Jan Ting
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Vignettes from Russian-American history
I once owned a Pete Seeger vinyl record containing several Woody Guthrie songs including this catchy ditty composed in 1942: ̶ ...
11 years ago
Obama to Iran: Never surrender your nukes!
President Obama, in his response so far to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is sending a clear message to Iran to never negotiate away it ...
11 years ago
Illegal immigrants lie to get asylum status in U.S.
In May, 2011, the world’s attention was focused on the story of Nafissatou Diallo, a hotel housekeeper in New York, who claimed she ...
11 years ago
Chris Christie’s apology is unacceptable. He should never be president.
I’ve described Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey as a smart politician who deserves to be the frontrunner among Republicans who ...
11 years ago
Misguided protest in Philadelphia against U.S. Customs pre-inspection in Abu Dhabi.
An unusual demonstration occurred on the Wednesday before Christmas at Philadelphia International Airport when members of Congress and un ...
11 years ago
The moral case for rejecting immigration amnesty and expansion.
We hear a lot from the Obama administration and big business and the immigration advocacy groups about the moral reasons why Congress sho ...
11 years ago
VP Joe Biden mistakenly calls his own ancestors illegal immigrants! Why?
Perhaps Vice President Joe Biden was trying to give respectability to today’s illegal immigrants by ...
11 years ago
Senate filibuster rule change doesn’t go far enough. End all filibusters!
Republicans are warning that Democrats will regret their November 21 party-line vote to change rules of the U.S. Senate to permit confirm ...
11 years ago
Remembering November 22, 1963: the Kennedy assassination
I’m writing down my recollection of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, not because my experience was in any way specia ...
11 years ago
Immigration reform’s flaws revealed in the 1986 amnesty
The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) signed into law by President Reagan is often described as a three-legged stool. The th ...
11 years ago
It’s a problem for everyone that most political independents are actually partisans
As Ezra Klein of the Washington Post puts ...
11 years ago
The 5th plane to be seized on 9/11, and the terrorists who got away
Have you heard about the airliner which was ordered back to the gate on 9/11 when the terrorist attacks began, only to have four young Ar ...
14 years ago