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# The Spider Eudemon
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4375/
- Published: 2006-04-11T15:25:41.000Z
- Updated: 2006-04-11T15:25:41.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Crawling the web to bring you an interesting assortment:

[Joseph Pearce longs for England](http://www.dappledthings.org/lent06/feature.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). (Name drop: I met Pearce once. We were both speaking at a Chesterton Conference in Minnesota. Very pleasant fellow.)

[Fr. Jonathan Morris at Fox News Blogs writes about the new gospel](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191172,00.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com):

> I'm referring to the article about the “Gospel of Judas.” It offered a dumbed-down, ideology-driven report on the ancient text discovered in Egypt in the 1970's and recently translated into English by the National Geographic Society. The text depicts Judas Iscariot, the traitor, in a good light.

[Amy Welborn at Open Book on Benedict and the Gays](http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2006/04/back%5Fto%5Fwinter.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

[Thomas Sowell talks about immigration](http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/04/11/193239.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). He's sharp. He's also a black man, so if you don't agree with him, you're a racist.

> Today, immigrant spokesmen promote grievances, not gratitude, much less patriotism. Moreover, many native-born Americans also promote a sense of separatism and grievance and, through "multi-culturalism," strive to keep immigrants foreign and disaffected.

> This is not to say that all or most of the illegal immigrants themselves share this anti-establishment or anti-American bias of many of their spokesmen or supporters. Most are probably here to make a buck and have little time for ideology.

> Hispanic activists themselves recognize that many of the immigrants from Mexico -- legal or illegal -- would assimilate into American society in the absence of these activists' efforts to keep them a separate constituency. But these efforts are widespread and unrelenting, a fact that cannot be ignored.

By the way, while watching coverage of recent Gallup polls, it seems the following three statements pretty much sum up the majority of Americans' views:

1\. No immigration without assimilation;  
 2\. Help the immigrants that are here, but no amnesty unless they pay their dues (the devil is in the details, but the principle is fair enough);  
 3\. Criminalize further illegal immigration and, in this regard, seal the borders and get a firm grasp on all immigration.

From what I can see, the majority of Americans have a pretty sane view on this matter.