The dozen or so folks who read my columns know that I stay away from controversial topics. So this week I’ll weigh in on immigration policy.
I was prompted to this by last week’s The Right Stuff column that I thought was pretty fair and balanced (except for the headline “Citizenship must be earned,”
Letter to the Editor: Is there a place for moderate Americans?
because the U.S. government
and American private industry historically have worked as a team for the good of all. That team has helped liberate millions from repression and American capitalism has relieved millions from extreme poverty.
Should we positively use this government/private collaboration to continue making the world a better place by positively addressing the many disparities and tribulations that remain to be corrected? Or should we continue the current negative practice of declaring one side to have all the correct answers and the other side to be totally evil?
On the Left: Jim Crow, how are you?
Jack Batson: On the Left
Extraordinary. That’s the only word that describes today’s American political world. Extraordinary, not normal. There’s nothing ordinary about what our political right is doing. Nothing.
History is crashing into the present right before our eyes. The ghost of Jim Crow is returning. Racism reigns again with our nation’s conservative leaders.
The Republicans lost the Senate with the election of two Democrats in Georgia. The horror that always lurked on the horizon for the Republicans has finally come: demographics. The percentage of white voters is shrinking every year. They knew that the time would come when they would lose power. It finally happened in November.
On the Left: That old time religion
Jack Batson: On the Left
One of the great debates of the last, oh, 150 years is if capitalism should be regulated. The answer is staring us in the face – yes. The beginning of the latest debates began with Ronnie Reagan and may now end with the Great Freeze in Texas.
I’m going to show that without regulation, capitalism becomes irresponsible and predatory. Fasten your seat belts!
When it’s not morphing into monopolies (more on that problem another time), capitalism sets prices by competition. We all agree that the long-sought “fair price” is the price set by competition. A good or service is worth whatever you agree to pay for it.
Today we’re going to delve deeper into the whole topic of propaganda, sophistry and the dark arts of arguing.
Do you remember “sophistry”? That’s taken from the people – Sophists – who debated Socrates a long time ago and always came up short. So they discovered how to convince people using less tha