Archive for 7/27-7/30

Jul
31

Border Sam

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100729bokloresHere’s a Washington Post story about border paradoxes. One of the unintended consequences of tighter border control in California and Texas is more illegal crossings in Arizona.  Another is the idea that with more border security, illegal workers already here stay here.

Jul
31

Arizona

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100730bokloresA federal judge has stopped Arizona’s new immigration law.  Here’s a good Washington Post story by Roberto Suro  that explains where the Arizona law came from and where it may may be headed.

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Jul
29

Middle Men

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100728bokloresThe WikiLeaks document dump confirmed suspected double dealing by Pakistan.  (Anne Applebaum uses the NYT’s own year old story to zing the  Times for presenting Pakistan support for the Taliban  as news.)  Afghan president Hamid Karzai has already threatened to join the Taliban.  Maybe we should cut out the middle men.

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Jul
27

Not Exactly The Pentagon Papers

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ProPublica compares the WikiLeaks to the Pentagon Papers and finds them wanting.   Only in America can you dump 90,000 classified documents and have nothing new.  (Unless you consider 2 media entities with 4 capital letters something new.)