Back to Basics

After telling the story of Mohammed’s boast that he would make the mountain come to him, only to be forced to go to it, Francis Bacon observed, “If the mountains will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain.”

Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen and countless others went to the Muslim world hoping to turn it into another Boston, another London and another Paris. Instead Boston, London and Paris are turning into another Kabul, another Islamabad and another Mogadishu. Mohammed has come to the mountain.

On the same day that Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced that she will travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles, Calif., on Friday to meet with technology and business leaders to discuss the need for commonsense immigration reform, a report was released on Thursday that revealed hundreds of criminal aliens were surreptitiously released from detention.

According to officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), hundreds of illegal aliens with criminal records for offenses committed in the U.S. were secretly released earlier this year with the rationale that the Obama DHS is preparing to cut ICE’s budget, according to ICE data released on Thursday in the midst of three scandals that were “sucking up the oxygen” in most newsrooms.

The ICE data reveals that Secretary Napolitano’s claim that the releases involved detainees who committed non-violent crimes is just not accurate, said former NYPD detective Manuel Ortega-Sanchez.

According to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ICE released the figures to him only after officials there were threatened with subpoenas and other legal action.

According to ICE, 2,226 detainees were released in Februrary and more than 620 of them had criminal convictions.

A statement from Sen. McCain’s and Sen. Carl Levin, D-MI, said that at lease 32 of illegal aliens released had committed multiple felonies. McCain reported that ICE agents captured 24 of those released after realizing the severity of their criminal offenses.

At the time, Homeland Security Department officials said the decision was made in order to stay within budget. Those detainees released were still said to face deportation and be under supervision. But administration officials downplayed the threat they might pose after leaving the local immigration jails.

In late February, Obama’s Press Secretary Jay Carney made a statement that turns out to be untrue: “As ICE made clear, the agency released these low-risk, non-criminal detainees under a less expensive form of monitoring to ensure detention levels stayed within ICE’s overall budget.” [Emphasis added]

“Carney has always been truth-challenged in his capacity as President Obama’s mouthpiece. The man should be ashamed of himself,” said Det. Ortega-Sanchez.

The offenses committed by the released criminal aliens includes driving under the influence, menacing, and vandalism of private property. Others were convicted of illegal possess of a firearm, possession of drugs with the intent to sell, burglary, robbery and grand larceny.

What part of equal rights under the law do you not understand?

There is no doubt in my mind that the democrat socialists are continuing to shred the Constitution of the United States by conferring super-citizen privileges to people based on race and gender identity. Whatever happened to the concept that all people are treated equally under the law.

Now comes a Senator, Patrick Leahy, who must be as corrupt as they come; because he chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee and is a lawyer. Who better to understand the Constitution and the law?

Now we are learning that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) wants to add an amendment to the bill that would give preferential treatment to the illegal alien same-sex partners of American citizens.  Like the military benefits being offered to the unmarried same-sex partners of US servicemen and women, this amendment does not offer the same preferential treatment for the unmarried partners of heterosexual couples.  If you’re gay, you get to move to the head of the line and if you’re not gay, you take your place in line like everyone else. Read more at: Liberal Senator to Add Same Sex Marriage Preferential Treatment to Immigration Reform

Bottom line …

When are the democrat socialists going to honor their oath of office and protect, preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States? When are the democrat socialists going to treat everyone equal under the law? Eliminating the type of affirmative action that moves unqualified people to the front of the line while disadvantaging qualified people. Eliminating special advantages for segments of the population based on race, gender, and other criteria that violates equal protection under the law. This is not about civil rights, this is about political power.

The government has no right to deal in marriage under the constitution. As for the states, all marriages appear to be civil commitments since they require a government-issued license to marry and government-approval to divorce. Change the laws to read civil commitment and remove the word “marriage” from the law. Use ‘”partner” instead of spouse. And, everything will be well with the world. Except that the gays are pushing to legitimize and publicize their lifestyle with this non-issue.

As for someone, like Leahy, who knows the law, to step beyond the boundaries of the Constitution, is unacceptable.

– steve

Life in Obama’s America is getting scary …

Imagine if you will, a national identity database containing key identifiers, a current “biometric level” photograph – and the system can be synced to other government programs, notably the national healthcare system known as Obamacare. America is sliding quickly towards the type of police state found in socialist and communist countries.

And, Republican Marco Rubio is greasing the skids as he morphs into John McCain and Lindsey Graham to hop across the aisle and help the democrats finalize their agenda.

