Just so we’re clear, poems do not represent foreign policy, nor law, nor constitutional doctrine.
Paul Zummo
Quotes Suitable for Framing: Paul Zummo
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Acosta’s a knucklehead. There’s a nine-digit population on the Indian subcontinent who have a working knowledge of English right now. And it’s not as if people in Latin America are incapable of learning.
The liberals are bullies.
Feelings . . . Nothing more than feelings . . .
Excellent Paul Zummo!
Emma Lazarus was not President; was not Congress; was not the Supreme Court; was not Empress of North America.
Milton Friedman, “You can have open borders. You can have a welfare state. But, you cannot have both.”
“The liberals are bullies.” Maybe, but that bully got gutter stomped.
Jim apparently conflated statue with statutes….
Thanks Don. It’s a little sad that it even needs to be said.
Liberal journalists are stupid donkey orifices.
Good quote, Paul.
LQC, the only thing worse are the people who believe those journalists (and think them objective).
Like just examine the comments on one of Dave G’s posts at patheos and despair. (not his fault, I think patheos is filled with people who lack a day job)
Channeling Twain. Suppose you were a liberal. And, suppose your were an idiot. But, I repeat myself. The arrogance and dishonesty are even more outrageous than the stupidity.
I don’t know, but Steyn dismissing the Statue of Liberty as beacon for immigrants seemed, to me, to play into the narrative that it’s not illegal immigrants we hate, it’s immigrants. There’re plenty living here now, and unless you are up to our standards, there’s the door. That’s not what I think, and I believe the narrative is false. But Steyn’s approach does little to assure people of that fact.
Heck, not only is a poem not policy– they don’t even quote the whole POEM!
Well, Dave, Steyn is from Canada. 😉
Emma Lazarus was not writing poetry about Jihadists. The Statue of Liberty is a tribute to freedom never to be used as a Trojan Horse. Trust in divine Providence.
To me, Steyn did not come across as anti immigrant.
Just love Tucker’s smile and laugh – but not only that, the guy has a clarity of thought that is rarely matched by any of his adversaries.
oops – that should be Don the Kiwi. 🙂
I wonder how long it will take for the USCCB to soil their cassocks in outrage over this.
Leftists who are currently celebrating Emma Lazarus of course know little about her. She was a most remarkable woman for her time and place. She was a proto-Zionist who helped found the Society for the Colonization and Improvement for Eastern European Jews, and that looked to the establishment of a home land for Jews in what is now Israel. Leftists of course are appalled at that example of open borders immigration, leftists never being known for consistency.
If we could ask Miss Lazarus about her poem, I suspect that she would say that it was a celebration of the fact that so many people have found a new home in America, and that legal immigration poses complexities that are for the representatives of the people to decide and not poets.
Thank you, Donald McClarey for your information on Miss Lazarus.
Thank you Mary. We don’t shy away from opinion at TAC, but I think our number one goal has always been to convey information of interest to our readers.