Brian Ross:

President Bush signed into law today an obscure but important measure which, its supporters say, will help reduce sex trafficking and exploitation of guest workers in a U.S. territory.

Although under U.S. control, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands has maintained lax immigration laws in contrast to the mainland. With help from Congressional Republicans and now-imprisoned superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, CNMI for years successfully fought off legislation proposed to tighten security and improve working conditions on the islands.

The bill Bush signed today extends U.S. immigration laws to CNMI and establishes a guest worker program there.

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Laguna (Calif.) Journal:

In a recent drug bust at the San Diego State University Federal agents and SDSU police culminated a yearlong investigation into drug dealing around campus and found it to be more sophisticated, more pervasive and more dangerous and far reaching than they expected or have seen before. These arrests coincided with the first anniversary of a female student freshman’s cocaine-related death.

According to local newspaper reports ninety-six suspects, including 75 SDSU students, have been arrested on drug-related charges as a result of the undercover operation, launched after Jenny Poliakoff, 19, was found dead in her off-campus apartment after a night of celebration.

One of the main suspects in this international drug investigation is illegal alien Omar Castaneda, a gang member from Pomona with ties to the Mexican Tijuana drug cartels, officials said

Castaneda, 36, after his arrest he was arraigned in San Diego Superior Court on charges of possession of cocaine for sale. He is suspected of being a major link between drugs flowing into California from Tijuana and sales at SDSU and other California campuses.

Read the rest of the article. It’s worth the time.

Washington Times:

D.C. to arm police with assault rifles

The Metropolitan Police Department has joined other major U.S. cities in arming patrol officers with assault rifles to protect them against criminals with high-powered weapons, weeks after being released from a federal program that monitors the use of excessive force.

Shows you how well D.C.’s gun control laws are working.  They worked to make the thugs better armed than the cops until now.

And we’ll have to go through it again.

Agence France Presse:

US blacks jailed at higher rate for drugs than whites: report

African-Americans are arrested and imprisoned for drug-related crimes at a much higher rate than white offenders, even though whites commit more drug offenses in the United States, a rights group said.

A black man is 12 times more likely to be sent to prison for a drug offense than a white man, according to a Human Rights Watch report titled “Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States.”

A black woman is five times more likely to go to jail for a drug crime than a white counterpart, said the report, which is based on a review of statistics in 34 US states.

In 16 states, including Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York, blacks are sentenced to prison for drug offenses at a rate 10 to 42 times higher than whies.

“Most drug offenders are white, but most of the drug offenders sent to prison are black,” said the report’s author, Jamie Fellner, senior counsel in the US program at Human Rights Watch.

Not all “drug offenses” are the same. Possessing a gram of pot is a “drug offense,” and dealing crack cocaine is also a “drug offense.” It’s just that blacks are far more likely to commit the more serious kinds of “drug offenses,” and more likely to commit the ones that result in prison time.

If one would adjust for the specific drug offense, then one would probably find that whites are more likely to go to prison than blacks. Especially rural whites, where a “hanging jury” and/or a “hanging judge” (which there are a lot more of in white rural areas) would send a drug convict to prison for an offense that would not draw prison time for a black convict in the black/liberal cities with its black juries and black/white lib judges.

London Sunday Times:

BNP’s Richard Barnbrook calls for flying of Union Jack and a ban on burkas

The mainstream party candidates walked off the stage when Richard Barnbrook stepped up to speak after becoming, early on Saturday morning, the first member of the British National Party to win a seat on the London Assembly. Mr Barnbrook was unpeturbed.

He expects to be treated as a pariah for the next four years, but insists that he will not be cowed. “If I have to be a lone wolf I will be one,” he told The Times.

Mr Barnbrook, 47, said that he intends to become the voice of “true Londoners”, fighting against political correctness and preferential treatment for racial minorities. He will press for the Union Jack to be flown permanently over City Hall, for burkas to be banned from public buildings and for official celebrations to mark St George’s Day. He will resist the planned construction of a huge new mosque, the biggest place of worship in Britain, in Newham, East London.

Supporting the Union Jack, resisting the Islamification of England through burquas and mosques, and opposing affirmative action are things that are just too much to ask of Britain’s “mainstream” parties.

Seventeen years ago.

The Post-Dispatch dug deeper into the life of Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton. Among the highlights:

* The Meacham Park annexation that black residents were/are supposedly so upset about, that resulted in the Kirkwood Commons shopping center, the one that some would have us think resulted in the seething pot of resentment that sparked, the shootings, is one that Thornton supported.  He thought he would get some destruction and demolition business for this “construction company,” and would have had it if not for the fact that he couldn’t demonstrate that he could actually do the work.

