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SENATE SHAMNESTY

Right now, the Senate is desperately trying to convince the American people that their immigration bill is something else – anything else – than what it is: a massive amnesty for all 15 million to 20 million illegal aliens without any meaningful enforcement provisions.

The same open-borders crowd that has betrayed the American middle class for years is hoping to fool us again.    

This "shamnesty" bill spells out the level of contempt the Senate has for middle-class Americans. This "comprehensive" bill includes:

*In-state tuition for illegal aliens. Your kid has to pay full freight if they cross state lines, (more…)

A RATIONAL FRENCHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD

No snide comments how "rational Frenchman" is an oxymoron.  There are plenty of them, albeit not enough.  I had lunch with one of them here in DC yesterday.  He’s Pierre Lellouche, who represents Paris (4th district) in the National Assembly (France’s Parliament) and is President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

If you had been there with me, you’d have come away wishing he were Bush’s National Security Advisor for Europe.  Even better, though, is that after Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France next April (see Sarko vs. Eurabia, January 2005), M. Lellouche may be France’s Defense Minister. (more…)

A BOUNTY ON COYOTES

If you Google "coyote hunting," you’ll get 2,790,000 hits.  It’s a popular sport among outdoorsmen, and a necessary one.  As one hunter puts it:

Coyote populations across the country are exploding and taking an unprecedented toll on wildlife. Zero predator control by state and federal agencies and low fur prices have kept trapping to a minimum, hence predator populations are booming. The opportunity to add some prime coyote pelts to your trophy collection and reduce the predator pressure on the local game and bird populations have never been better.

Coyotes are pests, varmints, hated not only by cattle and sheep (more…)

THE WORST SENATE OF MODERN TIMES

Get a few conservative Congressmen together over a few beers and a favorite conversational topic will be, Who’s the worst president in modern memory?

No, it’s not George Bush.  But a number of them can make out a good case that it’s his father.

Worse even than Jimmy Carter? will come the astounded response.  Yes, they say.  Carter inherited a lousy economy and the Soviets on the imperial march.  He was a disaster because the little wimp made a bad situation so much worse.   

Bush the Elder, on the other hand, inherited a revitalized America, a surging economy, and a (more…)

THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE IMMIGRATION CRISIS

We’re going to get deep and serious here, and I’m going to ask you to reflect on a number of previous articles.  We’re not going to fulminate against George Bush, illegal immigrant-hiring businesses and the whores in the Senate they pay off, Democrats who see every illegal alien as a potential welfare recipient who will vote for them, or even Reconquista Mexicans attempting to recapture the American Southwest.

No, we’re going to get to the heart of the matter and figure out the fundamental cause of the problem.   The problem that lies at the heart not just of the immigration (more…)

BAD NEWS FOR HUGO

There seemed to be a lot of good news for Venezuela’s Castro Wannabe, Hugo Chavez, this weekend.  He was wined and dined by London’s wacko-commie mayor, "Red Ken" Livingstone, and serenaded by his supporters waving Venezuelan flags and dancing to salsa music in London streets.

The commie dog-and-pony show is what the media focused on – and not the bad news reality behind it. 

First was the refusal of Prime Minister Tony Blair or any member of the British Cabinet to meet with him.  The dutifully-left press reported this backwards, claiming Chavez rejected "hints" of an invitation to 10 Downing (more…)

ROLL YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE

Rollyo (as in roll your own), is a Web service that allows you to create your own personalized search engine on any subject under the sun.

With its billions of sites, the Web has become the natural place to turn for information about nearly any subject. Large search engines like Google and Yahoo have their little search bots running 24/7, gathering data on sites and reporting back to the database, which you tap into when you conduct your search.

Unfortunately, though, finding what you need isn’t always so easy. The data you need are definitely out there – the problem (more…)

TAXING THE LEFT’S BRAIN CELLS

Do you think your taxes are too high or too low? Though I expect that well over 90 percent of you are thinking "too high," the liberal media and political class keep telling us taxes are too low.    

