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
Proposed: “If India and Mexico complete their semi-governmental, semi-private industrialization and modernization programs currently underway, this will be a long-term net benefit to the United States of America.”
Panic over the swine flu is starting to be tedious. I heard yesterday that a client who is a school bus driver saw about half the number of kids as normal going to school this week. Half? There’s that much… Continue Reading
Apparently, there are plans in the works to send U.S. military troops into northern Mexico to help fight the ascendant narcotics organizations there. It seems to be the case that these large criminal enterprises are, in some regions of northern… Continue Reading
I’ll say this for Congressman Jose Serrano (D-NY) — he introduced a bill to repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment in 2005, just after George W. Bush was re-elected. So he is being evenhanded to introduce it again now that a member… Continue Reading
In a move that earned him a standing ovation from his own countrymen and which seems cynically calculated to polarize opinion in the United States, Mexican President Felipe Calderón proclaimed in his state of the nation address: Mexico does not… Continue Reading