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[FYI --
1. Securing the Blessings of Liberty: Congress Should Consider Expanding Grounds for Exclusion and Deportation to Include Radical Beliefs (Memorandum)
2. Is the U.S. Immigration Debate Going in the Right Direction? (Op-ed)
3. Obama is transforming America through immigration (Op-ed)
4. Hearing on Immigration Issues Facing Colorado (Testimony)
5. Large Group Nabbed Right Where SBInet Is Operational (Blog)
6. Texas-Sized Jihadi Plot Foiled (Blog)
7. Too Much Immigration Staff Time Is Spent on Low-Priority Matters (Blog)
8. Indicting Hezbollah in Mexico (Blog)
9. John Lennon, a Marine General, and the Twisted Language of Immigration (Blog)
10. 'The Beast' and the Mexican Justice System (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
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Securing the Blessings of Liberty: Congress Should Consider Expanding Grounds for Exclusion and Deportation to Include Radical Beliefs
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Memorandum, February 27, 2011
http://cis.org/securing-liberty
Excerpt:Congress has recently debated the extension of expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Though none of those measures directly involve immigration, this occasion provides a good time to consider security-related immigration issues.
America has excluded or ejected aliens from colonial times until the present. The reasons have ranged from their poverty to their radical political beliefs. This Memorandum briefly reviews the main U.S. laws barring entry to, or causing removal of, certain aliens on grounds related to national security. Next, it identifies several areas of concern that pose a threat to the United States but fall outside the present grounds for exclusion and deportation.
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Is the U.S. Immigration Debate Going in the Right Direction?
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Op-ed, February 22, 2011
http://cis.org/node/2616
Excerpt: Q: New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, a Republican who became the state's first Latina governor after the November elections, rescinded an executive order by former Gov. Bill Richardson that prohibited law enforcement officials from asking people about their immigration status for the sole purpose of determining if the individual had violated immigration laws. Opponents have likened the bill to Arizona's SB1070 and claim the order will lead to racial profiling. Will other states follow suit and enact similar legislation? Is comprehensive immigration reform likely to be addressed this year and, if so, what would that consist of?
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Obama is transforming America through immigration
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Op-ed, February 23, 2011
http://cis.org/node/2620
Excerpt: In 2008, President Obama described his goal as 'fundamentally transforming the United States of America.' This is as true for immigration as it is for health care and other issues.
President Obama's support for what advocates call 'comprehensive immigration reform' -- amnesty, loose enforcement and increased legal immigration -- which he reiterated in his State of the Union address, is not just another item on a laundry list.
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Hearing on Immigration Issues Facing Colorado
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Testimony, November 2010
http://cis.org/node/2603
Excerpt: Good morning. Thank you for convening this hearing and for inviting me to testify. I have had the pleasure of working with a number of you and your staff in years past on immigration-related legislation. For the last several years, Colorado, and especially its legislature, has been a leader and a model for many other states in developing practical and effective programs to address the problem of illegal immigration, and I look forward to watching the discussions and proposals unfold in the new year. This morning, I will speak on the recent history of U.S. immigration trends and policies, and what they suggest for possible policy initiatives in Colorado. This afternoon, I will give you an update on the E-Verify system.
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Large Group Nabbed Right Where SBInet Is Operational
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog,February 25, 2011
http://cis.org/kephart/large-group-nabbed
Excerpt: On February 18, 2010, the Border Patrol arrested an abnormally large group of illegal immigrants – 128 of them, to be exact – crossing right through the middle of one of the 'virtual fence' surveillance areas. Most of them have already been returned to Mexico. According to the Associated Press story, the area where the 'Border Patrol surveillance video operators spotted a group of more than 100 people walking just north of the Mexico border' was 'about 15 miles west of Lukeville, Arizona.' Strangely, right in this area's proximity are the large surveillance and communications towers built as part of the now-cancelled SBInet (Secure Border Initiative), otherwise referred to as the 'virtual fence'. In fact, SBInet's Ajo-1 portion covers 30 miles of border here, with Lukeville at the base of Highway 85, running north on the map below.
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Texas-Sized Jihadi Plot Foiled
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog,February 25, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/texas-sized-jihadi-plot
Excerpt: A 20-year-old Saudi Arabian has been arrested and charged with planning an Islamist bomb plot. The scary thing is that Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, a student visa holder studying business at South Plains College in Texas, was in the country perfectly legally. Originally, he enrolled at Texas Tech to study chemical engineering.
The foreign student bought chemicals used in explosives from several chemical supply companies. One reported his purchases. He'd already bought concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid. The order that aroused suspicions was for phenol, which goes in trinitrophenol, or TNP. Officials say Aldawsari planned to put explosives in baby dolls and detonate them at dams, nuclear plants, former President George W. Bush's Dallas home, and the homes of Americans who formerly served in the military at the Abu Ghraib prison.
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Too Much Immigration Staff Time Is Spent on Low-Priority Matters
By David North
CIS Blog,February 24, 2011
http://cis.org/north/low-priority-matters
Excerpt: I suggested in a previous blog that the Department of Homeland Security should spend more staff time making high-priority immigration decisions, and less time on lower-priority ones.
The general notion being that the removal of aliens and decisions about migrants admitted outside of numerical limits should get more attention than admission decisions within numerically-limited classes, as the last-named set of judgments have no bearing on the size of the U.S. population, while the former two are crucial to that metric. Similarly, I noted that there is often an enormous amount of bureaucratic energy spent on very small, innocuous populations.
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Indicting Hezbollah in Mexico
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog,February 23, 2011
http://cis.org/Kephart/HezbollahinMexico
Excerpt:A few months, the United States issued an extraterritorial indictment against Jamal Yousef, a senior agent of Hezbollah, an Iranian-sponsored and U.S.-designated terrorist organization. The agent was conducting a business deal to provide thousands of new U.S. arms stolen from American forces in Iraq that had been shipped and stored in Mexico and were to be sold to the Colombian FARC (another designated terrorist organization) in exchange for drugs that were to be couriered into the U.S. by Mexican cartels. The stolen U.S. arms consisted of automatic rifles, M-60 machine guns, rocket propelled grenades, hand grenades, anti-tank munitions, and C-4 explosives.
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John Lennon, a Marine General, and the Twisted Language of Immigration
By David North
CIS Blog,February 23, 2011
http://cis.org/north/nonpriority-deferred-action
Excerpt: This is a story about how a rich and famous alien made a major impact on America's deportation policies, and how a prominent Marine general sought to unwrinkle part of the very wrinkled verbiage used in the immigration business.
The alien was John Lennon, the Beatle and British political activist; the Nixon administration tried to deport him for stirring up opposition to the war in Vietnam.
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'The Beast' and the Mexican Justice System
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog,February 23, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/the-beast
Excerpt: In recent months, the Mexican press has been drawing attention to the violence and abuses inflicted upon illegal immigrants from Central America as they head toward the U.S. border. Particularly scandalous is the inability of Mexican authorities to stop the predators who work the confined – and therefore controllable – space of the rail line that runs from the border state of Chiapas through Veracruz and on to Mexico City. The train that travels that route is known both as 'The Beast' and 'The Train of Death.'
