2006
December 28, 2006
The war on terror and the war in Iraq...Kill more
terrorists...Create strategic safe zones for economic rebuilding in Iraq ... Apply
pressure, real quantifiable pressure on Iraqis and neighbors to support the
elected government and economic development efforts ...Take Iran and Syria to
the brink instead of just "talking" to them...get tough....develop and use more of those new Smart Weapons...
This war can be won and should
be won.
December 10, 2006
A Notice from Florida4Marriage:
LightBookproductions strongly supports the petition drive to place
the Protect Marriage amendment on the 2008 ballot.
Only 35,000 more petitions are needed to
allow Floridians the opportunity to protect traditional marriage through
their vote in November 2008. That's 523 more petitions from each county
from now until the end of December.
In parallel ...
we urge Floridians
who have not signed the petition to obtain a petition and sign it.
Without a marriage protection amendment to
the Florida Constitution, we believe that traditional marriage in Florida
will eventually be attacked and challenged via the courts like it is
currently being attacked in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and the San
Francisco Bay area of California.
Floridians who think that a constitutional
amendment is not necessary in Florida, should pay close attention to what is
happening in New Jersey. Same sex marriage could not get in the front door
in New Jersey (and thank God), so the legal minds (taking the lead from
a renegade judge as we at LightBookproductions
predicted) will try and use the back door of "civil unions" to validate trying
to shove same sex marriage down the people's throats.
December 9, 2006
LightBookproductions...Quote
of the Day
"Forget pandering, just go ahead and
kill the enemy."
"Instead of suggesting
that the only way to deal with the massive problems in Iraq -- the sectarian
violence and the attacks by both foreign and domestic insurgents -- is to
take the gloves off and come out slugging, the group comes up with
recommendations that have nothing to do with winning the war, as that seems
to be unthinkable, and everything to do with putting on a good show while we
depart.
Without ever coming out and saying it, the study group leaves no doubt that
it thinks George Bush is not up to the job and has made a real mess of
things that can only be “solved” by such idiotic moves as sitting down and
having talks with Syria and Iran, both nations that dream nightly about
killing us all and bringing the enlightenment of Islamic law and rule to a
world badly in need of Islamic reform.
It’s as Churchill once said about appeasement: it’s a case of feeding the
alligator and hoping it will eat you last."
Michael Reagan...Posted
12-9-06...Human Events Online
December 4, 2006
LightBookproductions
concurs with the American Conservative Union's outrage over the failure of
the majority (capitulating to the RINOs) to bring John Bolton's nomination
before the full Senate for a vote...we understand that it is a so-called
"lame-duck" majority until the end of the year, but that doesn't mean it has
to act like a "dead duck" majority.
We ask:
Why in the world was not John Bolton's nomination brought before the Senate
for confirmation?
From out here where the people
are it appears that Bolton was the casualty of a "political deal" somewhere
in Congress.
November 23,
2006
LightBookproductions
would like to wish the millions of readers
who visit our site every hour from all around the world...
Happy Thanksgiving.
We were also
pleased to find today that another high profile conservative had the same
kind of reaction (posted a few days ago as the "Insanity Watch") that we did to the San
Francisco School Board's recent decision to discontinue the Jr. ROTC program.
In his Newsletter The Factor File, Bill O'Reilly at Fox News had this
to say about the mid-term elections and the San Francisco School Board.
"Don't kid yourself, while the majority of Democrats are moderate, there is
a fanatical subdivision of the party that is off-the-wall secular
progressive (S-P) bent on radically changing America. San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsom told the press he was glad the board of Education waited until
after the election because "cheap shot artists like Bill O'Reilly at Fox
would have exploited (the vote.)"
O'Reilly continued: "How nutty is the San Francisco Board of Ed? We're
fighting a lethal worldwide terror movement and these people are telling
high school students the U.S. Military is bad; that's how nutty."
November 15, 2006
On
Immigration:
La construcion de una cerca a lo largo de la frontera no tiene nada
hacer con la discriminacion etnica, el es una edicion importante de la
seguridad nacional. (translation: Dictionary.com)
The Founding Fathers would have our scalps (I mean, the whole country) for
allowing the illegal immigration situation to become what it has become. And
the Founding Fathers would definitely have the scalps of the Senators in the
majority who were in denial regarding the Senate's inability to confront the
illegal immigration problem with a secure border in place first, as proposed
by the House of Representatives.
Real appropriation of sufficient funds to build the fence via the law
recently signed by the President of the United States, and getting started
on building the 700 miles of border fence with Mexico should be immediate
priorities during the next few weeks of the so-called lame duck majority.
We watched a report on CBS 60-Minutes last week about the ACLU case
against Hazeltown, PA.
The ACLU is, as usual, full of anti-American sophistry on this one.
When was it "unconstitutional" to enforce illegal immigration laws?
It sounds like the usual liberal tactic. The ACLU
thinks that if it cannot win the "unconstitutional" argument, then the "it's
too complicated" argument will succeed.
The fact that we have unwisely reached a point via political machinations
wherein to enforce the federal immigration laws and to correct a bad
situation within our borders, might have become "complicated," does not
anywhere mean it is "unconstitutional" to actually enforce these laws.
(See Regarding Hazeltown below).
For the Republican party to create a co-leadership position (General
Chairman) for Florida Senator Mel Martinez so that the Senator can become
the front man for the amnesty wing of the party is disappointing.
The Senator from Florida calls the 700-mile fence an "ugly symbol." This is
the wrong approach. To communicate via the tiresome, Washington style
insinuation industry that America is abandoning its incredibly generous
history of assimilating immigrants because the vast majority of Americans
believe it is now a priority to finally secure our borders, is
only going to make it more difficult to solve the problems we need to solve,
when and while that border is secure.
It is a difficult two step process, as we have said before.
Step One
(no es complicado): Physically secure the border.
Step Two
(es muy dificil y complicado): Straighten out and resolve the illegal worker and
illegal alien issues.
