Archive for January, 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]