Freedom of Speech: The Long, Slow Death Is Here

Just when the people of America thought the debate over the McCain/Kennedy immigration bill was over, and the bill was dead, the politicians are trying to resurrect it & push it through before the July 4 recess, despite widespread protest from the people! Frankly, this is criminal behavior, and should be stopped.

Trent Lott was quoted last week as saying, "Talk radio is running America. We need to deal with that problem."

No matter what your political views are, talk radio cannot be a problem in a nation that truly honors free speech. And the simple truth of the matter is that without talk radio, millions of Americans would not have heard about this immigration bill, which the Congress tried to slide in under the radar, and those same millions would not have known what a travesty our Congress is trying to make out of U.S. border security & our immigration system.

Throughout the debate over this immigration bill, those who oppose it have been unfairly smeared as being racists: a bunch of anti-Hispanic bigots who may as well be wearing bedsheets & forming lynch mobs.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans oppose this travesty of an immigration bill. If our Congress truly wanted to fix our immigration system, this bill would be one of the last pieces of legislation they would consider. But instead of trying to fix the problem, our politicians have decided that "father knows best," and that they don't really have to serve the interests of the American people.

For years now, conservatives have been hoping to see President Bush stand up to those on the Left who have constantly opposed his positions on everything from the War on Terror to abortion and stem cell research. The problem with the Bush administration, though, is that the only times when President Bush comes out strongly against his opponents is when he does something that is bad for America, and he ticks off his conservative base. It happened when he nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court...and it's happening again now.

In a press conference a few weeks ago, President Bush stated that "a comprehensive immigration policy cannot be made piecemeal." The only reason that could even be remotely true is if your immigration policy is driven by an agenda other than doing what is best for America. Most of America would be in greater support of a piecemeal immigration policy that starts with securing the border. Despite what the Left continues to say, a secure border is not racist. It touches on many issues, but race is not one of them. It is an issue of drugs. It is an issue of terrorism. It is an issue of security. It is unquestionably not an issue of race.

It's time for the people to take this nation back from the politicians. It's time for the people to march in the streets, crying out the old mantra:

"POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"

McCain Lashes Out

John McCain has been busy - he's been out there criticizing Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson for their stances on immigration.

Now, I'm more apt to agree with Romney or Thompson than with McCain, because both are more conservative. And for McCain to be out there bashing anyone for opposing his immigration bill is, in my opinion, just absurd.

This new bill looks good on the surface, but it's nothing that hasn't been tried before, and it has failed each and ever time it's been tried. One definition of stupidity: trying the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.

McCain has accused Romney of flip-flopping, trying to characterize Romney's earlier-stated positions as being in-line with the current proposed immigration legislation. The truth, however, is that McCain (and the article) twists Romney's previous position to make it seem contradictory. Previously, Romney said that we should be getting rid of illegal aliens who came to America and further broke the law, and we should allow illegal aliens who otherwise follow the law to stay and apply for citizenship. That position does not work with the kind of amnesty that McCain's bill offers, so Romney's condemnation of the bill is, in fact, consistent.

The article also tries to imply that Fred Thompson has flip-flopped, because he opposed the current bill, saying that we need to secure the border first, then we can deal with what to do about the millions of illegal immigrants. He is supposedly a flip-flopper because he previously stated that we need "comprehensive immigration reform." To say that this is a contradictory position is stupidity, plain and simple. I happen to agree with Thompson, that the first thing that we need in any comprehensive immigration reform is to secure the border, because without a secure border, there is no way to solve the problem.

The truth is that this new immigration bill looks good on paper, but the American people have seen immigration bills that look good on paper before. The question is not, "does the bill look good?" but is instead, "will the bill be enforced effectively?"

This has been the problem with past immigration reform bills: they look good, but they are never enforced effectively.

To Senator McCain, I would say this: trust has to be earned. You can introduce all of the sweeping immigration bills that you want, but until some action is taken to secure the border, no thinking person will ever take you seriously.

The true face of the Left

Even in the majority, Congressional Democrats have been unable to push as much of their agenda through as they would like. They claim that the '06 election was a mandate on the war, but if so, it was quite a poor mandate, especially demonstrated by the recent vote in the Senate (29-67), rejecting a bill that would force a troop withdraw by March '08.

Now, Nancy Pelosi is actively trying to silence Republicans in the House of Representatives by changing the procedural rules in the House to shut down the floor to the minority. Such a measure has not been instituted since 1822.

This, more than anything else, shows that the Democrats are bankrupt on the issues, and can only succeed by censoring any opposition to their insane socialist ideas.

Proposed Budget: $2.9 Trillion

2.9 TRILLION DOLLARS!!!

Haven't we seen our government grow large enough?

Read the story here.

It doesn't get into any details, but there is one key line that just jumps right off of the page:

The Democratic budget promises a balanced federal ledger in five years, but relies on tax revenues generated by the expiration of many of the tax cuts enacted in President Bush's first term.

This, more than anything else, shows that the Democrats have no concept of history...so how about some science?

Democrats claim to be the party of science, and whether the issue is embryonic stem cell research or Intelligent Design theory, they are constantly ripping on Republicans for being anti-science, so you would think that the pro-science Dems would have no problem with the science of economics.

Science has to do with running repeated experiments, and then drawing conclusions based on the results of those experiments. Well, the results are in. From JFK to George W. Bush, every time taxes have been cut, governmental revenue has increased. It happened under John F. Kennedy. It happened under Ronald Reagan. And it has happened under George W. Bush. And conversely, when taxes are raised, revenue goes down.

And with this, another scientific experiment comes to a close, and the results are in:

The Left has absolutely no understanding of simple, historically established economic principles.

Jerry Falwell Dies at age 73

Jerry Falwell, a leader among religious conservatives, was discovered unresponsive in his office earlier today. He was rushed to the hospital, where he later died.

The vitriolic hatred for Falwell is already rolling in.

True, Falwell wasn't perfect, and he did say some inappropriate things at times...but how does that make him any different from any other person on the face of the planet? All of this hatred is undeserved, and extremely telling, in the face of his death only a short time ago.