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Enforce existing law!

Enforcing existing rules & procedures is nothing more than what has been suggested here for the last 2 years. It really goes to show how deeply Bush was involved in enabling & abetting illegal immigration.

On the positive side, by listening to the People, it does demonstrate that at least he's willing to exercise his duties as the executive of an representative republic when so demanded.

Insofar as the rules governing information sharing between various executive branches: either issue an executive order or rush through a simple 5 page bill that allows just that.

Isn’t the OC Register a conservative paper?

Small 'l' libertarian. Which just demonstrates that regardless of a newspaper's particular political orientation, print publishing is a dead-end market.

It also demonstrates that perhaps only a few national newspapers will survive, such as the NYT & WSJ. This is the direction Murdoch is betting - otherwise there isn't any rationale for purchasing a specialty (business) paper.

The international aspects consist only of the folly that the world is better off with an Iraq in chaos if the U.S. is properly humbled than with a peaceful and independent Iraq with the U.S. triumphant.

Have either of you considered that the Dems sincerely believe that we should work to understand "why they hate us"? If the issue is framed as one that fundamentally embraces appeasement, then victory in Iraq does nothing in the WoT, other than to demonstrate that we can subdue a militant insurgency.

It isn't about libs regaining power per se, it's about libs existing in another universe. IOW, they really DO believe their kumbaya ... and they want to exercise this emotion by spreading the love via US foreign & domestic policy.

That's what makes them dangerous. It's easy to counter calculating evil geniuses; it's the naive human shields that are so hard to understand.

I'd rather have Jimmy Carter as President

Imagine someone running today with Carter's resume in 1976:
- Annapolis grad
- Nuclear submarine commander
- Governor of a large southern state (Georgia) - 52 years old

They would be a shoe-in - as either a Dem or GOP.

How could someone so impressive on paper turn out to be the worst president in US history?

History does indeed repeat itself

The conceit of every generation is that its experiences are unique; there's an absence of institutional memory.

Like Rome, the US will pass. But the real legacy of Western Civ is continuation - the kernel of progress that resides in certain men and is periodically rekindled.

Ultimately, it is the Islam that will suffer. At some point, it will be classified as a political system and be destroyed. In 2,000 years, these memories will be lost as our current times will read like the history Greece & Persia.

Detroit is one of the few places I can think of that would IMPROVE with an influx of illegals.

While many here bemoan the impact illegals have had on certain residential neighborhoods, they generally provide a restorative effect in most inner-city regions.

A good case in point is downtown LA down by USC/Coliseum - a few years ago it was absolutely no go. Now, the former denizens have either been forced out or have moved further south (ie South-Central LA), with the result being that you can now safely drive around/visit museums + get some pretty good Mexican food to boot.

another 40 years of hippie nonsense

Exactly. Which is why the obvious choice is the GOP.

But at least the nightmare scenario of retreating from Iraq/WoT + giving the country to Mexico seems to have been greatly diminished.

Dems know if they win the White House they are going to inherit this war

This has always been about politics. That's why I'm somewhat sanguine about Hillary. If she wins, then the libs will finally be on board for the WoT.

I was discussing 2008 with a lib the other day and I made two assertions: (1) No one is leaving Iraq, neither Hillary nor the GOP candidate; and (2) HillaryCare is going nowhere - Sicko bombed and, unlike 15 years ago, there's plenty of evidence coming in from Canada/UK that socialized healthcare is a nightmare.

I concluded that the only difference between the GOP & Hillary would perhaps be judges. If we're not in Iran before 1/2009, then Hillary will take us there as well.

Bill Walsh not only revolutionized the game & made it what it is today, but he also knew how to (a) utilize existing talent & (b) pick new players. I refer, of course, to his realization of how to incorporate Joe M into the W/C offense, and his choice of Jerry R from a small college in Miss.

They’ll find a way to make money

I think your confidence is misplaced. Newspaper publishing is just like any other business - ongoing sustainability is solely dependent on the ability to generate revenues in excess of expenses.

Newspaper publishing has traditionally had two primary sources of revenue (forget purchase price): print & classified ads. Print ads for dept stores, real estate & autos has migrated en masse to the Net. Ditto for classified - does anyone pay/read these anymore when Craigslist is available?

It doesn't matter a whit what they may do about content; the game is over and they know it. There's a lot

I have found with many authors is their inability to realize that a successful book is 25% writing it and 75% promoting it.

All excellent points. I have successfully followed & executed similar steps and processes in the technical marketplace. Eventually, I began to focus on electronic publishing, with which I've been involved now for many years.

