Laurie Roberts cranks out another sappy amnesty saga

Mush gushing columnist Laurie Roberts is earning her salary at the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic). In yet another amnesty sob story, “Dad forced to choose between country, family,” Roberts relates that Brent Miller, an Arizona man who fathered twins with an illegal alien Mexican woman he later married, is having to pack up his life and move to Mexico to be with her and their young sons. As is typical, the tale is such a tear-jerker you’ll need a mega-sized box of Kleenex at your side if you chose to locate and read it.

Exhibiting more brass than brains, Roberts acknowledges that Esther, Brad’s illegal alien wife, was deported and illicitly returned to the United States.  Her criminality makes her ineligible to apply for legal status until 2021.

This rational legal response, according to Roberts, constitutes heartlessly cold insensitivity — definitely lacking in compassion. She concludes her schmaltzy tale with this carefully couched amnesty plea from Esther’s hubby, “I just want her home,” he whimpers. “That’s all I want. I think if most people, understood what‘s really happening to people, they’d be compassionate towards them. They’d want change.” 

Really? This is how Mexico treats those who are not native-born Mexicans.

Brent must be suffering an American history memory lapse. The United States, like Mexico, is a sovereign nation, with enforceable borders.  As a nation based in law, compassion cannot be part of the equation.

Besides which, Esther is home.

Pathetic AZ Republic seeks dumbed down readers

AZ República offers to take burdensome task of Googling off your hands

Today we are treated to additional pathetic overtures from the dying Periódico de la República de Arizona  (Arizona Republic).  In yet another bizarre move, the pro-illegal immigration, homosexual promoting newspaper that fills space with oversize photos rather than content, runs this multi-color solicitation atop its front page: “Go deeper with digital. Great reads. Rich databases. Interactive features.”

Following such enticements is a digital link to Arizona Pride Festivals in Bisbee and Flagstaff. (Hint: The “pride” is not based in any accomplishment or through earned, meritorious achievement.)

Accompanying these tempting lures, is this inanity: “Have a question? We can find answers to the most serious, goofy, playful and “I’ve always wondered about that” ones.  Take a look at asked and answered.”

It’s obvious the declining daily is seeking less than intellectual readers desirous of incisive news. We give it credit for acknowledging the capacity of its dwindling readership. The paper is clearly seeking those unable to Google.

This 2012 The State of the News Media annual report from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, is filled with graphs, charts and actual figures, detailing the crisis affecting America’s newspapers.  The Arizona Republic is in deep decline as profit margins tumble. The past 20 years show a steady slide in overall  newspaper paid circulation — which stood at 62.3 million in 1990 and fell to 43.4 million in 2010 — a decline of 30%.

The remaining few at the Arizona Republic are awaiting their retirement-age birthdays, allowing them to shuffle out the door. Last one out turns off the lights. Click.

AZ Political workshops: Only immigrants need apply

Aim is to ensure “a new majority” on the ballot

In advance of upcoming election cycles, potential candidates weigh the pros and cons of throwing their hats into the political ring. Considerations run the gamut from the ability to put together an effective organization, raise the necessary funds to get their message out and articulate what that message is. Are their abilities and education levels commensurate with the office being sought?   Have the candidates demonstrated interest in the community by being elected as a precinct committeeman and working on the campaigns of others? So much to consider.

Under the headline, “Workshop aiming to prepare immigrants to run for office,” in the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic), we read that the New American Leaders Project and Promise Arizona have been conducting workshops for those seeking to break into politics. But it appears only “immigrants” need apply. “About 25 people from across Arizona attended a Phoenix workshop designed to move them from political newcomer to viable candidate in two days.”  The program, conducted by community organizers, is described as a “candidate-training program for immigrants.” No word on whether the immigrants are here legally. We’re not likely to know, since Associated Press, to which the Arizona República subscribes, recently ditched the precise definition “illegal immigrant” from its journalist’s Stylebook.

The concept would be humorous if not so bizarre. “Immigrants” are taking all of two days preparing to be viable candidates for public office in the United States. 

This reminds us that just a year ago, Alejandrina Cabrera, was removed from the San Luis, Arizona city council ballot for lacking basic English language skills. She then accepted the Utopian Party invitation as VP running mate of presidential candidate Avery Ayers. Before agreeing to run, Alejandrina had the party’s platform translated into Spanish, since she doesn’t read, speak or write English.

The article in the daily cites instead Pedro Lopez, 20, who credits the groups’ training with helping him win office last year as the youngest member of the Cartwright School Board. He says the 90-second stump speech he was given assistance with was instrumental in his success.

Promise Arizona (PA), which advocates amnesty for illegals, was formed in response to Arizona’s SB1070. A DREAM Act activist is participating in the training. On its website it boasts of “Arizona’s Election Promise: Taking on Sheriff Arpaio Just the Beginning of Historic Shift.”

