Illegal immigrants are not a burden on the health care system- March 8, 2007 A short item in the MarchApril issue of Foreign Policy (not available online) based on a Rand Corporation study takes look at the claim. The FP notes that U.S.-born residents make up 86.9 percent of the population; legal immigrants 9.9 percent and illegals 3.2 percent. Their respective shares of healthcare spending are 91.5 percent, 7 percent and 1.5 percent. Based on that data, the FPhttp://amsam.org/2007/03/illegal-immigrants-are-not-burden-on.html Think you know how to read, do you Salon Books- March 8, 2007 "A new throng of authors wants to save literature from our nefarious English departments and teach us how to read their way. Now, class, pay attention." Tom Lutz (Salon Premium)http://amsam.org/2007/03/think-you-know-how-to-read-do-you-salon.html "Province" by TV on the Radio Plus David Bowie- March 8, 2007 Province Uploaded by SteelydanAbove: Neo alt african american rockers TV on the Radio with a backup assist from David Bowie. Well directed video. Also: Yes, I directed and produced this Broadcast video, rated at two stars which I think stands for "EX cellence." And Goddamn you Reginald Hudlin. Goddamn you and BET on J to Hell.http://amsam.org/2007/03/province-by-tv-on-radio-plus-david.html Funny Toon by Stephanie About What We Were All Thinking- March 8, 2007http://amsam.org/2007/03/funny-toon-by-stephanie-about-what-we.html Obama and Edward Said Pic- March 8, 2007 The Angry Arab says Hillary will trot out this pic of Obama speaking with Edward Said, who's a bad person because he thinks Palestinians are people. Bu there wouldn't necessarily be an overt rebuke. The poison would look more like this. By the way, Said said things like this (from Wikipedia, although with a second's worth of googling you couldhttp://amsam.org/2007/03/obama-and-edward-said-pic.html |