Everytime I hear the news that Bush signed the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence Bill, I think of two things, one is this picture below:
…and the second thing is, immigration marches made this more likely, they woke up the wrong sleeping giant.
Archive for October, 2006
Oct31st2006
Bush Signs U.S.-Mexico Border Fence Bill
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 0 CommentsOct31st2006
“Many campuses have speech codes where it is called creating a “hostile environment” if you say things that make various racial, sexual, or other protected groups unhappy. Young people educated at our most prestigious colleges and universities are learning the lesson that storm trooper tactics can silence those who are not in vogue on campus, […]
Oct30th2006
“The American system of government is based on spreading out power so that nobody can mess things up too badly. I’m not sure it does the job as well as it should, but it’s founded on the right idea, and we should be using all our cultural influence to spread that idea all over the […]
Oct28th2006
“”Worst economy since Herbert Hoover,” John Kerry said in 2004, while that year’s growth (3.9 percent) was adding to America’s gross domestic product the equivalent of the GDP of Taiwan (the 19th-largest economy). Nancy Pelosi vows that if Democrats capture Congress they will “jump-start our economy.” A “jump-start ” is administered to a stalled vehicle. […]
Oct27th2006
“After all, what is competition? Is it something that exists and has a life of its own, like cholera? No. Competition is merely the absence of oppression. In things that concern me, I want to make my own choice, and I do not want another to make it for me without regard for my wishes; […]
Oct26th2006
Xavier Gabaix, a Harvard economist who is now on the Princeton Faculty, explains why CEO pay has increased so much:
This paper develops a simple equilibrium model of CEO pay. CEOs have different talents and are matched to firms in a competitive assignment model. In market equilibrium, a CEO’s pay changes one for one with aggregate […]
Oct26th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Capitalism, Economics, Education, General, HealthCare, ModernPolitics, Poverty, SocialSecurity and Welfare. 0 Comments“I believe that in reality what has helped the less fortunate is economic growth. Today’s elderly are affluent not because of Social Security, but because of all of the wealth created by private sector innovation over their lifetimes. Government involvement in health care and education is an impediment to progress in those fields. Job training […]
Oct25th2006
One Of The Many Reasons Why I Like Wal-Mart
Published by in Economics, General and Wal-Mart. 3 CommentsWal-Mart is doing what it does best - bringing employment to areas that are in desperate need of it:
Bringing Wal-Mart to Chicago was a four-year journey that pitted unions and small business owners against politicians and activists eager to bring jobs to the city’s economically depressed West Side.
More than 15,000 people […]
Oct25th2006
“From a perspective founded on sphere sovereignty, the progressive communitarian’s basic flaw is his willingness to invoke the coercive power of the state in ways that deny the right of mankind acting individually or collectively through voluntary associations to order society. In contrast, conservatives are unwilling to sacrifice ordered liberty at the altar of community. […]
Oct24th2006
Michael Munger, an online acquaintance of mine and a professor of political science at Duke University, is running for Governor of North Carolina under the libertarian banner. In one of his speeches, he lists a core platform of his campaign:
It has become customary to bash public education, and the state of our educational system in […]
Oct24th2006
‘The minimum wage is a blunt instrument for reducing overall poverty, however, because many minimum-wage earners are not in poverty and because many of those in poverty are not connected to the labor market. We calculate that the 90-cent increase in the minimum wage between 1989 and 1991 transferred roughly $5.5 billion to low-wage workers…. […]
Oct23rd2006
“Is there any reason for the United Nations to stay in New York? The combination of its affluence and celebrity-driven culture draws in an odious international cadre, one that hates the United States (witness the applause for Chavez) as much as it enjoys living here. Surely it could move to Nigeria, Dafur, Cuba, or Venezuela, […]
Oct21st2006
” The most that can be said for the current Republicans is that they want to throw away less money than the Democrats. In general, Democrats are the only real reason to vote for Republicans”. –Thomas Sowell
Oct20th2006
“On foreign policy, Democrats continue to argue as if talking with our enemies is the magic formula. We should keep talking with Iran while they keep building a nuclear bomb, just as the western democracies kept negotiating with Hitler while he kept building up his war machine in preparation for starting World War II. […]
Oct19th2006
Democrats Vs. Blacks
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 0 CommentsThomas Sowell writes on the opposing interests between Democrat special interest groups and Blacks:
All the most powerful groups within the Democratic Party — the teachers’ unions, environmental zealots, lawyers who make big bucks off frivolous lawsuits, and the American Civil Liberties Union — have interests diametrically opposed to the interests of blacks.
The teachers’ unions fight […]
Oct19th2006
“Weak-kneed members of both parties have been calling for a timetable to be announced for withdrawal from Iraq. No other war in thousands of years of history has ever had such a timetable announced to their enemies. Even if we intended to get out by a given date, there is not the slightest reason to […]
