{"id":14449,"date":"2010-10-18T05:24:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T10:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14449"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:31:05","slug":"open-borders-1854-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14449","title":{"rendered":"Open Borders, 1854 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just occurred to me:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/17\/opinion\/17dowd.html?_r=2&amp;ref=maureendowd\">Maureen Dowd<\/a> may be the \u00a0Betty McCollum of columnists:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I sat above the Hoover Dam under the broiling sun, I was getting jittery.<\/p>\n<p>There was Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona, speaking at the dedication of a bridge linking Arizona and Nevada 890 feet above the Colorado River.<\/p>\n<p>As the politicians droned on and my Irish skin turned toasty brown, I worried that Governor Brewer might make a citizen\u2019s arrest and I would have to run for my life across the desert. She has, after all, declared open season on anyone with a suspicious skin tone in her state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Irish <em>never <\/em>turn &#8220;toasty brown&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And the only &#8220;suspicious skin tone&#8221; this country should open a season on is that waxy, corpse-like newsroom pallor.<\/p>\n<p>Kidding. \u00a0I kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just occurred to me:\u00a0Maureen Dowd may be the \u00a0Betty McCollum of columnists: As I sat above the Hoover Dam under the broiling sun, I was getting jittery. There was Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona, speaking at the dedication of a bridge linking Arizona and Nevada 890 feet above the Colorado River. As the politicians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-14449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty","tag-mn-cd4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23824,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449\/revisions\/23824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}