I have complained about this topic before. Back in 1967, an episode of Star Trek featured as its villain, a genetically engineered superman named Kahn. The creative team took the unusual step of imagining this character as a Sikh rather than the usual stereotypical Aryan Übermensch. Then, in what was in its time a strangely [...]
When I started cross-posting on Blog For Arizona, Mike Bryan suggested that, at some point, I plug the book that I am working on. I am not going to do that, except to say that this post arises from someone else’s good book on the subject that actually cites my work. El Cinco de Mayo: [...]
It seems to happen every Arizona election: a Democrat wins office somewhere and then comes the allegation that illegal aliens voted. That’s got to be it, because my guy can’t have lost fair and square. In 2010, the allegation came from people around Jesse Kelly and Ruth McClung. There were people being bussed in illegally [...]
One of the things that frustrates traditional American sports fans about soccer is that a game can end in a tie. Well, it can even be worse. The English are so allergic to tie breakers (in addition to being allergic to decent cooking) that for years, they didn’t allow for tie-breakers, even in knockout tournaments [...]
Which leaves me only to write a “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead” post.
Barack Obama’s change in immigration enforcement is entirely political. I know this because a series of Republican politicians put out well crafted press releases yesterday carefully worded to appeal their base in the next primary said so. Mitt Romney’s first reaction was not to say anything about the substance of the issue, but to argue [...]
You may have read a little bit about this; it even made Wonkette. Russell Pearce had a fundraiser scheduled yesterday, and he had to cancel it when no one wanted to host it. The fundraiser was organized by lobbyist Gretchen Jacobs (yes, there are lobbyists who still like Pearce), an ally of pro-bullying activist Cathy [...]
Janet Napolitano announced this morning that DHS will no longer deport “low priority” illegal immigrants. These would be folks who migrated before their sixteenth birthday, have committed no major crimes and are under the age of 30. It goes without saying that this will cause the usual veins-in-the-neck popping snit from certain folks who have [...]
It seems every election, especially in the aftermath where a large Hispanic turn out turned the outcome, there are allegations of “massive voter fraud” by illegal aliens. We saw it in both the CD 8 and CD 7 races last year, and the same stories were brought up as “evidence” of voter fraud when former [...]
Thursday, August 11, 2005
They ran a bit on NPR yesterday on a new survey about Latino students and financial aid. Excelencia in Education, the group that commissioned the study, found that: Latino students rely heavily on federal aid and on grants in particular, according to the report, given that they are more likely to be first-generation college students [...]
