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Today’s Washington Post  discusses The Birthright Debate — whether the 14th Amendment should be changed so that children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents are not automatically citizens.

This, to me, is the wrong question.  I have no problem with the children’s being citizens.  However, the parents should still be deported.  After all, criminals do not escape jail time simply because they have children.  Still, to avoid breaking up families, we should offer the parents a choice — leave your children here to be US citizens, or take them with you when you are deported and forfeit their US citizenship.

That is the simple solution.

Now, what I really want to talk about is the author’s claim that,

What is needed is… serious legislation that provides a path to citizenship for those who have been in the country illegally but have otherwise been law-abiding, productive members of society.

Of course, he gave no reason why such legislation is needed, because there is no such reason.  Reason is foreign to liberals.  Hence the idea of the “otherwise law-abiding, productive” illegal immigrant.

Let’s see if we can apply a little reason to see whether that mythical being can exist.  How can an illegal immigrant be productive.  Well, I assume he would have to be productive.  To be productive, would he not need an occupation?  You know, a JOB?  If he has a job, he is, by definition, not “otherwise law-abiding.”

Well, you say, what about volunteer work — isn’t that productive?  It certainly can be, but it also does not pay.  So how does this illegal immigrant doing only volunteer work support himself?  Off the charity of others, no doubt.  But almost invariably the cost of living in the illegal’s home country is lower than it is here, so if he is living off the charity of others, would not that charity go further if he were in his home country?  Our poverty level is set at $10,830/yr. for a single person.  The World Bank poverty level is $730/yr.  So keeping someone out of poverty is almost 15 times more expensive here than in the Third World, whence come most illegal immigrants.

Why do liberals have compassion for the illegal immigrant, and want our government to support him, but not for the 15 others who did not break our laws and whom we could be supporting instead?

Taking a cue from John F. Kerry Obama was for the Mosque at ground zero before he was against it.

According to Obama, Americans are mean. According to Obama, we are bigoted. According to Obama, America, once again, is in dire need of a lecture from its betters. Americans are Neanderthals because we are offended by a 130 ft tall monument to the successful murder of 3000 Americans by Islamic Jihadists. We needed to be scolded once again.

Being the weasel that he really is, he is now backpedaling as fast as he can in the face of the righteous indignation of the American people. America is outraged by the monument to Islamic Fascism at ground zero. Americans are not interested in being scolded by the DOTUS. Americans are tired of the mindless politically correct drivel coming from the likes of Obama.

So now Obama is against this Mosque. Having stuck his foot in it, he also stuck his foot in his mouth, and the Apologist in Chief does not like the taste one little bit. It is the taste of a wholesale rejection by the American people in this matter.

In deciding to end the stay of his ruling that California’s constitutional ban on homosexual marriage, Judge Walker reasoned that

[He's] not sure the proponents have the authority to appeal since they would not be affected by or responsible for implementing his ruling.

Furthermore,

Based on his interpretation of [the appellate court] rules, it appears the ban’s sponsors can only appeal his decision with the backing of either Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger or Attorney General Jerry Brown, Walker said. But that seems unlikely as both officials refused to defend Proposition 8 in Walker’s court and said last week they see no reason why gay couples should not be able to tie the knot now.

Schwarzenegger and Brown’s refusal to defend the Constitutional Amendment passed by the California voters is nothing less than dereliction of duty.  The Attorney General, particularly, has a duty to defend his State’s Constitution in court, whether he personally agrees with it or not.

Should our police only enforce the laws they agree with?  Should our States prosecutors only prosecute violations of laws they personally like?

If you cannot do your job, Mr. Brown, resign.

From yesterday’s column by Catharine Evans:

Virginia has become the newest target for the Chicago corruptocrats. The Commonwealth recently gained national attention when Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli stood his ground by filing a lawsuit against Obamacare and clarifying the state’s policy on illegal immigration.

The Obama administration is not happy. Like the mob, they can’t go after the state officials, that’s too obvious. They’ll just hit them where it hurts–like laying off innocent constituents in droves. Maybe the sight of 5,000 men and women looking for work in a 9.5% unemployment economy will change Cuccinelli’s mind. The Chicago Four, Michelle, Valerie, Rahm, and Barack are out to teach Virginia a lesson: mess with our Leftist agenda and we’ll get even.

