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I have a problem with that, especially having grown up with a workaholic father. The fact is, I am too exhausted to be constantly looking for a job or working more-than one job.” She let it be known that she really resented the implication that she should be expected to go out and work hard to earn her own financial support.

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Tweet The following is the entire text of Frédéric Bastiat’s magnificent Parable of the Broken Window, which is as relevant today as it was when he wrote it in 1850. As you read it, please note carefully the highlighted language: Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James Goodfellow, when his careless [...]

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Tweet I thought I’d share with you some of the things my friends have posted on Facebook.  First, a cartoon that’s obviously meant to support the Progressive open border policy, but that just as obviously proves the opposite: I understand that you’re supposed to read the cartoon to mean that, without the Native American’s open [...]

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Tweet No comment from me.  You all know what I’m thinking: Starting Wednesday, Californians can register to vote online, a change implemented just in time for the November presidential election. Made possible by a 2011 bill authored by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, the online system will allow people whose signature is already on file with [...]

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Tweet Kudos to Mi Pueblo, a grocery store that caters to Hispanic shoppers, for abiding by federal law.  At least, I give it kudos.  The Unions are fighting mad: The Bay Area’s biggest Latino grocery chain is trying to avert a threatened boycott after it began checking the immigration status of all its new hires [...]

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Tweet The Watcher asked “Do you consider Illegal migration to America a problem, and if so, what would you do about the estimated 11 million illegal aliens already here?”  Not only did some of the Council members have an opinion on this one (or, given all of our busy lives, manage to meet the deadline), [...]

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Tweet In ordinary times, criminals disregard the law.  In the PC Obama era, however, elected officials and state government agencies don’t have much use for the law either.  Take Obama, for example.  Contrary to the original headlines regarding Obama’s newly discovered immigration rights, Obama’s recent announcement regarding illegal immigration isn’t an executive order.  Instead, it’s [...]

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Tweet I assume that you all know by know that President Obama has issued an executive order granting amnesty to young illegal immigrants.  It’s a clever move.  Marco Rubio had already proposed something similar, so Obama can say that at least some smart Republicans are already on board with the idea.  The move will presumably [...]

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Tweet I’ve got a new post up at PJ Tatler: The University of Southern California (“USC”), an expensive private university in Los Angeles, used to rejoice in the nickname “University of Spoiled Children.”  I’m happy to report (my tone is dryly sarcastic as I write this) that the University is doing its best to ensure [...]

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Tweet For years, I’ve been trying to articulate the difference between good immigrants and bad immigrants, meaning those that benefit a country and those that I’d like to see kept out.  This has become a particularly pointed concern for me in light of the PC attitude that encourages immigrants of all stripes not to give [...]

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Tweet I figured out the analogy for Obama’s little end run around the Congress’ refusal to pass the DREAM Act, which sees him using an executive order to instruct the INS not to crack down on college students and service people who are in this country illegally.  It reminds me of the 18 year old [...]

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Tweet I certainly wouldn’t want to read too much into this, but I find interesting the current results (as of noon today) in this completely unscientific poll from the Marin Independent Journal, a local paper that serves the heart of liberal land: Marin IJ poll results re immigration

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Tweet An illegal alien is, by definition, a criminal:  the person snuck into the United States in the dead of night (so to speak), and has no right to be here. That’s not how our president sees it: A student, who appeared via Skype, asked: “My question for the president is, why [is the government] saying that deportations have [...]

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Tweet A lot of people look at laws that are hard to enforce and say, “let’s get rid of those laws.”  The three major recipients of this line of reasoning are drugs, prostitution and illegal immigration.  People ask, “Why criminalize these inevitable behaviors, especially since criminalizing them draws into the law enforcement net people who [...]

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Tweet Life can be tough when you break the law.  The people who murdered Annie Mae Aquash discovered this fact when they were arrested and tried for murder 35 years after killing Aquash.  Sara Jane Olson, an SLA terrorist during the 1970s, discovered that when her quiet, suburban life in Minnesota was revealed and she [...]

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Tweet I don’t see Harry Reid having the political umph to pass the DREAM Act, but I also never imagined back in 2007 that Barack Obama would be President, so what do I know? I do know that I have a problem with the DREAM Act, and that’s despite the fact that there are some [...]

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Tweet You may have read that the California Supreme Court ruled that California taxpayers have to pay for illegal immigrants to attend state colleges and universities — and that these illegals get preference over legal Americans from other states. I was therefore surprised this morning when I went to the home page for our local [...]

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Tweet I was very surprised to see an AP wire story reporting that Islamic militants (as opposed to mere “militants” or “insurgents”) were holding “Christians” (as opposed to mere “people”) hostage.  Even more surprising, the AP reported that the Islamic militants were probably affiliated with Al Qaeda in Iraq, an entity one apparently couldn’t acknowledge [...]

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Tweet What do you do if you’re a reasonably honest thinker, forced to quarrel with your own political party — you start weaseling, that’s what you do.  Rick Oltman has been forced to confront the fact that Meg Whitman did absolutely nothing wrong with regard to her housekeeper.  I commend Oltman for his honesty.  However, [...]

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Tweet Some days seem to crystallize some of our society’s more discouraging trends. In my mental health work on the front lines I see a great deal of what the chattering classes cluelessly opine about. Today, for some reason, I saw, one after the other, a series of young women with similar problems and, as [...]

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Tweet I keep meaning to blog about Meg Whitman’s maid, and then I don’t.  Factually, it’s an insanely stupid story, although the lurid headlines in California’s lefty papers may be enough to confuse some independents into abandoning any vague ideas they may have been having about voting for Whitman.  In other words, the story is [...]

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Tweet I don’t think as well as Dennis Prager, so I’ve never been able to organize my thoughts as beautifully as he did in this column about illegal immigration and the reason legal Hispanic immigrants should look to conservatism as their political home.  This hits every moral nail squarely on the head.

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Tweet The media is very disappointed that a defense spending bill went down in flames, not over the question of spending, but over the issue of DADT.  The headline at Politico says it all: Senate Republicans block ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal. You see, Republicans hate gay people.  Really, really hate them.  Or at least [...]

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Tweet I heartily disapprove of half of the DREAM Act.  For those who are unfamiliar with it, the WSJ describes it as follows: The bill would grant six years of legal residency to high-school graduates who have lived in the U.S. continuously for five years and arrived by the age of 15. They would become [...]

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Tweet People who sneak into this country with impunity are not only not arrested, they are protected.  Someone who has the impunity to speak out against this flagrant illegal activity — is arrested.  Life in Orwell’s America.

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