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The President and Senate reach an agreement that would reward illegal alien gatecrashers in the US with legal status. This bill tells every Latin American outside the US that he or she was a fool for obeying the law and trying to come to America legally. When Reagan passed amnesty in the 80s for 1 million illegal immigrants, critics correctly pointed out that the illegal immigration problem would get an order of magnitude worse. Now we have 12 million. If this bill passes, the illegal immigration problem will again get an order of magnitude worse and America will go broke and become a Third World country.

Senator calls bill amnesty. I hate that this whole debate got caught up on the single word 'amnesty.' The open borders people have used that word as a way to distract from the fact that they are rewarding illegal immigrants for breaking our laws.

Illegal immigrants voting in Texas. Santa Fe wants to hire Mexicans as police officers. We're losing the battle for America to Mexico, and it's our own so-called leaders who are defeating us.

Street lockdown proposed for Baltimore.

Russia blamed for cyber-attacks on Eastonia. This once again highlights the stupidity of including former Soviet block nations in NATO. We could end up at war with Russia over these cyber-attacks.

Secularist parties in Turkey unite in opposition to Islamic ruling party.

Israel attacks Hamas in Gaza.

Trains cross Korean border.

Pakistan's problems are religious, political, and ethnic.

Democrats break campaign promises and abuse House rules. Boortz is claiming this will allow Democrats to raise taxes and spending without having a vote. I don't support this rules change because I prefer gridlock, but I don't see how this change could allow tax and spending increases without a vote. Apparently Democrats backed down.

Republican leader trying to ban Ron Paul from future GOP presidential debates. So much for freedom of speech. Ron Paul isn't happy about people putting words in his mouth either. As I noted yesterday, Paul never claimed the US invited 9/11. I don't think Guiliani or McCain did nearly as well as this author.

Al Gore, the person most responsible for using alarmism to drown out reasonable debate and sound science on global warming, decries the lack of reason in our debates. What a joke. Temperatures were down in April. Maybe it was all the snow.

Interesting story on Ashcroft and the NSA wiretap program. Another viewpoint claims over over-dramatization by Democrats for political gain.

Cato thinks Gonzales must go. The sooner, the better.

Cato points out that Bush's mandate on ethanol will push up the price of both gas and cars. The LA Times agrees.

Cato explains that Democrats will grow the government budget and raise taxes.

George Will provides information about gas prices.

John Bolton says we have to prepare to bomb Iran's nuclear program.

7th grader suspended for cutting hair too short.

Ed Koch says Democrats will reap the whirlwind for their decision to defeat us in Iraq.

Chavez continues his assault on Venezuela.

Coffee from cat poop.

Prince Harry's non-deployment to Iraq has turned into another PR nightmare for Britain.

Russians are surrendering their freedom.

Ralph Peters says Bush's new war czar hasn't got a chance. I doubt he had a choice either.

White, female teacher successfully sues for racial abuse in predominantly black school.

Double standard for Al Sharpton.

State Attorneys General pressure movies on smoking.

Regulating violence on TV.

Reason says Blair's civil rights record is abysmal.

Totalitarian implications of public health.

The Democrats' many pronged attack on free speech.

Victor Davis Hanson compares the hypocrisy of carbon offsets to medieval confessions.

Thomas Sowell discusses ubiquitous liberal hate:

It seems to be the threat to their egos that they hate. And nothing is more of a threat to their desire to run other people's lives than the free market and its defenders.

Thomas Sowell explains the failure of elites - central planning, but he mistakenly only applies this logic to liberal elites when it obviously applies equally to conservative elites. Tell me this line doesn't apply to both parties:

Yet what the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

Republicans in Ohio committee pass hands-off stripper bill. Conservative elites in action trying to impose their views on the everybody else, just like liberals elites.