Hey Mr. Sanford, About That Can of Worms…

Written by Amy Spicer

As mentioned in my last post, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford seemed perplexed as to why a big deal was being made of his trip to Argentina to see his mistress.  The trip where he was not hiking the Appalachian Trail as he had informed his staff.

I called it a “can opened, worms everywhere” type of situation and as predicted the more the can opens the more worms come out.

Not only has he admitted to an ongoing affair with his mistress but confessed to “crossing the lines” with a handful of other women throughout his 20 years of marriage.

Immigration

Sustaining White America: Population, Environment, and Immigration

Written by Rev. David L. Ostendorf

Ever since John Tanton launched FAIR three decades ago, the anti-immigrant movement has distorted population growth and its environmental impacts to advance specious arguments that supposedly validate their restrictionist agenda.

The Center for Immigration Studies’ (CIS) latest report touting “The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration to the United States” marks another step in the movement’s ongoing attempts to tattoo environmental degradation on the backs of the wrong people.

The anti-immigrant movement was deeply rooted in the population control movement of the 1960s/70s—a movement that often wavered between its racially-tinged, eugenics-espousing fringes and its full-bore blame placed on overly-consumptive “Americans” (i.e. whites) for the environmental crisis of that era. Today the movement has… Read more