Ms Butler posted a tweet yesterday exclaiming that she had been stopped by the police due to racial profiling. The look of excitement on Ms Butler’s face at the start of the video matched the capital letters and hyperbole of her tweet. This was her moment! Her chance to prove how racist our police force is. … [Read more...] about Robinson: Labour’s Dawn Butler Is ‘Stoking Up Racial Tensions for Political Gain’
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Postmarks become political as November looms
In New York, so many absentee ballots for the primary were invalidated because they lacked a postmark that voters won relief from a federal judge in a lawsuit to get some of the formerly disqualified ballots counted. And in Virginia, the state's Board of Elections this week adopted a regulation requiring that absentee ballot mail include intelligent mail barcodes, another way to track where a piece of mail is in the system. … [Read more...] about Postmarks become political as November looms
Farage: Boris Lacks ‘Political Will’ to Stop Migrant Boats, Govt Should Declare ‘National Emergency’
The arch-Brexiteer said that the British public are increasingly seeing the failure of Boris Johnson’s government to stem the tide as a “national humiliation”, noting that the driving force behind the 2016 EU referendum was a desire for the United Kingdom to “control its borders properly”. … [Read more...] about Farage: Boris Lacks ‘Political Will’ to Stop Migrant Boats, Govt Should Declare ‘National Emergency’
Stephen Miller’s Right About One Thing—America Has a Long Tradition of Rejecting Immigrants
Updating this a bit to replace the aforementioned with Mexicans and Muslims, we have a fairly concise picture of Donald Trump’s immigration policy. His campaign rhetoric to “get rid of them” leaves little doubt about his feelings on the subject. By this stance Trump is both channeling and stoking the fears of an aggrieved segment of working-class whites who feel threatened by a demographic wave. It is in keeping with a long tradition of auguries warning against the national lifeblood being contaminated by the virus of immigration. As the social scientist Robert Mayo Smith succinctly put the case in 1890: “It is scarcely possible that by taking the dregs of Europe we shall produce a people of high social intelligence and morality.” … [Read more...] about Stephen Miller’s Right About One Thing—America Has a Long Tradition of Rejecting Immigrants
DREAMers Lobby Against a Trump Border Wall Deal—Even One That Would Save Them
Aguiluz, a nurse, was outside the White House on Tuesday to protest Trump’s decision. “By me trying to say, ‘Oh, let’s make a deal with the wall,’ it is like I’m stepping up on my community, my parents, uncles, and grandparents, that I’m putting them down so that I can get ahead,” he said. “That’s unfair and it’s not American.” … [Read more...] about DREAMers Lobby Against a Trump Border Wall Deal—Even One That Would Save Them
