Ireland Remains Irish June 13, 2008
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For awhile, anyway. Irish voters rejected the European Union treaty by a 54-46 margin in yesterday’s vote. And Ireland’s rejection on the treaty also helps the cause of nationalists in other countries that have ratified it, because the treaty and the continental unification it represents is invalid unless a certain number of countries ratify it.
Even if the EU does get enough countries to ratify their treaty, Ireland, with its “Celtic Tiger” economy, and its rejection, is a huge blow to the EU’s legitimacy.
Yes, The People Have Spoken (Much to the Chagrin of the Open Borders Lobby) May 12, 2008
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WBAP-820-AM Fort Worth-Dallas:
The People Have Spoken
The two beacons of illegal immigrant exclusion laws won the mayor’s office yesterday in their respective cities. Farmer’s Branch voters elected Tim O’Hare over Gene Bledsoe by a wide margin, with Irving voters deciding to re-elect Herbert Gears to lead their city with 54% of the ballots.
Both O’Hare and Gears have spearheaded the fight to exclude illegal immigrants in their cities attracting the ire of Washington D.C., the focus of the national news media and the desperation of other American mayors who want to follow in their footsteps looking for a solution to the national issue of undocumented workers.
Remember that Irving isn’t some just dot on the map. It is a major Metroplex suburb with over 200,000 residents, and, according to Wikipedia:
Several large businesses have headquarters in Irving, including Chuck E. Cheese’s, Commercial Metals, ExxonMobil, Gruma, Kimberly-Clark, Michaels Stores, National Care Network, Omni Hotels, Southern Star Concrete, Inc., Xero Hour, Zale Corporation, Fluor Corporation and LXI Enterprise Storage. The city is also home to the national headquarters of the Boy Scouts of America. The Dallas Cowboys play at Texas Stadium in Irving until a new stadium is finished in Arlington, Texas, in 2009.
Farmers Branch, which borders Irving to the east, has about 27,000 people, which makes it small in terms of the Metroplex, but it would be a major suburb in St. Louis. Taken together, Irving and Farmers Branch have about 236,000 people, so yesterday’s elections in those two cities are the functional equivalent of a relatively major city electing an anti-invasion mayor. Considering these cities were in a border state, the open borders lobby probably made a big ruckus. But the voters had other ideas.
Not Funny April 30, 2008
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Time, on the London mayoral race:
Any enthusiasm for addressing this democratic deficit could be diminished if the May 1 elections see the British National Party pick up its first-ever Assembly seats. Promising to “stop immigration”, to give “British jobs to British workers” and to “House British people first,” the party is hoping its crude populist message will resonate with white Londoners. Some pollsters predict they’ll win one or two seats. It’s a timely reminder that politics isn’t always a laughing matter.
Yes, because stopping immigration, giving British jobs to British workers, and housing British people first would be such a crude tragedy, wouldn’t it?
The reason that Red Ken might lose and the BNP might gain seats is that a “city” in England and a “city” in America are defined differently. In British parlance, “London” doesn’t mean the core central city (which is actually small and doesn’t have a big population), it essentially means the metropolitan area. Imagine how different St. Louis City Hall would be if the whole metropolitan area could vote. Since Mayor Slay wants to make St. Louis City seem more crime-free than it actually is by manipulating metropolitan area crime statistics, it’s apropos.
Speaking of big city mayors, Gianni Alemanno will be the new mayor of Rome (actually, the Rome area). He was Silvio Berlusconi’s agriculture minister during his previous stint as PM. And he will be the first right-wing mayor of any majority-white city/area considered a “world city” in my conscious lifetime. He promises to make crime and immigration his top-burner issues.
Collect Our Tax Money, and Vote For More April 24, 2008
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Civil rights groups sue state officials over voter registrations
Voting-rights activists filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Missouri public aid officials and election authorities in St. Louis and Kansas City, saying that agencies have failed to help poor people stay active on the voter rolls.