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Bank of America Settles Another Countrywide Lawsuit
I cover the mortgage and real estate industries:
- Bank of America Settles Another Countrywide Suit
- Reverse Mortgages - Benefits and Pitfalls
- Freddie Mac Loses $20 Billion In 2010
- The Mortgage Securitization Market Is Dead
- New Rules For Mortgage Brokers
- Big Banks Preparing To Pay Out Billions For Their Abusive Mortgage Practices
February 26, 2011
February 24, 2011
February 23, 2011
- Liam Neeson in Unknown vs. Denis Kelly in The Official Identity Theft Prevention Handbook
- Mortgage Applications Boom
- Do You Need An Attorney For Debt Relief?
February 22, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Mira Zeffren – A New Spinka Indictment
Mira Zeffren is the president of the Kyffin Pharmacy at 6000 Woodman Avenue, Van Nuys, CA, 91401.
There’s a hearing to revoke Mira’s pharmacy license.
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has indicted Mira Zeffren for conspiracy to subscribing to a false income tax return.
Jan. 25, Failed Messiah reported on her arrest at a haredi wedding. I added this.
According to the charitable organization meirpanim.org:
Lara Logan's Assault Feb. 11 - Islam
Parts of her body were covered in red marks, a source said. They were originally thought to have been caused by bites, but on examination proved to have been made by aggressive pinching.
“Lara is getting better daily,” said a friend. “The psychological trauma is as bad as, if not worse than, the physical injuries. She might talk about it at some time in the future, but not now.”
ANDREW McCARTHY WRITES FOR NATIONAL REVIEW:
Here’s more on this week’s Torah portion.
I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and YouTube.
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Lara Logan's Assault Feb. 11 Tahrir Square
A US TV journalist attacked in Cairo’s Tahrir Square was stripped and beaten with fists and the poles of hand-held flags, US sources say.
Lara Logan, 39, a correspondent on the CBS News show 60 Minutes, was recovering in private with her husband, Joseph Burkett, their son and her stepdaughter.
Parts of her body were covered in red marks, a source said. They were originally thought to have been caused by bites, but on examination proved to have been made by aggressive pinching.
“Lara is getting better daily,” said a friend. “The psychological trauma is as bad as, if not worse than, the physical injuries. She might talk about it at some time in the future, but not now.”
ANDREW McCARTHY WRITES FOR NATIONAL REVIEW:
Here’s more on this week’s Torah portion.
I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and YouTube.
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Friday, February 25, 2011
United States Is A Lousy Country
From DennisPrager.com:
Friday, February 25, 2011 Radio Show
20110225-01: What a Lousy Country We Live In
Prager H1: Diane Sawyer highlights this startling fact in her prime time newscast: the US doesn’t provide paid maternity/paternity leave for all its citizens. Sweden does. But we don’t. Somehow this has become a human rights issue and the US is sadly deficient in Diane’s enlightened view… Democratic Ohio Senator, Sherrod Brown, says that the ability for public service unions to given millions of dollars to elect the officials with whom the unions negotiate their contract is a moral issue. He’s right. It’s immoral.
Friday, February 25, 2011 Radio Show
20110225-02: Happiness Hour: Easily Offended
Prager H2: If you’re easily offended it’s very hard to be happy. People are always hurting you. And, it’s not easy to be happy around easily offended people.
Friday, February 25, 2011 Radio Show
20110225-03: Open Lines
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: why does Dennis like Christians so much; what one question would Dennis want to ask an atheist; why did Dennis’s parents name him Dennis; where does Dennis get his values.
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-01 It’s All about Profit
Prager H1: Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC asked the Leftist blogger who placed a crank call to Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker, why he thought the governor was so intent on reigning in the public service unions. The prankster’s answer: personal profit for Walker and his friends. To the Left, Marx is alive and well… The dictator Kaddafi is prepared to fight to last Libyian… Dennis talks to Peter Glover, journalist specializing in energy issues, and co-author with Michael Economides, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston of Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues, and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate.
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-02 No Mo’ DOMA
Prager H2: President Obama has decided that he doesn’t like DOMA, so his administration won’t defend it. … We should be more afraid of people who pursue power than those who pursue money… Dennis concludes his discussion of historian David McCullough’s 2005 speech at Hillsdale College on the Founding Fathers...
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-03 Stuntman
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Hal Needham, legendary stuntman and film director. His new autobiography is Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life. Needham worked with just about every major Hollywood star from the 60’s through the 80’s -- John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and others. He’s most noted for his close association with Burt Reynolds and their wildly successful Smokey and the Bandit movies… Chris Matthews slanders Mike Huckabee, accusing the former governor of advocating ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Showdown
Prager H1: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. The Democrats and their public service union masters have placed a very big political bet on opposing Wisconsin’s plan to scale back the union’s pay and benefit plans. The labor showdown has now spread to Indiana and Ohio.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Laboring
Prager H2: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. Kevin continues his discussion of how organized labor is desperately trying to fend off the attempt by Republican governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana to reign in the public service unions… The Justice Department has withdrawn its defense of DOMA.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H3: DOMA Done
Prager H3: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. The President has suddenly decided that the Defense of Marriage Act is indefensible…
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Four Americans Murdered by Pirates
Prager H1: Four Americans were murdered by Somali pirates. They were carrying Bibles. Is that why they were murdered? It’s a good question, but no one is asking it… The dictator of Libya is not going down without a fight which he means he will, without compunction, kill many of his own people to stay in power… Indiana Democrats may run away from their state just like Wisconsin Democrats have done from theirs.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Radio Show
H2: The Great Dictator
Prager H2: Dennis plays a few choice clips of Mohammar Kaddafi’s TV speech to the Libyan people. Very inspirational -- if you’re a psychotic… San Francisco is considering a ban on circumcision. But, of course, they’re pro-abortion…. Wisconsin’s governor and Republicans must stand firm against the public service unions.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Radio Show
H3: Ultimate Issues Hour: The Evil of Communism
Prager H3: It’s a moral scandal that Communism is not studied as the evil that it was. It murdered over 150 million people.
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H1: The Descent of the Unions
Prager H1: We love teachers; we have contempt for the teachers union… The Daily Mail in London reports that Gaddafi has fled Libya. If it’s true, where did he go?.. Tavis Smiley makes Bill Maher look like a conservative…
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Big Cheese
Prager H2: The Democrats fit of pique in Wisconsin is the biggest domestic story of the year… Dennis talks to Charlie Sykes, radio talk show host in Milwaukee, about the circus going on in that state… Columbia University students protest the idea of an ROTC office on campus.
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H3: AARP
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Robert Samuelson, columnist for Newsweek and Washington Post, about the stranglehold AARP has on the federal budget… Dennis talks to Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts.
Dennis talks to Hal Needham, legendary stuntman and film director. His new autobiography is Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life. His filmography. He worked with just about every major Hollywood star from the 60’s through the 80’s -- John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and others. His most noted for his close association with Burt Reynolds and their wildly successful Smokey and the Bandit movies. 
