Tag: politics

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” – from a poem called “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus

This excerpt is engraved on a bronze plaque hung in the Statue of Liberty museum. It expresses the governing U.S. attitude toward immigrants: welcome. Today’s attitude towards immigrants has changed and their is a new debate over immigration, one where many people are unsure of whether or not illegal aliens should be made legal or…


The Way Politics Flourish

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intillectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” -Isaac Asimov This explains…