The Obama Administration Seems To Be Dropping Plans To Make Soldiers Pay For The Wounds They Received In Combat… At Least We Know Their Hearts Were Not In The Right Place

Stealing… Stealing… Stoled

 

Just to be clear,  Minnesota did not vote for Al Franken.  Nobody knows this more acutely than Al Franken himself.  

Update: Mr President commute the sentences of Ramos and Compean

 

From The Memory Hole

I have zero faith in George Bush when it comes to the issue of Hispanic illegal immigration.  He is the one who pushed for the fight with the base of the party for amnesty.  Not once, but twice.  He called his strongest supporters racist simply for wanting border security before amnesty.  Bush was willing to see the collapse of the Republican party over the issue and he did.

 

So I hold out little hope he will commute the sentences of Ramos and Compean– You don’t know how wrong these Border Patrol agents were.  Take a look at the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General’s Report on the Investigation of Ramos and Compean.  Not only were they not supposed to shoot at Aldrete-Davila, the border jumping, drug smuggling, arrest resisting officer assaulter, they weren’t event supposed to chase him on the chance he had “undocumented workers”  in his van.

[The] “Investigation disclosed that Ramos and [Compean] and other Border Patrol Agents’ were unaware of what was inside the van during the pursuit and they acknowledged that the van could have been loaded with undocumented aliens, to include women and children, and therefore might have caused a serious accident due to the sharp 90 degree turns at high speeds.”

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Note the use of “undocumented workers” to describe people not working but sneaking across a border. Also note how the supposedly neutral report lays it on thick with the women and children comment. Notice there is no fear that  documented workers of working age could be hurt.

But what is more unsettling about the Office of Homeland Security Report is that the OHS thinks that vans with unknown contents attempting to evade border patrol agents should not be pursued.

 Mr. President, free these men.

From the Memory Hole: Kelo Update

 

 

Shaky Ground

Courtesy Wheat and Weeds

Get A Keload Of This

Remember the infamous Kelo case? In which SCOTUS decided government can seize private property not solely for pressing public purpose but also any time city planners think they can turn a profit? 

Here’s the rest of the story: the city of New London razed Suzette Kelo’s (and other people’s) family home…and the project they seized it for fell through. New London put loads of people out of their homes and spent $78 million to get a vacant lot.

Curtsy: Coyote Blog

 

Stealing Minosota Update: Apparently Democrats Aren’t Cheats, They Are Just Really Bad Counters

 

Not So Sleight Of Hand

 

 

In the second book of his massive biography on LBJ,  Means of Assent, Robert Caro tells in excruciating detail how Lyndon Johnson stole the Democratic Senatorial Primary from its winner, Governor Coke Robert Stevenson. Johnson had garnered tens of thousands of votes through illegal means, but had come up 854 votes short.  The next day the  ”corrections” started coming in.