation-Building In Afghanistan

From my September 26, 2001 essay on John Huston's movie The Man Who Would Be King, which was based on the Kipling short story.

Yet, if a war in Afghanistan does prove winnable, which it should, ought the U.S. to undertake a long-term benevolent occupation to attempt to turn that desolate land into a peaceful "normal country?" Huston's movie offers a skeptical perspective.

Jury Sentences Lemaricus Davidson to Death in Second Knoxville Horror Murder Trial

This afternoon, a Knox County (Tennessee) jury sentenced Lemaricus Davidson, now 28, to death for kidnapping, torturing, and murdering Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom, 23, on January 7, 2007.