Immigration is good for the U.S.

The Cato Institute reports:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-immig.html#contents
[note: this report is 12 years old. I don't think so much has changed between now and then so as to alter its conclusions.]

Robert Novak writes,
Who would respond to criticism from the Club for Growth by calling the conservative, free-market campaign organization the “Club for Greed”? That sounds like Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich or John Edwards, all Democrats preaching the class struggle. In fact, the rejoinder comes from Mike Huckabee, who has broken out of the pack [...]

Seek the Peace of Babylon

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they [...]

Be not silent, O God

The content of this post has been redacted in favor of more edifying material:
 Psalm 109

1 Be not silent, O God of my praise!
2 For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me,
speaking against me with lying tongues.
3 They encircle me with words of hate,
and attack me without cause.
4 In return for my love they accuse me,
but I give myself [...]

Mysticism and Genocide [completed]

Political philosopher Eric Voegelin wrote in his book The New Science of Politics: “From the Gnostic mysticism of the two worlds emerges the pattern of the universal wars that has come to dominate the twentieth century” (151). Central to the immanentist vision which Voegelin criticises is a strong faith in and regard for the basic [...]

Voegelin quotes

I’m now 50 pages into Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics, and boy is it dense. Part of his thesis is that we use certain words very sloppily when speaking of political societies–words like “representation”–and so he invents an alternate vocabulary to express specific ideas. Also, his style is very passive and wordy, so [...]

Cliques

Looking around at school, one sees a lot of groups. Usually these are just informal associations of people who are friends with each other, and tend to spend time together. These can be either “loose” or “tight.” “Loose” groups are all friends, but no member spends all their time with the group, and the group [...]

Reformed Politics: Abraham Kuyper

From Abraham Kuyper: A Christian Worldview.
1. The idea that people decide what is normative in life (called popular sovereignty) is opposed to the Word of God, which teaches that God is sovereign as the final lawgiver.
2. Christians confess the relevance of God’s Word even for politics, rejecting a vague concept of natural law or human [...]

Lieberman for Senate Majority Leader

Breaking with the Democratic Party to run as an independent, Joseph Lieberman has been reelected to office as a CT senator. This gives him some excellent new opportunities for political  leverage.
What Lieberman should do:
1.   Run for Senate Majority Leader. This would have the amazing effect of destroying the two-party system which right now is balanced [...]