The suit, filed in Kansas City by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, focuses on a 1993 federal law that requires voter registration to be offered at drivers license facilities and government assistance offices — those that offer aid such as food stamps, Medicaid and welfare. But although registering at drivers license offices is now commonplace, activists claim the Missouri Department of Social Services has shirked its obligations.
Because it’s so hard to register to vote otherwise, we have to make it even easier, by offering up the opportunity for people in the places where they will go to sign up to collect some of your tax money. And which political party and philosophy do you think would these voters endorse?
White Voters Still Matter March 2, 2008
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H/T Steve Sailer. Notice that the figures here are in terms of percent of the whole, not raw numbers.
Notice while the Hispanic population is soaring, Hispanic voters are not. Black people and voters are trending only slightly upward.
But notice that with black voters are just over 10, and Hispanics just under 6, this means that these two left-leaning constituencies are only 16% between them. If my memory doesn’t fool me, then Asians and other non-whites are about 3% of all voters, putting white people in the catbird seat, at 81% of all voters.
Hispanics, even more than blacks, tend to be younger (meaning more U-18s as a percentage of the whole), and here illegally (though many illegal aliens can and do vote in certain jurisdictions), and even the citizen adults tend to be more apathetic. Even though Hispanics are, on average, more intelligent than blacks, the historical circumstance is that blacks tend to understand more acutely the power of the franchise.
You’re Seven Years Too Late November 27, 2007
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FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News) ? Every American’s vote counts. It’s a basic pillar of our electoral system.
But a CBS 11 investigation discovered that election officials can’t guarantee that only American citizens vote in elections.
After the review of data from Tarrant and Dallas Counties, it appeared, at least on the surface, that some non-citizens were participating in U.S. elections.
Since 1976, 1,900 people have been removed from the voter rolls because of their citizenship status in Dallas County. Of those, 221 had voter histories.
Tarrant County election data from 2004 and 2005 shows 43 people have been removed from the voter rolls, but none had voter histories.
It appeared there was a problem. Officials admit some illegal immigrants could be seeking to participate in U.S. elections.
This was covered in the Citizens Informer almost seven years ago. At least 3 million illegal aliens voted in the November 2000 elections.
The Mandarin Candidate November 24, 2007
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I fear that Australia might have voted itself out of existence yesterday.
Aside from everything else, the most worrisome thing about Kevin Rudd, Australia’s new Labour Party Prime Minister, is that he is fluent in Chinese. Usually, it’s no big deal that heads of state are conversant in foreign languages, but the reason that an Australian PM speaking Chinese is particularly worrisome is the same reason why President Bush’s fluency in Spanish is worrisome. The reason is immigration pandering.
Consider: There are 1.3 billion Chinese, and 19 million white Australians. The Chinese are already Australia’s largest minority, and it wouldn’t take that large of a fraction of China’s population to “immigrate” to Australia, nor that much time, for Australia to become an appendage of China itself.
Daddy’s Come Around to Momma’s Way of Thinking November 12, 2007
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Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), someone who just happens to be up for re-election next year, has introduced a resolution in the Senate condemning states and their politicians (e.g. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer) that issue drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens. The resolution has a bunch of Republican co-sponsors, and you’ll notice that half of them were on the wrong side of the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” issue earlier this year, and many of them, like Coleman, face voters’ wrath next year.
Aside from the reasons listed in the official resolution, measures like Spitzer’s essentially mean that illegal aliens in any state can become quasi-citizens, if they go to New York, get a license, then translate them into a license in their “home” state, and the license there is a gateway to doing anything a real citizen can do, including voting.
2007 General Elections In Review November 7, 2007
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* As it was expected for quite a long time, Haley Barbour was re-elected as Governor of Mississippi, but Ernie Fletcher was bounced out in Kentucky.
* The real action yesterday was in the initiatives and referenda. New Jersey rejected a bond measure for stem cell research, Oregon rejected a cigarette tax for children’s health care, both measures showing perhaps that Democrats have put themselves on the wrong side of the ledger on both issues.
