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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
December 20, 2009
Peter Brimelow On The Bill Cunningham Show At 10:30 ET
Peter Brimelow will discuss “The War Against Christmas” Sunday night at 10:30 p.m. ET on the nationally syndicated Bill Cunningham Show. The program can be streamed here.
Muslim Busted for Bacon as London Liar's Lawsuit Loses
In London, a Muslim chef who had sued his employers for forcing him to handle "unclean" pork products was smacked down when he was discovered to be a willing bacon chomper himself.
Unemployed Armenians In Glendale
The photograph below, courtesy of Brenda Walker's post, comes from the LA Times story, California's unemployment rate shrinks - but so does the number of jobs. It's from the Glendale Unemployment Office, and I didn't recognize the characters in the third line.
“I am Not an American, I am a Muslim”
Tina, one of Larry Auster’s readers writes,
"I am a simple school bus driver. Here is a conversation I heard. Last year we had an Iranian girl who loudly proclaimed, when the school was in its Patriotic Songs Celebration ('This Land Is Your Land,' etc.): 'I am not an American, I am a Muslim.'
The Year in Ideas 2009
The New York Times Magazine's December perennial, "The Year in Ideas," had a bit of an off year in 2009. For example:
Black Quarterbacks Are Underpaid
The Harvard-Goldman Filter of Recursive Credentialism
Arnold Kling writes:
My position on breaking up banks generates questions from two groups. Libertarians ask, how can I justify breaking up private sector institutions? Naive liberals ask, why is this policy not embraced by our political leaders?
My answer to both relates to what I call the Harvard-Goldman filter.
A Massachusetts Reader Says Obama's Failure To Fund Border Fence Extension Proves He's Anti-Enforcement
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