Overused and Overwrought

There are words and phrases that sneak into our every day lexicon, and before you know it, like Johnson Grass and Tea Partiers, they have invaded our consciousness.  Let me give you a few examples: …main stream media …partisan, non-partisan, or bi-partisan …the arab street …on/off the table And the one that makes my eyes glaze over and mind slam shut… …on the ground (and its many derivatives) I’m sure you and I could come up with a much longer and even more revolting list, but I’m going to stop here and give you some thoughts on some of those listed above. Let’s start with main street media (MSM), or as my...

What We Don’t Know About Immigrants

I posted my first piece on immigration June 17, 2007 and titled it In Diversity There is Strength.  If you’re a glutten for this kind of stuff you can click on Immigration in the tag cloud and it will take you there for a reread; otherwise, I will just say that it covered one hundred fifty years of our immigration law history….and it’s not a pretty picture. Recently President Obama announced that by exercising his executive powers he was changing our policy with respect to certain young people who had been brought by their parents in to the US illegally as minors.  Actually, that’s not quite right because about half of all Illegals came...