But without Step One, Step Two es imposible.
With all due respect, at LightBookproductions we believe the
importance of building the fence now and securing the border for America
reaches far beyond the calculating political considerations the Senator's
approach and disingenuous criticism is meant to serve.
Regarding Hazeltown,
PA:
One of our primary go to sources on several conservative
issues, including immigration policy, Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly at
eagleforum.org pointed
out something that reveals the ACLU lawsuit to be exactly what it is; more
obstruction.
"State and local
officials have the authority to enforce immigration law, and the 1996
Amendments to the Federal Immigration and Nationality Act included
Section 287(g) to expand the general inherent authority. Section
287(g) was designed to improve law enforcement through cooperation and
communication between the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) and state and local enforcement. Under this section ICE
provides state and local law enforcement with training and
authorization to identify, process and detain immigration offenders
encountered during regular law-enforcement activities?"
It sounds to us, contrary to what the
ACLU claims, that it would be unconstitutional for the federal
authorities, with whatever tactics they use, to fail to provide Hazeltown with the resources they need to implement immigration laws
at the local level.
LightBookproductions ...Insanity Watch...Social Issues
...The anal-sex crowd in San Francisco is at it
again. KRON, a San Francisco Bay area news station reported this week that
the San Francisco School Board voted 4-2 for a Resolution that would phase
out the Junior R-O-T-C program in the High Schools of San Francisco.
We first heard about this from a Fox News Report. And watched several
reports on this item at Fox News during the afternoon.
These school board members in San Francisco are the type of people in local
leadership positions that Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly is
talking about when she said in a recent commentary: "The public schools are
a major battleground in the gays' efforts to censor any criticism of their
goals or lifestyle. Every year, the National Education Association (NEA)
passes resolutions not only demanding that schools not discriminate against
sexual orientation, but also insisting that classroom language be monitored
to punish "homophobia" and to "promote 'acceptance' and/or 'respect' instead
of 'tolerance'" of the gay lifestyle."
According to a student interviewed in the Fox News report, the Jr. R-O-T-C
program teaches students "discipline" and "self-esteem." Two of the greatest
values to instill in students and young people in their teens. If I'm not
mistaken, the Pentagon does not force these students to join the military,
and the Jr. R-O-T-C program is not governed by the same policies that govern
the Armed Forces.
Apparently, San Francisco School Board member Dr. Dan Kelly, also
interviewed on TV, in reality, is afraid that if students learn discipline
and self-esteem, and what better program to learn it from than the ROTC,
then they will be more intelligent and more likely to resist the homosexual
lifestyle that he and his liberal comrades on the school board would love to
cram down the throats of America's youth.
Psychologically, the San Francisco School Board Resolution appears to be a case of the vengeful
homosexual community's twisted torture chamber at work, located in their
dark closet with the swinging door into the pedophilia chamber. Does the
school board think that discipline and self-esteem are not essential values
to teach young people unless a sympathy for and advocating the gay lifestyle
is forced upon them?
And so they reason that successfully teaching young people discipline and
self-esteem is somehow wrong unless the poison of homosexual indoctrination
is not introduced.
The parents of these kids should storm the school board and demand the Jr.
ROTC program be reinstated in the San Francisco school system.
For this Dr. Kelly person and his comrades on the school board to try and
punish normal people with what sounds like his anally informed same-sex
frustration over the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy of the Pentagon is just
pathetic.
At the local level...Anyone in Pinellas County who is aware of the local
newspaper's recent reports (The St. Petersburg Times) regarding how the
county tourism board has been debating the issue of whether to promote
Pinellas County to the gay community via gay magazines, should also be aware
that the county tourism authorities are already doing it on the Internet. The
Pinellas County Tourism entity is promoting the Pinellas County beaches to
the San Francisco bay area gay community.
We made a lighthearted wisecrack on this site about this issue at the
beginning of the Florida primary season regarding Donald Trump's financial
support for then Gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist because we believe
the Crist connection to the homosexual community warrants the suspicion that
Crist is not really a conservative.
We still believe we were not far from the truth.
When my Yahoo ROTC search ended up at the KRON News website to read the
details of that school board decision...after exiting the site I got a
pop-up ad on my computer urging people to visit the Pinellas County beaches.
Perhaps when all the gay novelty shops in Hillsborough County move to gay
friendly downtown St. Petersburg, and the San Francisco gay community starts
invading the Pinellas Beaches, and with a gay friendly Governor taking
office in January, they will be on their way to creating their own replica
of San Francisco Bay right here in Pinellas County.
We are not in denial regarding the loss in the primary race of the candidate
we supported. Unless there is proven fraud, the election results are the
reality. Yet we will take this minute to reiterate (wishful thinking of
course) that we voted for conservative Tom Gallagher. We will also state
objectively that perhaps it is too early to tell how liberal a governor
Charlie Crist will be, yet, when we start connecting the dots (or the
pop-ups) we are already beginning to wonder if we should not be prepared to
say: Don't say we didn't warn you. (You can read some of our conservative
communications written during the Florida Republican Primary race on the
Florida page.)
About a week ago we provided a link to Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum
website in order for our readers to get an idea of how aggressive...
Here are some other examples from Mrs. Schlafly's commentary.
Luis Padilla, an employee of a large corporation in Virginia, put this
message on the rear window of his pickup truck: "Please, vote for marriage
on Nov. 7." His bosses ordered him to remove it because some people said it
offended them.
Padilla then parked his truck on what he thought (apparently incorrectly)
was outside of company property, but he was fired anyway. After a couple of
state legislators took up his cause, the company reinstated him.
Robert J. Smith, who served (at a small salary) as Maryland's representative
on the Washington Metro transit board, mentioned his religious views against
homosexual conduct during an appearance on a cable television program.
Although probably few saw the show, gay activists demanded that he be fired,
and Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich complied.
