1. John LeBoutillier: Illegals: Top Issue for Next GOP Candidate
2. Joy Tiz: All Politics is National Now
3. James Hirsen: Jay Leno Faces Tough Crowd at White House Dinner
4. Gerard Lameiro: Will the Financial Overhaul Bill Nationalize America’s Financial Sector?
Illegals: Top Issue for Next GOP Candidate
Illegal immigration is a huge issue that just again surfaced when Arizona enacted and then adjusted a bill making life uncomfortable for the 450,000 illegals living in Arizona. Indeed, this issue – the influx of up to 30 million illegal aliens who have surreptitiously crossed our southern border – is one of the most important issues in every state even though the so-called mainstream media does not want to talk about it. Hospital ERs, public schools and local law enforcement are often overrun by illegal aliens. Budgets are stretched during a tough economy. Jobs are lost and given to below-market illegals who get paid under the table and do not get benefits. This is happening everywhere. Big Business – and the rich – often love this cheap labor. Thus George W. Bush and now his ambitious-to-be-the-third-President Bush, Jeb, embrace amnesty-for-illegals before our southern border is sealed up tight. [more...]
All Politics is National Now
By Joy Tiz
Tip O’Neil was not exactly prescient when he claimed that “all politics is local.” As we learned from Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts (referred to by the president as Massatoosits – this from the ‘great orator’ who can recite the Muslim call to prayer in perfect Arabic) all politics is national now. Americans who have never cared about politics are now fully engaged. One of the few positive side effects of the Obama presidency is the emergence of new citizen candidates getting involved in their local governments. This, by the way, is precisely what our Founding Fathers had in mind – the citizen legislator. As opposed to what we have now, a ruling oligarchy of thoroughly corrupt lifetime politicians. [more...]
Jay Leno Faces Tough Crowd at White House Dinner
By James Hirsen
At the recent White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Jay Leno quipped that he was worried that when Barack Obama was elected “the comedy well at the White House” would dry up. Then he thanked the president for “picking Joe Biden.” Pretty funny stuff. But the assembled media and celebrity crowd responded with the kind of tepid laughter that makes comics cringe. Leno remarked that it was a “tough crowd.” The late-night host perceived the audience correctly since they only responded with gusto to the jokes that were at the expense of Sarah Palin, the GOP, and folks in Arizona. Leno had a well-prepared routine with lots of multimedia material including a photo montage of Obama eating junk food, a new educational program called “Cash for Flunkers,” a video that made fun of the fawning coverage that Obama receives from the press, some hilarious footage of Obama appearing on “The View,” and clips that poked fun at Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. [more...]
Will the Financial Overhaul Bill Nationalize America’s Financial Sector?
Rather than eliminate bailouts of companies that are “too big to fail,” the current bill being debated in the Senate gives vast new powers to the government to regulate whatever companies it chooses to regulate; to determine how to regulate those companies; to determine what companies to give bailouts to; to determine what companies to close down entirely; to determine what creditors to pay; and, to determine how to pay the favored creditors. Talk about power! Talk about control! With the proposed, new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the government also would essentially gain control over credit allocation across the economy. In effect, the government would control the terms and conditions of financial products and services. It could also decide certain practices were “abusive” and shut them down. That’s tremendous control. That’s incredible power over companies and consumers! [more...]
