The Case For Immigration

God-Loving Americans Send Me Hate Mail

These are in response to my recent columns at AOL.

Larry King Sings “Poker Face”

On Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, the host got Larry King to participate in a rendition of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.”  Nothing else need be said (h/t TV Newser).

Don’t Let the GOP Tell You They’re The Party Of Racial Harmony

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is trying to create narrative on race, the South, and the GOP, in advance of a presidential run, that isn’t the way it was, or is. We already see how the almost-all-white Tea Party movement, the anti-Hispanic, anti-immigrant stances, and the anti-Muslim attitudes on the right are dividing us now.  Steve Kornacki at Salon gives historical perspective, and challenges the Human Events puff piece on Barbour.

So Barbour has invented his own sanitized, suburb-friendly version of history — an account that paints the South’s shift to the GOP as the…

Good News In The Job Numbers

Yes, unemployment is at 9.6%, which is up from 9.5% last month, and nowhere near the 8% promised by the Obama administration. However, there is much good news, as reflected by the fact that today’s numbers are driving up the stock market. It’s the eighth straight month of growth in private sector jobs.  The losses are in government jobs, which should make those who don’t like socialism very happy.  In fact, this is the strongest job recovery in decades.

Payrolls began growing in November and, excluding the impact of temporary census jobs, the economy…

Happy First Weekend Of September

Stephen Hawking Says God Not Necessary For Creation

Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and mathematician, says in his new book, The Grand Design,  that God was not needed for the creation of the universe.

“The Grand Design,” which the publishers call Hawking’s first major work in nearly a decade, challenges Isaac Newton’s theory God must have been involved in creation because our solar system couldn’t have come out of chaos simply through nature.

But Hawking says it isn’t that simple. To understand the universe, it’s necessary to know both how and why it behaves the way it does, calling the…

Ad Agency Owner Points Decommissioned Missile At Site Of NYC “Mosque”

Arye Sachs, the owner of an ad agency which, up until now, took decommissioned missiles to hospitals to cheer up kids, is looking for volunteers to cart a missile to the site of the proposed Islamic Center in New York. Its ad on CraigsList has been flagged for removal. Sachs has a long rant against the project, which, like his CraigsList ad, seems to have vanished from the ‘Net.

“This proposed Mosque is clearly to instigate and mock non-radical fundamentalist Americans living and visiting this sacred area. As such,…

Walmart Segregates Books Based On Race

In the Walmart book section, there is a special area for books by blacks. Not a black studies section, which would be understandable, but an area where anybody who is an author who is also black has the book displayed, separate from where white authors have their books displayed.  Black authors of books on sports, religion, romance novels, and even books by our black president are kept separate (h/t The Political Carnival).

At the Walmart on Arlington Road in Springfield Township [Ohio], you’ll find two fancy, hardcover books by people who are household names…