St. Louis CofCC Blog

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Nixon announces higher ed plan

On a campaign stop at the University of Missouri-St. Louis this morning, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon unveiled a plan to allow some Missouri students who start out at a community college to get a four-year degree without having to pay any tuition.

Nixon, a Democrat running for governor, said his Missouri Promise plan would ensure students don’t graduate saddled with large amounts of debt from paying “outrageous tuition rates.”

Under his plan, he would expand the state’s A+ program to all Missouri high schools — not just the half currently in the program. Under that program, students who meet certain academic, community service and financial need criteria can go to a Missouri community college or technical school for free.

Nixon’s plan would also mean that after those students get their two-year associate’s degree, they could transfer to a four-year public university in Missouri also tuition-free.

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“While other states have been making college more affordable and accessible, Missouri has moved backwards. The Missouri Promise will create a pathway to a four-year degree for those families struggling to afford college tuition during these difficult economic times. We must make the dream of a college education a reality for all Missouri families.”

Any plans to guarantee such college graduates jobs commensurate with their education? (Assuming they haven’t all been outsourced to Bangalore.)  Oh yeah, these are the Democrats we’re talking about.  So the answer is yes if you’re non-white.

AP:

Obama, Clinton woo coal vote in upcoming primaries

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are walking a delicate line as they promise to aggressively tackle global warming while trying to assure voters that they continue to believe in the future of coal.

In states like Pennsylvania, where voters will cast ballots this Tuesday, and in West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Montana — upcoming primary states — coal sways voters.

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Both Obama and Clinton have rallied environmentalists with their promises to develop windmills, solar power and other renewable energy sources and order mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases from power plants to counter global warming.

It’s an energy policy that would seem to target coal, which produces half the country’s electricity but also nearly 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, each year.

Instead, “clean coal” has become the mantra of both candidates. Some environmentalists are not too happy with that.

“They keep using the term ‘clean coal.’ That’s really an oxymoron,” snaps Brent Blackwelder, president of the environmental group Friends of the Earth. “They absolutely are pandering the coal industry’s propaganda that clean coal is the hope of the future. There’s no such animal as clean coal.”

Actually, there is. And the story behind it illustrates Hillary Clinton’s hypocrisy.

During his second term, President Clinton used the Antiquities Act to turn parts of southern Utah and northern Arizona into a national monument, called the Grand Staircase Escalante. It just so happens that that area has a lot of clean coal underneath it that all of a sudden was off-limits, such that to comply with Federal environmental standards, clean coal had to be purchased from an Indonesian cabal called the Lippo Group, run by a family called Riady that just so happened to dump bags of money into the Clinton for President campaigns.

Harrisburg Patriot-News:

Ron Paul campaigns in Gettysburg

Republican presidential candidate and Gettysburg College graduate Ron Paul toured his alma mater and spoke to supporters at the Majestic Theater today.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul hasn’t fared well in the polls, but he demonstrated that he still has plenty of passionate supporters at a visit to Gettysburg today.

Paul drew a crowd of 800 vocal supporters at the Majestic Theater. He again made a pitch for limited government, more responsible government spending and an end to the war in Iraq.

And he chose the right spot. After all, Gettysburg, Penn. was the place where limited government in the American experience died on November 19, 1863, the American head of state on that day officially jettisoning limited government for unlimited and unchecked Federal power to enforce racial equality, and an imperialist war as a prologue. It’s the perfect place to bring back limited government and end another imperialist war in earnest.

The Politico, re an exact quote from Barack Obama campaigning in Pennsylvania:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

So the only kind of white people who are religious, own guns, opposed to mass immigration and opposed to free trade are unemployed?  If Obama’s “wink wink” towards Ottawa while he was campaigning against free trade in Ohio wasn’t enough to convince you that he’s a free trade globalist, this should clinch the deal.

World Net Daily:

2nd Obama-linked pastor under fire for racist talk

Sen. Barack Obama has been linked to another controversial pastor, this time a declared spiritual adviser who has called white American mayors “slave masters,” and referred to black preachers and politicians who “protect” the “white man” as “house n-ggers.”

