RSSBorder Patrol agents kill suspected smuggler south of Tucson
TUCSON - U.S. Border Patrol agents shot and killed a man among a group of suspected drug smugglers during a confrontation Tuesday night south of Tucson, authorities said. Border Patrol spokesman Gus Soto said several agents spotted a group of five men walking with backpacks west of Interstate 19 and about 20 miles north of Mexico. The group was walking in the desert parallel to an unimproved dirt road about a mile west of the interstate near the Aliso Springs area. Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said the agents, with a Border Patrol SWAT team, ordered the group to halt. At least one of the backpackers opened fire, with one or more agents shooting back, Estrada said.
American The Socialist?
If the latest Rasmussen poll is right we are over the hump and well on our way to becoming a socialist country.
Poll: 55% Favor Requiring Companies to Provide Health Insurance
Just 33% of Americans favor a national health insurance program, but most are open to ideas that would expand coverage to cover more of the uninsured population. A survey found that 55% favor the idea of requiring companies to provide health insurance and 57% favor taxing wealthier Americans to provide coverage for those without insurance.
Translation: Most Americans don’t want a government mandated health plan but most Americans basically want a government mandated health plan with 55% of Americans favoring government telling people how they have to spend their money and 57% of Americans favoring using government to take money from someone else as a justification for stealing.
This is the face of liberalism – compassion with everyone else’s money.
Anyone want to try and point out where in the Constitution Congress has either of these authorities? Anyone? I’ll even settle for the pathetic “general Welfare” excuse just so that I can shoot that one down again. But it seems that as of late there are fewer and fewer socialists out there that even bother to try and justify their acts Constitutionally any more.
Why should they? Apparently the majority of Americans no longer think the Constitution is important anyway.
God help us all.
CAWG Porker of the Month
From Citizens Against Government Waste:
Rep. Collin Peterson Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) Porker of the Month for his hostility toward agriculture policy reform. Although the primary justification for federal agricultural price supports has always been that they are necessary to protect “small family farmers,” subsidies overwhelmingly go to the biggest farmers and agribusinesses - with the largest 4 percent of farms garnering half of commodity subsidy payments and the largest 10 percent pulling in 73 percent.
President Bush’s 2007 Farm Bill proposal would eliminate subsidy payments to high-income individuals, but even modest reform is too much for Rep. Peterson. With sugar beet producers located in his district, Rep. Peterson is looking out for the “Big Sugar” lobbying machine in Washington that is trying to keep its government subsidies and protect itself from international competition. For supporting corporate welfare and for opposing farm policy reform and free trade in order to protect special interests in his home district, CAGW names Rep. Collin Peterson its February 2007 Porker of the Month. Read more about the Porker of the Month.
KS: House votes to bar illegal immigrants from state colleges
JEFFERSON CITY — The House voted to effectively ban illegal immigrants from the state’s colleges and universities and require institutions to guarantee to lawmakers that they have “not knowingly admitted” anyone in the country illegally. The measure, endorsed by 122-35 vote Wednesday, would codify existing federal requirements. Universities that cannot certify that illegal immigrants are not enrolled could face financial penalties. Rep. Bryan Stevenson said educating those who have illegally entered the country is essentially giving funding to break the law. “If they come here illegally, why should the state subsidize the education of someone who criminally enters the state?” said Stevenson, R-Webb City. Critics said the measure would punish students who entered the country illegally as children with their parents.
North Korea Capable of Hitting US
North Korea is technically capable of building a long-range missile that can hit the United States despite a test failure last year, a senior US military intelligence official said Tuesday.
Isn’t this the same thing that Kimmy-boy said last year just before firing off his Limp Dong?
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Don’t Worry … Clinton’s A Liberal So It’s Ok
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former president Bill Clinton have operated a family charity since 2001, but she failed to list it on annual Senate financial disclosure reports on five occasions.
The Ethics in Government Act requires members of Congress to disclose positions they hold with any outside entity, including nonprofit foundations. Hillary Clinton has served her family foundation as treasurer and secretary since it was established in December 2001, but none of her ethics reports since then have disclosed that fact.
The foundation has enabled the Clintons to write off more than $5 million from their taxable personal income since 2001, while dispensing $1.25 million in charitable contributions over that period.
Clinton’s spokesman said her failure to report the existence of the family foundation and the senator’s position as an officer was an oversight.
Yes, it’s always so simple and compact when any favorite son or daughter of the liberal left is involved. But anyone else that forgets to put down required information is lambasted!
I’m not saying it’s not an oversight, but it seems like a pretty BIG oversight to not include your own charity on the forms. It’s not like it was some odd ball organization that could have been forgotten.
And this woman wants to be Commander in Chief? Heck she can’t even remember what organizations she holds offices in.
