Tell us again, Democrats, how border security is racist:

The Virginia man suspected in a drunken-driving crash that killed a Catholic nun in Prince William County this weekend is an illegal immigrant and repeat offender who was awaiting deportation and who federal immigration authorities had released pending further proceedings, police said Monday…

The man has been arrested, before. The man is supposed to be deported. So, what does our federal government do? Let him go. They let him GO!!! That is what is wrong – the failure to enforce the laws; the failure to protect the American people. Had the government done its job, then Sister Denise Mosier would still be alive – as would so many other people around the country over the years.

How many people have been murdered, raped, beaten and robbed by criminals among the ranks of the illegals? Think about it – you’ve seen the stories over the years, and how many of them had some sort of information indicating the perpetrator had prior run-ins with the law? And its not just us – the illegals, themselves, suffer from the criminal element. How many poor, foreign people have been murdered, raped, beaten and robbed by the criminals who control our border because we refuse to?

I don’t care if the wall has to cover every inch of border and if it has to be 100 feet high and electrified – whatever it takes to secure the border, must be done. Its not racist – it is basic justice; it is the basic task of government, that of protecting the innocent…and all of you out there who in any way, shape or form consider the move for border security to be racist, then the blood of the innocents is on your hands, too – because you choose to live a political lie rather than advocate for what is simply the right thing to do.

From Heritage:

Many state leaders are lobbying the Senate to extend the Medicaid bailout enacted in the February 2009 stimulus bill. While several attempts by Senate leaders to extend the bailout have failed, it will be brought to the floor again on Monday, this time bundled with additional spending on education.

Talk about throwing good money after bad.

For both Medicaid and education funding, a continued bailout would disproportionately benefit the most irresponsible states and would allow them to delay taking the steps they must to live within their means…

While bailing out Medicare seems, on the face of it, an honorable and charitable thing to do, the fact of the matter is that if you give an irresponsible State money to cover that, it frees up funds for them to continue their irresponsibility elsewhere. After all, what State legislature or governor will want to cut State funds to Medicare? So, faced between Medicare cuts and cuts to worthless pork, the States would be forced to cut the worthless pork – unless Uncle Sugar comes to the rescue.

All government budgets are bloated with things not vital to the safety and liberty of the American people. From the tiniest town council to the federal government, there are things which can be cut and the only people who would miss them are grafting politicians and special interests living off the public dime. To bail out any part of the system just perpetuates the problem.

It is time for government to live within its means – to figure out how much money they really expect to have next year, and make the budget fit that amount. We’re heading off a cliff of financial irresponsibility and we’ve only got a couple years left to pull back from it – we should start right here and right now: no bail outs for the States.

From Rasmussen:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 46% of Likely Voters would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate, while 38% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Support for Republicans held steady from last week, while support for Democrats inched up two points.

That “inch up” of two points seems to have been detected by other pollsters and is being used for comment-fodder: the story is that Democrats have stopped the bleeding and can now recover a bit. I doubt it – anything is possible, but for there to be a shift back to the Democrats there would have to be some very good news about the nation as a whole, or some very bad news about the GOP. Neither of these things have happened, so I figure that the slight rise in Democrat numbers is just a statistical blip.

Time will tell in these matters, but the longer it takes for any good news to emerge for Democrats, the less likely it is they will recover even modestly by November. Meanwhile, more people now blame Obama for the economy than blame President Bush.

From Hot Air:

Federal judge Henry Hudson has refused to dismiss a challenge from Virginia on the constitutionality of the individual mandate in ObamaCare. The case will have to move to trial, and could imperil the entire overhaul…

A small victory, but an important one – once in court, we can eventually take it to the Supreme Court, which might strike down all or part of ObamaCare as it is so clearly unconstitutional.

Still, the bigger fight is for votes – the only way to drive a stake in the heart of socialized medicine is to repeal the whole thing. Repeal and replace – and replace with free market ideals which actually allows doctors and patients to have control over health care (there’s a novel idea our liberals will never understand).

Every advance is a good thing, and this is a good day for all who love liberty.

Interesting, to say the least:

…”Does anyone read the U.S. Constitution these days? American lawyers don’t read it. Federal Judge Susan R. Bolton apparently has never read it. Same goes for our illustrious Attorney General Eric Holder. But this lawyer has read it and she is going to show you something in Our Constitution which is as plain as the nose on your face.

“Article III, Sec. 2, clause 2 says:

“In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction.”…

Any laywers out there who can render a judgment? It seems pretty clear to me – the State of Arizona is a Party in this case, and thus it seems to be that you can only apply to the Supreme Court for redress. Of course, Constitutional provisions have been so atrophied by liberal judges over the years that it wouldn’t surprise me that no one even considered this.

From the Telegraph:

…Mr Manning, who is openly homosexual, began his gloomy postings on January 12, saying: “Bradley Manning didn’t want this fight. Too much to lose, too fast.”

At the beginning of May, when he was serving at a US military base near Baghdad, he changed his status to: “Bradley Manning is now left with the sinking feeling that he doesn’t have anything left.”

Five days later he said he was “livid” after being “lectured by ex-boyfriend”, then later the same day said he was “not a piece of equipment” and was “beyond frustrated with people and society at large”.

His tagline on his personal page reads: “Take me for who I am, or face the consequences!” …

Bitter and frustrated, I guess he decided to lash out – in the manner of a spoiled, rotten little child. The fool probably still doesn’t realize that while he didn’t tell any perceptive observer anything new, he did release the names and addresses of people who might now pay with their lives for his indiscretion.

Normally, I judge these sorts of actions to be worth ten or twenty years in prison – but life at hard labor hardly seems sufficient punishment for this craven, pipsqueak of a “man”.

From News9 Oklahoma:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering a crackdown on farm dust, so senators have signed a letter addressing their concerns on the possible regulations.