* Ironically, the reason Thornton got those multitude of tickets is that the city tax money generated from Kirkwood Commons was used to fix up what remained of Meacham Park.  In that same spirit, the city started handing out tickets for code violations, many of those going to Thornton.

* But most of those tickets came before 2002.  The city gave up on trying to make him behave via citations.

* Generally, Thornton was always hustling to earn a quick fortune.  Because he had the Power of Attorney over his parents’ real estate, he took out as many mortgages and home equity loans as he could on them to finance his “construction business.”

The lesson remains the same.  Liberal Kirkwood was hoisted on the petard of its racial pandering.

Related:  Anthology of the Shooting at Kirkwood City Hall

Drawn by elementary school students in Brooklyn.  What’s more disturbing is that, in the several hundred words that the New York Daily News found in its heart to use for this story, that not one of them was “hate,” “enmity,” or anything alluding to that concept, and to the truth of this graffiti.  Much less any pontification from the member of the Paranoia-Industrial Complex based in New York City, or its competitor in Montgomery, Alabama.

Why couldn’t they be America’s gain?

Chrisitan Science Monitor:

White Zimbabweans bring change to Nigeria

Shonga, Nigeria - Musa Mogadi says he is better off since “the whites” came. He’s got a new job, learned new farming skills, and he can chat on a mobile phone while zipping around the countryside on a motorbike.

Three years ago, Mr. Mogadi got by as a subsistence farmer. But he now earns a regular wage as a supervisor on one of this town’s new commercial farms.

He’s applied skills he learned from some of the two dozen white Zimbabwean farmers who moved to Nigeria in 2005, after being kicked off their land by President Robert Mugabe and later attracted by large parcels of land on offer under 25-year leases and commitments of support from the Nigerian government.

Production on his farm is now up.

“We are starting to use fertilizers,” says Mogadi, explaining that he was encouraged to buy fertilizer after seeing yield benefits on the commercial farm. He’s also started planting his maize in a more compact formation, like the Zimbabweans, increasing production from each field planted.

Before the Zimbabweans arrived, there was no mobile phone network in the area and so no reason to have a mobile phone. Now he and most of the other workers have snazzy cellphones, and many have bought motorbikes imported from China, often with a loan from their employer.

In the future, when the national power network reaches the Shonga farms, Mogadi is looking forward to having electricity in his home and village for the first time.

Kenny Oyewo, who works as a farm manager, thinks the lessons being learned in Shonga should be exported across Nigeria.

The trouble is, even if it helps Nigerians, as the whites become more prosperous and influential, the racial hate and jealousy of them will also increase, which will lead to a Mugabe-like figure running Nigeria.

Time:

Australia’s Gun Laws: Little Effect

On the afternoon of April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant snapped. A striking figure with his long blond hair and milky skin, he had just eaten lunch at a cafÉ within the historic site of Port Arthur, a former prison in Australia’s island state of Tasmania. Described later by his sentencing judge as a “pathetic social misfit,” the 28-year-old then reached into his sports bag and, in the manner that others might pull out a sweater, withdrew two military-style semi-automatic rifles, which he used over the next eight horrifying minutes to kill 35 people - men, women and children - in what remains Australia’s worst mass murder.

Sharing the shock of his people, the newly elected Prime Minister, John Howard - just two months into his 11-and-a-half years in power - seized the chance to overhaul Australia’s gun laws, trampling all opposition to make them among the strictest in the developed world. “I hate guns,” he said at the time. “One of the things I don’t admire about America is their slavish love of guns . . . We do not want the American disease imported into Australia.” Howard argued the tougher laws would make Australia safer. But 12 years on, new research suggests the government response to Port Arthur was a waste of public money and has made no difference to the country’s gun-related death rates.

Though he’d acquired them illegally, Bryant used guns at Port Arthur that were lawful in Tasmania at the time. Howard argued there was no reason civilians should be allowed to own assault weapons - and under the 1996 National Firearms Agreement (NFA) these were all but banned. At huge cost, the government bought from their owners some 650,000 of the newly prohibited guns, which police destroyed. It also implemented mandatory gun licenses and registration of all firearms, helping to restrict to 5% of the population the number of Australian adults who owned or used guns last year, down from 7% in 1996.

But these changes have done nothing to reduce gun-related deaths, according to Samara McPhedran, a University of Sydney academic and coauthor of a soon-to-be-published paper that reviews a selection of previous studies on the effects of the 1996 legislation. The conclusions of these studies were “all over the place,” says McPhedran. But by pulling back and looking purely at the statistics, the answer “is there in black and white,” she says. “The hypothesis that the removal of a large number of firearms owned by civilians [would lead to fewer gun-related deaths] is not borne out by the evidence.”

