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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Eupher on September 12, 2023, 06:26:39 AM
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Illegal Immigrants Can Begin Applying for Driver’s Licenses in One State
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/09/11/illegal-immigrants-in-minnesota-can-begin-applying-for-drivers-licenses-n2628257 (https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/09/11/illegal-immigrants-in-minnesota-can-begin-applying-for-drivers-licenses-n2628257)
Illegal immigrants who are living in Minnesota can begin the process of getting their driver’s license, according to a report from the Associated Press.
Now, around 81,000 people in the state are expected to be eligible for a driver’s license under a new legislation called the “Driver’s License for All” law. Those eligible can begin the application process, but cannot obtain a license until it goes into effect Oct. 1.
The new law removes the requirements for applicants to show legal presence, AP noted.
“We’re incredibly proud to be a part of a handful of states that offer driver’s license for all,” Pong Xiong, Driver and Vehicle Services Director at the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, said at the news conference over the legislation. “And the first step to getting your driver’s license is to pass that written test.”
Reportedly, Jody-Kay Peterson, the state’s Driver Services Program Director, stated that the agency will not submit the names or personal information of applicants to immigration law enforcement.
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Applicants will be required to pass written and road tests, but will not be asked for proof of U.S. citizenship or permanent residency status. They must present identifying documents, such as an unexpired foreign passport or a birth certificate from another country.
In March, Townhall reported how Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed the legislation.
“Ensuring drivers in our state are licensed and carry insurance makes the roads safer for all Minnesotans,” Walz said in a statement about the bill signing. “As a longtime supporter of this bill, I am proud to finally sign it into law, making our roads safer and moving us toward our goal of making Minnesota the best state to raise a family for everyone.”
Local outlet Fox 9 previously reported that Republicans who opposed the change argued that expanding access to driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants would lead to election and benefits fraud. The law itself reverses a 2003 rule implemented by Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a Republican. He created the rule post-9/11 to prevent people without legal status in the U.S. from getting licenses.
Last year, Townhall reported that an issue was placed on the ballot in Massachusetts for voters to decide on rejecting a state law that allows illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. Voters decided against repealing the law.
What the article clearly does not point out (from the FAQ section of Minneysoda's new law, which is nothing more than a thinly-disguised attempt to once again fatten the Dem rolls):
In what language is the written test available?
• At DVS locations, the following are available: English, Spanish, Hmong, Vietnamese, Somali,
American Sign Language, Russian and Karen.
https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/dvs/forms-documents/Documents/DLForAll-FAQs-Long.pdf
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Next they will get voter registration cards :thatsright: :argh:
Will they get insurance or will they just be another road hazard that will cost insured drivers more money?
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...Will they get insurance or will they just be another road hazard that will cost insured drivers more money?
You know the answer to that as well as I do. They haven't bothered with insurance to this point; why would they start now?
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Next they will get voter registration cards :thatsright: :argh:
Will they get insurance or will they just be another road hazard that will cost insured drivers more money?
By pure coincidence, I'm sure, Minnesota enacted an automatic voter registration "motor voter" law earlier this year.
https://www.twincities.com/2023/05/05/minnesota-enacts-automatic-voter-registration-penalties-for-election-misinformation/ (https://www.twincities.com/2023/05/05/minnesota-enacts-automatic-voter-registration-penalties-for-election-misinformation/)
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The First American Vice President of Color Was Not Kamala Harris
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/09/11/the-first-american-vice-president-of-color-was-not-kamala-harris-n2163686
(https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/09/11/the-first-american-vice-president-of-color-was-not-kamala-harris-n2163686)
When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were inaugurated in 2021, the press made much of Kamala Harris not only being the first female Vice President but also the first "Vice President of color." There's just one problem: She isn't the first "Vice President of color." That honor belongs instead to Charles Curtis, Vice President to Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933. Curtis was three-eighths Indian and spent much of his youth in the Kaw Nation.
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He had served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929. A member of the Kaw Nation born in the Kansas Territory, Curtis was the first Native American and first person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the highest offices in the federal executive branch.
In other words, Charles Curtis was the first person of color to be elected as Vice President.
Born on January 25, 1860, in North Topeka, Kansas Territory, a year before Kansas was admitted as a state, Charles Curtis had three-eighths Native American ancestry and five-eighths European American ancestry.[4][5] His mother, Ellen Papin (also spelled Pappan), was Kaw, Osage, Potawatomi, and French. His father, Orren Curtis, was of English, Scots, and Welsh ancestry. On his mother's side, Curtis was a descendant of chief White Plume of the Kaw Nation and chief Pawhuska of the Osage.
Curtis's first words as an infant were in French and Kansa, both languages that he learned from his mother. She died in 1863, when he was 3 years old, but he lived for some time thereafter with his maternal grandparents on the Kaw reservation and returned to them in later years. He learned to love racing horses and was later a highly successful jockey in prairie horse races.
I would note that Charles Curtis's 3/8 Native American ancestry is approximately 3/8 more than the Native American ancestry of Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
While his Vice Presidency was unremarkable—he apparently rarely attended cabinet meetings and was seemingly an early adherent to the John Nance Garner estimation of the vice presidency as being worth a "bucket of warm spit"—he did make a point in his political career of advocacy for better education for native children. While in the House of Representatives, he introduced what became the Curtis Act of 1898, which had mixed results; it abolished tribal governments within the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) and declared all natives to be citizens of the United States.
