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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
January 6, 2010
Chicago Considering Scrapping Police Tests
From the Chicago Sun-Times (thanks to the readers who sent this in):
Police may scrap entrance exam
'OPEN UP THE PROCESS' | Union chief: It's 'too stupid to be true'BY FRAN SPIELMAN AND FRANK MAIN, Staff Reporters
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White House Honors Ayers-Admiring Radical Educator
President Obama will recognize Project Exploration, an organization working to insert ethnic minorities into science education, with a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring during a White House ceremony today. Project Exploration co-founder and Executive Director Gabrielle Lyon served as a Fellow with the $outhern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project.
The President of Guatemala
One issue for the Los Angeles Police Department is getting accurate racial identifications from witnesses.
Suspicious Job Ad
For years I have covered job ads that have the appearance of excluding American workers. This one by Susan Russo & Associates on Monster definitely qualifies.
Parisification
The New York Times has an article about how African-Americans now make up only 34% of the population of Harlem (i.e., northern Manhattan).
In 2005, Jonathan Tilove pointed out that the number of American-born blacks in New York City has been falling since 1979. By the middle of the last decade there were 36% more black women than black men alive in New York city.
A California Reader Says That A Simple Letter Eliminates All Problems Related To Visa Issuance
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Congo Mom Morphs "Vacation" into $1 Million Taxpayer Debit
This article of medical do-goodery run amok is the kind of thing that can cause throbbing Excedrin headaches among taxpayers. It's bad enough that we are forced to pay for healthcare for illegal aliens, but the way the system is structured invites fraud using tourism.
[Costly case raises issues of immigration, health care, Washington Post, January 5, 2010]