* Now on an issue that most Republicans have put themselves on the wrong side of: Vouchers. The voucher question in Utah lost, and lost rather significantly. The neo-con blogosphere was hoping that it would pass because Utah is politically the most conservative state, and in its defeat, the state’s teachers’ unions are gloating because they think this shows that even “conservative” Utah supports public schools.
They’re both misreading it. The voucher issue failed (like it should have) BECAUSE Utah is a conservative state whose people are suspicious of public education. In any circumstance, with government money comes government control, and in Utah’s circumstance, with its rapidly-growing Hispanic population, the vouchers would also mean that private schools become sharply more Hispanic. A voucher program in Utah (or just about anywhere) would spell disaster for the largely white private K-12 education system.
Vouchers have to be just about the stupidest idea that anyone calling themselves a “conservative” of any gradation have ever emitted from their brain (or from the other end). When people actually get to vote on them, they almost universally reject them, and largely for conservative reasons. What a cracker jack way for “conservative” power-brokers to make friends with their base.
Interestingly, this voucher proposal in Utah was “revenue-neutral” for public schools, in that it had mechanisms to reimburse public schools for the tax and other monies they would lose based on a pupil leaving them and using a voucher to attend private schools. Yet, the state teachers’ unions opposed them anyway, so we now have proof that money isn’t their chief concern.
Francis Slay Won’t Be Moving Out of Room 200 Anytime Soon October 23, 2007
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Jake Wagman: The anti-Slay recall effort not only needs 20% of all of the city’s registered voters (i.e. 43,456 signatories) to get a “Recall Slay” petition on the ballot, at the same time, it needs that many or more from at least 20% of the registered voters in two-thirds of the city’s wards, i.e. 19 wards.
To summarize Mr. Wagman’s astute analysis, the “Recall Slay” effort, led by a bunch of affirmative action junkies who will carry Sherman George as chips on their shoulders until the end of time, will probably need a very high percentage (if not a majority) of black voters in north St. Louis and southeast St. Louis to sign these petitions. Good luck with that.
There Were Other Elections Yesterday October 21, 2007
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In Switzerland, and the news there looks to be better than what transpired in Louisiana. The “far-right” (i.e. conservative) SVP looks again to be the plurality party in the Swiss Parliament, gaining a little bit of ground compared to the 2003 elections.
Talking Points October 19, 2007
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Missouri Political News Service:
MO. Bar Association Offers “Non Partisan Court Plan” Talking Points to its Members
Here’s an example of “liberal elitism” at its finest. The Missouri Bar Association is offering what it labels “Seek, Speak and Teach Resources” to its membership. Try not to be too insulted as you read below what they think of us “lay public.”
I have two talking points in rebuttal.
(1) In the entire history of the Missouri non-partisan plan, not one single judge has been rejected at the ballot box. Not one.
(2) If the MO-NPP is so great, why don’t the state trial level courts in 113 of 116 Missouri counties use it? Only trial level courts in St. Louis City, St. Louis County and Jackson County, plus the State Courts of Appeal, and the State Supreme Court, use it.
Today’s Immigration Stack of Stuff October 1, 2007
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(1) In response to an invader rally in Irving, Texas yesterday, where the “si se puede” crowd opposed the city’s program to notify ICE of illegal aliens that the city’s police officers has apprehended (where common sense would dictate that not doing so would mean that the city is guilty of obstruction of justice, and even as ICE itself really isn’t interested, thank you Julie Myers), the (real) citizens of Irving voiced their support to City Hall via phone calls and e-mails. You made a difference, again.
(2) RINO Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher, who is little more than a month away from getting laid off, is trying to weasel his way into an anti-invader position. WBKO-ABC-13 Bowling Green (Ky.) reports that:
Governor Ernie Fletcher says Kentucky will not be a safe haven for illegal immigrants who commit felonies.
