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The Senate “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” is “dead” again. Eighteen U.S. Senators who supported Tuesday’s cloture vote reneged when various amendments to weaken the soft amnesty failed, so they resumed debate and did not support cloture.

The number of supporters was only 46, meaning that they were even four short of passing the bill if this were a straight up-or-down vote on the measure.

Your calls, faxes and letters worked. Good job.

But I still don’t think it’s dead. The old phrase goes, “Them That Got Is Them That Get.” I still don’t believe that the establishment thinks it’s going to be denied. Even though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) states that he won’t bring it up in the Senate until 2009, provided he’s still Majority Leader after the 2008 elections, and he seems to want to wait that long as he doesn’t want to bring the measure up in an election year (i.e. wait until there is no election in sight, in order to pull the wool over people’s eyes), I still think that we could all be “surprised” that this monstrosity will be “revived” in the next few weeks.

From American Renaissance via the Washington Post.

Taken literally, and assuming that it is enforced, this decision could end the intra-district school busing scheme within the St. Louis City Public Schools, and also end the inter-district voluntary transfer program between St. Louis City and St. Louis County.

She not only kept her promises, but she is in league with “red state” freshman Democrats in the Senate like Jon Tester (D-MT) and James Webb (D-VA) who would like to win multiple terms to the U.S. Senate from their home states.

Of California freeways and the American power grid.

Tell that to the Democrats running for President.

AP:

WASHINGTON - The struggles of the nation’s blacks — a loyal Democratic voting bloc — topped the agenda Thursday as the party’s eight presidential candidates gathered for their third primary debate.

The debate at Howard University was set to begin just hours after the Supreme Court ruled against public school programs aimed at achieving racial diversity, a certain topic for the event.

The Democrats decried the ruling, saying it turned back the promise of integrated schools that the court laid out 53 years ago in its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

When Republicans will place overtly white issues, concerns and struggles at the top of their agenda has yet to be determined.

Most of the hubbub dealt with the Supreme Court decision yesterday about desegregation programs in the Louisville and Seattle schools.  This gets the Democratic Presidential candidates on record as being for the desegregation programs.

For his corruption activities vis-a-vis former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy and the Governor’s efforts to get voters to approve a lottery during his term.

Siegelman defeated Fob James in November 1998 to become Governor, then in turn lost narrowly to current Governor Bob Riley in November 2002.

The result is that violent crimes in Britain are under-counted by about 2 million per year. Please don’t give American governments this idea.

BBC:

Clashes between police and drug traffickers in a slum in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro left 19 people dead, officials have said.

Guns and grenades were used in the fighting, with armoured vehicles and helicopters backing police units.

The violence began when more than 1,000 policemen advanced on Alemao, the slum stronghold of a drug-dealing gang.

Rio de Janeiro officials are trying to make the city safer before it hosts the Pan-American games on 13 July.

Unlike violence between drug gangs, this kind of violence is more comparable to traditional warfare.