Michael Campion, a psychologist with the Minneapolis Police Department, was
suspended because of his past affiliation with a group critical of the gay
lifestyle, despite reports of a good job performance. The city of
Springfield, Illinois, had previously terminated his services for the same
reason.
If Americans don't resist such assaults on free speech, we may be headed
down the Canadian road. Dozens of Vancouver postal workers just refused to
deliver mail they called "homophobic."
In Yale University's student newspaper, a columnist recently described that
institution as "really, really gay. Like, totally gay." Yet, when one email
expressed a dissenting view on Yale's gay pride day, gay activists demanded
reprisals against the dissenter.
Middlebury College now invites applicants to indicate if they are gay. The
assistant director of admissions explained that gay students bring "a unique
quality" to the college, which he said tries hard not "to be too
homogeneous."
The public schools are a major battleground in the gays' efforts to censor
any criticism of their goals or lifestyle. Every year, the National
Education Association (NEA) passes resolutions not only demanding that
schools not discriminate against sexual orientation, but also insisting that
classroom language be monitored to punish "homophobia" and to "promote
'acceptance' and/or 'respect' instead of 'tolerance'" of the gay lifestyle.
Taking their demands for censorship into the courts, the gays have been
winning. After the Poway High School near San Diego endorsed the gay project
called "Day of Silence," the Ninth Circuit upheld the school in forbidding
student Tyler Harper to wear a T-shirt with the words "homosexuality is
shameful, Romans 1:27."
The dissenting judge pointed out the intolerance of those who claim they
want tolerance for minority views. But Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who sided
with the school, wrote that Tyler's defenders "still don't get the message."
November 9, 2006
Now that the Dems have won
something...or perhaps we should say, now that the Republicans have lost
something...what does this power shift mean?
October 30, 2006
Review...Periodically, in the form of a Review, we will step back and give our opinion of
where issues and policy stand now, as compared to where we believe they
should be standing, and what we think might be the reasons why they are
not standing where we think they should be...
The Elections . . . During
the next week we will be posting impromptu comments and quotes in this
text box that support many reasons why we believe conservative voters
should swarm the polls on November 7 to keep the House and Senate from
becoming liberal.
"I want you to
think about the Democrats' plan for success. There isn't one."
President Bush on the campaign trial in Indiana last week making
reference to the Democrats' plan for quitting in Iraq.
October 27, 2006
Pat Buchanan is right. We just read his commentary at
HEO this morning. Governor Corzine should stand up
to that judicial tyranny.
Here are some
excerpts from Mr. Buchanan's commentary.
Why
Submit to Judicial Tyranny?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted Oct 27, 2006
"At root,
what that 4-3 decision, ordering the legislature to enact a new law
sanctioning civil unions or gay marriage, is about is: Who governs New
Jersey? It is about who decides what law shall be -- elected legislators or
judges appointed for life."
"In our War
of Independence, in which New Jersey was overrun repeatedly by British
troops, at issue was whether George III and a Parliament sitting in London,
in which Americans had no voice, would govern us, or whether we would rule
ourselves. From April 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, Americans fought and died to
end that rule of kings -- only to have their meek and timid heirs submit to
a rule of judges."
"This is exactly what happened in Massachusetts in 2003. And
had Gov. Romney told the Massachusetts Supreme Court that its 4-3 decision
had no constitutional basis, and that he and the legislature had no
intention of obeying its order, Mitt Romney would be the front-runner for
the Republican nomination in 2008."
"When Shay's
Rebellion of farmers broke out in Massachusetts in 1786, Thomas Jefferson
wrote to James Madison, "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a
good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the
physical." It is time for a little rebellion in New Jersey, and America. For
what is taking place, what has taken place, is a bloodless coup by judges
who have arrogated to themselves the powers of legislatures to make laws and
remake society in their own image -- without recourse to referenda or free
elections."
"When judges
in New Jersey can order legislators to write new laws that conform to their
ideology, laws the people have not only not demanded, but viscerally and
violently oppose, we have ceased to be a free country or a democratic
republic."
"Who
rules?" That is what is at issue in New Jersey."
Such judges need to be defied and they need to be
impeached. Not obeyed."
You
can read Mr. Buchanan's complete commentary at
www.humaneventsonline.com
October 26, 2006...Social
Issues
The decision this week
by the Supreme Court in New Jersey "ordering" the legislature in that
state to create same sex marriage is precisely the kind of judicial
activism that must be stopped.
We have said all
along that the homosexual community was going to use the issue of civil
unions, that some naive people think is less destructive to normal
society than gay marriage, to create gay marriage via the courts.
In New Jersey this
week that is exactly what they are trying to do.
As Tony
Perkins at Family Research Council said: "The legislature should ignore
the court's ruling and follow the lead of 20 other states that have
already passed amendments to protect the sacred institution of
marriage. Otherwise, the legislature will become nothing more than the
lackeys of an activist judiciary...the legislature has the non-choice of
creating same-sex marriage of same sex persons called civil unions."
October 13, 2006
We strongly
support the criticism we are writing and reading about liberal minded
Republicans who are, like the Democrats, creating obstruction regarding the
conservative agenda on social policies, as well as other Republicans
who fail to support control of government spending.
Yet, we believe
100% that a Democratic congressional majority in either or both the House
and/or the Senate, especially at this time, would be a nightmare of
incompetence and duplicity, wherein the power obtained, something like
98% void of any ideas, would be fueled and dominated by the mentally
deficient, adolescent political revenge their communications reveal they are
preparing for.
In
scanning the political communications landscape over the past several years
it should be clear that the Democrats are simply still not prepared to take
on leadership positions and govern the United States at this time.
Listening to Democrats get up in
front of the microphones claiming that the Bush Administration's "Six Party
Talks" have failed when it was the Democrat's failed policy that created the
need for the Six Party Talks in the first place, is a joke.