Dennis talks to Peter Glover, journalist specializing in energy issues and Michael Economides, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston. Their new book is Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues, and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate
Dennis talks to Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts. He's written an autobiography, Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances.
Friday, February 25, 2011 Radio Show
20110225-01: What a Lousy Country We Live In
Prager H1: Diane Sawyer highlights this startling fact in her prime time newscast: the US doesn’t provide paid maternity/paternity leave for all its citizens. Sweden does. But we don’t. Somehow this has become a human rights issue and the US is sadly deficient in Diane’s enlightened view… Democratic Ohio Senator, Sherrod Brown, says that the ability for public service unions to given millions of dollars to elect the officials with whom the unions negotiate their contract is a moral issue. He’s right. It’s immoral.
Friday, February 25, 2011 Radio Show
20110225-02: Happiness Hour: Easily Offended
Prager H2: If you’re easily offended it’s very hard to be happy. People are always hurting you. And, it’s not easy to be happy around easily offended people.
Friday, February 25, 2011 Radio Show
20110225-03: Open Lines
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: why does Dennis like Christians so much; what one question would Dennis want to ask an atheist; why did Dennis’s parents name him Dennis; where does Dennis get his values.
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-01 It’s All about Profit
Prager H1: Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC asked the Leftist blogger who placed a crank call to Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker, why he thought the governor was so intent on reigning in the public service unions. The prankster’s answer: personal profit for Walker and his friends. To the Left, Marx is alive and well… The dictator Kaddafi is prepared to fight to last Libyian… Dennis talks to Peter Glover, journalist specializing in energy issues, and co-author with Michael Economides, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston of Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues, and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate.
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-02 No Mo’ DOMA
Prager H2: President Obama has decided that he doesn’t like DOMA, so his administration won’t defend it. … We should be more afraid of people who pursue power than those who pursue money… Dennis concludes his discussion of historian David McCullough’s 2005 speech at Hillsdale College on the Founding Fathers...
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-03 Stuntman
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Hal Needham, legendary stuntman and film director. His new autobiography is Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life. Needham worked with just about every major Hollywood star from the 60’s through the 80’s -- John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and others. He’s most noted for his close association with Burt Reynolds and their wildly successful Smokey and the Bandit movies… Chris Matthews slanders Mike Huckabee, accusing the former governor of advocating ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Showdown
Prager H1: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. The Democrats and their public service union masters have placed a very big political bet on opposing Wisconsin’s plan to scale back the union’s pay and benefit plans. The labor showdown has now spread to Indiana and Ohio.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Laboring
Prager H2: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. Kevin continues his discussion of how organized labor is desperately trying to fend off the attempt by Republican governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana to reign in the public service unions… The Justice Department has withdrawn its defense of DOMA.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H3: DOMA Done
Prager H3: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. The President has suddenly decided that the Defense of Marriage Act is indefensible…
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Four Americans Murdered by Pirates
Prager H1: Four Americans were murdered by Somali pirates. They were carrying Bibles. Is that why they were murdered? It’s a good question, but no one is asking it… The dictator of Libya is not going down without a fight which he means he will, without compunction, kill many of his own people to stay in power… Indiana Democrats may run away from their state just like Wisconsin Democrats have done from theirs.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Radio Show
H2: The Great Dictator
Prager H2: Dennis plays a few choice clips of Mohammar Kaddafi’s TV speech to the Libyan people. Very inspirational -- if you’re a psychotic… San Francisco is considering a ban on circumcision. But, of course, they’re pro-abortion…. Wisconsin’s governor and Republicans must stand firm against the public service unions.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Radio Show
H3: Ultimate Issues Hour: The Evil of Communism
Prager H3: It’s a moral scandal that Communism is not studied as the evil that it was. It murdered over 150 million people.
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H1: The Descent of the Unions
Prager H1: We love teachers; we have contempt for the teachers union… The Daily Mail in London reports that Gaddafi has fled Libya. If it’s true, where did he go?.. Tavis Smiley makes Bill Maher look like a conservative…
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Big Cheese
Prager H2: The Democrats fit of pique in Wisconsin is the biggest domestic story of the year… Dennis talks to Charlie Sykes, radio talk show host in Milwaukee, about the circus going on in that state… Columbia University students protest the idea of an ROTC office on campus.
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H3: AARP
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Robert Samuelson, columnist for Newsweek and Washington Post, about the stranglehold AARP has on the federal budget… Dennis talks to Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts.
The Dangerous Precedent Obama’s DOMA Decision Sets
Friday, February 25, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:24 PM
Like a good liberal, even a Center Left one, Megan McArdle of The Atlantic worries what the Republicans might do with such a precedent. But the Republicans don’t do this sort of thing, Megan. There is no equivalence.
The Anatomy of a Slander: Matthews against Huckabee
Thursday, February 24, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:48 PM
Here's how it breaks down:
Matthews Accuses Huckabee of Advocating Ethnic Cleansing
Listen to first 27 seconds. Note that Matthews begins by calling Huckabee "a whack" and "a lunatic." But he's only warming up.
Here’s the Most Inflammatory Report I Could Find about Huckabee and Israel
AP report of his visit to Israel. He doesn’t believe Israel should give up settlements to appease Palestinians.
Here’s How Leftist Media Matters Willfully Distorts It
Matthews swallows it whole. This is how the Left operates: make a wild accusation, the more outrageous the better; don't worry about backing it up because the media will always give you a pass even if it turns out to be an obvious lie. Next victim please...
Matthews Accuses Huckabee of Advocating Ethnic Cleansing
Listen to first 27 seconds. Note that Matthews begins by calling Huckabee "a whack" and "a lunatic." But he's only warming up.
Here’s the Most Inflammatory Report I Could Find about Huckabee and Israel
AP report of his visit to Israel. He doesn’t believe Israel should give up settlements to appease Palestinians.
Here’s How Leftist Media Matters Willfully Distorts It
Matthews swallows it whole. This is how the Left operates: make a wild accusation, the more outrageous the better; don't worry about backing it up because the media will always give you a pass even if it turns out to be an obvious lie. Next victim please...
Stuntman!
Thursday, February 24, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:13 PM
Book: How naive politicians, green ideologues, and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate
Thursday, February 24, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:45 PM
Dennis talks to Peter Glover, journalist specializing in energy issues and Michael Economides, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston. Their new book is Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues, and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climateDennis talks to Senator Scott Brown
Monday, February 21, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:36 PM
Dennis talks to Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts. He's written an autobiography, Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances. This Is Right Out of “Are You a Liberal Test?”
Monday, February 21, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 1:57 PM
Angry protesters belittle a decorated vet at Columbia. They're upset that the college might open an ROTC office. This right out of our "Are You a Liberal Test?" test. You can see the Prager U. video here and take the test here.
Samuelson on AARP
Monday, February 21, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 1:47 PM
Dennis talks to Robert Samuelson, columnist for Washington Post and Newsweek, about his latest column, an expose of AARP. Samuelson's latest book is The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American
Charlie Sykes on Wisconsin
Monday, February 21, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 1:40 PM
Dennis talks to Charlie Sykes, Milwaukee talk show host, about the circus in Wisconsin. HIs latest book is 50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education.
