Archive for February, 2006

Conservative writer John Derbyshire recently had one of his articles spiked by conservative flagship magazine National Review (to which I subscribe, I might add). Some of Derbyshire’s paleo-conservative friends took that as an opportunity to slam the House That Buckley Built, but The Derb himself wants nothing to do with that kind of sentiment. In [...]

I’d like to thank Boston’s police for shutting down as many noisy and rowdy late-night parties as possible. I’m sure the party-goers who get their fun ruined believe their rights have been grievously violated when the men in blue call it quits, but I’m pretty darn grateful for it. Especially since shutting down a party [...]

Speaking of Boston’s emergency evacuation plan and Chinatown, here’s a letter to the editor in Boston’s Chinese/Chinese-American bi-weekly newspaper Sampan: I recently got Mayor Menino’s “Ready Boston” pamphlet informing citizens of Boston about an emergency evacuation. … Although the booklet is printed in English and Spanish and written concisely, I am not impressed because only [...]

The much acclaimed movie Crash isn’t bad, but as I lamented several months ago, it focused way too much on the black-white divide, when the real story is how Los Angeles is turning into a Mexican city. Regardless of what Hollywood likes to celebrate, reality is what it is.

Arizona Republic opinion columnist Linda Valdez pulls one of the usual stunts employed by pro-immigrationist in her February 19 piece headlined “Get Real: Immigrants aren’t our enemies“. In it, she writes: Illegal immigration is about American industry’s addiction to cheap labor. I see and hear this line a lot. It’s an outright lie. America is [...]

Sweden won its second-ever Olympic gold medal in ice hockey today by defeating Nordic rival Finland 3-2. What can I say? Sometimes Goliath wins. Sometimes the underdog is just a dog. Sometimes the only thing upset are the feelings of the losers. The clock has struck midnight and Finderella has to go back home and [...]

When I was a kid back in Sweden I was often told how great a show 60 Minutes is. Swedish journalist and author Jan Guillo repeatedly called it the best news show in the world. When I finally got a chance to watch the show I was quickly turned off by it, its pompous reporters [...]

Local television news is a wasteland of crap, a random pile of shootings, traffic accidents, freaky weather, consumer alerts and medical breakthroughs. I always thought it just came with the territory, that it was an unavoidable part of its own DNA. I was wrong. There is somebody to blame. Actually, there are five people to [...]

The suddenly DIY immigration-law Boston Herald splashed a phony heart-string puller story on its front page today. I’ll let the Hub tabloid give you the story: A high-powered Hingham couple are fighting to free their beloved Belgian nanny from county jail, where she awaits deportation because her visa has expired. That’s the gist of story. [...]

A recent and horrific anti-Semitic crime in France prompts Carpundit to exclaim that “every Jew, everywhere, should have a gun.” That’s probably not a bad idea, but the murder, and all the other craziness that’s going on in France nowadays, aren’t a matter of Gaul anti-Semitism, but the result of careless immigration policies that have [...]