Immigration - Fence 'em out?
World Net Daily: "Nearly two-thirds of Americans would favor the construction of a fence along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, while three out of four say a politician's stance on immigration will influence the way they vote in coming elections. According to a new survey by Rasmussen Reports, 60 percent of those surveyed like the idea of a barrier along the U.S. Southwest border as a means of dramatically reducing illegal immigration from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America...WND reported in October that, according to companies that build fences along U.S. highways to muffle traffic noise for nearby residents, a barrier along the entire 2,000-plus miles of U.S.-Mexican border would cost about $1.4 billion, or about half of what the Pentagon spends in Iraq a month. A separate congressional estimate by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., for a two-tiered fence along the entire border was estimated at about $8 billion. The Rasmussen telephone survey of 1,500 adults was conducted Nov. 4-6. The margin of sampling error for the survey is plus or minus 4 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence. In all, 37 percent of survey respondents were Republican, 37 percent Democrat and 26 percent unaffiliated."
Dani Newsum writes about Intelligent Design and says, "The real shame is that this 'debate' is taking place in 2005. Humans have walked on the moon, flown to Mars, mastered intricate brain and heart surgery, and found cures and vaccines for the deadly diseases that have decimated human populations over the centuries, not to mention figuring out how to nuke corn kernels into popcorn. Now is no time to tell the world, much less our children, that when all the scientific answers to a magnificent riddle are not readily apparent, just fall to your knees, turn off your brain, and babble, 'God did it.' Geez. As a Washington Post columnist famously opined years ago, if you believe that God gave you a brain, don't you think She wants you to actually use it?"
Unbossed: "The world has seen tremendous changes over the past 15 years, from the fall of the Soviet Union to the threat of Al Qaeda. US defense policy has been slow to adapt. In a sense, the Iraq war is a continuation of the strategy that worked well for us in the mid-20th Century, of using overwhelming force to quickly defeat an adversary. But as we've seen (and probably should have learned from Vietnam), the world is too complicated now for a brute force strategy. Combating Catastrophic Terror starts with the premise that the new enemy won't be defeated quickly, and won't be deterred by short-term setbacks or by traditional threats to life or land. This makes traditional methods of force unsuitable, because they would have to be maintained over a very long period of time. The public won't support the loss of life or the economic cost of an Iraq-style war waged over decades."
Political Wire: "Having admitted it publicly last week, former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) explains in the Washington Post why he was wrong to vote to authorize the Iraq war. 'The argument for going to war with Iraq was based on intelligence that we now know was inaccurate. The information the American people were hearing from the president -- and that I was being given by our intelligence community -- wasn't the whole story. Had I known this at the time, I never would have voted for this war.'"
NewMexiKen: "NewMexiKen wonders how many of those who oppose Darwinism have ever read his works - and for that matter how many of those who oppose creationism have ever studied the Bible. In an introduction to a new collection of Darwin-s major works, famed biologist and author Edward O. Wilson takes an intelligent look at Darwin and the debate. The entire piece is well worth your time (not long) if you-re interested in this important, continuing issue in American life."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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