At that time we called it the
Democrats "Be Nice Now" foreign policy toward North Korea via former
President Carter. The so-called "Six Party Talks" at least constructed a
pragmatic framework, changing the place from which to view and manage this
potentially, very serious and dangerous problem for the Korean Peninsula.
It may or may not turn out that
China's micro-step forward, that is, at least revealing in public it is
disturbed regarding its view of its trouble-making puppet.
But if that's as far as China is
going to go, then perhaps Russia should advise, and we would like to think
behind the scenes that this would in fact be a
warning
to North Korea that a Mutual Assured Destruction kind of standoff in the big
leagues is first based on the other country having equal standing, as well
as a mutual understanding of how far each might allow the other to go.
To keep a local nuclear arms
race from developing in the Korean Peninsula, a military strike should also,
if all else fails, remain an option.
October 9 -13...Social Issues...Quotes for this Week
"I am more convinced
today than I was then that that was the appropriate action for the board
to take."
Hillsborough County Commissioner Rhonda Storms on learning that a
film shown at a Business Expo in Tampa, Florida, was intended to
criticize Storms prominent role in the county commission vote wherein
the county government voted against officially recognizing gay pride day in
Hillsborough County.
Party of Whose Values?
The ricochets of the Foley scandal continued to whistle overhead this
weekend. As a guest on Fox News Sunday I again raised last week's report
by CBS's Gloria Borger about anger on Capitol Hill that "'a network of
gay staffers and gay members protect each other and did the Speaker a
disservice'" in the Foley scandal.
Sunday's New York Times revealed that a homosexual former Clerk of the
House of Representatives, Jeff Trandahl, was "among the first to learn
of Mr. Foley's" messages to pages. The Clerk's job is described as a
"powerful post with oversight of hundreds of staffers and the page
program." This raises yet another plausible question for values voters:
has the social agenda of the GOP been stalled by homosexual members and
or staffers? When we look over events of this Congress, we have to
wonder. This was the first House to pass a pro-homosexual hate crimes
bill.
The marriage protection amendment was considered very late in the term
with no progress toward passage. Despite overwhelming popular approval,
the party seldom campaigns as the defender of marriage. The GOP will
have to decide whether it wants to be the party that defends the
traditional moral and family values that our nation was built upon and
directed by for two centuries. Put another way, does the party want to
represent values voters or Mark Foley and friends?
Tony Perkins: President, Family Research Council
October
6, 2006
It is official, this week the President signed
into law the Homeland Security Bill that contains a $1.2 billion
appropriation for building the 700-mile fence along the Mexican border.
And some equally welcome sanity in California by the 1st District Court of
Appeals in ruling that California's ban on same-sex marriage is
constitutional. This decision wisely reverses a prior ruling by a mere
renegade trial judge in San Francisco.
October
4, 2006
A LightBookproductions
Right Parallel...Scroll down to read excerpts from a Human Events Online Interview with
Pat Buchanan regarding immigration reform.
We are pleased that the Senate has followed the House lead and passed
the Secure Fence Act by a vote of 80 -19.
As we indicated in a letter to Senator Elizabeth Dole last year
in response to a Senate Republican Leadership Survey, LightBookproductions basically agrees with Pat Buchanan on the issue
of immigration reform as reflected in these excerpts from a Buchanan
Interview with Human Events Online about Buchanan's new best-selling
book "State of Emergency."
Mr. Buchanan, in one way or another, along with some other
conservatives, has recognized the potential problems with runaway
illegal immigration for a long time.
The focus must be on citizenship without interference from the
shallow, politically motivated and problem creating term "diversity."
As we have said, the kind of constructive
diversity that is now part of the fabric we call the American
landscape, has always been anchored in the reality of citizenship
first. The sooner we see this the better off everyone will be in the
long run, including, we believe, Mexico.
This time around, immigration reform should start the right way with a
non-negotiable secure border and proactive law enforcement that moves
back across the problem in proportion to the severity and nature of the
legal breach.
Only a secure border in place will guarantee that this, the rational
and practical approach, will work.
A LightBookproductions
Right Parallel
"Americans Want the Border Secured Now"
Human Events Online Interview
with Pat Buchanan
Posted September 25, 2006.
Below are excerpts from Human Events Editor Terence Jeffrey's
Interview with Pat Buchanan regarding immigration and Buchanan's new
book "State of Emergency."
HEO: It is remarkable that, 14 years ago, the Republican
grassroots, the delegates of the Republican convention, they had your
position on immigration. They still have that position, but the
Republican establishment still has the other position. What is it that
makes the Republican establishment unwilling to deal with the
immigration problem?
Buchanan: I think there’s a couple of things for the Republican
establishment. The Republican establishment is terrified of being
called names. Anybody who comes out for a strong position on
immigration is going to be called the familiar names.
Secondly, I think President Bush and Karl Rove see as the only hope
for the Republican Party in the future getting the Hispanic vote, the
Mexican-American vote, and they think that if they take a strong stand
on illegal immigration and securing the border, they will risk that
vote the way they think Republicans lost California. I think they’re
mistaken on that 100%.
Forget about the 12 million illegals here for a moment. If the
administration just said, “First, we are going to secure that border
before we take care of this other problem,” then you wouldn’t have to
worry about deportation, or getting the Hispanic community riled up.
Look, there’s no doubt about it that
the amnesty/guest-worker program, whether you agree or disagree with
it, is profoundly controversial. It’s perceived as amnesty. People
don’t want it. There was a backlash to it. However, the other side of
it, border security, is an 80%-90% issue. Why doesn’t the President
say, “Look, I favor this, but it’s clear it’s too controversial to get
through. But we’re not going to let the best be the enemy of the good.
We’re coming out for a border-security fence. We’re going to deport
criminal aliens. We’re going to deport gang members who don’t belong
here. We’re going to deport drunk drivers who threaten and imperil the
safety and health of the community. We’re going to do these things
now. And next year we are going to work on something we can agree
with.” They would have both houses of Congress with them. Rep. Jim
Moran (D.-Va.) voted for a border fence!
