“President Bush, like Ronald Reagan before him and innumerable others who are out of favor among liberals, has repeatedly been depicted as such a mental lightweight that he is not in the same league with brilliant guys like Al Gore and John Kerry. The fact is that George W. Bush and John Kerry both went […]
Archive for June, 2006
Jun30th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Books, General and ModernPolitics. 7 CommentsJun29th2006
How Racial Preferences Backfire
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and affirmative action. 6 CommentsStuart Taylor Jr., writing in the Monday, June 19, 2006 National Review, reports on what affirmative action for lawyers results in:
Most — if not all — of the nation’s leading law firms seek to become more diverse by using “very large hiring preferences” for African-Americans and smaller preferences for Hispanics. So most of their newly […]
Jun29th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Minimum Wage. 2 Comments“In truth, there is only one way to regard a minimum wage law: it is compulsory unemployment, period. The law says: it is illegal, and therefore criminal, for anyone to hire anyone else below the level of X dollars an hour. This means, plainly and simply, that a large number of free and voluntary wage […]
Jun28th2006
The Unshakeable Faith of the Left
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Chicanoism, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 12 CommentsObserver, a friend of mine who is familiar to long time readers of my blog, wrote this good article titled, “The Unshakeable Faith of the Left” on ‘Institutional Racism’ and the general unshakable philosophy of the left. The full article is posted below:
Many of us “minorities” are expected to bow and acquiesce to a […]
Jun28th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Communism, Economics, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 11 Comments“Most people agree that Marx’s predictions about capitalism turned out to be dead wrong. What most people don’t know is that Marx was an out and out racist and anti-Semite. He didn’t think much of Mexicans. Concerning the annexation of California after the Mexican-American War, Marx wrote: “Without violence nothing is ever accomplished in history.” […]
Jun27th2006
Many people have the false impression that Wal-Mart is a destroyer of small businesses and is so large of a company that no small business can compete.
Not so says the Detroit News Online:
Jun26th2006
“There are some issues where the views I hold are outside the mainstream. However, among economists, both on the left and the right, essentially everyone who looks at entitlement spending agrees that it would be helpful and appropriate to raise the age of government dependency. Yet we are told that this simple, common-sense solution is […]
Jun23rd2006
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Is Doing Things
Published by in Education, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 1 CommentFrom the Wall Street Journal:
So the California teacher unions aren’t all powerful after all. Yesterday, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called in his political chits with fellow Democrats in the state legislature, where he had once served as Assembly Speaker, and secured a deal giving him substantial control over the troubled Los Angeles Unified School […]
Jun21st2006
When You Think All Backbone Is Lost
Published by in Economics, General and Minimum Wage. 17 CommentsThe Republicans go and do something right:
Bid to increase minimum wage nixed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate refused Wednesday to raise the minimum wage, rejecting an election-year proposal from Democrats for the first increase in nearly a decade.
The vote was 52-46, eight short of the 60 needed.
“I don’t think the Republicans get it,” said Sen. […]
Jun15th2006
I have finals today and tomorrow and a few hours after my last final tomorrow I hop on a plane to Chicago to attend my twin cousins baptism. So blogging will be light, and won’t resume until after I get back on June 24th.
Also, in case any of my readers live in the Chicago […]
Jun14th2006
Latino Assimilation
Published by in Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 2 CommentsThe American Immigration Law Foundation finds:
Latinos experience substantial socioeconomic progress across generations compared to both their immigrant forefathers and native Anglos. But this fact is lost in statistical portraits of the Latino population which don’t distinguish between the large number of newcomers and those who have been in the United States for generations. Advocates of […]
Jun14th2006
“As for dividing Americans, who came up with the idea of radically altering the most ancient of all social institutions in the first place? Until the last few years, every civilization known to man has defined marriage as between people of opposite sex. To charge with “divisiveness” those who would do nothing more than resist […]
Jun13th2006
European Racism
Published by in Economics, Europe, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 12 CommentsThe Los Angeles Times reports:
Although players of color have graced Europe’s top leagues since the 1970s, and there’s hardly a championship team anywhere without some Brazilian or African imports, an astonishing level of racism persists among some fans and even coaches.
Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin, for example, recently complained that the influx of foreign players deprived […]
Jun13th2006
“While in alliance with the Nazis, the Soviets claimed, as usual, to be “liberating” the countries they invaded. The reality was quite different. Most shockingly, during Stalin’s alliance with Hitler, almost two million Poles were deported to Siberia. Hitler’s double-cross was the only reason the Polish deportees didn’t all die in Soviet slave labor camps; […]
Jun12th2006
Thousands of Latino Parents and Leaders are Demanding School Choice
Published by in Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 0 CommentsI am a member of Hispanic CREO, a national non-profit organization whose mission is to improve educational outcomes for Latino children by empowering parents through parental choice. They emailed me this and asked me to post it on my website:
Thousands of Latino Parents and Leaders are Demanding School Choice
Parents and Latino leaders across the nation […]
Jun12th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and ModernPolitics. 5 Comments“Over the last decade, at matches in Latin American countries such as Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica, U.S. players have been pelted with everything from batteries and coins to screws and saliva. In one match, former coach Steve Sampson said his players were bombed with bags of urine and animal blood. In […]
