Stories from February 2006
Tuesday, February 28
Danish Support for Anti-Immigration Party Rises, Poll Shows,
Bloomberg
Speech Angers Australian Muslims,
BBC News
Muslims Who Want Sharia Law ‘Should Leave’,
Guardian (London)
School Attacks Terrify Gary Student at Bailly,
Post-Tribune (Merrillville, Ind.)
Second Street to Become MLK Boulevard,
Charlotte Observer
Soto: Racism, Though Polite, Still Exists,
Lincoln Journal Star (Neb.)
Miscarriage, Infant Death Rates Highest for Minorities,
Star-Ledger (Newark)
Reports Says Illegal Aliens Costing Mississippi Taxpayers,
WLOX-TV (Biloxi, MS)
Study: Illegals Cost $210M in Education,
AP
Illegal Immigrant Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault,
WTOV-9 (Steubenville, Oh.)
Monday, February 27
Promoting ‘Preservation’ of Whites in Suit and Tie,
Washington Post
Specter Releases Draft Guest-Worker Bill,
Washington Times
Immigration: Plan for Guard Patrol at Border Gains Steam,
AP
HIV’s Hidden Victims,
Los Angeles Times
Exit Exam a Test of Determination,
San Francisco Chronicle
Protests Bring Early End to Speech by Mexican Official,
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
Study Links Racism, Disorders,
Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City)
Tennessee Suspends Alien License Program,
Washington Times
Immigrants Barred by Triple Fences and Double Standards,
Times (London)
San Quentin Prison On Lockdown After Racially Charged Riot,
AP
The End of Tolerance,
Newsweek
Friday, February 24
Farrakhan Adviser on Gov’s Hate Crime Panel,
Chicago Sun-Times
A Bittersweet Renaissance,
Washington Post
DePaul Censures Anti-Affirmative Action Group,
CNSNews.com
State Slaps District that Barred Teen,
Chicago Tribune
Illegal Immigrant Allies Threaten Children of Border Security Group,
Human Events
Senate Toughens ID Acquisition,
Badger-Herald (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Sex Slave Trafficking Exposed in Texas,
KCAL-9 (Dallas)
German Court Convicts Man for Insulting Islam,
Reuters
Muslim Hackers Deface Danish Web Sites,
UPI
Ultimatum to Muslims,
Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
Anti-Immigration Group to Meet in Herndon,
Washington Post
Thursday, February 23
‘Gifted’ Label Takes a Vacation in Diversity Quest,
Washington Post
Group Takes Steps to Boost Number of Minority Lawyers,
Contra Costa Times (San Francisco)
A New Refrain in Prince George’s,
Washington Post
Biased Doctors?,
National Review Online
Drama of Ex-Mayor Plays Out in Atlanta Courtroom,
Washington Post
Residency Extended for Central Americans,
AP
Commerce Department Rejects Proposal on International Scholars,
Daily Princetonian
Father Allegedly Kills Underage Daughter’s Adult Boyfriend,
AP
Corruption in Ranks a Challenge for Nuevo Laredo Police Chief,
KENS 5 (San Antonio)
Russian Newspaper Closes,
AP
Wednesday, February 22
‘Hate Crime’ Victims: Young, Poor, White,
WorldNetDaily.com
Latino Characters Commonplace in Kids’ TV,
AP
The Art of Compromise,
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Border Debate Shifts to Employers,
Stateline.org
Churches Out of Step, Tancredo Says,
Rocky Mountain News (Denver)
BNP to Use Prophet Cartoon in Campaign,
Independent (London)
Protester Dumps Family,
Sun (London)
Poll: Youths Back N. Korea if Attacked,
AP
Hesperophobia (cont.),
John Derbyshires website
Tuesday, February 21
Black-Latino Tensions on Rise in California,
Washington Post
L.A. Workers Join Fierce Debate Over Immigration,
Los Angeles Times
Court Renews Racial Discrimination Case,
AP
The Future of the Detroit Zoo,
WXYZ.com (Detroit)
Immigration Emerging as Big Issue in 2006 Elections,
Star-Telegram (Fort Worth)
Court Says Illegal Workers Can Sue For Lost Wages,
AP
Abort ‘Unloved’ Antilleans, Says Rotterdam Politician ,
Expatica
Nine of 10 Malian Women Suffer Genital Mutilation,
Reuters
DNA ‘Could Predict Your Surname’,
BBC News
Did First Americans Come From Europe?,
MSNBC
Letter to The American Conservative,
Jared Taylor
Monday, February 20
Poll Reveals 40pc of Muslims Want Sharia Law in UK,
Telegraph (London)
Clinton Urges EU to Convict Publishers of Caricatures,
Daily Times (Lahore, Pakistan)
France’s ‘Racist’ Soup Kitchens Shut Down,
Telegraph (London)
Colour Blind,
Toronto Sun
Drug Traffickers Find Haven in Shadows of Indian Country,
New York Times
Ole Miss Law School Aims for More African-Americans,
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (Tupelo)
Police Say Hate Crime May Have Been Hoax,
AP
Lily-White Idaho Honors Little-Known Contributions of Blacks,
AP
Conference to Promote Racism,
Observer (Herndon, Va.)