Reflections On LimmudLA 2011 At Costa Mesa Hilton
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This year, a week before the show, I wrote down a note to “Take speed at LimmudLA.”
I meant sudafed, which I took for a couple of months last fall for nasal congestion. It’s legal speed and I kept a supply in the drawer, shlepped them to LimmudLA, and every morning over the weekend, popped a couple and then went for a 30-minute walk looking for sunshine.
I felt good all conference!
In his hour-long talk, Lawton said that for most of the second half of the 20th century, America and Israel had dominated the discourse about the future of Judaism and ignored European Jewry. Israel put forward a “nationalization” model for Judaism—the religion would be taken care of by central authorities—while America pushed its highly individualistic model in which any practice, no matter how unusual, could be called Jewish, and no authority had the right to call someone’s Jewishness into question.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Jewish News
From TorahMusings.com:
▪ Rabbis send letter of support to Katsav
▪ 60 years later, spies’ lives revealed
▪ Half the food on supermarket shelves is now reported to be Kosher
▪ OU: There is no alcohol in Coca Cola (PDF)
▪ Battle Hymn of the Jewish Mother
▪ The Book of the Covenant
▪ The E-Book Revolution, And What It Means
▪ Brisket Power
▪ The Triangle Fire: A Century Later
▪ How To Understand Yeshivish
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ Lions and Lambs
▪ Kosher cooking in a material world
▪ Egyptian man names daughter Facebook in tribute to success of protests
▪ Jewish Philanthropy 2.0
▪ R. Riskin: May we allow gentiles to purchase land in Israel?
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ Why liberal Judaism is in free fall
▪ Jewish-Christian Dialogue Today
▪ Rabbis reach deal on IDF conversions
▪ Local couple step up to the plate — er, chuppah
▪ Red Cross looks at providing kosher, halal food
▪ Academic Library Autopsy Report, 2050
▪ Rabbis send letter of support to Katsav
▪ 60 years later, spies’ lives revealed
▪ Half the food on supermarket shelves is now reported to be Kosher
▪ OU: There is no alcohol in Coca Cola (PDF)
▪ Battle Hymn of the Jewish Mother
▪ The Book of the Covenant
▪ The E-Book Revolution, And What It Means
▪ Brisket Power
▪ The Triangle Fire: A Century Later
▪ How To Understand Yeshivish
▪ SALT Thursday
▪ Lions and Lambs
▪ Kosher cooking in a material world
▪ Egyptian man names daughter Facebook in tribute to success of protests
▪ Jewish Philanthropy 2.0
▪ R. Riskin: May we allow gentiles to purchase land in Israel?
▪ SALT Wednesday
▪ Why liberal Judaism is in free fall
▪ Jewish-Christian Dialogue Today
▪ Rabbis reach deal on IDF conversions
▪ Local couple step up to the plate — er, chuppah
▪ Red Cross looks at providing kosher, halal food
▪ Academic Library Autopsy Report, 2050
Dennis Prager's Radio Show Highlights
From DennisPrager.com:
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-01 It’s All about Profit
Prager H1: Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC asked the Leftist blogger who placed a crank call to Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker, why he thought the governor was so intent on reigning in the public service unions. The prankster’s answer: personal profit for Walker and his friends. To the Left, Marx is alive and well… The dictator Kaddafi is prepared to fight to last Libyian… Dennis talks to Peter Glover, journalist specializing in energy issues, and co-author with Michael Economides, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston of Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues, and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate.
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-02 No Mo’ DOMA
Prager H2: President Obama has decided that he doesn’t like DOMA, so his administration won’t defend it. … We should be more afraid of people who pursue power than those who pursue money… Dennis concludes his discussion of historian David McCullough’s 2005 speech at Hillsdale College on the Founding Fathers...
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-03 Stuntman
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Hal Needham, legendary stuntman and film director. His new autobiography is Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life. Needham worked with just about every major Hollywood star from the 60’s through the 80’s -- John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and others. He’s most noted for his close association with Burt Reynolds and their wildly successful Smokey and the Bandit movies… Chris Matthews slanders Mike Huckabee, accusing the former governor of advocating ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Showdown
Prager H1: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. The Democrats and their public service union masters have placed a very big political bet on opposing Wisconsin’s plan to scale back the union’s pay and benefit plans. The labor showdown has now spread to Indiana and Ohio.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Laboring
Prager H2: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. Kevin continues his discussion of how organized labor is desperately trying to fend off the attempt by Republican governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana to reign in the public service unions… The Justice Department has withdrawn its defense of DOMA.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H3: DOMA Done
Prager H3: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. The President has suddenly decided that the Defense of Marriage Act is indefensible…
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-01 It’s All about Profit
Prager H1: Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC asked the Leftist blogger who placed a crank call to Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker, why he thought the governor was so intent on reigning in the public service unions. The prankster’s answer: personal profit for Walker and his friends. To the Left, Marx is alive and well… The dictator Kaddafi is prepared to fight to last Libyian… Dennis talks to Peter Glover, journalist specializing in energy issues, and co-author with Michael Economides, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston of Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues, and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate.
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-02 No Mo’ DOMA
Prager H2: President Obama has decided that he doesn’t like DOMA, so his administration won’t defend it. … We should be more afraid of people who pursue power than those who pursue money… Dennis concludes his discussion of historian David McCullough’s 2005 speech at Hillsdale College on the Founding Fathers...
Thursday, February 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110224-03 Stuntman
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Hal Needham, legendary stuntman and film director. His new autobiography is Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life. Needham worked with just about every major Hollywood star from the 60’s through the 80’s -- John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and others. He’s most noted for his close association with Burt Reynolds and their wildly successful Smokey and the Bandit movies… Chris Matthews slanders Mike Huckabee, accusing the former governor of advocating ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Showdown
Prager H1: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. The Democrats and their public service union masters have placed a very big political bet on opposing Wisconsin’s plan to scale back the union’s pay and benefit plans. The labor showdown has now spread to Indiana and Ohio.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Laboring
Prager H2: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. Kevin continues his discussion of how organized labor is desperately trying to fend off the attempt by Republican governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana to reign in the public service unions… The Justice Department has withdrawn its defense of DOMA.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Radio Show
H3: DOMA Done
Prager H3: Kevin Wall sits in for Dennis. The President has suddenly decided that the Defense of Marriage Act is indefensible…
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Immigration News
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[FYI --
1. Estimating the Size of the H-1B Population in the U.S. (Memorandum)
2. Two Governors and Immigration (Blog)
3. Lobbyists Spin GAO Report on H-1B (Blog)
4. European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: The Psychology of Belonging (Blog)
5. Immigration and the 'Informal Economy'(Blog)
6. Let's Change the Conceptual Framework Used in Migration Decision-Making (Blog)
7. Wikileaks, Visa Fraud, and a Reverse Twist on the Anchor Baby Scheme (Blog)
8. A Statement of Principles for American NGOs dealing with Immigrant Assimilation (Blog)
9. Medicaid, Immigration Game of Chicken (Blog)
10. Reflections from the Border (Blog)
11. Immigrant Assimilation and NGOs: Mixed Messages (Blog)
12. Allowing Illegal Aliens Access to Driver's Licenses All Over Again (Blog)
13. A Little Good News from Social Security, Maybe, Later This Year (Blog)
14. European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: The Role of NGOs (Blog)
15. No 'Truce' for Daniels on Immigration (Blog)
16. European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: Double Standards (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
1.