The governor wants Kentucky to take part in the federal government’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants convicted of crimes.
Fletcher has asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow Kentucky to be a partner in the effort.
Before you Kentuckians get up and dance upon the news that Gov. Fletcher has changed his mind, note the weasely phrase here “illegal immigrants who commit felonies.” This means that he only cares about deporting illegal aliens that commit other felony crimes. This is perfectly consistent with his pro-invader position, that illegal aliens should be allowed to stay as long as “they are paying their taxes and not bothering anybody.”
So, reducing the wage/salary equilibrium is fine and dandy, but pulling a felony is where Mr. Fletcher supposedly draws the line, though the fact that he didn’t draw this line until a month before electon day is telling. Should Mexicans become a big enough majority in Kentucky to wield the majority influence in state politics, the “concern” about felonious illegal aliens will stop.
You’re Not Evil Anymore, Mr. Griffin. And You Won’t Be Evil Again Until After the Elections. October 1, 2007
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Anything you can do I can do better
The British National Party, even though we’re supposed to think that it’s a fringe party, and its members might as well be in the untouchable caste, seems to be wielding a very big stick in what will very likely be parliamentary elections in the UK within the next six months. Two articles today from the British press, one from the Telegraph, and one from the Independent, suggest that both “mainstream” parties think they need to appeal to BNP voters.
First, from the former, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a left-wing think tank with “close links to [the] Labour [Party],” has released a study which states that immigration is an overall drain on the British economy, but:
Migrants from many developing nations fail to pay their way, while those from wealthy countries, such as the United States and Australia, provide a boost for the economy.
Translated into English, this means that white immigrants are good, while non-white ones aren’t. This report is a thinly-veiled attempt to make the Labour Party look tough on immigration and race.
The latter source states that David Cameron, the leader of the Tories in Parliament, and the man who would be Prime Minister should his party win a majority of seats in the upcoming elections:
One of David Cameron’s most trusted and senior political allies has plunged the party into a race row by claiming that people who vote for the far-right British National Party (BNP) have “some very legitimate views” on immigration and crime.
In an interview with The Independent on Sunday, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the shadow Minister for Community Cohesion, fuelled the already highly charged debate about immigration by arguing that it has been “out of control”.
Lady Warsi, given a peerage by Mr Cameron so that she could join the Tory front bench, said that the “lack of control” over immigration was making people feel “uneasy”. She added that the “face” of some communities was changing overnight because of the sudden influx of people from abroad, adding that “the pace of change unsettles communities”.
“Face of some communities changing overnight.” Translated into English, that means white racial dispossession.
Even though the actual number of votes for BNP candidates has been disappointingly low, political professionals in the UK, like here, are privy to polling data that the rest of us aren’t, and the fact that both Labour and Tories are trying to outdo each other to appeal to voters of a “fringe” party tells you that it’s not so fringe after all, (the fact that the BNP’s website is the #1 political website in the UK is a clue), that they know that, all other things being equal, and without any efforts to co-opt the BNP, that BNP support at the ballot box could soon skyrocket, and that the Ls and the Ts want a piece of that action.
Greek Nationalist Party Earns Seats in Parliament September 16, 2007
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The Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos (LAOS), or the Popular Orthodox Rally, a Greek populist-nationalist party, has attained the minimum of three percent of the popular vote in yesterday’s national elections, and therefore will be represented in parliament.
News of the Weak September 15, 2007
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WND Headline:
Keyes looks to rescue GOP, announces run for president
Just like he rescued the GOP in Illinois?
Unbridled Amnesty September 7, 2007
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Kentucky remains the Worst Sanctuary State, under Republican RINO Governor Ernie Fletcher and there is a good reason why.
Governor Ernie Fletcher is running for re election in Kentucky and recently appeared on the Lexington Kentucky Talk Radio Show the Pulse with host Leland Conway last week to promote his re election and talk to citizens of the state about plans he had for us and the state.
