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"Brownback is for big immigration. He should become a Democrat."

Immigration isn't a Republican/democrat issue, it's an issue concerning law vs. humanity. Brownback, like McCain, has staken out a middle ground on this issue. There are all sorts of ideas on how best to handle it. The radical right says "round em up n send em back, then shoot em at the border if they dare cross it again." The radical left has proposed opening the border's completely. I think both ideas are non-sensible and totally illogical. I think in the future there has to be a path for citizenship. But in the meantime, we need to secure the border so drug smugglers, terrorists and lazy welfare hacks can't get into this nation. On the other hand, there has to be enough compassion in this nation to make room for Hispanics that want to come here to work and help provide for themselves and their families. A guest worker program mixed with stricter border patrol will help ensure trafficking young women into this nation as sex slaves and drug smuggling stops, while still giving people that come here to make their own lives better allowable and lawful. Then after we get that accomplished, then we can work on the path to citizenship.

Chris: Thanks for the link to the article on Monaghan. Have known about him for decades, but never seen anything which provided anything beyond, Pizza, the Tigers and the surface aspects of Ave Maria.

Looks like a Reagan type to me. Meaning extremely simple philosophies - never got beyond the Baltimore Catechism.

I give credit to Monaghan for being open about his causes; not hiding in the shadows like Richard Mellon Scaife and others of his ilk. You know when Monaghan is behind something, because he's out front about it. Which makes it easier for those who disagree to champion their own cause.

Although I found that article interesting, I agree with Golgi, this concept is a little weird for The Fix.

I have a suggestion for Fix Picks:

http://www.slate.com/id/2160834/

This Slate article discusses a new healthcare proposal by Ron Wyden, Democratic senator from Oregon. Wyden's proposal removes the employer from the healthcare selection process, allowing consumers to directly choose the plan they want. But it also requires certain minimum benefits from all health plans, provides extra money to subsidize insurance, and reduces both healthcare spending and government waste. I think it's an interesting proposal, and one that's worth discussing.

Yes, get rid of all democratic sleaze.

'WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Republicans plan a formal objection on the House floor to the appointment of Rep. William Jefferson to the Homeland Security Committee.'

And well they should -- jesus christ, what is on nancy pelosi's mind? Is she the one who appointed him? I need t find out and call whoever it is. Hey, I'm as loyal a Dem as you could find -- but please. This is the kind of thing republicans were doing-- I can't stomach this.

I hope I will never be enough of a partisan or a hyporcite to say, it's okay because they did it. It isn't okay.

Just goes to show "nuts" come in all packages.

Yeah, Monaghan REALLY creeps me out too--good parallel, Andy, the guy is just about as loony as Jim Jones and the way he wants to run his town is quite simply, anti-american.

Man, how did the fundies in this country get so loony? I was raised as a speaking-in-tongues Penecostal but even my congregation would've been shocked by the extremism tht exists today...

Unless Ave Maria turns out to be something other than what it seems to be so far, then it is simply the Catholic Liberty U.

The question then would be, is Monaghan the Catholic Falwell?

The idea of the new "Fix Picks" feature is weird.

Something seems very strange about it.

Why not just talk about the issues the article brought up, in a normal Fix post?

This seems gimmicky and fake.

The Fix is a pretty sweet site/column, don't load it down with gimmicky garbage.

You've got to know how to keep it clean. On the Web, appealing = clean.

Old Atlantic, your post makes absolutely NO sense.

i read the monaghan piece... he's whacked in the head, trying to re-create medieval catholicism in the 21st century. and brownback from what little i know of him is monaghan's political equivalent.

i do not think there should be any place for "god" in politics - everyone disagrees on who or what or how or even if he/she is, and many are willing to try to enforce their own personal superstition on everyone else.

religion is sth that no one can prove and thus adherents feel they must either cajole or compel someone else to believe / act in a certain way.

reigion in politics is a recipe for anger, distrust, and refusing to even engage in conversation... in extreme cases, conflict and war. (e.g. iraq, al qaeda, christian identity, church bombings, jim jones, the moonies, and on and on and on.)

of course, freedom of religion is specified in the constitution, as well as being implied in the other freedoms (speech, assembly, etc.) - but i do not believe the founders ever intended that freedom to be interpreted as license to curtail the freedoms of others.

we are a nation of rational laws. the founders DID source the rights given citizens by the constitution in "god," but remember, they were writing in the 18th century, a very different era philosophically and culturally. (also, they were deists whose idea of 'god' would be foreign to a modern tv or megachurch preacher.)

let's remember that the first part of 'freedom of religion' is 'freedom,' and contrary to mr. brownback, i DO interpret that as 'freedom FROM' as well as 'freedom TO.' if religion is not voluntary, what value does it have anyway?

Brownback is for big immigration. He should become a Democrat.

I will never vote for ANYONE that is supported by Tom Monaghan. That guy is such a radical Catholic that it scares the Pope.
The town he wants to build is very similar to Jonestown, if Jim Jones had been a multi-billionare.