Employer Sanctions and Border Security is Anti-Civil Rights

By: Sarah Viets
Posted: 4/28/08 by Chicago Flame
(sorry for the re-post)
Some folks vehemently believe US borders are weak and feeble. They believe porous borders threaten American security, strain American social services, decline US wages, and foster unemployment. Now, I can either create a counter argument for each claim, or I can seek to change how immigration [...]

Obama and the bitter truth

By: Sarah Viets
Posted: 4/21/08 – Chicago Flame
On Apr. 6, Barack Obama told a bunch of California supporters that high unemployment in Pennsylvania (who vote in Democratic primaries Apr. 22) is to blame for his support with voters in America’s industrial heartland. He suggested white working class voters gravitate towards social conservative issues because of economic [...]

Isolation bad, Globalization good

I don’t think isolationism should influence American foreign policy and here’s why:
The rise of isolationist foreign policies is in response to globalization. And Why?
When our American economy competes globally, so does our individual income. In result, how much we make per hour or each year competes with the standard amount of money people [...]

Rush Limbaugh Defines Black and White Skin

Rush Limbaugh Defines Black and White Skin
By Sarah Viets
Published by the Chicago Flame, March 7, 2008
Rush Limbaugh had a heyday blasting Obama’s speech on race. Limbaugh said for Obama to call his grandmother’s fear of black men “typical for a white person,” Obama has “disowned his white half.” What’s not surprising is how popular [...]