Sold out...

...in the swamp and HOWLING MAD! If you would like my entire view on the subject, follow the the link to the Thomas Sowell piece. Or, at least, read the excerpts below.

The Senate's 'Tough' Immigration Bill

Thomas Sowell

Some people are worried that amnesty will give illegal aliens the same rights that American citizens have. In reality, it will give the illegals more rights than the average American citizen.

Since most of the illegals are Mexican, that makes them a minority. Under affirmative action, combined with amnesty, they would have preferences in jobs and other benefits.

Those who set up their own businesses would be entitled to preferences in getting government contracts. Their children would be able to get into college ahead of the children of American citizens with better academic qualifications.

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The great majority of Senators who voted for that provision were Democrats, and they prevailed because they were joined by a small minority of Republicans, led by -- surprise! -- Senator John McCain. After similar defections on judges and free speech, Senator McCain may give opportunism a bad name.


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What the immigration bill in the Senate has become is just another attempt to pander to another special interest, in disregard of how that affects the country as a whole.




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Both the facts of the past and the dangers of the future are being ignored in the rush to give immediate benefits to illegal aliens, washed down with much talk about border control but no requirement that the border actually be controlled before these benefits go into effect.



The political strategy of this package deal legislation is to give immediate and irrevocable special benefits to some and make pious promises about the future to get all this past the others.

A realistic look at Sen. Harry Reid...

...A.K.A. Dingey Harry.


This piece by Sherman Frederick at the Las Vegas Review Journal is a darned good and realistic bit of journalism. It is an even handed portrait of Dingey Harry. It is really worth reading. Good journalism does still exist. It just doesn't seem to exist all over. Enjoy it when you find it!

When Harry met Nancy

In 50-plus months, Nevada voters will march to the polls and replace Sen. Harry Reid, thus ending one of the longer, more powerful political runs in state history.



When it happens, political wiseguys will remember that Sen. Reid's undoing came early in his last term when he became a big shot in the Democratic Party and quickly morphed into someone Nevada voters did not recognize -- his political girlfriend in the House, uber-liberal Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California.



Now, I know that some will take issue with this scenario. They will suggest that because the Review-Journal has been a periodic (some will say constant, but they would be wrong) critic of Nevada's senior senator over the years, I, as publisher of that "conservative rag," am therefore unable to clearly see the future.



In other words, my prediction of Harry's political demise is more hope than insight.



Read the entire piece. Decent journalism concerning political realities happens in some of the most unexpected places.

Peace and all good,
Kermit