Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
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
Continue readingAn 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]
Continue readingA 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
Continue readingLife 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
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingYou 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
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingWhat 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
Continue readingSome 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
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingThe 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
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingPeople 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.
Continue readingThe mosque debate in America has been instructive when it comes to Leftist rhetorical tactics. Ordinary Americans make an argument — “the mosque is inappropriate on secular sacred ground.” The Left then responds, not substantively, but with personal attacks — “you’re racist, Islamophobic, xenophobic and stupid.” If you think this
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