Government

Trump says he’s pursuing executive order to end birthright citizenship | PBS NewsHour

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Trump says he’s pursuing executive order to end birthright citizenship | PBS NewsHour

I have a lot of questions how this would work. You can't deny somebody citizenship when they are a natural born citizen but I guess in theory you could deny a birth certificate to children of immigrants? But how would you do that?

Hospitals aren't owned by the federal government, and it's local governments that keep birth certificates. And even if you lack a birth certificate, you are still a natural born citizen - you could always prove your birth in the country by other means.

Plus I suspect denying birth certificates based on race or national origin would violate the Civil Rights Act, as hospitals are certainly public accommodations and offer services to the interstate travelers.

China’s Dangerous Dollar Addiction – Foreign Policy

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China’s Dangerous Dollar Addiction – Foreign Policy

"The trade war with the United States may soon hit China where it hurts, making it hard for Beijing to satisfy its voracious appetite for natural resources."

"Every year, China spends roughly $350 billion just to purchase the copper, coal, iron ore, aluminum, steel, and crude oil it needs to keep the Chinese economy running. And that bill could grow as China eats through even more raw materials to build roads, railways, and ports across Eurasia as part of its Belt and Road Initiative."

Hitler’s Influence in the US Was Greater Than You May Think | Time

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Hitler’s Influence in the US Was Greater Than You May Think | Time

"In fact, when Bradley W. Hart first started researching the history of Nazi sympathy in the United States a few years ago, he was largely driven by the absence of attention to the topic. Hart’s new book Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States argues that the threat of Nazism in the United States before World War II was greater than we generally remember today, and that those forces offer valuable lessons decades later — and not just because part of that story is the history of the “America First” idea, born of pre-WWII isolationism and later reborn as a slogan for now-President Donald Trump."

http://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/

Embracing Corruption

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A couple of times a week there is this man who stops by our office to remind us what is so rotten about the governing system we all live under. Most of the things he says are quite true, but we are all quite content to live under the system of rot because what is personally gained from the system is greater then what is lost under the corruption. Corruption may be eating away from society’s future and praying on those not enriched by the system, but for those who are benefiting, it really is quite good to us today.