“We don’t have slave masters, we got mayors,” exclaimed James Meeks, an Illinois state senator and pastor of one of the largest churches in the state, in an August, 2006 sermon broadcast on a Chicago community television channel.

The speech was broadcast last week by Fox News Channel’s “Hannity and Colmes.”

Continued Meeks in the sermon: “But they are still the same white people who are presiding over systems where black people are not able to be educated. You got some preachers that are house n-ggers. You got some elected officials that are house n-ggers. Rather than them try and break this up, they’re gonna fight you to protect that white man.”

Meeks at the time was lashing out at Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley over public-school funding issues.

I think Pastor Meeks is just lashing out at Mayor Daley and his whiteness in general.  It has to do with the racial animosity in Chicago and its history of mayoral selection.

In 1983, the city’s black political machine defeated the decades-old Daley machine, and elected one of its own (Harold Washington) as mayor, and it did so with a suspiciously high black turnout.  The machine held out after Washington’s death to elect another black mayor, but in 1989, the current Mayor Daley, son of the machine’s archon, exacted revenge and won back the mayor’s office.

What happened in 1989 foreshadows the future of American politics — the city’s population that isn’t white but isn’t black attained enough political clout, and for whatever reason, they weren’t (and still aren’t) too fond of the black establishment.  So the current Mayor Daley strung together a coalition of white and non-white-non-black voters to beat black the black machine, and elect himself as Mayor.  The coalition has held ever since then, and by the time it’s through, this Daley will have more tenure as mayor than the 21 years his father had.

Similarly, in Los Angeles, at the current time, neither white, black, Hispanic nor Asian voters have a majority clout on their own.  Therefore, a successful politician has to string together a coalition based on the racial conflict and frustration of the day.  In 2001, James Hahn exploited white-black-Asian fear of Hispanic power to beat Antonio Villaraigosa.  Four years later, the latter pulled the same trick using the other groups’ jealousy of whites to beat the incumbent Hahn.  Eventually, the Hispanics will have the numbers, but until then, coalition-stringing is necessary.

The Chicago city’s black machine has been reeling from that setback ever since, blaming Daley for every pothole and hung toenail in town.  It’s purely racial jealousy on Meeks’s part.

UPDATE 3/25:  It looks like Rev. Meeks has been playing with dirty Rezkobucks.

PJB’s latest, on Obama’s “Checkers” speech:

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

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He’s keeping his part-black part-white preacher.

Somehow, I knew this speech would go something like, “Oh, I know he said lots of troubling things, but what about slavery, lynchings, segregation, Jim Crow, cross burnings? Hope hope hope hope hope hope.” And it was just about that, save that Obama threw in conservative talk radio and Ronald Reagan just for bad measure.

One distinguishing characteristic of the speech is that it endorsed the Lincoln-MLK philosophy that the Founding Documents were drawn with the intention, and were a promissory note on, and a down payment on, the concept of absolute human equality, especially racial.

Some right-wingers are praising this paragraph:

In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don’t feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience – as far as they’re concerned, no one’s handed them anything, they’ve built it from scratch. They’ve worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they’re told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time.

This paragraph does not a right-winger make. Obama recognizes white racial frustration, and certainly does not bash it. But reading between the lines, he thinks that the white working class was/is being suckered by the disposed “Southern Strategy” of the Republican Party, and by other nefarious elements. His solution is the Jesse Jackson strategy, where somehow every economically frustrated person of every race will unite under the banner of liberal populism. If any such movement were possible, there have been dozens of chances for it to materialize and thrive in my lifetime. That it has not means that it’s not possible, though neither this blogmeister or anyone else, much less The Late Great Dr. Samuel T. Francis, has delved into an intellectual analysis to explain why not, though I would suspect that it would have something to do with the permanence of race.

To prove I’m right, here is the paragraph after the next in sequence:

Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze – a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed; a Washington dominated by lobbyists and special interests; economic policies that favor the few over the many. And yet, to wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns – this too widens the racial divide, and blocks the path to understanding.

Quite frankly, Mr. Obama, I don’t go into certain areas of my own city after dark not for the fear of Enron, Arthur Andersen, Golden Parachutes or K Street.

I will post the entire speech here for posterity.

