November 16, 2009

Handshakes, Bows, And The Pacific President

From the Powerline Blog:

"President Obama declared in Tokyo that he is "America's first Pacific president." He thus displayed, simultaneously, his Obama-centric view of the world and his ignorance of American history and geography.

Republic Of Ireland Paying "Non-EU" Immigrants To Go Home

The Irish Government has a plan to help deal with the recession:

Irish government to pay immigrants to go home

Recession-crippled Republic offers cash to non-EU nationals who agree to leave country

Henry McDonald, The Observer, Sunday November 15, 2009

David Frum Says The Immigration Issue Has "Almost Disappeared"--We Say It's Been Disappeared, By Republicans Like David Frum

David Frum wrote recently that

"Whatever happened to immigration?

Republican House leader John Boehner says we are living through a political “rebellion” on the Right. Yet the issue that most excited conservatives just 18 months ago has almost disappeared.

Immigration went unmentioned in the governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey. Doug Hoffman’s Palin-backed candidacy tiptoed around the subject—even at one point appearing to endorse guest-worker programs.

Sarah Palin Book Tour

The global media empire that is Kathy Shaidle has more on Sarah Palin at   Examiner.com:Sarah Palin talks to Rush, Oprah on book tour. And if you're going to buy the book,

Panhandling Grinds On

More fund-raising ...

I wanted to thank everybody who has contributed so far (and guilt-trip everbody who hasn't).

There are, at the moment, three ways to give me money.

James J. Lee's review of Nisbett's "Intelligence and How to Get It"

Is now up in a gated version of Personality and Individual Differences. Here is the beginning and the end:

Peyton Manning v. Tom Brady

Let's continue kibbitzing in the argument between Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell over Gladwell's contention that "In fact, Berri and Simmons found no connection between where a quarterback was taken in the draft—that is, how highly he was rated on the basis of his college performance—and how well he played in the pros."

Is America a Serious Nation?