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Fletcher’s responses to the questions offered by the host and this writer reveal he thinks illegal alien Marxist invaders should be left alone (permitted to continue their crime spree) as long as “they are paying their taxes and not bothering anybody.”
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We will be looking forward to seeing Kentucky RINO Senator Mitch McConnell beaten next. He is still saying the Marxist invasion is a “federal issue” (code for amnesty) and nothing can be done on state and local levels. Well we sure don’t need someone who is ignorant of the issues in the senate either. He must not be aware of what is going on in states all over the country, like Oklahoma, Georgia, Missouri, Arizona, Florida, and many others.
As an aside, Fletcher beat back a primary challenge from former Congresswoman Anne Northup last month, but only by a 11-point margin (49% to 38%). The fact that the incumbent Governor couldn’t get a simple majority in his own party’s primary does not spell good news for him has he faces off against the state’s Democratic Lieutenant Governor this November. Now we know why.
Dempsey Wins September 5, 2007
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He who tempted us with a split second of video suggesting that he was opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens won yesterday’s special election, 56% to 44%. Then again, he probably didn’t need to raise or spend a dime, as MO-23 is a staunch Republican district.
Tom Dempsey Hints At Being Anti-Immigration August 28, 2007
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Tom Dempsey is currently the State Rep. for MO-18, which takes up most of St. Charles City and little more. He wants to replace Chuck Gross in the State Senate, MO-23, which encompasses the eastern half of St. Charles County. The special election is September 4.
The above is a screenshot from his second TV ad; you can see the whole ad here. At this juncture, the audio voiceover states how Washington is out of touch, with visages of Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy (?), and the words “Amnesty for Illegal Aliens.” The rest of the ad goes on to tout Dempsey’s accomplishments in the State House in the areas of educationhealthcare. (Snooze)
If “amnesty for illegal aliens” is the archetypical example of how “Washington has lost its way,” why not talk about immigration issues with the rest of your ad? After all, the General Assembly did make some noise about immigration bills toward the end of this year’s session. Also, if “Washington losing its way” is your concern, then why are you talking about it in a campaign ad for a state legislative office?
The President and the Vice-President of the Media Regret Their Amnesty Push August 3, 2007
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McCain and Graham are playing their mea culpa cards. The first one still thinks he can be President, but realizes that he can hang it up if he doesn’t get his number above 8%, and the latter wants another term as Senator, and he knows that won’t happen if he has a 63% disapproval rating from SC voters on his handling of the issue, and that includes all voters, not just Republicans — that number is probably 90% among SC’s Republican voters.
Monroe County, Illinois Passes Pro-2nd Amendment Resolution July 24, 2007
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The county’s Board of Commissioners joins their colleagues in 11 other Illinois counties that have passed a resolution supporting the Second Amendment, and opposing a barrage of Crook County and Chicagograd-inspired “gun control” bills through the state legislature.
Backing out Crook County, Judy Baar Topinka would have defeated Rod Blagojevich for Governor last November quite handily. Then again, backing out Crook County, a moderate like Topinka would never win a Republican nomination for anything; somewhere between three-fifths and two-thirds of Topinka’s margin of victory over Jim Oberweis in the March 2006 Republican Primaries came from Crook County and Republican plutocrat-heavy DupedPage County.
Without Crook County, Illinois’s politics would be akin to Indiana’s.
Where Have All the Conservatives Gone? July 22, 2007
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JEFFERSON CITY | Where have all the conservatives gone?
With Republicans in firm control of Missouri government, lawmakers have mandated how children ride in cars and what kind of gas motorists put in their tanks.
State spending has reached record levels, up nearly 16 percent in the last two years. So-called conservatives have expanded government programs to treat autistic children and provide medical care to women with incomes nearly twice the poverty level.
Handouts to ethanol makers have boosted the price of corn, which raised the cost of cereal, milk and meat. And Missouri lawmakers this year approved a $10 million tax subsidy for beef producers to offset the higher feed costs that the ethanol subsidies helped create.
