New Arizona laws aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants appear to be working.  The AP is reporting this week, in a column falsely titled "Arizona's Tougher Law Driving Out Immigrants" (it should say "Illegal Immigrants," as the law doesn't affect legal immigrants at all), opens this way:

"Illegal immigrants in Arizona, frustrated with a flagging economy and tough new legislation cracking down on their employers, are returning to their home countries or trying their luck in other states" (emphasis added).

Despite the AP writer's claim, this has nothing to do with the economy and everything to do with the tougher laws.  Unfortunately, these particular laws will probably get struck down in an activist court somewhere.

They really do seem to be working, though... maybe the federal government should take a few notes.


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Anthony Lara and Julie Crampin discovered through a prenatal scan that they were having complications to their pregnancy and that their son would live with severe disabilities, if he survived at all.  Despite advice from doctors that they should terminate the pregnancy, the couple determined that they would have their son.  Lara recently told the Daily Mail:

"There was never a moment when we were in any doubt that we wanted him, even if he only lived for a day.  Just to have had him alive for a few hours would have been better than not giving him the chance of life."

It turns out that their son, Marco, is a real fighter!  He even has a reasonable chance, after three operations, to live without any serious disabilities!

How many other children could lead normal, healthy lives if parents facing difficult pregnancies would make the courageous decision to simply give them a chance?


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In August, I told you about an idea put forth by the Bishop of Breda (Netherlands) Tiny Muskens who said that Christians should pray to Allah because "that will promote rapprochement between the two religions" (rapprochement is defined as the "reestablishment of harmonious relations.").  I still think the idea is crap.  After all, it hasn't worked out so well for Sunnis and Shiites nor Hamas and Fatah, all of whom pray to Allah and yet still somehow find it in their Islamo-fascist hearts to kill each other.  But apparently Muslims don't like the idea of Christians calling God "Allah" either!  In fact, CNS News is reporting today:

"The government of Muslim-majority Malaysia will not renew a Catholic newspaper's license to publish unless it stops using the word 'Allah' to denote God."

Is this the "rapprochement" you were going for, Bishop?


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At the beginning of this month, I reported that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has been a little slow joining reality.  Even while the New York Times and outspoken war critic Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) were coming to terms with the fact that the troop surge has been successful in Iraq, Reid said, "The surge hasn't accomplished its goals... we're involved, still, in an intractable civil war."

Well yesterday Reid finally joined reality, admitting in an interview that, "We sent other troops over there, and there are a lot of reasons the surge certainly hasn't hurt.  It's helped.  I recognize that."

Sometimes I don't know how Reid can say some things with a straight face.  Barely three weeks ago, he was still calling our troops a failure, saying that "the surge hasn't accomplished its goals."  Then today he admits that it's been successful saying that it "certainly hasn't hurt."

I think he seems pretty disappointed that our progress in Iraq prevents it from being such a big political issue for the Dems.


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Mike O., a.k.a. "Data Troll" had an interesting post Dec. 15 entitled "And What If Obama Stops Queen Hillary's Coronation?"  Well Mike, I think that's exactly what's going to happen and here's why. 

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will probably win Iowa big time. He already has a pretty good lead here and remember that second choices matter in our caucuses.  If small candidates such as Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), etc. don’t get enough votes at each site to be viable (must get 15% or more of attendees to be viable), then their supporters can either remain undecided (as many did in 1972 when when little-known Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter finished second to "uncommitted" here in Iowa) or choose a viable candidate as their second choice (Kerry benefitted greatly from these votes in 2004 when he won in Iowa).

It is my hypothesis that most of those small candidate supporters represent anti-Hillary votes, and they will flock to Obama (and Edwards to a certain extent) as a second choice because he represents change after eight years of the "evil" George W. Bush.  Once Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) loses Iowa, her “inevitability” is gone.  People who were voting for her for that reason (thinking that she was the inevitable nominee) will jump ship, realizing that she’s a flawed candidate who 40% of Americans say they would never vote for in a general election (remember, they're desperate to regain the White House after eight years of Bush).

Obama will then have all the momentum going into the nation's first primary, New Hampshire, and with so many subsequent primaries front loaded to the end of January and beginning of February, Hillary will not have the time to recover from these early (and probably sizeable) losses and Obama will have all the money he needs to keep her from trying.

From there, I believe he will role to the nomination.


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Presidential hopeful Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) caught my attention recently for telling Katie Couric in a December 5th interview that he supports embryonic stem-cell research on "surplus" embryos donated by parents from in-vitro fertilization clinics.  I said in my post that "this is not a viable pro-life position.  A person either believes that all life is valuable, or doesn't.  By his own statements, Romney doesn't."

Well, Romney expanded his pro-choice credentials this weekend, telling Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert:

"... I would love it if America came to a point, where we are not today, where the people of America would welcome a society that did not have abortion.  But that's not where we are.  And so I'm not promoting or fighting for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion in all 50 states.  I am fighting for an overturning of Roe v. Wade."

Straight from the horse's mouth.  He doesn't like abortion personally, but he will not fight to "ban abortion in all 50 states."  Isn't that identical to the stance of Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY)?  Romney went on to reiterate his support of using surplus embryos for experimentation saying, "I would not outlaw the use... of these surplus embryos if the parents so directed."

Not only has Gov. Romney taken non-viable pro-life positions, he has taken ones that show him to be effectively pro-choice.


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When a gunman (who will remain unnamed in this column) stormed into a Colorado church earlier this week armed with three guns and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, he was shot by an armed security guard, Jeanne Assam, ending the tragedy long before the gunman would have.  Apparently, the anti-gun types in the media can't quite come to terms with that (video here):

Joe Scarborough: "One person with a gun can make a big difference."

Mika Brzezinski: "Oh gosh.  No no no no no no no no no no... You know, that is the most, um, inane statement I've ever heard.

It's not "inane" Mika... it's absolutely true, and those who are in charge of malls, schools, and anywhere people gather in mass should keep that in mind when designing security for those locations.  When unarmed, helpless security guards run away with everyone else, gunmen have free reign and they kill lots of people.  When confronted by a hero with a gun, they're stopped dead in their diabolical tracks.


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