[iconoclast]

A few weeks ago, all scholarship pointed to a young, white, solitary white male as the Beltway shooter.

This irrelevant comment aside, I'm not sure you and Luis disagree on much.

[Mamzelle]

Not irrelevant: statistics often mislead . They only suggest and help, and are not an unshakeable authority. I see nothing in my local area to indicate that the tide of recent immigrants have much interest in being American.

Ben Franklin, bless him for many contributions, was not known for his tolerance of anyone not from a strictly Anglican (as in Anglo, not Church of England) tradition. He was from three centuries back. I don't regard a quote from him, --supposed to sound like me?--, as particularly relevant either.

We have quite an upheaval to face, culturally and socially and financially. Overwhelming the schools with non-English speakers who are not committed to the American Dream is simply not a good thing.