I'm still amazed conservatives are going out of their way to one-up an ethnic slur. Again, we all know the media is skewed against us and will use every advantage to skewer us. Does that mean we have to defend every conservative no matter what? Stop out-witting yourselves - you will not be able to rationally argue someone out of being offended by a racial slur. Do you want to waste effort on convincing minorities they aren't really offended or is that better spent on actually defending conservative policies rather than thoughtless, idiotic speech?

I note that the conservative response to these kinds of insults is nearly always a very placid, neat and tidy explication of why people shouldn't be offended at racial or ethnic slurs. I'm not trying to persuade you of what should or shouldn't be. I'm trying to simply lay out a reality - whether you like it or not, "wetback" is considered an ethnic slur among Hispanics. We won't be able to debate them or argue them into liking an ethnic slur. The damage is done. The question is whether to make it clear to those whose vote we're trying to court that this kind of behavior isn't acceptable, or just accept the demographic onslaught of Hispanic voter growth while we sit back complacently losing, knowing that they shouldn't have been offended.

Right, or even "illegal immigrant" - I have no problem with that term.

Great commentary... and I love the music choices.

I'm upset at myself that it took me so long to listen to this podcast.... one of the best and most informative debates about all the differing views about how to approach the immigration problem. As much as I respect Jim Pethokoukis' views on economics, I think there's an obvious element that he's missing about the immigration debate that makes it a threat completely different from what we've faced before - the culture. Ironically, the most virulent pro-Americans in years past were progressives, who went out of their way to demand immigrants become American (i.e. the Hull House). However, the modern danger is that our schools are mostly anti-American at best, and Marxist at worst. There's little of the same hope we had a hundred years ago of turning immigrants into Americans when all our educational institutions teach them to hate Western ideals and America.

Normally, I would agree. But I think the examples show that they had the same strategy - you don't deceive in the same way by accident. I don't think it's a grand conspiracy that's planned out - but events like the "Journolist" debacle show that they do coordinate sometimes to get the same message out.

In any case, my point is not to uncover the conspiracy, but to give real evidence that they lie, to add to the heap.

Absolutely!!

Thanks! I just posted it to Ricochet, hope the other members like it as much as you do!

ROFL! Priceless!! We need to get Peter Robinson off-site so that the Code of Conduct rules can't prevent his real thoughts from shining forth!!

I think his deranged actions nearly obliterate any legitimacy his grievance might have had against the LAPD. However, as pro-Law Enforcement as I am generally, we're all human, and as a conservative, I place little faith in government being virtuous and without fault.

I got rino squish props!!! Thanks!!

I don't have a problem with any of those stats, and they don't answer my objection. You can still have a vast percentage of people living below poverty levels and have the average higher, if those at the other end make a lot more than most people, which is true in the overall economy of America.

Further, of course you'd expect that to 2010... California experienced an enormous loss of income because of the collapse of the housing market. None of these stats answer the objection about the cannibalization of jobs from one state to another.

As much as I'd like to praise Texas as a conservative, I have to say that governor moonbeam Jerry Brown had a very good response to reporters asking him about Texas beating California economically. He said that while Texas had a lower unemployment rate, the percentage of people working at or below the poverty level was much higher in Texas. I investigated this and saw that he's right. There's some employment cannibalism that conservatives don't address as well as I'd wish.

But on the other hand, in so many ways, including gun ownership, Texas just simply beats out California.

Very much enjoyed this, thank you and Merry Christmas!!

YES! Baby It's Cold Outside is one of my favorite songs, and it's such an amazing story that Qutb hated America for it! Of course that line is about just a strong drink and not a date rape drug. Geez. Who says such stupid things? Feminists, that's who. Great podcast.

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