Fear and Loathing from Texzona
I wasn’t surprised by events in Texas and Arizona or by their timing. I’m not even taken aback by the statements of Fox News contributor and business anchor, John Stossel. For the last eighteen months,...
View ArticleProfiling Paradox of AZ Law
The supporters of Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070, do have a way of talking in circles. Most of the time, they don’t even seem conscious of their contradictions. One minute, they’re badmouthing...
View ArticleAZ Goes After Children
What’s the matter, Arizona? Couldn’t find someone your own size to pick on? You have to go after children now. What a big, bad state you turned out to be. This fall, Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce...
View ArticleDreams in the Making
Some have long maintained that a Harvard diploma is a “golden passport.” But sometimes what a Harvard student needs is the real thing: a U.S. passport. Or, for that matter, a birth certificate, Social...
View ArticleAnchor and Terror Babies: Really a Problem?
The “anchor-terror baby” blitz has begun. We’ve seen the script before: create a straw man (i.e. “terror babies”) to build up and easily tear down, or pick a wedge issue (i.e. “anchor babies” or the...
View ArticleMurder of the DREAM
I’d like to report a murder. The DREAM Act is unresponsive and appears to be gasping its last breath. The trouble is that the cowards who committed this heinous act didn’t even have the guts to show...
View ArticleThe Word Police
Sometimes, the very best intentions produce the very worst ideas. And so it is with the recent campaign to rid our national lexicon of what some people are calling the “I-word.” The word is “illegal.”...
View ArticleThe DREAM Will Win the War
Get ready for a real fight. The lines have never been drawn more brutally. With the economic recovery lurching hither and yon and making the social and political mix extraordinarily flammable, the...
View Article“Probably Done by an Illegal”
I have this theory that if you rummage around long enough in any major news story in the United States over the last 25 years – the OJ Simpson murder trial, the 2000 Florida recount, the explosion of...
View ArticleThe Fight for Citizenship is Coming
Because of the upcoming assault on the Fourteenth Amendment about to be launched by right-wingers and Tea Baggers in the name of tightening up immigration enforcement against those brown people coming...
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