Immigration and Border Security (Part 3 of 3): Rick Perry.

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 22nd at 10:30 AM  | 

Rick Perry runs for President after serving a long term as the governor of Texas. Texas shares over ½ of the US-Mexican Border with our neighbors to the South. Texas has benefitted from a generally positive historical relationship Mexican migratory workers and has seen some of the best benefits that immigration can offer the United States. Texas also has seen some of the worst. Narcotic | Read More »

Well, at least Meghan Cofield’s getting work.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 4th at 05:07 PM  | 

Who is Meghan Cofield? Well, she’s a Ohio worker who lost her job, and it’s all John Kasich’s fault! No, wait, it was all John McCain’s fault! Yeah. That was an ad from 2008 – same person, and even some of the same footage – when Barack Obama was pretending to be hating on NAFTA (needless to say, that promise came with an expiration date: | Read More »

Is Obama Planning a North American Common Market?

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  February 19th at 03:08 PM  | 

In his current Canadian trip, Barack Obama has attracted a lot of attention for his statement that he would like to modify the NAFTA accord to give a higher status to labor and environmental standards. There’s been some blowback from Canada, but reaction has been relatively muted. What is surprising is that the reaction in Mexico has been muted as well. Given the Mexican government’s | Read More »