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Imagine if in 1960 (at the height of the Cold War) the USSR had proposed to build a massive “cultural center” somewhere in America where commies could hang out and conspire. It never would have happened.
But when the project represents Islam, the true nature of being a totalitarian ideology bent on world domination is disguised by the protected category of religion. Therefore, an enemy installation called a mosque generally gets little opposition.
Thanks to reader-researcher RC for this one.
For once, I think The Five’s resident liberal Bob Beckel has it right about something: Red China is a big threat, and it’s wrong to envision its recent hacking activities as distance espionage only: Chinese are the largest cohort of international students and some stay around and work in defense industries, like
In Australia, the assimilation of ultra-diverse immigrants does not appear to be going well, as reported by a popular news series, Today Tonight. In one segment, the show observed a Brisbane neighborhood that has the new name of “Little Africa” where homegrown Aussies don’t feel welcome in many immigrant businesses.
From NumbersUSA.
[A tip ‘o the hat to Glaivester.]
We've had mostly bad news or no news on Rush Limbaugh's immigration coverage, but today, according to a friend who listens to talk radio, he's paying attention:
Limbaugh was talking about immigration in the last half hour of his program.
A new, self-published book
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S. Adelson: I bought it all!
The disgusting and American-despising Michael Bloomberg owns Bloomberg News and it is totally top-down edited, hence Adelson and Boehner Help House Republicans Raise $5.1 Million By Gregory Giroux May 21, 2013 deserves very serious attention.
A political donation of $32,400 may seem like couch change for Sheldon Adelson, the casino executive with a $27.9 billion net worth who gave tens of millions of dollars to Republicans during the 2012 election.
The message arrives promptly:
Two committees linked to House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio transferred more than $1.2 million to the NRCC last month.
Where did these outfits linked to John Boehner get this kind of
A nightmare haunted those unlucky enough to find themselves behind the Iron Curtain which the Soviet Union clanged down across Europe following WWII. The nightmare was awakening to find a circle of hard-faced men around the bed—the secret police come to whisk them away in the middle of the night.
After Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher defeated the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union, some imagined that freedom was safe. I suspect few imagined that in a future Britain:
Yesterday’s Boston Herald reports that Ed Markey, the Democratic nominee in the special election to replace John Kerry in the Senate has locked up the Hispanic vote, despite the fact that the Republicans have nominated token Hispanic Gabriel Gomez. [Leaders: Gabriel Gomez doesn’t<a href="http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/05/leaders_gab
Rosemary Jenks: The Senate Immigration Bill: All Promises, No Improvement shar.es/ZLHJy via @breitbartnews
By CHRISTOPHER M. LAPINIG
Filipinos with American fathers should have a path to U.S.
H/T One Old Vet
Everyone who has contact with young people is aware of heartrending stories of despairing unemployed or underemployed young graduates (except apparently Professor Joel Kotkin). Even the Wall Street Journal has paid appropriately blinkered attention as I noted in WSJ Big Foot Deplores Youth Unemployment, Evades Immigration, Amnesty Aspect.
The situation is made much worse by the student loan issue (which by some throwback to the Middle Ages Congress has made unexpungeable by bankruptcy). The webzine ZeroHedge has been highlighting this, taking the view it is headed to being the next mortgage crisis.
Almost a year ago we shared a calculation according to
Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution ponders:
Do low wages for unskilled workers weaken the case for more immigration?by Tyler Cowen on May 26, 2013 at 12:36 pm in Economics | Permalink
Here's an editorial about the immense scandal involving Ranbaxy Laboratories, the Indian maker of many generic drugs, from Live Mint. This is an Indian business journal that I've quoted in the past about how the preliminary PISA tests in a few Indians states show that India has enormous work to do to improve its terrible schools.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been kind to Ranbaxy, too kind. The $500 million fine that the company has to pay is actually fairly light sentence for what it has done to the generics business out of India. The rapidly growing industry is now under a cloud. The first consequences of Ranbaxy’s actions are already being felt with the FDA issuing an alert banning import of products made at another pharma exporter Wockhardt’s plant in Aurangabad. It could be just the first of many more strictures against India’s generics companies.
Ranbaxy’s is no ordinary misdemeanour. The US department of justice said the company had “pleaded guilty today to felony charges relating to the manufacture of certain adulterated drugs”. Felony is a serious criminal charge.
An exciting weekend here at Derb Manor: I have been invited to a dinner next month with Prof. Yitang Zhang, who just recently cracked the Bounded Gaps Conjecture (BGC), a long-standing topic in Number Theory.
Mrs Derb was also invited; but a minute or so into my explanation of the BGC she suddenly remembered she has another engagement that evening.
Here is a very brief account of the BGC.
H/T One Old Vet
The Reuters news agency may be owned by a faceless Conglomerate nowadays but it retains much of the curious British concept that gave rise to the Westminster parliamentary process and the American political system – that political action should stem from evaluation of the relative merits of argument rather than the application of force, the method preferred by the American MSM.
So Will immigration reform get killed in Republican-led House? By Thomas Ferraro May 25, 2013 actually quotes Amnesty opponents and gives space to their arguments!!!
The problem: House Republicans are far from convinced by arguments from party leaders that passage of the bill would help Republicans draw support from Hispanic voters. Many also believe any kind of amnesty for the estimated 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally is just plain wrong.
"There is no evidence to support this idea that Republicans will pick up a lot of votes
