'Migrants in Mexico are Facing a Major Human Rights Crisis'

JammieWearingFool "Central American migrants are frequently pulled off trains, kidnapped en masse, held at gang hideouts and forced to call relatives in the U.S. to pay off the kidnappers. Such kidnappings affect thousands of migrants each year in Mexico, the report says. Many are beaten, raped or killed in the process."       Human Rights Abuse in Mexico "Mexico is extremely dangerous for residents and visitors, and that alone is reason to secure America’s southern border."

To Comedy Central, Islam Means Submission

National Review    "A reporter working on the Comedy Central story asked me whether those who object to books, cartoons, operas, films, and other materials that Muslims might find offensive were not being hypocritical, since they do not apply the same standard when it comes to Christians and Jews. His question reveals a common misunderstanding. Islamist groups such as Muslim Revolution are not demanding equality for Islam. They are demanding superior status. They are supremacists: They believe it has been divinely ordained that Islam must dominate; that Sharia, Islamic law, must prevail; that “unbelievers” must submit." Clifford D. May

Nobel Laureates and Texas Cowboys

Victor Davis Hanson  "And as Obama must have anticipated, there are now no more antiwar rallies and Hollywood movies, no more anguished op-eds about either an imperial, warmongering America or a virtual police state at home. A raging Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan are distant memories. We once read that Bush as a wartime president frivolously played too much golf; we don’t read that Obama has played more golf in one year than Bush did in eight."

Why reporters are down on Obama

Politico ".“These are people who came in with every reporter giving them the benefit of the doubt,” said another reporter who regularly covers the White House. “They’ve lost all that goodwill.” And this attitude, many believe, starts with the man at the top. Obama rarely lets a chance go by to make a critical or sarcastic comment about the press, its superficiality or its short-term mentality. He also hasn’t done a full-blown news conference for 10 months."

Obama’s April 15th Speech at Kennedy Space Center

Commander Merlin Hat tip to Mary Torrens  "Obama started out his day visiting the KSC area by avoiding the workers. Though NASA and United Space Alliance had sent down word that no personal opinions of the employees would be allowed (also no twitter, Facebook, or talking with the media) or tolerated, many of the workers, from what I’ve been told, had left their jobs briefly to line the road and express their “opinion” of Obama’s new policy. But Obama the coward took a back route in from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to get to his teleprompter at the Operations and Checkout Building many miles away from the workers." Rocketman.

Sharpton and his crew descend on Arizona

Jeannie DeAngelis in AT "Either way, Sheriff Arpaio is on the job and ready outfit hair coiffed civil disobeyers in fashionable prison garb. So before Al makes a firm commitment to be arrested in Arizona maybe the reverend should cover all bases by making sure inmates of Tent City have Joe's permission to use hairspray."

Arizona stands alone

Top Calif. Lawmaker: Cut Ties With Arizona .....San Francisco City workers banned from official travel to Arizona .....LA Could Pass Arizona Boycott ..... On the other hand:  Rep Wants AZ Immigration Law in Texas.....  Then this from George Will:  "Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their back yards at 3 a.m."

Mike Ramirez cartoon

http://townhall.com/cartoons/2010/04/28/2

Constituting America

Constituting America "The very first part of the First Amendment to our Constitution reads as follows: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…” What does this text (commonly known as the Establishment Clause) mean? Does it mean the same thing today as it did when it was enacted? Today’s post will focus on this topic. The first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted because many of the Founders feared that the new federal government they were setting up would become tyrannical."  Michael Krauss, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law

Janine Turner: “It’s affected my career, too”

Hot Air "Why speak out, then? Turner says she’s tired of people in her industry who meet in secret and “won’t take a stand.” She’s taking her case public, offering video podcasts of her thoughts on the Constitution, very informal segments that entertain as well as enlighten. The site also offers more serious analysis by Constitutional scholars such as Professor Michael Krauss of George Mason School of Law’s essay  on the amendments today. Be sure to check it out and keep checking back for more."

Our 'Insulter-in-Chief' about to go into overdrive

American Thinker  "The derision that greets Republicans or tea partiers is meant to chill free speech..while the praise heaped on Barack Obama is meant to energize the troops." Ed Lasky .Then this: Insulter-In-Chief:  "By now he's insulted just about everything and everyone. I list some of his insults below, in alphabetical order by insultee. Let the healing begin."

Obama is a Bully

CNBC "Hmm, now that I think about it, nor can I recall any other modern President who has spent so much effort lambasting his immediate predecessor. Reagan didn’t do it to Carter. Clinton didn’t do it to the first George Bush. And the worst part is, we’re barely calling out Obama the Bully on this behavior at all. We are becoming entirely too accustomed to it, failing to see it for what it really is: a striking lack of civility, and an overflow of divisiveness, from a President who had promised to give us precisely the opposite."