Immigration Q&A

This would be funnier if it weren’t so close to the truth… an immigration Q&A session as it might be conducted by the White House and Wall Street Journal editors. By Frank J. at IMAO.com.
Q. I’m concerned that the immigration bill focuses more on giving illegal immigrants amnesty than border protection. Does the President [...]

Fred! takes the next step.

This just in at the Weekly Standard.
UPDATE: This in the Washington Post Thursday edition.

Memorial Day

Source. Really inconvenient Iraq truths. If anybody out there has already heard these facts reported through the traditional major news outlets, I’d love to hear about it.
Jules Crittendon asks an interesting question in his Memorial Day column- why does the Associated Press only keep a death watch tally on soldiers killed in Iraq? [...]

Happy Birthday!

Icon of the Feast of Pentecost.
Today we celebrate the great feast of Pentecost, traditionally referred to as “the birthday of the Church”; the occasion of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples, transforming them from intimidated fishermen hiding from the Jewish authorities into bold and fearless confessors and preachers of the Good News [...]

Getting personal…

The lady who edits our church newsletter asked my wife to write something on the theme of repentance. My wife had a number of things going on, but- despite great progress- hasn’t perfected the art of saying “no”, so… after saying “yes” she passed the assignment on to me.
I wrote something and turned it [...]

Jerry Falwell

This morning as I was leaving the coffee shop after having breakfast with a friend, I noticed a newspaper with a photo of the Rev. Falwell and the headline “He was a Uniter and a Divider”. This seems to be the one and only focus and verdict on his life- that he united millions [...]

Fred Thompson on the immigration bill.

“Most Americans know that we have an illegal immigration problem in this country, with perhaps as many as 20 million people residing here unlawfully. And I think most Americans have a pretty good idea about how to at least start solving the problem - secure our nation’s borders.
But there’s an old saying in Washington that, [...]

The Wrong Army

This is worth a read, I think. Click here.
And consider how we not only have the wrong Army, we have the wrong strategy.
It was wrong when we struck Iraq militarily after it’s attempted annexation of Kuwait- we should have given sanctions a chance.
It was wrong when we imposed sanctions after the war- we [...]

Demography & Judgement

I am currently reading Mark Steyn’s “America Alone”, and boy, is it depressing. Often funny in places, because of his way with words, but the message is stone-cold sobering. On their current trajectory (which in some countries may already be past the point-of-no-return) low birthrates in the European cradle of Western civilization raise the prospect [...]

The limits of politics, and… My dream candidate.

As if on cue, Rod Dreher expands (here) on a point I tried making in my last post. It’s about much more than politics- but it’s probably not less than politics, either- note the last paragraph where he says “I don’t believe we can abandon the field of electoral politics…”, and I agree. Historically, American [...]