Details of the classified defense technology related to the B-2's engine exhaust system and its ability to avoid detection by infrared sensors were sold to Chinese officials by former defense contractor Noshir S. Gowadia, an Indian-born citizen charged with spying in a federal indictment released by prosecutors in Hawaii.
    Additionally, Mr. Gowadia provided extensive technical assistance to Chinese weapons designers in developing a cruise missile with an engine exhaust system that is hard to detect by radar, according to court papers made public recently.
    He also helped the Chinese modify a cruise missile so that it can intercept U.S. air-to-air missiles, and helped Chinese weapons designers improve testing and measurement facilities, the court papers state.

•   •   •  

Our World: After the muses fall silent   [11/22/06]
A season of appeasement is upon Europe, to judge from the numerous examples of political leaders who shrink back from telling the truth about militant Islam. Even Tony Blair, once a stalwart for defending the West, is now giving friendly interviews to Al Jazeera.

This weekend British author Douglas Murray discussed the intellectual terror in the Netherlands. Murray, who recently published Neoconservativism: Why We Need It, spoke at a conference in Palm Beach, Florida sponsored by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He noted that the two strongest voices in Holland warning against Islamic subversion of Dutch culture and society - Pim Fortyn and Theo Van Gogh - were murdered.
    The third most prominent voice calling for the Dutch to take measures to defend themselves, former member of parliament Ayan Hirsi Ali, lives in Washington, DC today.
    Her former colleague in the Dutch parliament, Geert Wilders, has been living under military protection, without a home, for years. In the current elections, Wilders has been unable to campaign because his whereabouts can never be announced. His supporters were reluctant to run for office on his candidates' slate for fear of being similarly threatened with murder. Last month, two of his campaign workers were beaten while putting up campaign posters in Amsterdam. [...]
    ANOTHER LEADING conservative voice, law professor and social critic Paul Cliteur distinguished himself for his repeated calls for freedom of thought and for the protection of the Dutch secular state. In the weeks after Van Gogh's murder, Cliteur was the target of unremitting criticism from his leftist colleagues in the press. According to a report by the International Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, his colleagues blamed him and his ideological allies for the radicalization of the Muslims of Holland.
    Clituer reacted to their abuse by announcing on television that he would no longer speak out or write about the Islamic takeover of Holland.

•   •   •  

Plain speech by the Malmo Police: It's all going to hell!   [11/21/06]
Malmo is the third-largest city in Sweden and has been very hard hit by Muslim immigration, with whole areas becoming no-go zones where police and firemen are attacked just for entering. Fjordman has reported extensively about the rape epidemic against European women and girls.
    Given the severe social restrictions against unpleasant speech, honesty about the Muslim immigrant problem is rare. Thanks to this brave officer for speaking up, particularly since Malmö policeman Bengt Lindström was fired earlier this year for criticizing Swedish immigration policy.

When you are a policeman you see the consequences of the decisions made by our politicians in a very real way. The immigration policy of Sweden is basically a total failure. Moreover, this experiment is costing enormous sums each and every year. Politicians are now afterwards trying to patch and mend, coming up with various ideas and measures. But it's totally obvious to every thinking human being that it is about to go to hell ­ in plain speech. [...]
    - Many immigrants have no respect for the police whatsoever. Many times you're treated like you've come to collect the garbage. Immigrants have so far only encountered representatives from the immigration and social services. They are used to being stroked the right way and having all of their demands satisfied.
    - Certain routine matters, like checking an immigrant's driving license in Rosengard (transl. note. an infamous immigrant suburb of Malmo), easily get out of hand and become a major event where all available police sources have to intervene to restore the order. Thanks to cellphones a lot of "supporters" join the scene in a very short time when you intervene in Rosengard. If you stop a car for a routine check, soon the whole clan show up to oppose the police.
    - Unfortunately a large part of the Swedish people have a distorted view of what is happening and that is due 99 percent to the biased portrayal of reality given by the media. For example they use concepts like "youth gangs" instead of speaking plainly and saying, like in Landskrona (transl. note. another immigrant dense city in Skane) that it's Albanian criminal gangs who are causing problems. police.

•   •   •  

Outsourcing hits a new class of workers: Journalists   [11/21/06]
How many journalists thought they were protecting their jobs by dutifully reciting the company line that unlimited outsourcing and immigration are "good for the economy"? These days, the business story you read this morning might have been written in Bangalore.

Since then, the memos have been churning: The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio announced its intentions to shed 90 graphic design jobs and ship out the work to Affinity Express in Pune, India. The Contra Costa Times, a California newspaper newly acquired by Media News Group in the breakup of Knight Ridder, revealed plans to shift ad production positions to Express KCS in India, which bills itself as the "world's media back office."
    In Britain, the tabloid Daily Express sparked an uproar in the newsroom when it chose to outsource its entire city business section to a local press association.
    According to the newspaper's union, the executives chose this alternative only after touring potential companies in India that offered writing and copy editing services.
    "It's a very depressing time to be working for newspapers," said one of the union representatives at The Daily Express, who declined to be identified because of concerns about job security. "The underlying theme is about the quality of what we're putting on the pages. The kind of a product that The Daily Express is going to have is a total disservice. If I was a reader, I would vote with my feet and stop buying it."

Incidentally, readers already are voting against the swill that today's newspapers are peddling. Among the top 25 dailies' circulation for six-month period ending September 2006, only three showed gains.

USA Today: 2,269,509, (-1.3%)
The Wall Street Journal: 2,043, 235, (-1.9%)
The New York Times: 1,086,798, (-3.5%)
Los Angeles Times: 775,766, (-8.0%)
The New York Post: 704,011, +5.3%
Daily News, New York: 693,382, +1.0%
The Washington Post: 656,297, (-3.3%)
Chicago Tribune: 576,132, (-1.7%)
Houston Chronicle: 508,097, (-3.6%)
Newsday: 413,579, (-4.9%)
The Arizona Republic, Phoenix: 397,294, (-2.5%)
The Boston Globe: 386,415, (-6.7%)
The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.: 378,100, (-5.5%)
San Francisco Chronicle: 373,805, (-5.3%)
The Star Tribune, Minneapolis: 358,887, (-4.1%)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 350,157, (-3.4%)
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland: 336,939, (-0.6%)
The Philadelphia Inquirer: 330,622, (-7.5%)
Detroit Free Press: 328,628, (-3.6%)
The Oregonian, Portland: 310,803, (-6.8%)
The San Diego Union-Tribune: 304,334, (-3.1%)
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times: 288,676, (-3.2%)
The Orange County (Calif.) Register: 287,204, (-3.7%)
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 276,588, +0.6%
The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee: 273,609, (- 5.4%)

•   •   •  

Ill Mexican nationals go home   [11/20/06]
Supposedly, Mexico has agreed to take care of some of its medical thieves in Colorado. Yeah, that'll happen.

