The Roman Republic fought a war over Citizenship, the Social War. The war ended in a Roman victory and the genocide of Samnites, an Italian tribe, which wanted full Roman citizenship. The Citizenship War was debilitating to the Republic, causing the rise of military strongmen like Sulla, Marius and eventually Julius Caesar.The vaunted Roman Republic, which had survived hundreds of years, began to die, over a war about who should be a citizen of Rome. Citizenship is very important to Republics. A Monarch can claim subjects by birth, decree or conquest. To be a citizen of a Republic, this American Republic, one has to be either born lucky or meet the criteria of the citizens who came before you. Because American Citizenship is so valuable, such a cohesive force in the existence of the Republic, it cannot and should not be enterprised upon. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is the executive order by President Obama which allowed some individuals who were broug

If one believes that Climate Change is a real phenomenon; and this Blogger believes that it is. If one believes that the Earth is living in the Anthropocene Era, in which the activities of man is shaping the physical nature of the planet Earth, including extinctions; and this Blogger believes that we are. If one believes that living in the Anthropocene means that there will be shortages in food, water, and clean air; and this Blogger believes that it does. If one believes all that, then one MUST believe the world is a ZERO SUM WORLD; and this Blogger believes that. In a ZERO SUM WORLD, the moral question of   succoring refugees, and migrants no longer becomes a moral question but a question of survival, for every act of kindness to the stranger takes away an act of kindness from one’s countrymen. In this dawning Anthropocene, only one nation on this planet sees succoring the stranger as a moral issue, and that country is our beloved Canada. DACA (Deferred ACTION

This Blogger has spent time in Mexico: Mexico City, Zacatecas, Morelos, Merida, and Chiapas. He has supported the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). In 2005, he dated a comely Mexican La Pasionaria, who believed in illegal migrations, amnesty, and Open Borders (Opposites attract, and we did not discuss politics). Based on his empirical observations of the Mexican illegal alien population in Los Angeles, he published the following on February 15, 2012. “Most illegal aliens in Los Angeles are from Mexico; I believe that their compulsion to come and stay in America is driven by the desire to make DISNEYLAND, a permanent part of their lives. They are enraptured and captivated by  DISNEYLAND. They think DISNEYLAND is the personification of Magic Realism. DISNEYLAND is the Mecca of their Dreams; their trip EL NOTRE is merely a  Hajj to DISNEYLAND. I firmly believe that there would be no illegal alien problem from Mexico if Disney had built DISNEYLAND in Mexico City, o