The only exception I would make to your comment above is that this generally applies to all life activities. It's only through experience that one begins to realize that life is like an iceberg (oblique pun intended). That is, 90% of one's efforts will be directed towards activities you didn't even know existed until you became involved.

This holds true for engineers who exhaust themselves on design, only to discover that debug & integration take X times as long. Or the attorney who only finds out later that initial research has nothing on presentation & review. Writers are no different; only after the manuscript is completed do they realize that the real work begins.

This in turn is what separates the wheat from the chaff. Those who have extra reserves and buck up in the face of realizing this horror can carve out a living. Those that collapse in despair become road kill.

So I'm sure there are a few published writers here on Free Republic.

I'd say don't waste your time, but you know about the old saw about wise men & advice. I went through the same ups/downs, self-doubt & delusions of grandeur. The most money I made was retaining the copyright on alternative media, which paid off years later. The trick to being published is no different than all businesses: address what's currently hot.

Bush signed the Partnership for Prosperity in September 2001, before the WoT began.

The one sure fire way to expand an economy is to expand the gross number of people. Remember that Bush inherited a poor economy, so it was imperative to open up all channels of investment - including illegal immigration. Once 9/11 occurred, they simply accelerated the process by essentially turning a blind eye to the border.

I understand why Bush did what he did. I disagree with his tactics, and think the US will have to deal with the results of his misguided policies generations after the WoT is over.

He loves 'banks' more than Americans.

Your fine posts are degraded by these types of comments. Bush opened up the borders for one reason: to pump the economy. He needed a good economy in order to isolate MSM criticism on the WoT. (Imagine if we had a poor economy while attempting to conduct the war.)

Where I disagree with Bush is in his choice of tactics. Rather than flood the country with 12-20m illiterate peasants, he should have opened up the legal immigration process to highly qualified Indians, Chinese, Africans, E Euros, etc.

The problem is that the current economy is being financed similar to credit card debt ie the bill has yet to come due. While we have good GDP growth & low unemployment, the long-term costs (crime, degraded neighborhoods, school crowding, welfare, etc) will be borne by future generations.

What many fail to recognize is that we already have a model of what the US will look like with unfettered illegal immigration: California. That means Dem politics, high crime neighborhoods, rich/isolated gated communities, insolvent gov't finances, terrible school test scores, et al.

Who will be the first to jump to his defense.

I will - you're just blaming the victim. Yes, the degenerate ghetto lifestyle is the product of a dysfunctional culture. But it's the legacy of slavery & discrimination that destroyed black families long before the Great Society.

IOW, it's all whitey's fault & will always be whitey's fault. Even those that arrived back around 1900 & even when Hispanics make up the future majority. Now pay up - reparations are in order.

There is a reason people are “poor”.

It's called the bell curve. With 100 representing the mean, 90 is about as low as one can be before they are unable to perform even unskilled labor. 80 is considered clinically imbecilic, which means individuals can barely muster the organizational ability to get out of bed.

It's time to characterize Islam as a political movement, no different than how we treated Imperial Japan's exploitation of Shinto during WWII.

Religions merely reflect the societies which created/adapted them for their own cultural requirements. Muslims need Islam as a cover for their own dysfunctional behavior. If Islam didn't exist, something else would have been created that extolled the same vices and gave them moral cover for the atrocities they've been committing for 1,400 years.

a big part of their game plan is...to wear us down

It's time for patriots to go on the offensive. Tired of being called a racist? Well, guess who are the haters? That's right, the people responsible for corrupting the immigration process to the point that we can't reach a meaningful solution towards bringing in qualified candidates from throughout the world.

Racist organizations like La Raza are STEALING life opportunities from the rest of the world. Making that accusation places them on the defensive and forces them to explain exactly how their criminal actions are not affecting innocent families & children from other countries.

These racist organizations are the true ‘haters’. They hate the prospect of other groups, such as Chinese, Indians, Africans, E Euros, etc being granted legal immigration status. They will fight tooth & nail to block any attempt to substitute their illegal constituents for better, more highly qualified immigrants. It’s ALL about their power to manipulate racial identity politics.

Forget the dogs, beware the owner.

Exactly. We have a couple of dog beaches here in SoCal, and the most reliable way to assess another dog is to consider the owner. When it comes to APBs, owners (and by inference, their dogs) vary from pleasant looking professional types to inbred, troglodytic street thugs.

For some reason the reliable owners have the more traditional, leaner & taller looking pits, while the scary ones have the really short, stocky & ugly dogs. And to cap it off, the 'tards need to accessorize their "pets" with the requisite harness & chain link leash.