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Communications Workers of America presser from last Friday, dateline St. Louis:

The Communications Workers of America is condemning Western Union Financial Services Inc., for its plans to close three union-represented facilities in Missouri and Texas and shift that work to non-union and overseas operations.

Some 640 workers in Dallas, Texas, and Bridgeton and St. Charles, Missouri, were told they will lose their jobs over the next five months.

Its apparent to me that Western Union has determined that it would prefer to operate as a union-free enterprise, said Andy Milburn, CWA Vice President for District 6, which covers Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma.

CWA will do everything legally possible to stop these centers from closing and stop Western Union from moving our work to non-union operations, both in the United States and overseas, said CWA Staff Representative Mike Neumann, who heads the Western Union bargaining team.

Western Union said it will transfer the work of employees in the three customer service centers and financial operations to locations including Denver, Costa Rica, Manila, Mexico City and Mexicali, Mexico.

Last month, CWA Local 6377 filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against Western Union, charging that company managers have tried to coerce union members and subvert the bargaining process. The local also charged that earlier layoffs announced by Western Union - of 150 workers in Bridgeton and Dallas — were an act of retaliation against the workers and the union.

Western Union is an American icon. Today, it has turned its back on the very employees who built the company into a multinational enterprise, said Earline Jones, president of CWA Local 6377.

Olivia Espinosa, president of CWA Local 6178 in Dallas, said Western Union is a greedy, profitable company that doesnt seem to care about the excellent customer service our CWA members now provide. And thats bad news for customers.

Yet, the CWA will endorse a free-trade globalist for President.  Make no mistake about it — Both Hillary and Obama are, the only difference between them is that the former was married to a free-trade globalist, and wants us to think that she was opposed to his leanings while she was First Lady, and the other pretends to be an economic nationalist while crossing his fingers behind his back with his back turned toward foreign capitals.

Sounds nothing like McCain on Iraq. I bet the difference is that gooey black stuff.

Either way, neither Iraq nor Haiti is worth the bones of one single Pomeranian grenadier.

Springfield News-Leader:

Initiative may affect election

Whoever wins the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination will have to run against both John McCain and Ward Connerly during the campaign for the White House.

McCain, it appears all but certain, will be the Republican Party’s standard-bearer. And Connerly will be the GOP’s weapon of mass distraction.

While McCain can be expected to wage a frontal attack on his Democratic opponent [I'll believe that when I see it -- Blogmeister], Connerly will mount a stealth campaign. He will champion just one issue: opposition to affirmative action.

Connerly is trying to get anti-affirmative action initiatives on the ballot in five states: Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. While these measures aren’t labeled as the political weaponry of the GOP, they may prove to be the party’s most effective means of combating the surging voter support for Democrats.

In other words, this op-ed writer in the SNL thinks that the Connery initiatives might swing the election toward McCain.  Actually, there is some worry about just the opposite — that with McCain at the top of the ticket, this will keep conservative voters at home and take votes away from the Connerly initiatives.

But those worries are overblown.  Democrats could carry the day in the states where the Connery initiatives are on the ballot, and the initiatives will all pass nevertheless.  Remember Michigan 2006 — MCRI won, in spite of Democrats Granholm and Stabenow being re-elected for Governor and Senate.

Springfield News-Leader:

Group forms against affirmative action ban

St. Louis –Opponents of a proposal banning most affirmative action programs in Missouri are trying to discourage people from signing an initiative petition to get it on the 2008 ballot.

The Missouri Civil Rights Initiative is collecting signatures to get a measure on the ballot that would “ban state and local government affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment in public contracting, employment or education based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.”

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Opponents have set up a hotline (1-877-644-0466) that people can call if they see someone collecting signatures for the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative. We Can officials then send out a volunteer to the same site to distribute information asking people to “think before they ink” their signature to the petition.

If you read between the lines of the article, the other side is admitting that MCRI will win if it gets on the ballot.  Also, notice that the SNL/AP published the phone number of the opponents’ hotline — as if the SNL/AP is engaging in anti-MCRI activism.  If they were that helpful in the other direction, the Connerly organization would already have enough signatures.

