Steyn on Arizona. You know, he is an immigrant who had taken a job no American wants to do. Well, at least, no American in the MSM wants to do – provide witty and insightful commentary.

A Christian was savagely beaten and sodomized by a mob of Moslem men. The Christians crime? He shaved the beard of a Moslem. As I’ve talked about before – if there is to be peace between people like myself and the people of the Moslem world, then Moslems will have to stop treating my people like garbage. I don’t want to hear another bleat about “Islamophobia” until crimes like this don’t happen any longer.

Palin: We must continue to drill, baby, drill. Which is, of course, the only rational thing to do – naturally, this doesn’t commend itself to liberals. Which is fine – when gasoline hits $4 a gallon this summer, it’ll nicely play in to our hands.

Your tax dollars at work – at the strip club and drinking while driving. We seriously could get away with firing half the employees of government – if nothing else, it might force the remaining half to spruce up and remember they are our servants, not our masters.

In an attempt to put a bit of “fair and balanced” to my above comment, an alternative opinion is offered to fire all of them.

Correlation between contraceptive pills and AIDS? If there is, you won’t find the MSM or the left caring about it. Human life to them is only valuable if it advances the leftist agenda.

Iowahawk strikes again: Citizen Gore

The story:

HFA members may remember a previous article we published about the FDA invading an Amish farm. The story continues with agents invading the Amish farm in Pennsylvaniayet again at 5 a.m. to inspect cow-milking facilities then followed up the next day with a written notice that the farmer was engaged in interstate sale of raw milk in violation of the Public Health Services Act. A failure to correct the situation could result in “seizure and/or injunction,” the warning letter from Kirk Sooter, district director of the Philadelphia office of the Department of Health and Human Services, told farmer Dan Allgyer of Kinzers, Pa., on Wednesday. The farm invaded Tuesday is the one agents visited in February, driving past “Private Property” signs to demand Allgyer open his property for their inspection, saying, “You have cows. You produce food for human consumption.”

If someone wants to sell raw milk it means that someone wants to buy raw milk. Pretty much, that is the end of the story – no need for government to concern themselves over a transaction which has taken place in human society ever since cows were domesticated.

But here comes the Nanny State – as there is a health risk to consuming raw milk, they’re going to bang down the doors of a farmer and tell him to stop or they’ll take his property away from him. Now, I’m sure the FDA is acting in accordance with federal law – but it shouldn’t be. There shouldn’t be a single, federal law regulating the production and sale of milk. People produced and sold milk long before the United States government came to be, and so such activity is covered under the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution – hands off, Uncle Sam!

But that is not what our Statists want – they want full control because they simply cannot imagine that people will make good decisions on their own. And this is the real problem and what we’re fighting against – the destruction of our liberties by a government grown too large.

The news:

Police found an apparent car bomb in a parked sport utility vehicle Saturday evening in New York City’s Times Square, then evacuated buildings and cleared streets of thousands of tourists in “the Crossroads of the World.”

A mounted police officer noticed smoke coming from the SUV at 6:30 p.m., police said. Bomb investigators found propane tanks, powder and an apparent timing device inside, according to a law enforcement official who wasn’t authorized to release the information and spoke on condition of anonymity.

An official tells Fox News that a dark SUV was found to have what initial reports indicated was a “failed incendiary device,” including gasoline, propane and wires.

A man was seen running from the vehicle, but authorities have not been able to find or identify him.

This is a bit frightening. Is it just a kook with a grudge, or part of a larger plot against America? Only time will tell on that.

But let this be a reminder that danger does lurk for us. There are people who wish to kill in great numbers for a variety of sick causes. Eternal vigilance is the prince we’ll have to pay to both protect our selves and preserve our liberty.

Well, they did get it right about Edwards…

Reports out of Washington, DC: PRESIDENT OBAMA in a shocking cheating scandal after being caught in a Washington, DC Hotel with a former campaign aide.

A confidential investigation has learned that Obama first became close to gorgeous 35 year-old VERA BAKER in 2004 when she worked tirelessly to get him elected to the US Senate, raising millions in campaign contributions.

Couple years back we all would have said, “are you kidding? That’s the National Enquirer! Who can believe them?”. But then the MSM stopped reporting negative stuff about Democrats…and now if anyone is going to report it, it’ll be those who have to drive their circulation by the most lurid stories imaginable.

If you’re on the left and don’t like this, then I suggest you talk to your friends in the MSM. Go over carefully with them how important it is to always tell the truth about what is going on, even if it hurts the left. Remember, Edwards with all his nauseating scandals actually had a solid shot of being President simply because the MSM sat on the story.

Mickey Kaus calls them on it:

Participants in Saturday’s pro-amnesty marches are being used by the Democratic party elite, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mickey Kaus charged today.

“There is not going to be an amnesty this year, or next year. The majority of the American people don’t want it, for good reason. They want to secure the borders first,” he said. “Amnesty before we secure the borders would only encourage yet another wave of illegals and hurt the wages of unskilled Americans (and legal immigrants).”

