Tagged: Asylum

Michael Siegel

/// June 24, 2019

A Camp By Any Other Name Would Smell as Foul

I don’t want the extremely esoteric battle over what we call our immigration detention facilities to distract from what they are; a catastrophe, regardless of what you choose to call them.

Vikram Bath

/// November 8, 2018

Are There Earnest Arguments Against Birthright Citizenship?

Yes.

Jonathan McLeod

/// July 3, 2013

Well, his name does start with “Snow”

Writing in The Toronto Star, Thomas Walkom argues that Canada should provide sanctuary for Edward Snowden: “By all rights, Snowden should be a Conservative poster boy. He has upheld the rights of the individual against...

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NBA Legend Kobe Bryant Dead in Helicopter Crash

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NBA Legend Kobe Bryant Dead in Helicopter Crash

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Stunning news in the sports world, as one of the greatest to ever play basketball is dead at the age of 41 in a helicopter crash.

Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers superstar and future NBA Hall of Famer, died on Sunday in a helicopter crash. He was 41.
Officials confirm to Variety that Bryant was a passenger on board a helicopter that crashed in the Los Angeles County suburb of Calabasas.
TMZ first reported the news.
A five-time NBA champion with the Lakers, Bryant was considered one of the greatest basketball players of all-time.
He is survived by his wife, Vanessa, and four daughters – Gianna, Natalia and Bianca and Capri.

UPDATE: Gets worse...

Sources: Kobe Bryant was on his way to a travel basketball game with his daughter Gianna when the helicopter crashed. Those aboard the helicopter also included another player and parent.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 26, 2020

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Bernie Sanders accepts Joe Rogan’s endorsement

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Bernie Sanders accepts Joe Rogan’s endorsement

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From Bernie Sanders on Twitter:

“I think I'll probably vote for Bernie... He’s been insanely consistent his entire life. He’s basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life. And that in and of itself is a very powerful structure to operate from.” -Joe Rogan pic.twitter.com/fuQP0KwGGI
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 23, 2020

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Boris Johnson announces that the Withdrawal Agreement has received Royal Assent

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Boris Johnson announces that the Withdrawal Agreement has received Royal Assent

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From Twitter:

The Withdrawal Agreement has received Royal Assent and is now law. We will leave the EU on January 31st 🇬🇧
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) January 23, 2020

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Grist for the Moral Mill

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Grist for the Moral Mill

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From here (courtesy of Hanley):

Rather, I want to explore two ideas that are ubiquitous among the morally (self) righteous, of whatever stripe, and which may somewhat explain why they behave so awfully so often.
The first is that the rightness of one’s cause justifies and even ennobles terrible behavior on one’s own part.
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The second – and it is intimately related to and entwined with the first – is that those whom the (self) righteous believe are Bad People deserve neither quarter nor pity. The idea isn’t just that The Bad deserve what they get, a kind of melancholic observation of what comes of bad Karma, but that we should put the boot in (especially when they are down) and should be brutal in doing it…and pitiless afterwards.

Extending grace only to those you like is not how grace works.

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From the Daily Mail: Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases

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From the Daily Mail: Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases

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From the Daily Mail:

Mexico and Colombia may have their first coronavirus cases as the contagious illness that has killed 17 spreads from China to at least 531 people around the world

Mexican and Colombian officials are investigating their countriess first possible case of the new coronavirus
In Mexico, the patients is on the northern border state of Tamaulipa, which borders Texas
The Colombian case concerns a 19-year-old Chinese citizen, who traveled to Bogotá from Turkey
As of Wednesday, 531 worldwide have caught the viral illness and 17 have died
Cases have been confirmed in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the US, which reported its first patient, a man in his 30s in Washington state, on Tuesday
One person in Australia is reportedly in isolation and may have the virus

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