Honest Questions about Immigration Some Won’t Answer

“Xenophobe, Racist, Bigot, Islamaphobe”  Those are some of the insults often hurled at people who would like some constraints on Muslim immigration. I’ve even seen “white-nationalist, unchristian, Nazi, Hitler” Ok, let’s dial it back a bit shall we?  Wow. Barack Obama did impose a ban on Iraqi immigration during his term as well.  How come Read More …

7 False Messages in the Budweiser Immigrant Super Bowl Commercial

Budweiser aired a 1 minute Super Bowl ad about its founder Adolphus Busch’s immigrant journey from Germany to America. Some are accusing Budweiser of doing this in response to Donald Trump’s temporary ban on immigration.  Here is the ad: The video should not have been approved by Budweiser because it uses their founders particular story as a Read More …

Political Advocacy Group Also Sells Coffee

In response to Donald Trump’s temporary ban of immigrants from nations with terrorism ties, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced plans to hire 10,000 refugees. That’s nice. Wait a minute, let’s think about it.  He will hire 10,000 refugees INSTEAD of hiring unemployed non-refugee Americans.  That’s a shame for all those unemployed people. Why not hire the Read More …

Gun Control Distraction

In the wake of the Orlando attack, Democratic lawmakers stage a sit in. I’ve seen some of the Democratic gun reform proposals. Some aren’t that bad. Like blocking guns from people on no-fly lists.  If we don’t allow people to get on planes because it might be dangerous, why would we allow them to use Read More …

Not Catering worse than Gay Executions?

In 2015, Memories pizza in Indiana was asked if they would hypothetically cater a gay wedding. They said no. It was a national story for weeks.  Harassing phone calls, protests, death threats.  They were forced to close their doors . A Muslim cleric in Orlando said that homosexuals should be executed. Out of “compassion”. Not sure how that’s compassion, Read More …

What We Should Ban after Orlando

In the wake of the worst mass shooting in US history, Obama once again called for more gun bans. As his former chief of staff Rahm Emmanual would say “don’t let a good crisis go to waste.” But would more gun control have prevented the Orlando terrorist attack?  Look at history and evidence: 1.  All the guns Read More …