Teddy Roosevelt on Illegal Immigration (Part 2)
And Teddy quickly overshadows his own quote (previously posted), with this one:
We cannot afford to continue to use hundreds of thousands of immigrants merely as industrial assets while they remain social outcasts and menaces any more than fifty years ago we could afford to keep the black man merely as an industrial asset and not […]
Teddy Roosevelt on Illegal Immigration
“In the first place we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equity with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin. But this […]
Old Pat Hits a Few Rough Patches
Bill Maher noted on this past Friday’s show (and I’m paraphrasing) that only in America can a person use, “No, officer, I wasn’t drunk. I was high.” as a legitimate defense against why they may have crashed their car into, say, a lake or in this case a security barrier..
Let’s put aside the witness testimony […]
Severin Rates Well With Listeners
Via the Boston Globe:
Whatever you think of Jay Severin, the guy’s a ratings winner. According to Arbitron, the libertarian loudmouth is drawing an impressive audience in his new 7-10 p.m. time slot on WTKK-FM (96.9). In fact, Severin’s has become the highest rated show on the station, shellacking both morning man Don Imus and the […]
The Thin Silver Lining in the Moussaoui Verdict
From the Washington Post blog:
For what it’s worth, I’m glad Moussaoui got life. He’ll suffer more this way. He won’t be allowed to pretend he’s a martyr. The death penalty for Timothy McVeigh may have been fully justified, but it wasn’t sufficient punishment for what he did. He just went to sleep, by lethal injection, […]