I talked to a conservative insider who told me Bush and Rove are
holding border security hostage. I’ve done 300 radio shows, I bet,
since this book came out. I do eight or 10 day. And I would bet that
90% to 95% of all the talk-show hosts either love Bush, or they like
Bush, or they voted for Bush, and they can’t understand why he doesn’t
secure the borders.
HEO: In the book, you talk about the soul of a nation and what
actually makes the nation. But ultimately, you do believe that
immigrants from Latin America can be integrated and assimilated into
the soul of America.
Buchanan: Certainly. Mexican-Americans are good Americans. They
volunteer in the Armed Forces. They are patriotic. Many of them are
traditionalist Catholics. Of course they can.
HEO: In terms of concrete public policy, what do you think
ought to happen to those 12 to 20 million who are already living here?
Buchanan: As of right now, nothing. We don’t want to set up a
Gestapo, and we’re not going to go down and hit every kitchen in town
and yell, "Immigration!" every time the door opens. What you do is,
you build a security fence, you get a time-out on legal immigration, a
moratorium, and you go back to the levels that Jack Kennedy
recommended, which are still generous by world and historic standards.
You go after the big businesses that hire illegal aliens in great
numbers....
Put some of these big-business guys in orange jumpsuits, down there on
the border, mixing concrete for six months. You cut off social welfare
benefits except emergency benefits. You stop the scam of the 14th
Amendment, where if your baby is born here it’s automatically a
citizen. You end that. Then you go after, for immediate deportation,
the criminal elements. Any gang member who’s an illegal alien should
be out of this country in 48 hours. The drunk drivers, the felons, you
go after them.
Now, how do you deal with the rest? You go about it systematically
with the big businesses. You remove the magnets, and attrition will
begin to solve the problem. There is no crisis of the 12 million here.
The crisis is the border and the threat of the future. Some people say
the gradual attrition will solve it in five to 10 years. Now, I think
it might work slowly or more rapidly, but it will begin to work.
HEO: This attrition strategy doesn’t seem to significantly
differ from what House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner [R.-Wis.]
had in mind when crafted the bill that passed the House a year ago. Do
you think that bill is more or less on the right track?
Buchanan: Oh, I think the House bill was the best immigration
bill we’ve seen since the 1924 Act.
HEO: Given that the Mexican government is overtly promoting
illegal immigration to the United States, what ought to be the posture
of the United States?
October
4, 2006 ... Continued
Buchanan: I tell you what I would’ve done if I were President
and I found them interfering in U.S. propositions and referendums,
which they do. If you interfere in politics or demonstrations in
Mexico, and you’re not a citizen of Mexico, you’re subject to
deportation and detention. If I found those Mexican consuls
interfering with this, I would’ve told the Mexican government, you
tell those fellows to shut up. And if they had continued doing it, I
would have taken a bunch of them and kicked them out "persona non
grata" you’re going back home.
Who do they think they are?
October
2, 2006
We look forward to the President signing the Military Commissions Act of
2006.
We believe that legal minds fighting against the ban on "hebeas corpus" for
military detainees in the War on Terror are in some kind of psychotic denial
regarding the nature of the enemy we are fighting. To provide terrorist
detainees the rights in the American civil courts that so many men and women in
the Armed Forces throughout our history have died and put their lives on the
line to protect, is incomprehensibly defeatist and pathetically counterproductive.
September 29, 2006
...
Quote of the Day
Every time Islamists somewhere in the world blow up
civilians, kill innocent babies or church goers, behead people, or organize
threatening protest mobs -- which is now every day -- Islamic groups in
America warn about and scold us for any backlashes that might occur against
Muslims or mosques. They forewarn us against criticizing Islam. They even
indict us when we wonder why there is no public outcry by Islamic "civil
rights" groups or imams against what is being done in the name of Islam as
well as the selected teachings in the Koran that justify all this violence.
Any criticism is labeled Islamophobia and racist.
Rabbi Aryeh Spero: Foreign
Affairs Commentary @ Human Events Online. Posted September 18,
2006.
Note: This international, Islamic terrorist
tactic of manipulating Islamic groups in America and the American liberal
media communication establishment, reminds us of the way many liberal
activist groups in America also try to manipulate the communication grids
regarding socio-political issues. One example: The homosexual community
also uses the same psychological tactic (especially in the education system)
across the spectrum, from powerful special interest groups and congress
via rhetoric, all the way down to everyday workplaces in America.
September 15, 2006
Good news from the U.S. House of Representatives.
The bill that passed
(283-138) requiring 700 miles of double layered fencing along the Mexican
border, as reported, may have to be attached to a spending bill to pass the
Senate because the Senate probably won't pass it, as we believe the Senate
should, as a separate piece of legislation.
We commend the House for standing
its' ground on this important issue.
We think, as we have
said before, securing the border with a fence is a first priority regarding
immigration reform. A secure border first will make all other elements
of immigration reform more structurally sound as they reflect both economic and
national security concerns.
Building a 700-mile fence along the
southern border of the United States has nothing to do with ethnic
discrimination. A secure border will also pragmatically force the
Mexican government to work harder to strengthen its' own educational
opportunities, economic stability and standard of living for
the Mexican people.
Senate Bill 2590...Regarding the question of whether
conservatives or liberals will find Senate Bill 2590 more constructive for their
purposes; We believe conservatives will be able to make much better use of
this reform.
Liberals have already said that
their interest in this bill is to reveal all the good things government is
doing, I mean, it was reported that some gay and lesbian group was supporting it
for that reason.
Conservatives will have a more
practical, or perhaps we should say, more pragmatic approach as to how this
reform can lead to less spending on many fronts, and will be able to use it very
effectively for what we like to call damage control or policy repair, that
is, control of or repair to damage caused by liberal policies over the past
several decades.