While the tool is currently restricted to immigration issues, it takes only an amendment hidden into an unrelated piece of legislation to extend the use of the photo-database for other purposes. Always in the guise of preventing medical errors, curbing fraud, and other safety and security uses as the government so decides. In fact, given the tremendous unconstrained and unreviewable powers granted to the various cabinet-level secretaries, this program might be expanded by administrative rulemaking that totally bypasses Congress. Another usurpation of Congressional power by the Executive Branch.

Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act …

Others are also worried …

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform

The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.

Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.

Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo.

This piece of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act is aimed at curbing employment of undocumented immigrants. But privacy advocates fear the inevitable mission creep, ending with the proof of self being required at polling places, to rent a house, buy a gun, open a bank account, acquire credit, board a plane or even attend a sporting event or log on the internet. Think of it as a government version of Foursquare, with Big Brother cataloging every check-in.

“It starts to change the relationship between the citizen and state, you do have to get permission to do things,” said Chris Calabrese, a congressional lobbyist with the American Civil Liberties Union. “More fundamentally, it could be the start of keeping a record of all things.” Read more at: Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform | Threat Level | Wired.com

Don’t let the ACLU’s apparent protestations fool you. This organization supports progressive liberalism if not socialism/communism with the exception of a few high-profile cases for propaganda purposes.

Bottom line …

Link government databases with the consumer credit bureaus, financial institutions, doctor’s offices, and employers … and you have the clear and present danger of a shift towards to a totalitarian regime seeking perpetual political power.

Given the Administration’s lies on Benghazi, the targeted IRS audits for political purposes, and the number of politicians trading on insider information to make fortunes  … we are in deep, deep decline.

by Burt Prelutsky

I generally regard the Israelis as sensible and self-sufficient, but now I hear that they put a major construction job up for bids and, lo and behold, a Chinese firm got the contract. Frankly, I wouldn’t trust the Chinese to build me a bird house, let alone a railroad from Eilat to the Mediterranean. What? There are no Israeli construction companies? What if Iran had submitted a lower bid than the Chinese? Would Ahmadinejad be the foreman on the job? At this point, I only hope that the construction company is the one we know as Chang, Lee, Wu and Rosenberg.

Speaking of that part of the world, the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald insists it’s U.S. intervention in the Middle East that motivates screwballs like the blood-thirsty Tsarnaev brothers. In the meantime, former TV anchorman and all-around pinhead Tom Brokaw lays the blame on our drone attacks. What neither of these chuckleheads bothers to explain is why the Muslim jihadists have blown up civilians in Bali, Japan, Brazil and India, among other places that have left no footprints on their precious sand. People like Mr. Greenwald and Mr. Brokaw would be labeled useful idiots if anyone could ever come up with a use for them.

Although it’s much more fun to mock Bob Beckel, who spends hours a day on Fox looking as if he’s about to fall off the wagon at any moment, truth demands that I give him a shout-out for proposing a sensible idea. He suggests that until we find out where the thousands of people who came here on student visas and never attended a single class are hiding out, so we can round them up and boot them out, we shut down all immigration from China and the Muslim nations. And I say if we fail to collar all the ne’er-do-wells, what’s the big deal if their countrymen can’t ever come to America? They can always go to Israel and help them build that damn railroad.

Speaking of glorious days, wouldn’t it be great if instead of worrying about law-abiding citizens being able to protect themselves with guns, and providing citizenship to people who don’t have it coming, Congress would devote its time and energy to passing a federal law denying voting privileges to anyone who can’t provide a valid photo ID? The notion that such a requirement would deny suffrage to millions of people who are either elderly or members of some racial minority is so preposterous that only a liberal would have the chutzpah to make the charge with a straight face.

But it figures that a country that’s been so frivolous when it comes to protecting its sovereignty by guarding its borders would be equally cavalier when it comes to preserving the sanctity of the polling booth. I would actually have more respect for the Democrats if they just came out and admitted they wanted illegal aliens to have every possible opportunity to elect their candidates. That would go down so much better than all their lies and false pieties, especially when everyone, including the illegal aliens and fraudulent voters, know the truth.

The head of the union representing members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Homeland Security Department on Thursday stated that immigration enforcement is being run by leaders of a racist group known as La Raza (“The Race”).

According to Chris Crane, the current president of the union for ICE agents, the National ICE Council, President Barack Obama, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and ICE Director John Morton have all but abdicated their leadership in the enforcement of immigration laws and the protection of U.S. borders and citizens.

In a letter to Congress on May 9, Crane and a number of law enforcement executives complained that while business groups, activists, and other special interests were closely involved in the drafting of the proposed Schumer-Rubio immigration reform bill (S. 744), law enforcement personnel were excluded from those sessions.

