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Immigration

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, April 25, 2008 8:24:35 PM
Michelle Malkin  •  April 21, 2008 07:53 PM

I discussed the Three Amigos summit with Neil Cavuto this afternoon. As I noted in the interview Bush and Calderon celebrated the re-opening of a Mexican consular office in New Orleans. These satellite offices are dedicated to abetting illegal immigration and obstructing enforcement of our immigration rules and regs. Bush was happy to oblige

From the Dallas Morning News, an interesting tidbit

Like Calderon says: “Mexico does not end at its borders.”
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Video: What’s Calderon Up To?

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, April 25, 2008 8:22:37 PM
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McCain And Other

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, April 25, 2008 6:57:17 PM
Sen. McCain shows us who he is by attacking the North Carolina Republican Party's Obama ad. It's not racist! In New Orleans, McCain ripped President Bush on Katrina, but gave local Democrats a pass. What an ego! He's appealing to liberals by using conservatives as foils.

"Senator McCain owes us an explanation. Tell us what is racist about this North Carolina ad. He sounds just like a liberal, asking that we make inferences about the North Carolina Republican Party and the people that run it."

"If Senator McCain is campaigning not as a Republican or conservative -- but as a 'maverick,' and an 'independent' -- why shouldn't we behave in the same way? Why do we have to fall in line with whatever he dictates?"

McCain has no interest in rebuilding the Republican Party as an institution. He intends, instead, to use it to achieve his ends and leave it in whatever state it is when he is done.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright's interview with Bill Moyers is the beginning of a campaign to sanitize him and portray him as harmless. One thing Wright told Moyers is true: Obama is just "a politician." He's not the Messiah.

In New Orleans, McCain ripped President Bush on Katrina, but gave local Democrats a pass.
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Junk

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, April 25, 2008 4:12:22 PM

Anatomy of a Chemical Murder - Wal-Mart announced last week that it would stop selling baby bottles made with the chemical bisphenol A (BPA).

In the past, I would have laid the blame for this junk science-fueled shame at the feet of anti-chemical environmental jihadists, their pseudo-scientist henchmen at universities and government regulatory agencies and Wal-Mart’s knuckleheaded executives who seem to be more interested in appeasing eco-pressure groups rather than reassuring consumers that the products the retailer has sold for decades are safe.

But the banning of baby bottles made with BPA is so mind-bogglingly baseless, that I just have to lay the blame where it truly belongs — with the lame-o chemical industry, which utterly failed to defend its product against activist claims and a regulatory process so specious that it would cause voodoo practitioners to shudder.

First, there is absolutely no evidence that anyone has ever been harmed by BPA in a consumer product despite widespread use in baby and medical products, and food and beverage containers.

Moreover, there’s no reason to expect that anyone would ever be harmed as exposures to BPA from consumer products are 100 times lower than the “safe” level determined by government regulators.

If you think about it, products made with BPA are in fact safer than, say, Wal-Mart’s  peanut-containing products that can cause fatal allergic reactions in children. Yet peanut products remain on the shelves.

So just how did BPA wind up becoming chemical non grata? (Steven Milloy, FoxNews.com)

Cooked Books, Warmed Earth: Two Experts Say Data Are Wrong - It may be folly or even apostasy - but only in the eyes of some - to do this mere hours after another Earth Day has passed. But, as we see it, now is the perfect time to praise courageous men, those who persistently stick to their own data and conclusions as they swim against the gadarene tide of global warming. Men like William Gray and Patrick Michaels. (Daily News Record)

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Pests Or Probes?

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, April 25, 2008 3:22:42 PM

US Navy fires at Iranian boats in Persian Gulf — again

The ultimate goal could be to intimidate the US out of the Gulf, which the Iranians consider their private lake. If so, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad will be sorely disappointed, at least in this President. If he keeps provoking the Navy, one day he may be a few boats short.



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NC GOP Not Caving In: How Republicans Should Act; McCain Attacks NC GOP As “Out Of Touch With Reality”

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, April 25, 2008 12:43:50 PM
Michelle Malkin  •  April 25, 2008 08:18 AM

Despite what you may have read or heard, the North Carolina GOP is not pulling its anti-Jeremiah Wright ad.

The conservatives there are not caving in to John McCain’s demands.

Or the RNC’s.

Or Barack Obama’s.

Or Howard Dean’s.

NC GOP officials still plan to run the ad. State GOP chairwoman Linda Daves says there’s nothing McCain could say to change her mind: “I’m going to run the ad.”

They are not caving in to the self-appointed civility brigade in either party who have deemed in beyond the bounds to call attention to Jeremiah Wright’s bile, question Obama’s judgment about his longtime spiritual mentor, and challenge those who support him.

NC GOP chairwoman Linda Daves takes on NPR’s Melissa Block.

Daves, 1. NPR, 0.

Responding to Block’s question about whether the ad is “offensive,” Daves says plainly: “I don’t know why they’re calling it offensive. I call it truthful.”

There’s nothing that McCain could tell you to change your mind about the ad?

Daves: “That is correct. I’m going to run the ad.”

Update 9:13am Eastern. McCain attacks the NC GOP as “out of touch with reality.”

Has he ever attacked Jeremiah Wright this way?

No.

Never.

That is the McCain way.

Who is out of touch with reality? Pot meet kettle.

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Good Question, What's Your Answer?

