AZ’s youthful voters: Energetically involved or lethargically apathetic?

Although they talk a good game, many left-leaning younger voters appear to find more interesting pursuits than voting.

Columnist Jonah Goldberg previously wrote an excellent piece on the topic of the guilt-trip laden necessity of the vote for the certifiably uninformed.

Goldberg reminds us of the Arizona candidate who wanted to tie voting to the lottery, to encourage more participation in the process by the uninformed and disinterested.

Illegal Update, parte dos

Just a few more good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do—such as steal social security numbers of U.S. citizens

At least 300 people were arrested today at the Agriprocessors, Inc. meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa. The entire population of the town is reported at 2273.

The operation, which targeted people who criminally used other persons Social Security numbers and were in the U.S. illegally, was the largest of its kind in Iowa, said Claude Arnold, a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

According to an affidavit, “Based on information thus far developed in the investigation, it appears, based on 2007 fourth quarter payroll reports, that approximately 76 percent of the 968 employees of Agriprocessors were using false or fraudulent social security numbers in connection with their employment.”

Read the full account in the Des Moines Register.

Newsweek outs McCain’s choice to manage national convention

Vetting the company we keep

This current Newsweek magazine article has created enough swirl around lobbyist and McCain insider, Doug Goodyear, that the man tapped by the GOP presumptive nominee to run the September Minneapolis/St. Paul convention, stepped down after the story broke. Goodyear’s tenure was short lived.

Obviously, Team McCain had good reasons for concern.

Illegal Update

Just a few more good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do

The daily Fish-wrapper has a communication problem. There are certain words they are unable to affix to the written page. It would appear that something of this magnitude would prove catastrophic for a newspaper, but this affliction doesn’t hold them down a bit. Proper words or not, they just keep writing,

Here we are treated to another sad tale. This one involves “53 immigrants…held against their will by human smugglers,” who were trying to extort money from their hapless captives. Among the group “being held by force against their will” were three women and a mentality disabled man.

In truth, these are illegal aliens. Since they paid their transporters to ensure safe passage into the United States in violation of our law, they are not actually victims, nor were they taken by force to accompany the coyotes. Let’s call them what they are: Criminal co-conspirators.

Words have meaning. How odd that Arizona’s largest newspaper has difficulty communicating facts in the English language. Could this be a reason why their reader base is dwindling?

Turns out nothing is ‘Forever’

The price of ‘Forever’ stamps is going up.  On May 12, the postage price will increase from the current 41 cents to 42 cents.

Tenacious Nader keeps hope alive…for himself

Ralph Nader, 74, is not a quitter. He doesn‘t like the ‘spoiler’ term often applied to him, either, as he reenters the presidential race, running as a third-party candidate. He has qualified for the ballot in Hawaii and New Mexico.

“Spoiler is a contemptuous word of political bigotry,” he said during an hour long speech to about 80 voters who gave him a standing ovation. He was on a stop through Arizona as he tries to win a spot on the state ballot, according to the daily.

Bet he’d run as a Democrat

Father of the Year award winner discusses his future political plans with Morley Safer.

Put down that fork, you scoundrel!

Regardless of what Mom told you, stop eating your vegetables

The United Nations Children’s Fund has released a report detailing that in Mexico, 300,000 youngsters are toiling in the fields picking crops. According to the study, 43.5 per cent of Mexico’s population are children under the age of 18

We are certainly not in favor of child exploitation or the high levels of illiteracy that goes hand-in-hand with this abuse of children—imposed upon them by their impoverished parents.

What we do question is the above-the-fold headline in today’s daily: Child labor in Mexico puts food on U.S. tables.

Here’s their take on the story: About 300,000 youngsters such as Adriana (who attends school only one hour a day) work illegally in Mexico’s fields, the U.N. Children’s Fund says, making child labor a major link in the chain that increasingly supplies American dinner tables.

The logical conclusion is that we, the eaters of salads, and consumers of vegetables, should not harden our hearts to the plight of these families as they sneak across our borders in violation of our law. After all our gluttony is the real reason for their need to invade our country.

Get it?

Journalism 101 failure writes for Arizona Republic

This article’s lede provides the head scratcher: Five juveniles are in custody in connection with a string of robberies, many of them taxi drivers, that have occurred in Phoenix in the past week to 10 days.

Are the taxi companies now hiring juvenile cabbies, or are the juveniles the robbers?

This is what happens when subscriptions tank, readership is down, and long standing reporters who actually passed basic English, are replaced.

Illegal Update

Just a few more good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do

A Mesa drop house raid yields 13 illegal aliens. The East Valley Tribune configures the article to illicit sympathy for the illegals, who they tell us “were possibly also being held there against their wills.”

“Some of the immigrants were bruised and slightly dehydrated when deputies arrived, but none appeared to have received the brutal treatment that sometimes occurs at drop houses,” the article goes on. And, the two bedroom house, had “just one bathroom.”

This quote comes from a neighbor: “I’ve seen the people. They don’t appear to be bad people.”

Well, then, that settles it.

To keep things in perspective, it’s worth remembering that the people in the house paid “coyotes” to illicitly transport them into the United States in violation of the laws of our sovereign nation. They were not picked up against their will and forced to accompany the transporters–they are co-conspirators in criminal activity–regardless of how the paper constructs the scenario.