Kristol vs. Frum on Immigration

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Tuesday March 28, 2006 · 7:55 AM PST

2006/03/28 · 07:55

I'm on my way to work this morning and NPR is having a fund raiser. So, my normal morning routine of news is disrupted by the well-meaning, yet unlistenable requests for listeners, just like me! to donate now!

So, I flip through the AM radio dial, check out some Mike and Mike in the morning on ESPN 1000, Jerry Springer is on commercial on Air America...and hello dolly! Bill Kristol has just been invited on the Laura Ingraham show to discuss immigration. Joining him was David Frum. It was Weekly Standard vs. National Review. It was head in the sand "there's nothing wrong here!" vs. "Republicans better get this issue right!". It was, to say the least, actually quite illuminating. Read More

Could Parisian Riots Happen Here?

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Thursday November 03, 2005 · 7:50 AM PST

2005/11/03 · 07:50

In case you hadn't heard, the Parisian suburbs are burning. Now, keep in mind, Paris isn't like the Chicagoland area, as people would describe my sprawling metropolis. Paris has a dense city core, one nearly fifteen hundred years old, filled with metropolitan city dwellers. The outer suburbs of Paris are similar to what they used to be years ago...where the poor are shunted off, safely outside the city walls.

They're rioting, the violence getting worse nightly, as thousands of riot control police fill the streets, firing teargas, beating locals, and making mass arrests. The trigger was the electrocution a few days ago of youth fleeing the police.

Could this happen here?
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Colorado Rejects TABOR

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Wednesday November 02, 2005 · 12:53 PM PST

2005/11/02 · 12:53

Coloradans rejected by a close margin the continued adoption of strict spending limits on state and local government. They just passed 53% to 47% (with 83% of the vote tallied when I read the article) a measure to secure over $3 billion in taxpayer money to pay for those oh so essential services like teachers and roads... Read More

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