Economics vs. ‘need’ One of the most common arguments for allowing more immigration is that there is a “need” for foreign workers to do “jobs that Americans won’t do,” especially in agriculture.
One of my most vivid me...
LaPolitics Notebook: Hawks left impression on budget process Although the Budget Reform Coalition, the formal organization where the House’s so-called fiscal hawks nest, didn’t get everything it wanted out of this year’s tumultuous budget process, its conser...
Abstract immigrants One of the many sad signs of our times is the way current immigration issues are discussed. A hundred years ago, the immigration controversies of that era were discussed in the context of innumerab...
Next race for governor already heating up By: John Maginnis and Jeremy Alford
With the next governor’s election a mere 29 months away, prospective candidates are getting down to the first order of business, which is raising the money to f...
The bullying pulpit We have truly entered the world of “Alice in Wonderland” when the CEO of a company that pays $16 million a day in taxes is hauled up before a Congressional subcommittee to be denounced on nationwid...
Some things that caught my eye this week Where Ignorance is Bliss — If FDR had the same advisors that Barack Obama has, he wouldn’t have known that Pearl Harbor had been bombed until media reports filtered back to the mainland. The Obama ...
The Ferris wheel freak out My four-year-old son had been waiting one whole year to ride the Ferris wheel at our local festival. The sky-high ride amazed him. I, however, was apprehensive. I thought, “what if something happen...
Raises possible for sheriffs, some parish presidents By: John Maginnis and
Jeremy Alford
The pay raise proposals winding through the Legislature for clerks of court, assessors and judges could potentially increase the salaries of sheriffs and certai...
Wimps versus barbarians An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in ...
The Ides of May Three weeks are left in the 2013 regular session of the Legislature, and much water is left to run under the legislative bridge before sine die adjournment on June 6. The biggest issue left to reso...
Lies about Libya There can be honest differences of opinion on many subjects. But there can also be dishonest differences. Last week’s testimony under oath about events in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, makes pain...
Pay raises on probable path to victory this session By: John Maginnis and Jeremy Alford
Proposed salary bumps for assessors, clerks and judges are all positioned to move forward in the remaining three weeks of the regular session. Together they cou...
