Bookworm on Feb 04 2008 | Filed under: Hollywood, Immigration
I’ve been re-reading a wonderful book that I first read when it was published a little more than a decade ago: As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, by Laurence Bergreen. As anyone who enjoys popular music knows, Irving Berlin was one of the most extraordinary composers on the popular music [...]
Bookworm on Nov 30 2007 | Filed under: Education, Immigration
You and I know that children — thank goodness! — are remarkably adaptable. Indeed, the younger they are, the more adaptable they are. It’s for this reason that pricey private schools and public schools in wealthy communities offer foreign language classes to the kindergarten set, rather than waiting, as they used to do [...]
Bookworm on Nov 28 2007 | Filed under: Immigration
I’ve got a few news stories to throw out at you, all of which, in my mind, are related. At the end, I’ve got a couple of questions for you. First, the news stories, many of which are just from the last couple of days:
Under the Labour Government, England has had an overwhelming [...]
Bookworm on Nov 27 2007 | Filed under: France, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, Islam, Media matters, Mitt Romney, Muslim violence
I kid you not — the language I put in quotations in this post caption is the precise language the BBC uses to describe those who are engaged in a little bit of urban unrest In France. You know, the kind of innocuous urban rioting that results in more than 80 policeman being injured [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2007 | Filed under: Medicine
When it comes to managed health care, the law of unintended consequences just keeps rolling along. The news out of England today tells the story of a woman who has been barred from New Zealand, where her husband has already moved, because she is “too fat.” Apparently in the conflict between politically correct [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Immigration
Although the base loathes illegal immigration, Republican politicians have been trying to make nice with the vocal illegal immigrant community, and therefore helped scupper any hopes this past political season that Congress would pass a reform bill tightening our borders and removing the amnesty reward for existing illegal immigrants (as well as the amnesty incentive [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Immigration
There are only two dates in British history that one needs to remember according to the authors of the wonderful 1066 & All That: A Memorable History Of England, Comprising All The Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings And 2 Genuine Dates . The title actually gives one away: [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Immigration, San Francisco
Well, the Board of Stupes, er, Supes, did it. They will now issue identification cards to all residents, legal or not, and require employers to accept them:
The Board of Supervisors voted today to make San Francisco the largest U.S. city to issue municipal identification cards to its residents, regardless of whether or not they are [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2007 | Filed under: Europe, Immigration, Multiculturalism
As you may recall, about 10 months ago, when I returned from a European vacation, one of the things I blogged about was Switzerland as part of a larger post I did about Europe’s changing face:
A train conversation with an unusually sweet lady in Switzerland resulted in my learning (correctly or not) that Switzerland, the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 04 2007 | Filed under: Conservative ideology
Matt Bai has written a new book, The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, which looks at the movers and shakers who are working hard to remake the Democratic party. It sounds like an interesting, well-written book, and one that anyone interested in American politics should read.
I learned about the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 30 2007 | Filed under: Immigration, San Francisco
The Democrats and their fellow travelers have been terribly upset since its inception by the Patriot Act, which they see as an infringement of their civil liberties. In that context, one of their chief fears is that the federal government will impose a national ID requirement, which they believe will be used to target [...]
Bookworm on Sep 29 2007 | Filed under: Immigration
Apparently the feds, after going through all the bureaucratic steps, are fence building like crazy along our Southern border. An even better thing is the fact that, where the fences have already gone up, the number of illegal immigrants has gone down:
New barriers have had an effect in San Luis, once one of the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2007 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
The results are in at the Watcher’s Council and I have to admit to being pleased, since my post Cosmic Ironies came in first. This was the post in which I looked at my Dad’s family history in pre-WWII Germany and thought about the little twists of fate that saw some live, and some [...]
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