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Yesterday's Washington Times editorial contains highly interesting, but not very surprising, news:
The rest can be read at Roncesvalles.
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Culture Clash in a Nutshell and Parking Tickets as Diagnosis Tool
Yesterday's Washington Times editorial contains highly interesting, but not very surprising, news:
Corruption is a state of mind
TODAY'S EDITORIAL
July 8, 2006
Here's an unexpectedly telling window into poor governance in the Third World: the Egyptian or Chadian diplomat who racks up hundreds of parking tickets. As the Web site danieldrezner.com reports, two American economists recently discovered in New York City ticket records from 1997 to 2002 demonstrating that diplomats from the world's most corrupt governments also tend to be the likeliest to scoff at New York's parking rules. If ever there were social-scientific evidence that bad behavior in government may be a state of mind, not just a set of bad incentives or institutions, this is it.
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Diplomats from African and Middle Eastern countries dominate the list of repeat offenders. Of the 20 worst scofflaw missions, 17 represented countries in those regions. Kuwaitis were by far the worst, with an average of 246 tickets per diplomat over five years. Egyptians and Chadians were second- and third-worst with 140 and 124, respectively. Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Sudan were also top-20 offenders (The three countries outside the regions were No. 5 Bulgaria, No. 7 Albania and No. 20 Serbia and Montenegro). With a few exceptions, these countries occupy the lower ranks of Transparency International's 2005 International Corruption Perceptions Index, a leading world benchmark for disreputable government.
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The rest can be read at Roncesvalles.
- Poll: Nearly Half Of All Muslims Hold Anti-semitic Views
Shocking!!! From the Times of Israel: . . . Beyond the West Bank and Gaza, the survey found that in the Middle East and North Africa, 74% of those polled agreed with a majority of the anti-Semitic stereotypes in the index. In comparison, countries...
-
The 13 Worst Countries for Christian Persecution We often read that CAIR, a known supporter of terrorism, likes to promote the fiction that Muslims in the West are victims of hate crimes. This, of course, is a complete lie. Most of the so-called...
- Unlikely The Goldstone Report Will Be Withdrawn At The Un
Through this new site formed by Robin Shepherd called The Commentator (found via One Jerusalem), I discovered what'll probably surprise no one: It now appears all but certain that the controversial report alleging deliberate Israeli atrocities against...
- Maybe Bho Has A Grudge Against The Cambridge Police Department
Oh, this is rich (with thank to The Merry Widow): ...According to the Somerville Times in 2007, as a Harvard Law School student, Obama got 17 parking tickets during 1989-1991 from the Cambridge Police Department that he left unpaid until just weeks before...
- Storm Track Infiltration: Muslim Cabbies At It Again
Sweetness and Light picked up this little reported news from Chicago Sun-Times. It seems 500 Muslim cab drivers have not only been collecting the blessings of Allah during Ramadan but also some traffic tickets too. Faisal, a taxicab driver who works at...