Archive for January, 2006

SOTU

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

President George W. Bush says our economy can’t function without immigrants. The President’s conclusion is that we need more immigration. He also says that America is addicted to oil. His conclusion is that we need less oil. The President’s guestworker proposal, his way of fixing the economy’s alleged inability to function without immigrants, a plan [...]

The Boston Globe’s circulation numbers are too good to be true on Wikipedia

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Amerika.Nu is a mostly Swedish-language sister site of Internet128.com, an older-sister site, actually, that I have neglected for a good long time because, well, I’ve grown bored with Swedes and their rabid, ignorant, and unreasonable anti-Americanism (I have it on good authority that a high ranking Labor Department official had no idea that there’s such [...]

Revealing clash over new citizenship test

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

The Boston Globe‘s excellent immigration reporter Yvonne Abraham provides a terrific primer on the vapidity of pro-immigrationism in an article on the planned new citizenship test that aims to check whether immigrants actually grasp anything about American values. Here are some quotes from the article: ”If you’ve vetted them already to give them a green [...]

Nutso activists War on the Good Life

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Radley Balko comments on the brewing War on Coffee. Being a good Lutheran, I’m of course open to all arguments for restraint and moderation. Being a good Swede, I’m not at all open to attacks on coffee, the Beverage That God Made For Us To Enjoy At Will. And this even though I stopped drinking [...]

The Commonwealth is right to keep state school funding short

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

The Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts is no longer going to pick whatever cost overruns local officials manage to come up with for building new schools. According to the article, the State picks up an average of 72% of the tab, a system that probably begs towns and cities to spend like sailors on shore [...]

One more look at the population numbers for Boston and Springfield

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

A couple of days ago I noted that the Boston Globe misstated Springfield’s estimated population by using a figure from the American Community Survey rather than the U.S. Census Bureau population estimate. The following day, I pointed out that Boston’s population declined significantly (to 569,000 in 2004 from 589,000 in 2000), while Springfield’s was practically [...]

Boston’s population loss worse than Springfield’s

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

I noted yesterday that Springfield’s population has declined by some 5,000 people over the last 15 years, not 13,000 as the Boston Globe wrote (based on a small misunderstanding). However, since 2000, when the last actual population count was undertaken, Springfield’s population has remained more or less flat, according to Census Bureau estimates. During those [...]

The Boston Globe mixes up Springfield population numbers

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Things are dire in de-industrialized Springfield, Massachusetts, as the Boston Globe’s Stephanie Ebbert reports today. The city is once again running out of cash. However, the city’s population loss isn’t quite as dramatic as Ms. Ebbert has it: Between the 1990 Census and the 2004 Census update, Springfield’s population declined from 157,000 to an estimated [...]

Maybe the blog wars will end, the Herald willing

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Boston Herald scribe Jay Fitzgerald doesn’t take kindly to snark, but his employer does. (As I’ve noted before, the Todd Gross cult is an entertaining spectacle, but for chrissake, the man’s trying to make a living! Cut him some bleeping slack, will ya, you wenches of vitriol. I agree with the above indirectly linked-to Johnny [...]

Mile high heartbreak

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

The New England Patriots had a great game plan, great play calling and a defense that played great. But those parts didn’t add up to victory as the offense and special teams broke down at highly inopportune moments, and Denver Broncos walked off the field with a 27 – 13 triumph in the AFC divisonal [...]