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Democrats deserve a choice too

Posted on April 6, 2010 | Comments Off on Democrats deserve a choice too

I’ve always enjoyed reading/listening to Mickey Kaus, formerly of Slate’s Kausfiles. Now I wish I could vote for him for Congress. Although to do it I would have to live in California. Uh, uh. He doesn’t have anything against his incumbent opponent, Barbara Boxer, other than that she’s in bed with the unions and all for creating another wave of illegal immigration from Mexico to further suppress low-skill wages for citizens. Me, in addition to those policies, I can’t stand her whiny voice. Mickey has a nice, almost soothing voice, and lots of common sense, something you don’t often see in a Harvard grad, and something the Dumbocrats could use a lot more of.

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Big Corn’s big mistake

Posted on July 26, 2008 | Comments Off on Big Corn’s big mistake

Tired of illegal immigration from Mexico? Then you might start lobbying your Congressrat to do away with the ethanol scam. It’s enriching Iowa farmers (especially agribusiness), sure, but it’s adding to the impoverishment of the Mexican poor. When they’ve had enough, guess where they’ll set out for? Instead, we could push our pols to do something sensible for a change, like lifting the restrictions on drilling for more oil, instead of protecting a bunch of Alaskan caribou–and keeping the ag lobby happy.

MORE: But sugarcane and cellulosic biofuels–especially cellulosic–make sense, to me.

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Wendy’s illegals

Posted on April 10, 2008 | Comments Off on Wendy’s illegals

On the way home from the Scrapper’s game last night, Mr. Boy and I stopped at Wendy’s for takeout suppers. When we left he said he’d decided to rate the food a hundred percent, but the service just twenty percent. His second grade class is doing the light fantastic over the business economy this week, which is where he got the idea. The problem with Wendy’s is the surly why-should-we-help-you attitudes of many of the Mexican employees, few of whom speak any English. Even the ones who do, like the cashiers, have to hear orders repeated two or three times before they can figure out which buttons to push. It’s rather amazing. One immigration raid and our Wendy’s will have to shut down for a week. At least they’re working, instead of shooting up the joint. But even if they were I’m not sure the liberal daily, which has long promoted illegal immigration from Mexico, would tell us about it.

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Where’s the fence, George?

Posted on April 1, 2008 | Comments Off on Where’s the fence, George?

W now says he will complete the six hundred seventy miles of Mexican border fence authorized by Congress by the end of this year. That’s admirable. But I’ll believe it when I see it.

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Mexico’s U.S. colony

Posted on February 17, 2008 | Comments Off on Mexico’s U.S. colony

We’re the colony. So when Mexican President Calderon visits, he ignores our president and congress, and visits his colonialists who send home each year double the money Mexico makes from tourism:

"And while he assured the audience at Harvard that he has no interest in sending more Mexicans to the United States and that he only wants to protect those already here, you’d have to be incredibly naïve to believe that. Mexico has no real economic incentive to secure the border and stop the cash flow."

And, so far, we have no president or congress willing to do it, either. So how does it feel to be colonized, eh amigas y amigos? Ya Basta!

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Obamavision

Posted on February 1, 2008 | Comments Off on Obamavision

That’s what Cobb calls Obama’s unique style of soft-spoken but vague rhetoric about unity and change and etc. The specifics aren’t readily apparent, which is undoubtedly purposeful. But some positions are dribbling out of the public record. Here’s one on his intention to decriminalize reefer, an idea I could support, because the Drug War has been a disaster, though I doubt he could do it by executive order. But then he confuses things, saying he’s not out to legalize it. Maybe he means to make possession or sale a civil penalty? Maybe it’s just part of his preferred vagueness.

James Taranto thinks he sees a demagogue in the making: "Whatever the merits of compromise vs. confrontation in any given situation, Obama…is standing the meanings of words on their heads–and lots of citizens respond by nodding their heads as if no one has ever made so much sense. Isn’t there something a bit worrying about this Obama phenomenon?"

The Dems are nodding. They did that with Kerry in ’04. They tend to do that. But what a choice they have: Obama the soother or everyone’s wicked stepmother. Fortunately there’s months left for Obama to reveal himself. Then he won’t be so soothing. Mickey Kaus, afterall, already finds him pandering to the Hispanic vote on illegal immigrants–though a lot of them are also upset about illegals. What a crazy political year, and it’s hardly begun.

MORE:  This, and other things he’s said now and then suggest the kind of change he has in mind.

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Where’s the fence?

Posted on September 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Where’s the fence?

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This is four years old. At an estimated one million new illegals from Mexico every year, the green is bound to be more pervasive now. Face it folks, we have an open-border policy that our political, academic and MSM elite support despite broad popular disagreement. Not even 9/11 could change it.

UPDATE: There’s the fence: Pelosi, et al, oppose it. 

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