Breakfast Scramble (Friday)

One dumb idea, Shikha Dalmia, Forbes:

Don’t Ask, however, will eventually go given the growing and overwhelming public opposition to it – even in the military’s own ranks. That is not the case with the Dream Act on

Dumbo sets sights on big trucks, what could go wrong?   From Erica Werner and Ken Thomas, Associated Press:

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is setting the nation’s sights on vehicles that run on half the fuel they now

I was going make this part of the Scramble, but just got too long.    Eric rambled on border security, or lack thereof.   I offer three takes on illegal immigration, first the cool, video:

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The warm, video:

Hat tip:

“What is south of our shared border is sovereign Mexico.  What is north of the border is negotiable”.

Mexican President Felipe Calderone, in so many words.

STFU Arlen,from Andy Barr, Politico:

As voters considered his fate throughout Pennsylvania, Sen. Arlen Specter warned on Tuesday that without him Democrats may not be able to fend off a tea party “takeover.”

We, the American people, can

Go green, get screwed, by Jay Fitzgerald. Boston Herald:

Cape Wind, which wants to build 130 wind turbines off the coast of Cape Cod, and National Grid announced yesterday that they’ve reached an agreement to start charging customers

Jan Schakowsky (Illinois – Nine) is a useful idiot.   Schakowsky gave a speech where she revealed her vision and hope for so-called health care reform.  View her deranged speech  here (will not embed).

Schakowsky’s speech is a gold

Mrs. Pelosi, a/k/a Speaker Table Cloth, evidently thinks it is acceptable to pander to illegals, and their supporters, by insulting our Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents, from Real Clear Politics:

Appearing in front of a group of legal and

Barack Obama is simply too stupid to  be president.   BO the moron does not know the difference between a law enforcement agent upholding our nation’s law and cold blooded jihadists

Drew M. Ace of Spades Hq, reports that BO

Jason Riley at the WSJ, notes that illegal Immigration has disappeared from the election cycle radar screen, and wonders why. He concludes after examining the situation in some detail:

If American culture is under assault today, it’s not from

Apologists for illegal immigraton argue that there are some jobs Americans won’t do.    They may be right.   A nine year old girl was raped, illegal alien charged, Araksya Karapetyan, KIDK: reports:

We broke the unbelievable story last night of

Interesting bit in NewsBusters, this morning…. By the way, NewsBusters is a regular read here, and soon as I geta  few seconds I’ll add it to the list…. anyway… It seems that, despite unemployment edging up everywhere else in the

Illegal alien kills, Fox News:

MINNEAPOLIS – A woman who authorities say is in the country illegally and using an alias was charged Friday with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide and two lesser charges in a school

Kaus:

1) McCain seems to have conned a lot of Republicans into thinking he’s transformed his position on immigration–for example, Victor Davis Hanson, author of “Mexifornia,” who now writes about “McCain’s won’t-make-that-mistake-again changed views on closing the border.” This even

I am impressed by the Michelle Malkin’s army.   One of Michelle’s readers nailed John McCain for having open borders and anti-security advocate Dr. Juan Hernandez on his campaign.

A few facts.

Dr. Juan Hernandez is a Mexican citizen. 

Hernandez is