Archive for May, 2006

Boston Herald‘s Margery Eagan has a pretty good, if nothing special, column today that jumps off on that infamous nail-salon fight last week (I guess it was really more of an assault than a fight) where an English-speaking customer lashed out at a Spanish speaking one. Here’s Ms. Eagan’s closing sentence: “If you’re going to [...]

I’m not much of a fan of the Boston Dirt Dogs and their “we so krazy!” spiel, but the Missus likes them. Or at least used to like them, back in the days, when the site was frequently and quickly updated, as opposed to now, when it seems to be running on super slow motion. [...]

Every year my wife buys me the New England Patriots day-by-day calendar with facts and trivia about my favorite National Football League team. This past week was a good one: May 18: Q: Against which team did Adam Vinatieri kick 5 field goals in a game in 2004? A: Buffalo. May 19 Through 2004, Adam [...]

Robert Kuttner is one of few progressives who grasp that immigration does most natives little good, and that worker-importation programs, like the ones just passed in the Senate, which will dramatically increase immigration, hold down compensation for workers. In a Boston Globe op-ed, Kuttner writes: AMERICA has a nursing shortage, so Republican Senator Sam Brownback [...]

The Senate says Hasta la Vista, Yanquis.

Bruce at mAss Backwards spots an immigration scam that he predicted last week. What comes as no surprise to me is that one of the six indicted is a man of the Church. I also don’t find it surprising that the alleged scam took advantage of the Catholic Social Services amnesty program (yes, that’s right: [...]

John at conservative blog Powerline can’t understand why so many people are down on the economy when economic growth in America is high by international and historical standards. Let me toss out a few explanations for the widespread pessimism: 1) Energy prices. The three bucks a gallon doesn’t inspire much happiness in most customers, especially [...]

I refuse to believe that the National Football League has contacted Jeb Bush and asked if he’s interested in replacing retiring Paul Tagliabue as league commissioner. It didn’t happen. Bush is imagining things.

Believe it or not but there’s a crisis in Puerto Rico. The American island-protectorate’s legislature has allowed spending to run away in such a manner that it… well, I don’t really know, but it’s apparently real bad. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has collected a bunch of priceless comments from area Puerto Ricans. Here’s my [...]

The federal Incompetence Express chugs along at a steady pace. The depressing debacle de jour is the alleged theft of names, social security numbers and other personal data of 26 million veterans from a “VA employee’s suburban Maryland home.” How an employee could leave the office with the data is unfathomable. Why an employee would [...]