January 9, 2010

Put Not Your Trust In MSM Princes! Dobbs And O'Reilly Endorse Amnesty

H/T RC who sent me this startling You Tube clip of Lou Dobbs and Bill O'Reilly piously sweeping their skirts away from any possibility of stain by patriotic immigration reform movement. It ran January 7. There's a good discussion by Glenn Spencer of American Patrol here.

Colby Cosh: "I love you, Mindy Jones"

Several commenters have wondered plaintively why so many women like the kind of Bad Boy who would never comment at high-brow blogs.

BBC: Human sacrifice on increase in Uganda

Remember that Atlantic cover story, Did Christianity Cause the Crash? Well, it looks like you can have the Gospel of Prosperity without the Gospel.

From the BBC:

Witch-doctors reveal extent of child sacrifice in Uganda

By Tim Whewell
BBC News, Uganda

National Data | December's Job Decline Hits Everyone, But Displacement Trend Intact

Discouraging and depressing are not inappropriate descriptors of December's jobs data, just released. Employment slipped by 85,000 in December as employers let people go in what for many is the busiest month of the year. Unemployment held at 10.0 percent, mainly because more than 600,000 workers left the labor force entirely rather than look for jobs. (The unemployment rolls do not include individuals who are too discouraged to look for work.) In parallel, the Household Survey found a 589,000 job loss.