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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
November 12, 2009
Braveheart In High Heels? More On DC's Rhee And Imported Teachers
Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, is portrayed in a recent Education Next puff piece as a modern day Braveheart in high heels because of the way she ruthlessly chops the jobs of union teachers.
Affirmative Action Strikes Again
From CNN:
"A second former medical school colleague of Hasan said several people raised concerns about Hasan's overall competence.
Even though Hasan earned his medical degree and residency, some of his fellow students believed Hasan "didn't have the intellect" to be in the program and was not academically rigorous in his coursework.
What's Changed Since Don Draper's Day?
Excerpts from my Taki's Magazine column:
Can I milk another column out of Mad Men?
Why not?
More John Steinbeck--Immigrant Labor In 1959
John Steinbeck took a trip around the country in 1959, and wrote it up in Travels with Charley | In Search Of America , 1960. I put up a quote last night.
The Real Headlines From The NYT's Unreal World
The IowaHawk page Steve Sailer links to below is satire, but Ann Coulter has the real headlines:
President Obama honored the victims by immediately warning Americans not to "jump to conclusions" -- namely, the obvious conclusion that the attack was an act of Islamic terrorism. As conclusions go, it wasn't much of a jump.
Major Hasan Headlines
Iowa Hawk has a round-up of all the Fort Hood headlines. Well worth checking out.
Was Genghis Khan A Dandelion Or An Orchid?
The December 2009 Atlantic contains an article by David Dobbs entitled The Science of Success that tries to take a Greg Cochran-Henry Harpending idea and give it a Malcolm Gladwell-like spin.
Dobbs' article begins:
The Kvetcher: On The Money, again
The Kvetcher (a.k.a. David Kelsey), in his unswerving search for a peaceful life, has posted on Jewcy.com
The Two-Front War
How Together, the American Jewish Left and Right Endanger the U.S. November 10,2009
A Washington D.C. Insider Says Lou Dobbs Left CNN Voluntarily
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11/11/09 - A Louisiana Reader Doubts Immigration Lawyer/ GOP Congressman Cao Has A Political Future