Quote of the Day: Thomas Sowell
America’s leading intellectual nails it:
Bordering on fraud
May 23, 2006The immigration bill before Congress has some of the most serious consequences for the future of this country. Yet it is not being discussed seriously by most politicians or most of the media. Instead, it is being discussed in a series of glib talking points that insult our intelligence.
Read the whole thing.
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UPDATE, May 24 — Encore; Sowell has a Part 2 that starts thusly, and should be read in its entirety:
Of all the insults to our intelligence in the current discussions of immigration legislation, the biggest insult is the claim that border control legislation and legislation on the illegal immigrants already in the country must go together.
Why? What will happen if they are done separately? And who will be worse off?
The claim that the two pieces of legislation must be passed at the same time has been repeated endlessly. But endless repetition is not a coherent argument.