Estimating the Size of the H-1B Population in the U.S.
By David North
CIS Memorandum, February 2011
http://cis.org/estimating-h1b-population-2-11
Excerpt: One of the (many) problems with making immigration policy is the seldom-noticed fact that we have no idea of the size of the non-immigrant population — i.e., foreign citizens in the United States on some sort of temporary status — nor of its component parts, such as of foreign workers.
In sharp contrast, there are either good data or plausible estimates on the other three components of the foreign-born population: naturalized citizens, legal permanent residents, and illegal aliens.
In a few minutes at the computer I found these three estimates: naturalized citizens, 15.5 million (Census Bureau), LPRs, 12.5 million (DHS), and illegal aliens, 10.8 million (DHS again). All the estimates are for 2009.
A government making decisions about millions of people needs to know how many millions it is dealing with, and it does with these three populations.
However, no government agency appears to be making estimates, much less counting the non-immigrants among us. Further, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), belying its very name, had a staff of 31 writing a report on the controversial H-1B program for high-tech foreign workers, but did not even mention the size of the H-1B population, something I noted in a CIS blog.
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Two Governors and Immigration
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, February 22, 2011
http://cis.org/krikorian/two-governors
Excerpt: I'd mentioned last week that Indiana governor Mitch Daniels has tried to avoid weighing in on a tough new immigration bill making its way through his state's legislature, despite freely dispensing his views on a variety of other issues of national importance. The Indianapolis Star had more on the topic Sunday, quoting people on both sides expressing their hope that Daniels will come down on their side . . .
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Lobbyists Spin GAO Report on H-1B
By John Miano
CIS Blog, February 21, 2011
http://cis.org/miano/lobbyists-spin-gao-report
Excerpt: We have previously reported that the GAO has released a new study on the H-1B program titled 'H-1B Visa Program: Reforms Are Needed to Minimize the Risks and Costs of Current Program'. As you can tell from the title, this report does not paint a pretty picture of the H-1B program, like all the other government reports that came before it.
Now the lobbyist spin on the GAO report is coming in.
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European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: The Psychology of Belonging
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, February 21, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/psychology-of-belonging
Excerpt: Europe's turn from multiculturalism has, as we have been noting, implications for the United States and its policies for helping new legal immigrant become American. Prime Minister David Cameron's detailed critique of his country's failed efforts to enlist multiculturalism to further that goal provides some cautionary lessons.
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Immigration and the 'Informal Economy'
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, February 21, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/informal-economy
Excerpt: National Public Radio last week reported a story from Phoenix that was intended to illustrate a recent finding by the Pew Hispanic Center. Pew reported that in the second quarter of 2010, American citizens lost more than a million jobs while foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs.
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Let's Change the Conceptual Framework Used in Migration Decision-Making
By David North
CIS Blog, February 21, 2011
http://cis.org/north/change-conceptual-framework
Excerpt: After a year or two of watching how DHS, and more specifically USCIS, makes immigration decisions, I realize that both the agency, and Congress, are working in the wrong conceptual environment.
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Wikileaks, Visa Fraud, and a Reverse Twist on the Anchor Baby Scheme
By David North
CIS Blog, February 18, 2011
http://cis.org/north/wikileaks-mexico-visa-fraud
Excerpt: Wikileaks, the unauthorized release of a huge collection of U.S. government documents, has made a useful contribution to the immigration field.
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A Statement of Principles for American NGOs dealing with Immigrant Assimilation
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, February 18, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/assimilation-principles-for-ngos
Excerpt: Like much else in American society, the development of organizations that help new immigrants has proceeded in an ad hoc way. That is part of the nature of our society noted as long ago as Alexis de Tocqueville's trip to the United States in 1831. The general rule of American culture has been that voluntary associations spring up to address civic needs.
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Medicaid, Immigration Game of Chicken
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, February 18, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/medicaid-immigration-game-of-chicken
Excerpt: Remarkably, the Obama administration won't block the state of Arizona from paring back its Medicaid rolls. Some 250,000 people could have to forego taxpayer-funded health care. This is notable, because cutting Medicaid rolls goes against the grain of Obamacare's forcing of states to add millions more to this entitlement program.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius skirted the issue in reply to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer requesting permission to make this move. But the matter has much wider importance, as 29 governors have sought relief from the Medicaid expansion mandate. Further, it's no secret that the combination of the expansion of Medicaid plus premium subsidies for people well into the middle class will create a burden for American taxpayers – and provide 'free' health care to millions of immigrants.
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Reflections from the Border
By John Wahala
CIS Blog, February 17, 2011
http://cis.org/Wahala/ArizonaBorderTour
Excerpt: Last month I had the opportunity to tour southern Arizona with a small group led by our own Jerry Kammer, who lived and wrote there for many years and whose passion for the region is contagious. Through his connections, we were given intimate perspectives on the border situation from those who face it on a daily basis.
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Immigrant Assimilation and NGOs: Mixed Messages
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, February 17, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/assimilation-ngos-mixed-messages
Excerpt: A substantial number of the labor, religious, ethnic, legal, and civic non-governmental organizations formed to help new immigrants have their own strong views on immigration policy. And a number of them feel that it is not their responsibility to help new immigrants make the transition from attachment to their 'home counties' to their new community here. Indeed, some immigrant advocacy groups in the NGO world explicit feel it is their role to help new immigrants retain their ties to the countries that they left.
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Appropriations Amendment Dรฉjร -Vu: Allowing Illegal Aliens Access to Driver's Licenses All Over Again
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, February 16, 2011
http://cis.org/kephart/real-id-price-amendment
Excerpt: Yesterday, Rep. David Price (D-NC), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, offered a one sentence amendment to homeland security federal funding that would cut off states' ability to check foreign nationals' legal status . . .
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13.
A Little Good News from Social Security, Maybe, Later This Year
By David North
CIS Blog, February 16, 2011
http://cis.org/north/maybe-good-news-from-SSA
Excerpt: Maybe, just maybe, the Social Security Administration might do something useful about illegal aliens and Social Security benefits, later this year.
The title of its announcement is not very exciting: 'Additional Insured Status Requirements for Certain Alien Workers (2882P)'
But what it says has at least some promise.
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14.
European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: The Role of NGOs
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, February 16, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/multiculturalism-role-of-ngos
Excerpt: Among the several lessons that British Prime Minister David Cameron's critique of multiculturalism provides for the United States are his observations on the role of non-governmental organizations in helping to either facilitate or compromise new immigrant integration into Britain's cultural and national community.
