Monthly Archives: April 2010

The Symbolic Speech and Cowardice of Sojourners

Suppose illegal immigrants were not to be tracked by the government and sent home. Suppose they were all granted full citizenship. What would happen next?
Suppose there were more free and open competition for jobs in America, with applicants from around the world challenging each of us for our positions, [...]

Provide Refuge for Illegal Immigrants

It is coming time for Christians to harbor innocents being persecuted by the state, at risk of their own liberty.
If there is an economist reading this I challenge you to provide economic justification for anti-immigrant laws. As a graduate student in economics, as far as I know, there are none.
To [...]

The National Ethos and Soulfulness of Sport

Diana Butler Bass is all emotional over sport today.
April 5 was a remarkable day for sports — especially sports and religion. With baseball’s opening day, Tiger Woods’ spiritual transformation, and the miraculous NCAA championship game, one only needed to watch American sports to see that the national soul [...]

Accidents Happen

Sojo blog has an article about the West Virginia mine accident this week.  The author, Rose Marie Berger, takes aim, as many others do, at the mine owner, Massey Energy.
Already outrage is focused on Massey Energy, owner of the Upper Big Branch mine. Massey has a history of negligence, and Upper Big Branch [...]

The Wikileaks Video

Wikileaks has a very suggestive interpretation of the event surrounding the video they are showing.  I sympathize with it.
Pajamas Media has another interpretation.  (Gavel bang to Adam Gurri)  It is a war.  People die.  The soldiers followed protocol.
I posted on the Pajamas site, and provided my email address to their readers.
In this post I tried [...]