Archive for November, 2008

On being a ‘bad sport’

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

(Concluding my column of yesterday, Nov. 8.) One particularly brilliant legal mind writes in, in response to a recent column: “List of lies in this column: … Illegal immigrants are barred from receiving federal welfare benefits, and even legal immigrants cannot receive those benefits for the first five years after they immigrate. See title IV […]

Messages of tolerance and sensitivity

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Channel-hopping on election night, you couldn’t help but notice the similar expressions on the faces of so many of the anchors, or correspondents, or whatever the networks now call their professional spokesmodelreaderpersons. From Katie Couric to Diane Sawyer, they were all beaming like cats who had just swallowed the canary. No, that’s not quite right. […]

Some final thoughts on Tuesday’s election

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

In Tuesday’s presidential election, I know who I “should” vote for. I disagree with the Libertarian Party platform’s endorsement of the current congressional abdication of responsibility to control immigration. (Don’t we have the same right to control access to our welfare programs as we have to block some stranger from breaking down our door and […]