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No 'Truce' for Daniels on Immigration
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, February 16, 2011
http://cis.org/krikorian/no-truce-for-daniels
Excerpt: A lot of Republicans running in 2012 are going to face problems with the Tea Party on immigration. The Tea Party groups didn't address immigration (except maybe those in Arizona), just as they avoided all issues other than spending and size of government, and that was a smart move at the time. But as an outpouring of populist nationalism, they are almost coterminous with immigration hawks, and woe to any open-borders Republican seeking their help. This is why Dick Armey and Grover Norquist, both strong open-borders guys, don't even utter the word “immigration” to Tea Party folks, lest they have tomatoes thrown at them.
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European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: Double Standards
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, February 14, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/multiculturalism-double-standards
Excerpt: The crumbling of the heretofore-taboo subject of the impact of multiculturalism on immigrant assimilation opens up a critical question for debate. That question is premised on the reality that immigration into the western democracies from all parts of the world will continue to be a fact that these governments must address. The question is how best to do so.
[FYI --
1. Estimating the Size of the H-1B Population in the U.S. (Memorandum)
2. Two Governors and Immigration (Blog)
3. Lobbyists Spin GAO Report on H-1B (Blog)
4. European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: The Psychology of Belonging (Blog)
5. Immigration and the 'Informal Economy'(Blog)
6. Let's Change the Conceptual Framework Used in Migration Decision-Making (Blog)
7. Wikileaks, Visa Fraud, and a Reverse Twist on the Anchor Baby Scheme (Blog)
8. A Statement of Principles for American NGOs dealing with Immigrant Assimilation (Blog)
9. Medicaid, Immigration Game of Chicken (Blog)
10. Reflections from the Border (Blog)
11. Immigrant Assimilation and NGOs: Mixed Messages (Blog)
12. Allowing Illegal Aliens Access to Driver's Licenses All Over Again (Blog)
13. A Little Good News from Social Security, Maybe, Later This Year (Blog)
14. European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: The Role of NGOs (Blog)
15. No 'Truce' for Daniels on Immigration (Blog)
16. European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: Double Standards (Blog)
-- Mark Krikorian]
1.
Estimating the Size of the H-1B Population in the U.S.
By David North
CIS Memorandum, February 2011
http://cis.org/estimating-h1b-population-2-11
Excerpt: One of the (many) problems with making immigration policy is the seldom-noticed fact that we have no idea of the size of the non-immigrant population — i.e., foreign citizens in the United States on some sort of temporary status — nor of its component parts, such as of foreign workers.
In sharp contrast, there are either good data or plausible estimates on the other three components of the foreign-born population: naturalized citizens, legal permanent residents, and illegal aliens.
In a few minutes at the computer I found these three estimates: naturalized citizens, 15.5 million (Census Bureau), LPRs, 12.5 million (DHS), and illegal aliens, 10.8 million (DHS again). All the estimates are for 2009.
A government making decisions about millions of people needs to know how many millions it is dealing with, and it does with these three populations.
However, no government agency appears to be making estimates, much less counting the non-immigrants among us. Further, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), belying its very name, had a staff of 31 writing a report on the controversial H-1B program for high-tech foreign workers, but did not even mention the size of the H-1B population, something I noted in a CIS blog.
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Two Governors and Immigration
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, February 22, 2011
http://cis.org/krikorian/two-governors
Excerpt: I'd mentioned last week that Indiana governor Mitch Daniels has tried to avoid weighing in on a tough new immigration bill making its way through his state's legislature, despite freely dispensing his views on a variety of other issues of national importance. The Indianapolis Star had more on the topic Sunday, quoting people on both sides expressing their hope that Daniels will come down on their side . . .
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3.
Lobbyists Spin GAO Report on H-1B
By John Miano
CIS Blog, February 21, 2011
http://cis.org/miano/lobbyists-spin-gao-report
Excerpt: We have previously reported that the GAO has released a new study on the H-1B program titled 'H-1B Visa Program: Reforms Are Needed to Minimize the Risks and Costs of Current Program'. As you can tell from the title, this report does not paint a pretty picture of the H-1B program, like all the other government reports that came before it.
Now the lobbyist spin on the GAO report is coming in.
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4.
European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: The Psychology of Belonging
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, February 21, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/psychology-of-belonging
Excerpt: Europe's turn from multiculturalism has, as we have been noting, implications for the United States and its policies for helping new legal immigrant become American. Prime Minister David Cameron's detailed critique of his country's failed efforts to enlist multiculturalism to further that goal provides some cautionary lessons.
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5.
Immigration and the 'Informal Economy'
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, February 21, 2011
http://cis.org/kammer/informal-economy
Excerpt: National Public Radio last week reported a story from Phoenix that was intended to illustrate a recent finding by the Pew Hispanic Center. Pew reported that in the second quarter of 2010, American citizens lost more than a million jobs while foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs.
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Let's Change the Conceptual Framework Used in Migration Decision-Making
By David North
CIS Blog, February 21, 2011
http://cis.org/north/change-conceptual-framework
Excerpt: After a year or two of watching how DHS, and more specifically USCIS, makes immigration decisions, I realize that both the agency, and Congress, are working in the wrong conceptual environment.
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7.
Wikileaks, Visa Fraud, and a Reverse Twist on the Anchor Baby Scheme
By David North
CIS Blog, February 18, 2011
http://cis.org/north/wikileaks-mexico-visa-fraud
Excerpt: Wikileaks, the unauthorized release of a huge collection of U.S. government documents, has made a useful contribution to the immigration field.
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8.
A Statement of Principles for American NGOs dealing with Immigrant Assimilation
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, February 18, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/assimilation-principles-for-ngos
Excerpt: Like much else in American society, the development of organizations that help new immigrants has proceeded in an ad hoc way. That is part of the nature of our society noted as long ago as Alexis de Tocqueville's trip to the United States in 1831. The general rule of American culture has been that voluntary associations spring up to address civic needs.
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9.
Medicaid, Immigration Game of Chicken
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, February 18, 2011
http://cis.org/edwards/medicaid-immigration-game-of-chicken
Excerpt: Remarkably, the Obama administration won't block the state of Arizona from paring back its Medicaid rolls. Some 250,000 people could have to forego taxpayer-funded health care. This is notable, because cutting Medicaid rolls goes against the grain of Obamacare's forcing of states to add millions more to this entitlement program.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius skirted the issue in reply to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer requesting permission to make this move. But the matter has much wider importance, as 29 governors have sought relief from the Medicaid expansion mandate. Further, it's no secret that the combination of the expansion of Medicaid plus premium subsidies for people well into the middle class will create a burden for American taxpayers – and provide 'free' health care to millions of immigrants.
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Reflections from the Border
By John Wahala
CIS Blog, February 17, 2011
http://cis.org/Wahala/ArizonaBorderTour
Excerpt: Last month I had the opportunity to tour southern Arizona with a small group led by our own Jerry Kammer, who lived and wrote there for many years and whose passion for the region is contagious. Through his connections, we were given intimate perspectives on the border situation from those who face it on a daily basis.
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11.
Immigrant Assimilation and NGOs: Mixed Messages
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, February 17, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/assimilation-ngos-mixed-messages
Excerpt: A substantial number of the labor, religious, ethnic, legal, and civic non-governmental organizations formed to help new immigrants have their own strong views on immigration policy. And a number of them feel that it is not their responsibility to help new immigrants make the transition from attachment to their 'home counties' to their new community here. Indeed, some immigrant advocacy groups in the NGO world explicit feel it is their role to help new immigrants retain their ties to the countries that they left.
