Calling for Unity and Diversity: FR Supports Bond Measure to Fund City of Austin's Proposed Asian-American Resource Center

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/council/downloads/aarc_powerpt.pdf

Henry Clay Must be Rolling over in His Grave

By Wilkins McCawber

In light of recent debates on immigration and globalization, the great American statesman, Henry Clay, must be churning over in his long forgotten grave. Perhaps the greatest statesman not to have been elected President, Clay envisioned a continental America that would be self-sufficient and self-supporting. The great diversity of natural wealth in the continental United States--fertile land in the Mid-west, rich farmlands in the South, fishing grounds in the Northeast--would, in Clay's words, form the great "American System." The United States would leverage comparative advantages among the various regions without resorting to foreign entanglements, as Washington had warned against.

In other words, the US of A would constitute its own Nafta and WTO. And indeed, that was what happened until the 1970s. America, at its zenith, in 1955 was virtually self-sufficient, and most American households had chickens in the pot and a car in every garage.

Perhaps, it's time to revisit old Henry Clay's idea...

SOLD OUT BY THE OLD FARTS IN THE US SENATE

"It's a sad day in America when the lawmakers side with the lawbreakers against law-abiding American citizens." Ezola Foster

Si, Se Puede: Viva la Revolucion

OUTRAGEOUS: AMERICAN FLAG DESECRATED AT MONTEBELLO HIGH SCHOOL

AS A FORMER RESIDENT OF THE WEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY OF THE LOS ANGELES AREA, I AM DEEPLY SHOCKED AND AWED. SEE LINK BELOW. WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004869.htm

In the meantime, Montebello HS staff deny that their students were involved in this incident. See below. In the bigger scheme of things, it really does not matter WHO did it. The fact that this act was perpetrated on a facility paid for by tax-payers is outrageous!

MONTEBELLO HIGH SCHOOL WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A CORRECTION


We have received many phone calls and E-mails about the reports that Montebello High School students put up a Mexican flag and took down the American flag this past Monday. MONTEBELLO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS DID NOT TAKE PART. Students from the El Rancho HIGH School District and the Whittier Union High School District took part in this action. Our Administration, Staff, and students do not condone this action. We hope this clarifies the situation.

IT'S OVER: WE ARE THEIR CAPTIVES NOW

As I was walking around Downtown Los Angeles today, there were gangs of masked Hispanic Los Angeles Unifed School District students loitering about making threatening gestures and remarks. Later, I learned that these same gangs have stopped traffic along the Harbor Freeway (110 Freeway) and neighboring streets. All in "protest" of the Sesenbrenner bill.

This is their city now, I thought to myself. They can burn it or preserve it. We have no say. They have the demographics on their side.

The Senate must have been receiving the same intelligence. Moments ago, fearing another riot in Los Angeles, the Senate scoffed at the Sesenbrenner bill and voted in favor of the President's "guest worker" program.

Peace in Los Angeles -- for now. But at what cost?

AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY DEAD AT THE AGE OF 229

Over 300,000 illegal aliens and their supporters gathered in Los Angeles over the weekend to DEMAND legal status for the 20 million illegal aliens in the United States.

An anti-illegal immigration protest last month in Los Angeles netted 20 people.

The United States Senate saw the numbers, freaked out and caved to the illegal aliens.

American sovereignty is, for all intended purposes, DEAD.

Good bye, American Pie...

Petty and Small-Minded: Chirac Walks Out on a Business Speech Given in English...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060324/wl_afp/eusummitfrance_060324164001

Media Bias? A Definite Yes!

An ABC News executive denigrates Bush on his Blackberry. So Chic...

Source: Drudge Report

Paris Burning --Again!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4817056.stm

Smaller is Better? The Toyota Yaris

Despite its unfortunate name, the Toyota Yaris will debut this spring in the United States. It's not a new model. This model has been selling in Europe, the land of narrow streets and expensive gas, for years.

The Yaris's entry into the US market is meant to address consumers' concern about permanent higher gas prices here. (It was less than two years ago that gas prices in California still hovered about the $1.50 per gallon mark!) Additionally, it is meant to challenge China's Geely Motor Corp's expectant entry into the massive US car market in 2008. See the archived article on the Geely in the December Archives.

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BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH

ON THIS DAY, 2,050 YEARS AGO, JULIUS CAESAR WAS ASSASSINATED BY DISCONTENTED ROMAN SENATORS.


