Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Diversity makes us unhappy

Don't we have a right to be happy?

Research by the Home Office suggests that the more ethnically diverse an area is, the less people are likely to trust each other.

The Commission for Racial Equality has also done work looking at the effect of diversity on well-being.

Interviewed on The Happiness Formula, the chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips accepts that people are happier if they are with people like themselves.


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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

GOP Senators Who Votes for Amnesty

Four GOP Senators up for relection voted for amnesty:

Chafee - RI
DeWine - OH
Lugar - IN
Snowe - ME


Chafee is the archtypical RINO, and Snowe is a liberal Republican. Lugar is a household name and be Senator for life.

DeWine is the interesting vote. I don't think the people of Ohio favor open borders and I belive he is a constested race. For example, Santorum and Talent voted agains amnesty and the politics of immigration are that not very differnt in Missouri and Pennsylvania than they are in Ohio.

It will be interesting to see if this vote matters in any of these three races.

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