The New York Times reports:
Mr. Mollohan, Democrat of West Virginia, stepped down from the House ethics committee last week over accusations of financial impropriety that stem largely from a complaint the conservative National Legal and Policy Center has filed with the United States attorney in Washington.
The nonprofits at issue are the Vandalia Heritage Foundation, the […]
Archive for April, 2006
Apr28th2006
Apr28th2006
Charles Krauthammer spells it out for us:
Today, every time an Iranian mullah opens his mouth about nukes, the risk premium for Persian Gulf supply interruptions jumps again. Crude oil prices alone account for about $1.70 of what you pay for a gallon at the pump. So 10 years later, I’ll wager again. Here’s what the […]
Apr27th2006
“Asian workers would be aghast at the idea of American consumers boycotting certain toys or clothing in protest. The simplest way to help the poorest Asians would be to buy more from sweatshops, not less….For all the misery they can engender, sweatshops at least offer a precarious escape from the poverty that is the developing […]
Apr26th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and affirmative action. 0 Comments“This is why I think folks who are concerned about diversity in higher education are wrong to focus so much energy on affirmative action in college admissions. 1800 students simply are not enough to make black students more than a small minority at top schools. If you want more black students in college, you need […]
Apr25th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Economics, FreeTrade, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 8 Comments“There is an isomorphism between immigration, outsourcing, and free trade in general. In each case, overall economic efficiency is increased, due to the law of comparative advantage. There are distributional effects, to be sure, but no nation has been able to demonstrate an ability to use trade restrictions of any sort to reduce overall poverty. […]
Apr24th2006
The Double Standards Of Liberal Academia
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia and General. 0 CommentsBen Stein writes in the American Spectator:
As everyone has seen, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government has published a scathing anti-Semitic attack on Israel and its friends in the U.S. — Jews, Evangelicals, anyone who believes the most persecuted minority in history deserves a home. Naturally, this article has drawn criticism for factual errors […]
Apr24th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Academia, Books, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 2 Comments“Facts that go against preconceived notions are likely to be ignored, even by many scholars. For example, slavery is an issue that is widely discussed as if it were something peculiar to Africans enslaved by Europeans, instead of something suffered and inflicted around the world by people of every race, color, and religion. Two books […]
Apr22nd2006
“In the early 1970s when I helped found Greenpeace, I believed that nuclear energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust, as did most of my compatriots. That’s the conviction that inspired Greenpeace’s first voyage up the spectacular rocky northwest coast to protest the testing of U.S. hydrogen bombs in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. Thirty years on, my […]
Apr21st2006
The Other Side To The Immigration Debate
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 29 CommentsAs most of you already know, I am by most standards pro-immigration. I strongly believe that immigration, on net total, is an overall boom to this country, both economically and culturally. I don’t just mean legal immigrants either, I also believe this is the case with illegal immigrants as well (and I also don’t just […]
Apr21st2006
“In this same area, I see demonstrators marching in the illegal immigrant demonstrations carrying Mexican flags. I think they have this right under the Constitution. But it is sickening, literally nauseating. They leave Mexico to work and build a better life here — then they want Mexico to do a conquista of this country and […]
Apr20th2006
Great New Education Blog
Published by in Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Vouchers and Website Info. 8 CommentsJust when you thought HP might actually be slowing down on the blogging, I bring to you a new blog that has as one of its contributing authors yours truly.
Edspresso.com
Edspresso.com is a blog that was created by the Alliance for School Choice, one of the strongest defenders and promoters of what I consider to […]
Apr20th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Abortion, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 1 Comment“I notice that the liberals within the Catholic Church are a big part of the organizing brains and muscle behind the huge illegal immigrant rallies in cities across the U.S. They are arguing that it is unkind and un-Christian to want to arrest people who have entered America illegally. They also fear prosecution if aiders […]
Apr19th2006
“If you’ve been following the big immigration debate, you might get the impression that the primary economic advantage of liberal economic immigration policies is that they supply America with low-wage workers willing to do grueling, unskilled jobs that native-born Americans won’t touch. Not true: They are the source of America’s success. The secret to America’s […]
Apr18th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 0 Comments“The deal came undone because Reid refused to allow the legislation to go through the amendment process. Republicans had come up with as many as 400 amendments but whittled the list to 20. Reid agreed to proceed with debate on just three. It was a masterstroke by Democrats. Labor is happy. And while Latinos are […]
Apr17th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and Unions. 0 Comments“A deal was at hand that would have offered legal status to some illegal immigrants. It would have made the GOP seem more Latino-friendly, but it would also have infuriated organized labor, which opposes something that was in the mix: guest workers. After the Senate Judiciary Committee put out a guest-worker bill, AFL-CIO President John […]
Apr14th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, DeathPenalty, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 2 Comments“Becker mentions the possibility of racial discrimination in execution. Studies done some years ago–I do not know whether they would be descriptive of current practice–revealed the following pattern: murderers of black people were less likely to be executed than murderers of white people. Since blacks were more likely to murder other blacks than to murder […]
