How Many Shipping Containers Does it Take to Make America Great?

By Jeremy Beck

A friend sent me this video from The Wall Street Journal with a note: “The scale is staggering … gives one a sense of what having a population of 330 million consumers implies.” The often-mesmerizing video does bring to mind questions about domestic production, trade policy, and personal consumption (is all of my stuff really … Continued

How Many Shipping Containers Does it Take to Make America Great?

By Jeremy Beck

A friend sent me this video from The Wall Street Journal with a note: “The scale is staggering … gives one a sense of what having a population of 330 million consumers implies.” The often-mesmerizing video does bring to mind questions about domestic production, trade policy, and personal consumption (is all of my stuff really … Continued

Budget Reconciliation Amnesty: Where it Stands

By Chris Chmielenski

Once again, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi planned a vote on the Democrats’ $1.75 trillion budget reconciliation amnesty bill on Friday only to rescind the vote hours later. However, the threat of Congress passing what could become the largest illegal alien amnesty in U.S. history is still very much alive. One significant difference from Friday’s rescinded … Continued

Budget Reconciliation Amnesty: Where it Stands

By Chris Chmielenski

Once again, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi planned a vote on the Democrats’ $1.75 trillion budget reconciliation amnesty bill on Friday only to rescind the vote hours later. However, the threat of Congress passing what could become the largest illegal alien amnesty in U.S. history is still very much alive. One significant difference from Friday’s rescinded … Continued

House Set to Repeat History of Immigration Injustices

By Jeremy Beck

We don’t like to say this much, but it has long been the practice of many restaurants to hire staff as inexpensively as possible and provide them with the fewest benefits that they can, often by restricting their hours so they don’t qualify as full-time employees….I guess that can be a good business plan when … Continued

House Set to Repeat History of Immigration Injustices

By Jeremy Beck

We don’t like to say this much, but it has long been the practice of many restaurants to hire staff as inexpensively as possible and provide them with the fewest benefits that they can, often by restricting their hours so they don’t qualify as full-time employees….I guess that can be a good business plan when … Continued

Topics We’re Supposed to Avoid

By Jeremy Beck

Southwest border encounters are at an all-time high, interior enforcement is at a ten-year low, illegal presence in the United States is no longer enough to warrant removal, and new restrictions on workplace enforcement against illegal workers are going into effect. David Shor has advice for Democrats: Don’t talk about it. The data scientist isn’t … Continued

Topics We’re Supposed to Avoid

By Jeremy Beck

Southwest border encounters are at an all-time high, interior enforcement is at a ten-year low, illegal presence in the United States is no longer enough to warrant removal, and new restrictions on workplace enforcement against illegal workers are going into effect. David Shor has advice for Democrats: Don’t talk about it. The data scientist isn’t … Continued

NYT blames the border crisis on the pandemic, natural disasters; readers disagree

By Admins

Eileen Sullivan and Miriam Jordan of the New York Times teamed up to write an article “Illegal Border Crossings, Driven by Pandemic and Natural Disasters, Soar to Record High,” that states the reasons for the record surge at the southern border can be blamed on the ongoing pandemic and natural disasters, such as hurricanes. While … Continued