Immigration
Posted in LFA Flashback by R Lee Wrights on April 30th, 2010 by Rachel Mills
OK, let’s talk about those pesky illegal immigrants, taking our jobs (cleaning hotel toilets) taking our welfare, taking our education, our healthcare, our sacred social services that make this free, capitalist country great…
But first let’s read this dedication poem on the foot of the Colossus, a gift from ever increasingly (and unemployed) socialist France in the name of Freedom, which stands on Staten Island…
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows worldwide welcome; her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she with silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City, has been funding a national advertising campaign to promote his congressional gun- control bill. Monday’s Denver Post featured a full-page ad urging Sen. Mark Udall to support the Bloomberg bill; Colorado’s other senator, Michael Bennett, is already a co-sponsor.
During the 1970s, various agencies started evaluating the medical care system and came up with the brilliant idea that primary care, specifically the type given by the old time GP was a neglected part of the health care system in this country which could help reign in costs due to its efficiency. GPs had been given short shrift in reimbursements and procedures were heavily favored. The ‘cognitive services’, where the physician sat down and talked to the patient, rendered by the old time GP should be compensated, so the thought went.
A constitutional republic that had endured for centuries was now breaking down. The signs were everywhere.
As much as I detest tyrants, sometimes their creativity and ingenuity impresses me. At other times, however, they’re just plain stupid. And I must say, for years now I think the quality of tyrants here in the U.S. has been declining sharply. I don’t mean the recent tyrants have been worse people, just less competent tyrants. And that’s a good thing for their intended victims.
Recently Larken and I watched the movie “The Green Mile” for the first time in many years. Having just written my last post about how people always think they’re doing the right thing, it was challenging to be reminded just how unspeakably, deliberately evil some people are. Of course the movie is entirely fictional, based on a Stephen King story about characters living or working on a Death Row in a 1930s prison. But there really are people like the villains in that film: people who simply enjoy making other people suffer–which, it seems to me, is pretty much the essence of evil.
To a question posed to me by Louisville’s “Plain Brown Rapper,” Carl Brown
The New Path for the Libertarian Party slate of LNC candidates has assembled a proposal for advancing the Libertarian Party. It’s a serious plan, not a puff piece. This series of articles is offering the proposal itself, not the sales documents for selling the proposal to delegates. Like any legitimate plan, it’s going to be modified as time moves along, to take advantage of experience and changing situations. The plan is meant to be open to improvement and enhancement. Having said that:
In a previous article, I advanced the notion that, “The key to winning elections is simply working harder. Get out and meet your neighbors, develop a record of community activism, and learn how to deflect any attack and stay on message.”