One specific example that
immediately comes to mind ...We believe this approach is going to allow
conservatives a tool, such as a learning scalpel so to speak, to apply to a
great deal of the extremely wasteful spending by liberals with education
budgets to fund their social indoctrination programs that have nothing to do
with the proper role government should playing in the public education scenario.
September 11, 2006
This empty text box
represents a moment of silence and prayer to honor and remember
those who were killed during the terrorists attacks on 9/11/01. And to
honor members of the Armed Forces who have since died fighting in the war on
terror.
July 30, 2006
LightBookproductions considers the recent
ruling from the Washington State Supreme Court to be a victory for
civilization, while simultaneously being a victory for conservative
thought against the destructive reasoning that informs judicial activism
on the issue of gay marriage.
The WSSC ruled that "the legislature was
entitled to believe that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples
furthers the State's legitimate interest in procreation and the well-being
of children."
As Tony Perkins at the Family Research
Council said: "This makes the 7th decision favoring traditional
marriage in the last few weeks."
Dr. Thomas Sowell:
Hudson Institute
Posted at Human Events Online 7-22-06
Marriage Amendment
"Congress Fails Americans on Marriage"
"Today, advocates of same-sex marriage are trying to
sell an imitation for the real thing. But no matter what they call it, most
Americans recognize that same-sex unions are as counterfeit as a five-legged
dog. In fact, voters when given the opportunity have defended the
traditional definition of marriage overwhelmingly.
Last month, for example, Alabama approved a marriage
amendment by 81%, bringing the number of states with constitutional
amendments protecting marriage to 20. When similar measures are put before
the people, the popular vote consistently exceeds 70%.
Tony Perkins: Family
Research Council
Posted at Human Events Online
Note: 46 States have
acted to ban same sex marriage. 20 states have constitutional amendments
while 26 states have enacted statutes. Five states have taken neither
action: New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
July 20, 2006
LightBookproductions
supports the President's veto of federally funded Stem Cell Research.
Until we create a Florida
Blog page related to comments we receive about the gubernatorial race we will
post some Florida items on this Blog page.
The recent letter asking the real
conservative Republican Primary candidate Tom Gallagher to drop out of the race
"for the party" reads like it was written by a juvenile clique of college
sorority office holders in desperate need of attention. Sounds like stale
fruitcake wrapped in the City & Metro section of the St. Petersburg Times.
As someone wrote in the Tampa Tribune
this week: Gallagher already did that in 2000 and Bill McCollum lost, while
Gallagher also polled more votes in Florida than the President.
One of our political friends in Florida
who has a habit of speaking speaking his mind wrote to us the
following:
"What the hell's going on
with the Republican Primary race? I can't believe the Republican party
leadership in Florida would not just take a strong stand for Gallagher, the
obvious conservative and the candidate with more experience and more viable
ideas in this primary race. Not even the Democrats in Florida would venture
to support a suspected homosexual up for potential residence in the Governor's
mansion."
July 8, 2006
We still believe the
New York Times should be brought
before Congress and the American people to reveal the source of the leak and
explain the paper's rationale for printing the terrorist financing tracking story.
It is good that the
President has modified his perspective on the immigration reform bill that to a
degree reflects the House view. The House view is the view from which to
start the reform.
As we have said
before, guest worker programs and illegal status issues should be structured
carefully around a secure border. A border that is not completely secure
will only serve, if not right away, then eventually, to cancel out the
constructive elements of any solutions regarding all guest worker programs and
illegal status issues.
With all due respect, we think the Pence Plan is
too complicated. As presented in recent press reports, the so called
"trigger" concept, based on border security progress, is at least thinking in
the right direction.
May 26, 2006
Following the Senate vote
yesterday on Immigration reform...
As originally drafted in a survey
reply letter written to Senator Elizabeth Dole back in September of 2005,
LightBookproductions supports securing the border first. The House
of Representatives should stand their ground and refuse to allow a bill to pass
that does not separate the issues chronologically and legislatively.
The American people overwhelmingly
support securing the border first, and right away, ASAP. So that, a
secure border is either being physically built or would be in place while the
Senate and House focus on and reconcile the illegal-alien and guest
worker issues, as well as using the strength of the House version to be that
which the Senate uses to modify whatever they call that thing they voted on yesterday.
The Senate version, as we expected it
would be, as presented so far at least, is a conglomeration document with too much
counterproductive "fine print" so to speak.
Senator Jeff
Sessions of Alabama is to be highly commended for his revealing examination of
that fine print.
You can read his analysis on the www at HumanEventsOnline.
It's like sending a ship to sea with
holes scattered along the hull. Obviously the ship would sink.
May 1, 2006
It was to be expected, inevitable in some
political gesture, that there would be an obvious power struggle inside the
Florida Senate during the legislative session of the Governor's final year in
office.
What is disappointing though, for the state of
Florida's future economy, is that a group of "moderate" Republican senators
decided to express the political power grab via maintaining the flawed 2002
Class Size Amendment.
Smaller class sizes is a good idea basically,
yet, as implemented and forced on the state's education system prematurely, the
amendment now requires a logical, pragmatic fix or realignment; which is what
the Governor and those who wisely voted "Yes" were offering.
But the group of Senators decided that it was
more important (and easier for them) via a political hot button to show the
media and the Democrats, that it can reject a constructive realignment proposed
by a powerful Governor, than to solve the real problem.
As Speaker of the Florida House of
Representatives Allen Bense said,
"I just think in my heart of hearts that (the Class Size Amendment) is not the best way to spend money
on education."
And he is right.
April 26, 2006
This energy situation in America is pathetic.
We need more drilling, more refineries, and more nuclear power.
The President's idea to cut back slightly on
foreign sales and use some of the reserves for now to ease domestic costs of gas
at the pumps is probably a good idea under the circumstances.
But why are we in these circumstances?
