The belief that we are a nation of assimilated immigrants is the keystone of an article by the Claremont Institute’s Center for Local Government.
Legal immigration has been at the heart of this country’s success and will be for the foreseeable future. This fact is why we at Independent Sources become uncomfortable when the discussion of […]
“The 13 Pulitzers won under (John Carroll’s) leadership were part of the boilerplate of every article published about his retirement last week. Critics have been ridiculing this factoid, as though it conceals some darker truth, such as that the paper’s supposed liberalism has contributed to a circulation decline. Leaving aside the fact that this latter […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The Mighty Middle takes a thoughtful position on the “Tancredo question” (should the U.S. threaten the use of nuclear weapons against Mecca if Islamic terrorists use a nuclear weapon in the U.S.?). Key point:
Q. Which brings us back to deterrence. If you say we cannot reliably deter Al Qaeda, who would we be deterring?
A. Saudi […]
Last week Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick released a report stating that there were serious financial problems at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The agency cash accounts are running low, and they are not paying their vendors on time.
In two earlier posts, we
Questioned the surprisingly high count of homeless people the HSA says […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Guess where we found this?
SI’s swimsuit issue? Maxim? London’s The Sun?
… no, it’s the Los Angeles Times! Editor-elect Dean Baquet seems to be, uh, pointing the paper in a new direction already — maybe we will renew our subscriptions after all …
(link to sports page with thumbnail; link to larger-size images)
Technorati Tags: California, kerri walsh, […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)..then nothing will:
In court, (Tom) Sizemore admitted he had used a prosthetic device called a Whizzinator to fake a urine test May 25, a charge that he had repeatedly denied, and also admitted he did not comply with the judge’s order last month that he undergo testing at least once every three days.
Then again his […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Why do Islamic terrorists hate us? Well, not because of Iraq, Palestine or any of the other popular reasons thrown about. At least that’s the convincing case made by Olivier Roy in this New York Times op-ed piece.
So why do they hate us?
Iraq/ Afghanistan? Nope. The Americans went to Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11, […]
Independent Sources contributor Luke the Drifter should take a bow for his June 27th Tour de France prediction:
1 Armstrong
2 Basso
3 Ullrich
4 Leipheimer
5 Vinokourov
Luke got the top three exactly right. Francisco Mancebo was a spoiler, finishing fourth. As Luke predicted, Vinokourov finished fifth. Levi Leipheimer, Luke’s pick for fourth, finished 0:20 behind Vinokourov in sixth.
Maybe he […]
Independent Sources reported today that it has offered soon-to-be-ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather a job working for the up-and-coming right-minded blog. While the specific duties being offered to Mr. Rather are unclear, they are likely to be similar to those previously offered to Richard Scrushy but which to date they have been unable to come to […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)[Note: as part of Independent Sources desire to give its readers maximum value, we have put bonus material at the end of this posting including the alternate headlines generated for this piece.]
Kerry nearly stops OLN’s TdF coverage with Filibuster-like Answer to Simple Question
John Kerry dropped in on the OLN coverage of Stage 20 of the […]
In researching a follow-up to Independent Sources critique of Jonathan Chait’s cement-headed LAT op-ed and specifically how much time President Bush spends per day exercising (and it doesn’t seem to be all that much), we came across this article from USA Today published in 2000. The article compared the running traits of Bush and then rival candidate Al Gore.
As […]
It hadn’t occured to me exactly how many Los Angeles Times critiques Independent Sources had run during the past few days until I sat down to do a summary for Calblog.
LAT Columnist Prefers Presidents that are Fat and Undisciplined
Does The LA Times’ Content Make Its Circulation Problem Better, Or Worse?
LAT Says I’m […]
I’m writing this early Saturday morning just before the Stage 20 individual time trial. Lance locked the top podium spot long ago and the real competitive action has been the battle for top ten placings in the GC (overall cumulative time). Here’s how I handicap the final top ten (eleven, actually), all the position changes […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The Los Angeles Times on Friday’s police shooting in a London subway:
Plainclothes police engaged in the frenetic hunt for fugitives involved in London’s transit bombings pursued a suspect into an Underground train Friday and shot him to death in front of screaming and cowering passengers.
It was not clear whether the man, described as a young […]
Two West Virginians who rode an ATV to the funeral of a man who died in an ATV accident were themselves hurt after the ceremony when their ATV hit a tree. One was hospitalized.
Neither Jimmy Spry, the driver, or Maggan Phillips, sister of the deceased, were wearing helmets when the accident occurred.
They were leaving […]
