Of course, the concept of white or blonde illegal aliens is apparently beyond the capacity of the people passing the laws or the editors at the Herald. But nearly 600,000 of those in the United States illegally were estimated to come from Europe or Canada in 2005; and while I knew many Irish, English and other Europeans who had overstayed their visas when I was growing up in New York, I never heard of a raid of an Irish bar, except when ATF or the FBI were trying to trap Irish Republican …

A group called the Detroit Parent Network is calling for arrests of their public school teachers… seriously!!!! On the organization’s website they have this quote “Detroit Parent Network is a premier parent organization that transforms parents to make Detroit a better place to raise and educate our children”.
OK, all this has stemmed from a national test score program that rated Detroit’s public schools the worst in nation.  How bad you ask? well to begin with 69% of their 4th grade kids has below BASIC {not average} skills, 77% of 8th …

Just what we needed during this recession – SPENDING MORE! Obama and his liberal cronies have no idea what they’re doing. From their world apology tour, to this ridiculous spending – Wasteful spending at that. What happened to all the Bush bashers who were complaining about war costs? I don’t hear them condemning Obama for his frivolous spending (which is double what Bush spent his first year) In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/24/obama-shatters-spending-record-year-presidents/

An estimated 5.26 million people (as of 2004) with a felony conviction are barred from voting in federal, state, and local elections – a condition known as disenfranchisement. Each state has its own laws regarding whether or not a person convicted of a felony can retain the ability to vote. Two states, Vermont and Maine, allow convicted felons to vote while in prison. Nine states permanently restrict certain felons from voting (until and if granted the state governor’s pardon) even if those people have served their prison sentence, parole, probation, …

The Pledge of Allegiance was first written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a Baptist Minister and Socialist, for the patriotic family magazine The Youth’s Companion . At that time it read “I Pledge Allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
The Pledge officially became part of the US Flag Code in 1942. In 1954 the words “under God” were added to the Pledge by Congress with approval from President Dwight Eisenhower.
A 2001 lawsuit, filed by Michael A. Newdow, …

The death penalty has been debated by civilizations throughout history. What crimes, if any, are so heinous in nature as to justify killing another person and what system of justice can be created to prevent further killing are challenging questions.
While capital punishment has been banned throughout parts of the world, execution remains a legal option in many countries. The United States, for example, executed 1,057 people from 1977 through 2006 primarily by means of lethal injection. Those executions generally took place with popular support among Americans who …

Recently I’ve again become upset over the 125 year old Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. The reason it is on my mind is the 5-4 SCOTUS decision (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission) that ruled that portions of McCain / Feingold and other campaign finance reform laws were unconstitutional. The court also overturned several of its own previous rulings. The portions ruled unconstitutional were related to prohibitions enacted by Congress that prevented corporate and union funding of campaign ads for (or against) any candidate for …

I continue to be intrigued by the BLS job loss data from the current recession. The chart at the left is a slightly revised version of a chart I put together for another discussion on the web. It indicates the number of jobs gained / lost each month since the recession started in December of 2007. I updated the chart with the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics today when I noticed this bit of propaganda on the OFA web site. That looks really familiar to me – …