Category: the world

  • Immigration’s Economic Key

    Problems With the Romney Plan Mitt Romney’s plan to end illegal immigration worries me. In particular, this point bodes ill for the economy: Encourage Legal Immigration. Streamline the system to recruit and retain skilled workers and welcome the best and the brightest from around the world to our universities. To begin with, we already get…

  • Communism

    Question: Does insistence that communism not be part of [American] society unduly infringe on people’s rights of political expression and thus become the thing it is seeking to avoid? Proposition #1: Communism is not evil. Proposition #2: Solidarity against the evils of communism deprives people of rights. Proposition #2.1: Citizens have a right to seek…

  • ‘Bourne Ultimatum’ and the Rule of Law in a Republic

    Just watched The Bourne Ultimatum with my sister and my bro-in-law. Cool movie, very well done! Of course, amidst the excellent action, its philosophical point wasn’t wasted on me. I don’t know if the original book was really about this, but it was a timely statement on the tension between security and liberty. A Tale…