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Problem solved

Well, it's a start:

A company that owns 11 McDonald's restaurants in Nevada was fined one million dollars Wednesday after pleading guilty to employing 58 illegal immigrants.

No work, no incentive to come here illegally. Make it a lot more companies and a few billion in fines, and there will be no more illegal-immigration crisis.

A conservative for Obama

Here's one of those "lifelong conservatives" who are voting for Barack Obama, Larry Hunter, who worked in the Reagan White House and helped write the Contract With America. He's against McCain because that would be to endorse George Bush's foreign policy of "unjustified war and unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights." But what about Obama's domestic agenda, which goes against just about everything conservatives stand for?

Today's joke

Tears in the Mideast

OK, I don't know much about diplomacy and the intricacies of international relations, but this seems like a bad deal to me:

Hezbollah on Wednesday handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers seized by its guerrillas two years ago, in a prisoner swap greeted with triumph in Lebanon but anguish in Israel.

Moving the furniture

Not exactly a stunner:

This report compares the 2007-2008 textbooks that are currently posted on the website of the Saudi Ministry of Education with those analyzed in our 2006 study, and shows that the same violent and intolerant teachings against other religious believers noted in 2006 remain in the current texts.

Daddy President

We have an energy crisis because President Bush has not given a speech asking Americans to drive less:

The messy market

This is reasonable?

The weasels in D.C. government are responding to the Supreme Court's Heller decision with proposed rules showing they truly do not get it:

Here's what they're proposing:

  • Allowing an exception for handgun ownership for self-defense use inside the home.
  • If you want to keep a handgun in your home, the MPD will have to perform ballistic testing on it before it can be legally registered.

Not funny yet

Are we going to be in for a humorless four years? From the Los Angeles Times, on the Obama camp's reaction to that New Yorker cover:

Gimmicks

The Frugal Hoosiers blog calls out The Gary Post Tribune for being for a suspension of the state sales tax on gasoline (because that money just goes into the general fund) but against suspending the federal tax on gasoline (because that money is dedicated to highway maintenance):

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