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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
December 11, 2009
"How Hanukkah Came to the White House"
Tonight, as Hannukah candles are lit, we post a piece by Tom Piatak on whether Hanukkah is a deep-structure effort to upstage Christmas.
How Hanukkah Came to the White House: Now and Then, an interesting December 2 piece in the Forward by Jonathan D. Sarna, coincidentally documents the (much denied) decline of Christmas:
San Francisco Mexicans Perform Christmas Victimhood Fable
In the sanctuary city of San Franciso, illegal aliens feel especially free to compare their lawbreaking behavior to that of the holy family, which if not blasphemous is certainly arrogant. Specifically, Mexicans use their traditional posadas procession (now expanded into a play), which re-enacts Joseph and Mary unsuccessfully searching for an inn, as a way to whine childishly about American law and borders.
Reviews of Books I Didn't Read: SuperFreakonomics
I've been skimming a few books at the book store. Here's one:
Subprime: The Sequel
From today's LA Times, more Tarantinoesque events in LA's expensive suburbs:
The Movie Quentin Tarantino Was Born To Make
When life turns into a Quentin Tarantino movie, it's time for Quentin Tarantino to make a movie about a life.
I know that Tarantino hates making movies about anything other than other movies, but this Orange County Lebanese car salesman with a 3rd grade education turned subprime lender turned Hollywood producer was probably never living in the real world. He likely saw his whole life as straight out of Starsky & Hutch.
Why Obama insulted Norway
Probably it served the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee right that after their ludicrous award of their prize to President Obama he should come fresh from his escalation in Afghanistan and make an insulting Might is Right/Invade the World speech in acceptance.
A CA Environmentalist Notes That NY Times Has Redefined Illegal Aliens As "Citizens In Waiting"
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