Hundreds of Mexican illegal immigrants are in Colorado not just for work but also for free medical care they say they can't get back home. Now, Mexican officials have agreed to bring some home and help them find doctors there.
    But many of these illegal immigrants - including Eloina Meza, a single mother of a disabled boy featured in the Nov. 13 Denver Post - see little incentive to return to a country where comparable opportunities don't exist.
    Juan Marcos Gutierrez, Mexico's consul general in Denver, confirmed a new deal negotiated with Dr. Patricia Gabow, chief of the Denver Health and Hospital Authority.
    Under the agreement, Denver health workers who provide kidney dialysis to illegal immigrants are guiding those who are willing to Mexico's consulate in Denver.
    The immigrants are told they can receive free travel home and help finding appropriate health care - though they get no assurance it will be free.
    Mexican officials also will repatriate other illegal immigrants with serious medical needs besides failing kidneys, Gutierrez said. He said he didn't know how many immigrants might qualify.

This story is obviously window dressing from the Mexicans to show that they are not complete parasites. But Uncle Sucker practically begs to be kicked around because of policies that make it advantageous for illegal aliens to have a sick kid.

Meza probably "is entitled" to stay in the country with her son under immigration-law provisions that grant legal status to people in the country illegally for more than 10 years who also can prove an exceptional humanitarian need, Deasy said, "but the enforcement priorities of the Department of Homeland Security do not appear to include enforcement activities that will benefit a deserving individual."
"I am here illegally. They wouldn't take me in." Denver Post

If ANY Mexican medical indigents go home and stay there, LTG will be very surprised.

•   •   •  

Europe Looks Inward, Tilts to the Right   [11/20/06]
Even NPR has noticed that Europe is turning away from the failed ideology of multiculturalism.

A mood of nationalist introspection is sweeping over Europe.
    The Sept. 11 attacks, the bombings in Madrid and London, the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the French ghetto riots and violent reactions by many Muslims to the Mohammed cartoons published by a Danish paper, are producing an anti-immigrant backlash bordering on xenophobia.
    Language taboos are being broken, politically correct discourse is being challenged and even European leftists are beginning to debate the limits of tolerance. They are also starting to acknowledge the failure of four decades of immigration policies -- based on idealistic multiculturalism and/or condescending benign neglect -- that have produced separate, parallel societies of immigrants.

Today's radio segment Danes' Anti-Immigrant Backlash Marks Radical Shift had Sylvia Poggioli focusing on Denmark's awakening, first from the 9/11 attacks and later from the cartoon episode (resulting in approximately 139 deaths).

Only a few years ago, Denmark was proud of its open-door policy, and even the mildest critique of immigration would have been labeled racist.
    But the mood shifted after Sept. 11, and the terrorist attacks in Europe. After many years of leftist rule, a right-wing government came to power, introducing Europe's toughest immigration laws.
    It also introduced restrictions aimed at curbing forced marriages among Muslims.
    Today, the Danish political discourse is no longer stifled by political correctness. The tone can even be inflammatory. One politician has called for the internment of some Muslim radicals in Denmark for security reasons.

NPR is trying to keep its leftist cred by calling this change in attitude an "Anti-Immigrant Backlash" but Europeans are waking up to the frightening reality that their foolish belief in multiculturalism has brought murderous enemies into their communities.

•   •   •  

Russia has a Muslim dilemma   [11/20/06]
Russians face the same future demographic horror that Europe does because of a growing Muslim population. But unlike Europe, Russia didn't purposely import a culturally alien group through unwise immigration: many of the Muslims have been living there for a long time but have been having large families, unlike Russians as a whole.

As in many Western countries with growing Muslim populations, tensions are also on the rise. Ethnic Russians fear their country is losing its traditional identity; Muslims are offended by widespread discrimination and a lack of respect for their faith.
    Russia's Muslims are extremely diverse, including Volga Tatars, the myriad ethnicities of the North Caucasus and newly arrived immigrants from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. But they all share an important demographic -- birth rates far higher than that of Russia's Christian Orthodox, ethnic Slavs.
    Russia's overall population is dropping at a rate of 700,000 people a year, largely due to the short life spans and low birth rates of ethnic Russians. The country's 2002 census shows that the national fertility rate is 1.5 children per woman, far below the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain the country's population of about 143 million. The rate in Moscow is even lower, at 1.1 children per woman.
    But Russia's Muslims are bucking that trend. The fertility rate for Tatars living in Moscow, for example, is six children per woman, Goble said, while the Chechen and Ingush communities are averaging 10 children per woman. And hundreds of thousands of Muslims from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have been flocking to Russia in search of work.
    Since 1989, Russia's Muslim population has increased by 40 percent to about 25 million. By 2015, Muslims will make up a majority of Russia's conscript army, and by 2020 a fifth of the population.
    "If nothing changes, in 30 years people of Muslim descent will definitely outnumber ethnic Russians," Goble said.

•   •   •  

Dissent Crushed   [11/19/06]
Here is more honesty about the mythical moderate Muslim than you normally see. There are a brave few out there, but venues are threatened, making it difficult to speak out.

MUSLIMS are often accused of not speaking out sufficiently against terrorism. Nonie Darwish knows one reason why: Their fellow Muslims won't let them.
    Darwish, who comes from Egypt and was born and raised a Muslim, was set to tell students at Brown University about the twisted hatred and radicalism she grew to despise in her own culture. A campus Jewish group, Hillel, had contacted her to speak there Thursday.
    But the event was just called off.
    Muslim students had complained that Darwish was "too controversial." They insisted she be denied a platform at Brown, and after contentious debate Hillel agreed.

In a related matter, Glenn Beck had an excellent special about Islam on his TV show last week, which you can see online here.

•   •   •  

Immigrants in Limbo 5 Years After 9/11   [11/18/06]
Excessive sob story alert! The sniffle object here is a 9/11 widow, but with a difference: she is an illegal alien.

"I can't get a driver's license. I can't go to apply for a job. I can't work. I can't study. I can't fly. I can't do anything," the 38-year-old woman from Ecuador said this past week. She spoke on condition that her name not be used, for fear she might be deported.

It's not until the eighth paragraph that you find out she is a millionaire (courtesy of the American taxpayer) and could live like a rock star in her home country of Ecuador.

Eleven illegal immigrant victims were identified under the federal Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund, which gave financial support to survivors of the attack and paid an average of $2.1 million to the families.

An illegal alien being a victim of some sort should not be a qualification for individual amnesty and a green card.

•   •   •  

Suthers reassures Saudis   [11/18/06]
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers flew to Saudi Arabia this week to "explain" how Homaidan Al-Turki came to be sentenced to state prison for enslavement. Saudis officially outlawed slavery in 1962, but old habits are hard to break.
    Don't the citizens of Colorado require Mr. Suthers' time and attention? Don't we have a State Department with thousands of employees to deal with foreign relations? But when the Saudi overlords squawk, the Bush government jumps.