In all fairness, one could probably characterize the political career of Charles Curtis as "pedestrian." Although his accomplishments, unlike the later claimant vis-à-vis the first "VP of color" title, were at least his own, and not gained through some other, questionable means, nor through the mere fact of his skin color and plumbing. That's neither here nor there; according to the rules put in place by the political left, and whether they like it or not, Charles Curtis, not Kamala Harris, was the first "person of color" to attain the office of Vice President.
Why does this matter? Well, to conservatives and libertarians, it really doesn't; a person's genetic legacy is irrelevant; they should instead be judged on their acts. But it matters to the left and to the left's notions of what is "historic."
One might point out that Charles Curtis was only 3/8 Native American. So? Kamala Harris is, by all accounts, one-half Asian (Indian) and one-half Jamaican/black; make of that what you will. Barack Obama, lauded as the first black president, is the product of a white American woman and a Kenyan (black) father. Both President Obama and Vice President Harris were lauded as the first "people of color" in their offices, respectively; if they qualify as such, then Charles Curtis cannot be disqualified.
I should hasten to amend that to read, "...the Republican Charles Curtis cannot be disqualified."
Why does any of this matter? Well, except to tweak leftists with an interesting, if slightly obscure piece of American history, it doesn't. We should judge people not by the color of their skin but by their actions, their accomplishments, their experience, and their character. You know—not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, as somebody once said.
The entire "person of color" issue is a canard. Because of this concern for "diversity," the nation is now saddled with a Vice President who has been lauded for her color and plumbing but is a cackling incompetent. Barack Obama was an inexperienced mediocrity, but millions voted for his "historical" run for the White House.
Charles Curtis would probably be dismayed at this kind of thinking.
Just a silly little observation of mine to this comment:
In all fairness, one could probably characterize the political career of Charles Curtis as "pedestrian."
Even if VP Curtis was "pedestrian", his legacy shows he ran circles around the Cackle Hen of the SharterJoe mal-administration.
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In all fairness, one could probably characterize the political career of Charles Curtis as "pedestrian."
In his 1948 book, Garner of Texas, fellow Texan Bascom Timmons quoted Garner as stating the vice presidency was "a no man’s land somewhere between the legislative and executive branch."
Cause the better known John Nance Garner quote is icky. :lmao:
Seriously though, even among political nuts, how many can name more than a handful of vice presidents besides the ones who went on to the presidency?
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'Gross:' Biden opens 9/11 remarks with joke about being an All-American in high school
https://www.foxnews.com/media/gross-biden-opens-9-11-remarks-joke-all-american-high-school
President Biden began his remarks on the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks by cracking a joke regarding the Alaska governor on Monday.
Biden took the stage at a Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson ceremony in Anchorage commemorating the attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001. The president began his remarks by mentioning how he and Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, both came from Scranton.
"Governor Dunleavy, it’s good to see you. The governor and I have something in common: we're both from Scranton, Pennsylvania. I wish I had him playing on my high school ball club when I was playing. I could've been an All-American having you in front of me," Biden said.
Biden eventually began acknowledging the "solemn day," though the joke already unsettled some social media users.
So tone deaf and insulting. :mad: :censored:
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Democrats Lash Out At Youngkin For Pardoning Father Of
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-lash-out-at-youngkin-for-pardoning-father-of-loudoun-rape-victim
Virginia Democrats and Loudoun County’s George Soros-backed prosecutor are lashing out at Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) over his Sunday pardon of Scott Smith, whose daughter was raped in school and who the prosecutor, Buta Biberaj, personally sought to put in jail.
Biberaj said Youngkin’s pardon “is an unprecedented and inappropriate intervention into an active legal case,” and said he was taking action “not for justice but for political gain.” Scott Surovell, the vice chairman of the Democrat Senate Caucus, said Youngkin’s pardon was an abandonment of “law and order” intended to “help his failing presidential ambitions.”
Smith was set to face his second trial this month for the crime of cursing at a leftist activist who said she didn’t believe his daughter was raped. Smith was arrested after a police officer grabbed him from behind as he was exchanging words with activist Jackie Schworm, leading to a televised tussle with police. But the resisting arrest charge was thrown out, meaning Smith was being prosecuted solely for an angry exchange of words.
Gov. Youngkin is once again using Loudoun County for his political gain. My full statement below. pic.twitter.com/fPYEksC93T
— Buta Biberaj (@ButaBiberaj) September 10, 2023
Despite Smith having committed no apparent crime, police apprehended him from behind, saying his body language suggested that it might escalate. They bloodied him and kneeled on his chest as he shouted, “I can’t breathe.”
Dems have no moral compass.
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Seriously though, even among political nuts, how many can name more than a handful of vice presidents besides the ones who went on to the presidency?
* attempts to answer, but suddenly stares into void and is escorted away from the keyboard *
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Cause the better known John Nance Garner quote is icky. :lmao:
Seriously though, even among political nuts, how many can name more than a handful of vice presidents besides the ones who went on to the presidency?
This question prompted me to do a bit of DDG:
Most of the early veeps lived in boarding houses all over D.C. One guy, William R. King, (veep under Franklin Pierce) died six weeks after he took his oath of office in Cuba, never having set foot in D.C. as veep.
Kamala's digs at the Naval Observatory are decidedly better than they used to be with boarding houses, but that doesn't mean she's any more competent than any of the others. It's just an example of how D.C. politicians love to feather their own nests with taxpayer money.
https://ggwash.org/view/40653/vice-city-a-map-of-where-all-the-vice-presidents-have-lived