“But every time Democratic politicians in D.C. need to rev up the Latino vote, they dangle the false promise of an amnesty bill. At some point. Latino voters are going to realize they’re being used.”

And do keep in mind that I want an amnesty bill. Not even afraid to call it that – amnesty, amnesty, amnesty! But we must secure the border, first – any proposal which does not secure the border first is either just plain and simple stupid, or a cynical political ploy.

For our Democrats, its the cynical ploy thing – Kaus is right: Democrat leaders are facing a terrible election dynamic and a dispirited base. This is just a sick means of revving them up for the fall.

The nauseating way Democrats conduct themselves just gets worse all the time. We simply must win in November if for no other reason than to just get these creepy people out of power.

UPDATE: Pro-illegal immigration donations were a bust. Only 50,000 in Los Angeles, 6,500 in New York. Heavily organized by leftist groups they still couldn’t get an impressive turn out. We got 10,000+ TEA partiers in the middle of nowhere – these guys can’t even gear up the troops where they are thickest on the ground.

This issue is a loser for the left.

Heading out to Pahrump to attend a memorial Mass for my late mother-in-law. Have fun, boys and girls!

Geesh:

Fearful that America’s Supreme Court will soon strike down Chicago’s handgun ban, frustrated by the Illinois legislature’s rejection of his anti-gun agenda, and repudiated by American courts and legislatures over his plan to sue federally licensed manufacturers and dealers of firearms for third-party crimes, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D) is showing contempt for his own country’s and state’s institutions, by seeking a foreign entity to enforce his anti-gun agenda against the American people.

This week, Daley called for “redress against the gun industry” in the World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands. Forgetting or not caring who his constituents are, Daley blurted “This is coming from international mayors. They’re saying, ‘We’re tired of your guns, America.’”

For crying out loud – does Daley really think we care what foreigners think of us? Daley, Sr is spinning in his grave…

Wow:

Today ABC News, made the news, with massive job cuts. Please consider Job Cuts at ABC Leave Workers Stunned and Downcast.

If “Good Morning America” or “World News” look any different in the coming weeks, it might be because ABC News is employing nearly 400 fewer people.

Earlier this week, ABC News, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, largely completed one of the most drastic rounds of budget cutbacks at a television news operation in decades, affecting roughly a quarter of the staff.

As Mish points out in the link, this is not exactly the sort of thing you’d see in an inflationary economic cycle. Bad news for Obama who believes that inflation means growth; worse news for the people who are betting on a cycle of hyperinflation.

Think of the economy as being kind of worn out. You can give it a blood transfusion and put it in the pink for a little while, but the fundamental flaws are still there.

We need a new economy – one geared towards producing things; the “make/mine/grow” stuff I’m always harping upon. It also needs to be primarily geared towards the needs of family – specifically those families in the process of raising children. In fact, in a certain sense, the only purpose of an economy is to provide the means of raising up children.

Until we get to that sort of economy, we’re just going to keep spinning our wheels.

On display:

The story of this horrible evil deserves righteous anger. It is entirely appropriate to scream and wail. There doesn’t seem to be nearly enough wailing – that may be what is beginning to bother me most. I am enraged by the overriding hush.

The UK Telegraph reported April 28 that in the town of Rossano, Italy, a 22 week-old baby boy was aborted alive, wrapped in a sheet with his umbilical cord still attached and left alone to die. 20 hours later, he was discovered by a priest who went to pray beside his body and noticed that the baby was moving and breathing. Doctors then had the baby taken to a neighboring hospital to be cared for in a neonatal intensive care unit, where he ultimately died, nearly two days after being ripped from his mother’s womb and discarded like trash.

His mother decided to end his life because prenatal scans suggested he was disabled. Suggested. Possibly disabled; declared unworthy to live. He was murdered by heartless animals wearing lab coats, who have medical degrees hung in frames on their office walls. He was handed over to death by the one who was entrusted by God with his care, and he was killed and thrown away by those who take an oath to “first do no harm.”

God have mercy on all of us. This has gone on long enough – human life is not to be discarded as trash.

If you believe that abortion is ok, then you believe this was ok. You are glad such a thing happened, because you believe that human life is, indeed, trash to be discarded.

Do not try to tell my you have compassion in your heart. Do not try to tell me that you care about the helpless and suffering. You agree with legal abortion, then you agree with this.

Make your choice – your real choice. Are you for life, or for death? Are you human, or a beast in human skin?

UPDATE: The “defect”? It was a completely treatable cleft palate.

UPDATE II: If for some reason you are unclear as to what makes a “beast in human skin”, here’s an example.

The news:

Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.”

This is the sort of thing which used to be fodder for SNL skits – now its reality in our Orwellian time – our Age of Lies.

Anyone who says the UN has a role to play in decent society is a fool or knave. This isn’t the only proof of that, but no one should need any further proof.

UPDATE: Gay Patriot asks – will Ahmadinejad now be made grand marshal of a Gay Pride parade?