The Obamas seem particularly ignorant of what it is exactly that holds a nation together.

According to Investor’s Business Daily, the 2nd Quarter GDP will be revised downward to reflect the increase in imports.

GDP means “Gross Domestic Product.”  What does the value of our imports have to do with how much we produce?

Can someone explain this to me?  I just don’t get it.

Hat-tip to JLP at All Financial Matters.

An Obituary You Should All Read

A foreign perspective on the Obama aristocracy:

She really is the modern-day Marie Antoinette.

That liberals lie, about just about everything, is hardly news.  Still, I’d like to discuss one lie in particular — that entering the United States in violation of the law, or remaining here in violation of the law, is not a crime, but merely a “civil offense.”

This particular lie is a response to the A.G.’s opinion that police officers can ask about one’s immigration status at a traffic stop.  The lie in response comes from Aaron Haas, writing in the Roanoke Times:

[The Attorney General] says that officers may briefly detain and question a person if they have a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed. This is called an “Adams” stop, but does not apply to immigration violations because they are civil offenses, not crimes.

Apparently, Mr. Haas has not actually read the law:

§ 1325. Improper entry by alien

(a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts

Any alien who

(1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or

(2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers,  or

(3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

Civil penalties under this subsection are in addition to, and not in lieu of, any criminal or other civil penalties that may be imposed.

So aside from these idiots calling the rest of us racists, what is the Democrat strategy to get anyone to vote for them? Conway is obviously desperate. What is really pathetic is how bankrupt the Democrats are when it comes to ideas. Stimulus anyone?

A friend of mine, and of this blog, has really taken a financial beating lately because the family breadwinner happens to be in one of the U.S. and Virginia governments’ most un-favored classes:

Citizen, carpenter.

If any of you need any work done that does not require high-ladder work, please respond in the comments and I will connect you with him. Even if it is a small job, it would make a difference. This is a family that does not want to ask for handouts but just wants a chance to do something useful and get paid for it. What a shame that that proposition has now become completely iffy in today’s pro-illegal environment.

As most of our readers know, American blue-collar tradespeople have been relegated to the dumpster by Virginia’s state government and the disastrous presidencies of Clinton, Bush and Obama. Companies using illegal workers have been undercutting the bids of those playing by the rules to such a degree that American workers have been completely shut out. Both Virginia and the federal government have winked at this and given tacit approval for years. Bob McDonnell gives absolutely no indication of wanting to balance the playing field for those who play by the rules, so we can assume that life is going to pretty much suck for any legal resident of Virginia who was unlucky enough to learn a trade.

I, frankly, welcome any opportunity to stick it to the man while supporting my fellow citizens, and therefore have made it a point to make sure that anyone doing work for us uses legal workers. It is not easy, actually, because it is like navigating a black market to find a company still in existence that actually plays by the rules.

Please note, the Bulletproof Monk has exactly one such company, and if you need work done, by all means contact that man.

But it would also be good if you were interested in contacting this American carpenter in Sterling who just wants a chance to do some work, and whose family is really in a lot of pain right now as a result of Virginia’s employment law enforcement which is entirely skewed toward companies that use illegal workers.

At least, give him and the Monk a shot at your job. Leave a note in the comments if you want a job quote. Thank you.

You can see from the questions and their repetition that MSM cannot imagine what they are seeing.

We are evolving into a nation of moochers, a process which has been apace for years but the twist now is we are mooching off of Americans who do not yet pay taxes and in fact have not yet been born. It is happening at the state level – thank goodness, not so much in mine – but it is the federal government we should all be very concerned about right now. The theft taking place under the Democrats, who have controlled Congress since 2007, and President Barack Obama is unprecedented in its scale.

As Smitty notes in one of the best blog posts I’ve seen in weeks:

Remember, this hairball has been a century in the making, and will, at bare minimum, require a decade of your best effort just to get that hydra chopped down to something reasonably un-lethal. Incumbency is the enemy. We The People can either rule, or enjoy slavery.

Go read it all, read it again, and then get your game face on for the campaign season which is about to begin.

Our focus must be 100% on the Democrats in public office who are pushing us further into debt slavery.