So-called moderate Republicans who have been
voting with the liberals on keeping the oil companies from drilling in Alaska
and other reasonably distant locations from shorelines in other places for at
least the past ten years should be severely criticized. Regulations
that impede the development of refineries and nuclear power plants should be
eased right away.
And now to point a finger at the oil companies
who are I presume and have been waiting around for how many years now to be
allowed to drill for new oil with improved technology and develop more
refineries.
Perhaps the oil companies could cut an investment
style deal with Congress.
Oil Companies to Congress: We
will lower prices back to a prior level and increase prices incrementally if you
will get rid of some of your absurd, outdated regulations that keep us from
moving forward quickly on drilling for more oil and building more refineries.
We would be more than happy to use the profits you now criticize for an
investment opportunity of that magnitude.
November 4, 2005
Quote of the Month
"Thank you for inviting me out of Washington."
Opening line of a speech President Bush delivered somewhere in Virginia
during the month of October.
November 11, 2005
The "Gang of 14" held a meeting on Thursday, November 3.
This group of Senators with the exception of Senators Lindsey Graham and
Mike DeWine, appear to be trying to make the American people believe they
are needed beyond their own political self-interest, seeing themselves to be
some kind of an adjunct Judiciary Committee regarding Supreme Court
confirmations.
They are presuming they might play in the Alito nomination, the same role
the group played in the so-called nuclear option drama. Forcing
themselves unnecessarily on the Supreme Court nominating process because we
now have a nominee wherein to filibuster would be unimaginable.
For them to perceive their existence as an influential group to be
checked-in-with every time there is a new Supreme Court nominee, that is, as
an operative entity, is an insult to the the people and the Constitution of
the United States.
With all due respect to Senator Joseph Lieberman who appeared on Fox News to
explain rather lamely after the Graham and DeWine statements, that the
"Gang" has not made any decisions regarding Judge Alito's nomination.
The kind of constructive "centrist" Senator Lieberman would I believe
genuinely like to be, simply cannot exist in the Democratic party today.
Not with the kind of conservative power centrist Democrats had when Sam Nunn
was Chairman of the Armed Services Committee.
The Senator said something very troubling as it pertains to the judicial
nominating process and the Constitution.
Either what he said was the motive behind the "Gang" from the beginning,
which we suspected, or either the "Gang" had to collectively come up with a
rationale to justify it's continued existence, at least for the confirmation
of Judge Alito.
It was strange because the Senator didn't sound like he believed what he was
saying, as if the other "Gang" members were standing in the wings with
rifles pointed at the Senator when he resigned himself to say that since the
appointment to the Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment, it made sense
that the nominee be required to obtain 60 votes instead of a simple majority
to be confirmed. The number 60 refers to the number of votes it
takes, we remind you again, not to nominate, but to overcome a filibuster so that the Senate can
perform their constitutional duty of conducting a vote.
As the Constitution has said once, and conservatives have said thousands of
times: To vote against a nominee is a valid constitutional option if that's
what a Senator wants to do, but to hijack the vote itself is a breach of
Constitutional duty.
The 60 vote threshold to overpower a filibuster is being
transferred to a different rationale.
If the nominee does not warrant a filibuster, as Judge Alito obviously does
not, then the "Gang" has to find a reason to rationalize their continued
existence, and if the "Gang" cannot justify its existence, or if several
Senators become honest enough to admit that it was a legislative branch
power grab in the first place, then a re-rationalization if you will, of the
filibuster (another one of the liberal's evolving standards no doubt) and
the media's coverage of their existence for this nomination, and conjure up
some other reason why 60 votes is necessary now, instead of the simple
majority.
November 13, 2005
God Bless the people of Texas for the Constitutional Amendment vote banning
same-sex marriage and civil unions.
Unambiguous language reflecting an unambiguous stand.
If wavering, compromised conservatives of both parties in Congress continue
to balk at amending the U.S. Constitution, then the people via the states
will continue to speak and the gay marriage advocates, no matter who in
Congress they economically and privately have by the you know what, can
hopefully in time be marginalized at least to the state of Massachusetts.
(God bless and God help Governor Mitt Romney, who would then have to deal
with them.)
IMPROMPTUS FOR THIS WEEK
NOVEMBER 14-20
FROM HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE 11-16-05 (THURSDAY)
POSTED YESTERDAY
The Marriage Protection Amendment passed the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
on the Constitution by a narrow 5-4 vote last week. Next, the amendment must
pass the full Judiciary Committee before it can be voted on by all senators.
Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Sam Brownback (R.-Kan.) said, "The American
people support protecting marriage, and it’s important that we debate this
amendment in the Senate and give it due consideration through the full
legislative process. This is an issue that none of us felt needed discussion
a few years ago, but judicial activism that contradicts the will of the
people makes this a pressing issue."
- Posted 3:17 AM
Regarding a Terence Jeffrey editorial and several good articles by Amanda
Carpenter for "Human Events Online" this week dealing with the Democrats
effort to "blame the President" for the questionable and subsequently
misleading pre-war Intel on Iraq...at the moment I will just quote from a
commentary on the Supreme Court nominating process I wrote several months
ago and you can put that comment in perspective now.
"I believe we are up against one of modern history's most intellectually and
morally bankrupt minorities. They have frustrated themselves down into an
unbelievable game of manufacturing mindless rhetoric, obstruction and duplicity
probably (we hope) to the point of no political return."
Pat Buchanan is right. Beyond the compartmentalization of the liberal
mainstream media pretending to take this goofy deception seriously, the real
people at the grassroots level will know what to do, and will make the
Democrats pay severely for all this at the voting booth.
December 8, 2005
The Dems have put themselves in an impossible position on the war.
December 29, 2005
LightBookproductions...strongly supports the "65 Percent Solution" for the
State of Florida.
The 65 Percent Solution is current law in 10 states and gaining momentum.
The Solution requires that state school districts spend 65% of their
operating budgets on the classroom.