When You Pay For Dysfunction You Get Dysfunction
You generally get what you pay for.
A woman who coached her two children to appear developmentally disabled so she could claim disability benefits for them pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.
Rosie Costello, 46, pleaded guilty in federal court in Tacoma to Social Security fraud and conspiracy to defraud the government.
Costello of Vancouver, Wash., is scheduled to be sentenced May 17. The conspiracy charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and the Social Security fraud charge is punishable by up to five years in prison. Both charges carry a fine of up to $250,000.
Investigators said Costello coached her daughter and son to feign symptoms of mental retardation for years, bilking the state and federal governments out of more than $280,000.
Her son, Pete Costello, continued the ruse into adulthood and was caught only after he appeared in District Court in Vancouver to challenge a traffic ticket, according to court documents.
Pete Costello, 28, pleaded guilty to Social Security fraud Feb. 9. He is to be sentenced May 11.
If you pay people to be dysfunctional they will be dysfunctional.
Washington Post/ABC Polls Schizophrenics and Political Dullards?
I wanted to wait to comment on the Wa-Po/ACB poll which is the latest attempt to show how much America dislikes President Bush, Republicans and basically everything that is currently going on until the internals were released. I have to say that after looking at the internals I think these guys and gals are polling schizophrenics and dullards.
Let me explain.
Compare question 4: Do you approve or disapprove of the way (b) Condoleezza Rice is handling her job as Secretary of State? Approve – 58% Disapprove – 31% No Opinion – 10%
to this:
Question 2: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Bush is handling (b) the US campaign against terrorism? Approve – 46% Disapprove – 52% No Opinion – 1%
How is this possible? Condoleezza Rice is the Secretary of State and a central figure in the “campaign against terrorism” yet she has a higher approval rating than the President whose policy she is implementing? Are the people that were polled by Wa-Po/ABC aware that Condi is not a lose cannon and that she is following the policy of the President?
Apparently not. Hence why I suggest there are a lot of political dullards that were polled.
Let’s move on.
Question 2 Do you approve or disapprove of the way Bush is handling (c) the economy? Approve – 43% Disapprove – 55% No Opinion – 2%
Anyone want to point out where the President has any actual authority or ability to “handle” the economy? I’ll wait if you want to hunt through Article II of the Constitution. Congress makes law and laws are what “handle” the economy. All the President can do is veto (or not veto) these laws.
Again … political dullards. And I don’t even have to go into the actual stats about how the economy is booming right along to prove that.
Now for the schizophrenics.
Question 6: All in all, considering the costs to the United States versus the benefits to the United States, do you think the war with Iraq was worth fighting, or not? Do you feel that way strongly or somewhat? Worth Fighting – 34% Not Worth Fighting – 64% No Opinion – 2%
But THEN …
Question 9: Would you support or oppose Congress trying to block Bush’s plan by (b) restricting funding for the war? Support – 46% Oppose – 51% No Opinion – 3%
So let me get this straight. 64% of Americans say that the war in Iraq is not worth fighting BUT 51% support continuing funding and fighting it? It sure is good to know that we have people of principle out there to take these polls!
You’ll notice that Wa-Po/ABC also declined to print the breakdown of who exactly they polled. Especially for political polls these breakdowns are extremely important to make transparent that over sampling and weighting of results (which the press does on a regular basis) was not done.
Perhaps these statistics were left out because they don’t want it to be obvious that this was a push poll?
Border agent fires at SUV
A Border Patrol agent fired Saturday at a vehicle that was driving toward him, an official said. It was unclear if anyone was injured during Saturday’s shooting near Arivaca, said Jesus Rod-riguez, spokesman for the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector. He gave this account: Around 1 p.m., Border Patrol agents on Arizona 286 near milepost 10 became suspicious of a northbound Lincoln Navigator and decided to stop it. The vehicle appeared to come to a stop, so one agent got out of his vehicle and was preparing to approach it. The Navigator then quickly made a U-turn and was coming at the agent, so he fired his gun because he felt threatened, Rodriguez said. The sport utility vehicle, which turned out to be stolen from Mesa, continued south without striking the agent but was soon stopped in Sasabe, near the border, he said.
Undocumented workers return after raid at Buckley
Illegal immigrants say they were working on a military housing project outside Buckley Air Force Base within days after a major immigration raid there last year. Immigration officials said at the time that they were protecting national security and sending a message to employers with the Sept. 20 raid, which nabbed more than 120 workers. Most of the workers were from Mexico and were quickly deported. Others came from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Three had outstanding criminal warrants and were turned over to Aurora police. Julio Cesar Rodriguez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, told the Rocky Mountain News he was back on the job a few days after the raid. So was Martin Torrez, who said he saw about a dozen workers who returned to Buckley after they were deported.
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