Archive for January, 2005

Philly’s first pick of the season came late in the fourth quarter in the Eagles second game, against Minnesota. Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper was intercepted by Ike Reese on 2nd and 2 from Minnesota’s 32 yard line, with 33 seconds left in the game, Eagles ahead 27-16.
Philadelphia did not get another pick until game six, [...]

It is quite delightful to read the New York Post these days. As sports columnist Steve Serby points out, it could have been Jets versus Giants, but instead it’s Philadelphia Eagles against New England Patriots. “Enemy Bowl,” as the Post’s headline writers put it. Serby sighs:
So this week, a week that will seem like [...]

Cuban-born legal resident Zoila Meyer has resigned from the Adelanto, CA, city council after a probe revealed she is not a US citizen. She was brought from Cuba to the United States by her parents as a small child, but she was, for whatever reason, never naturalized.
An investigation by the San Bernardino County district [...]

As reported here before, Malaysia will unleash a nation-wide crackdown on illegal immigration on February 1, using police, immigration officers, and paramilitary bounty hunters to round up the suspected hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in the country.
For tea stall helper Abdul Rauf Chinanaina — a 19-year-old Tamil Muslim from the tsunami devastated coastal settlement [...]

I ambled down to the Kenmore Square T-stop at 9.30 this morning. I noticed an unusually large gathering of commuters on the inbound platform, not really a large number of commuters, per se, just more than you would expect at that time of the day. The thing with the Green Line is that you never [...]

The Boston Globe has a pretty exhaustive article about the Metro, um, scandal?, yes scandal, I suppose. Anyway, Christopher Rowland and Charles M. Sennott do a good job of describing the company culture that led up to Metro executive Steve Nylund’s n-joke. As I suggested in my previous post about l’affaire Metro, it was a [...]

Remember this claptrap about Annandale in Fairfax County, Virginia, the magically wonderful super-diverse school? Here’s a little dose of what one could call reality:
Three posters from the movie “Scarface,” the 1983 classic starring Al Pacino, decorate the walls of Tony Campos’s bedroom. A few model cars made by the 14-year-old are proudly displayed on a [...]

It was widely believed that Armstrong Williams wasn’t the only conservative columnist on the Bush administration’s payroll. It now appears that Maggie Gallagher, frequent contributor to National Review, also was on the take. Drudge has it that Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz is publishing the scoop tomorrow.

A state senator in Arkansas has proposed legislation that would tie government benefits to citizenship. Excellent move. I hope his proposal gets the broad support it deserves.

…she would eradicate MS-13 and all other gangs that depend heavily on vast populations of illegal aliens. But since she is a hack and since our otherwise competent mayor Tom Menino is determined to leave no New Bostonian unwelcomed - regardless of whether they are here legally or not - MS-13 machete artists and other [...]