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers flew to Saudi Arabia this week to reassure government officials there that Homaidan Al-Turki was treated fairly when he was convicted of sexually abusing an Indonesian nanny held a virtual captive in his Aurora home.
    Suthers sat knee-to-knee for an hour with King Abdullah and also met with Crown Prince Sultan, Saudi journalists and relatives of Al-Turki during his weeklong trip to the capital city of Riyadh, Deputy Attorney General Jason Dunn said Friday.
    "There was a lot of public attention in Saudi Arabia on this case," Dunn said, adding that "misperceptions" there about the U.S. judicial system and Colorado in particular convinced U.S. officials that the highly unusual trip was warranted.
    In June, Al-Turki was convicted in Arapahoe County of 12 counts of unlawful sexual contact with force, one count of theft of services over $15,000, false imprisonment and conspiracy. He was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

The Saudis apparently believe they can live in this country and not be subject to its laws. Al-Turki declared that he was innocent, and the Saudi royals took up his cause, even though Saudis admit they are habitual liars.
    It should concern all Americans that visas given to Saudis doubled in number in just the past year for increased Saudi students and for other purposes from tourism to medical care.

•   •   •  

Dutch Muslims condemn burqa ban   [11/18/06]
The Netherlands is about to ban face veils from the public sphere, and the usual suspects are miffed.

Dutch Muslim groups say a ban would make the country's one million Muslims feel victimised and alienated. [...]
    The proposed ban would apply to wearing the burqa in the street, and in trains, schools, buses and law courts in the Netherlands.
    Other forms of face coverings, such as veils, and crash helmets with visors that obscure the face, would also be covered by a ban.
    Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk, who is known for her tough policies, said it was important that all people in the Netherlands were able to see and identify each other clearly to promote integration and tolerance.

•   •   •  

Democrats must push immigration reform   [11/17/06]
For a refresher course in San Francisco values, check out this opinion piece by far-left city supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, the same fellow who suggested on Fox News that the United States not have a military. What's remarkable is how he is fine with the exploitation of illegan alien workers, that it helps America to have cheap labor.

Second, Democrats need to be clear that the $6 billion border fence now under construction is not just a wasteful boondoggle, but an affront to all Latinos. Finally, we need to educate middle America about the contributions of undocumented workers. Their hard work at low wages makes America more productive. Their commitment to family values is not a cliche, but a wake-up call for America to care for its elderly, its sick and to spend quality time with its children instead of forgetting them at the door of some fancy private school.

On the contrary, exploiting millions of foreign workers makes America a more unequal society. Using Sandoval's reasoning, slavery was a fine institution.

•   •   •  

Pat Buchanan: Is a Bush-Pelosi Amnesty Ahead?   [11/16/06]
Bush remains monomaniacal on getting an amnesty for illegal aliens. The recent nomination of open-borders hack Sen. Mel Martinez to be RNC Chair is another indication that he is too arrogant to respond to the will of the people that immigration be legal, controlled and reduced.
    The photo below shows bricks in Martinez' Washington office sent by angry Americans last May demanding a border fence. Nevertheless, he sponsored the awful Hegel-Martinez amnesty bill.

With the resignation of Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman, President Bush intends to fill the post with Florida's Mel Martinez, a Hispanic who led the battle in the U.S. Senate for amnesty for illegal aliens.
    "Martinez is going to lead the fight for amnesty that Bush could not win when Republicans controlled the Congress," one angry RNC member told The Washington Times' Ralph Hallow.
    Unable to extract an amnesty bill from Denny Hastert and Co. in the House like the McCain-Kennedy bill he supports, Bush is looking to cut a deal with San Francisco Nancy.
    Amnesty is to be the Bush legacy, and Martinez is to be the face of the party on the most explosive domestic issue of our era. For that, GOP precinct workers walked the line to hold Congress for the party.
    Bush and Karl Rove still have not gotten the message, and probably never will. They have swallowed the Wall Street Journal and Weekly Standard line that the party's tough stance against illegal immigration hurt with Hispanics and only a "comprehensive" immigration bill can heal the wounds. "Comprehensive" is the code word for amnesty.

Any observation of the actions of the Mexichurian Bush must lead to the conclusion that the current President has too strong a fondness for Mexicans, if not outright preference over his fellow citizens.
    Buchanan is certainly right that Bush wants amnesty as his legacy, even though Ronald Reagan regarded the amnesty he signed in 1986 as a mistake of his Presidency. Apparently Bush cares more about public opinion in Mexico.
    Update 11/17: There has been something of a controversy about Michael Steele (a black conservative who recently ran for the Senate from Maryland) being passed over to be Chair of the Republican National Committee in favor of Mel Martinez [RNC denies offering chairmanship to Steele]:

The choice of Mr. Martinez was widely interpreted as a signal of a renewed White House push to promote passage of its plan to offer amnesty to illegal aliens, which Mr. Martinez sponsored in the Senate, but which was blocked by conservative Republicans in the House. During his Senate race, Mr. Steele had campaigned against such an amnesty.

•   •   •  

GOP Hopes for a Slim Majority   [11/15/06]
This article was written before the election, as you might guess from the title, but has some important facts about how much money the Democrats spent, and on whom, in order to win the House.

At the same time, if gratitude counts, Pelosi will get their support if she needs it. The Democratic campaign committee has spent more than $170,000 to help Shuler's race against Rep. Charles Taylor; $250,000 for Weaver; $1 million aiding Donnelly's race against Rep. Chris Chocola; and about $2 million to ease Ellsworth's way past Rep. John Hostettler.

Brad Ellsworth is the Indiana sheriff who campaigned as being strong on enforcement in order to beat Immigration Subcommittee Chair John Hostettler. After spending so much money on Ellsworth's election, Pelosi will indeed expect some reciprocation from him in terms of voting her way.
    As noted in The Hill, Pelosi is a tough political player. The article concerns her support for John Murtha as party leader, but Jim Moran's remark shows that she demands obedience from her troops.

"She will ensure that they [the Murtha camp] win. This is hard-ball politics," said Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), a longtime Murtha supporter. "We are entering an era where when the Speaker instructs you what to do, you do it."

So when the House presents its illegal alien amnesty bill, Rep. Ellsworth (and others) will certainly feel a tap on his shoulder as chits are called in.

•   •   •  

The Truth About Muhammed   [11/15/06]
The link is for an mp3 file of Robert Spencer's Nov 14 speech at the Heritage Foundation where he expounds upon the life and teachings of Mohammed. Spencer has recently published a biography of the prophet, with the uncompromising title, "The Truth about Muhammad."
    More details about the talk, plus a video file of the event. Highly recommended.

New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam ­ perhaps the first such portrait in half a century ­ and draws out what his life implies for reforming Islam and repulsing Islamic terrorists. He relies solely on primary sources considered reliable by Muslims and evaluates modern biographies to show how Muhammad has been changed for Western audiences, lulling them into consoling but false conclusions. With extensive documentation, Spencer details Muhammad's development from a preacher into a political and military leader and recounts a life that has come to affect our world today. Recognizing the true nature of Islam, Spencer argues, is essential for judging the prospects for large-scale Islamic reform, the effective prosecution of the War on Terror, the democracy project in Afghanistan and Iraq, and immigration and border control protection of the United States from terrorism

There are other lectures on various subjects from Heritage available online.
    Update: See also the review of The Truth about Muhammad by Theodore Dalrymple, Successor to Marxism.

