SF Chronicle in Trouble
The Chronicle has announced a 25 percent reduction in newsroom staff, affecting all levels of editorial employees. Publisher Frank Vega said the measure was part of ''continuing belt-tightening'' to stem financial losses at the paper, which like other newspapers across the country is grappling with plunging print readership and the loss of advertising dollars to the Web.
Amnesty: Undermining America's Civilization
"This amnesty undermines American citizens and legal immigrants from A to Z. It hijacks our electoral system by giving millions of illegal aliens the path to citizenship and thus to vote in our local and national elections. They will vote for everything “Mexico” and against anything “American.” This amnesty shoplifts America’s sovereignty out the door toward Third World momentum."
Looks Like Fred's Going To Do It!
Fred Thompson is planning to enter the presidential race over the Fourth of July holiday, announcing that week that he has already raised several million dollars and is being backed by insiders from the past three Republican administrations.
Is It To Be War With Iran?
Buchanan: Has Congress given George Bush a green light to attack Iran? For he is surely behaving as though it is his call alone. And evidence is mounting that we are on a collision course for war.
Bill Clinton Takes $3.3 Million From InfoUSA
Since he left office in 2001, former president Bill Clinton has been paid $3.3 million by InfoUSA, a company that has been identified as a key provider of specially designed databases that have been sold to criminals who use the detailed information to defraud the unsuspecting elderly.
Executive Summary: The Fiscal Cost of Low-skill Immigrants to The U.S. Taxpayers
The Heritage Foundation has prepared a report on the cost of the illegal immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayers -- a must read for those who pay the bills. Be sure to look at the attached charts.
Immigration Debacle
Wake up America, you're being had again. The new immigration bill is a disaster for national security, for keeping Islamist jihadists out of the country, for exploding the costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, for preserving the rule of law, and for that quaint principle called national sovereignty.
Wrong Way on Reparations
Wake up America, you're being had! If this act becomes law, it would require the Treasury secretary to pay reparations to "Guam residents who were killed, raped, injured, interned, or subjected to forced labor or marches," by the Japanese during World War II. The bill could cost you $126 million.
Details Revealed of Senate Compromise Bill
Jed Babbin - " Here’s the section-by-section breakdown of the just-announced Senate deal on illegal immigration {Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2007} given to us by a Senate source. We haven’t had the time to analyze it yet, but we’ll be back with the fast, concise and hard details on what appears to be an horrifically bad deal."
Critics: Media Ignoring Slayings With Racial Implications
Where are the hate-crime voices when white people are the victims?
Scientists Change Views on Global Warming
Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves. The names given here are just a sampling of the prominent scientists who have spoken out recently to oppose former Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations, and the media driven “consensus” on man-made global warming.
A Three-Party Freak Show
Will New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg really spend $1 Billion as a Third-Party Candidate for Governor?
The New World Order GOP
Buchanan: What is the matter with us? What is the purpose of keeping the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the United Nations and its agencies, and NATO, all of which date to an era long gone?
The Black and White of 'Ho' Culture
A look at what the future holds for the public school system in America: school officials did nothing to intervene on the teacher's behalf, arguing that the racially charged profanity was simply part of the students' culture. If she couldn't handle cursing, school officials told her, she was in the wrong school.
Beating of White Teen Becomes 'Community Issue' in Rifle
Will this be considered a "hate" crime? Probably not.
To Each According to Their Need
Atlanta radio host Neil Boortz is right on target -- the Democrats are sounding like a communist party.
Alabama Voices: Child Care is Not Education
The pre-K program is a costly, misguided attempt to replace responsible parenthood with government control of four-year-olds at the taxpayer's expense. Taxes for K, then pre-K and likely "pre-pre-K" or even "Hooked on Sonics" in the womb in the future doesn't fit the family values, community spirit and personal responsibility we need. More importantly, it isn't the right way to raise and teach kids. Governmental parenthood isn't the answer.
Dropout Epidemic Haunts Inner-City Schools
The dropout rate has increased over the years - it now stands at 50 %. Title I grants provide funds to schools in low-income communities. The Dept. of Education budget for Title I for 2006 is $13.3 billion, a 52-percent increase since 2001. It hasn't helped. So, what's the answer -- add another billion dollars to the budget for 2007.
Alabama Man Arrested for Carrying Firearm in WalMart
An Alabama man was recently arrested for carrying a firearm into his local WalMart. Although he complied with state laws, he now faces charges that my prohibit him from owning a firearm. How far can our country go to violate individual rights?
A Warning For America From South Africa
Once you lose social, cultural, and political dominance, there is no getting it back again.
Slavery: Many Apologies, But No Reparations--Yet
Jared Taylor: "This is an expression of naked racial power. It makes it blindingly clear who are the moral creditors and who are the debtors. Blacks don’t want “healing"; they want the moral whip hand. They will never, ever put slavery behind them so long as they can make whites feel bad about it. They want every policy, every conversation, and even every thought about race in America to start and end with white guilt and innocent black suffering. They will milk white contrition for as much and for as long as whites let them."
Ron Paul Won the Debate
Make no mistake about it: Ron Paul clearly and convincingly won the first GOP debate. It would be nice if someone in the mainstream media would acknowledge that fact.
Queen’s Fancy PC Footwork In Jamestown
On the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown Settlement, Queen Elizabeth II arrived to commemorate the great occasion. And it took some fancy footwork for Her Majesty to run the Powhatan gauntlet.
Guide Coaches Illegals on Raids
What a country! We allow illegal aliens to invade our country, we fund organizations to help them evade our laws, and we give them jobs that should be reserved for our citizens.
It is Time to End Double-Dipping
The long struggle for accountability and transparency in state government took a discouraging downturn recently when the Alabama State Board of Education failed to consider a proposal to ban politicians from holding jobs or contracts with state two-year colleges while also serving in the state Legislature.
by Gary Palmer
Murder in Black and White
Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were described by family and friends as a "clean-cut and faithful couple -- good kids." At least they were until they fell victim of a heinous crime, one mysteriously suppressed by the national media.
What Part of "Illegal Immigration" is Confusing
The only thing Congress could do to make the problem worse is offer another incentive for people to leave their home countries and come to the United States. We cannot address our failures in illegal immigration policy by repeating the failed policies of the past.
A Veto for Victory
Let it never again be said that the Democratic Party’s Left believes in fighting al-Qaeda. The president courageously issued his second veto in office yesterday afternoon, striking down a plan to begin withdrawing from Iraq in two-to-five months.
A Rising Tide of Fury
When about a quarter of a billion Muslims are in favor of civilian terrorist attacks, prudent people are entitled to be alarmed at the magnitude of the threat.
Sherman's March to the Sea
In theory, historical events should become clearer as time passes and the controversies they involved grow less heated. But that is not the case in regard to the War to Prevent Southern Independence – because the myth of a benevolent and righteous crusade against evil and its martyred saint is the essential base of American state worship.
The Waning of the GOP
The political problem of the Bush administration is grave, possibly beyond the point of rescue. The opinion polls are savagely decisive on the Iraq question. About 60 percent of Americans wish the war ended — wish at least a timetable for orderly withdrawal.