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The Islamic threat is greater than German and Soviet threats were – Dennis Prager The existence of an unprecedentedly large number of people wishing to destroy decent civilization as we know it -- and who celebrate their own deaths -- poses a threat the likes of which no civilization in history has had to confront. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2006/03/28/191502.html

Guests or gate crashers Part 1 – Thomas Sowell If truth-in-packaging laws applied to politics, the Bush guest worker program would have to be called a "gate-crasher worker" program. The President's proposal would solve the problem of illegal immigration by legalizing it after the fact. … None of the rhetoric and sophistry that we hear about immigration deals with the plain and ugly reality: Politicians are afraid of losing the Hispanic vote and businesses want cheap labor. … Let's hope the immigration bills before Congress can at least get an honest debate, instead of the word games we have been hearing for too long. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/03/28/191503.html

And part 2 For too long, we have bought the argument that being unfortunate entitles you to break the law. The consequence has been disastrous, whether the people allowed to get away with breaking the law are Americans or foreigners. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/03/29/191639.html

Kill all the Gringos Every American and legal alien should watch a few of these videos to see exactly what the "Mexica Movement" is all about and exactly how serious these invaders are; see here and here.  http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd180.htm

Common sense about immigration – Tony Snow http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/tonysnow/2006/03/31/192005.html

Israel after the elections – by Rod Martin http://www.thevanguard.org/index.asp?url=http://www.thevanguard.org/thevanguard/columns/060330.shtml

Imagine Slovenians taking to the streets As a little girl, I accompanied my mother on her housecleaning jobs. When she went to work at the clothing factory, I was left to clean her house and take on her duties. I cleaned neighbors’ houses before I was legally old enough to get a minimum wage job. I have also worked in the vineyards of upstate New York and in a variety of restaurants and bars. These are the types of jobs that apologists for illegal immigrants claim others won’t do. … Neither my parents nor the parents of my Ukrainian friends would dream of demanding special privileges from taxpayers. They learned English as best they could and their children who went to American schools translated their documents. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/marygrabar/2006/04/02/191979.html

FEC attacks on free speech Over the last three decades or so, the federal government has launched an enormously successful attack on political speech. It's in this context that the FEC's declaration that it shall not endeavor to regulate or control bloggers (for now) is greeted as a stupendous victory. … Of the FEC decision not to regulate the Internet, yes, it could have been far worse. When it comes to government, we know things can always get worse. That's why even a decent decision to permit certain speech in one particular forum provides no solace. It can't make up for the fact that our right to speak has been abridged, regulated away http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/pauljacob/2006/04/02/192188.html

Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) punched a U.S. Capitol Police officer today after he mistakenly pursued her for failing to pass through a metal detector. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/townhall.comeditors/2006/03/30/191838.html

Power tends to corrupt even our founders – by Larry Pratt http://www.newswithviews.com/Pratt/larry58.htm

Judicial activism or restraint? Walter Williams http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2006/03/29/191511.html

Kentucky House Budget Good and Bad Our family built twenty million dollars in facilities and will soon employ over 100 people on an annual payroll over 2 million dollars. Our decision to invest means a lot of tax dollars to state and local coffers that wouldn’t be there otherwise. But nobody from Frankfort or from Bardstown jumped in to help. All that the banks wanted to know was whether or not it was financially smart. They required that we lay everything we owned on the line, and then loaned us the rest. It’s the same process for almost every small business. We will use tax dollars for the arena because nobody wants to invest their own money, and banks wouldn’t lend the money for it. http://www.kentuckyconservative.com/Floyd/default.htm#house_budget

Charity begins at home – ends at city hall The last time the Roman Catholic Church and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors squared off on same-sex marriage, the Special City's thought police essentially forced Catholic Charities to renounce Catholic doctrine in order to continue receiving city funds it needs to care for the sick. … A decade later, the city can't pull funding for adoptions because it doesn't give Catholic Charities a dime for its adoption activities. It can, however, withdraw city dollars for Catholic Charities' programs for the homeless and people with HIV/AIDS. Once again, politics could trump healing. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/debrasaunders/2006/03/26/191333.html

Solving the immigration problem – Rich Tucker Right now, illegal immigration is a merely civil offense. Clearly millions of people are more enticed by the opportunity to work here illegally than are frightened off by the threat of being arrested. Maybe tougher penalties would help. It wouldn’t hurt to try. At the same time, we should encourage local authorities to enforce already existing federal laws. http://townhall.com/opinion/columns/richtucker/2006/03/31/192138.html

Racism gets a whitewash – Michelle Malkin Mexican flags and signs advocating ethnic separatism and supremacy filled the landscape. Demonstrators gleefully defaced posters of President Bush and urged supporters to "Stop the Nazis!" Los Angeles talk show host Tammy Bruce reported that protesters burned American flags and waved placards of the North American continent with America crossed out. …Aztlan is a long-held notion among Mexico's intellectual elite and political class, which asserts that the American Southwest rightly belongs to Mexico. Advocates believe the reclamation (or reconquista) of Aztlan will occur through sheer demographic force. If the rallies across the country are any indication, reconquista is already complete. http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13616

Illegal aliens mobbing the streets Americans won’t mob Which is worse -- that a half million immigration criminals and their descendants and sympathizers can be found in a single American city, or that the current immigration enforcement system is such a joke that the half million have nothing to fear from openly entering the public streets and arguing against legislation currently before Congress?  It’s as if thieves thought they could form a union to lobby for fewer cops. http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13521

Marriage – A Social Justice Issue “The impact of the decay of marriage among black people has been enormous, resulting in higher poverty rates among black families, school failure among children, and the intergenerational transmission of high teen pregnancy rates and female-headed households. Sociological research has implicated fatherlessness in violence, drug use and criminal behavior, especially among young black males.” http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=316

Proud to be a conservative – Burt Prelutsky A fact worth noting is that during LBJ’s administration, a group of tree huggers got an injunction to prevent the feds from working on a certain project in the South, for fear it would harm the environment. The project involved shoring up the levees of New Orleans. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/BurtPrelutsky/2006/03/27/191319.html

Hillary citing Scripture? Call it “Scripture Smorgasbord,” “Cafeteria Christianity,” or “Erratic Exegesis”—it’s the practice of those who quote Scripture when it suits a personal preference but ignore it when the preference is condemned.  http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13602

Allah or Jesus? I said to a Muslim: �Would you rather have an Allah who says to kill me to go to heaven, Or a Jesus who says for me to love you because I am going to heaven, And He would like you to be with me?�  http://www.charityadvantage.com/missiongateministry/AllahorJesus.asp

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