•   •   •  

Mexico's drug war death toll tops 2,000   [11/14/06]
The latest tally of over 2,000 bodies in the warfare between Mexican drug cartels shows how the mask is falling from the face official Mexico tries to present to the world. An average of six people are killed daily in the country's drug wars, and the formerly sacrosanct tourist areas are now home to gun battles and heads washing up on the beach. The number killed in the narco-wars last year was 1500, so the violence is increasing.
    Sadly, the jounalists brave enough to tell the truth about Mexico's violence and corruption tend to end up dead.

The death Friday of Misael Tamayo Hernandez, editor of the daily newspaper El Despertar de la Costa, appeared to be the sixth killing of a Mexican journalist this year, according to the group Reporters Without Borders. [...]
    Days before he was found dead, the editor had written a column denouncing local corruption. The southern state of Guerrero, which includes Zihuatanejo and Acapulco, has been ravaged by a battle between competing drug cartels and the police. Tamayo's newspaper reported extensively on the violence.
    "Are we becoming used to this being a 'normal' day in our country?" El Universal asked in a Saturday editorial, as the paper reported on the deaths of Tamayo and a wild shootout in the southern state of Michoacan that left a suspected cartel "soldier" dead.

See Vacation Spot Becoming Narcopulco? for the answer.

•   •   •  

For ordinary Mexicans, it's all about immigration   [11/14/06]
Here's more from the San Francisco Chronicle about the governator's Mexico trade trip. Apparently many citizens of Latin America's richest country (i.e. Mexico) believe that any economic progress they might achieve will only come via open borders with the United States.
    This attitude is evidence of the deep dysfunction underlying the relationship between the United States and Mexico. In any normal country, citizens would complain to their own government if they were unhappy about the domestic economy. In Mexico. it's America's fault for not providing open borders. And we owe them, because without Mexicans, we couldn't possibly get along.

"We've been in your country for generations, in Texas, in California," he said, shaking his head. "What would the United States be, if not for the work done by generations of Mexicans and Latinos who put their work into it?"

News flash for Mexican peasants -- the complex $13 trillion American economy does not rely on the physical labor of illegal aliens for its survival.

•   •   •  

Mexico's New and Future Relations with the USA   [11/13/06]
This Mexican publication discusses the North American Union as if it were common knowledge and accepted. In this country, only Lou Dobbs has paid any attention to American sovereignty being given away.

The coincidences of both presidents being ranchers, with shared likes for horses, outdoor grilling and cowboy boots, were exalted by both during their first meeting at Fox's ranch in Guanajuato. And from the very beginning Bush's strategy was to strengthen ties with Latin America while pushing his Americas project, looking at the Western Hemisphere as a united economic zone in an effort to establish a political and economic counterbalance to the burgeoning European Union.
    Fox saw the new rapport as an opportunity to strengthen economic ties and trade relations. Plus he thought the continental project was a bridge opportunity that could be an important catalyst in order to set up a free transit zone between the two countries for goods and people.
    Fox also saw this as a means to gain a better way of life for Mexican residents in the United States -- not just in better working environments, but politically and socially as well. And he proposed the achievement of migration reform as a state policy.

Last May, former White House speechwriter David Frum stated in passing on Fox News, "Bush really believes in a continental labor market." Like that was the most normal thing in the world.

•   •   •  

Hispanic Family Values?   [11/13/06]
Heather MacDonald reveals the explosion of hispanic illegitimate births: the latino out-of-wedlock birthrate is more than three times that of whites. The problem is acute among teens, as any social stigma attached to unmarried parentage has disappeared. Any sociologist will tell you that children having children is a virtual guarantee of poverty, so taxpayers will continue to foot the bill for a growing underclass. And MacDonald stresses the acceptance by hispanics of having multiple children they can't afford to raise, welfare dependency, irresponsible fathers

Dr. Ana Sanchez delivers babies at St. Joseph's Hospital in the city of Orange, California, many of them to Hispanic teenagers. To her dismay, they view having a child at their age as normal. A recent patient just had her second baby at age 17; the baby's father is in jail. But what is "most alarming," Sanchez says, is that the "teens' parents view having babies outside of marriage as normal, too. A lot of the grandmothers are single as well; they never married, or they had successive partners. So the mom sends the message to her daughter that it's okay to have children out of wedlock." [...]
    Despite the strong family support, the prevalence of single parenting among Hispanics is producing the inevitable slide into the welfare system. "The girls aren't marrying the guys, so they are married to the state," Dr. Sanchez observes. Hispanics now dominate the federal Women, Infants, and Children free food program; Hispanic enrollment grew over 25 percent from 1996 to 2002, while black enrollment dropped 12 percent and white enrollment dropped 6.5 percent. Illegal immigrants can get WIC and other welfare programs for their American-born children. If Congress follows President Bush's urging and grants amnesty to most of the 11 million illegal aliens in the country today, expect the welfare rolls to skyrocket as the parents themselves become eligible.

•   •   •  

Crimes committed by illegals fail to stir media   [11/12/06]
Claremont Institute fellow John Andrews wants to know why the press isn't more inquisitive about crimes committed by illegal aliens. Why, indeed! He has a list of Colorado questions for a start.

What percentage of arrests for DUI offenses in 2005 were illegal aliens? Recall that Justin Goodman of Thornton was killed in 2004 on his motorcycle by an illegal alien driver who had six prior DUI and other driving violations in Boulder and Adams counties. The man had never been referred to ICE for deportation.
    Does the Denver city attorney's standing policy of not asking questions in court about the legitimacy of Mexican driver's licenses presented by defendants have any consequences for the law-abiding citizens of Denver? Recall that the man who killed police officer Donnie Young had used an invalid Mexican driver's license to avoid jail in Denver municipal court only three weeks before the slaying.
    Why is it that a full year after the Colorado attorney general stated that one- quarter of Colorado's outstanding fugitive homicide warrants are for people who have fled to Mexico, no newspaper has asked how many of the individuals named in the warrants were illegal aliens with prior arrests? (In Los Angeles County, there are more than 400 such fugitive warrants.)

•   •   •  

Immigrant Protection Rules Draw Fire   [11/12/06]
The New York Times covers the pros and cons of immigration sanctuary policy, but it's easy to see the sympathy lying with "immigrant" victims. The star of the story is Kamala Harris, the San Francisco District Attorney, for busting a doctor who preyed upon immigrant clients. The accepted line is touted that "immigrants" are more willing to turn in criminals to police who don't check immigration status, but there is no proof for that assertion.
    Furthermore, San Francisco has been remarkably lucky in having few high-profile cases committed by illegal aliens, like the police murdered in Houston and Denver.

