@NumbersMuncher so is political violence cool again — Razor (@hale_razor) May 29, 2017 @hale_razor It's back in style again — Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) May 29, 2017 Last week, when then-congressional candidate, Republican Greg Gianforte, allegedly physically assaulted reporter Ben Jacobs, Democrats and Republicans were outraged. Today, a fight broke out when after Republican Texas State […]
Remember that song, “The Snake,” Donald Trump loved to quote from during the campaign? It’s about a woman who takes in a cold and hungry snake she finds by a lake. But at the end of the song, the snake bites her and she dies: “I saved you, ” cried the woman “And you’ve bitten […]
This past July, 32-year-old Kate Steinle was shot and killed on Pier 14 in San Francisco. Sanchez, the accused murderer and an illegal immigrant, had been deported five times before the murder, butbecause of San Francisco’s status as a sanctuary city, he knew he could avoid another deportation. And indeed, when he was arrested in […]
How did a tough-on-immigrants sheriff wind up convicted for conspiring to harbor illegal aliens? Jimmy Metts, the longest-serving sheriff in South Carolina, exploited the contradictions between anti-immigrant sentiment and the need for cheap, undocumented labor. In 1970, three years before James “Jimmy” Metts became sheriff of Lexington County, there were exactly 107 Mexican-born people living […]