Category: Sovereignty
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Mordida
The DFL wants to kill the budget bill and shut down the state government to… …well, just guess why (emphasis added)? “I am urging our DFL leader and my friend, Governor Mark Dayton, to veto the Public Safety Omnibus Bill. It is long overdue that Minnesota do the right thing and lead on this important moral…
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A Fools’ Sanctuary
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We won’t cooperate in enforcing federal law. But we still want the federal gravy. Liberals are big on equal outcomes, right? Everything has to be equal in order to be fair? Okay, then. Treat them like kids in grade school. When someone farted and wouldn’t own up, everybody skipped…
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The First Priority Is To Have Priorities
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Trump issued an Executive Order on immigration last month, pursuant to a law passed by Congress and signed by President Obama two years ago. A Federal judge in California blocked it. President Trump issued a revised Executive Order that took into account the judge’s objections. A Federal judge…
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Tomayto, Tomahto
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Trump gave a speech [last week] referring to problems caused by immigrants in which he mentioned “what’s happening last night in Sweden.” But nothing happened [last] Friday night in Sweden so the media are giving him a hard time about it. Oops. The immigrants didn’t riot in Sweden until…
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More Hatred Of Muslims!
40,000 Muslims deported, due to fear of terrorism. From Muslim Saudi Arabia. Obvious bigotry against the Religion of Peace by redneck deplorable…Sunni.
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Lifeboat
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Trump’s executive Order on immigration and refugees is causing angst, but not analysis. We need analysis. For years, I’ve used the lifeboat analogy to discuss immigration. There’s only so much room in the lifeboat, only so many rations. There are 7,000,000,000 people in the world who want better lives…
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Anger!
SCENE: Mitch BERG is stopped at a light on University Avenue. He sits, window rolled down, waiting for the green. Avery LIBRELLE pulls up next to BERG is a city bus. The window is cracked open. LIBRELLE: Hey, Merg! Dona’d Trump’s immigration moratorium is pure racism! BERG: Was it racist when Obama barred immigration from…
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Playing Chess Against Checkers Players
Glenn Reynolds: Obama did a 6-month immigration pause on Iraq, nobody cared. Trump does a 3-month pause on a list of countries the Obama Administration put together, and he’s literally Hitler. And don’t forget the P.S: Do you want more Trump? Because explosive anger mixed with sanctimony is how you get more Trump. I’m…
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Sometimes A Great Notion
A Swiss community is un-thrilled by the immigration by a “left wing vegan” Dutch woman: A left-wing Dutch vegan who campaigned against cowbells in the Swiss village where she lives has had a request for a Swiss passport thrown out after annoying the locals. Nancy Holten, who was born in the Netherlands but moved to…
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Future Tense
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Last February, my wife and I stayed at an all-inclusive condo on Cozumel. We asked the staff about tipping – not required but okay if you want to. How much to tip? Well, the groundskeepers, the people who speak no English and have no particular skills, make 70 Pesos…
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Par
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama refuses to faithfully uphold United States immigration law, so the local sheriff in Arizona has been doing it. Then Obama’s Justice Department sued, saying nobody else could enforce the law the feds were ignoring. But the sheriff kept enforcing the law. The sheriff is up for re-election.…
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Law And Morality
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I flinch when people urge that we condition law enforcement on “humanity” rather than “legality.” Who decides which law is inhumane and need not be obeyed? Taken to its logical extreme, that argument produces anarchy. For example, Paul Mirengoff writing at Powerline about Trump’s immigration stance says: “First,…
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Negotiation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Asylum seekers legally prohibited from working, decline voluntary work that generate favorable PR, demand minimum wage instead. Gee, maybe Mark Dayton can talk to Angela Merkel about getting some of those folks to move here. Joe Doakes Soon they’ll be going door to door for MPIRG.
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ExpIt!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: So – did British unemployment “really” fall following Brexit? That was entirely contrary to expert predictions. Or did the government massage the figures to hide the decline, as we do in the United States? Joe Doakes Weird. I’m sure there must be some mistake.
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Redundancia
Large swathes of America – the west coast, the east coast north of the Carolinas, most cities over 250,000 people – are controlled by an increasingly extremist left-of-center party that governs badly, fosters corruption and leads to a vacuum of effective authority in a way that makes large parts of the country incubators for crime.…
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“Unintended” Consequences
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Illegal alien injured on the job, confessed to using false documents to obtain employment, was put on unpaid leave until he could prove he was eligible to work in the United States, sued employer for retaliation, Minnesota Court of Appeals takes his side. Court says the purpose of federal…
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Grande
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Mayor of Paris says they can’t have little shanties and camps scattered around, they need one big camp to concentrate the refugees in one place. A concentration camp, lovely idea. But that’s a temporary solution to a temporary problem. Aren’t refugees supposed to go home, eventually? Or is…
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A Fine Line Between Experiment And Lunacy
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Immigrants are good for Minnesota: they bring us exciting new possibilities, interesting insights, exotic diseases such as tuberculosis. “An alternative public health policy–one that the United States used for decades in the latter part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century–is to test immigrants and refugees for…
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Assimodation
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: State Senate passed an omnibus bill (not yet law). Section 8, Article 28, starting at line 195.20, says: Sec. 28. IMMIGRATION INTEGRATION ADVISORY TASK FORCE. (a) The Immigration Integration Advisory Task Force is created to research state laws and rules that negatively affect immigrants. The task force is…
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Hearings
Joe Doakes convenes a meeting of the Immigration Integration Advisory Task Force, via email: C: This session of the Immigration Integration Advisory Task Force will come to order. The Secretary will call the roll: S: Madam Chairman . . . C: Excuse me. I find that offensive. I prefer a gender-neutral title. S: Certainly Madame…
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Stranger Than Conservative Apocalyptic Fiction
A friend of the blog writes: …will be the first to propose that women all wear full burqas in order to protect us from any man we might encounter in public? I mean, it isn’t that much of a stretch when someone is already suggesting segregated transit. I, for one, predict a system of separate…
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Lessons
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: European wacko, far-right, fringe party . . . wins 36% of the vote. The mainstream, sensible, traditional parties couldn’t scrape together enough to get into the runoff election. The media keeps using that word: “fringe.” I don’t think it means what they think it means. This election result is…
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Better
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: After border-crossers have lost their court cases and been denied asylum, federal law considers them “illegal aliens” and they are ordered to be deported. While they’re awaiting deportation, Liberals claim they’re entitled to the same level of humane treatment as we give to American children in the foster care…
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Compare And Contrast
2014 – Sexual Assaults (on campus, a “crisis” of baked statistics and many hoaxes): Huge crisis for Western Civilization. 2016 – Gangs of roaming men, carrying out various degrees of sexual assaults in a coordinated, planned wave of terror? Let’s not get carried away, people! I mean, when David Frum gets it…
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Selective Vapors
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: People who enter the United States without proper documentation (sneaking across the border from Mexico, for example) can apply for affirmative political asylum. Asylum decisions are made by immigration court but the system is swamped so applicants are given a notice to appear for a future court date and…