{"id":906,"date":"2010-10-18T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T14:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2013-09-29T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T02:29:08","slug":"monday-briefs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"Monday Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mexican Drug Violence.<\/strong> Many recognize that the organized crime and violence associated with the\u00a0drug trade\u00a0is\u00a0closely analogous to\u00a0the rise of organized crime and violence that occurred as a result of Prohibition in the 1920’s. But a less noted aspect of Mexican Drug Cartel Violence is that, while we bitterly complain about the illegal flow of\u00a0low-wage\u00a0workers from Mexico, we also rabidly defend our own laws which help foster a far more disastrous and unredeeming illegal flow of arms to Mexico\u00a0(http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/17251726<\/a>). The differences between this two flows across our southern border are that the flow of arms is entirely destructive (as opposed to illegal immigration, which may actually have net economic benefits), undermines Mexican sovereignty and security to a far greater degree than illegal immigration undermines U.S. sovereignty and security, and is a direct product of our own lax gun control laws rather than an organic product of economic dynamics over which governments have limited control. In this light,\u00a0American indignation about illegal Mexican immigration is just that much more shallow,\u00a0self-serving, and\u00a0hypocritical.<\/p>\n

An extraordinarily productive Congress.<\/strong> Despite the popular meme to the contrary, the 111th Congress has been one of the most productive in American history, and the impending backlash is similar to the backlash that occurred when the 89th Congress (also Democratic) passed the now extremely popular Medicare and Medicaid programs and additional still much needed civil rights protections for African Americans (http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101018\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_prolific_congress<\/a>). We tend to punish in the moment those who do what history recognizes to have been the politically courageous and responsible thing to do. I hope enough people are wise enough today to recognize the folly of this, and motivated enough to work hard in the days and weeks to come to prevent us from replacing those who are doing the right thing, and governing responsibly,\u00a0with those who are committed to undermining our economy along all relevant dimensions (robustness, sustainability, and fairness).<\/p>\n

Americans talk about The Tea Party.<\/strong> I especially like the guy who said “their anger is very justified and their fear is very justified and their explanations for why we’re having the problems we’re having are almost completely wrong.” http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_askamerica\/20101018\/pl_yblog_askamerica\/across-america-people-speak-out-on-tea-party<\/a><\/p>\n

President Obama is going to appear on an episode of Mythbusters<\/strong>.\u00a0http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_obama_science<\/a>. Though the president is appearing on an episode addressing the question: Did Greek scientist Archimedes set fire to an invading Roman fleet using only mirrors and the reflected rays of the sun? there are plenty of myths to be busted closer to home.<\/p>\n

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Click here to buy my e-book A Conspiracy of Wizards for just $2.99!!! Mexican Drug Violence. Many recognize that the organized crime and violence associated with the\u00a0drug trade\u00a0is\u00a0closely analogous to\u00a0the rise of organized crime and violence that occurred as a result of Prohibition in the 1920’s. But a less noted aspect of Mexican Drug Cartel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[666,667,664,665,353,662,663,299,254],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404707,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/404707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}