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by glennds
Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:15 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Yuval Levin on President Trump's Second Term
Replies: 5
Views: 1572

Re: Yuval Levin on President Trump's Second Term

Vinny, If you liked what Yural Levin had to say, I would recommend his book American Covenant to you and anyone else interested. The book takes a mostly non-partisan forensic approach to examining the Constitution and design of our government and further analyzing how we have deviated from it. Inter...
by glennds
Wed Jan 29, 2025 5:06 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid
Replies: 47
Views: 8118

Re: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid

Where this gets interesting is those members of SCOTUS and members of Congress (mostly among the far right Republicans) that consider themselves "originalists" and treat the Constitution like a sacred near-biblical document that should be interpreted very literally and with what the frame...
by glennds
Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:05 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid
Replies: 47
Views: 8118

Re: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid

Thomas Jefferson devoted a lot of thought to the issue of generational independence and he worried about an earlier generation binding or governing a later generation. Very interesting! You want interesting? Get this - Jefferson argued to Madison that all laws, including the Constitution, should ex...
by glennds
Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:45 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is mass deportation economically rational?
Replies: 7
Views: 1627

Re: Is mass deportation economically rational?

Develop a block grant system to fund local police departments to set up teams supported by ICE to catch and deport the active criminals. I think local police know their jurisdictions better than ICE. Set up an amnesty system for the rest with the goal of getting them legal, productive, paying taxes...
by glennds
Wed Jan 29, 2025 9:31 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is mass deportation economically rational?
Replies: 7
Views: 1627

Re: Is mass deportation economically rational?

Let's think about this in simple terms of revenue and expense. How do we decide which laws should be evaluated this way? Maybe materiality. If the remediation of the violations is escalating into the $30B-$50B range, then the practicalities of economics come into play. Personally I would have suppo...
by glennds
Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:55 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid
Replies: 47
Views: 8118

Re: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid

What's surprising is that we haven't had a Gen X president. Obama is close, born in 1961, only four years before the start of Gen X. Boomer presidencies have been going on for 30+ years when a generation is typically 15-18 years. Thomas Jefferson devoted a lot of thought to the issue of generational...
by glennds
Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:17 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is mass deportation economically rational?
Replies: 7
Views: 1627

Is mass deportation economically rational?

I accept there are criminals among the deportation target group. But there is a material number of people who are not committing crimes in the United States (not counting the act of entry), and they are working in jobs that often times others do not want to do. Let's think about this in simple terms...
by glennds
Tue Jan 28, 2025 3:36 pm
Forum: Gold
Topic: The GOLD scream room
Replies: 3841
Views: 2213473

Re: The GOLD scream room

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by glennds
Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:23 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Birthright citizenship
Replies: 50
Views: 8184

Re: Birthright citizenship

It was a good question. I have re-framed it in my mind into a variant though - Has it proven to be a better strategy historically for a conquering power to a) subjugate the conquered into a subordinate sub-class, or b) assimilate the conquered into their society with full citizenship rights and pri...
by glennds
Mon Jan 27, 2025 12:02 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Birthright citizenship
Replies: 50
Views: 8184

Re: Birthright citizenship

Good points all, I stand corrected! It was a good question. I have re-framed it in my mind into a variant though - Has it proven to be a better strategy historically for a conquering power to a) subjugate the conquered into a subordinate sub-class, or b) assimilate the conquered into their society ...
by glennds
Mon Jan 27, 2025 10:44 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Reneging as a form of negotiating
Replies: 2
Views: 1197

Reneging as a form of negotiating

A comment in another thread prompted this thought which I thought might be a worthy of its own thread. At the moment, there is an open threat of the U.S. levying tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Feb 1. Whether or not this is a good economic idea is one question and one that is being discussed e...
by glennds
Mon Jan 27, 2025 9:47 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Birthright citizenship
Replies: 50
Views: 8184

Re: Birthright citizenship

I guess we'll all find out together. It is bizarre though that we would be talking about the birthright citizen status of Native Americans. Talk about paradox. It might seem normal to us today, but the citizenship situation of Native Americans is far from a slam dunk. What we're talking about is tr...
by glennds
Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:22 pm
Forum: Stocks
Topic: Stock scream room
Replies: 1521
Views: 804550

Re: Stock scream room

Best summary I've found of the situation: His detractors take him literally but not seriously, and his supporters take him seriously but not literally. It's a clever line and I am taking it to heart. I can only foresee economic damage for all of us as a result of a broad tariff program within the p...
by glennds
Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:17 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Birthright citizenship
Replies: 50
Views: 8184

Re: Birthright citizenship

I guess we'll all find out together.

