Year: 2006

I’m scheduled to be on the Tammy Bruce show today at 12:30 PM EST for 10-20 minutes and I’m scheduled to talk about the Tackling a Handful of Immigration Myths, Misnomers and Red Herrings column that I wrote for Human Events. You can listen to it for free, here. Update #1: Tammy’s show is always […]

Question: “I haven’t heard anyone else, anywhere, bring this point up, so here goes: If an illegal immigrant uses a forged Social Security Card to get a job, the number on the card receives the tax money that the employer is legally obligated to send, right? So, if that SS number is fake, who gets […]

Question: “The football (that’s Soccer to most readers here) world cup will kick off in 4 weeks time. The USA have a fairly good team and have a good chance of doing well. (Quarter finals at least) Does anyone in the US (except Latinos and expat Europeans) actually give a toss?” — Simon_Begg Answer: Oh, […]

Question: “Did the way Jimmy Carter handled the Iranian hostage situation have any influence on the events that are happening today in the Mid East?” — jcl Answer: Maybe a small part. His decision to stand by while an American ally, the Shah of Iran, was overthrown by Islamofasicsts had a bigger impact. If what […]

Domestic The Senate Votes To Give Illegal Immigrants Social Security Benefits They Accrued While Here Illegally Contact Your Senators Today And Tell Them What You Think About Illegal Immigration Mexico Will Complain To The U.S. Government About Plans To Build Security Fences And Deploy National Guard Troops Along The Border To Curb Illegal Immigration, The […]

Today will be Q&A Friday #40 at RWN. So, if there’s a subject you’ve been wanting me to tackle or an issue you want to hear my opinion on, just ask your question in the comments section. Your question can be about politics, ideology, history, blogging, RWN, from a liberal, conservative, or libertarian perspective; heck, […]

Most of you have heard about the incredible number of immigrants the Senate bill was orginally going to allow into the United States. By some counts, the Senate Bill would have had the potential to bring in 217 million new immigrants over 20 years time. Well, fortunately, Jeff Sessions pushed an Amendment to the bill […]

You have absolutely got to go see this incredibly cheesy campaign commercial for Joe Lieberman’s primary opponent, Ned Lamont. It features Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos leading a gaggle of liberals into Lamont’s living room. What’s it like? Here’s Jim Geraghty’s spot-on description: “It seems to me to be a form of a Public […]

The focus group data on impeachment must be really bad, because one of the biggest advocates of impeachment in the House, John Conyers, has written a weaselly column that tries to convince people that the Democrats aren’t going to push impeachment at every opportunity if they get back into power. Here’s a sample: “As Republicans […]

It seems the Democratic netroots community has finally won an enormous victory and America will never be the same again! From Chris Bowers over at MyDD: Today, in just three divisions (precincts) available to me, Kevin and I pulled over 100 votes. With only 27-01, 27-02, and 27-23 reporting, we have reached roughly 110 votes. […]

“I continue to believe the administration’s problem is not that the base lately doesn’t like it, but that the White House has decided it actually doesn’t like the base. That’s a worse problem. It’s hard to fire a base. Hard to get a new one.” — Peggy Noonan

HS Sex Survey Asks Kids, “If you have never slept with someone of your same gender, then how do you know you wouldn’t prefer it?” Again: it’s just creepy that they’re so fascinated with kids. Follow-up questions asked: 1) “Do you like movies about gladiators?” 2) “You ever seen a grown man naked? 3) “Have […]

Bush has also apparently learned that the word “amnesty” does not poll well. On Monday night, he angrily denounced the idea of amnesty just before proposing his own amnesty program. The difference between Bush’s amnesty program and “amnesty” is: He’d give amnesty only to people who have been breaking our laws for many years — […]

Domestic Senate OKs Some Border Fencing, Backs Amnesty For Illegals Amendment That Helps Get The Guest Worker Program Under Control Passes Mexico Dismissive of U.S. Border Plan (Free WAPO Reg Req) Mexican Town A Last-Stop Shop For Illegal Immigrants ‘He Doesn’t Get It’. Sensenbrenner Sharply Criticizes Bush On Immigration, Saying President Is Proposing Amnesty For […]