With immigration continuing to flare and frustrate as a national political issue, sanctuary cities like San Francisco may soon be the next battlefront. Critics argue that sanctuary policies discourage the police from enforcing laws, though about 50 cities and counties have enacted variations on sanctuary, according to the National Immigration Law Center. They include Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and Washington. A handful of states have similar policies, including Alaska, Maine and Oregon.
    Conservative legal groups and politicians have begun to challenge such policies. Yet on the other side, cities like Chicago have announced they will avoid involving their police in issues that smack of federal immigration enforcement. And while a federal proposal to punish sanctuary cities recently failed to become law, some states have passed laws discouraging sanctuary policies.
    "To say to a law enforcement official, if you encounter a foreign national who is in this country illegally and you believe that information would be of use and benefit to federal authorities, that you can't call them, that's just wrong," said Representative John Campbell, Republican of California, who authored a provision in the federal Homeland Security bill that would have denied federal antiterrorism money to cities with sanctuary policies. The provision passed the House, but was not part of the bill eventually signed by President Bush.
    But even with Democrats in control of Congress, immigration hard-liners say the issue is here to stay.
    "It's mind-blowing for us to see taxpayer dollars spent to subsidize criminal activity — that's the end result," said Christopher J. Farrell, director of research for Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group that is suing the Los Angeles Police Department over its sanctuary rule.

•   •   •  

Christianity seen at risk of extinction in birthplace   [11/12/06]
Life is very dangerous for Christians who live in Bethlehem, due to the threats of jihadists. Ridiculous charges are made up to defame Christians, putting their lives at risk. Bethlehem is now less than 20 percent Christian.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- The death threat came on simple white fliers blowing down the streets at dawn. A group calling itself "Friends of Muhammad" accused a local Palestinian Christian of selling cell phones with offensive sketches of the Muslim prophet.
    The Oct. 19 message went on to curse all Arab Christians and Pope Benedict XVI, still struggling to calm Muslim outrage from his remarks on Islam.
    While neighbors defended the merchant -- saying the charges were bogus -- the frightened phone dealer went into hiding, not reassured when authorities dismissed the message as a harmless rant.
    Now the dealer is thinking of going abroad.
    Call it a modern exodus, the steady flight of the Palestinian Christian minority that could lead, some predict, to the faith being virtually extinct in its birthplace within several generations -- just one of many dwindling pockets of Christianity across the Islamic world.

Demography is brutal, particularly when the high fertility rates belong to Sons of Allah.
    Meanwhile, a tiny bit of resistance shown by the Dutch, who are moving in the direction of banning the veil.

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On Veterans' Day, we should remember what was sacrificed to give us the freedoms we have today. I know all those thousands wearing the uniform didn't die for open borders.

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Lou Dobbs Transcript, Nov. 9   [11/10/06]
Prof. George Grayson (shown here with a Vicente Fox mask), one of the top experts on Mexico appeared on LDT yesterday to comment on the new Mexican Presidente who will take office on December 1.

DOBBS: Is there a chance we're going to see something different in the person of Calderon than we have seen from Fox?
    GRAYSON: Well, the expectations are quite low for Felipe Calderon, because he won by such a narrow margin. And six years ago, when Fox won, the expectations were sky high. And it turned out that Fox couldn't organize a one-car funeral.
    While Calderon is much more focused, he's much smarter politically, and he's also had experience in congress and knows how to build coalitions.
    DOBBS: With all of that said, the policy of Mexico toward this country, that is exporting its poor and trying to bring as much hard currency into that country as they possibly can, with billions of dollars in remittances and billions of dollars in drug money and of course billions of dollars in trade?
    GRAYSON: Lou, that's what I call the Mexican mantra. And I think the Mexican elite is really embarrassed by the fact that in a country that has such a cornucopia of wealth, they're not able to provide a decent living for half their population.
    And so yes, you hear from Calderon the same refrain, is that Mexicans are crucial for the well-being of the U.S. economy, and that walls create confrontation, not cooperation.
    DOBBS: To make another judgment, there is a view in this country that Mexico is the poorest nation in Latin America rather than the wealthiest, a view that if only the government of Mexico could be assisted, half its people would no longer live in poverty. But there is absolutely, at least -- and I would like you to straighten me out on this -- I see no impulse whatsoever on those elites to do anything about the abject poverty which they permit to be imposed on 50 million Mexican citizens?
    GRAYSON: I think the hope, Lou, is that Calderon lost to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who's a messianic populist. And he's now running around Mexico making speeches against any possible appointment or program that Calderon might propose. And it's just possible -- and this is a long shot -- that Mexican nomenklatura may realize that if Calderon doesn't accomplish reforms to improve the lot of the have-nots, that they may have another messiah, a second coming of Andres Lopez Obrador in six years. It's a long shot, but it's a possibility.

So Grayson is hoping against hope that the threat of an uber-leftist in power in six years may frighten the Mexican elites into reform.
    More from Prof. Grayson about the new presidente in Immigration won't be top issue:

Calderon also faces a growing threat from drug traffickers whose turf fights have thrown entire states and large portions of the border into turmoil.
    Many Mexicans, as well as officials in the U.S. State Department, fear the creeping "Colombianization" of the country, in which drug bosses have become so powerful, bold and violent that they are corrupting entire police forces and judicial systems, destroying public confidence and stifling potential investment in legitimate business.
    "He knows it is imperative that Mexican citizens feel that they are safe in their own streets," said George Grayson, a Mexico expert at The College of William & Mary in Virginia, who was one of those invited to meet with Calderon.
    "I am optimistic about Calderon," Grayson said. "He's very bright and perceptive and pragmatic. I think he's a breath of fresh air."

Let's hope that Prof. Grayson is right, since the reign of Vicente Fox, hailed with great expectation as the first non-PRI presidente in 70 years, has been underwhelming for Mexicans and Americans alike.

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Rethinking Illegal Immigration   [11/10/06]
Victor Davis Hanson notes how immigrant remittances to Oaxaca has not kept the region from anarchy and violence.

Yet the state of Oaxaca is also one of the chief sources of illegal immigration to the United States. Hundreds of thousands of dissatisfied Oaxacans have fled to the U.S. and now send millions of dollars back southward. Why, then, is the city on the brink of chaos?
    Could it be that far from stabilizing Mexico, the continual flight of millions of Mexico's disenchanted - one in 10 currently live in the U.S. - has only made things worse?
    Young fathers and sons leave families torn apart and without immediate social support. The Mexican government puts off needed changes, assured that its most unhappy will leave for the U.S., and that their subsequent cash infusions will cover up state failures. Anger, corruption and cynicism, not market reform and stability, often follow. A corrupt Mexican government always survives, but its people each year fare worse - as we see now in Oaxaca.

The anarchy now continuing in Oaxaca is one symptom of Mexico as a failing state, one that needs to look within to solve its problems rather than try to dump them on Americans.

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John Conyers And The Muslim Caucus   [11/10/06]
The devil is in the details, as they say, and some of the Democrats who will soon be chairing House committees are devilish indeed, none more so than John Conyers of Michigan.

The likely new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he's just fighting bigotry in leading a Democrat jihad to deny law enforcement key terror-fighting tools. But he is in the pocket of Islamists.
    John Conyers, son of a leftist Detroit union activist, represents the largest Arab population in the country. His district includes Dearborn, Mich., nicknamed "Dearbornistan" by locals fed up with cultural encroachment and terror fears from a steady influx of Mideast immigrants.
    Conyers, who runs an Arabic version of his official Web site, does the bidding of these new constituents and the militant Islamist activists who feed off them. They want to kill the Patriot Act and prevent the FBI from profiling Muslim suspects in terror investigations. They also want to end the use of undisclosed evidence against suspected Arab terrorists in deportation proceedings.

