Via Wizbang: Two Americas
WizBang has yet another great post simply titled: “Two Americas“.
Unemployment Rates
April 1997 - 8.1 - Latinos
April 2007 - 5.4 - Latinos
April 1997 - 9.8 - blacks
April 2007 - 8.2 - blacks
April 1997 - 4.2 - whites
April 2007 - 3.9 - whites
Via Bureau of Labor Statistics
God, times were good during the Clinton years weren’t they?
Wait … […]
Was Jay’s syndicated show cancelled?
In short: no. Absolutely not.
The Boston Herald reports:
“I didn’t enjoy evenings. I really missed the idea of belonging to this afternoon audience in New England. That’s when my energies are highest - it’s when I perform best,” said Severin, whose 7-to-10 p.m. syndicated show was picked up by WTKK.
Severin said the night audience […]
Where is Jay?
Programming note: Have no fear, infomaniacs! Jay Severin returns to WTKK on October 9 in his original afternoon timeslot weeknights 3p-7p.
Check back here in the meantime for the latest programming updates.
Como se dice Promised Land?
Via The Grouchy Old Cripple:
About 5,000 years ago Moses said, “Pick up your shovel, pack your ass, mount your camel, and I shall lead you to the Promised Land.”
About 200 years ago, George Washington said, “Get off your ass, use your shovel, clear the land, grow plants for camels and it will be the promised […]
Teddy Roosevelt on Illegal Immigration (Part 2)
And Teddy quickly overshadows his own quote (previously posted), with this one:
We cannot afford to continue to use hundreds of thousands of immigrants merely as industrial assets while they remain social outcasts and menaces any more than fifty years ago we could afford to keep the black man merely as an industrial asset and not […]