From Joe Sixpack – Dear President Bush: …

The below letter was prompted by this article from Fox News. Ranting and raving Democrat leaders would be wise to extrapolate … it does little good to rant and rave about port security while advocating open borders elsewhere … and no penalty to those that violate them.
Dear President Bush:
I’ve voted for you twice. [...]

Coalition Against Illegal Immigration

We are a coalition of bloggers who have joined together to secure our borders and fight against Illegal Immigration. Would you like to join the fight?
The concept is simple:

Email me and ask to be part of the Coalition
Display the provided code for the blogroll on your blog
Every time one of the members writes an article [...]

School Walkouts Continue in Calif to Protest Immigration Bill

From Free New Mexican:

On California’s Cesar Chavez Day, at least 14,315 students walked out of at least 16 Los Angeles-area schools from the San Fernando Valley to the wealthy coastal enclave of Pacific Palisades, said Monica Carazo, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Several hundred people marched along a downtown freeway. More than 1,000 [...]

Mexican flag flies over condominium community

This one really gets my goat!

From TC Palm:
The Stars and Stripes have been replaced by the Mexican flag at Chasewood North, and residents of the condominium community off Central Boulevard are puzzled as to who made the switch.
“I woke up Sunday morning and looked up from my patio and then realized that the American flag [...]

FEC Frees All Web Political Communication Except Paid Ads

Some good news, but a mixed bag.
From Clickz News:
Prominent bloggers are hailing the FEC decision, which affords them the same exemption from campaign finance restrictions that is afforded offline media like TV, radio and newspapers. Indeed, even when individuals who run Web sites accept payment from a federal candidate, political party committee or other political [...]

Sago Mine Survivor Leaves Hospital

Some good news!

From FNC:
Sago Mine survivor Randal McCloy Jr. was released from a hospital Thursday and offered gratitude for the support he has received since he was trapped almost three months ago.
“I’d just like to thank everybody for their thoughts and prayers,” McCloy said during a brief appearance at a morning news conference, “I [...]

Why Won’t The Government Listen?

Cross posted from Random Thoughts Of Yet Another Military Member
In this scathing Op-Ed by Tony Blankley titled “Mexican Illegals vs. American Voters” he opines:
The Senate is attempting to legislate into the teeth of the will of the American public. The Senate Judiciary Committeemen — and probably a majority of the Senate [...]

Left Wing Advocacy Group See Opportunity in Cunningham’s House Seat

From CNS News:
Following the scandal-driven departure of Randy “Duke” Cunningham from his U.S. House seat, the liberal activist group MoveOn.org Political Action is taking up the cause of a Democrat trying to capture Cunningham’s former seat in the heavily Republican 50th district of California.
“We can … hand Republicans their first defeat of 2006,” MoveOn.org leaders [...]

U.S. Raises Standards on Mileage

From NYT:
The Transportation Department announced new fuel economy standards Wednesday for sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks and minivans that will make some of them go farther on a gallon of gasoline than the average car does, and will apply to many of the biggest S.U.V.’s for the first time.
The rule covers “light trucks” in the [...]

Maryland Takes Over Failing Baltimore Schools

From NYT:
Invoking the federal No Child Left Behind law, the Maryland school board voted today to take control of four Baltimore high schools with chronically low achievement and strip the City of Baltimore from direct operation of seven more middle schools.
The high schools designated for takeover here — one with only 1.4 percent of the [...]