Morning Briefing
For May 24, 2013
1. I Have No Problem With the Boy Scouts’ Decision
The Boy Scouts of America have decided to keep the ban on gay scout leaders, but allow gay young men to participate in scouting. The vote was not even close. More than 60% voted to end the ban.
I have no problem with this. While I would have voted against it, if a majority of scouts want that, that is fine with me. Their institution is allowed to evolve as they see fit. My father was in the Order of the Arrow. He spent a number of years fundraising for the Boy Scouts. I was in the Boy Scouts growing up in Dubai. It has been a wonderful organization.
My son will not be in the scouts. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Peggy Noonan, Nate Silver & Punditry
Nate Silver kicked up a minor fuss last Friday with yet another NY Times column deriding the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan. There’s less than meets the eye to the specifics of this particular dustup, but what’s interesting is Silver’s ongoing critique of Noonan and what it says about both of them. For today, I’ll focus here mainly on Noonan. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Left Blames NLRB Delays For Teamster Rep Losing Home Without Asking: Where Was His Union?
Now that Barack Obama’s union appointees at National Labor Relations Board have been found to be unconstitutionally appointed by two Circuit Courts of Appeal, union bosses are apoplectic at the possibility that the NLRB will be effectively shut down in August when union attorney Mark Pearce’s term as Chairman of the NLRB expires. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Welfare, opportunity, and assimilation
Every participant in the immigration debate agrees on the importance of assimilation. (In public, anyway. Privately, I suspect some of the open-borders folks could not care less about it, or are actively hostile to it. But everyone says they hope immigrants assimilate and become fully invested, patriotic American citizens.)
What is the best way to encourage assimilation? It’s not an individual process that can be applied to specific people and evaluated with tests. Cultural assimilation doesn’t work like Borg assimilation. Like many other social and economic concepts, it must be envisioned in the context of a large population growing generally comfortable with their new home, and becoming productive citizens. Some individuals may embrace their new nation with unbridled enthusiasm; others might live there for decades without ever truly seeing themselves as fully naturalized citizens. But the host nation has a clear interest in encouraging large numbers of people to integrate as smoothly and fully as possible. A permanently alienated population of millions is nothing but trouble. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Securing Our Borders With Open Borders
Every sane person in the country aka most people outside of the DC beltway, is asking the million dollar question of the immigration debate: why don’t we just implement the enforcement measures that actually work before risking another wave of illegal immigration by granting amnesty now? The issue would largely dissipate if they would merely begin enforcing the laws on the books.
But when you listen carefully to the fatuous arguments propagated inside the beltway, you will discover the answer. These people believe that building a fence and monitoring visas will not help end illegal immigration. In their estimation, the only thing that will end illegal immigration, to the extent that they desire to do so, is unlimited legal immigration. In other words, in their view, there is no way to establish sovereignty over our own land unless we invite every individual in the world who would like to move here. Hence, our immigration policy should not be dictated by what benefits the country at large, but by the level of worldwide demand to immigrate to America. #DCbackwardlogic . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6. Google Needs Extra Time to Spy on Your Kids
It seems that Google is constantly falling afoul of conservatives, consumers, pundits, regulators and really everyone else on earth (except for the Obama campaign) for its privacy-infringing tendencies.
It got hammered for “alleged” spying in the Safarigate scandal, where it wound up agreeing to a record-breaking $22.5 million fine in connection with charges it surreptitiously tracked Apple Safari users who Google had said could opt out of tracking, and did what Google said was necessary to opt out. This spying of course enabled Google to grab data it shouldn’t have had, to improve its highly profitable targeted ad business, and do it in a way that amounted to a violation of its contract with users. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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