“We’re supposed to stand for less government, small government and letting the individual make the decision rather than government,” said Sen. Chuck Purgason, a Caulfield Republican. “All (ethanol subsidies) did in my district was raise the price of fertilizer, feed and every other agricultural product.”
While talking big about small government and free markets, Republicans — and not just those in Missouri — have grown more comfortable chipping away at some of the most cherished canons of conservatism, leading conservatives said.
Conservative Missouri legislators lament that they feel like a minority within the majority Republican Party. They decry the movement away from conservative principles, blaming it on term limits, pressure from lobbyists, pressure from constituents not to reduce services and their own unwillingness to make tough choices.
This missive sounds so familiar. Missouri, though, is a little slower than the country at large when it comes to political sea changes. When Republicans took over the U.S. House and Senate in 1994, no U.S. House seats in Missouri changed hands, leaving a 6-3 Democrat majority thereof. It wasn’t until 2000 that Republicans won a majority, 5-4 of U.S. House seats from the state, and, like 1994, that number stayed the same even as Democrats won the House back in 2006. Also, Republicans didn’t win control of the Missouri State Senate until 2000, and the State House until 2002. At this rate, the Republicans will lose that, eventually.
Republican Neocon Establishment Beat Back in Georgia July 18, 2007
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Winner (L) and Loser (R)
The GA-10 U.S. House District held a special election yesterday to replace the late Charlie Norwood, and the Stupid Party favorite, former Georgia State Sen. Jim Whitehead, who was once considered a shoo-in, narrowly lost to Ron Paul-style states’ rights advocate Paul Broun, also a Republican.
Broun beat Whitehead by fewer than 1% of all the votes cast, so a recount is certain.
While the MSM and other left-wingers will sell the Whitehead defeat as a victory for Republican “moderates” opposed to the Bush administration, Broun’s issue page suggests that he is anything but a “moderate.”
Missouri Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson Co-Sponsors Measure to Prohibit Census Bureau From Counting Illegal Aliens In Apportionment Censuses July 5, 2007
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Mrs. Emerson has made contradictory statements, implying that she would support “comprehensive immigration reform” (i.e. soft amnesty) if a vote ever got to the House floor. The reason she would is the same reason why Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) did, that agribusiness lobbies heavily influence both.
This measure is worth supporting in principle, and if it were enforceable, it would accrue to the benefit of white conservative politicians and ideas. States with high numbers of illegal aliens would have Congressional districts drawn around its citizen population, but would still have the illegal aliens. Therefore, the politicians that get elected from these districts would be stridently anti-invasion.
Similarly, white liberals hoped for a more “progressive” U.S. House after courts ruled that blacks should have their own districts (as much as possible) for purposes of racial representation and power. But the result was that with the blacks largely drawn out of white districts, white liberals found it impossible to win in mostly white districts, while the black districts would almost always elect any black over a white liberal. This racial gerrymandering was responsible for the Republican control of the House from 1995 to 2007.
The trouble is, this measure of Mrs. Emerson’s would be hard to enforce. How does one prove that one is a citizen? Birth certificates might not do, because of the rampant black market in forged documents. And this story from KSDK today is illustrative of another problem — the story is about the fact that the Veterans Affairs Department states that there are only three American WWI Veterans alive, and one of them, 106 years young Frank Buckles, is a Missouri native. In his effort to join a branch of the Armed Forces when America joined WWI, when he was 16 and legally underage, we learn that:
Still, Buckles wouldn’t quit. In Oklahoma City, an Army captain demanded a birth certificate.
“I told him birth certificates were not made in Missouri when I was born, that the record was in a family Bible. I said, ‘You don’t want me to bring the family Bible down, do you?”‘ Buckles says with a laugh. “He said, ‘OK, we’ll take you.”‘
So in 1901, Missouri did not require formal birth certificates, and so it was in the South until later.