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, April 25, 2008 11:50:17 AM
What does Obama think of America?
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At Least The Volvos Don’t Go Hungry

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, April 25, 2008 11:45:11 AM

Feeding cars instead of people

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Doesn't Help Food Prices

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, April 25, 2008 3:31:36 AM
As food prices keep going up, pro-ethanol politicians will find it increasingly difficult to justify their position. “Hungry Like the Ethanol Wolf”

Congress immediately should abolish federal ethanol subsidies, mandates, and the 54-cent-per-gallon tariff on imports. “Global Food Riots”
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Climate Change News

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, April 25, 2008 2:49:06 AM
All You Need To Know about Denmark and Wind Power - Yesterday, a listener on the Michael Medved show challenged me that (I paraphrase), "Denmark has adopted wind power at no cost."

I said that I was no expert on Denmark but that there were significant subsidies involved. As this Economist article makes clear, it is certainly not correct to say that Denmark has adopted wind power at no cost:

Researchers in Denmark have gone a step further and put a value on this effect. They believe that wind power shaved 1 billion kroner ($167m) off Danish electricity bills in 2005. On the other hand, Danish consumers also paid 1.4 billion kroner in subsidies for wind power. (Iain Murray, CEI)

That’s weird - They say CO2 levels went "off the chart" in ‘07 yet checking the annual increment from the annual global mean

Plastic hysteria strikes again - By Gilbert Ross, M.D. - A new health scare — over the safe and useful plastic component, bisphenol-A (BPA) — has taken wing, fomented by the usual suspects: "experts" in rat toxicology working with alarmist, chemical-hating "environmental" activists and self-serving media scaremongers. Soon, we know all too well, will come the plaintiffs’ lawyers to "protect" the public from the non-existent (but lucrative) threats lurking in our plastic bottles. (Washington Times)
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Needle Point

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, April 25, 2008 12:36:09 AM
The Supreme Court decides that lethal injection is not cruel and unusual punishment and that executions can resume. The death penalty cannot be an effective deterrent if most on death row die of natural causes.

In a decisive 7-2 ruling after six months of debate, the Supreme Court decided last week that lethal injection, a method of execution used by 35 states to carry out the death penalty, does not cross the threshold that would render it unconstitutional.

. . . claimed the first drug administered, sodium thiopental, which renders the prisoner unconscious, wears off too quickly and that some prisoners are actually awake and able to feel the pain caused by the other two drugs in the lethal cocktail. How they knew that wasn't made clear.

Writing in a separate opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts said "the petitioners have not carried out their burden of showing that the risk of pain from maladministration of a concededly humane lethal injection protocol, and the failure to adopt untried and untested alternatives, constitute cruel and unusual punishment."

The irony here is that it was death-penalty opponents who successfully convinced legislators to reject hanging, firing squads and electrocution — all of which have all been used in this country — in favor of the more "humane" method of lethal injection that they now oppose.

But the court wasn't buying the argument that because an execution may be botched, the method of execution was therefore unconstitutional. As Roberts wrote: "Some risk of pain is inherent in any method of execution — no matter how humane — if only from the prospect of error in following the required procedure. . . . It is clear, then, that the Constitution does not demand the avoidance of all risk of pain in carrying out executions."

Believers in a "living Constitution" forget that when the Bill of Rights and 8th Amendment were written, "cruel and unusual punishment" was probably considered by the Founding Fathers to be things like drawing and quartering, burning at the stake and crucifixion.

Death by hanging or firing squad was considered quite civilized, even though the "drop" in a hanging could be miscalculated and marksmen could miss the heart on the first volley. The French found the guillotine to be quick, effective and painless.

. . . For the death penalty to be effective as a deterrent it must be swift and effective.


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Democrats Fumble Ball On Energy

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:33:54 PM
After weeks of dithering and fearing for her party's political life, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has finally said something about energy. We listened. As the old Peggy Lee song asks, "Is that all there is?"

She and congressional Democrats have pursued energy "price-gougers," even though more than 17 studies have shown the practice is virtually nonexistent; they've punished "Big Oil" with higher taxes, while handing subsidies to alternative energy; and they've sought to punish "market manipulators."

None of these ideas work. Today, we have less energy and higher prices than before. Pelosi's party apparently suffers from a total lack of understanding of basic economics. When you tax and punish, you get less of something — not more.

What truly is frightening is Pelosi shows no sign of running out of bad ideas to ruin our energy-dependent economy.

She now wants to do things like link arms sales to the Saudis with higher output for OPEC. Sounds real nice, but it would result in the U.S. being more dependent on foreign oil, not less.

As we've noted here repeatedly, the U.S. is swimming in oil. There are, by all reputable estimates, literally hundreds of billions of barrels of oil still off our shores, beneath Alaska's frozen tundra and locked in the Rocky Mountain's oil shale formations.

Granted, much of this oil is hard to get, requiring very risky operations that expend tremendous amounts of capital. It requires extensive know-how and sophisticated, advanced technology.

Who has those things? The oil companies, that's who. The very ones that Pelosi and her Democrat allies have turned into villains. Rather than holding hearings to pillory oil CEOs for doing their jobs and looking to impose "windfall profit" taxes on their businesses, Congress should unleash these giants to find more oil. They need incentives and encouragement, not punishment and taxes.



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The First Rule Of Holes Applies Here

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:13:19 PM

The Wright Stuff: ABC provides the context


Barack Obama needs another eruption of the Wright Stuff like he needs another video of him making fun of embittered Bible-thumping bigots, but at least the former appears inevitable. ABC News responds to Jeremiah Wright’s allegation that his words were taken out of context … by providing the context. And guess what? The context makes it look just as bad

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Still Not Comprehending Their Own Rules

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:50:53 PM

Pelosi, Dean, and Reid — Oh my!

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“Let Me Take Off My ‘White’ Goggles.”

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:47:00 PM

Whoopi to Hasselbeck: That’s a “very white” outlook you have

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