February 2007

Efforts to Combat Hispanic Gang Thuggery Go International

February 9, 2007

Update (1:47 p.m.): Commenter Duke writes: “LaShawn, it’s much more insidious than you know. In all ‘Hispanic’ areas, where the stores, street vendors, and various other Hispanic entrepreneurs ply their trade they are required to ‘pay a tax’ to the gangs or get beaten, shot, etc. This tax acts to keep a class of people [...]

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Anna Nicole Smith, 1967-2007

February 8, 2007

I wasn’t a fan, but…whoa. Smith just gave birth to a daughter several months ago, then lost her 20-year-old son. My condolences to her family… (One of my favorite shows, “Law & Order,” did a ripped-from-the-headlines episode loosely based on the death of Smith’s son, with a twist, of course.) Previous obits: Chris Penn, 1965-2006 [...]

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What About Intellectual Property Rights, Sean Hannity?

February 8, 2007

Update (2/9): More on Hannity from Debbie Schlussel. ———————————————————————- I usually don’t get involved with other bloggers’ problems, but I’m making an exception today. Debbie Schlussel is one of my favorite bloggers. A resident of Michigan, she does first-hand reporting on what’s going on with the large Muslim community in her area and publishes exclusives [...]

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Diversity Drivel from Cherry Creek School District…

February 7, 2007

Update (2/8): This morning I contacted columnist Vincent Carroll to find out if Cherry Creek intended the statements in the training material to be examples of what not to think about white people. His reply: “No, the district definitely was NOT suggesting that those were things we should not believe about white people. ” ——————————————————————————————————- [...]

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Ward Connerly Responds

February 7, 2007

Ward Connerly, the mastermind behind Proposition 208 and Proposal 2, state measures that outlawed race and sex preferences in government hiring and admissions, tried to comment on the post “Has ‘White Guilt’ Run Its Course?,” but was unable to for some reason. A couple of commenters questioned Connerly’s integrity, accusing him of being a hypocrite. [...]

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Restore America Conference

February 7, 2007

Public Service Announcement: The Restore America Conference will be held February 23-24, 2007, at Rolling Hills Community Church in Tualatin, Oregon. According to the web site, Restore America is a non-profit organization of Bible-believing Christians. In our postmodern age, one must distinguish between Bible-believing Christians and the rest. Speaking of Bible-believing Christians, check out my [...]

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Education, the Global Economy, and You

February 7, 2007

As baby boomers retire, the American workforce will become dumber and dumber… …according to a new report from the Educational Testing Service. Specifically, three factors are converging in a “perfect storm” that is turning the American labor force into a highly illiterate one, profoundly impacting our ability to compete: 1) the educational and skills gap [...]

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What I Did For Love

February 6, 2007

Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Astronaut (what a cool sounding job) Lisa Marie Nowak has been charged with attempting to murder a “romantic rival.” When I read the story this morning, I dismissed it. Crazy fool, I said to myself. Then I thought about some of the things I’ve done in the name of [...]

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Virginia (and other things) on my mind…

February 5, 2007

Lend Me Your Ears… This post isn’t addressing anyone in specific. It’s just a collection of thoughts that have accumulated in my head during this extremely busy day. Don’t take it personally. Some bloggers focus on Supreme Court hearings or Treo smartphones or cars or politics in Washington or knitting or homeschooling. Some bloggers tighten [...]

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NYT’s Duke DNA Double Standard

February 2, 2007

Unrelated Update (2/3): I may blog more about the Long Beach hate crime beating trial next week. A group of black teenagers brutally beat three white women on Halloween Night — merely because they were white. I read that one of the women has to have surgery to realign an eye socket. Good grief. This [...]

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Scooter Libby Trial

February 1, 2007

Saturday, February 3: Thanks for the BlogHer shout out, Professor Kim! ——————————————————————————————————- Later this month, I plan to live-blog from the Scooter Libby trial. For the first time, the District Court in D.C. has credentialed bloggers as members of the media to cover a trial. Irving Lewis Libby was a former aide to Vice President [...]

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All Hail Black History Month!

February 1, 2007

Update III (2/5): New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin got his wish. Chocolate City has returned. From NYT: “Most of the violence involves black men killing other black men. Out of the 161 homicide victims last year, 131 were black men. Most of the suspects were also black men.” You’ll have to read between the lines [...]

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