Conyers will be joined in Islamic advocacy by the first Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison, whose supporters aren't shy about shreiking Allahu Ackbar.
    Interestingly, America's enemies from Venezuela to Al Qaeda are cheering the Democrat win.

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Churches struggle over immigration   [11/9/06]
This story is emblematic of how churches have lost their way. How could any organization pledged to morality support illegal activities, particularly when they are harmful to the most vulnerable Americans?
    Much of the article quotes professional church people in favor of permissive immigration, often against the sentiments of their parishioners.

Regardless of their faith backgrounds, Americans have serious concerns about immigration and favor a cautious approach to immigration policy, according to April polling by the Pew Research Center.
    White evangelicals are particularly wary; 63 percent viewed immigrants as a threat to U.S. customs and values.
    Even a majority of white Catholics and mainline Protestants, whose leaders have been outspoken in support of immigrants, are concerned that the newcomers are a drain on jobs, housing and health care, the poll found.
    Denver Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput has highlighted immigrants' contributions to the economy while urging Catholics to steer away from "misguided sloganeering about border walls and 'illegal deadbeats."' Chaput opposes both mass deportation and blanket amnesty but supports a guest-worker program.

Yep, that "guest worker" phrase is popping up quite a bit since Tuesday, and why not? What could sound more warm and wonderful than "guest"? I think I'll vacuum my "guest" room in preparation.
    Of course, history shows that the foreign "guests" never leave.
    But as the polling noted above shows, religious Americans are nobody's fool, even when nagged by open-borders elites of their churches.

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HEADING SOUTH: Governor can expect cold reception in Mexico   [11/9/06]
It's two days after the elections, and the governator of Mexifornia is off to his favorite foreign country to play politics and "promote trade." (The photo shows him eating California watermelon in Mexico.) Arnold has been pandering up and down to Mexicans, e.g. in July, repudiating his support for Prop 187, the 1994 state initiative (passed with 59 percent voter approval) that would have ended taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens.
    These days, the Kennedy-connected "Republican" governor of California is hailing the Democratic takeover of Congress.
    But Mexicans won't be satisfied without complete surrender. Schwarzenegger has routinely vetoed the annual Sacramento bill to provide California drivers licenses to illegal aliens, very unpopular legislation with voters. For that, and the mere mention that assimilation is still expected of immigrants, he has been reviled across Mexican and north.

"Senor Arnold ... so much ignorance!'' said Juan Coronel, as he sat atop a mountain of dried chile peppers and cinnamon sticks in his small stall at Merced, which moves 24,000 tons of produce in a day and sells a mind-boggling panorama of goods -- Our Lady of Guadalupe souvenirs, chile peppers and culinary delights like mosquito eggs, fungus tacos and fried grasshoppers.
    "A worker here earns about 40 pesos a day ... that isn't enough for tortillas,'' Coronel said. "That's why Mexicans have to go so far to work, where Gov. Arnold is ... and they're working hard to earn dollars, to send it back to their families.
    "It's something he doesn't understand,'' Coronel said, shaking his head.

See? The prevailing view of Mexicans is that we Americans — not their own society — owe them jobs.
    Instead of pandering to the worst of Mexican society, the governator should ask Presidente-elect Calderon why millions are fleeing a very rich nation, the world's 12th-largest economy.

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Actress and Mother Murdered to Hide Illegal Alien's Status   [11/8/06]
The murder of Adrienne Shelly and the consequent attempt to disguise the crime as suicide were the actions of an illegal alien intent on protecting himself whatever the cost.

If there is another case of someone being murdered because of possibly reporting an illegal alien to the authorities, I don't know of it. That fact makes this crime uniquely shocking, as well as how a 40-year-old actress, Adrienne Shelly, was killed in a situation disguised to look like suicide. But what was really being hidden was the immigration status of the killer.

See also today's update, She Was Hanged Alive:

The Ecuadoran immigrant confessed he threw a hammer at the 40-year-old married mom and - fearing that he might be deported - followed her upstairs when she threatened to call police, he told cops. [...]
    Neighbor Delmi Restituyo, 32, said Pillco told her he paid $12,000 to get smuggled into the U.S. in July. "He worked so hard to support his family and pay off his debt," said Restituyo, 32.
    At the Abingdon Square building where Shelly was murdered, some residents remembered Pillco differently. "I was walking down the stairs and I felt his stare," said Sara Moore, 72. "Only a woman would know."

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The Lou Dobbs Democrats   [11/8/06]
Slate notes with disdainful interest that many of the new Democrats elected to Congress are not liberals, but economic nationalists focused on betterment for the country's citizens.

One heard similar themes in the other pivotal Senate races. In Virginia, apparent winner James Webb denounced outsourcing and blasted George Allen for voting to allow more "foreign guest workers" into the state. In Missouri, victor Claire McCaskill refused to let incumbent James Talent out-hawk her on immigration. "Unfair trade agreements have sent good American jobs packing, hurting Missouri workers and communities," she said in one of her ads. "We should be encouraging businesses to stay at home, not rewarding them for moving overseas." In Michigan, vulnerable Democratic incumbent Deborah Stabenow survived while promising to set up a federal office to prosecute unfair trade by foreign governments.
    An even harder-edged nationalism defined many of the critical House races, where Democrats called for a moratorium on trade agreements, for canceling existing ones, or, in some cases, for slapping protective trade tariffs on China. These candidates also lumped illegal immigrants together with terrorists and demanded fencing and militarization of the Mexican border. In Pennsylvania, Democratic challengers Chris Carney and Patrick Murphy defeated Republican incumbents by accusing them of destroying good jobs by voting for the Central American Free Trade Agreement and being soft on illegal immigration. "Fair trade" candidates also won back formerly Republican seats in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Jerry McNerney, who defeated 14-year Republican incumbent Richard Pombo in California, says on his Web site: "I am deeply worried about the way this nation is plunging head-long into the global economy without a plan or a national consensus."

Now talk is cheap, and the Democrat leadership is very pro-amnesty. Presumed Speaker Nancy Pelosi has one of the worst immigration voting grades in all Congress. She would be wise to recognize that the election was not an endorsement of liberal immigration policies and act accordingly. But top Dems will surely push an amnesty to please Bush and accrue some White House chits.
    Update: On the same subject, see Pat Buchanan's Return of Economic Nationalism.

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Border Terror   [11/7/06]
Another reminder of the danger facing us because the President has kept the border wide open.

