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Time for Obama To Bail Out?
Hillary doesn’t have to catch up to Obama — she just has to remain standing when Obama melts down. He’s taken hits and is going down. Obamanator’s true nature is showing through the battle damage. Howard Dean says one of the two has to bail out, and even Slate joked Obama should bow out first.
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Asian Teen STD Rates?
The Centers for Disease Control reported last month outrageous rates of sexually transmitted diseases among women, especially African American women. I worked out the Asian Pacific/Islander rates of syphilis as one-third less than white women; chlamydia was 18 percent less and
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Obama’s Wright Wing Conspiracy
Everyone knows “Four score and seven years
ago” and “I have a dream,” but only Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s “God damn America!” will live forever in infamy. Unlike O.J., Obama has mesmerized Americans of all colors into backing a president that worships weekly a message that rich white (and some Asian) people hate poor black (and […] -
Business School: The New Stereotype?
We know there are a lot of Asians at engineering schools and medical schools. But check out these top undergraduate business school numbers from BusinessWeek: UC Berkeley, 54 percent Asian to 23 percent white; MIT, 37 percent Asian to 25 percent white. Even Mormon Brigham Young
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Obama: Proud To Be Americans
The chinks are finally showing up in Obama’s armor. Michelle Malkin has finally come to McCain’s side following Michelle Obama’s recent gaffe. Can you imagine “God Bless the USA” with “I’m proud to be an American … for the first time in my life”? You’d think a couple with his-and-hers Ivy
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The Power Of Stereotypes
We wonder why nobody buys Asians in show biz when blacks, Latinos, Jews and even redneck Americans exploit stereotypes for fun and profit. Chris Tucker plays up the street-smart African American against Jackie Chan. Adult Swim’s Boondocks explores how black kids
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Why Barack Can’t Win
Shelby Steele has a new book, titled A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win. Paul Beston of the urban policy magazine City Journal notes that Steele is a conservative black man who is critical of the use of victimhood as a source of political power; that’s become a […]
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Sometimes the Indians Win
If you want to see War and Peace fought by Chinese and Americans, watch Sand Pebbles on The History Channel. Directed by Robert Wise, who also did West Side Story and The Sound of Music, and filmed in Hong Kong and Taiwan,
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Are You as Smart As a Fifth Grader?
You have 10 minutes to compose a piano concerto and perform it on flute. A toy piano is under your seat.
People complained that Washington state’s standardized test for public school students, the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, left out the arts.
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jabba wockeez roCkS!!
chankstar iNc. on Jabbawockeez, Unmasked
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Unfortuantely, Asian "interest groups" have taken a cue from the Sharpton/Jackon clique. Everyone wants a grubby hand in the racial spoils trough.
Anh Tran on No on Proposition E
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Who cares what the census says? By that stupid logic someone from Vladivostok should also be considered for this award.
Anh Tran on Harvard Student Wins 1st Annual Outstanding Woman of the Year Award
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"White lords"? Oh jeez. You couldn't use more cilched liberal arts language if you tried. That being said, I agree they should have chosen an asian to play the asian character.
AnhTran on For Asian American Males, a Slap in the Face and a Kick in the Teeth
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"We need immigrants willing to do some of the low paying jobs in order to keep the inflation low. " Nonsense.
Anh Trsn on Is the backlash here yet?: Chinese Americans — and all Asian Americans — Should Be Ready
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I agree with your comment. In most cases we are left alienated however, Asians are expected to perform well academically by the school system.
Angeli Tolentino Howarth on An Asian Texan History?: How now, cowboy?
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Obama's efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Cheney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Cheney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.
Janet Reno on Choosing Sides in the Democratic Presidential Race
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Er... Hello? This is AMERICA!!! If whites want to live in Chinatown, why the hell not? If you want to live amongst the Chinese, take a one-way to Beijing from JFK.
Phoebe on Kumshui, Tsiwen and Confucius Plaza
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Regarding the CCSF expansion: All you have to do is look at who was being paid by the Hilton lobby group, and who was volunteered their time to mobilize and educate the community.
Dioscoro R. Recio on ‘Driven Out’ Of San Francisco?
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Huang Fong: You continue to one-up everyone else hereabouts. And I love it. However, forty-buck meals are now history in the starched-linen precincts of our finer-diner establishments, even as four-buck meals are barely within reach for the common working stiff.
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