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Remember Jesica Santillan? (Think back before the Iraq war.) She was the 17-year-old Mexican illegal alien who died in February after Duke University Medical Center bungled her heart-lung transplant. Recently, Duke University announced that it is establishing a $4 million "perpetual fund" in Santillan's memory. Duke
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The share price of Salon Media Group, the publisher of Salon.com webzine, closed Friday at $0.05 – that's five cents – down more than 99% from its $15.00-plus high after the company went public some four years ago. (To view this rape of the innocent investor, go
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(Isabel Lyman's blog) Doing Battle with the Bureaucratic Parasite. Peter Brimelow's much-praised book, The Worm in the Apple, calmly explains how government schools are in the grip of teachers' unions. The book is often wickedly funny. The 1999 National Education Association convention, for instance, is
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The Worm in the Apple: by Peter Brimelow Harper Collins, 2003, hardcover, 336 pp. Something certainly is rotten in American public education—actually, lots of things contribute to the sorry state of education—and Peter Brimelow shines a light where it's much needed, on the role of teachers
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May 20, 2003, Chicago Sun-Times By John O'Sullivan Remember the bell curve? Well, here comes its even more terrifying successor—the bow tie. Some years ago a Forbes columnist was compiling a chart for an article on education. The statistical relationship he uncovered in his research was so
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Rush Limbaugh show, third hour. [Rush 24/7 members link] (transcribed) RODGER HEDGECOCK: I've brought you the headline of the day, the quote of the day, the Danish pizza shop owner of the day. And now the book of the day. It's by Peter Brimelow, journalist
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Click here to return to Part 2... Peter Brimelow Can I just add, I agree completely with that. You see, the unions are not the whole problem in education. It's got lots of other problems. The problem is the system is not short of problems. [Laughter] Virginia is
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Peter Brimelow and John Merrifield spoke at the Independent Policy Forum Thursday, February 20, 2003. We're economically posting the Brimelow portion of the forum. For John Merrifield's remarks, click here. David Theroux Thank you very much, John. My next speaker is someone who has been a
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See also: Easter 2002 And The Resurrection Of The West, by Chilton Williamson By a happy coincidence, Easter Sunday falls this year on the thirty-fifth anniversary of Enoch Powell's great speech on immigration – given in Birmingham on April 20, 1968. This neatly intertwines the themes of spiritual and
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 National Review, Nov 30, 1992 v44 n23 p46(2). Undue Process: A Story of How Political Differences Are Turned into Crimes, by Elliott Abrams (Free Press, 250 pp., $22.95) DROP! Someone had thrown a ball at my chest . . . I sat up,
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 (Biography of Harold Macmillan) Wall Street Journal Bookshelf, New York March 16, 1989 We live and learn. Anyone who remembers the hyping of President Kennedy and his attractive family must have wondered, on subsequently discovering the peculiar reality, whatever happened to Camelot&
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 (C. Northcote Parkinson, the father of Parkinson's Law) Forbes, August 7, 1989 v144 n3 p42(3) LIKE A SWARM of locusts in the desert sky, myriads of management books are on the move, all heading remorselessly for your free time.