Editor's Picks 7/9
- AZ Lobbyist's July Political Calendar. Who else would you turn to when you want to know what's going on?
- Open season on moderate Republicans. Arizona's RINO hunt is in full swing.
- Edward's ties to Tucson. The next VP has professional ties to Tucson through uber-litigator Richard Grand's Inner Circle of Advocates.
- A good overview of the Right from a Public Eye, a research foundation which studies the enemy.
- Bush sits his asshole on the bench again, this time in the person of J. Leon Holmes in a 51 to 46 vote, which was suprisingly not strictly along party lines.
- A new major terrorist target to worry about. This one provides a hijacker with the equivalent of a small nuke.
- Get this if you are planning to protest at the Republican Convention in NY or know someone who is.
- How liberals can inject morality into our economic program and win back lower income conservatives to the party.
- The International Court of Justice rules the Israeli 'security wall' illegal. Watch for some surprisingly reactionary statements on the ruling from some unexpected quarters.
- Dave Eggers has been whipping up a serial novel on Salon. If you haven't taken a look, it's worth a moment.
posted by Michael Bryan @ 7/09/2004 08:53:00 AM
2 Comments:
Hi. I see you're against the Israeli security wall. I know Arizona has been seeing some of the effects of illegal immigration...what is your view on a potential fence on the Mexican border?
I don't think a wall on the mexican border will do any good. I won't stop, or even slow, illegal immigration, although it might make it more expensive, or shift it to other places. It is obviously impractical to wall the entire border, and so it would likely shift immiragtion flow to more rural area, further endangering the lives of illegal entrants. That I would find immoral and unacceptable.
As to any parrallel with Israe's Wall, I just don't see any. We are not military occupiers of Mexico (although to be historically honest we have pretty successfully annexed a good chunk of it, and are now denying access to the descendants of those from whom we stole it), nor would we be proposing to build such a wall on Mexican territory, nor is there any significant terrorist threat from that border. Despite fears of infiltration by terrorists through Mexico, there are many easier, safer, and just as unregulated means of entry.
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