“Immigration officers and state and local law enforcement working directly within the nation’s broken immigration system were prohibited from providing input,” the letter from law enforcement stated.

“As a result, the legislation before us may have many satisfactory components for powerful lobbying groups and other special interests, but on the subjects of public safety, border security, and interior enforcement, this legislation fails. It is a dramatic step in the wrong direction,” said Crane and the other law enforcement contributors to the letter.

The degree to which this legislation tolerates both past and future criminal activities ensures legalization and a path to citizenship for many criminal aliens and gang members currently residing in the United States, the letter’s signatories stated. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the criminal alien organization MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha) alone has upwards of 100,000 members worldwide.

Additionally, Crane and his colleagues claim that S.744 fails to provide for necessary cooperation between agencies and ignores many of the current problems “that are inimical to the proper enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.”

For example, ICE officers are currently directed by DHS to allow adult inmates in jails to lie about their “DREAMer” status in order to avoid immigration arrest. As a result, inmates are permitted to simply walk out of jails without being required to provide proof of eligibility for “DREAMer” status and without any investigation by ICE. ICE officers report overhearing inmates coaching one another on how to lie to ICE officers about having “DREAMer” status to avoid arrest, yet ICE officers are still powerless to arrest them, complains Crane.

The law enforcement officials involved in Crane’s quest for protection of Americans from foreign criminals say they believe these revelations should alarm every member of Congress, and indeed, every American.

“If this legislation was enacted, ICE officers would continue to be powerless to effectively enforce our nation’s laws and provide for public safety as S. 744 does nothing to end these dangerous agency- and department-level directives. DHS will most certainly continue to issue these types of directives which will continue to deteriorate the ability of ICE to provide for public safety and national security,” Crane’s letter to Congress notes.

“We therefore conclude that this legislation fails to meet the needs of the law enforcement community and would, in fact, be a significant barrier to the creation of a safe and lawful system of immigration.”

The crucifixion of Jason Richwine
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2013

How low will supporters of the Gang of Eight immigration bill go to get their way? This low: They’ve shamelessly branded an accomplished, Ivy League-trained quantitative analyst a “racist” and will stop at nothing to destroy his career as they pave their legislative path to another massive illegal alien benefits bonanza.

Jason Richwine works for the conservative Heritage Foundation. He’s a Harvard University Ph.D. who co-authored a study that pegs the cost of the Ted Kennedy Memorial Open Borders Act 2.0 legislation at $6.3 trillion. Lead author Robert Rector is senior research fellow at Heritage, a former Office of Personnel Management analyst, and the intellectual godfather of welfare reform. He holds a master’s degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University.

Both Democrats and Republicans leaped to discredit the 102-page report without bothering to read it. The Washington Post falsely claimed the study did not take into account increased revenues from amnestied illegal alien workers. It did. Haley Barbour immediately proclaimed that the Heritage assessment of government costs incurred by amnestied illegal aliens was “not serious.”

They want to talk gravitas? Let’s talk gravitas. Blowhard Barbour is a career politician and paid lobbyist for the government of Mexico who has carried water for open borders since the Bush years. Richwine received his doctorate in public policy in 2009 from Harvard University’s prestigious Kennedy School of Government. He holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and political science from American University. Before joining Heritage in 2010, he worked at the American Enterprise Institute on a dissertation fellowship.

Richwine’s 166-page dissertation, “IQ and Immigration Policy,” is now being used to smear him – and by extension, all of Heritage’s scholarship – as “racist.” While the punditocracy and political establishment sanctimoniously call for “honest discussions” on race, they rush to crush bona fide, dispassionate academic inquiries into the controversial subjects of intelligence, racial and ethnic differences, and domestic policy.

Richwine’s entire thesis, “IQ and Immigration Policy,” is now online here. Part One reviews the science of IQ. Part Two delves into empirical research comparing IQs of the native-born American population with that of immigrant groups, with the Hispanic population broken out. Richwine explores the causes of an immigrant IQ deficit that appears to persist among Hispanic immigrants to the U.S. through several generations.

The thesis analyzes social policy consequences of these findings and uses a model of the labor market “to show how immigrant IQ affects the economic surplus accruing to natives and the wage impact on low-skill natives.”

The smug dismissal of Richwine’s credentials and scholarship is to be expected by liberal hacks and clown operatives. But a reckless and cowardly pile-up of knee-jerk dilettantes on the Right — including former McCain campaign co-chair Ana Navarro and conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin – have joined the character assassins of the Soros-sphere, MSNBC, and Mother Jones in deeming Richwine a “racist.” The drooling attack dogs of far Left blog Daily Kos have now launched a pressure campaign against the JFK School demanding to know “why the school awarded Richwine a PhD and what they plan to do in the future to prevent it from happening again.”