A congressional probe and the boasts of an al-Qaida leader indicate terrorists have already crossed the border and infiltrated the U.S. — and their weapons of choice may include dirty bombs.
    The Times of London reported last month that according to International Atomic Energy Agency figures, smugglers have been caught 300 times since 2002 trying to traffic radioactive materials that could be used to make a dirty bomb. Most incidents apparently were in Europe, but considering our porous border, the U.S. is clearly at great risk.
    "Suspected terrorists are hiding inside the U.S. and they got here by sneaking across the Mexican border," according to an investigative report by KRGV-TV in south Texas.
    A five-page section of a new analysis from House Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is devoted to terrorist infiltration. It documents the discovery by law enforcement officials of terrorist paraphernalia near the Rio Grande.
    The McCaul report found that hundreds of illegal aliens from the Middle East were successfully smuggled over the border into the U.S., including members of the terrorist organization Hezbollah. The FBI reports that citizens from nations with an al-Qaida presence are learning Spanish and changing their names to make them Hispanic-sounding in order to pose as Latin Americans and cross the border more easily. Hugo Chavez's regime in Caracas has even provided identity documents to nationals of countries that support terrorists; several Pakistanis recently were caught at the border with such fraudulent Venezuelan papers, the report noted.

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Obama's sticky switch from media darling to media-hounded   [11/7/06]
The liberal love-fest with Senator Barack Obama may have run into a bump, at least in his home town. While a charming fellow, Obama has already succumbed to the old-style political corruption that Chicago offers in abundance.

For the first time, Sen. Barack Obama was playing defense with the press. It was after a get-out-the-vote rally on Monday. Instead of the usual fawning Washington reporters tossing softballs as they worked up adoring stories about him running for president in 2008, Obama was taking questions from the City Hall news crew about his astoundingly bad judgment.
    They drove up to Waukegan to find out for themselves why on earth Obama had anything to do with the shady, recently indicted Tony Rezko.
    WLS radio reporter Bill Cameron put it this way in the lead-off question: "What in the world were you doing in a real estate deal with Tony Rezko?''
    For the next 14 minutes, Obama had what for him was a new experience: explaining himself in public for questionable personal conduct.

The widely hailed man of the people has a career voting grade of D on immigration matters. He was a co-sponsor of the awful Senate bill that would have brought 66 million additional legal immigrants to America in the next 20 years as well as awarding amnesty to the 20-30 million illegal aliens already here.

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Wired for submission   [11/6/06]
It's nice to see a female columnist write honestly about the obvious chasm between women's rights and multiculturalism. Most third world societies are cesspools of misogyny — it's only political correctness that prevents truthful discussion.

Western feminists have long denounced the evils of patriarchy. Yet they also excuse and even endorse patriarchal behaviour -- so long as it's imported from somewhere else. Feminists (along with folks like Mr. Khalid) were among the leading proponents of introducing sharia law in Ontario.
    In theory, feminism and multiculturalism go hand in hand. They are the mark of a liberal enlightened society. The multicultural credo holds that everyone is equal, that all cultures are equally good, that multicultural values and mainstream values do not conflict, and that the greatest moral virtues are tolerance and respect.
    What happens, then, when multicultural and mainstream values do conflict? What happens when certain subcultures tolerate the abuse of women? What happens is that those practices are either blamed on the defects of the West or wished away. No subculture must be judged or criticized. That explains why you don't hear very many Western feminists standing up to argue for the right of South Asian and Muslim women to not be slapped around by their husbands. "Where two pieties -- feminism and multiculturalism -- come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence," wrote British social critic Theodore Dalrymple.

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U.S. could reduce illegal immigration by thinking small   [11/5/06]
Microlending is a partial solution to America's immigration crisis waiting to be discovered. It is an approach for development in poor nations that has been effective across many cultures, while it promotes values of women's empowerment, community democracy and environmental preservation.
    The creator of microloans and the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, was recently voted the Nobel Peace Prize. As a result, microlending will likely receive more attention in the next little while, particularly when the award is formally presented in Oslo December 10.
    For example, PBS' Frontline/World recently had a segment about microloans in Uganda. The Oct. 31 broadcast also highlighted a program through the Kiva.org group by which individuals may provide a microloan to entrepreneurs in the third world.
    See also my 2001 book review of "Banker to the Poor", Yunus' own explanation of the history and operation of microloans.

Microcredit banks, also known as "poverty banks," lend money to the poorest of the poor, many living on less than $1 a day. The small loans allow borrowers to buy a few animals or food-making equipment or a sewing machine -- something that can make a significant difference in income.
    The notion that microcredit can reduce illegal immigration is only a theory, but it makes sense. If Mexico's poor are given the opportunity to earn a living at home, they are less likely to illegally enter the United States.
    "It seems to me, it's the poor who immigrate -- at least illegally. The middle class and wealthy don't talk about coming to the United States," said Marshall Saunders, a San Diego retiree who founded Grameen de la Frontera in 1999. "To have a chance of stopping illegal immigration, or at least slowing it down, people in Mexico need to have a good economy."
    That's where microcredit comes in. Grameen de la Frontera's initial loan to individuals is 1,000 pesos, or about $92. Borrowers have six months to repay at 25 percent annual interest. They are also forced to save 20 percent of their loan amount, which is returned to them when the loan is paid.

Unfortunately, the editorialist who wrote the above believes that Americans should fund microlending in Mexico. On the contrary, Mexico is rich and can easily afford a microloan program for its own people.
    However, the important message is that there is better way to help the planet's poor beyond the failed liberal approach of rescuing a small handful through immigration to the first world. Premissive immigration may assuage the do-gooder crowd's liberal guilt, but is actually harmful to countries like Mexico by encouraging their corruption.

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Multiculturalism is a dirty word   [11/4/06]
Australia, under PM John Howard, leads the way when it comes to rejecting silly multiculti ideas. When will Washington catch up?

THE Howard Government is looking to scrap the word "multiculturalism" as part of a major revamp of ethnic policy.
    In a move seen as a shift in emphasis away from fostering diversity and towards increasing integration and responsibility among migrants, the government is canvassing alternative words to describe how ethnic communities harmoniously integrate into Australian society. [...]
    The new approach comes less than 12 months before the next election and follows the Cronulla riots and the comments of Australian mufti Taj Din al-Hilali that women who did not wear veils provoked men to rape them.

The Cronulla riots referred were a series of battles between Australians and Lebanese immigrant males. The latter have not assimilated to western ways of women's equality, particularly in Aussie beach communities, and have instigated attacks against female and male beach goers.

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Man On Terror Watch List Arrested At Local Bank   [11/4/06]
In Upper Darry, Pennsylvania, a Pakistani man with fake ID made large withdrawals from a bank. Then police found his stated name is on a terrorist watch list.

Red flags went up when a man tried to withdraw thousands of dollars from an Upper Darby bank.
    Police said he had a Pakistani passport that had been tampered with, a fake driver's license and a fake Social Security card.
    Police said they were investigating whether the man was connected to terrorism.
    The man went into a Commerce Bank Wednesday and withdrew $8,700. He returned the same day to take out another $9,700.
    That's when he was arrested.
    The man gave identification with the name Shahid Batti. But he did not look like the man in the photo IDs.
    He then told police his name was Raza Hussain and his date of birth was Jan. 1, 1962.
    That information came up on a terrorist watch list.
    "We don't know if we're looking at a money laundering scheme, an identity theft scheme. We don't know if there's any type of terrorist activity here, but certainly this requires a good depth investigation," said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood.