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12.
Appropriations Amendment Dรฉjร -Vu: Allowing Illegal Aliens Access to Driver's Licenses All Over Again
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, February 16, 2011
http://cis.org/kephart/real-id-price-amendment
Excerpt: Yesterday, Rep. David Price (D-NC), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, offered a one sentence amendment to homeland security federal funding that would cut off states' ability to check foreign nationals' legal status . . .
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13.
A Little Good News from Social Security, Maybe, Later This Year
By David North
CIS Blog, February 16, 2011
http://cis.org/north/maybe-good-news-from-SSA
Excerpt: Maybe, just maybe, the Social Security Administration might do something useful about illegal aliens and Social Security benefits, later this year.
The title of its announcement is not very exciting: 'Additional Insured Status Requirements for Certain Alien Workers (2882P)'
But what it says has at least some promise.
Return to Top
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14.
European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: The Role of NGOs
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, February 16, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/multiculturalism-role-of-ngos
Excerpt: Among the several lessons that British Prime Minister David Cameron's critique of multiculturalism provides for the United States are his observations on the role of non-governmental organizations in helping to either facilitate or compromise new immigrant integration into Britain's cultural and national community.
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15.
No 'Truce' for Daniels on Immigration
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, February 16, 2011
http://cis.org/krikorian/no-truce-for-daniels
Excerpt: A lot of Republicans running in 2012 are going to face problems with the Tea Party on immigration. The Tea Party groups didn't address immigration (except maybe those in Arizona), just as they avoided all issues other than spending and size of government, and that was a smart move at the time. But as an outpouring of populist nationalism, they are almost coterminous with immigration hawks, and woe to any open-borders Republican seeking their help. This is why Dick Armey and Grover Norquist, both strong open-borders guys, don't even utter the word “immigration” to Tea Party folks, lest they have tomatoes thrown at them.
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16.
European Multiculturalism's Lessons for the U.S.: Double Standards
By Stanley Renshon
CIS Blog, February 14, 2011
http://cis.org/renshon/multiculturalism-double-standards
Excerpt: The crumbling of the heretofore-taboo subject of the impact of multiculturalism on immigrant assimilation opens up a critical question for debate. That question is premised on the reality that immigration into the western democracies from all parts of the world will continue to be a fact that these governments must address. The question is how best to do so.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Lara Logan's Sexual Assault: Al Jazeera Silent
“I was curious how they would handle the Lara Logan incident,” Chamberlain continued. “Go here http://english.aljazeera.net/ and search ‘Lara Logan.’ ” When you do it, your reaction might be the same as mine to Chamberlain, “um…..crickets.” There was and continues to be nothing there. Or at al-Jazeera’s Arabic-language site.
By contrast, the New York tabloids were all over the story:
Public Sector Unions Threaten Our Economy
From DennisPrager.com:
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H1: The Descent of the Unions
Prager H1: We love teachers; we have contempt for the teachers union… The Daily Mail in London reports that Gaddafi has fled Libya. If it’s true, where did he go?.. Tavis Smiley makes Bill Maher look like a conservative…
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Big Cheese
Prager H2: The Democrats fit of pique in Wisconsin is the biggest domestic story of the year… Dennis talks to Charlie Sykes, radio talk show host in Milwaukee, about the circus going on in that state… Columbia University students protest the idea of an ROTC office on campus.
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H3: AARP
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Robert Samuelson, columnist for Newsweek and Washington Post, about the stranglehold AARP has on the federal budget… Dennis talks to Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts.
Friday, February 18, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Wishful Thinking
Prager H1: The Left engages in wishful thinking about the world… Chris Christie speaks truth to NJ fire fighters… Charles Krauthammer exposes the Obama budget fraud…
Friday, February 18, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Happiness Hour: Limits of Complaining
Prager H2: You have to be able to express your feelings to friends, but how much complaining can you do before you alienate them? The answer: open up, but don’t be a burden.
Friday, February 18, 2011 Radio Show
H3: Open Lines
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: how many licks does it take to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop; is Debussy a desert island composer; if computers become human-like will they be liberal or conservative; why should Wisconsin public service workers have to pay more for their benefits; why do we give aid to foreign countries when are running a deficit at home.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Balancing Act
Prager H1: The President claims he’s balancing the budget, but he doesn’t bother to include interest costs on the debt when making his dubious calculation. Would you say that your household budget was balanced if you excluded mortgage and credit card payments?.. A CBS reporter was sexually assaulted by an Egyptian mob. Why did the network sit on the story?.. The Ft Hood murders illustrate the deadly consequences of multiculturalism and political correctness.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Badger Tough
Prager H2: The Republican governor of Wisconsin is taking on the unions… Dennis talks to Michael Scheurer, the chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999. His new book is Osama Bin Laden…
Thursday, February 17, 2011 Radio Show
H3: Elementary, My Dear Watson
Prager H3: The IBM computer, Watson, beat two Jeopardy champions in a Jeopardy showdown. Is this significant? Or much ado about not much?.. Dennis talks to Conor Friedersdorf. founding editor of The Best of Journalism and blogger for The Atlantic about right wing talk radio.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Attack Ideas, Not Motives
Prager H1: Republicans make a big mistake when they attack the motives of Democrats. Republicans should take on Democrats’ ideas and leave motives out of the discussion… A female CBS reporter was sexually assaulted in Cairo while covering the protests there. Why did CBS initially repress the story?
Dennis talks to Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts. He's written an autobiography, Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances.
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H1: The Descent of the Unions
Prager H1: We love teachers; we have contempt for the teachers union… The Daily Mail in London reports that Gaddafi has fled Libya. If it’s true, where did he go?.. Tavis Smiley makes Bill Maher look like a conservative…
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Big Cheese
Prager H2: The Democrats fit of pique in Wisconsin is the biggest domestic story of the year… Dennis talks to Charlie Sykes, radio talk show host in Milwaukee, about the circus going on in that state… Columbia University students protest the idea of an ROTC office on campus.
Monday, February 21, 2011 Radio Show
H3: AARP
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Robert Samuelson, columnist for Newsweek and Washington Post, about the stranglehold AARP has on the federal budget… Dennis talks to Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts.
Friday, February 18, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Wishful Thinking
Prager H1: The Left engages in wishful thinking about the world… Chris Christie speaks truth to NJ fire fighters… Charles Krauthammer exposes the Obama budget fraud…
Friday, February 18, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Happiness Hour: Limits of Complaining
Prager H2: You have to be able to express your feelings to friends, but how much complaining can you do before you alienate them? The answer: open up, but don’t be a burden.
