Daily Topics - Monday March 23rd, 2015
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Be sure to check out our videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
In for Thom today...please welcome progressive talkers Danielle & Shane-O
Hour One: What you need to know about Ted Cruz - John Fugelsang, Tell Me Everything on SiriusXM ch. 121 / PLUS, Ted Cruz...Trojan Horse for theocracy? Bruce Wilson, Talk2Action
Hour Two: Confederate flag...free speech? Ian Millhiser, Think Progress & Injustices: The Supreme Court's Nearly Unbroken History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted
Hour Three: Why are so many disabled people getting killed by police? Susan Mizner, ACLU
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The license plate issue is definitley weird, but I can't see any basis for forcing a state to put anything in particular on a plate. The SCV's argument seems to be entirely, "But the state does other Confederate stuff too. Therefore it has to do this." That would be the mother of all slippery slopes--give the SCV everything it ever asks for (free stuff, holidays, you name it), or they'll sue.
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The best rule for natural-born citizenship would be this:
1) If the parents are citizens or legal residents of the same country (at least one of them being an actual citizen) at the time of their child's birth, then the child is a natural-born citizen of that country, regardless of where it was born.
2) If the parents are not citizens or legal residents of the same country at the time of their child's birth, and the child was born in one of those countries, then it is a natural-born citizen of the country where it was born.
3) If the parents are not citizens or legal residents of the same country at the time of their child's birth, and the child was born in a country of which neither parent is a citizen, then it is not a natural-born citizen of any country. But consideration should be made in law to deal with allowing such children to become naturalized citizens based on long-term residence, because there's nowhere to deport them to. And there's hardly going to be a flood of tri-national families immigrating anywhere.
Based on that and what I know about the individuals, Barack Hussein Obama junior (who was born in the United States to one American citizen) is a natural-born citizen of the United States of America, and Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz (who was born in Canada to an American Citizen and a Cuban Citizen who resided legally in the United States) is too. If you restricted the parental conditions to just citizenship, Cruz would not be a natural-born citizen of anywhere.