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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Back to immigration...

Victor Davis Hanson discusses the problems of immigration and how no one on the federal level has the guts to deal with them.

I blogged quite a bit on the subject in early 2008:

here,
here, and here.
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1918-1994
"There are no causes entirely lost because there are no causes entirely gained." Russell Kirk

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