A spokesman for PA said the training reflects the group’s belief there is a need “to get the Latino community in a place so it can defend itself. For political empowerment to occur, for people to get into office, it doesn’t happen by itself. It has to happen with a concerted focus.” He said the goal is to grow leaders from the ground up, preparing them for school board or city council so that later they can run for mayor, state Legislature or Congress.

“It’s a ladder.”

John McCain bashes pal Marco Rubio over debt limit

The nameless“my colleague from Florida” being accused of impeding senate business is none other than McCain’s “Gang of Eight” amnesty loyalist, Marco Rubio.   Listen as the usually mild mannered McCain* repeatedly hammers ”my colleague from Florida.”

*A stab at Thursday morning humor.

MoveOn demands Paul Ryan apologize for truth

Anchor babies are a fact of life in the world of illegal immigration. Birthright Citizenship is the costly, automatic granting of citizenship to children born within a nation’s borders or territories. The United States and Canada are the world’s only industrialized nations still offering such an extravagant gift to both tourists and illegal aliens.

Under current practice, these children are U.S. citizens at birth, simply because they were born on American soil. They are called “anchor babies” because, as U.S. citizens, they become eligible to sponsor for legal immigration most of their relatives, including their illegal alien mothers, when they turn 21 years of age, thus becoming the U.S. “anchor” for their extended  foreign family.

Such births have even forged an industry aside from the children born to foreign national parents illegally residing in the United States. As an example, Dr. Jose Duran, a gynecologist and obstetrician and his colleague, Dr. Marco Saucedo, both Nogales, AZ physicians have an unusual way of bringing in business.  The two doctors advertise their services on flashing digital billboards south of the border which read: “Do you want to have your baby in the United States?” They refer to the practice as “a tradition.”

For years, Tucson Medical Center’s “birth package” has actively recruited such business, encouraging what amounts to the purchase of U.S. citizenship.

Seeing Red AZ has written about what is called “Birth Tourism” with pregnant clients arriving from China and Middle Eastern nations.

In August 2010, we wrote that the issue of birthright citizenship — an incorrect interpretation of the 14th Amendment — was getting another look by the most unlikely of people. Arizona’s own amnesty architects, Sens. John McCain and (now retired) Jon Kyl, along with Sen. Lindsey Gramnesty (R-SC) each said they intended to revisit the issue, and would look at the advisability of a constitutional amendment that would repeal the citizenship provisions. The amendment was adopted in 1868 after the Civil War. Its intent was to allow American-born children of freed African-born slaves to have all of the rights and privileges of citizenship. It was necessary then, but has no relevancy today.

We hope you weren’t holding your breath waiting for such actions from the amnesty loving senators.

With this as background, why would the far-left extremists at MoveOn.org be waging a war, complete with a petition drive, against U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, demanding that he apologize for using an “offensive anti-immigrant slur”– anchor babies — while discussing immigration reform.  In Racine, Wisconsin, a group of liberal Wisconsinites gathered at Monument Square to demand Ryan apologize.  As this video shows, these charming and well-informed folks have targeted him before.

Sorry. Anchor babies live and breathe.  They are a fact of life. Apologies are not in order.

The ego has landed: Andrew Thomas’ bid for AZ Gov

Former Maricopa County Attorney, now disbarred by the Arizona Supreme Court after a lengthy investigation into charges of abuse of power and unethical behavior,* has launched his campaign for Arizona governor.

Here he is with his supporters Friday as he filed his intent to run with the office of the Arizona Secretary of State.

 

For a memory refresher, these Democrats and RINOs were Thomas’ supporters during his 2004 campaign. It remains to be seen if they will be onboard as advisors during his latest endeavor.

From left to right:

Rick Romley, Grant Woods, Thomas, Billy Shields and Phil Gordon.

*The Presiding Judge’s 247-page Disciplinary Opinion and Order Imposing Sanctions can be read here.

Jeff Flake: Senator Vacillator

Concerned about the threats of Second Amendment restrictionists to remove him from office, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake is already doing an about-face on his “nay” vote on universal background checks.

His Thursday vote, separating from his mentor John McMaverick, earned him the animosity of the Arizona Republic, which called him a “coward.”

On Friday, Flake’s Phoenix office was the scene of a protest, as anti-gun activists jeered, “Shame on Flake.’  It doesn’t take much to cause the junior senator to backpedal. Within two days, he was singing a new tune and calling for a new gun bill.

“I hope this debate isn’t over. I hope we can continue,” Flake waffled. “We do need to take measures to make this situation better and we can do so in a way that is consistent with the Second Amendment,” said contortionist Flake.

Remember, Flake is actually speaking of the bill he just voted against.

Now, with his finger in the wind, Flake says he cast his nay vote because the language was “too broad.”  After uncomfortable clashes with the newspaper, the raucous protestors outside his office, along with his “long time friend” Gabrielle Giffords and her opportunist husband Mark Kelly — who despite their friendship, have pledged they will support a senate challenger — Flake is now proposing a “streamlined” version he hopes will  win Congressional support.

