by Mark Krikorian*
President Bush’s “comprehensive” amnesty-guestworker extravaganza, that Sen. Kennedy may introduce as early as next week, is not going to become law this year. It may well be approved in some form by the Senate, though even that is not a sure thing.
But it will stumble again in the House of Representatives, just as it did last year, and for the same reason—the public hates it.
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Brazil has a hidden but serious problem of slave labor. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that there are 40,000 slaves working in Brazil today.
- CSM, 2/16/07
This from a country run by leftists, where the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party) and a motley crew of other kookie “socialist” parties hold the reigns in Brazil’s Congress. How could these guys back off of stopping slavery?
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has outdone even himself, telling “U.S. officials to ‘Go to hell, gringos!’ and call[ing] Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ‘missy’ on his weekly radio and TV show Sunday,” according to the AP. The Bush administration has long been criticized for not using sufficiently diplomatic, delicate language, but ¿cuál es éste? Hugo is pushing through “legislation” that will allow him to rule by decree and be dictator for life. Let me switch languages, but isn’t this a bit of koyaanisqatsi (Hopi for “life out of balance”), to put it into the lexicon of the politically correct?
By Center for Immigration Studies
SAN DIEGO (January 2007) — Discussion of U.S.-Mexico relations seldom acknowledges the longstanding and systemic conditions that foster the illegal out migration of hundreds of thousands of Mexican nationals each year. Neither Washington politicians nor the State Department want to publicly address the decades-long instability in Mexico for which no Mexican politicians are ever held accountable. Can any significant policy discussion of America’s border crisis with Mexico continue to ignore the basic conditions of America’s neighbor to the south?
by Bill Levinson
The Canadian Free Press reports that armed Mexican drug dealers attacked unarmed U.S. National Guard troops on the United States’ side of the border. This is commonly known as an act of war, and it should be treated as such. If anyone thinks otherwise, recall General Pershing’s invasion of Mexico in 1916 as a result of Pancho Villa’s incursions into the United States.
By Fern Sidman
While the attention of the world is now focused on the latest “cease fire” agreement between Hamas terrorists and the State of Israel and the escalating hostilities in Iraq, it would appear that lurking in the periphery of the news is the dramatic rise of global Jew hatred.
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Castro will be in power until he’s dead. Hugo Chavez probably will try to do the same. Now — guess who — Daniel Ortega is back in power in Nicaragua. One can only wonder why he was elected — some kind of populist nonsense, no doubt:
By Andrew L. Jaffee
When the Agence France-Presse is less politically correct than the AP, you have to know something’s afoot. When I first saw the headline that President Bush signed the bill authorizing 700 miles of new fence between the U.S. and Mexico, I thought, “Great; better border security and greater control over immigration.” That’s not quite how the AP saw it, in the first paragraph, no less:
By Andrew L. Jaffee
It has only been 12 years since the heinous act, but better late than never… From the BBC:
The Iranian government and Lebanese militia group Hezbollah have been formally charged over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires.
By Andrew L. Jaffee
What a surprise: Tijuana’s police force is corrupt and involved in drug-trafficking. American kids have been visiting the town to “partay” as a strange right of passage for years. Gilbert Shelton’s adventures of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, especially the “Mexican Odyssey,” published in the late 60s, is probably required reading at the U.S. DEA. I digress. My point is that Tijuana’s lawlessness has been common knowledge forever. Mexican cops have been on the drug biz take — probably since soon after Cortez brought down the Aztecs.
All the violence and illicit activities apparently were not enough to prompt Mexican authorities to take action. But business — that’s a different story:
By Andrew L. Jaffee
In a wonderful example of democratic/capitalist voting with your feet, “Convenience store operator 7-Eleven Inc. is dropping Venezuela-backed Citgo as its gasoline supplier at more than 2,100 locations and switching to its own brand of fuel.” Hugo Chavez can call President Bush “el diablo” at the UN — a speech funded by American taxpayer dollars — but U.S. corporations and consumers can tell Chavez to take his oil and shove it where the sun don’t shine. From the Chicago Tribune:
By Andrew L. Jaffee
Jeff Cohen, presumably another self-loathing Jew, asked the question, “What’s Wrong With Calling Bush A Devil?,” in an article published on Reuters AlertNet. Cohen asks in a subtitle, “Conservatives were quick to lash out at Hugo Chavez for calling President Bush a “devil,” but that’s exactly what Rush Limbaugh was calling Democrats only a few years ago.” Cohen spouts the usual dogmatic, knee-jerk moral relativism — concentrated on Bush-hatred, and with no substance, yet claims his arguments to be substantial. Cohen believes in a vast right-wing conspiracy controlling our media, and is upset because some “conservatives” have criticized Hugo, calling them hypocrites. But Cohen is just as big of a hypocrite.
By Andrew L. Jaffee
The Nonaligned Movement, once dominated by communist/socialist countries, has now added Islamists to its ranks. So we have a group of dictators with atrocious human rights records; and who actively train, provide safe haven to, and/or provide weapons and money to terrorist groups; telling us that we should not label them as terrorists; or at least not as terrorism enablers. My, how convenient. They want the West, especially Israel and the U.S., to be culturally sensitive to their ultra-violence. From the AP:
By Andrew L. Jaffee
I don’t know how many of you are fans of archeology, let alone that of Meso-America, but there are certainly those of you interested in the politically-correct whitewashing of terrorism. How are the two subjects related? Let me explain. The justification of current-day terrorism is advocated by the same ilk, those who would rewrite the modern-day cause of terrorist atrocities (e.g., “Palestinians are driven by desperation”), as well as those who would edit, for example, the pre-Columbian history of Mexico. Recent archeological evidence shows that the Aztecs were indeed as despicable as reported by Spanish Conquistadors, defying politically-correct rationalizations for the tribe’s thirst for human sacrifice.
The Aztec and Mayan calendars.
I recently watched a History Channel “documentary” which either 1) rationalized the Aztec tribe’s insatiable appetite for human sacrifice on the grounds that they were “deeply religious” people, afraid that, if not enough ritual blood was spilled, the sun wouldn’t rise the next day; or 2) the Spanish Conquistadors, led by Hernando Cortez, made up their accounts of mass Aztec human sacrifice rituals as a form of propaganda.
By Andrew L. Jaffee
On August 5, we heard that Castro will be “back on his feet soon.” Today, the BBC reported:
A state-controlled newspaper in Cuba has published the first photographs of President Fidel Castro since he had intestinal surgery two weeks ago. …
In a report of a visit to the Cuban president’s bedside, the paper suggested Mr Castro was “firm like a caguairan” - likening Cuba’s revolutionary leader to a sturdy tropical hardwood tree.
Recounting the observations of an unidentified visitor, Mr Castro was said to be “up and about, like someone anticipating new victories”.
Neither Mr Castro nor his brother, Raul, have been seen in public for the past fortnight, fuelling speculation both in Cuba and in Florida, home to many Cuban exiles, about who is in charge.
Boy, I’d love to be a fly on the wall. I imagine the stench would be awful, though… Castro is “up and about, like someone anticipating new victories,” i.e., plugged into a wall-socket. Remember Brezhnev and Chernenko? Their own people laughed at them, though only among trusted friends, for fear of the KGB and NKVD. Same batty time, same batty channel…
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