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Hispanics, blacks 'never been friends'   [11/4/06]
Here's a local NAACP official who doesn't spout the party line about the "rainbow coalition," something you would never hear from the home office.

ATLANTA - Rumors of racial hatred swirled around the small farm town of Tifton, Ga., last fall after four blacks were arrested in the deadly robberies of six Mexican immigrants. In a single night at different trailer parks, the men were shot and beaten to death with a baseball bat as they slept.
    Community leaders - the white police chief, the Hispanic priest of the Roman Catholic church, the local president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - quickly stepped in to maintain peace. They called these crimes of opportunity, saying theft not racism was behind them. Still, they conceded the community was far from integrated.
    "We've just never been friends and buddies," said Isabella Brooks, the president of the NAACP in Colquitt County, near Tifton. She said she has no white neighbors and doesn't socialize with the Hispanics up the street because of the language barrier.

Incidentally, if you haven't seen Vernon Robinson's ad for his House campaign, don't miss it. He updates the old Jesse Helm ad with "You needed that job, but they gave it to an illegal alien."

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Conversation with CNN's Lou Dobbs   [11/4/06]
Here's a chat with our favorite CNN journalist...

If the Democrats win the House and/or Senate, how do you believe the immigration debate in Washington will change?
    Obviously both political parties support illegal immigration, because, as I said, they are in lock stock and barrel by corporate America. The only difference is the House. The Republicans there have put border security - imagine this five years after September 11th - as a priority. Without the Republicans in the House we would have wide-open borders and amnesty for illegal immigration. That said, both political parties have embraced corporate America's desire for cheap labor to compete with the lowest wage earners in this country. That is just simply disastrous.
    When I look to this election on November 7th, despite everything that you are hearing, in my opinion I think those elections will be decided on issues important within those congressional district, because both parties have supported the war in Iraq. Neither party has come up with an intelligent, rational, effective strategy to extricate us or secure victory in a reasonable time. Those are the realities. That offends the partisans. That offends those who are ideologues on either end of the spectrum. But it's the reality.

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Bush May Find a Ally on Immigration   [11/3/06]
Is there any question that if Democrats control Congress, job one will be to enact an amnesty for the 20-30 million illegal aliens squatting in the country?

Neither House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, likely to be the speaker of the House if Democrats win that chamber, nor Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, the Democrats' Senate leader, would commit this week to funding the fencing if they gain control of Congress.
    "What Leader Pelosi has said in the past is that we need to do comprehensive reform, and the fence could be part of that reform," said the California Democrat's spokeswoman, Jennifer Crider.

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Father sentenced to 10 years for circumcising daughter   [11/2/06]
Khalid Adem, the Ethiopian child abuser, got serious prison time for his crimes. His drama antics won't cut it in the Big House.

Though Adem defiantly denied the act, he will serve 10 years in prison and five years probation for using scissors to circumcise his then 2-year-old daughter in 2001.
    The verdict shocked many of Adem's supporters who openly sobbed in the courtroom. Adem, 31, had cried every day of the trial. He sobbed again as the verdict was read, then watched in horror as his girlfriend passed out in the courtroom and was removed on a stretcher.

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Nancy Pelosi's Sour Grapes   [11/2/06]
If Rep. Nancy Pelosi becomes the next Speaker, she will have a personal reason to open the borders even wider than now. She owns a Napa County vineyard and hires illegal workers, making her an illegal employer. Unsurprisingly, her career immigration voting score is F-.

As Peter Schweizer notes in his best-selling expose of liberal hypocrisy, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do)," part of the fortune of this defender of the working man is a Napa Valley vineyard worth $25 million that she owns with her husband. The vineyard produces expensive grapes for high-end wines. Napa grapes bring up to $4,000 a ton compared with $300 a ton for, say, San Joaquin grapes.
    But Pelosi, winner of the 2003 Cesar Chavez award from the United Farm Workers, hires only nonunion workers and sells these grapes to nonunion wineries. Schweizer places Pelosi in a chapter titled "Workers of the World Unite Somewhere Else." UFW members need not apply at the Pelosi family vineyards.
    Which makes Pelosi's steadfast opposition to any attempts to enhance border security and stem the flow of illegal immigration into the U.S. all the more interesting since she seems to be among those rich employers who financially benefit from a steady supply of cheap foreign labor.

Isn't an obvious conflict of interest a big no-no in politics? Maybe not so much when a Democrat is the perp.

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Mexico's love-hate relationship with the U.S.   [11/2/06]
Lame-duck el Presidente Fox is on the way out, so he feels free to speak his mind, and he, like most Mexicans, believe they are superior to Americans. Nice neighbors!

"We are already a step ahead, having been born in Mexico. Imagine being born in the United States, oof!" Fox said Tuesday with a chuckle, according to the Associated Press, after a remark that Mexicans should be thankful for their heritage.
    The comment, made at a public event while Fox visited the central state of San Luis Potosi, raised some eyebrows in the United States, but went all but unnoticed in Mexico.
    That is because although millions of Mexicans risk their lives to sneak into the United States as illegal immigrants each year, many see U.S. society and politics as troubled.
    Mexicans often see the U.S. as full of broken families, rampant drug use and unchecked materialism that is run by a government that doesn't hesitate to go to war or meddle in the affairs of others, a standing underscored by events in Iraq.

Being a Mexican is doubtless a wonderful experience for members of its elite class. They "live like maharajas" in ostentatious wealth according to scholar George Grayson.
    Still, it is amazing that while Mexico is sliding into narco-anarchy, it sees itself as somehow better than the United States, the nation to which millions of Mexican citizens have fled. Not only that, Mexico is sexist, violent, corrupt and uneducated.

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GOP Fails to Gain Election Traction on Immigration Issue   [11/1/06]
If Rs aren't gaining traction, it's because the Dems are campaigning for enforcement. Of course, if Democrats take over the House, they will enact open borders and amnesty as job one.

Gerlach's voting record wins high marks from immigration restrictionists. But Murphy, a liberal lawyer, also opposes amnesty. Immigration policy, she says, must be "tough, but fair."
    That's exactly the language recommended by Third Way, a Washington group that helps liberal candidates turn the tables on conservatives on hot-button issues. In June, Third Way's Jim Kessler issued a widely read memo advising Democrats to "play down compassion and play up toughness" in talking immigration.
    And so Murphy blames Bush for leaky borders and lax enforcement of laws against hiring illegal workers.

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Cultural Atrocity in Georgia   [11/1/06]
Today's conviction of Khalid Adem for performing FGM on his toddler should be a wake-up call to Americans who are unaware of the cultural norms we are importing through multicultural immigration.

Gwinnett County has lately been on the front lines of the culture war between the West and primitive tribal cruelty. An Ethiopian immigrant has been found guilty there for committing female genital mutilation (FGM) on his two-year-old daughter.
    The father, Khalid Adem, said he was not guilty. (He comes from a country where the prevalence of FGM is 90 percent.) His now divorced wife Fortunate Adem, an immigrant from South Africa, said that he did indeed physically castrate their child.

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