Flake can’t have it both ways. In appeasing the gun control advocates demanding he apologize for failing to support Barack Obama’s prized legislation restricting firearms, Flake alienates Second Amendment supporters, who believe in the relevance of the Constitution.

Grow a spine, Mr. Flake.

John Kerry: Another bower on the world stage

 Subservience reigns as strength takes a back seat

Taking a cue from his boss Barack Hussein Obowma, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry bows before South Korean officials before meeting with President Park Geun-hye. Kerry used the occasion to admonish North Korea, telling the lunatic regime which starves and enslaves its own people, it would be a “huge mistake” to test launch a medium-range missile, warning the United States would never accept the nation as a nuclear power.

Does anyone think they care? In February North Korea set off its third nuclear test and intensified long-range rocket launches — clearly saber-rattling aimed at the United States — which the despotic government has described as the “sworn enemy of the (North) Korean people.”

Kerry, like others in the Obama administration, has played down an assessment from the Pentagon’s intelligence agency that North Korea already has a nuclear missile capacity.

Taking anything this lightweight says seriously requires amnesia. No doubt the North Koreans remember John Kerry as blasting the U.S. military with false testimony at congressional hearings and at rallies where he joined with Jane Fonda — the thespian who previously sat astride a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun — aimed at our U.S. service personnel.

With Obama in the White House, we have no one in charge.

Obama finds time to pick best looking AG

It’s all a matter of political perspective

Taking time from his vacations, global apology tours and teeing up with Tiger Woods, Barack Obama has determined that “by far the best looking Attorney General” is Kamala Harris.

During a speech at a DNC fundraising luncheon on Thursday, Obama broke from the heavy topic of climate change to give a “shout-out” to California Attorney General Kamala Harris, noting a couple of times that she is “easy on the eyes.”

“She’s brilliant and she’s dedicated, she’s tough,” Obama raved. “She also happens to be, by far, the best-looking Attorney General … It’s true! C’mon.”

Harris, 48, campaigned strenuously for Obama in 2012. Her name has been mentioned as a potential Supreme Court replacement when 80-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg retires.

Florida’s Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi, an award-winning former prosecutor, doesn’t need a “shout out.”  She’s a steady intellectual who charms without the extravagant accolades. Bondi is the lead attorney general in the lawsuit seeking to overturn ObamaCare.  In the lawsuit the State of Florida and 26 other states have argued that the individual mandate provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violates the Constitution.

Bondi addressed the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa. During her first campaign in 2010, she handily defeated her Democrat opponent to become the Attorney General of the State of Florida by a 55% to 41% margin.

Regardless of what Obama says, keep your eye on Bondi.

McCain, Flake, gangsters, take absurd PR border tour

In a newscast nearly as vacuous as Arizona’s amnesty twins John McCain and Jeff McFlake, reporter Navideh Forghani glowingly describes the scene at the Arizona-Mexico border where “this kid” hopped the fence  The Republicrats took a couple of their “Gang of 8” Dem cohorts for a stroll along the border yesterday afternoon. Chuck Schumer (NY) and Michael Bennet (Colo.) got an eyeful as they watched illegals jumping the fence that is woefully inadequate in providing security.

Forghani said, “One of the key tools these senators want to do is provide agents with the right technology to help them patrol the vast border along Mexico. And it’s technology like that tower,” she said pointing off in the distance, “that the senators are talking about, and they tell me that technology will pay for itself because they’ll be charging those hi-tech companies to be a part of border security.”

Doesn’t it seem they should be paying for the services instead of charging the providers?

As if on cue, the reporter pronounced that these wizards are “90 percent complete with the proposed immigration reform.”

New Yorker Schumer who can return to his home 3,000 miles away from the porous border, inanely stated, “Secure the border, and once the border is secured by specific metrics, then people can become citizens.” He said, “What I learned today is we have adequate manpower, but not adequate technology. Technology will work.”

Schumer must have been asleep five years ago when former Homeland Insecurity Chief Michael Chertoff promised the $20 million technology newly put in place was “looking good.” But the “virtual fence” turned out to be a virtual flop. Two months after completion, the feds announced plans to replace the highly touted “virtual fence” with new towers, radars, cameras and computer software, scrapping the brand-new and costly system because it didn’t work.

McCain and Schumer promised this overhaul would pay for itself, while cautioning that their proposed border security package would be costly. “Nobody is going to be totally happy with this legislation, no one will be because we have to make compromises,” John McMaverick said.

Bennet added the Gang of Eight are opposed to double-sided fences along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Makes sense. That might be more difficult to navigate.

In his most sincere tone, Flake opined: “It is difficult sometimes to get a good picture of where we are. We just know we aren’t there yet. We have to do more, but we’ve come a long way.”

Indeed.