Obama Turns to Congress to Stem Migrant Children Surge
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 8th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Obama Turns to Congress to Stem Migrant Children Surge
Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
“Stem the tide.” That’s the phrase the Obama administration used Monday to describe why it will ask Congress to help fast-track the expulsion of migrant children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border. While President Obama is poised to seek billions of dollars in new appropriations Tuesday, followed by a request for statutory “flexibility” to respond to the border crisis through tough enforcement, immigration reform advocacy groups also expect him to head in another direction. That would be to rebuke Congress altogether by using his executive heft to protect some…
Racial Differences Are Real But No Cause for Discrimination
Michael Barone, RealClearPolitics
“New analyses of the human genome establish that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional,” writes Nicholas Wade in his recently published book, “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History.” That sounds reasonable, and Wade, a science reporter and editor for many years at Nature and the New York Times, seems an unimpeachable source. But many well-meaning people will regard his words as provocative and even dangerous. For they fatally undermine the idea, widely shared by so-called progressives, that any apparent differences between groups of people are the product of…