Michel Evanchik

The Thanksgiving tradition comes from an earlier celebration called “Harvest Home” In 1621, when their labors were rewarded with a bountiful harvest after a year of sickness and scarcity, the Pilgrims gave thanks to God and celebrated His bounty in the Harvest Home tradition with feasting and sport (recreation). To these people of strong...
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The trains should run on time. Whether conducted by private enterprise or public bureaucracy, the trains should run on time. Lately, the subway’s always late. People’s lives are disrupted. Employees are late for work and late coming home. Kids miss events at day camps and schools. Restaurant reservations get cancelled and movies get missed....
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Sir Mix-A-Lot, who extolled the female posterior in “Baby Got Back”, was equally adept at excoriating the grasping IRS. Click “Read More” for the lyrics:
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  As the Long March of the left burns and hacks its way through the nation’s remaining cultural institutions-reenacting the Cultural Revolution on American soil-and Europeans who balk at being invaded by the vanguards of Islam are condemned as Islamophobic bigots, it’s appropriate to reflect on the words  of a woman who is considered...
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The Chinese authorities in Beijing are doing exactly what New York City should be doing to deal with illegal immigrants:  cracking down on them.
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American Rattlesnake has been down the past 36 hours.  We were hacked. It ‘s been a pain in the keister getting back online, but now we’re back.  More details will be forthcoming, but right now us rattlesnake handlers are tired and we’re going to sleep. We’ll keep up the good fight as long as...
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USA Today is reporting on a new strategy self-entitled immigration scofflaws are using to stay in this country.  They exploit public sympathy and liberal news outlets to publicize their illicit immigration status and demand the right to stay in this country: Abdollahi’s parents immigrated to the U.S. from Iran on a student visa when...
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There is something you can do to stop the most heinous abuses of illegal immigrants, and it can be as simple as making a phone call. American Rattlesnake recently recounted the tale of “V.M.” an Indian maid kept in servitude in upstate New York. Most striking is how this injustice was found out —...
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To listen to the Democratic Party, Latinos have political tunnel-vision, caring only about immigration issues.   Latinos, like the rest of their fellow Americans, care about a broad array of issues. A quick look at the Univision homepage bears this out.  That may be a bad example — a quick look at the Univision...
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