One of the big motivating reasons offered to justify the controversial “new” law concerning immigration in Arizona is the fear that undocumented aliens are perpetrating a wave of crime, particularly violent crime, upon hapless Arizonans. The Feds are letting all… Continue Reading
(Cross-Posted at League of Ordinary Gentlemen.) So the Federal Department of Justice has sued the State of Arizona over Arizona’s immigration law. Once again, I am forced to think critically about something of which I superficially would seem to approve.… Continue Reading
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about the Arizona immigration law. On the one hand, I see no intrinsic policy problem with a state police officer referring someone reasonably suspected of being in the country without legal documentation to… Continue Reading
The ideal state for immigration would be that the United States takes in only the immigrants that it needs to fill open and low-wage positions, from a diverse mix of origin nations, and that those immigrants all get the appropriate… Continue Reading
Joe Wurzelbacher spoke at a “tea party” event over this 4th of July weekend. I thought the tea parties were to protest high taxes, high government spending, intrusive regulation of day-to-day activities, and most of all, the ever-accumulating Federal debt.… Continue Reading
When I was in high school and college, lo these many years ago, the big flashpoint political issues that I can recall talking about were: Abortion Affirmative action The Cold War Balancing environmental protection with economic growth Illegal immigration Gay… Continue Reading
One of the things that makes the United States of America truly exceptional in the world is the our truly amazing system of higher education. Think about the very top universities in the world. How many of them are in… Continue Reading
In 1954, a woman in Minnesota claimed that aliens had told her that on December 20 of that year, all of civilization would be wiped out in a catastrophic global flood. The story of how that woman attracted a cult… Continue Reading
Steve Benen takes the Associated Press’s reporter Charles Babbington to task for calling Obama’s acceptance speech sketchy on the details of the policies Obama would pursue as President: Babbington: ‘Barack Obama, whose campaign theme is “change we can believe in,”… Continue Reading
The Wife and I had high hopes for the Antelope Valley Freethinkers’ group meeting. We had such a great experience with the Rationalists of East Tennessee and we were really hoping for another group of that quality here. But there… Continue Reading