http://www.haloscan.com/ Latest comments for thomasn528. Syndicated by HaloScan http://www.haloscan.com/ http://www.haloscan.com/halolink.gif http://www.haloscan.com/ 88 31 Commenting Powered by HaloScan.com http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsr#211501 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:22:27 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211501 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211501 Sorry to have left you hanging here. I've moved my blog to a new site -- newsrackblog.com. If you like, please feel free to copy your comments to the corresponding post at that site: Worth reading; all but your last two comments (ie, 6-15-08, 2:50pm and 2:52pm) are already there. I'll follow this with an e-mail. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/108005212880170025/?src=hsr#211346 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:14:19 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/108005212880170025/?src=hsrs#211346 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/108005212880170025/?src=hsrs#211346 As an old public defender, I can make this very simple: Scalia is a whackjob. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsr#211227 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:52:10 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211227 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211227 [Continued from above...] To return to open immigration and "undercutting legal labor markets," I think there's a basic problem in the way you're framing the issue. It's true that, under certain circumstances, when large numbers of poor immigrants move to a particular community, the average wage for existing native-born workers will tend to go down as a result of competition. But the average http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsr#211226 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:50:09 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211226 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211226 You write: The Constitution gives the federal government ultimate authority over immigration, for good reason, in my view. Well, but this just relocates the question. If the Constitution delegates authority in such-and-such a way, what gives authority to the United States Constitution to decide the question? (I can write "Open borders and amnesty for all" on a napkin http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/4019367517967249902/?src=hsr#211185 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:50:44 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/4019367517967249902/?src=hsrs#211185 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/4019367517967249902/?src=hsrs#211185 awright awright awright :) http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/4019367517967249902/?src=hsr#211184 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:40:22 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/4019367517967249902/?src=hsrs#211184 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/4019367517967249902/?src=hsrs#211184 ohmygawd what is taking so long????? how hard can this be? your new place better be the best website I've ever seen. no pressure! love, eR ;) http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsr#211151 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:42:26 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211151 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211151 I think some kind of sovereignty enforcement is needed for a country to stay as it wishes to" -- Well, what do you mean "as it wishes to"? You're right, that was a little sloppy. Perhaps "defined as its constitution provides in the manner its constitution provides" is better. The Constitution gives the federal government ultimate authority over immigration, for good reason, in my view. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsr#211132 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:03:33 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211132 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211132 Continued from above... [...] And that the current state of monopolization, hierarchy, and economic centralization under prevailing forms of corporate capitalism are the direct result (sometimes designed, sometimes undesigned) of artificial State subsidies to centralization, hierarchy, and bureaucracy in pro http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsr#211131 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:01:18 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211131 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211131 Thomas, Thank you again for your kind words. I'm glad you've found the conversation useful. You write: "I have mixed feelings about borders -- I think some kind of sovereignty enforcement is needed for a country to stay as it wishes to" Well, what do you mean "as it wishes to"? If you mean guaranteeing some particular kind of demographic balance in terms of ethnicity, nationality, or l http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsr#211080 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:32:53 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211080 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomasn528/5936198646508878904/?src=hsrs#211080 This has been interesting. I don't agree with all of what you say, but certainly do agree, for example, that fewer drug and vice laws would make for fewer unnecessary "crimes" to police. I have mixed feelings about borders -- I think some kind of sovereignty enforcement is needed for a country to stay as it wishes to -- yet I don't approve of beating up on poor people looking for work, or ma