How is the U.S. Census Bureau going to prove that someone is not a citizen and should not be counted? At that rate, how can any Federal prosecutor prove that someone is not a citizen, being mindful of the fact that the onus for proving beyond a reasonable doubt is on the prosecution? This is one flaw in the American way that just about everyone in the immigration debate has forgotten.
Ciudad Nuevo Orleans July 2, 2007
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AP:
NEW ORLEANS - For proof that Hurricane Katrina is transforming the ethnic flavor of New Orleans — and creating altogether new tensions — look no further than the taco trucks.
Lunch trucks serving Latin American fare are appearing around New Orleans, catering to the immigrant laborers who streamed into the city in search of work after Katrina turned much of the place into a construction zone.
The trucks are a common sight in barrios from Los Angeles to New York, but controversial in a city still adapting to a threefold increase in Hispanics since Katrina.
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New Orleans has seen its Hispanic population rise from 15,000 before the storm to an estimated 50,000 now, according to the city. The city’s overall population has dropped from about 450,000 before the storm to about 250,000 now.
In the months after Katrina, the mayor created a furor when he was quoted as saying: “Businesses are concerned with making sure we are not overrun by Mexican workers.” In his subsequent re-election campaign, however, he praised Hispanics for their work ethic.
“The Mayor” refers to New Orleans Mayor Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin, who does not count butterscotch as chocolate.
Concern about New Orleans being “overrun by Mexican workers” is part of the reason why Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) voted against the Senate soft amnesty. Her political base is New Orleans, and its black voters, and most of them have not returned. A Hispanic New Orleans would deliver her far fewer votes than a black one, and combining that with white animosity toward her if she would have voted for it, it made good political sense for her to oppose it the year before she is up for re-election.
It’s Time to Pay the Apportionment Piper July 2, 2007
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Missouri barely skated away from losing a House seat after the 2000 census, but it looks like we won’t be so lucky after 2010. If that happens, then the state legislative committee that draws the boundaries for what would be only eight U.S. House seats in Missouri can do anything they want, as long as they protect the occupant of #2 above.
This writer does not believe that the loss of one seat, meaning the loss of one electoral vote, will make Missouri any less important or any less a magnet for Presidential candidate spending and presence in the next decade. As it is, Missouri only has 11 votes, but its importance is that it nearly always votes for the eventual winner. Lincoln County is only one of eight counties in the country that voted for the eventual winner since 1960. Therefore, Missouri has demographic and psychographic qualities that are representative of the country as a whole, or it is a microcosm of the whole country. I don’t think that will change even if we lose one vote.
The Celtic Tiger Falls Asleep June 29, 2007
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AP:
DUBLIN, Ireland - Ireland elected its first black mayor Thursday, the latest sign of how rapid immigration is changing this once all-white nation.
Rotimi Adebari, a Nigerian who arrived in Ireland seven years ago as an asylum-seeker, was elected unopposed to lead the council of Portlaoise, a bustling commuter town west of Dublin.
Adebari, 43, who has been an independent politician on Portlaoise Town Council since 2004, was backed by both the right-wing Fine Gael party and left-wing Sinn Fein.
Just when the Irish have a good thing going, they are trying to undo it all.
MCRI Coming to Missouri June 29, 2007
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And it will not need a name change. The Ward Connerly organization wants to get MCRI on the ballot in November 2008.
Conventional Wisdom talking heads will speculate that this will get Republicans to the polls next November, (as Republicans are more likely than Democrats to vote for it), and the obvious inference, so CW will say, is that MCRI is just a Republican conspiracy to win a swing state for the Republican Presidential nominee.
How did that work in Michigan last year? Seems to me that MCRI passed there and Miss Granholm and Miss Stabenow won.
The question is really this: How will Missouri Republican officials, including the candidates for office, react to MCRI? Actually, I think a majority of faithful Democrat voters will vote for it, and if Missouri Republicans do like their Michigan counterparts and throw stones at it, it might cost them some statewide races, of which there are plenty in 2008, most important of which is Governor.