A big reason for this is that Australia, like America, is importing a lot of something else. And like their American counterparts, words on paper mean nothing to them.

As a matter of history, Australia has always been anti-gun as a matter of tendency, both before and after 1996.  The reason is that Australia started as a penal colony, and one would no sooner want prisoners living in a penal colony to have guns than prisoners in real prisons to have guns.  In contrast, British gun control enforcement, among many other things, sparked the American independence movement.  Also, Australia’s indigenous population never put up a fight, unlike America’s, so guns weren’t needed to subdue the continent.

Following on the heels of the U.S. State Department’s repudiation of the term “Jihad,” the Washington D.C. Police Department and other city officials will no longer use the term “gangs.” Way to make the gang problem disappear.  Of course, this is the same city that, last year, wanted to solve illegal immigration by making all the illegals legal.

MyWay:

CHICAGO - Thousands of immigrants and activists gathered in cities across the country Thursday to demand comprehensive immigration reform, including citizenship opportunities for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.

Turnout has fallen sharply since the first nationwide rallies in 2006, when more than 1 million people - at least 400,000 in Chicago alone - flooded streets and brought traffic to a standstill.

I don’t know how to react to this story. On the one hand, I want to think that the other side is giving up because they realize that neither this U.S. Senate nor the next one will have the votes to pass it. On the other hand, I fear that this means they realize that they’re assured of having an amnestyaire as the next President.

Ebay France, that is. The good news is that the bidding on the souped-up 1991 Peugeot is up to €10 million ($15.5 million) at the time of this writing — so somebody appreciates his career and accomplishments. The bad news is that he thinks he no longer needs a bullet-proof car, meaning the end of his political viability.

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.

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.

(snip)

“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.

Al Sharpton wants to “close NYC down” (good luck with that). Remember that two of the three cops were black, and that they waived a jury trial, in order to have their case heard and decided by a judge. Al Sharpton should blame the prosecutors, because they, as lawyers, couldn’t convince another lawyer beyond a reasonable doubt. Assuming that they ever could have.

WKMG-CBS-6 Orlando:

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Men dressed in black with covered faces are hunting and then slashing random strangers with razor blades as part of a gang initiation, police warned residents.

Investigators said a gang in Flagler County is sending its future members to Daytona Beach to seek out victims to cut.

Once a gang recruit slashes a stranger, he gains the respect of his peers and is inducted into their underground society, police told Local 6’s Tarik Minor.

We aren’t told much about the gang, but we do know something about one of its victims. If all of their victims share one obvious similarity with this victim, then this might tell us something about this gang.

And proud to be jacked by them, too?

Fox News:

Mexican Embassy: Official Fired After Getting Caught With White House BlackBerries

Whether he was up to no good or simply desperate to play BrickBreaker, a Mexican press attaché was caught on camera pocketing several White House BlackBerries during a recent meeting in New Orleans and has since been fired, FOX News has learned.

Sources with knowledge of the incident said the official, Rafael Quintero Curiel, served as the lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation and was responsible for handling logistics and guiding the Mexican media around at the conference.

(snip)

Sources said Quintero Curiel made it all the way to the airport before Secret Service officers caught up with him. He initially denied taking the devices, but after agents showed him the DVD, Quintero Curiel said it was purely accidental, gave them back, claimed diplomatic immunity and left New Orleans with the Mexican delegation.

He was in New Orleans to plan the formal integration of Canada, the USA and Mexico. That way, the next time something like this happens, it will simply be a “domestic theft” on the books.

And by the way, White House CrackBerries?  What did he think he would find on them?  All the real good top secret stuff is on Federal government laptops.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

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?

Boston Globe:

Bill bars gangs from ’safety zones’

Gang members seen talking to one another or standing together on public property could be fined or jailed under a new bill being pushed in the Legislature and supported by some prosecutors and Boston police.
more stories like this

The bill would give broad authority to police and prosecutors to bring civil lawsuits against reputed gangs or their members, forbidding them to hang out together in the neighborhoods and parks that police say they terrorize.

(snip)

Under the bill, suspected gang members would be barred from parks, neighborhoods, and other areas designated as “safety zones,” and police could order groups of three or more gang members found there to leave. The restriction, which would not extend to church or school events, would also impose a 10 p.m. curfew on gang members.

