Why is anyone with views that depart from your own a "Liberal"?

How many Conservatives call enforcing the law "encouraging hate"?

How many Liberals opposed amnesty for illegal aliens?

If it walks like a duck...

I don't know how many? Where can I find a reference to this research? Who assigned them to each category? You answered a question with a question, so I feel compelled to do the same. It was a question in a more generalist sense however as I have seen such behavior in a number of post. If it walks like a duck it could just be something that walks like a duck. Forming an opinion of something or someone without the full range of facts is problematic at best.

Nice blog. I wrote a piece about this on my blog as well. Give it a read if you get time. The ties to the Catholic church are interesting.

Oklahoma might have gone more fur than they should go!

Oklahoma's Governor Brad Henry has signed a sweeping immigration Reform bill: House Bill 1804, that its sponsor believes will go a long way in dealing with the illegal alien problem in the state. They say "We have as much right - in fact, I would argue, a responsibility - to protect our tax payers against that sort of egregious waste, fraud and abuse as the federal government should have a responsibility to protect that international border, but doesn't do that."

And now we will see how Oklahoma will do compared with the neighboring states who will still be counting on cheap immigrant labor to help them grow. I do not know much about how the subprime mortgage sector has been doing in Oklahoma but I guess that now some homeowners will not be happy seeing their house prices further eroded just because their neighbors have to leave town for Kansas since there they've have not gone about as fur as they c'n go!

The fact is that anything that builds on the premise of considering an alien anyone who is just an earthling from the other side of the border; and where the supporters include arguments such as “If all 535 candidates for Congress were Muslims, and became U.S. senators and House members-- they would dismantle our Constitution in a heartbeat and install Sharia Law. How stupid are we as a nation? How naïve? How bankrupt in our apathy toward Islam and its prime directive?” does not seem to be on too solid ground so as to provide well thought out public policies.

For instance somewhere in the transcripts sent by those in favor of the reform it says that “America's criminal justice system is bulging with these citizens of other countries. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 30 percent of federal prisoners are not U.S. citizens. At a cost of $63 a day, taxpayers spend more than $3 million every day to house non-U.S. citizen dollars in our federal prisons. Most are thought to be illegal aliens.”

Well, placing these inmates (at much lower costs) in the neighboring countries in new prisons that you helped to build and that are operated by the same private companies that operate so many of the prisons in the US seems to be a better policy than just throwing criminals over the border to countries much less capable of handling them, and then expecting the problem not to return, worsened.

Also designing large and effective temporary worker programs seems a way of building solutions to the problem of keeping the demand and supply and costs of migration policy enforcement under control. For instance if you would require a private insurance company to guarantee that those workers who enter the US under an official temporary worker visa program go back in a timely way, and if not they will have to pay one or two hundred thousand dollars to the US or to Oklahoma, that would allow the market to work for you and not against you… and that might be a better way of getting as fur as you should be able to get!