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Asian Assimilation

Armed with a new Pew report (pdf) on interracial marriage, Oliver Wang takes aim at a stereotype:

[Asian-Americans:] are the most likely to outmarry (30 percent of newlywed Asians are not married to Asians). ... 1 out 2 American-born Asian women outmarry, 2 out of 5 American-bornAsian men do the same; that's not a huge difference and certainlyshowers cold water on the overheated idea that Asian women are"abandoning their people" in droves. Sex has little to do with it;generation is a far more...

Who Let The Dogs Out? Ctd

A reader writes:

Just a slight quibble with the following paragraph in this post:

This, of course, is exactly the argument that was made about Catholicism in England (and by Locke in his famous Letter!) in the sixteen and seventeenth centuries - particularly after the Gunpowder Plot (England's foiled 9/11 of 1605). The argument was that because Catholics owed obedience to a foreign ruler, the Pope, they were not so much a religion as a cult allied to a foreign force. For the Vatican, read the...

The Daily Wrap

Today on the Dish, Andrew reached for dignity amidst the divine, in response to Ross on Prop 8. The war over the Cordoba Mosque ignited, with repercussions for the ADL, and hypocrisy from the Wiesenthal Center, while freedom continued to reign quietly at the Pentagon. Beinart missed Bush while Goldblog's open letter urged him to step up, a new study showed mosques deter terrorism and even Thomas Jefferson weighed in from the grave.

Nate Silver joined the pile-on of Paul Ryan, with more

If He Were President, Ctd

Allyn Gaestel is in Port-au-Prince:

[Wyclef Jean:] both referred to himself as Haiti's Obama and emphasized his
identity; demonstrating the two sides of his early campaign's coin
Haitians he speaks in Creole and talks about his Haitian
meanwhile, he uses his international profile and foreign
for attention and protection. ...

CNN accompanied Jean on his private jet to Port-au-Prince, and thefirst stop on his arrival was a private residence in Petionville...

"Love Or Country?"

A reader writes:

I have been reflecting a lot on your response to the opinion expressed by Allahpundit regarding the Prop 8 decision. I like what you said with respect to the timing and your defense of the decision of Olson and Boies to bring on this lawsuit.  However, I think you could have challenged Allahpundit's other statements more fiercely. For one, it's true that the harm isn't "as egregious" as that experienced by blacks under Jim Crow. But there is a small minority of us who...

Faces Of The Day

Bedouin women and children shout slogans during an August 9 protest in the
Israeli Negev desert against the destruction of the
nearby Al-Arakib Bedouin village by Israeli authorities on July 27. The village was built without permission and resulted in the eviction of some 300 Bedouins. By David Buimovitch/AFP/Getty Images.

Israel - Negev - Bedouin - Middle East - Warfare and Conflict

Julian Assange, No Journalist

Michael Moynihan puts the Wikileaks founder through the wringer:

The problem is not just that Assange posted 91,000 documentsonline having, by his own admission, read only 2,000 of themcarefully. Nor is the problem the reckless exposure of braveAfghans who would rather not live under the jurisdiction of afanatical religious cult. The real lesson for the Wikileaks team isthat while obtaining secret documents is an integral partof journalism, it is not by itself journalism. And contrary...

Quote For The Day V

"The beard is the male equivalent of child bearing hips," - Jack Passion, author of The Facial Hair Handbook. The illustration is in t-shirt form!

Facial hair - Jack Passion - Fashion - Hair - Health

Barracuda

A reader writes:

I am no Sarah Palin fan that is for sure, but that video was
something else.  The eye rolling at this women being a teacher was shameful
but the unbelievably infantile mocking of this women at the beginning –"oh
you wanted me to be your governor, I am honored!" – was too much to
take.  I have not heard a taunt like that since grade school. When
is this farce going to end?

When the money runs out and the MSM gets some balls. Another writes:

The eye roll said so much more than...

George W. Bush On The Toleration Of Islam, Ctd

Beinart kinda misses Bush:

The more pessimistic, less universalistic conservatism being born inthe post-Bush era probably has something to do with the decline inAmerican self confidence. In the early Bush years, when America'sbudget deficit was still small, its military might was largelyunchallenged, and the triumph of democracy still seemed like history'sinevitable course, it was easier to be optimistic about the future ofIslam. That same ideological and economic confidence also made...