The left-leaning intelligentsia, in their arrogant smugness, claim we just don't know what is good for us. Yet, they are the ones who ignore the empirical evidence and are unable to distinguish between variables and constants.

As a prime example, a May 7 editorial in The Washington Post, advocating higher tax rates on the rich, states: "Economics cannot predict how high (more…)

REPORTING PHONY NEWS IN AMERICA, REFUSING TO REPORT REAL NEWS IN IRAQ

Because it dominated the news this past weekend, many Americans are aware of the USA Today story May 11 revealing that the National Security Agency has established a data base containing the records of telephone calls made by tens of millions of Americans.

Not so many Americans are aware that USA Today’s "scoop" is recycled news.  The New York Times ran a story on the NSA database last December.  It was treated then with the ho hum response it so richly deserves.

What is being collected are records of who called whom, and how long the calls lasted, what the (more…)

PUTIN IN A CLOWN SUIT

Amidst all the gloomy news of the week – Goss’ firing, Bush’s poll numbers falling to almost Nixonian levels as he continues to refuse to protect our borders, on and on – yesterday’s (5/11) headline provided welcome comic relief.

Putin Warns Arms Race Not Over Yet screamed the front page of papers like the Washington Times.  For folks on the White House National Security Council and in foreign policy think tanks around town, this was funnier than a Seinfeld rerun or Larry the Cable Guy.

Putin had delivered his state-of-the-nation address to the Russian Parliament, or Duma, and was desperate (more…)

WHAT COUNTRY GETS MORE FOREIGN AID THAN ANY OTHER?

Which country receives the most in total foreign aid from all donors? The official numbers show Iraq at the top with $3 to $18 billion in aid (depending on how you define "aid") and all the other recipient nations of the world at less than $3 billion per year.

However, if you look at which nation benefits most from foreign subsidies, the U.S. would come out on top by a very wide margin.

Yes, I did just say that the U.S. is the world's largest recipient of foreign assistance. Other countries are not sending official government "aid" dollars to help (more…)

THE WORLD’S BEST (AND MOST POLITICALLY INCORRECT) STEAK

I love the full page ads in the New York Times with a full-size picture of a very large steak knife and the caption:  Terrifying Vegetarians Since 1886.  Smith & Wollensky’s Steak House.

The ad is fun but the truth is, their steaks are not that great (and way overpriced).  The best steak in America is the porterhouse at Peter Luger’s in Brooklyn.  Many international folks think the best restaurant steak in the world is served at La Cabaña in Buenos Aires.  But the true best steak in the world cannot be found in any restaurant.

Years ago, I was (more…)

SKYPE 2.5 (beta)

We first talked about Skype, the software program by which you can make free phone calls most anywhere in the world, last September in Talk Is Cheap.

Last week Skype marked quite a milestone: 100,000,000 registered users. That’s just the number of downloads, though-there aren’t necessarily that many regular users.

Still, at any moment, several million people in the world are online using Skype whether for free Skype-to-Skype voice calls, instant messaging chat, video calls, or to take advantage of the premium services that actually earn Skype its money. That’s impressive by any measure.

As of May 3, 2006, (more…)

THE GREAT UN-COMMUNICATOR

You’ve got to hand it to President Bush.  For a pretty decent, straightforward guy, he sure has a knack for making enemies. 

The economy is booming.  There has been no successful terrorist attack in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.  Al Qaeda officials acknowledge we’re winning the war in Iraq.  Yet in the history of polling, only three presidents have had job approval ratings as low or lower than President Bush does now.

They were Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter just before they left office, and Harry Truman after he had fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur.  Mr. Bush is about (more…)

SAVING DETROIT

If you live in Washington and you’re a guest on Fox News, the producers graciously send a car and driver to take you to the studio and back home after the show.  One of the Fox drivers is a colorful character everyone calls "Wolf."  He grew up in Yugoslavia (in what is now Bosnia), and he told me a very illuminating story.

Wolf had read The Natural Gas Solution (soon after we first met he became a TTP subscriber) and explained how he knew it was accurate.  "I drove a Yugo car when I lived in Sarajevo back in the (more…)