Posted in International, Politics, immigration, law, tagged bird feeder, illegal immigration on April 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Borrowed the following from friend Lumpy because I think it deserves the attention it’s getting as a circulating email. As analogies go, this one’s a 10:
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it is, as I filled it [...]
Posted in law, society, tagged illegal immigration, license, Spitzer on October 9, 2007 | No Comments »
New York Governor Spitzer has decided recently that his state is going to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
The decision is wrong in so many ways that it boggles the imagination. Across the country, driver’s licenses are an accepted form of photo identification. A driver’s license is a valid “ticket to ride” in all sorts [...]
Posted in International, Politics, immigration, law, tagged George Bush, illegal immigration, National Guard, NYPD on May 16, 2006 | No Comments »
President Bush just finished addressing the nation from the Oval Office, having been driven to it by the current cacophony over illegal immigration into the U.S.
He didn’t say much of anything new, repeating his old and well-known position on enforcement and a guest worker program, and a comprehensive bill including both.
He started by talking about [...]
Posted in International, Politics, immigration, language, law, media, tagged Denver Post, illegal immigration on April 5, 2006 | 1 Comment »
In Tuesday’s Denver Post, columnist Cindy Rodriquez wrote that, basically, calling illegal immigrants “illegals” is incorrect and misleading and that they should, more accurately, be called “necessary workers” or “essential workers.”
Feeling that her logic was seriously flawed, I sent her the following email:
You were quite correct in your assertions that our choice of language can [...]
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