No researcher or academic institution is safe if this smear campaign succeeds. Richwine’s dissertation committee at Harvard included George Borjas, Robert W.

In Barack Obama’s Marxist brain, his main function in life is to redistribute wealth from those who presumably have too much to those who have less.

Obama adheres to this obsession with ‘redistribution to level the playing field’ in all matters, excepting his own personal affairs. Which is why his daughters attend pricey private schools while other children attend second rate public institutions.

It’s also why Michelle O. spends a small fortune to clothe herself in fancy gowns and jewels, and indulges her lust for the ostentatious with vacations that only the royalty of the world can afford.

And it is why Obama himself spends millions of dollars to golf with Tiger Woods and buy extravagant sports lessons to soothe his mangled psyche after a disastrous first term, and an even worse start to the second!

It’s all about leveling the playing field in YOUR life, not his!

He is the poster child for the rich who live by the slogan, Level Not My Playing Field (LNMPF).

And it really explains Obama’s goofy policy toward Mexico.

You see, Obama sees Mexico as poor people of color whom have been victimized by the insatiable greed of white people living in America. To his way of thinking, America has too much wealth while Mexico has too little of the booty.

Obama’s solution is straight out of Marxism 101: Wealth in America must be extracted from white folks and transferred post haste to Mexicans.

The easy way to do that is to open the borders to as many Mexicans as will come here for free education, health care, welfare, and food stamps, all paid for by taxes taken from greedy whites in America.

Eventually, the Mexicans will return to Mexico with zillions of American dollars stuffed in their pockets and wallets.

Ultimately, there will be parity between Mexico and America, when both are piss poor 3rd world disasters.

At that lovely day, Obama will declare victory as the ‘level playing field’ smothers all creativity and initiative in both nations and makes being dirt- poor the new cool!

John W. Lillpop
San Jose, California

Misguided RINOs like Senators Marco Rubio, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham looking for a reasonable solution to the illegal alien crisis are doomed to perennial disappointment.

Indeed, RINO pipe-dreams of a harmonious meeting of the minds between those who advocate for illegal aliens and those who are partial to American sovereignty, the rule of law, secure borders, and preservation of American language and culture face an insoluble conundrum:

Most Democrat politicians and millions of Hispanics eager to migrate north are adamantly opposed to any border security whatsoever, and are equally hostile to any element of enforcement which limits the ability of Hispanics to move, at their sole discretion, to and from and within the United States, without regard for US borders and laws and with utter disdain for American citizens.

Democrat politicians, including President Obama, are determined to fundamentally transform America into a one-party system of Marxist enticement that caters to those foraging for entitlements, regardless of financial impact on the nation and its legitimate citizens.

A recent Zogby poll, finds that 36 % of Mexicans living in Mexico, or 39 million people, would move to the US if they could!

The same poll shows that 56% of Mexicans believe that amnesty would make it more likely that illegal invasions to the US from Mexico would increase!

How many of those 39 million would favor improved border security which would make invasions more problematic?

Time for RINOs like Rubio, McCain, and Graham to wake up and smell the tequila: Illegal aliens and those with such urges despise the notion of secure borders!  They want the right to come and go as they damn well please, without the inconvenience of hiding in shadows cast by greedy gringos.

Equally distressing, Barack Obama loathes American values and would never enforce any law that would stymie the growth of the Democrat Party via illegal aliens!

More important findings from the Zogby poll include the following:

• A clear majority of people in Mexico, 56 percent, thought giving legal status to illegal immigrants in the United States would make it more likely that people they know would go to the United States illegally. Just 17 percent thought it would make Mexicans less likely to go illegally. The rest were unsure or thought it would make no difference.
• Of Mexicans with a member of their immediate household in the United States, 65 percent said a legalization program would make people they know more likely to go to America illegally.
• Two-thirds of Mexicans know someone living in the United States; one-third said an immediate member of their household was living in the United States.
• Interest in going to the United States remains strong even in the current recession, with 36 percent of Mexicans (39 million people) saying they would move to the United States if they could. At present, 12 to 13 million Mexico-born people live in the United States.
• A new Pew Research Center poll also found that about one-third of Mexicans would go to the United States if they could.
• An overwhelming majority (69 percent) of people in Mexico thought that the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans (Mexico- and U.S.-born) should be to Mexico. Just 20 percent said it should be to the United States.