Archive for February, 2009

It was last year that immigration expansionist would go on and on about how America needs to bering in a million or two foreigner workers every year to fill the jobs Americans won’t do. It was an absurd argument then and it’s been a completely absurd argument since the first time it was made. While [...]

In the article Broken Homes in the winter issue of Left-leaning Massachusetts think-tank MassINC’s magazine CommonWealth, Michael Jonas attempts to describe the effect of sub-prime lending on urban neighborhoods. The article jumps off with the familiar story of a person who probably should not have received a huge mortgage loan but did anyway. The woman [...]

Maura Banta, a manager at IBM and also chairwoman of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, argues in an op-ed the Boston Globe for the incorporation of so-called “21st Century skills” in “the K-12 curriculum in Massachusetts.” I think at least part of her argument is that high-school diplomas should have an economic [...]

The Boston Fed, the entity that set off the chain of events that just about destroyed the world’s financial system, has a new idea on how to distort the real-estate market: If you can’t make your mortgage payments on your figuratively under-water home because of “income disruptions” Uncle Sam will make them for you! One [...]

Police suspect members of something called Global Intifada of having set fires in several grocery stores in Sweden that sell U.S. products (I can’t imagine there being many stores that don’t). Time for President Barack Obama to go Swedish television and display his usual rhetorical brilliance. You know, “We can no longer let <things the [...]

A few days ago I watched No Reservations and it struck me that it is quite a bit better than critics would have made you believe when it was released in 2007. A couple of days after watching No reservations I saw Definitely, Maybe. While I by and large enjoyed No Reservations I found Definitely, [...]

Popular social networking site FaceBook offers advertisers the ability to geo target ads. How accurate is the site’s geo-targeting? I think it’s reasonable to say that it is opaqueishly somewhatish accurate. Let’s have a look at the population and the number of active FaceBook users in Boston and a surrounding group of cities and towns [...]