Daily Topics - Wednesday February 27th, 2013
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Hour One: Has the Supreme Court become the new monarchy? Shane Farnan, Talk Radio News Service
Hour Two: Big Brother is watching... David Bier, Competitive Enterprise Institute and Chris Calabrese, ACLU
Hour Three: Warren vs. Bernanke: too big to fail...?
Comments
#2
Has anyone passed along to Thom that the Chief Justice between Earl Warren and William Renquist was Warren Burger? Who I will forever curse for leaving the bench during Reagan's admin. And allowing Reagan to nominate one Antonin Scalia.
#3
Liberticidally ugly. As ugly as something that kills liberty. Although, etymologically it should be "libertaticidally", since the stem of the Latin word "libertas" is "libertat-".
#4
At the inaugurations on Jan. 20th, Justice Sotomayor used the "junior" on VP Biden's name, but Justice Roberts didn't do the same for Pres. Obama.
I think Pres. Obama should use "junior" on his name, just so that some of the birthers might realize that BHO Sr. was the one born in Kenya, and maybe someone just got some information mixed up. Conspiracy theorists always have this weird idea that no bad information comes about by accident, that it's always either really true but was released by accident, or that it's part of a disinformation campaign. With all the time they spend on the internet, you'd think they'd learn that people constantly make mistakes.
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No,no,no,Thom! The reason why we don't enforce immigration laws against employers is because immediately upon doing so we discovered that we really need those workers. And enforcement against employers hurts the workers most of all. The solution is a REAL guest worker program whereby immigrants can come here, sign up and work fairly easily and LEGALLY. They can be tracked and provided protection from abuse, like wage theft. They can return home and come back. They can participate in Social Security which needs workers. They can do everything except vote. They can if they want get on a path for citizenship. There would be no illegal employment to enforce because employing immigrants would be legal. There would be no need to hire citizens first because immigrant and citizen workers would be paid the same. You are still buying into the myth that immigration is bad for us when we need it now. If capital should be free to move across borders why shouldn't labor?