March 15, 44 BCE: Caesar attended the last meeting of the Senate before his departure, held at its temporary quarters in the portico of the theater built by Pompey the Great (the Curia, located in the Forum and the regular meeting house of the Senate, had been badly burned and was being rebuilt). The sixty conspirators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Brutus Albinus, and Gaius Trebonius, came to the meeting with daggers concealed in their togas and struck Caesar at least 23 times as he stood at the base of Pompey's statue. Legend has it that Caesar said in Greek to Brutus, “You, too, my child?” After his death, all the senators fled, and three slaves carried his body home to Calpurnia several hours later. For several days there was a political vacuum, for the conspirators apparently had no long-range plan and, in a major blunder, did not immediately kill Mark Antony (apparently by the decision of Brutus). The conspirators had only a band of gladiators to back them up, while Antony had a whole legion, the keys to Caesar's money boxes, and Caesar's will. Click here for some assessments of Caesar by modern historians.

Source: http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/caesar.html

Avian Flu to Kill Three BILLION People??!

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/AvianFlu/story?id=1724801

The Monarch and Her Prime Minister

Queen Elizabeth II with PM John Howard in Australia. The Queen is the constitutional head of state of several countries including the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Belize and other former British colonies. Cf. The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act of 1927.

It Has Been an Agonizing 65 Days for Jill Carroll

Reporter Jill Carroll of the Christian Science Monitor was kidnapped in Iraq on January 7, 2006. We pray for her safe return...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0113/carroll_update.html

Saluting My Hometown Hero: Chang Wong

Chang Wong of Alhambra, California, lost both his legs in an IED explosion while defending Freedom in Iraq.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-amputee9mar09,0,7143627.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Film Reviewer's Corner: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring

By B G Phan
Senior Contributor
The Fairbank Report

We have long known that this is the Pacific Century when it comes to the economy and technology. We can now add with much excitement that it is also the Pacific Century when it comes to the cinematic arts. One such film is "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring" by Korean director Kim Ki Duk.

Set in a magnificent back-drop, the story follows the life cycle of a child monk, who grows up and is then tempted by carnal passion to leave his monastic life for the "outside world." True to Buddhist philosophy, the outside world is cruel, destructive and fleeting, and the young monk/man returns to his old monastery to seek peace and permanence through meditation and hard work.

This is a simple story beautifully told through stunning cinematography. A definite hit. Moving and inspiring at the same time.

**BREAKING NEWS**: Extra-Terrestrial Life?

Duh! It has always been a mathematical certainty. Nevertheless, it is exciting to finally have the proof.

The United States of Illegal Immigrants

The Fairbank Report has extensively chronicled the massive problem of uncontrolled illegal immigration into the United States and, in particular, into the Los Angeles area. See the archived articles.

Today, we learn from the Pew Center that there are about 12 million illegal immigrants, who are mainly from Latin America, in the United States and that 1 out of every 20 working adults in America is an illegal immigrant. Staggering. Yet, for those of us who have studied the issue (and indeed have lived the experience in Los Angeles), the numbers appear somewhat understated.

Our own studies show that there are about 20 million illegal immigrants in the United States and that it costs the various levels of government in the United States about $100 BILLION per annum to take care of these illegal immigrants. And then there are the intangible costs, such as pollution, traffic congestion, infrastructural degradation and other such quality of life issues.

Yet, our politicians and media elites want even more illegal immigrants! How many cheap baby-sitters and house maids do these elites need?!

WAKE UP, AMERICA. AMERICA, AS WE KNOW IT, IS ON LIFE SUPPORT.

Jonathan Fairbank, Editor-in-Chief
The Fairbank Report

Missing Link? People Who Walk on All Four!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4782492.stm

Re-post: Diori Yu's Award-Winning Piece on the Aftermath of the Nguyen Tuong Van Case

http://fairbankreport.blogspot.com/2005/12/nguyen-tuong-van-aftermath-singapores.html

COURAGE PERSONIFIED!

From the Turin Games, a spectacularly courageous moment:

http://www2.bbsland.com/sports/messages/507899.html

The Fall Guy?

Recently released video tapes appear to indicate that ex-FEMA administrator Michael Brown was quite agitated about the looming hurricane. At one point, he pleaded with federal officials to "bend the rules" if they had to in order to give FEMA adequate resources. Thus, the planning process seems adequate. It was the implementation of that plan that went horribly wrong.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_go_pr_wh/katrina_video