Good luck with that, Boston.  You’re talking about people that have trouble obeying laws against murder, robbery, drug dealing, and so on.  What makes you think they’ll cede to curfews and safety zones?  Assuming that, and assuming that gang members are that easy in a legal sense to identify (gang laws often do not hold up in court, because of the nebulous and informal nature of black and Hispanic street gangs), why stop at a 10 PM curfew and only a few “safety zones?”  Why not make a 24-hour-a-day curfew and make all of Boston a “safety zone?”  Further, why not just round them up using RICO and state equivalents?

Similarly, I cringe whenever I hear one community activist or another calling for a moratorium on violent crime for a finite length of time.  If they have that much power to stop crime for a month, why not make it forever?

UK Telegraph:

Los Angeles ‘is a Third World city’

(snip)

Ernesto Cortes Jr, of the Industrial Areas Foundation, a think-tank that specialises on social change, claimed Los Angeles was at a crossroads.

“The question is are we going to be a 21st century city with shared prosperity, or a Third World city with an elite group on top and most on near poverty wages?” he said.

The answer is yes.

McClatchy:

Kidnappings soar in Mexico as drug gangs seek new income

JUAREZ, Mexico — Daniel Escobedo was driving to school when he stopped for what he thought was a security check at a roadblock in the Mexican city of Juarez , across the border from El Paso, Texas.

Worried about being late for class, he hurriedly handed his driver’s license to the two uniformed men, who he thought were police officers.

Moments later, two dark SUVs screeched to a halt. Armed masked men jumped out and grabbed Escobedo, 21. He spent the next six weeks blindfolded, shuttled between safe houses while a drug-gang leader negotiated a ransom with his father, who’s a lawyer. He was beaten, shocked and burned until his rescue April 1 by Mexican soldiers who’d been tipped that drug dealers were using the house.

“For a month and a half, I thought I was going to die,” Escobedo said.

He’s one of a growing number of kidnapping victims here as Mexico’s drug gangs seek new business to replace lucrative drug smuggling, which has become more dangerous as Mexican authorities pursue the largest anti-drug-trafficking effort ever in the country.

In other words, the Mexican authorities have been a little successful in squelching the drug trade, but not rounding up the drug gangs. And what a surprise — they find a new crime aviendo.

I’m not sure, at least after reading this article from CNS News:

Students Should Study Human Rights Violations of Mexican-Americans, Lawmaker Says

During the 1930s, the U.S. government “violated the human rights of many Americans of Mexican ancestry” by deporting an estimated 2 million of them to Mexico, a California lawmaker says.

State Sen. Gil Cedillo, a Los Angeles Democrat, has introduced a bill (SB 1214) that would require the California Education Department to incorporate the “unconstitutional deportations” of the 1930s into the Social Studies curriculum for public schol students in 7th through 12th grades. The deportations would be added to the list of human rights issues that students learn about.

“By incorporating this historical event in our history books and making curriculum accessible to educators we can begin educating our future generations in order to prevent future imminent violation of human rights,” Cedillo says on his Web site.

Actually, it will probably serve to provoke anger, rage, jealousy, resentment and hate in the minds of young Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, and provoke a few of them to commit violent hate crimes against “gringos.” So much for human rights.

Cedillo and other critics say up to 2 million Americans citizens and legal residents (400,000 in California, they say) were unconstitutionally deported to Mexico. But an in-depth examination by USA Today found that “tens of thousands” of people — “possibly more than 400,000 Mexicans and Mexican-Americans” — were pressured to leave the United States through federal raids and denial of jobs.

The push to remove illegal aliens came at a time when jobs were scarce in this country.

Were they here legally, were they citizens, or were they here illegally? I imagine that it was a combination of all three, and in the 1930s, like the “Operation Wetback” of two decades later demonstrated, most illegal aliens will self-deport if the economic benefits of illegal entry are squelched. No mass roundups required.

BBC:

Muslim call to adopt Mecca time

Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.

Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers.

The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar under the title: Mecca, the Centre of the Earth, Theory and Practice.

One geologist argued that unlike other longitudes, Mecca’s was in perfect alignment to magnetic north.

He said the English had imposed GMT on the rest of the world by force when Britain was a big colonial power, and it was about time that changed.

Yet, this probably won’t preclude a lot of Muslims from immigrating to England and living in London.

WBBM-CBS-2 Chicago:

Bloody Weekend: 32 Shot, 2 Stabbed, 6 Dead

A violent and deadly weekend continues in Chicago. At least 12 people have been shot, two of them killed, since Saturday morning. Two others were stabbed in a home invasion. This comes after at least 20 people were shot, four of them killed, from Friday night through early Saturday.

A 28-year-old man was shot and killed at an auto body repair shop on the Southwest Side Saturday morning. Raul Lemus was shot in the stomach at 2520 W. 59th St. at about 11:20 a.m.

