Crowded Land of Liberty - Solving America's Immigration Crisis , Bridge Works Publishing, Bridgehampton, NY. Published in 2001.
Published some six years prior to the fortunately failed 2007 effort to grant amnesty to 12 million additional illegal immigrants, this book's arguments against open borders are as cogent in 2007 as they were in 2001. During those intervening years nothing really changed except the numbing numbers of illegal immigrants we host. The only new tactic proposed by Washington was to build a fence along hundreds of miles of our southern border. The fence is nothing but eyewash. History demonstrates it is patently obvious that a twelve-foot fence will do nothing but stimulate the market for fourteen-foot ladders.
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discussing the once true, but now outdated cliché; "We are a nation of immigrants," and the failed history of Teddy Kennedy's
1986 amendments to our immigration laws, the book proposes a fresh, new approach that changes the focus of our immigration policies from "family reunification" to "What's best for America?"
Ending The War On Drugs – A Solution For America, Bridge Works Publishing, NY. Published 1998
The premise of the book is that by outlawing drugs we have handed a magic wand to drug dealers that would put Merlin’s magic to shame. The magic of illegality enables them to sell an ounce of marijuana with the intrinsic value of spinach, for a price rivaling that of pure gold, simply because it’s illegal. Regardless of the name of the illegal drug, the cost of production is a small fraction of its street value. That premium is called, “the crime tax.” The same alchemy made bootleggers rich during prohibition.
This book proposes state (not federal) control of the sale of presently illegal drugs. Thirteen states now sell alcohol that way. No advertising or sales promotion of any kind would be permitted. State control will enable society to capture the profits now going into the pockets of drug dealers. The law would then require the profits to be spent on anti-drug education, treatment of the addicted, and research into ways to combat drug abuse. This provides a delicious irony with which to defeat the scourge of drugs in our society: Those who use these destructive substances will be paying for their control. As long as we are dealing with imperfect humans we will never eliminate the demand for drugs, but we can turn the money it generates back against the problem if we deal with it realistically. Until we do so, we are doomed to continue the cycle of destruction illicit drugs visits on our society. For decades we have been unable to arrest and incarcerate our way out of the problem.
This book tells us how we can solve the problem practically and permanently
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William F. Buckley, Jr. called Ending The War On Drugs, “An important addition to the library of books that illuminates the misdirection of U.S. drug policies.”
American Way (American Airline's In-Flight magazine) said of Crowded Land of Liberty, "He examines the effects of the recent surge of immigration on everything from traffic and jobs to schools and the suburbs, and proposes a solution to serve both the nation and its immigrants."