Center of Attention
Jun 21st, 2007 | 3 responses
A round up of recent reporting and commentary by a few centrist, moderate, and independent bloggers.
Michael vdG comments on F. Thompson taking on CAIR.
David Adesnik looks at “two New Yorkers’ thoughts about Bloomberg.” I love this description of the Mayor: He “exudes competence.” Sounds like the polar opposite of someone else’s administration.
Dennis Sanders encourages anyone who considers his affiliations an oxymoron to “deal with it.”
Andrew Sullivan linked to and excerpted a CS post of mine earlier this week about why I’m still a Republican. That touched off a minor brouhaha, with Rod Dreher jumping into the mix, then Andrew responding, and Patrick Conlon offering his two cents.
Jim Martin is not happy with the Bush administration’s staffing of the embassy in Baghdad.
Daniel DiRito uses the occasion of GWB’s next stem-cell veto to revisit “the flaws of a faith-based presidency.”
Finally, Jason Steck looks at immigration and terrorism. Money quote: “In the case of the anti-immigration approach to ‘national security,’ it may well be not only that the cure is worse than the disease, the supposed cure might be part of the cause.”
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3 Responses to “Center of Attention”
Jason’s post went nowhere yesterday here at TMV.
http://tutakai.typepad.com/tutakai/2007/06/the_missing_lin.html
http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/immigration/13611/the-missing-link-between-immigration-and-terrorism/
The “foreigners” as gangs and criminals is old. The same was said in Detroit about the Black Hand and the Purple Gang. My fathers Croation relatives ran afoul of both groups. The WASP’s of the time in Detroit compared these “brown skinned criminals” the way that Heritage rants today. The Purple Gang was involved in the St Valentines Day Massacre, did we wrong up these criminals and deport them back to Eastern Europe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purple_Gang
Rudi, I just addressed Jason’s (second?) immigration-and-security posting by providing a link to a Pew report on public attitudes toward the bill and immigration (as well as toward Iraq and for that matter, the Democrats and how they are not tough enough or too tough with Bush).
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Bloomberg is the latest possible Presidential candidate to be hyped, and Americans are sick of hearing from New York about “the mayor” (in modern, vibrant parts of the nation, nobody lives in central cities and often has no association with anyone filling the position of “mayor”). It’s RINO-ish flirting with disaster; we already have someone from Massachusetts (frequently alien to real America and real Americans) and this is more northeastern taint. The only thing missing with New York City hype about Bloomberg is additional noise from Albany (probably the worst state capital there is, and one that even has this nation’s “Communist era monument to government,” Empire State Plaza).
(Eliot Spitzer is disgusting enough, but also hard to take were the totally alien, disgusting legislators in Albany broadcast one day on NPR, clucking, smacking, and childishly saying to each other, “Um, so what, so what do you think Bush is, um, is going to do with the Supreme Court? Is he going to, um, appoint a, a reactionary?” This would, in an ideal world, result in the nuclear destruction of Albany.)
There may be a backlash against the northeasterners in 2008.
What Pew initially reports about Bloomberg is this.
Meanwhile, in Rudi’s Detroit, what’s happening later this year? The big negotiations in Dinosaur Land, between the UAW (which, incredibly, wants to preserve the JOBS bank!) and GM and Ford (two companies not thriving in the USA the way the auto industry in the USA as a whole is thriving — just not in Detroit).
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