“I’ll tell you what, this issue is causing more divisions in the Republican Party than any issue that I can recall in a long time, including the Dubai Ports deal. I can’t recall an issue. I’ve been doing this for 18 years. It will be 18 years in August, a big anniversary coming up. I […]

In 2004, the Democrats hammered away relentlessly at George Bush because the country lost jobs after the economic downturn caused the recession and 9/11. Another hot issue that had people all up in arms was companies moving overseas. Remember Kerry’s comments about “Benedict Arnold” companies? Then there was outsourcing. So let me get this straight: […]

Today, I received an email from someone named Tony Sloane. Here’s the email in its entirety. The time is coming when the poorer class will rise up to take what they rightfully desearve. Places like Wal-mart, IBM, sprint as well as credit agencies that take advantage of the lower class will feel the brunt of […]

I’ve been meaning to talk about network neutrality since it’s a complex, yet important topic, that’s starting to percolate through Congress. The thing that spurred me to go ahead and put finger to keyboard about it was the anti-net neutrality ad I’m now running that is — let me be completely frank — breathtakingly misleading. […]

There’s no topic hotter in the body politic right now than immigration. Everywhere you turn, especially in the blogosphere, somebody has an opinion. So, since illegal immigration is the topic du jour, it seemed like a good idea to address a few of the myths, misnomers and red herrings that seem to keep popping up […]

Patton is calling for a wall on the border, but as a compromise, he demands that it have doggy doors so that our new pitbull and rottweiler border patrol agents can freely go back and forth. He also favors slashing government spending, especially on any program that benefits cats. He does, however, favor subsidies for […]

Reading through some entertainment related news stories, I came across this quote (referencing Jodie Foster): The U.S. “squandered” the goodwill and sympathy other nations offered after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Foster said. She also criticized officials for the “disastrous and shameful” handling of Hurricane Katrina. This old yarn has been in circulation since 9/12/01: […]

Domestic & Foreign The Senate Yesterday Voted Against Securing The Border Before Implementing Provisions That Would Grant The Right Of Citizenship To Millions Of Illegal Aliens And That Would Double The Flow Of Legal Immigration. Call Your Senator And Tell Them That You Oppose Allowing Illegal Immigrants To Be Part Of Guest Worker Program Or […]

“You may find people who will contend that patriotism is something to be a little bit embarrassed about or that honor is somewhat outdated as a notion and that concentrating on America’s imperfection makes you a realist. Not so. That’s the sign of a cynic. Being a cynic is easy. You can just sit back, […]

I just finished up Joe Klein’s Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You’re Stupid and I enjoyed it even though Klein is ideologically left-of-center (which means that I disagreed with him on more than a few things). Klein has covered a lot of Presidential campaigns and some of the “inside […]

Everyone seems to be so worried about our borders these days, and I’m like, “Chill, dude.” Borders are a concept of ancient times when people were totally uncool and all wanted to kill each other. We’ve matured past such attitudes and should stop getting all bent out of shape over a few people sneaking into […]

After the speech last night, I took a look around the right side of the blogosphere to get a sense of what people thought. The reaction was probably — oh, let’s say somewhere between 75-90% negative and to be truthful, as often as not, I got the impression that the bloggers who said they liked […]

Sometimes a speech can be important not just for what it says, but for what it doesn’t say. For example, Bush’s speech last night made no effort to address many of the thorniest issues surrounding illegal immigration. Perhaps that’s understandable. After all, you can’t hit every high spot in an under twenty minute speech. However, […]

There’s now a third innocent Duke player, David Evans, who has been smeared as a potential rapist. As per usual with this case, this new development, like most of the other new developments, has undercut the accuser’s credibility. Here’s a May 10th, WRAL post, about what the accuser said when she picked Evans out of […]

Domestic GOP Immigration Plan Will Destroy America As We Know It, Allowing 217 Million New Immigrants Over Next 20 Years Text Of Bush’s Speech On Immigration CNN Airs Bush Rehearsing Speech Live; Network Calls Mistake Immigration Quotes In Reaction To The Speech Congressman Chris Cannon Pays A Price For Being Soft On Illegals 3rd Member […]

7:57: I think this is going to be an absolute disaster that is going to be widely panned by everyone except open borders advocates like Bill Kristol and people who are going to support the President no matter what happens. Let’s hope I’m completely wrong. 8:02: He admits we don’t control our borders. Good. 8:03: […]