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Author’s Note: I’m about to go on a much-needed July 24th holiday (no cheering from the fascist fan club, please). But I didn’t want to disappear without an appropriate parting gift. So here it is. Lass’t ’s schmecken
The Right has a double-barreled shotgun up its ass. In chamber one is anger over out-of-control immigration. Chris [...]

That these people stop only before using racist epithets, is evidence that grace in America hangs only by a thread. Perhaps it is thanks to the relatively recent memory of Hitler and Jim Crow that there remains some semblance of civility in our public discourse.
But even the casual listener can hear the language of [...]

As published in the Tribune
I am impressed with the central message of the faith communities in our area in speaking out for compassion and reflective fairness on the issues of immigration and the rights of aliens in this country. Compassionate care for the “stranger amongst us” is central to biblical teachings of the prophets and [...]

Of late, it seems you can’t turn on the TV without hearing some conservative yammering on about “rule of law” - especially when the topic is immigration. State Rep Glen Donnelson last night on Utah Now used the phrase repeatedly while discussing immigration.
This talk is just a new variation on the conservative fondness for [...]

From the Associated Press:
Thousands of Iraqis whose support for the U.S. war effort in Iraq has put them and their families in grave danger at home are being excluded from a new fast-track system aimed at speeding up refugee resettlement in the United States for American allies, officials said Thursday…
[T]hose who worked for private contractors, [...]

I swore to myself - No conversations about politics over the holiday. Yeah, right. That worked out well.
The conversation turned to politics, covering a wide range of topics, including but not limited to immigration.
About midway through, I had an epiphany. Talk about immigration is occurring in the wrong frame - it is [...]

Like a segment of the population, I trace my ancestry back to before the Revolutionary War - the oldest verified record we have is of a birth in North Carolina in 1750. After that, my ancestors moved west - first to Iowa, then to Utah in 1847. On my mother’s side, it’s a [...]

I made a disparaging comment about Barack Obama the other day on Simple Utah Mormon Politics. Although I still stand by the comment as it relates to the machinations of Hillary Clinton, I have apologized here for the statement as it regarded Senator Obama. I spent 15 days recently with my three oldest [...]

It doesn’t take very long using the Internets to find reliable information that confirms that the whole illegal immigration scare/thing is a bunch of overblown, over-hyped propaganda perpetuated by republicans, bigots and generally lazy uninformed whiners.
Fact: The rate of undocumented migration has not increased in over two decades.
Neither is Mexico a demographic time bomb; [...]

In an essay in Foreign Affairs, Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, compares the current Iraqi refugee situation with the plight of European Jews in the 1930s. Now, as then, the United States government is shamefully ignoring the crisis. Now, as then, visas can save lives.
Since the 2003 invasion, [...]

Alberto Gonzales might not make it to Utah- or out of Washington alive. But the list of Bush administration flunkees running to Utah to look busy is obvious and somewhat frightening. The Bush “Mod Squad” of Gonzales, Education Secretary Spellings and HHS head and former Utah governor Mike Leavitt, is due to come here Friday [...]

If you guessed, Republicans, bigots, or the like, you are RIGHT!
A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken last weekend found that 78% of respondents feel people now in the country illegally should be given a chance at citizenship.
Thats all. (Hoefer, Go find yourself a Mexican and hug him.)