It is bizarre though that we would be talking about the birthright citizen status of Native Americans. Talk about paradox.
by glennds
Sat Jan 25, 2025 6:48 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Birthright citizenship
Replies: 50
Views: 8184

Re: Birthright citizenship

flyingpylon wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2025 3:23 pm American Indians get their US citizenship via the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 instead of the US Constitution.
If provisions of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and the Constitution (as interpreted or amended) are in conflict, which one controls?
by glennds
Sat Jan 25, 2025 2:35 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Birthright citizenship
Replies: 50
Views: 8184

Re: Birthright citizenship

Here is an article offering legal support of the executive order. https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/birthright?e=f224a7b5b6 What was meant by the clause was that you had to be subject to no other sovereign. Senator Jacob Howard drafted the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Here is what he s...
by glennds
Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:09 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid
Replies: 47
Views: 8118

Re: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid

I have a friend who is quite obviously Hispanic. He feels he's had fair warning, and now keeps a laminated color copy of his passport and birth certificate on him. Although we are both thinking the Federal Travel (REAL) ID standard that DMVs have rolled out with the gold star in the corner of the dr...
by glennds
Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:52 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Mount McKinley or Denali
Replies: 15
Views: 10134

Re: Mount McKinley or Denali

Earlier this week President Trump issued an Executive Order changing the official name of the mountain back to Mount McKinley. Both Alaska senators voiced objection. Should a decision about the name of a mountain or monument in a given state be left up to the citizens of that state to decide? What ...
by glennds
Thu Jan 23, 2025 5:51 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Only in Mississippi
Replies: 8
Views: 2046

Re: Only in Mississippi

He's a first term senator in his district. I think this might be his seminal bill
It took some spunk for him to put it out there
by glennds
Thu Jan 23, 2025 5:40 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Mount McKinley or Denali
Replies: 15
Views: 10134

Mount McKinley or Denali

Earlier this week President Trump issued an Executive Order changing the official name of the mountain back to Mount McKinley.
Both Alaska senators voiced objection.

Should a decision about the name of a mountain or monument in a given state be left up to the citizens of that state to decide?
by glennds
Thu Jan 23, 2025 2:50 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Only in Mississippi
Replies: 8
Views: 2046

Re: Only in Mississippi

SENATE BILL NO. 2319 AN ACT TO ENACT THE CONTRACEPTION BEGINS AT ERECTION ACT; TO DEFINE TERMS; TO PROVIDE THAT IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR A PERSON TO DISCHARGE GENETIC MATERIAL WITHOUT THE INTENT TO FERTILIZE AN EMBRYO; TO PROVIDE FOR CRIMINAL PENALTIES; TO PROVIDE CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS; AND FOR RELATE...
by glennds
Thu Jan 23, 2025 2:43 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Birthright citizenship
Replies: 50
Views: 8184

Re: Birthright citizenship

This just in: SEATTLE, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A federal judge blocked Donald Trump's administration on Thursday from implementing the Republican president's executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional." h...
by glennds
Thu Jan 23, 2025 12:16 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Birthright citizenship
Replies: 50
Views: 8184

Re: Birthright citizenship

I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Ending birthright citizenship in any form would require a Constitutional amendment, which is pretty close to impossible at this time in history. To end it retroactively is even closer to impossible. Understood, but large parts of the Constitution are being ignored alr...
by glennds
Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:34 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Birthright citizenship
Replies: 50
Views: 8184

Re: Birthright citizenship

I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
Ending birthright citizenship in any form would require a Constitutional amendment, which is pretty close to impossible at this time in history.
To end it retroactively is even closer to impossible.
by glennds
Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:37 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: We should all write to our members of Congress and demand tax reforms
Replies: 48
Views: 16010

Re: We should all write to our members of Congress and demand tax reforms

I am not overthinking. Proclaiming "Make America Great Again" is clearly saying that presently it is not and that there was this time period when it was. Why is no one able to define that time period? If anyone cannot then it's a typical empty political phrase just to appeal to the emotio...