Archive for 2004

Howard Dean’s former campaign manager Joe Trippi keeps making the rounds as The Man Who Bloggered Politics. For a guy who rode a minor-league candidate to utter defeat, Trippi sure talks a big game. Everytime you see him on TV, or quoted in the papers, re-read this piece by liberal/progressive writer and media critic Dan [...]

I confess to being extremely vengeful when it comes to 9/11, so imagine how I feel about this picture (Via The Corner). Screw Sri Laden, but these guys might still need some help.

The Boston Globe’s Stephanie Ebbert has a brief but informative article about Massachusetts’ dire population situation, the fact that Americans are leaving the state while aliens, both legal and illegal, are pouring in. Last year the population actually decreased slightly, as Americans are leaving even faster than aliens are coming in. It doesn’t take a [...]

San Francisco Examiner interviews Richard Kovacevich, chairman of Wells Fargo. Fargo is one of many companies that benefit from the illegal immigration, partly from money transfers, partly from mortgaging. Q: You have worked to make branch banks more informal and attractive to users. How successful is your strategy at meeting customer needs? A: What we [...]

Harvard University’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston recently released a report called “Boston at the Crossroads” that details the racial and ethnic changes in Greater Boston. As the nominal diversity (i.e. the proportion of non-Whites) increases, so does racial and ethnic consolidation, or segragation, according to the report. The number of whites in Greater Boston [...]

Business Week’s year-end, double-issue special features an investment guide to 2005. One of the articles in the guide, called “How To Seize A Gran Oportunidad” (I thought that’s the name of Mexico’s emigration policy), touches upon investments that might benefit from the rapid Latinofication of America. Among the “opportunities:” The hottest Hispanic-run company in terms [...]

It was pretty easy for white liberals to duck to the tidal wave of black crime in the 1960′s and 1970′s. All they had to do was to move away from the urban lawlessness to suburban tranquility. Today’s crime wave is driven by immigrants who do no confine themselves to inner cities. Latin American immigrant [...]

Merry Christmas and Joy to the World!

GAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!!! HOW COULD THEY? HOW COULD HE? Yes, the New England Patriots devastating loss to the Miami Dolphins has unhinged me worse than probably any moment in sports since the infamous “Mats Waltinov”-play in the early 1980’s (Swedes can understand; Bostonians, just think Bill Buckner on ice). For the love of all things good, how [...]

Dan Kennedy taunts those who speculated that the fire that devastated a development in Maryland was perpetrated by eco-terrorists. He especially picks on Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume for making vauge connections between mainstream enviromental organization Sierra Club and the eco-terrorists in Earth Liberation front. It now seems clear that no terrorist organization of any [...]