We have been a bit dubious about Lou Dobbs recently, being particularly concerned by his seemingly careless attitude to bilingualism.

So it is only fair to note that his CNN editorial today:

Dobbs: Big media hide truth about immigration April 25 2007

is valuable and effective:

the mainstream media are complicit in advancing this thinly veiled blanket amnesty. Instead of asking and answering important questions about why our immigration laws aren’t being enforced and why we’re permitting pervasive document fraud, the national media seem hell-bent on trying to obfuscate the issue…
Too often, the language of the national media describes illegal immigration as “migration” and illegal aliens as “undocumented immigrants,” …The Arizona Republic, for example, used “undocumented immigrant” more than 80 times in 36 separate stories in the past month alone; the term appeared as many as 12 times in one article on “migration,” according to our Lexis-Nexis search. At the same time, “illegal alien” appeared a total of only nine times during that span, with seven of the references coming from readers’ opinions, one from a quotation and one from an editorial…
Let’s have a vigorous open debate on illegal immigration in this country, and let’s begin with the facts. Estimates of illegal aliens in this country range from 12 million to 20 million people. Why doesn’t our government know how many there are?

I particularly liked this idea:

…shouldn’t there be an economic impact statement researched and delivered to this Congress, this president and the rest of us before any legislation granting amnesty is even considered?

Nice work, Lou!

From what I can tell, the Taliban have fled Afghanistan and now run the Human Resources and IT departments at major American corporations.Instapundit.com April 25, 2007-

He’s talking about this report:Report: 80 percent of blogs contain “offensive” content[Read the actual report in PDF]

They say that one use of the “F” word turns a blog offensive, which means that among others, the LA Times is offensive, because a story about violence by Correctional Officers, quotes a Correctional Officer as using it. (I believe this word is frequently used in prisons, by guards and inmates alike.)

As for VDARE.com, which is accused by these Censorware morons of hate, we try not use bad language, including racial epithets. However, a man in Iowa was fired from his job for using the word “Mexican” to describe…a Mexican. There’s no pleasing some people.

This comes under the heading of “I told you so” and it’s very rude to say “I told you so,” but since I’m saying it to John Podhoretz among others, I’ll make an exception. Here’s the story, material in square brackets is what the press and the Asian American Journalists Association don’t feel like telling you.

[Asian]USC student charged with assault in handgun case

police say Zao Xing Yang, 19, threatened a woman at a party early Sunday.
By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
April 25, 2007

A 19-year-old [Asian] USC student was charged Tuesday with making criminal threats and committing an assault with a handgun at a weekend party near campus.

Zao Xing Yang, an undergraduate, was arrested early Sunday morning after fellow students wrestled him to the ground when they saw him holding a .25-caliber handgun.

Police later searched Yang’s apartment and discovered packages of methamphetamine, a .44-caliber revolver, several hundred dollars in cash and “threatening materials,” police said.

Yang, who is being held without bail at Twin Towers jail in downtown Los Angeles, was charged with two counts of making criminal threats and two counts of assault with a firearm. [He may be here on a student visa, which makes him deportable. Inquiring minds want to know. But not at the LA Times]

His arraignment was postponed until May 3.

His arrest comes a week after a [Korean] Virginia Tech student fatally shot 32 people at the school, raising concerns about security on college campuses across the country.

“USC school police responded quickly, as did the Los Angeles Police Department,” Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said at a news conference Tuesday.

And if the students hadn’t fought back themselves, the police might have been investigating a murder, or two murders. So congratulations to the students for fighting back. Below, the mentions another threat, not by an Asian, but if the writer of the story, Richard Winton, [Send him mail] couldn’t figure out that a guy named Zao Yang was an Asian, what are the chance that he could figure out who an unnamed student at Bishop Mora Salesian High School is?

Meanwhile, Los Angeles police said Tuesday that a 17-year-old student at Bishop Mora Salesian High School in Los Angeles was arrested for allegedly making criminal threats.

The arrest came after a student at the Catholic school found a letter Thursday threatening “violent acts against students and teachers,” authorities said.

However, thanks to the Internet, I can say with some confidence that the student at Bishop Mora who was threatening violence was not Asian. Not likely to be Irish or Italian, either, which is what someone of my generation thinks of when we hear “Catholic School.” Here’s a report from an private school website.

You do the math.

Professor Carol Swain was on Lou Dobbs discussing a new book of essays she commissioned called Debating Immigration. The transcript of the Dobbs show [April 23, 2007 - 18:00 ET] has a funny moment where Dobbs says “. Everyone from Peter Bromolo to Nathan Glazier.” Dobbs said it right, it’s a transcription problem. Peter “Bromolo” you know–he says he’s never had seen Brimelow misspelled that particular way before, but there are a lot people who misspell Glazer. I wonder if this is the same transcriber, who on Booknotes transcripts keeps writing “Irving Crystal?”

Anyhow, about the book–you can buy it here, its page at the Cambridge University Press is here, and you can read the Introduction here.

Here’s an excerpt from the introduction:

My instincts about these issues were perhaps confirmed in November 2005, when I received an e-mail from a stranger whom I will here call Martha. Martha described herself as a 65-year-old white woman who had recently joined the California Minute Men, a group of citizens organized to help stem what Martha described as an invasion of her beloved country. Martha wrote me to lament the fact that a 15-year friendship with a black neighbor ended on the day that she asked her black friend to join her at the border. With horror, disdain, and anger, the black friend exclaimed, “I don’t do anything to help white people.” Martha was crushed. She is not a racist, she explained to me in her e-mail. She does not hate Mexicans – her husband of 23 years is Mexican American. Rather, her e-mail expressed rage at illegal immigration and at the failure of blacks to join the fight against it. After all, she argued, it is their country, too, that is being invaded.

Martha’s frustration has risen to the point that she is willing to stay up all night patrolling the border in the belief, or hope, that her lone act, multiplied by the acts of several hundred others, might actually reduce illegal immigration. Her e-mail expressed fear about not wanting her children and grandchildren to be forced to learn Spanish in order to live and work in their own country. She decries the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship by birth for those who entered the country illegally, and she laments the drain on local goods and services that she claims has even led hospital emergency rooms in Los Angeles to close. She ended her e-mail with the capitalized words GOD BLESS AMERICA.

Martha’s fears might appear extreme, but they are not without foundation. Immigration is a growing and increasingly public concern in the United States today.