immigration issues

Tim Chavez has a lengthy post this morning about observations he’s made about the presidential race singling out political maneuvering from Jim Cooper, Marsha Blackburn and Lamar Alexander as well as their stance on immigration.

Vanderbilt University issued this press release:A Vanderbilt Divinity School professor will discuss what the Hebrew Bible has to say about immigration issues at a community breakfast on Thursday, March 13.

Alice Hunt, associate dean for academic affairs and assistant professor of Hebrew Bible at the divinity school, will speak on “Strangers, Aliens, Residents and Walls: The Bible and Immigration

David Oatney comments on the myriad of different strategies via the telephone that camapigns employ to get people to the polls:

I went to bed at my usual time and somehow slept through my alarm. I woke up to NPR telling me that the feds are talking about raising the gas tax 40 cents a gallon. I don’t know how it is where you are, but that’ll raise gas around here to almost four dollars a gallon. This, they claim, will encourage people to use public transportation and also raise money for our crumbling bridges.

I, myself, like to drive. I find it soothing and adventurous. Driving takes y