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“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” – Thomas Jefferson
Conservative Talkers
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. | Hating the Middle Class
The liberals hate the middle class. There, I said it, and I am glad. Once again I am a truth teller, in this case speaking truth to stone heads. So certain am I of the truth of my asseveration that I honestly doubt any liberal will take issue with me. Can you imagine a liberal coming forward and saying: “Wrong, Tyrrell! I love the middle class.” Well, I guess I can imagine it, because liberals are effortless liars. Yet what specifically about the middle class might the liberals adduce to demonstrate their affection? The middle class’ sobriety? Hard work? Love of country? Love of liberty?
The liberals’ contempt for the pulchritudinous Sarah Palin obviously is fired by their hatred of the middle class. She has said nothing that many ordinary Americans have not said privately, though she does it with charm. I was particularly charmed by her playful taunt directed toward the Prophet Obama at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., in February, when she said, “How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out for ya?” At the time, his polling figures were low — not as low as they fell later, but low — and not much was “working” for him. Things have not improved.
David Harsanyi | ‘Immigration’ Isn’t the Problem
The Congress of the United States — an institution that spent a chunk of the past year cajoling passage of the most contentious legislation devised in decades — may not have the “appetite” to take on another “controversial issue,” namely immigration reform, this year, according to President Barack Obama. Bummer.
But is immigration, in the broadest sense of the idea, really a contentious matter?
Health care reform, cap and trade — at the heart of these questions resides an irreconcilable conflict of philosophy, be it economic doctrine or the proper role of government, and as we learned, no amount of negotiation will bridge these ideological splits.
Very few Americans, on the other hand, are inherently opposed to immigration. For the most part, the controversy we face isn’t about immigration at all. It’s about the systematic failure of federal government to enforce the law or offer rational policy. There’s a difference.
Debra J. Saunders | America’s Political Grand Canyon
Let me lead with what should be an unremarkable observation: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer did not write federal immigration laws that require permanent residents to carry green cards, employers to check documentation or limits on the number of legal immigrants admitted each year. Washington did.
But because Washington has failed to enforce those rules, Brewer signed into law a bill passed by the Arizona legislature to beef up and expand enforcement of federal immigration law.