Lemus, of 4630 S. Talman Av., died several hours later at Stroger Hospital, making him the sixth person killed in Chicago since Friday night. Police said the shooting appeared to be gang related.

Also Saturday morning, Michael Giles, 26, was shot and killed inside his home at 336 N. Avers Av. Harrison Area detectives are investigating.

In another case, a suspect toting an AK-47 has been charged with murder and three counts of attempted murder after allegedly killing a man and shooting at police. Bennie Teague, 39, was denied bond in the case Sunday afternoon.

It’s amazing no one was hurt during the shootout between police and Teague, who was firing an assault rifle. Police say the gunman opened fire on them Friday night at 110th and South Union. They tracked him down after he allegedly shot and killed 34-year-old Marcus Hendricks inside a plumbing business a few blocks away.

(snip)

“To put the shooting in perspective, you have to consider this was a 17-hour window,” said Chicago Police spokesperson Monique Bond about the number of shootings.

Chicago police are now stepping up patrols in areas that they call “hot zones.” Police blame the warmer temperatures for the spike in violence.

“We know that we’re approaching warmer weather, the summer season. We know that this is going to be a very busy season for the Chicago Police Department. There’s no doubt about that,” Bond said.

Yep, one long hot summer in Chicagograd.  And keep in mind that summer is warmer than spring — so this means that the “32 Shot, 2 Stabbed, 6 Dead” that was a nightly occurrence in April will be an hourly occurrence in July.  But be of good cheer.  Maybe one of these years, Chicago’s gun ban will work.  “Hot zones.”  I wonder if these zones have something in common.  Also get ready for the gang mitigation industry to pass the taxpayer collection plate around.

Likewise, St. Louis had a relatively exciting weekend in this stead.  There were two different incidents of triple shooting victims.  One of them resulted in all three victims being killed, while the other (IIRC) resulted in no fatal victims.

National Examiner:

A massive drug-trafficking ring circulated methamphetamine around the country via buses, vehicles disguised as satellite TV trucks and complex, electronically triggered hiding spots inside cars, authorities said Thursday.

The drug trade began in Mexico, where methamphetamine can be made more easily than in the U.S., said Jane Duke, federal prosecutor for the eastern district of Arkansas. Many U.S. states, including Arkansas, regulate the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, ingredients found in cold medicine that can be used in bulk to make meth.

A three-year investigation - dubbed “Tienda Hielo” or “Ice Store” - into the drug ring has led to about 65 arrests and the seizure of more than 100 pounds of meth, which would have a street value of about $11 million, Duke said. Local, state and federal authorities announced the drug bust Thursday.

According to Duke, the drug was manufactured in Mexico, then brought over the border into San Diego. From there, couriers would transport the drugs throughout the country, sometimes carried on passenger buses cross-country, other times in so-called “clone trucks,” which are made to look like commercial trucks delivering soft drinks or food, said Lt. Keith Eremea of the Arkansas State Police.

Eremea said state troopers are trained to look “for things that just don’t look right.” According to Eremea, drugs are sometimes hidden in complicated electronic traps that can only be accessed through certain settings on the car. For example, a hiding place would open up only if the cruise control was on and the air conditioner was set to a certain level.

Speaking of which, the Post has an editorial today about the futility of strengthening Missouri’s current restrictions on ephederine tablet purchases, and the paranoia about meth lab busts, because Missouri’s labs were trailer park operations that in the aggregate did not produce too much volume.  The Post noted that meth addicts, who need a new source now that the domestic meth industry is dead, are turning to Mexican suppliers.  What was surprising about this editorial is that the Post, like most major American papers, is in support of amnesty and virtually open borders.

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.

(snip)

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.

All this hatin’ just brings me up:

Nearly 300 illegal immigrants were convicted on driving-while-impaired charges and placed in North Carolina prisons in 2007.

Hispanics also account for 18 percent of drunken-driving arrests, while making up less than 7 percent of the state’s population, according to a study from the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center aired in [*****]’s documentary “Focal Point: Crossing the Line.”

The study also showed that Hispanics involved in car crashes were 2.5 times more likely to be drunk than white drivers and three times more likely to be drunk than black drivers.

In the three cases listed above, each of the accused drunken drivers had extensive contact with the judicial system – but had managed to elude the immigration system until these incidents.

Surely, this has to be from some organization or institution that the Paranoia-Industrial Complex is none too happy with?

Unless WRAL, the CBS affiliate in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. is an SPLC-categorized hate group, then the answer is no.

Lighter is less corrupt, darker is more corrupt.

The axiom is clouded a bit by the fact that Argentina (the whitest country in South America) and Russia are relatively dark on this map.