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A friend from South Carolina tells me there is a rumor of Lindsay Graham as John McCain’s running mate. Now wouldn’t that just be the cherry on this sundae?

For one, we know McCain would likely pick Kim Jong-Il before he would invite Mitt Romney onto the ticket so we know that ain’t gonna happen. Ace has the rumor of McCain-Huckabee, but that just seems too neat for the Maverick. The Maverick, in my view, would not simply want to spit in our faces but would need to remind everyone he is his own man, so I’m giving the Lindsay Graham rumor some credence.

U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber has ruled that the City of Valley Park, Missouri’s “Illegal Immigration Relief Act” – which makes it illegal to knowingly hire unauthorized workers – does not preempt federal law.

A good overview of the decision is at ImmigrationProf Blog, and
here is a news report from the Examiner.

The city ordinance states:

It is unlawful for any business entity to knowingly recruit, hire for employment, or continue to employ, or to permit, dispatch, or instruct any person who is an unlawful worker to perform work in whole or in part within the City.

This ruling contradicts the earlier federal court opinion (in another district) against Hazleton, PA which is being appealed.

The lead attorney for both cities is Kris Kobach, who has just joined Mitt Romney’s team as advisor on border security and immigration reform issues.

In 2005, Kobach authored the definitive explanation of local and state law enforcement authority to enforce federal immigration law and the limits of federal preemption. (“Preemption” is the number one rationale given by local and state legislators seeking an excuse to ignore illegal immigration.)

The Valley Park decision represents a significant setback for the ACLU, MALDEF, and other pro-illegal organizations which have attempted to employ legal maneuvers to restrict local jurisdictions from enforcing immigration laws. The decision is a huge boost for states and municipalities which are considering or have passed laws against illegal hiring practices. Public officials and citizens groups advocating honest business practices have just received a shot in the arm and can be expected to redouble their efforts to pass such laws and ordinances in an ever widening number of jurisdictions.

It seems most people have no idea what can be done to reverse the illegal immigration trend. Simply informing our fellow legal residents about what these other jurisdictions have done – publicizing the content of these ordinances – will go a long way toward building public sentiment to crack down on illegal hiring practices.

This has got to be one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen. It also seems that those of a liberal mindset think it could work. Check this out:

 Gun Free Zone

What I see as the real problem with gun control is that “good guys” don’t need to have their guns controlled, but “bad guys” do. What the video shows is that the supposed “bad guy” is going to abide by the signs.

We cannot stop illegal drugs like cocaine from entering the country, and people think we are going to stop illegal guns? Sometimes I think that people that want to implement gun control just don’t have a clue. The “bad guys” are out there.  Even if every gun was gone from the planet, the “bad guys” would still be bad, but it would make the big bad guy the one that became the top dog.

Bad guys don’t need guns to be bad. They can use a baseball bat, an ax, their bare hands if they are big enough. If nobody has guns, the bad guys would use machetes or meat cleavers, or clubs, or whatever. The one thing you can depend upon is that bad guys are bad.

If you have 100 good guys with guns standing around, you aren’t going to have a bad guy trying to kill 20 people (or rob someone, or anything else). In Richmond a recent anti-gun protester was upset that some 400 people that were supporting second amendment rights. He yelled at a group: “It’s people like you that cause massacres  like the one at Virginia Tech.” One of the people supporting the second amendment called back to him: “I’ll guarantee there won’t be any massacre here today!” I’d feel much safer with 100 people that have undergone a criminal background check carrying a gun than with no guns around (especially if it is known that the place I was visiting is a “gun free zone” — which you could also call a “safe for criminals zone”.

Duncan Hunter just held a teleconference in which one of the questions was why he endorsed the Huckster – when the Huckster’s continuation in the presidential race will likely result in John McCain as the Republican nominee. The questioner also seemed to imply he’d like to see Hunter reconsider.

Hunter explained that Mitt Romney’s refusal to work against his former company’s – Bain Capital’s – involvement with the Chinese company Huawei Technologies, or even to answer questions about the association, made Romney a “non-starter” for him. (Hunter had publicly called on Romney to terminate a deal by which Huawei was to purchase a large stake in the American company 3com.)

Hunter explained that Huawei had installed telecom equipment in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and in Afghanistan for the Taliban, work that eventually would be used against U.S. armed forces.

Though he did not say so, the implication was that Romney and Huckabee were the only two Hunter would have considered endorsing at the time he dropped out.

Of course, Hunter was under no obligation to endorse anyone. So why endorse a guy whose record on illegal immigration was so antithetical to Hunter’s own supposedly strongly- held positions? My guess is Hunter has such strong antipathy to Mitt Romney that he wanted to help ensure he would not get the GOP nomination: Endorsing Huckabee would help ensure the Huckster would continue to leech support from Romney.

Undoubtedly, Hunter would rather see McCain in the White House than Romney. Though I supported Hunter, I think this was short sighted in light of what is going to happen within the Republican party if McCain is the nominee. Hunter in effect is saying he would rather see a Democrat in the White House.

UPDATE: A couple of other comments by Duncan Hunter were illuminating and should be reported in the interest of full disclosure: He noted that during one of the debates, Romney did not get the opportunity to answer a question Hunter posed about Bain Capital because the moderator changed the subject. He also said, with reference to Romney’s reported change to a more conservative position on abortion, “I could never understand beating a guy up because he comes over to your way of thinking.”

I am not sure these comments ameliorate what Hunter surely seemed to try to do to Romney with the Huckabee endorsement, but the latter comment would possibly explain why Hunter could endorse a formerly avid open borders guy like the Huckster. Maybe Huckabee just convinced him he’d had a change of heart.

Den of Thieves will be a new periodic series here highlighting organizations whose agendas are in effect geared towards facilitating the theft of America from it’s legal residents – broadly speaking, but basically accurate: the transfer of political and economic power from citizens to non-citizens.

More broadly, and possibly MORE accurate: Facilitating the election of a new electorate.

I encourage all legal residents of the U.S. to familiarize themselves with these organizations because they are BUSY and well-funded.

First up are four nests of thieves we should all be familiar with:

“WeCanStopTheHate” (a new program from top thief La Raza)

“NDN Hispanic Strategy Center”

Locals! “Ayuda Business Coalition”

And this oldie but goodie: “Southern Poverty Law Center” (Actually SPLC is sort of a “thief” in the practical, as well as conceptual, sense, so doubly worth the mention).

If you are serious about trying to make a difference, you must understand the enemy – so please take the time to read through these sites. More to come.

Here is a great essay by Mark Levin on the importance of doing everything we can to help Mitt Romney towards the GOP nomination, the main reason being that John McCain would be an exceptionally poor choice as Republican nominee – because for one, he would likely lose, and two, that would be a good thing.

The Virginia Senate’s most treasonous committee remained true to its stripes today. Reported in the Blog Fu comments, the committee voted 13-2 to kill SB90 which would have begun the process of implementing enforcement of federal hiring law in the state. Stolle voted with the majority.

Cuccinelli once again was in the minority voting for the legal residents.