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Derbyshire has a great idea that doesn’t go far enough. Media Blog on National Review Online

Take away their vote. If you let public employees vote, what do you think they are going to vote for? For more public spending, more government jobs, higher government wages. Can you vote yourself a pay raise? No, and neither can I. Bill Bureaucrat and Pam Paperpusher can, though, and they do. Bill and Pam have no problem at all with ever-swelling public budgets, with ever-expanding public services, with the creeping socialism that is slowly throttling our liberties out of existence.

He should include public school teachers, who are essentially government employees, and, as a group, always vote for more government.

If my aunt was an illegal alien living in a slum and I was running for president as the candidate of hope and change, I’d want her kicked out of the country, too.

Better get used to this. For at least the next four years, if Tuesday climaxes in the big O being elected, we can expect a steady patter of “I didn’t know” and “I don’t know” and “I was not informed” and “That was done without my knowledge” and “I will have my staff look into that” and “The President has been informed and will have a statement later” (much, much, much later) and “Don’t you think you should verify the credibility of your source before asking me about it?” and “That is not reflective of the person I knew” and on and on and on and on and on.

“I didn’t know” will become the new version of “I don’t recall, Senator”, or its other variant, “Senator, I don’t recall.”

Just to account for the campaign period, we’re starting the “I didn’t know” counter at 100, and counting.

Obama says he didn’t know aunt’s illegal status – Yahoo! News

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn’t know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed.

The Associated Press found that Obama’s aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. The woman, Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUHN on-YANG-oh), is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama’s late father.

A statement given to the AP by Obama’s campaign said, “Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed.”

The campaign said it was returning $260 that Onyango had contributed in small increments to Obama’s presidential bid over several months. Federal election law prohibits foreigners from making political donations. Onyango listed her employer as the Boston Housing Authority and last gave $5 on Sept. 19.

The Hedgehog Blog: Proposition 8 and California’s Schoolchildren: A Primer on Falsehoods

Perhaps the most hotly-debated question about Proposition 8 is the measure’s impact on schoolchildren. If Proposition 8 fails, will young children be taught that same-sex marriage is equal to traditional marriage? Opponents of Prop 8 have adamantly — and falsely — claimed this will not happen.

The fact is, Prop 8’s leading opponents have been very public for a long time about their goal of teaching schoolchildren about gender orientation at very young ages. What is worse, they have openly promoted strategies for overcoming or circumventing parental objections to such teaching. It is foolish to believe they will not use the same approach to teaching children about same-sex marriage.

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Why I Fear an Obama Presidency – washingtonpost.com

Mr. Obama supports ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty that would have disastrous consequences for the American family. The Committee on the Rights of the Child, the U.N. tribunal authorized to interpret and enforce the Children’s Convention, sets forth an exhaustive index of children’s rights, many at odds with the rights of parents. It has held, for instance, that Britain violated children’s rights in Wales by allowing parents to withdraw their children from public school programs without first considering the children’s wishes.

In other words, the United Nations has determined that the government will decide what is best for our children. This is the ultimate dream of elitists: They get to decide for all of us what is best for our own children.

Home schooling is already essentially illegal in Germany.

In describing the abuse of power by Leftist politicians invading Joe the Plumber’s privacy, Michelle Malkin hits it just right:

If that doesn’t send a chill up your spine, you don’t have a spine.

Where’s the ACLU in protecting Joe from activist public officials abusing their access to his private life?

Probably getting ready for the big party in Chicago.

Hundreds of people mysteriously disappear in Russia every day – Pravda.Ru

Several hundreds of people vanish in Russia every day. The number of those who disappeared without a trace during the recent several years has doubled and reached 120,000 people. Out-of-town visitors, entrepreneurs and lonely proprietors make the largest risk group at this point.

Obama’s 2005 Daily Kos Post : Tone It Down, and Usher in a New Progressive Era | NewsBusters.org

Barack Obama sent a letter to the Daily Kos which was posted back in 2005 to talk strategy and “change” to the Kossacks. Obama was very serious about toning down the rhetoric only until it was safe enough to “enforce a more clearly progressive agenda.”

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