The letter dated July 23 to the EPA states, “If approved, would establish the most stringent and unparalleled regulation of dust in our nation’s history.” It further states, “We respect efforts for a clean and healthy environment, but not at the expense of common sense. These identified levels will be extremely burdensome for farmers and livestock producers to attain. Whether its livestock kicking up dust, soybeans being combined on a dry day in the fall, or driving a car down the gravel road, dust is a naturally occurring event.”…

The economy falls apart. The world grows more dangerous. We’ve got a genuine environmental crisis still to deal with in the Gulf. What does the EPA do? Regulate dust. Dust!!!!

Its dust, you morons – it is what happens when you do dirty, back breaking work; dust gets made and blown around. Of course, how could a bunch of pinhead, liberal bureaucrats in DC expect to know this? When as the last time any advocate for the environment actually do a hard day’s work in the environment?

Harry Reid and his Democrats are hitting Sharron Angle for wanting to abolish the EPA. We get this on an ad, and everyone will understand why. Stupid people doing stupid things vs the people who feed us. No one need guess who’s side I’m on.

HuffPo points out that some GOPers are not making an issue out of Rangel’s corruption:

…there were those in the Republican tent who expressed caution about suddenly becoming ethical crusaders.

“Just shut up,” the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol said on “Fox News Sunday” when asked what Republicans should do about Rangel. “There is a bipartisan ethics committee. Let the process go forward they don’t need jump on this — they will just get questioned. Believe me there are plenty of congressman in both parties who have been imperial and arrogant and who have centers named after them … The idea that republicans should go around throwing stones at Charlie Range; is just foolish on their part.”…

Which attitude is just wrong, wrong, wrong. It is the same, old story of insider politics – don’t rock the boat; after all, some of ours are vulnerable, too! To which I answer – if any of ours are vulnerable, then I’ve got extra tar and feathers for them, too…plenty to go ’round.

There are two things keeping corruption strong in DC – Democrat unwillingness to discipline their own, and GOP unwillingness to call Democrats on it. Its like there’s a segment of the GOP – and the larger right – which accepts the Democrat premise that the normal course of events is for Democrats to be in charge, and thus it isn’t for us to hit them very hard and where it hurts the most. This is the sort of spinelessness, combined with eager GOP imitation of Democrat corruption, which made the last 4 years of the GOP Congress so disgusting – and which led to our well-deserved defeat.

We must hit out at every element of corruption in government. From top to bottom, all of those who have used the American nation for personal profit and political advancement must be condemned and punished. Don’t get me wrong, I feel for Charlie Rangel – I really do. The man fought with incredible bravery for our nation in Korea and, while a liberal, he was once upon a time a voice for the common man…the pity is that he stayed in office too long and got too wrapped up in power and wealth. Now, he’s disgraced himself and its painful to see – but he must pay the price.

This is not mercilessness – it is simply what must be done. The higher a man rises, the more swift and severe must his punishment be when he strays from the straight and narrow. The worst thing we can do – for Charlie Rangel and for America – is to soft peddle this and try to pretend its not that bad and, perhaps, maybe Rangel should just be allowed to gracefully retire in his Congressional pension and all the wealth political corruption has brought him. This would be a hideous deformity of justice, and also quite merciless…to those who would follow after Rangel and who would think that its ok, you can get away with it – go ahead, take the bribe.

Day in and day out, any time such things come up, we must talk about them, condemn them – hound the miscreants out of office and make extreme examples of them. For their own sakes, for the sake of those who come after and for the safety and liberty of the people of the United States, we must shout to the heavens about corruption, where ever we find it – most certainly we should not “shut up” and let the political class just look after things, themselves.

Do we want a government of, by and for the people? Then we, the people, will have to be watch dogs – and never let the slightest thing get past us.

From Mish, regarding Greenspan’s comment that we may see a “quasi-recession”:

…this all depends on your definition of recession as well as the meaning of “quasi”. A quick dictionary check of “quasi” shows the meaning is “resembling; seeming;”

This sure does seem like a recession. However, please note that the NBER has still not proclaimed the end of the recession that started in 2007. Thus, it is quite likely that the US is still in recession and “quasi” needs to be dropped.

At least Greenspan minced words in the proper direction. For example “Quasi Recovery” would mean something that “seems like a recovery” even though it isn’t…

Slowly but surely the elite are swinging ’round to admitting that all is not well in the post-TARP, post-stimulus economic world. Truth is being doled out to the American people in little doses – trouble for the elite, here, is that while they’ve been talking up recovery for 9 months, the American people never really bought it. It is a hard sell, isn’t it, when you’re trying to convince people “underwater” on their mortgages and in fear of losing their jobs that things are getting better…

My belief remains that at the end of the day, when the numbers are all crunched a couple years from now, it will be revealed that we never experience any recovery, at all: that ever since the start of the recession in 2007, the private economy has continued contract. Slower at some times than others, but always ever less wealth – our ability to create new wealth destroyed by a mountain of debt and a tax and regulatory system which rewards the establishment and punishes the entrepreneur.

The climb out will be long and hard, and won’t start until we have a fundamental change in government policy.

From Atlanta’s channel 11 news:

…The President will fly into town Monday morning.

If you think this will be a time for Democrats running for office to rally around the chief executive- -you probably haven’t been following the campaigns this summer.

Former Governor Roy Barnes will not be available to meet Mr. Obama. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate will be somewhere in Georgia- – far from Atlanta…

Two years ago it was August of 2008 and Democrats around the nation would beg for even the least Obama appearance – now, they don’t want to be within a country mile of him. Fellow Republicans, we do actually owe Obama a vote of thanks here: due to his diligent liberalism, we on the right now have more hope for more change than we ever thought possible.