Today's Links and Minifeatures 2005 08 04 Thursday

Carnival of The Clueless is up.

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A Passion for Teaching and Opinions is being accused of racism. It is not racism to want those of all ethnicities already here not to face such a buyer's market for their labor that they cannot live. It is not bigotry for someone not to want the border to be porous to those who may wish us ill. HT: News, The Universe, and Everything



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SMACKDOWN! Victor Davis Hanson put a column up on Monday that I just got to, talking about historical facts versus hysterical theory and putting things in perspective by remembering all of the facts.



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I went so far as to Google and Yahoo and Ask Jeeves about new stuff on Air America, but there's nothing new aside from tail-chasing.



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Here's a good article in USA Today about the problems with our textbooks.



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In case you missed it, there was a coup in Mauretania yesterday. I don't know enough to comment intelligently. Here are a few relevant articles and studies and rankings. CIA World Factbook entry



Evidently, the government was autocratic, not democratic, and the two indices I reference above were not imporoving. The military people who took over are saying the right things, but when haven't they? The proof is in the actual doing of what they say. One thing I did spot in the factbook is a nasty demographics bomb in that they've got a lot of young people - always bad for stability. Add desertification in there, and that's almost the classic recipe.



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