In Florida, this constructive idea will serve as an excellent
countermeasure, and will help solve the serious, long term financial
problems Florida school districts face in trying to implement the Classroom
Size Amendment that was (as we predicted it would in time appear) blindly
voted into law in 2002. ?(2004) Check this
January 3, 2006
We support (and we suspect that the majority of the American people support)
an investigation by the Justice Department into who leaked the information
to the New York Times regarding the NSA international wiretapping of people
talking to known terrorists, and especially (as was the case) if it is
someone in America talking to a known terrorist.
We also support an investigation of The New York Times for printing the
story.
Of course The New York Times held the story for so long because the
newspaper was waiting for what it would decide would be the moment it would
be needed to cause the most political damage.
Just like the insurgents...around the time of the Iraqi elections and at the
point the President's approval ratings were making a turnaround.
The Times was also counting on...
its position of power within the liberal media...
an accumulation of impact based on all liberal media and Congressional
liberals' knee-jerk negative portrayal of the President to the point of
being anal compulsive and juvenile.
Ultra-liberal New York Senator Charles Schumer's lame statement regarding
the intent of the leaker raises serious suspicions that the Senator probably
knows who it is and is suddenly trying to find a potential escape hatch for
that person NOW that the liberals are faced with a Justice Department that
has good reason, and will have support from a majority of the American
people, to find out who the leaker was and investigate the printer of the
leak during a time of war.
To paraphrase: Schumer said that a question for the leaker would be to
determine if he or she intended to merely damage the administration for
political reasons, or was it a serious concern regarding Presidential
powers.
It is suddenly like the situation during the 2000 election when the liberals
did not think the conservative Republicans would challenge the recount
scenario.
The liberals "evolving standard of intent" begins...
The Senator from New York would have never said a word if the President had
not stood his ground.
The Times and their liberal partners in Congress were obviously expecting
the President, because of his approval ratings and presumed guilt over being
hated by the liberals, that he might become politically frightened and
apologize...
There used to be real CONSERVATIVE/CENTRIST Democrats who would not put up
with this shallow stuff from their party, and would make it clear publicly
or via legislative bills they didn't want anything to do with it.
I still say it is a very good thing for the United States that the President
really does worship God instead of the media.
March 6, 2006
Some good news today.
The Supreme Court's ruling on the campus military recruiting issue is a very
good sign.
The unanimous opinion reveals that, as we suspected was obvious, they never
had a good case to begin with.
The new South Dekota legislation signed into law.
Although there will probably (one presumes) be some further debate or
challenges regarding across the board bans that include abortions performed
on women who are victims of rape and/or incest, yet, the legislation that
Governor Rounds signed today constructively changes the legal and moral
landscape, placing the value or sanctity of life, INSTEAD of Roe v Wade's
misapplication of "a right to choose" and "a right to privacy" as the
foundation of the law.
That's how it should be, as Governor Rounds did, and how it should have been
in the first place.
Dubai...
The Dubai thing is complicated. Americans at this time do deserve a closer
look at the rationale that created this deal without simplistic and
opportunistic grandstanding from high profile politicians.
Ms Schlafly has a point.
Whether we are "offending" anyone if we refuse the deal should not be the
primary issue here.
And it could turn out to be (globally) a very smart strategic move, but
whoever is doing that thinking needs to have an extremely clear head while
in the process.
If the process can render or create an accelerated and improved regime of
Port Security, then...
March 10, 2006
This week following the unanimous decision by the Supreme Court to withhold
funds from schools that deny access to military recruiters, USA Today ran an
editorial "Time to repeal 'don't tell."
Wrong.
It is not time to repeal the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that
wisely prohibits open gays from serving in the Armed Forces.
There is nothing that has happened that would change the foundation of
reasons why that policy was implemented into law in the first place.
The so-called "cost" to the military to keep this policy in place, that the
editorial identifies, is definitely worth the price.
Note: If you have ever worked with open gay people in a workplace then you
would have a full understanding of how important it is to the cohesion and
clarity of our Armed Forces, especially our Armed Forces in today's world,
to keep this ban in place.
March 18, 2006
It is disappointing to say the least, that the U.S. Senate would at this
time refuse to let go of the Social Security Trust Fund and give that money
back to the people.
LightBookproductions.com has some ideas about this issue.
The SOB, a new cabinet position (The U.S. Secretary of the Bank) should do
something about this.
You read it here first. If someone has a like minded idea or wants to take
this one and run with it, then go ahead.
If 8 Republicans cannot be convinced to vote against the Democrats who
obviously enjoy spending We the People's future resources then at least they
should consider a compromise and support the creation of a law that would
require or allow Congress to borrow only part of that fund, for instance,
only one-third of it.
I am surprised that Senators Pete Deminici and Richard Lugar voted with the
Dems and the RINOs on this issue.
If you think this is a crazy idea, then think about how crazy it really is
that Congress has loaned itself every bit of that money, and also refuses to
apply controls to itself regarding the spending of that money.
Having access to only one-third of this money would perhaps force Congress
to at least spend it wisely, and with it being high profile the people could
also watch and see where that one-third is going each year.
As of last year, that $1.7 trillion has been taken from the SS Trust Fund in
the just 20 years.
With the Federal Government recently increasing its debt capacity,
LightBookproductions.com believes it is imperative that the people be
allowed to either stop the SS Trust Fund raid, or be allowed to know how much
it is accumulating every year and specifically where its going.
There is a lot to say about the recent preemptive strikes in Iraq.
It is a good move and a good sign.
In the recent press read very closely what the Security Adviser for the
Iraqi President is saying about the recent strikes against the terrorists.
As soon as the Iraqi people start cooperating with intelligence sources so
that the terrorists can be identified and isolated, or marginalized, and a
government is formed, we can accelerate progress.
Iran says (although this may be a PR stunt) it wants to talk to America
about Iraqi violence. Anyone smell a rat?
If this were not a way to distract from the nuclear power issue then perhaps
it could be viewed as a positive step.
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