From:    Mountain States Legal Foundation - Perry Pendley
Sent:      Friday, October 29, 2010 11:27 AM
Subject:    Opportunity to battle Obama’s attempt to invalidate Arizona’s illegal immigration statue

I want to tell you of a unique opportunity to participate in the battle by Arizona, assisted by Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF), against attempts by the Obama Administration to invalidate Arizona’s illegal immigration statute, S.B. 1070.

On Monday, November 1, at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Savings Time, C-SPAN will broadcast LIVE, oral  arguments before a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit in United States v. Arizona.  The three judges include:  Richard Paez (appointed by Bill Clinton), John Noonan (appointed by Ronald Reagan), and Carlos Bea (appointed by George W. Bush).

I will be watching.  If you watch, I would be interested in learning what you think. (more…)

This grievance provided grounds for an American Revolution: “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”

Obama and the left have excited the modern tea party to take to the streets in protest.  They have enabled the illegal immigration of merciless terrorists into our country who intend the “undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions” of Americans.

Once upon a time Americans revolted over governmental provocations like these.

Maes speaks

Maes speaks again

Maes speaks more

Looking at this political year in toto, lots of things stand out.   Maes stands out for pure bitterness and vituperation.  With each new day that Republicans allow themselves to be represented by this jerk, they do more lasting damage to their political brand.

Licensing to kill

Soros’ War Against Fox News

Hickenlooper: Colorado’s ‘Backwards Thinking in Rural, Western Areas’

Maes: ‘This is about me….’

Magellan Poll: “If trends continue it would not be surprising to find the final vote totals showing Dan Maes at 5% or less, and Tom Tancredo surging past John Hickenlooper.” Oct 22, 2010.

In the wake of NPR’s PC-spasm firing of Juan Williams, consider The Travails of Modern Islam by Daniel Pipes:

QUESTION: In relation to the two questions of what went wrong and how do we fix it, do you see a difference between hardcore Islamists and those that are less committed?

DR DANIEL PIPES: They are roughly the same. Various versions of Islamism exist. For example, in Saudi Arabia women can’t drive, can’t do this, can’t do that. In Iran, they can. The Iranian idea is that they’ve created an Islamic republic where women are safe. In the Saudi vision, danger lurks in every corner and females need to be protected. There are many such differences in both style and substance. But in the end, all Islamists aspire to the same thing which is the application of Islamic law. Islamic law differs slightly in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and India. They have different schools, but these are again details and in general the aspiration to apply Islamic law is common to all Muslims.

The generalizations abhorred by the politically correct need the most scrutiny.

Illegal immigration is a massive problem that causes your eyes to glaze over when you try to think of remedies in total.

At Tom Tancredo’s meeting in Elizabeth yesterday, however, the question was asked and answered about what percentage of illegal immigrants also end up in our criminal justice process.  The answer, confirmed by Tancredo and Sheriff Frangis, is that between 15% and 20% of arrested perps are illegal immigrants.

That’s a huge statistic.  Why are we not deporting the 15% to 20% of perps in our criminal justice system who are also known illegal immigrants?  What a perfect place to start solving the illegal immigration problem!

Reduce prison load and save a boatload of money from that, make the streets of America safer by deporting a known criminal element, and reduce the illegal immigrant population by its’ most undesirable subset.

Can you think of a good reason why to keep illegal immigrants in our jails and prisons?

People who still support Dan Maes have effectively withdrawn from meaningful participation in this election for governor.  Whether Maes goes or stays, you can make a plausible case that voters currently dedicated to Dan Maes are irrelevant to the outcome of the race.

Let’s assume he stays, which seems the most likely case.  If all those pledged to him remain loyal and vote for him, they won’t effect the outcome of the race for governor.  That race will be decided completely by people who vote for Tancredo and Hickenlooper.

On the other hand, let’s assume Maes withdraws–the unlikely case.  Some of his pledged voters will still vote for him, and won’t effect the outcome of the race.  Some will choose not to vote at all, and won’t effect the outcome of the race.  Some will vote for Tancredo on the principle of conservatism, while others will vote for Hickenlooper purely out of spite.  Let’s face it, after all that’s gone wrong with Dan Maes, of the people remaining in his camp today who don’t end up in one of the nullifying outcomes, they’re as likely to go one way or the other (conservatism or spite), and those two camps will cancel each other out.

The bottom line is, whether Maes stays or goes, his voters have become irrelevant.  The race is between those who relevantly declare for Tancredo and Hickenlooper, and Tancredo has about pulled even in that contest.

…did not found the Elbert County Tea Party and did not elect its self-appointed Chairman.  When will the Elbert County Tea Party embrace the consent of the citizens that it claims to uphold and elect its own party leaders?  When will the Elbert County Tea Party hold its own leadership accountable for supporting Dan Maes and for siding with the left on Proposition 1A?

Tea Party self-appointed leader Robert Rowland sides with Democrat Whistler on Elbert County Proposition 1A.

ELBERT COUNTY FINANCIAL WOES
by Robert Rowland on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 1:30pm
WE NEED EVERYONE IN ELBERT COUNTY TO SEE AND READ THIS, PLEASE PASS ALONG.  ELBERT COUNTY - BALLOT INITIATIVE 1A (more…)

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