From (non-citizen) Mark Steyn. Brief, but correct:
My wife and the kids had their Green Cards stolen the other day. Cost of replacement of legal permanent resident cards: $1,040. Fine for 20 years of law-breaking within the United States: $2,000, less Social Security and EITC entitlements. Hmm.
I told the missus to hold off filling in the form for the replacement card. Having been rendered inadvertently undocumented, she may at last be in the winning category.
…show them this rambling, incoherent interview by the leader of the House Democrats. I think that it would be a very effective campaign ad to show video of John Conyers, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid at their worst (and their worst is pretty bad), saying “Do you really want these people running your country”? It might even make a lot of donkeys think twice.
What part of “Congress shall make no law” do the these morons not understand? It’s right up there, in the first words of Amendment Numero Uno.
Allen “co-sponsored legislation in March that would bring political Web sites under campaign finance rules if they spend $5,000 or more on their operations,” the paper wrote. “He said he would watch how blogs factor into the 2006 races under the FEC rules before deciding whether to press the issue.”
Yeah, I know the title’s almost redundant. Anyway, Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of links on new-found respect for freedom from search and seizure on the part of the House.
And no, I’m not a born-again critic of the NSA (though there’s always been much to criticize them for, particularly when it comes to wasting the taxpayers’ money on failed black programs and spending sprees). I just think that Newt and others doth protest too much in support of their obviously corrupt colleagues. As Glenn notes, I’ll bet you’d find a lot more nefarious doings with unannounced searches of Congressional offices than from 435 random citizens.
[Late evening update]
For those who don’t think that Congressman Jefferson is getting fair treatment, here is Byron York’s response.
I have to say that I agree with almost every word of this (hint: it’s not because we think that Bush is a great president). For instance:
I didn’t vote for Kerry because in every domestic policy with which I disagreed with Bush, Kerry seemed to be worse. I deplore Bush’s immigration policy, his lack of commitment to free trade, his wishy-washy position on gun control, his big government spending, his unrealistic environmental policies, his generally anti-science positions, and so on and so forth. But in every way, whenever Kerry could actually be pegged down as having a position it was even worse than that of Bush.
I have to say that I agree with almost every word of this (hint: it’s not because we think that Bush is a great president). For instance:
I didn’t vote for Kerry because in every domestic policy with which I disagreed with Bush, Kerry seemed to be worse. I deplore Bush’s immigration policy, his lack of commitment to free trade, his wishy-washy position on gun control, his big government spending, his unrealistic environmental policies, his generally anti-science positions, and so on and so forth. But in every way, whenever Kerry could actually be pegged down as having a position it was even worse than that of Bush.
I have to say that I agree with almost every word of this (hint: it’s not because we think that Bush is a great president). For instance:
I didn’t vote for Kerry because in every domestic policy with which I disagreed with Bush, Kerry seemed to be worse. I deplore Bush’s immigration policy, his lack of commitment to free trade, his wishy-washy position on gun control, his big government spending, his unrealistic environmental policies, his generally anti-science positions, and so on and so forth. But in every way, whenever Kerry could actually be pegged down as having a position it was even worse than that of Bush.
I haven’t had a very high opinion of Kevin Phillips for a long time, but he seems to have recently gone completely nuts:
I realize that this is still pure speculation, by legal yardsticks entirely premature. However, the succession aspect is extraordinary. Under the Constitution, the resignation of Bush and Cheney would hand the presidency to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, at present Dennis Hastert, a former high school wrestling coach, well liked but manifestly less than qualified for promotion. Wise Republicans, however, would be aware of a critical anomaly: the person elected as Speaker of the House does not, as a matter of law, have to be a Member of the House. If Bush and Cheney were obliged to resign this summer, the House GOP could elect as Speaker a plausible interim president and have the presidency devolve on him. Someone like Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, the respected Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, comes to mind.
Another tragic victim of BDS.
Did the ideals of The New Frontier die with Jack Kennedy? It’s an interesting explanation of how many Democrats seem to have become Oswalds, rather than Kennedys, and why JFK would probably be unable to get the presidential nomination of the party today.
Also, some interesting related thoughts by a commenter at Dr. Sanity’s place. The totalitarian impulse of the communists didn’t die–it just became subsumed into the Democrat Party.
Did the ideals of The New Frontier die with Jack Kennedy? It’s an interesting explanation of how many Democrats seem to have become Oswalds, rather than Kennedys, and why JFK would probably be unable to get the presidential nomination of the party today.
Also, some interesting related thoughts by a commenter at Dr. Sanity’s place. The totalitarian impulse of the communists didn’t die–it just became subsumed into the Democrat Party.