Tag: Immigration

Interestingly enough we find junior Texas Senator Ted Cruz in exactly the predicament that the birthers tried to place President Barack Obama. Senator Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban father and an American mother. He even has shown the birth certificate to prove it. Even ignoring his current…

David Duke is thinking of entering the race for the Republican nominee for President.  Sure, Huffpo noticed, and The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and The Forward.  No word from the core of the mainstream media, and no word yet on how Mr. Duke will be received by either the Republican…

I found some interesting odds & ends related to people moving out and moving up that I wanted to share with you. The first was a report from AZ on the implications of SB 1070 – the “paper’s please” anti-immigrant law. It seems that the economists were right that the law would have significant negative impacts on Arizona businesses. They made this statement following an analysis of the economic value of immigrant workers to the state, without even taking into account the impact of boycott’s to the state. In this report from CNN you can hear business people and politician’s alike saying:

The immigration law backfired. “Whoops we have no workers” Randi Kaye

In other moving news, I heard through the grapevine, the unconfirmed report that Representative Paul Ryan (R-01) has purchased the Parker Mansion in Janesville’s prestigious Court House Hill Historic District. He will be living next to the Cullen’s, a builder and prominent Republican fundraiser.