Friday, February 18, 2011 Radio Show
H3: Open Lines
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: how many licks does it take to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop; is Debussy a desert island composer; if computers become human-like will they be liberal or conservative; why should Wisconsin public service workers have to pay more for their benefits; why do we give aid to foreign countries when are running a deficit at home.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Balancing Act
Prager H1: The President claims he’s balancing the budget, but he doesn’t bother to include interest costs on the debt when making his dubious calculation. Would you say that your household budget was balanced if you excluded mortgage and credit card payments?.. A CBS reporter was sexually assaulted by an Egyptian mob. Why did the network sit on the story?.. The Ft Hood murders illustrate the deadly consequences of multiculturalism and political correctness.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 Radio Show
H2: Badger Tough
Prager H2: The Republican governor of Wisconsin is taking on the unions… Dennis talks to Michael Scheurer, the chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999. His new book is Osama Bin Laden…
Thursday, February 17, 2011 Radio Show
H3: Elementary, My Dear Watson
Prager H3: The IBM computer, Watson, beat two Jeopardy champions in a Jeopardy showdown. Is this significant? Or much ado about not much?.. Dennis talks to Conor Friedersdorf. founding editor of The Best of Journalism and blogger for The Atlantic about right wing talk radio.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Radio Show
H1: Attack Ideas, Not Motives
Prager H1: Republicans make a big mistake when they attack the motives of Democrats. Republicans should take on Democrats’ ideas and leave motives out of the discussion… A female CBS reporter was sexually assaulted in Cairo while covering the protests there. Why did CBS initially repress the story?
Dennis talks to Senator Scott Brown
Monday, February 21, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:36 PM
Dennis talks to Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts. He's written an autobiography, Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances. This Is Right Out of “Are You a Liberal Test?”
Monday, February 21, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 1:57 PM
Angry protesters belittle a decorated vet at Columbia. They're upset that the college might open an ROTC office. This right out of our "Are You a Liberal Test?" test. You can see the Prager U. video here and take the test here.
Samuelson on AARP
Monday, February 21, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 1:47 PM
Dennis talks to Robert Samuelson, columnist for Washington Post and Newsweek, about his latest column, an expose of AARP. Samuelson's latest book is The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American
Charlie Sykes on Wisconsin
Monday, February 21, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 1:40 PM
Dennis talks to Charlie Sykes, Milwaukee talk show host, about the circus in Wisconsin. HIs latest book is 50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education.
Very Effective Video on Left Hate Rhetoric in Wisconsin
Friday, February 18, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:52 PM
Guess they didn’t get the memo about civility.
Krauthammer: Obama’s Debt Fraud
Friday, February 18, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:47 PM
The more you learn, the more galling it becomes. Read it and weep; or even better, get angry and take action.
Atlantic Blogger Notes that Dennis Not a Raving Lunatic
Thursday, February 17, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:33 PM
For his controversial assessment, the writer was excoriated by Leftist critics.
Computer Beats Humans on Game Show
Thursday, February 17, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:26 PM
A supercomputer easily beats two Jeopardy champions in a Jeopardy showdown. Futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks that computers and people are merging. Dennis doesn't agree.
Rabinowitz: The Deadly Consequences of Multiculturalism
Thursday, February 17, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 12:39 PM
Report after government report has been issued on the Ft. Hood massacre, but none of them mention the murderer's jihadist beliefs. With her usual devastating clarity, Dorothy Rabinowitz, looks at Hassan's very disturbing history and how the Army dealt with it. Political correctness and multiculturalism aren't just academic theories; they have real life consequences, and sometimes those consequences are deadly.
Female CBS Reporter Sexually Assaulted in Cairo
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 | Posted by: Allen Estrin at 2:39 PM
Reports are that the mob was shouting “Jew, Jew” at her. She's now in hospital in NY. Why did CBS wait so long to release this story?
Dancing Rabbis At American Jewish University
Luke Ford writes: Mixed-dancing is one of the big no-nos of Orthodox Judaism, but not of Conservative Judaism as this email from AJU (the West Coast Conservative seminary) shows:
Pigford Black Farmers Reparation Scam - Andrew Breitbart Investigates
My friend Andrew Breitbart has been investigating this story for months.
Though Breitbart says the biggest revelations are yet to come, he has coauthored a report detailing some of the crime that has been directly tied to Pigford. The most sensational example comes from 2006, when a Mississippi couple was sentenced to life in prison on conspiracy charges in the murder of Clovis Reed, who had plotted with the couple to make fraudulent Pigford claims and who they feared would testify against them in court. The year before, two college administrators in Arkansas were convicted of attempting to fraudulently claim $400,000 after they attended a meeting whose organizers told them the settlement was a “veiled way to collect reparations for centuries-old grievances.”
Lara Logan's Sexual Assault: Questions Remain
A group of women rescued her with the help of the Egyptian army? Where was the army while the attack was going on? Who were the 200 men who attacked Lara Logan? The story from CBS News seems inadequate to what happened.
From the beginning the “official” story from CBS smelled like week old fish remains. The story as CBS told it consisted of three primary parts:
1. A “dangerous element of 200″ surrounded Logan and her team.
2. She was separated from her team and brutally assaulted.
3. A “group of women and about 20 Egyptian solders” rescued her.
Christopher Teras Makes Big Bucks Importing Cheap Foreign Labor
There are legal ways to bring in cheap labor from overseas to do brutal work for low wages.
Immigration attorneys typically make at least $20,000 per immigrant (because the application process is labor-intensive) who then work for close to minimum wage.
According to Wikipedia: “ProjectUSA is an immigration reduction political advocacy group. According to the group’s website, it is “a nonprofit social advocacy group based in Washington, DC and dedicated to raising public debate about the important issue of mass immigration. We advocate ending illegal immigration, reducing legal immigration to traditional, sustainable levels, and a ten year time-out while the country reassesses immigration in terms of the long-term consequences of present policy.”"
I first picked up the Agriprocessors story in May, 2004.
Lara Logan's Sexual Assault News Coverup
On his radio show Feb. 16, Dennis Prager said: “This story should be widely reported.”
He read from the the New York Post article.
Dennis: “I think the biggest story here is why CBS did not report it originally. I want to know why CBS didn’t report it. Their chief foreign correspondent is attacked and sexually assaulted by 200 men, God only knows what that means, and sustained serious injuries, and CBS did not report it, that’s a serious story.”
Melissa Scott - Very Hot Pastor With XXX Past
Luke Ford writes: The pastor finally confesses, sort of, to Marie Claire magazine, that she was the nude model Barbie Bridges.
Here is my previous coverage of Melissa Scott.
I only tell this story — not to get hits to my website — but to share an inspiring example of God’s grace, the way He can reach down and lift up the greatest of sinners.
Will you turn to the person next to you right on and say. "Amen! Preach on, Guru Luke!"
What many don’t realize is that Melissa Scott and Sarah Palin are identical twins who were separated at birth:
Lara Logan In Danger Of Copycat Attacks
Daniel Bates writes for the Mail Online:
The sex assault on Lara Logan could ‘turn her into a target’ for future attacks, her former boss warned today.
Janet Leissner, who ran the CBS Washington bureau for eight years until 2009, told MailOnline that the foreign correspondent was at risk of copycat attacks now that she is ‘very well known’.
She also urged Miss Logan to ‘take a strong measure of herself’ before going back to war reporting and to consider the welfare of her two young children, her husband and her ‘responsibilities as a mother’.
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