I’ve been thinking about this for a while - and it occurs to me that a great many of the illegal immigrants (so-called) in this country are not immigrants, but migrants.
I remember as I was a youngster, my parents and grandparents referred occasionally to the “migrant” workers who worked in the Orange groves […]
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President Bush, the mercantilist classes he represents, the GOP, and some others support de facto open borders. Immigrants take jobs that Americans already here won’t do; or so he says. “President Bush says”, says Flint Journal columnist Andrew Heller,…
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From former ACLU board member, jazz critic, and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff about a recent speaking tour: “[And once,] in Miami, I was asked to speak on the Constitution before a large audience of primarily black and Hispanic…
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Warbs asks “Why did I vote for you?” to the president and the republican party in general.
Why indeed, when they seem to be busily engaging in an orgy of self congratulation, cluelessness and fiscal excess not seen since Roman times.
an extended quotation:
“Let’s run down the laundry list of what Bush has done to screw up […]
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I’ve never been a proponent of The War on Drugs™. For quite some time, a decade probably, I’ve been actively opposed to The War on Drugs. I’ve long believed that it is horribly corrosive of our individual rights and liberties, destructive to the relationship between the government and the citizens and creates an incredibly powerful, […]
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One of my anarcho-socialist critics asks (me of all people) why do “the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer..” (& etc). Well now I’m no economist Bill, but it works like this: Owners of capital can far more…
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I just finished reading Impostor, Bruce Bartlett’s book slamming President Bush for failing to live up to anything resembling conservatism. When I first heard about the book, I worried a bit whether Bartlett was just breaking ranks to sell books. If you’re worried about the same, don’t be. Bartlett’s ire for Bush […]
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Welcome to the New Orleans municipal elections liveblogging. Normally, most people wouldn’t care about the elections in the city of New Orleans. However, that changed on August 29, 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. That, combined with the incompetance of the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Orleans Parish Leeve Board, led to […]
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