In the wake of the murder in San Francisco of a father and his two sons, ages 20 and 16 years old, by an illegal alien, Mayor Gavin Newsom blamed his city’s illegal alien sanctuary policy on our “broken immigration system”. If our immigration system weren’t broken, argued the mayor of the city that kicked off the sanctuary movement back in 1989, we wouldn’t have needed to break federal immigration laws in the first place.

Oh, those wacky San Franciscans.

Nevertheless, Washington, stung into action by the rebellious teenagers running San Francisco, did eventually decide to fix the nation’s broken immigration policies. The nation’s capital stepped back and looked up at the mountain of brokenness.

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Agriprocessors: A Blight on the Land

The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained 390 illegal immigrants May 13, 2008 in the largest single-site immigration raid in US history. The raid took place at Agriprocessors, Inc., the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant, located in the tiny town of Postville, Iowa.

Federal officials have declined to comment about possible charges against the owners of Agriprocessors, and jaded Americans can be forgiven for assuming the employer will receive a slap on the wrist, if it receives any penalty at all.

But before you shrug and move on, it’s worth noting that the feds aren’t following the typical routine around the Postville raid. There may yet be some arrests in the offing higher up the ladder, with serious felony charges to follow.

There should be, anyway. The 390 detainees who were working in Agriprocessors’ slaughterhouse are the vanilla surface of a much darker story underneath—a deeply troubling story that demands the owners of Agriprocessors, among others, be prosecuted under the full weight of the law.

If this story doesn’t end with significant prison sentences handed down, there is, as they say, no justice.

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In huge letters on the back of a t-shirt I saw today: “It’s time for a black president.”

A black president? Who cares? It’s time for a good president.

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Despite the obvious detriment to US workers, business interests in the United States are allowed to import hundreds of thousands of cheap foreign workers every year.

These business interests enjoy all the advantages of doing business in the United States. They benefit, as we all do, from a stable political climate, transparent judicial system, first rate infrastructure, well-developed banking system, advanced educational opportunities, and a wide array of social services. Such advantages cost money, of course, which we all pay for as members of this society. `

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Pennsylvanians facing tough times are embittered, according to Barack Obama, and so they turn to guns, and religion, and hold anti-immigration and anti-trade views. But the Pennsylvanians I’ve come across don’t seem all that bitter to me–they seem pretty normal, in fact. And compared to a famously bitter Chicagoan named Jeremiah Wright, Pennsylvanians seem downright suffused with Christian joy.
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The Olympic torch passes through San Francisco, and Chinese-Americans turn out en masse in support of Chinese brutality and the cultural genocide being committed methodically against the Tibetan people.
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A graphic accompanying a March 29 Fox cable news story on teen drivers read, “Less high schools offer drivers ed classes.” Apparently, schools that are at normal levels of highness don’t offer such classes. [Read more →]

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According to an article in the Washington Post, Willie Brown, the former San Francisco mayor and longtime speaker of the California assembly, isn’t surprised that black voters have so embraced Obama, even against the legacy of the Clintons. “I think most white politicians do not understand that the race pride we all have trumps everything else.” [Read more →]

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There was something so sleazy, so cold-blooded about the shafting Bill Richardson gave the Clintons when he endorsed Barack Obama for president a week ago that, for the first time this campaign season, I find myself sympathizing with—even rooting for—one of the big three presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton.

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If, for some reason, you ever find yourself reading the magazine, The Economist, be sure to understand the difference between “the economy” as that magazine writes about it, and the economy as it relates to you.

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