In 1986, Ronald Reagan signed into law an immigration amnesty bill called the Immigration Reform and Control Act. It had three key provisions: amnesty for people, predominantly from Mexico, who were living in this Country illegally; securing our borders with Mexico; and cracking down on businesses that employ illegal aliens. At the time, there were less than 3 million illegals living in the U.S.A. Of the three major provisions of the 1986 Act, only amnesty happened…
The G20 Summit ended on Sunday with a basic disagreement on how to restore global financial health. Or, in other words, how in the world to get us out of the worldwide recession. Do countries spend their way out or cut their way out? The cutting idea comes into play because nations are deep in debt as well as deep in recession. Among the big countries, the U.S. is alone in preferring to…
Today, there’s a lot of back and forth about the validity of Israel leading the investigation into the Gaza Flotilla deaths. You know, whether it can fairly judge the legality of its own blockade or the actions of its Navy SEALS. To those against the idea, it boils down to whether the accused can also be the prosecutor, judge and jury. But, is that really all there is to the question of whether a country…
From everything we’re hearing these days, the Gulf Oil Spill is a problem we don’t know how to solve. The effort is a whole lot of trial and error and, so far, error is winning. We’ve tried plugging the leak with everything but super glue only to figure out that it may take months to stem the flow. Cleaning up the mess is a much longer-term proposition especially since we can’t yet know the extent…
President Obama lectured several audiences this month about the need for civility in our political discourse. He pointed out that calling each other names just pushes us apart and kills bipartisanship. He sounded like Candidate Obama back on the campaign trail, trying to sell himself as The Great Unifier.
Unfortunately, Obama has too much to learn about civility to be lecturing anyone. He clouds up and throws temper tantrums when things don’t go his…
Politicians have a bad habit of doing stupid things. Taking actions that, despite all their flowery rhetoric, just lead to disastrous consequences. Especially when they get in large groups with other politicians, like the House or the Senate. It’s the old saw, “none of us is as dumb as all of us”, on steroids.
Why do they act that way? When they first get to D.C., their welcome wagon goodie bag comes with a…
