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Escaping Liberalism?

February 25th, 2008 · Comments Off

Hat tip to David Codrea at The War on Guns:
The Heartland Institute put out an interesting article about how people are fleeing more repressive states.
The Heartland Institute’s mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Employment · Government · Guns · Media · Money · Taxes · The Left · The Right · The US

A Closer Look At The Amnesty Bill, #2

June 20th, 2007 · Comments Off

From The Aspen Times:

Have you reviewed the statistics concerning the behavior of the illegal aliens who are here already? It might give you a good idea of about who you are planning to let in.
Specifically, have you read the crime statistics: the number of felons per 1,000 illegal aliens; the number of pedophiles, rapists, drunken [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Employment · Government · Immigration · Mexico · Taxes · The US

A Closer Look At The Amnesty Bill, #1

June 19th, 2007 · Comments Off

From The Aspen Times:

First of all, according to U.S .Border Control (www.usbc.org), which has done exhaustive research, it’s 20 million illegal aliens, not 12 million.
And, it appears that this bill would allow these 20 million to bring in their immediate family members - parents, children, brothers and sisters, and, of course, a spouse. This means [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Employment · Government · Immigration · Mexico · Taxes · The US

George Bush: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

June 8th, 2007 · Comments Off

And here we watch the last remnants of Conservatism whither and die from within the Republican Party.

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Tags: Crime/Law · Employment · Government · Immigration · Money · Taxes · The Right · The US

Don’t Illegal Aliens Help The US Economy?

May 31st, 2007 · Comments Off

Well, they DO stimulate the economy in these ways:

Immigration from 1925-1965 averaged 178,000 per year. As of 2003, we’re taking in approximately 1.1 million legal immigrants & up to 700,000 illegal aliens annually. In 2004, the Border Patrol estimates that 3 million illegal aliens entered the U.S.
Currently, we have 294 million people, but [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Employment · Government · Health · Immigration · Mexico · Money · School · Taxes · The US

More On The Immigration Reform Act Of 2007

May 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off

The Immigration Reform Act Of 2007. Belch.
The bipartisan immigration “reform” legislation pushed by Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and Jon Kyl and others, applauded by Michael Chertoff, the secretary of Homeland Security, and Carlos Gutierrez, the secretary of Commerce, is an amnesty disaster in the making.
What is a good definition of amnesty? Pardoning lawbreakers [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Employment · Government · Health · Immigration · Mexico · School · The Left · The Right · The US

More On The Immigration Reform Act Of 2007

May 21st, 2007 · Comments Off

The Immigration Reform Act Of 2007. Belch.
This hideous piece of legislation has nothing to do with immigration reform. It is amnesty, vote buying, and pandering, and nothing more.
This is all about the rule of law. Do our elected officials enforce our laws or don’t they? Every single one of these people who crossed [...]