The ideology responsible for 100 million dead bodies in the 20th Century now wants to prevent whites from working.

First, from PJB’s latest, on NAFTA:

America rose to power behind a Republican tariff wall. What has free trade wrought? Lost sovereignty. A sinking dollar. A hollowing out of U.S. manufacturing. Stagnant wages. Wives forced into the labor market to maintain the family income. Mass indebtedness to foreign nations, and a deepening dependency on foreign goods and borrowings to pay for them. We have sacrificed our country on the altar of this Moloch, the mythical Global Economy.

It took Rip Van Republican 20 years to wake up to the disaster of open borders and five years to realize the folly of igniting wars in which no vital interest was at risk. How long before the GOP wakes up to the reality that globalism is not conservatism, never was, but is a pillar of Wilsonian liberalism, in whose vineyards our faux conservatives now daily labor.

Second, the magazine he founded exposes Barack Hussein Obama as a phony when it comes to his supposed opposition to the war in Iraq:

Obama’s campaign frequently invokes his 2002 “speech against the war,” but very rarely quotes directly from it. Why? Because this mysterious speech—which has become the stuff of legend in Obamaphilic circles, talked about but rarely read—is a pro-war tirade. Yes, Obama described the planned invasion of Iraq as “dumb” and “rash,” but his overriding concern—expressed repetitively throughout the speech—was that the Bush administration was damaging the legitimate case for American-made wars of intervention and potentially making it harder for future administrations (Democratic, for example) to send soldiers around the world to depose unfriendly regimes.

We knew that Obama’s anti-NAFTA rhetoric in Ohio was just a sideshow.  Now we’re finding out that he’s even more of an arrogant universal egalitarian imperialist than BushClinton.

A BHO Presidency is going to cost you.  We’ll be begging for George W. Bush’s Africa tab by the time Obama is through.

New York Times:

On his last visit, Mr. Obama visited two area schools that had been renamed for him. The intention in renaming the schools seems to have been partly to attract funding. One person after another noted pointedly that it was a shame that a school named for a great American should be so dilapidated.

Some of Mr. Obama’s innumerable relatives also see him as a meal ticket. They have made arrangements with a tour group to bring buses of visitors to have tea with Mama Sarah.

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Yep, another Reconquista George.  No, not the one at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  I’m talking about the one that played the head of a squarely American middle household whose family members just happened to have tan skin, on an ABC.

El Paso Times:

Hollywood television celebrity and popular comedian George Lopez brought U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s message of hope and change Wednesday afternoon to an estimated 1,200 potential young voters at the University of Texas at El Paso.

“It is the time of the Latino, your time to step up, your time to take this country over,” Lopez said, eliciting applause. “But si se puede doesn’t mean anything unless you go out and make it happen.”

Maybe they won’t take over America, but they have pretty much bagged El Paso.  Here in the real world of America’s increasing Chicano/Mestizo population in places like El Paso and elsewhere, they don’t get along with blacks, their gangsters often feud with black gangsters, their working population is in direct competition with the black working population for what few crumbs remain of the American economy.  The George Lopez constituency has been breaking for HRC, and they just might save her tortilla.

Obama’s NAFTA opposition?  Because he was way too cozy with too many CFR-types, I had a hunch it was all for show.  Alas, from his campaigning in Ohio, he has just turned his head northward toward Ottawa and winked.

Just so you forgot, many of the neo-con types who were part of the Bush administration and brought about the invasion of Iraq are now with Obama.

More specifically, the relative nonchalance that conference attendees have toward the prospects of a black President in the person of Barack Hussein* Obama.  This comes a day after The New Republic wrote essentially the same article about other elements of the racial right, including your CofCC.

Here are the pull quotes from Newhouse:

As Sam Dickson, a Georgia attorney and American Renaissance fixture, put it in the conference’s closing remarks (in which he offered a “modest proposal” to create a separate “white homeland” in the United States): “We are facing the election of Barack Obama, or, even worse, McCain.”

and:

Howard Fezell, a Frederick, Md., attorney, believes Bush invaded Iraq at the bidding of Israel and its neoconservative American supporters. “Having missed out on the 14th century, McCain is eager to participate in another Hundred Years War,” he said.