Friday, February 17
The Second Mexican War,
Frontpage Magazine
Minutemen Announce April Border Campaign,
Washington Times
Apple Valley School Squatter Disappears,
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Probe Finds Terrorists in U.S. Training For War,
WorldNetDaily
For Caribbean-Americans, A Cause for Celebration,
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale)
Bake Sale Cause for Controversy,
Keystone (Kutztown University, Pa.)
Solberg Says No Change to Family Reunification, Overall Immigration Numbers,
Canadian Press
Cleric: $1 Million to Kill Cartoonist,
AP
Finnish PM Apologises to Muslims,
International News (Pakistan)
Bodies of Fetuses, Newborns Clog Harare’s Sewers,
AP
Thursday, February 16
HBOs Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Olympics Look Like a GOP Convention,
NewsBusters.com
Can NASCAR Grow and Keep its Roots?,
Charlotte Observer
Is a War Going on in Texas?,
Eagle Forum
Umatilla County Sheriff Sends Mexican Government Bill For Prisoners,
AP
Gore Laments U.S. ‘Abuses’ Against Arabs,
AP
Student Editors Suspended After Publishing Muhammad Cartoons,
Student Press Law Center
Schools in Michigan Remain Segregated, Findings Show,
Detroit News
Evacuees Blamed For Increase in Dallas Crime,
CBS 11 News (Dallas)
KC Considers Extending African-Centered Schools,
Kansas City Star
Lawmakers React Angrily to Abortion Remarks,
AP
Mexico Admits Hostage Rescue Was Staged for TV,
Guardian (London)
Wednesday, February 15
Affirmative Blackmail,
OpinionJournal
Schools Consider Afrocentric Curriculum,
Chicago Tribune
Motel Evicts Hurricane Evacuees for Vandalism,
2theadvocate.com (Baton Rouge)
Houston’s New Soccer Team to Change Their Name,
ABC-13 (Houston)
Illegal Labor Could Cost Firms in Court,
Dallas Morning News
House OKs Surcharge on Wire Transfers From Illegal Immigrants,
AP
Should South Africa Trust This Man to be Its President?,
Telegraph (London)
Code of Conduct for Immigrants Leads to Tension in Rotterdam,
Voice of America
Italian Minister Puts Mohammad Cartoon on T-Shirts,
Reuters
Race Matters To 3-Month-Olds, Study Finds,
World-Science.net
Tuesday, February 14
‘We Name Schools After Heroes’,
Chicago Sun-Times
Farmworkers Sue FEMA Over Disaster Aid,
AP
Two San Diego Sailors Arrested For Smuggling Immigrants,
AP
Katrina Cards Sparked Massive Fraud,
Australian (Sydney)
Immigrants Set to Demonstrate What Life Would be Like Without Them,
Press of Atlantic City
Boehner, or GOP, Must Bend,
Washington Post
6 Arrests Tied to E. African Gang,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
11 Countries Plan To Lobby Against U.S. Immigration Law,
AP
French Swing Behind Sarko’s Revolution,
Times (London)
‘Foreigner Unemployment’ High But Stable,
Expatica
Mosque Sculpture Pulled From German Art Show,
DPA
Monday, February 13
Another Inmate Dies in Racial Fighting,
Los Angeles Times
Blacks vs. Latinos Tension Reaches Far Beyond Gangs, Jails,
Los Angeles Daily News
Tommy Lee Jones Defames Border Patrol,
DebbieSchlussel.com
Integration Later,
Inside Higher Ed
African Immigrants Face Bias From Blacks,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Voodoo Head Found in Air Luggage,
BBC News
Thousands of Child ‘Witches’ Turned on to the Streets to Starve,
Guardian (London)
France Resists Evangelicals,
Reuters
British Imam Praises London Tube Bombers,
Times (London)
U.S. Gives Mexico Millions for Security,
Washington Times
Friday, February 10
Hollywood Takes Liberties with True Stories But ‘Glory Road’ is a Flagrant Foul,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
New Generation Doesn’t Blink At Interracial Relationships,
USA TODAY
Ex-Inmates Say Gangs Force Them to Fight,
Los Angeles Times
Ex-Officer Gets Three Years for Letting in Immigrants,
AP
Dope-Fighting Deputies Told To Back Off From Border,
San Antonio Express-News
Black and White Views Back in the Classroom,
Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
Christians ‘Are Being Ignored’ As Ministers Court Other Faiths,
Times (London)
Sweden Shuts Website Over Cartoon,
BBC News
Genes Influence Reading Skills: Study,
AAP
A Certain Trumpet,
American Renaissance, May 1997
Thursday, February 9
Justice Department Claims Virginia Beach Police Math Exam Discriminates Against Blacks, Hispanics,
AP
Parents and Students Sue Over School Exit Exam,
Los Angeles Times
State Will Pay $250,000 In Civil-Rights Case,