Just some recent examples to highlight the absurd level of heedlessness these larcenists are operating at:

- $23 million to promote abortion in Kenya.
- $192 million on signs promoting the utterly failed $797 billion “stimulus” boondoggle.
- $22 million to provide high-tech training … to workers in South Asia.
- And now they are poised to steal billions more to reward reckless borrowers in mortgages they can’t afford. You and your children and grandchildren will be paying the moochers’ bills.

This is all being financed with money our country does not have – debt imposed on future generations.

The federal government is filthy with programs we cannot afford and institutions which never should have existed in the first place. There needs to be a housecleaning of Robespierrian proportions, a slash-and-burn campaign on the federal budget. The federal government is meant to provide national security: Everything else should be on the chopping block. Our rule of thumb going forward should be “take it over and shut it down.”

Those who pay for the government must be in charge of the government. Those people, companies, industries and factions who are financially supported by it will receive only what we decide to give them.

To be sure, it has taken both Democrats and Republicans to get us into this mess. A bipartisan line of personages stretching from decades in the past up to the present day deserve a pox on their houses. We can’t separate all the wheat from the chaff along party lines. So if the Republicans currently holding office and the ones we will be putting in office from 2010 through 2014 do not take immediate action to reverse the criminal direction of the federal government we need to end their political careers with extreme prejudice. But let’s face it, the GOP is our only hope. Republicans certainly contributed to our precarious financial situation but Democrats have taken the theft to an entirely new level and one from which our nation may never be able to recover.

It should be more than evident simply by who brought us Obamacare and who did not which party needs to be chastened and which one needs to be tossed in the dustbin of history.

Anyone with the gall to run for public office under the Democrat party banner must be laughed out of all public forums and if they will not slink from the stage they must be shamed and scorned, because they no longer deserve to show their faces in civil society. This cabal of Democrat office holders is guilty of the attempted murder of American liberty. Their misdeeds must be memorialized in perpetuity so the destructive path of our current federal government is never taken again. Having a “D” after your name should be treated as the equivalent of membership in Cosa Nostra and assigned a similar degree of respect in American public life.

There are many problems facing our country and voters are motivated by different concerns, but the threat which should have our laser focus is the one that is in the process of turning us into a third-world nation over the next 20 years. Debt slavery should have every American’s attention. Those who will do the hard work of liberating us should have our undying support. The primary racketeers – elected Democrats, public employee unions, ACORN spin-offs and all the other leftist organizations – are threats to our nation’s future and should be viewed with all appropriate seriousness.

“Of course I’ll do it, I’m the right-wing Judy Garland!”

That the wonderful Ann Coulter should be the only keynote suggested by planners of the gay conservative conference seems right on numerous levels, but most of all to hear her current take on John Edwards (which caused such hyperventilating a few years ago), whose amazing metamorphosis really deserves further comment.

If you are gay you gotta love Ann Coulter. If you are straight you GOTTA love Ann Coulter. If your skin tone falls anywhere between obsidian and albino you gotta love Ann Coulter. So let’s just say: If you are a thinking human being in the year of our Lord 2010, when the Democrats have brought America to the brink of extinction, you gotta love Ann Coulter. That is an order.

UPDATE: “Dream Babe” typo fixed. Obviously, Ann is at best “II” after original Dream Babe Linda B. Won’t make that mistake again, sorry.

“There’s a place I know where there’s gonna be jobs real soon ….”

An instant modern classic.

Hat tip to old buddy Bob in Herndon.

Never before released, the Marcela Hoeven bikini photos are causing an uproar throughout the nation.

To cut to the chase: Her father, John Hoeven, is running for Governor of North Dakota, but his daughter looks good in a bikini. And there are photos!

Her dad might be the next governor of North Dakota, but she's wearing a bikini. Deal with it, America.

Beautiful women exposing their bodies is a national crisis. I, for one, am willing to say that I recognize the problem.

No one can possibly know where this will all end, but all I know is if I was a Republican running for office right now I would be hearing footsteps: footsteps of a girl, who is a Republican, who is wearing a bikini, wandering into camera range. One little click and you have a beautiful Republican on the Internet for all the world to see. It brings chills.

UPDATE: Camp of the Saints says it is not a crisis, but just another beautiful Republican woman.

If you want “scandal.” Dave C can tell you about scandal.

Daley Gator is shocked.

Also, The Other McCain has a pretty interesting comment thread going on this topic.