I wish I could be so insouciant.  Unfortunately, it’s the reaction that certain people have to the ascension of Barack Hussein* Obama that will force me to vote McCain in November.

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* — Barack Hussein Obama’s middle name is a copyrighted trademark of the Republican National Committee and John Sidney McCain III.   Any use without written consent is hereby prohibited.

And predictably, your CofCC gets part of a paragraph:

And some even see hints that Obama may be leading a national black uprising. “Are blacks becoming more hostile towards whites?” asked a recent entry at the … Council of Conservative Citizens website.  The author, citing the early February rampage by a black gunman near St. Louis, Missouri, advised that “the success of the Obama campaign might be emboldening blacks to be more aggressive towards white[s] on a national scale.”

Actually, that needs a little clarification.  By himself, Barack Hussein Obama (sorry, John McCain, for using his middle name) is a plastic banana and an empty suit.  I would no sooner expect him to succeed in leading a black uprising than I would for him to hang the moon.  The point made at Dot Org in that blog post is that many black Americans, particularly in the lower classes, might be “feeling their oats” and becoming more arrogant and flippant (”we’z takin’ over, cracker”), simply because a black man is so close to becoming President.  I would expect those sort of people to have that kind of attitude even if the black candidate was the Tommiest of Toms, e.g. Clarence Thomas.

There’s the money quote from an article where New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg praises President Bush, John McCain and Mike Huckabee.

Somehow, I think this pretty much extinguishes the Obama-Bloomberg rumors.

The New York Sun blows the lid off his links to violent left-wing extremist groups.

Read more about the Weather Underground.

As the phenomenon denoted by Ann Coulter as B. Hussein Obama has almost no Senate accomplishments, he has to hurry up and accomplish something before HRC and/or John McCain start asking some tough questions.  And his haste might cost you $845 billion over the next baker’s dozen of years, in order to end global poverty.

Of course, assuming that half the world’s population is poor, there is an inconvenient truth revealed after doing the division.

In the same state where John McCain won yesterday, the voters in MD-1 bounced Wayne Gilchrest, one of the most liberal Republicans in the U.S. House, in the Republican primaries for November which also took place yesterday.  Andy Harris, a State Senator and a physician, beat Gilchrest, and is himself virtually guaranteed of election to Congress in November, as MD-1 comprises the Republican-leaning Eastern Shore.

Also, a moderate black Democrat incumbent, Albert Wynn, was bounced by a more liberal black Democrat, Donna Edwards, in MD-4.  Most of MD-4 is in heavily black Prince Georges County, so Miss Edwards is herself virtually guaranteed to win in November.

The three remaining major candidates for President all endorsed identity and document fraud by illegal aliens.  Why not?  Those illegal aliens are somebody’s cheap labor — how dare you think that they should be inconvenienced by something as impossibly racist and nativist as legitimate documents.

Given to San Francisco voters today.

He ably takes apart the media-driven scam that is, as Ann Coulter calls him, B. Hussein Obama.  It’s long, but it’s comprehensive, and therefore worth the few minutes.

If you have nothing else to do this coming Monday, then I’m sure you can attend one of the many Rosa Parks Day ceremonies that I’m sure this state will host, thanks to our lame duck Governor.

Speaking of Missouri Republicans wanting to replace said lame duck and the civil rights agitators, don’t look for things to get any better if Jefferson City Barbie becomes Governor.  From her hometown paper, the Rolla Daily News:

Steelman seeks to empower people

When State Treasurer Sarah Steelman agreed months ago to be the keynote speaker at the Rolla Chapter of the NAACP banquet held Saturday, she had no idea how the recent turn of events in Jefferson City would affect her.

Earlier Saturday, in the familiarity of her brother’s home in Springfield, Steelman announced her gubernatorial candidacy. The announcement came just four days after Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt said he would not seek a second term.

Speaking to a room of about 100 people Saturday evening at Missouri S&T’s Havener Center, Steelman, a Republican, spoke of optimism for Missourians and empowering people.

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“We are all children of God,” Steelman said. “It’s why Rosa Parks would not budge on the bus, and it’s why Martin Luther King gave his life. … Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King were like all of us … It’s why we must fight on. This is what our campaign is all about: Power to the People,” Steelman said.