Seattle Times
Craigslist Sued Over Housing Ad Bias,
Chicago Tribune
Police: 19 Injured in Jail Race Riot,
AP
Diversity Is Strength! Its Also ... Ethnic Come-Ons,
VDARE.com
Minutemen Rally Against Illegals,
Washington Times
Poll of British Muslims,
Populus (London)
Police Found Weapons At Finsbury Park Mosque,
Times (London)
Mugabe To Ask Whites Back In Land Grab U-Turn,
Telegraph (London)
Wednesday, February 8
A Bigger, Blacker GOP,
Frontpage Magazine
Black Students File Complaint Saying U-M Discriminates,
Detroit Free Press
Black Spending Habits,
Digital Digest (Detroit)
Man’s Arrest Stains Anti-Gang Campaign,
News Observer (Raleigh)
Lecturer: Blacks Have Yet to Heal,
Herald News (Paterson, NJ)
New Orleans Understates Looting,
UPI
Judge Rules Against Immigration Group,
KFMB News 8 (San Diego)
Bonfire of the Pieties,
Wall Street Journal (New York City)
Gang Violence Raises Island’s Murder Rate,
AP
Hope Peeps Through Cracks in Island’s Bloody Slums,
Times (London)
Young, Rich, Black . . . and Driving an African Boom,
Guardian (London)
Tuesday, February 7
GOP Tackles Illegal Immigration,
Oregonian (Portland)
Police Targeting Day Laborers,
Tucson Citizen
Request Falls Short of Full Funding for Border Agents,
Washington Times
Home-Buying Program Has Cash, Controversy,
San Diego Union-Tribune
Black Jesus Pic Looks to Tap Controversy,
Variety
Abu Hamza Jailed for Seven Years for Inciting Murder,
Times (London)
Sarkozy Unveils New Laws to Expel Foreign Workers,
Telegraph (London)
S. Africa To Speed Up Land Expropriation,
Reuters
Vice Is Big Business in S. Africa,
Reuters
GenSpec Formulates the World’s First Genetically Specific Vitamins and Weight Loss Supplements,
PR Newswire
Monday, February 6
1 Killed, 50 Hurt in County Jail Race Riot,
Los Angeles Times
Student-Athlete’s Mouth Gets Him In Trouble,
WSFA 12 (Montgomery, Ala.)
Shooting Shocks Deputy’s Friends,
Los Angeles Times
Woman Arrested After ‘Racist Language’ At Taco Bell,
Drudge Report
Rebel Flag Shakes Up Assembly,
Columbia Daily Tribune (SC)
Bush Asks for More Visas for High-Tech Workers,
Financial Times (London)
Muslim Protests Are Incitement To Murder, Say Tories,
Melissa Kite, Telegraph (London)
Torment of Africa’s ‘Child Witches’,
Times (London)
Universities Told: Balance the Racial Mix,
Times (London)
Riot Order: Avoid Middle Eastern Men,
Sydney Morning Herald
Friday, February 3
Outrage Grows Over Muhammad Cartoon,
CBS/AP
US Backs Muslims in Cartoon Dispute,
Saul Hudson
European Elite Scrambles to Defuse Furore Over Caricatures Of Muhammad,
Guardian (London)
French Firm Tests Colorblind Hiring,
Washington Post
The Jail Run By Al-Qaeda,
Mirror (London)
Immigration Officials Admit Day Rounding Up Illegal Day Laborers Are Not A Priority,
Putnam County Courier (Brewster, New York)
Zachry Employee Fired Over E-Mail Commits Suicide,
San Antonio Express-News
Chaos at the Top Causes Black Families to Flee the City Schools,
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Local Educators Confront Black Achievement Gap,
North County Times (Escondido, Cal.)
The Health Disparities Myth: Diagnosing the Treatment Gap,
AEI Press
Can Europe Learn the Lessons of Yugoslavia?,
American Renaissance, Sept. 2001
Thursday, February 2
BNP Duo to Face Race Hate Retrial,
BBC News
Norwegian Muslims Want Blasphemy Law,
Aftenposten (Oslo)
Ethiopia’s Food Aid Addiction,
BBC News
Mugabe Moves Against City Whites,
Telegraph (London)
New Border Incursion in Hudspeth County,
KFOXTV.com (El Paso)
The New Immigration Cops,
Wall Street Journal (New York City)
Proposal: Outlaw Renting To Illegals,
Arizona Star (Tucson)
DePaul University Calls Affirmative Action Protest Harassment,
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Wednesday, February 1
Papers Reprint Islam Row Cartoons,
AP
Hamas Demands Return of Seville in Internet Childrens Magazine,
Spain Herald (Madrid)
Smooth-Talking Nationalist Attracts Russian Votes,
Jackson News Tribune (WY)
Whips in Turmoil As Blair’s No-Show Castrates Hate Bill,
Times (London)
Africas HungerA Systemic Crisis,
BBC News
Speech Gives Little Attention to Border Issues,
Houston Chronicle
Remittances Sent Home by Mexicans Hits $20B,
Reuters
Ex-U.S. Agent Pleads Guilty in Smuggling,
San Diego Union-Tribune
Congress Calls For Border Hearing,
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, Cal.)
Choose a Doctor by Affinity Group,
Washington Post