{"id":1600,"date":"2009-07-23T06:16:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T12:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2009-07-23T06:16:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T12:16:46","slug":"wednesday-linkorama-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1600","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Yet more data showing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/19\/AR2009071902154.html?hpid=topnews\">immigration<\/a> is not a problem for the US and appears to making the place better.  As someone married to an immigrant, I&#8217;d probably have to agree.<\/li>\n<li>Parents in NYC are putting up their own money to hire teachers&#8217; aides for classrooms.  This informal program is working very well.  So naturally, the union wants it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/20\/education\/20schools.html?_r=3&#038;hp\">killed<\/a>.  Can&#8217;t have non-union employees mucking things up.  Why, they come without a whole slew of administrators!  Worthless &#8220;independent&#8221; Mike Bloomberg instantly caved.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re sending the DEA to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-dea-afghan20-2009jul20,0,3098699.story?page=1\">Afghanistan<\/a>.  Yeah, that&#8217;s going to go well.<\/li>\n<li>Remember how much Obama hated Bush&#8217;s signing statements?  Well, that&#8217;s OK.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D99J1IPO0&#038;show_article=1\">Neither does he<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Experts are puzzled that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/19\/AR2009071902154.html?hpid=topnews\">crime is plunging<\/a> during a recession.  Maybe &#8230; just maybe &#8230; that&#8217;s because crime isn&#8217;t caused by poverty. <\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet more data showing that immigration is not a problem for the US and appears to making the place better. As someone married to an immigrant, I&#8217;d probably have to agree. Parents in NYC are putting up their own money to hire teachers&#8217; aides for classrooms. This informal program is working very well. So naturally, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-pO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}