Sorry, people, this is the rhetoric of a blue state revolutionary, not a red party gubernatorial candidate in a swing state.  Yeah, empowering people and power to the people.  Black people, that is.  Whites need not apply.

Fox Business Channel:

In a landmark ruling handed down on January 31, U.S. District Judge [*****] decisively upheld the right of local governments to enforce laws against illegal immigration by denying business licenses to employers who hire illegal aliens. Judge [*****] ruling rejected every argument presented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund challenging Valley Park’s authority to suspend the licenses of businesses that employ illegal aliens.

The ruling in the case of Gray v. Valley Park is a precedent-setting decision that has national implications. The decision presents a clear invitation from the bench for state and local governments around the country to enact similar local ordinances.

The importance of Judge [*****] decision for the City of Valley Park and nationwide efforts to enact state and local laws to restrict illegal immigration will be discussed at a news conference to be held Friday February 1 at the Valley Park City Hall.

What is so controversial about a city adopting certain Federal immigration laws as city ordinances, then enforcing them? Saying they can’t is like saying that, since foreign espionage is already a Federal crime, that Valley Park couldn’t pass an ordinance against foreign espionage with the same wording as the U.S.C., and have Valley Park cops arrest those suspected of engaging in foreign espionage within the city limits. That wouldn’t make much sense for VP to do, but they could it if they wanted.

No, the reason it’s “controversial” is because Valley Park’s new arrivals from Latin America are also somebody’s cheap labor in the St. Louis area, and those “somebodies” are pretty wealthy and powerful, and can front their ambitions in instruments called ACLU and MALDEF.

Speaking of localities and immigration ordinances, Kris Kobach, former Kansas Republican Party head, and currently a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, who has represented Lou Barletta-led Hazleton, Penn. against the legal wing of the invader rabble and their attempts to nullify common sense immigration enforcement by local governments, is now advising the Mitt Romney campaign on immigration issues.

BY THE WAY –  Since this ruling happened yesterday, and VP’s press conference was today, why did I find out about this story from the Fox Business Channel today, and not the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, or any of the local newscasts either yesterday or today?  If the ruling would have gone the other way, we would have heard that news yesterday.

From the latest PJB:

With two-thirds of the nation saying the country is on the wrong course, the two parties are offering candidates both of whom played major roles in setting that course.

I might add that with all this obsession over “change,” both parties are set to nominate names that are familiar even to non-junkies.

I would ace Jeff Sessions’ immigration quiz to Presidential candidates if I were one myself, but I want some space for essay comments to earn myself some extra credit to push my score above 100%:

Re Question 11: You don’t need to bother with carrot-and-stick techniques to make cities stop being sanctuary cities. All that is necessary is to have Federal marshals roll into sanctuary cities and arrest the politicians that voted for and signed such bills, ordinances, executive orders, etc. into law, for conspiracy and obstruction of justice. The humane side of me would give them a one-month grace period to reverse their sanctuary policies, after then, roll the badges in. Also, as Frances Semler’s resignation letter informs us, a sanctuary city need not officially declare itself one in order to be one. Such measures taken against a city’s authority figures that “stands down” on enforcing immigration law is also in order.

If a city in your home state of Alabama would pass an ordinance that states that city officials and city cops are prohibited from assisting the FBI when they investigate Federal Civil Rights violations in the city in cases where the alleged crime or tort was committed by a white person, and the victim is black, thereby making the city a “sanctuary city” for such crimes, there would be no Congressional hubbub over denying such cities Federal money for this or that.  What I said the FBI should do re immigration sanctuary cities is what they would really do in this matter.

Re Question 7: Something else that needs “clarifying” is the contradiction between Federal Civil Rights laws and Federal immigration laws. Many employers are stuck in a Catch-22 — if they check the immigration status of certain applicants or employees, they’ll run afoul of the former for racial profiling and discrimination. If they don’t, then they’re hauled in for knowingly hiring.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama agree 99.9999% on racial issues.  And yet, they’re still fighting with each other over race.  To think, there are still some that say that race doesn’t matter.