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**Posted by Phineas I mean, what’s so threatening about a biometric database of all adult Americans being in the immigration bill, citizen? The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous [...]
I Storified my Tweets on this issue from earlier this evening – let me know your thoughts. [View the story "Social issues \"don't matter\"? Like hell they don't - here's why" on Storify]
Sigh. Via Yahoo News’ Ticket blog: WASHINGTON—During opening statements for the first House Judiciary Committee hearing addressing comprehensive immigration reform, the top ranking Democrat on the committee urged his fellow members and the witnesses present to avoid using the phrase “illegal immigrant” during the daylong proceedings. “I hope no one uses the term ‘illegal immigrants’ [...]
**Posted by Phineas At the moment I consider myself agnostic about the latest immigration proposal, this time from a bipartisan group of senators including Marco Rubio (R-FL). We all know the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli plan was a bust, because the promised border security arrangements were never implemented. And there are serious questions in this latest proposal: [...]
Chilling. Via The Washington Examiner: Latino groups Wednesday blamed a surge in hate crimes against Hispanics on harmful stereotypes portrayed on TV and in conservative media and are asking the administration to probe Fox News and talk radio, two media cited by the groups as the worst perpetrators. “We want the government to investigate this,” [...]
Our Panderer in Chief got it right last year in a televised Q and A on Univision (via @Nickarama1): That was then, of course – and this is now … an election year where he’s floundering with almost all key voting blocs, so the strategy is to “win at all costs” – including at the [...]
**Posted by Phineas His “reboot” speech on the economy yesterday having turned out to be a miserable flop, President Obama will unveil today Plan B: pander shamelessly to an important ethnic group: The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin giving work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and [...]
And, the Occupy movement, too: I tell you, the man is a genius. Woolery 2012! (Crossposted at Public Secrets)
**Posted by Phineas Democrats plan to make illegal immigration the next civil-rights crusade. Because foreigners breaking our laws to get into America are just like the US citizens who fought for the political rights guaranteed them as citizens. If I were the NAACP, I’d be teed-off that the accomplishments of my parents and grandparents were [...]
I’ve been blogging since since the summer of 2003 (even though I celebrate my anniversary in October because early Oct. 2003 is when I started regularly blogging), and the primary reason I got started at this was due to outrage at what I saw was extreme liberal bias from so-called “mainstream media” news outlets – [...]