Polygamy Ban Blocked Muslim Immigration

A 100+ year old issue in the United States.

How America's Polygamy Ban Blocked Muslim Immigration

Daniel Greenfield, proprietor of Sultan Knish summarizes well with the statement...

A century ago and more, the nation had leaders who were not willing to dwell in the twilight of illusions, but who grappled with problems when they saw them. They saw civilization as fragile and vulnerable. They understood that the failure to address a conflict would mean a loss to the “enemies of civilization”. 

I have little doubt that in the bowels of government, there are people grappling with real problems, but the public facade of government seems obsessed  obscuring what is dangerous and what is not.

Red Herring issues abound...

• Arguments about what he minimum wage should be, when deduction shows that higher wages and the shallow end of the skill pool, leads to less employment.
• Arguments about levels of legal immigration, while the border stands porous, a victim of intentional neglect.
• Arguments over bathroom access, when in the end people will go where they have to, that is assuming the need overwhelms the desire to preen.
• Arguments over health care insurance, a tougher issue, but every person knows that government delivery systems, outside of checks being mailed, are the worst. Government intrusion will make health care worse, for all, sinking to the lowest common denominator.
• Global warming, a doubtful premise prima facie, conceptually I have no problem with engineering to maintain or lower heat generation, but pragmatic decisions on how that should affect the economy and industry should be left to anything but a governmental body. 

The current issues abound, in the end few of them will matter, but all obscure lurking catastrophes such as religious war, fiscal depression and loss of constitutional freedoms.