I've been hanging onto several smaller stories that I wanted to comment on a little bit without doing a whole write-up. It's important stuff, though, so I didn't want to let them slide by...
Border fence sunset
Michelle Malkin reports on an alert from Grassfire.org that the fence-gutting provision in the spending bill passed just before Christmas sunsets the authorization of the Department of Homeland Security to build a border fence on 12/31/08. So, not only are all three presidential candidates in favor of open borders, but there will no longer be any legal authorization to build the fence as of the first of 2009!
This is just one more bit of proof that our entire government (both parties) have waaaay too many people who are blatant open-borders schlocks willing to give away the country. I got a blast e-mail last night from NumbersUSA with an update on the SAVE Act that Pelosi has stalled in the House. There are now 181 Representatives who have signed onto the discharge petition to force a vote on the SAVE Act, which would accomplish real immigration reform. The story above is more evidence that we need to keep pushing NOW while we have momentum and a real bipartisan bill that would truly help. Call or e-mail your Rep and encourage them to sign the discharge petition (if they haven't already), and to pressure Pelosi to let a vote go forward on the SAVE Act. You can make a difference - our leaders certainly aren't doing it.
Petition for Flight 93 memorial
This is one of those things that I still can't believe is real, even after following it for a while. The short version is that there is a significant effort underway to honor the terrorists who killed everyone aboard Flight 93 on 9/11. As unreal as it sounds, go check out this link and see for yourself what the planners of this memorial have done to twist it into something mocking the true victims. There is also a petition you can sign to get them to join us in the real world of post-9/11.
Mexican trucks not being inspected
Remember a few months ago when there was a big flap about Mexican trucking companies being allowed into the U.S. according to the NAFTA superhighway? The opposition said that to allow Mexican trucks into the U.S. would be very bad in several ways - they have worse emissions, they posed safety concerns, they could cost American trucking jobs, and the obvious DUH factor of being conduits for even more illegal immigration. The supporters (the Bush administration included) bought just enough wiggle room to allow the plan forward by saying they'd make sure that strenuous inspections were conducted to address all of those things. Guess what? It didn't happen. Once again, the government promises immigration control and utterly fails to follow through. Call your Rep, your Senators, and the White House and demand accountability.
Palestine and Tibet
Dennis Prager writes about why Palestine gets so much more press than Tibet. Tibet is at least 1,400 years old, is one of the world's oldest nations, has its own language, its own religion and even its own ethnicity. Over 1 million of its people have been killed by the Chinese, its culture has been systematically obliterated, 6,000 of its 6,200 monasteries have been looted and destroyed, and most of its monks have been tortured, murdered or exiled. By contrast, there has never been a Palestinian country, never been a Palestinian language, never been a Palestinian ethnicity, never been a Palestinian religion in any way distinct from Islam elsewhere. Compared to Tibetans, few Palestinians have been killed, its culture has not been destroyed nor its mosques looted or plundered, and Palestinians have received billions of dollars from the international community. Unlike the dying Tibetan nation, there are far more Palestinians today than when Israel was created. The question is: why the difference? Prager says:
1. terrorism: Palestinian leaders decided murdering Jews was a great way to get attention. Tibet is almost completely pacifist.
2. oil: Palestine is supported by rich, oil-producing Arab states. Tibet is poor, with virtually no support.
3. Jews: much of Palestine's support comes from states that share their hatred of Jews.
4. China: Tibet's oppressors are not white Westerners, so the world looks the other way.
5. the Left: the Left has also always hated Israel.
6. the U.N.: the U.N. has condemned Israel more than any other nation while overlooking true genocides like Darfur and Tibet.
7. TV news: China allows virtually no TV news, so no video means no story.
Prager illustrates that Palestine and Tibet are totally different situations, and yet, the world babies Palestine and ignores Tibet. Hopefully something will change with China's high-profile from the upcoming Olympics.
Even outside the Tibet atrocities, China's human rights and equality record is abysmal, and the Olympics are likely to underscore that to the world.
Democrats and Iraq
The Editors of NRO caution the Democrats as relying on the war in Iraq as a nail in the coffin of the Republican party in November. Not only are they intentionally distorting McCain's statements about being in Iraq for 100 years (he meant that we'd have troops there as we do in other allies like Germany and Japan, decades after we beat them) into a longing for a 100-year long war, they are also critically misreading the situation. Though many Americans are tired of the war, it is clear public opinion is shifting into the positive end of the spectrum. If the Democrats play this card, they need to be careful: "[W]e suspect the public still prefers winning a war to losing one."
This is a very, very good point. The Democrats are hanging on to this anti-war schtick desperately because to let go of it would be to admit they were wrong about it (and Bush was right). Combined with an emphasis on the threat of radical Islamic terrorism, this could be a disastrous issue for the Democrats...IF McCain harnesses it correctly.
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