Archive for the 'The Law of Unintended Consequences' Category
As the saying goes, “Be careful what you ask for…”
A same-sex couple who were married in Fresno County on June 27 – just 10 days after county clerks in California started issuing marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples – have filed for divorce.
The couple, Theresa Ramirez and Adelita Guajardo, are among more than 100 same-sex couples who applied for a marriage license in [...]
No use crying over [reduced price] school milk
Sweden has a real thirst for European Union subsidies paid for school milk, which each year amount to 70 million kronor. But this amount could be reduced, since compensation will no longer be provided for dairy products used by school cafeterias in warm food…
…Schools can receive the EU subsidy for cold parmesean cheese sprinkled on [...]
Obama: Who Wins?
Dear Hussein Obama,
In America, the one nation in the world welded into unity by its bloody march through the hell-fire of the American Civil War, there is widespread knowledge of and respect for America’s unity in diversity. Its a wonder, a miracle, an oddity that catches attention in all other nations: no matter WHO you [...]
SF’s Sanctuary City Status Working Out Nicely for Criminals, Not So Much for Taxpayers
An effort by San Francisco to shield eight young Honduran crack dealers from federal immigration officials backfired when the youths escaped from Southern California group homes within days of their arrival, officials said Monday.
The walkaways are the latest in a string of embarrassments for city officials who are protecting illegal-immigrant drug dealers from federal authorities [...]
Whitewashing Education: Creating a New Underclass
Via the Brussels Journal we learn this about the UK:
White teenagers are significantly less likely to go to university than their peers from ethnic minority groups, even when they have the same qualifications at A level, research suggests.
The difference between races is most pronounced among men from deprived households and suggests the emergence of [...]
Europe’s Anti-Discrimination Madness Goes On and On and On…
This communiqué from Jean-Marie Le Pen summarizes another directive from the European Union on “multiple discrimination”….
Scarcely had the French Parliament transposed [into the French Constitution] three directives from the EU on the fight against discrimination, than the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission to decree a new directive, this one against [...]
SF Finally Sinking Under Its Own Largesse
San Francisco is rolling in green. But it is also bleeding red.
Monday is Mayor Gavin Newsom’s deadline to submit a budget that erases a $338 million deficit, and he has warned that the city’s fiscal forecast is so bleak that hundreds of city workers could be laid off and services slashed. But it’s not because [...]