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Immigration law favors immigrants in the U.S.

This section discusses about immigration to the US and the various nationalities coming to the US. It has changed dramatically from Europeans to accepting more peoples There is more data on nationalities in the Census documents from Asia and eastern Europe as well as Africa and South America. In the beginning of this section, the […]

Cowardice and intimidation at The Washington Post and L.A. Times

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Robert Reich speaks out about the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times failure to endorse a candidate for president. Both stop […]

The Misinformation About Immigrants in the United States

During the Trump administration (according to the Migration Policy Institute), the Trump administration signed over four hundred executive actions on immigration between January 2017 and July 2020.  These executive action changes limited asylum, banned entry from a list of countries (initially seven, but later expanded to thirteen), sought to deter cross-border immigration from Mexico and […]

Alleged Hypocrisy and Virtue Signalling

Heads I win tails you lose. There are criticisms of alleged hypocrisy and alleged virtue signalling. I am convinced that most who criticise “virtue signalling” are, in fact, criticizing virtue. My guess is that there the selfishness and altruism of different people is different and the relatively selfish suspect (correctly) that the relatively altruistic disapprove […]

The Week Ahead

Joyce Vance @ Civil Discourse This is not going to be one of those ho-hum, just like any other week kind of weeks. Over the weekend, Donald Trump talked about the size of Arnold Palmer’s penis and called Kamala Harris a “shit vice president” while an adoring crowd cheered. Harris’ response? She told MSNBC’s Al Sharpton, “the American people deserve so […]

Polls vs betting markets

I had an email exchange a couple days ago with Josh Marshall over at Talking Points Memo about polls (which he’s written a lot about recently) and the election betting market (which he had never mentioned). Yesterday, he used our exchange as a jumping off point to explain why he doesn’t believe the betting market […]

Trade, Tariffs, Politics and No Economics

A history lesson of what not to do and yet may still come to pass. October 5th, 2024 by Prof. Heather Cox – Richardson Letters from an American More politics rather than economics. Some of it does fit. The concept is political for an upcoming election. William McKinley is having a moment (which I confess […]

EPA Scientists Say They Were Pressured to Downplay Health Harms From Chemicals

Author Sharon Lerner at ProPublica featured at MedPage Today AB: Bit of a rewrite to shorten this up for readers at Angry Bear. Just when you think agencies and the management team will do the right thing, they do not. Lower echelon scientists to make public the issues with the findings that were not theirs […]