Recent content by RickSp

I grew up in Texas. Are you really trying to tell me that you do not have enough room to build a 1,200 foot wide series of roads? Running short on space already? That is actually pretty funny. Sounds like you have the Lone Star State confused with Rhode Island, which does, by the way, has...

LOL. Well you folks do keep me amused. Afraid of highways, afraid of trade, afraid of Meskins and Canadians. Afraid that in the dark of night three countries will merge by magic and evil conspiracy. You obviously enjoy your paranoia.

Are you really afraid of a road? Frightened of asphalt? Cowering before concrete? Sounds awfully cowardly to me. I thought Americans were made of sterner stuff. Hell most of it is already there. It is called Interstate 35 and it runs from Laredo, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border to Duluth...

The problem with NAU is that is is mostly paranoid fantasy. We are not going to be taken over by either Canada nor Mexico. And the expansion of existing highways, if by some chance it actaully ever happens, will not be driving cowboys from ranches or destroying whole towns as some, including...

So McCain got 55% of the vote and Paul got 5% of the vote and you think that there is any sort of chance of taking a winner take all delegate contest in June? I admire optimism, but this is a bit of a stretch.

I believe your tin-foil hat is on crooked.

And companies like Toyota have been building auto plants in the US. Six and half million US jobs are "insourced" from foreign companies. Insourced jobs also tend to pay more than purely domestic jobs. "INSOURCING" - When Foreign Companies Establish Jobs in the U.S. Insourced Jobs Pay More...

The "welfare state" argument against immigration is not based on fact. Most studies show that immigrants pay more in taxes than they use in services. Even studies done by anti-immigrant groups show costs which compared the the size of the economy are relatively small. We are still a nation...

I agree Mexico and Canada have much more to fear from the US than the other way around.

LOL. I was using Belgium as an example. I was not literally suggesting that the entire world move to the United States - only that concerns about overpopulation are wildly overblown. Malthus and Chicken Little have a lot in common. The sky is not falling. We are still a nation of immigrants...

I support "fair and well-planned immigration policy". I only wish Dr. Paul did. The current laws that effectively ban most immigrants aren't working. The police state tactics promoted by the Republicans including Paul are also doomed to fail. A "fair and well-planned immigration policy" that...

Birthright citizenship dates back to the founding of this country. The only major exception was for slaves which was corrected by the 14th Amendment. It appears that Paul wants to renew the exception to citizenship, applying it this time to the children of immigrants. I find it highly...

Not at all. Mexico does not have a reciprocal bounty hunter law so US bountry hunters who try to arrest US bail jumpers in Mexico have been arrested. Letters of Marque didn't work particularly well when they were part of international law. Pirates often mascaraded as privateers. Now that...

The fact doesn't change that Letters of Marque are useless scraps of paper unless the warring parties recognize them. No one has for over 150 years.

The problem is that letters of marque and reprisal only work if all parties agree to them. The reason that American privateers with Letters of Marque preyed on British shipping during the War of 1812 was because British privateers with Letters of Marque also preyed on American ships. Americans...