Archive for 2004

The other day I mentioned the difficulties that stores at the west end of the Beacon Street block at the St Mary Street T-stop face. There are of course other such retail cold spots. One is the northwest corner of the Comm. Ave. / Mass. Ave. intersection. Mothers, don’t let your children open up shop [...]

After a Hmong massacred six white hunters in Wisconsin, literally hundreds of news articles in the Mainstream Media has declared the Hmongs a prosperous a community, well-integrated with mainstream America. A report from the US Census Bureau published last Wednesday destroys that silly myth. In fact, it makes it clear that Hmongs put the diversity [...]

Here’s the reality that the Wall Street Journal’s editorial writers and other Open Border Lobbyists won’t accept: At first, the Bilingual/Multicultural Education Department didn’t seem like a good fit for Patricia Jurado. As a student at California State University, Sacramento, she knew she wanted to be a teacher. And for many bilingual Latinas like her, [...]

My wife secured two tickets to the New England Patriots game against the occasionally breathing Cincinnati Bengals, her old hometown team. We’d been to Foxboro Stadium a couple of times, but this was our first trip to Gillette Stadium. Very impressive building. Top-notch all around. Well, Bob Kraft didn’t personally thank me for coming to [...]

The new grocery Johnnie’s Fresh Market, which recently replaced a defunct healthy-food store, is quite appealing, with a nice range of products and competitive prices (gallon of milk: $2.99). The store is located just west of popular liquor store The Wine Press at 1024 Beacon Street, which unfortunately marks the beginning of Retail Death Row [...]

The Palladium Item in Richmond, Indiana, writes about two Guardsmen just back from the peace-keeping mission in Bosnia in southeastern Europe. One of the Guardsmen is ready to quit after two overseas missions, the other wants to stay on for an expected deployment in Afghanistan. But while Atwell is planning to get out of the [...]

Basketlag i gängbråk efter match Flicklagsmatchen mellan KFUM Central och Akropol urartade och slutade med gatuslagsmål på Valhallavägen i Stockholm. Flera förbipasserande larmade polisen som ryckte ut med fem patruller. När de kom dit hade Akropols spelare redan flytt. Kvar på gatan låg en medvetslös 14-årig flicka från KFUM. Hennes kamrater berättade att hon blivit [...]

Arieh O’Sullivan argues in Jerusalem Post that the Second Intifada has been broken and terrorist activity has returned to pre-September 2000 level (I know nothing about this O’Sullivan person and nothing about his track record as an analyst): The Aksa Intifada is over. No one in the IDF would be foolish enough to make such [...]

According to the US Census Bureau’s Poulation Clock, America will soon have a population of 295 million. In 1980, it was 227 million. The growth has been driven primarily by immigration and high birth rates among immigrants. The Bureau projects a population of 364 million by 2030, and 420 million by 2050. You may want [...]

President George W. Bush’s pick for Secretary of the Homeland Security Department, the competent Bernard Kerik, blew up when Kerik had to withdraw after questions arose regarding the immigration status of his former housekeeper and nanny, according to Fox News. In a statement Kerik presented the most weasly defense imaginable regarding the housekeeper/nanny: “It has [...]