Letters: The illegal immigration hornet's nest

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER "Hello. Illegal is illegal. We do not hate Hispanics. We want Hispanics, like other countries immigrants, to be in America as legal citizens and speak the language. My son married a wonderful Hispanic girl and she has caring, extended family. Both sets of my grandparents arrived in this country through Ellis Island. They had sponsors and learned English to provide for their families. So to be here legally is not impossible – it takes work and determination."

The Politics of Contempt/ It's not "hope and change."

Weekly Standard "Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress didn’t invent the politics of vilification, and they will not be the last to practice it. The president and his political allies, however, have refined the practice to an art form – they say they abhor vilification, yet consistently demonize when promoting their legislative aims."...."Building contempt among these core voters is one possible way to do that, but it’s a few degrees lower on the idealism meter than “hope and change.” "

A Dysfunctional Supreme Court: Remedies and a Comparative Analysis

The Rutherford Institute " "The time has surely come for an independent judicial appointments commission to be established ... to take Supreme Court appointments out of the hands of politicians and beyond the reach of the political process..."--John W. Whitehead & John M. Beckett" The 221 page report here: Charleston Law Review

Thoughts on Gorism

Victor Davis Hanson  "You see, professed liberal humanitarianism and old fashioned “get mine” breed cynicism among the populace. If one were to believe Al Gore that there is a danger of manmade global warming and we all need to cut back, one might well lose faith when one sees that Al Gore lives differently from the way in which he has convinced you to live. And if one sees that the advocates for forced equality most certainly don’t want to be forced to do anything they advocate, then what are we left with?"

Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/MichaelRamirez

Illegal Aliens: Law and Sovereignty in Arizona

Andrew C. McCarthy  "Why “misguided” and “irresponsible”? The president elaborated that the Arizona law “threaten[s] to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans.” To be sure, Obama has notions of fairness, but they are his own, marinated in doctrinaire leftism. As for the American ideal that he ceaselessly invokes but clearly doesn’t get, our Constitution’s framers thought fundamental fairness would be fatally undermined by two things: the inability of the governed to consent to legal arrangements because it had become impossible to know what the law is, and the failure of central government to tend to its first responsibility: the nation’s security."

Beyond Schadenfreude: What George Will’s Crucifixion of Bill Maher Really Means

Big Hollywood "Maher’s accusations about race are not only odious, racist, and repugnant on their face, they are characteristic of the wholesale and relentless attempt by the left—and many in the media—to brand the Tea Party movement and, on a wider basis, any critic of the current administration as racially motivated. Those who watch Maher’s Real Time and enjoy his brand of political chatter would do well to examine its loose-lipped host for the very kind of bias he accuses the conservative movement of so blithely and so blanketly." The aforementioned analysis:  George Will Skewers Bill Maher :"It must have been a gut-wrenching moment when you were actually challenged to back up your outlandish assertions and accusations against the right you make so freely on HBO".

Amnesty Will Legalize More Terrorists

Human Events  "“Every aspect of our immigration system has been used by foreign terrorists to gain a safe haven in the United States,” Smith said. “A massive amnesty would not only fail to address this problem, it would overburden the system with millions of more individuals whose identities cannot be known or, as a practical matter, checked.”"  Connie Hair is a freelance writer, a former speechwriter for Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and a former media and coalitions advisor to the Senate Republican Conference.

Obama National Security Policy: Hope Their Bombs Don't Work

Ann Coulter "Second, it would be a little easier for the rest of us not to live in fear if the president's entire national security strategy didn't depend on average citizens happening to notice a smoldering SUV in Times Square or smoke coming from a fellow airline passenger's crotch."...."If only Dr. Hasan's gun had jammed at Fort Hood, that could have been another huge foreign policy success for Obama."

THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF OBAMAMEDIA

Nealz Nuze "So only 9% of Daily Kos readers believed the (alleged) bomber to be a Muslim while 71% believed it was a conservative. That pretty well sums up not only the content of the Daily Kos, but the readership of that blog as well. In this day and age how could anyone possibly be so completely brain-dead as to put Islamic terrorist so low on that list and Tea Partiers so high. This is dementia at a level I should have, but didn't know exists among the ObamaZombies out there."

ARE YOU STARTING TO BELIEVE ME NOW?

Neal Boortz "I've been warning you since the mid-1990s that if the voters of this country were ever stupid enough to put Democrats back in charge in Washington, the Democrats would make a move to seize all or a portion of their pension plans. Judging from some of the emails and Tweets I've been receiving the past few days, people are starting to believe that I just might have something here."

How close was the Times Square bomber to getting away?

G. Wesley Clark, MD "Thankfully, the Taliban is just slightly more incompetent at making bombs, than our government is at catching the bombers, and at protecting us."  Then this: Closing the barn door after the terrorist got away "Oh by the way, Mr. Shahzad, achieved no-fly list status sometimes probably on Monday but had passed all the security checks to board the plane despite the blaring red alert of paying cash for his last minute ticket . He also ,by the way, passed all the security checks to become a US citizen last year and is reported to have been a registered Democrat."