Sen. McCain faces toughest re-election challenge
    Phoenix -- Defeated just two years ago as the Republican presidential candidate and with his bonafides as a true conservative again being challenged, John McCain finds himself in a struggle to get even his party's nomination for another term in the Senate. [...]
    Hayworth and his supporters are particularly troubled by McCain's immigration bill, which they call "amnesty" for illegal [aliens].

Friday, 2/12/10

El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 2/11/10

Mexico seeks to improve its image abroad

The parliamentary group of Mexico's PAN Party is supporting a plan by the federal government to promote an improvement of Mexico's image abroad. The country's image has suffered and become negative due to news about massacres, violence and the war against crime. The government has asked consultants for projects to rehabilitate and improve its image. (But one reader commented: "The first thing that has to be changed is the enormous corruption among officials, politicians, judges, magistrates, etc., etc., and therefore, that of many citizens also equally accomplices in corruption.)

Border Patrol agents seized over 20,044 pounds of marijuana and 94 pounds of cocaine. Agents arrested 3 criminal aliens and 6 gang members. There were 6 rocking incidents.

Reported on February 4, 2010

Detroit Sector - Border Patrol agents arrested nine illegal aliens after responding to a request for assistance near Avon Lake, Ohio. Federal law enforcement officials encountered the subjects as the officers were serving an arrest warrant at a local residence.

San Diego Sector - Border Patrol agents seized 66.6 pounds of cocaine, a 2006 Chevrolet and arrested two nationals of Mexico at the traffic checkpoint near Pine Valley, California. The subjects presented themselves for inspection and a Border Patrol canine alerted to the vehicle. A search revealed the narcotics inside the vehicle.

Frédéric Bastiat must have been looking toward the future of the United States today when he said, "When plunder has become a way of life for a group of people living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it."

I fear the federal government will plunder much of our private wealth, retirement plans and personal savings through hyperinflation, financial controls and confiscatory tax rates all in the name of protecting the public from a future debt crisis unless the states can secede from the Union and the crushing Washington debt load.