Category: Current events
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Why We Must Welcome Syrian Refugees
Just wrote my congressman and Tennessee’s two senators about the current hysteria surrounding the acceptance and placement of Syrian refugees fleeing ISIL. (See full text below.) Short version: It’s our moral duty to give sanctuary to these innocent victims of terrorism. By turning our backs, we’d be doing the terrorists’ work for them and handing…
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The Proposed AIG Lawsuit
As I write this, AIG — American International Group — is meeting to consider filing a lawsuit against America for… That’s right. For bailing it out. By loaning $182 billion to AIG, back at the start of the Obama administration. Just so you know, here is what The Astonished Tamale! thinks of that: As the…