ALERT: Our friends at Right March report last month, Sen. James Ihofe (R-OK) introduced legislation that declares English to be the official language of the United States government. This legislation, the "National Language Act of 2008," codifies the principle that no one is entitled to receive federal documents or federal services in languages other than English. The bill specifically states that no person has a right, entitlement or claim to have the Government of the United States or any of its officials or representatives act, communicate, perform or provide services or materials in any language other than English.
Now, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) has introduced companion legislation in the U.S. House. We may finally be able to move this legislation to a vote -- if YOU help.
America's genius as a melting-pot nation has always been promoted by assimilation to a common language. Large-scale legal immigration threatens social cohesion and America's shared values when new arrivals are unwilling to learn English. The "National Language Act of 2008" will reduce costs to our federal government and will encourage new, legal immigrants to quickly adopt America's native tongue. Learning English has always been and will continue to be a key step in achieving the American dream.
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TAKE ACTION: Polling of Americans throughout the country consistently demonstrates that Americans overwhelmingly believe English should be recognized as the national language of the United States. The National Language Act will reduce cost to our federal government and improve the assimilation of new legal immigrants in our nation. This debate is not just about preserving our culture and heritage, but also about bettering the odds of our nation's newest potential citizens.
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RUPERT, Idaho - A big Double Barreled Salute to Clint Straatman. Mr. Straatman is a physical ed. Teacher at Minico High School in Rupert. On 5/5/08, one of his students, Froylan Camelo, brought a Mexican flag to school for Cinco de Mayo. It seems that Mr. Straatman took the flag from Camelo as he was changing for gym class. As expected, there appears to be some discrepancy between the two sides of the story, but the flag ended up undamaged in the trash can. Camelo retrieved the flag from the gargage can at the end of the school day. Straatman was concerned that the Hispanic students who brought flags to school would create a situation that would escalate into a problem.
According to Camelo, Straatman told him that we are in the United States and Not in Mexico. Straatman denies saying that, and says that Camelo misunderstood because he has poor English skills. Either way, Straatman deserves a Great Big Double Barreled Salute from me.
I've had my fill of this type of thing. This IS the United States. If you want to live in Mexico, head south.
Now, don't get me wrong. I don't think the Mexican flag belongs in the trash can, nor do I believe it belongs on display anywhere in the United States except at the Mexican Embassy, United Nations, or similar places and on special ceremonial occurrences. It definitely does not have any place being brandished about at a high school.
Of course, Camelo has been in contact with that useless anti-American group, the American Civil Liberties Union and is considering a lawsuit against Straatman. Give me a break. Straatman deserves the Teacher of the Year Award!
Until next time,
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I read in a news release today that Josef Fritzl says he's no monster. He says that he saved their lives (referring to his captive daughter and incestuous children/grandchildren), that he could have killed them all and no one would have known.
In case you don't know Fritzl is the 73 year old monster who kept his daughter locked in his basement for 24 years from the the time she was 18. Not just that, he constantly raped her and fathered 7 children with her. Three of the children remained in the basement prison, three were removed and adopted by Fritzl as his grandchildren, and one died and he burned the body. One of the imprisoned children, 19, is in critical condition in the hospital.
Fantastic guy huh?
Now to me, his daughter would probably have rather he killer her years ago. To me, and most sane people, he's a monster. If you don't think evil is alive and well in this world, then you have to look no farther than this truly disturbing story.
I just hope he doesn't slip off on some stupid insanity plea. If he's sane enough to keep them successfully imprisoned for 24 years, he was fully aware of what he was doing and how sick and wrong it was.
He should be slowly boiled in a mild acid so that it will take weeks of excruciating pain.
Tell Congress to Oppose the Expansion of NAFTA that would include the North American Union and the NAFTA Superhighway.
Alert: Mexican President Felipe Calderon says changes in the North American Free Trade Agreement would "provoke considerable damage on the economy" and would condemn North America "as a region to compete from a position of backwardness in today's world."
His concern was raised at the two-day North American Leaders Summit meeting here at least partly because of the pressure President George Bush has been receiving on his economic policies, which have included pursuit of a number of additional free trade agreements such as a proposal to establish such trade routes with Colombia.
Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harder responded in defense of NAFTA at a joint press availability at the conclusion of the summit.
When asked if Canada would consider renegotiating HAFTA, Harper said, "We would be ready to do anything that one of our partners wants to do. If one of our partners wants to renegotiate NAFTA, we'll renegotiate.
But he said it is not something the government of Canada desires.
"The right priority is not to renegotiate something that has been decided," he said. "This is not the great challenge that we have. When we meet with businessmen and businesswomen, this is not their concern – their main concern. Their concern is the future, not renegotiating the past."
President Bush joined Calderon and Harper at the joint press availability at the end of the North American Leaders Summit in New Orleans.
The three leaders, standing side-by-side on a stage with a backdrop of the three-flag-emblem riverboat logo designed for the New Orleans summit, reflected the increasing criticism NAFTA and the proposed new free trade agreements with Colombia are receiving, especially in the United States, as the U.S. economy slows down and the presidential election of November 2008 grows closer.
The atmosphere at the New Orleans summit presented a sharp change from the combative support for the Security and Prosperity Partnership these same three leaders expressed at the North American Leaders Summit Meeting in August 2007 in Montebello, Quebec, Canada.
There, in response to questions, Bush dismissed SPP critics as "conspiracy theorists" who had no basis for contending the SPP might lead to a North American Union or NAFTA Superhighways.
In New Orleans, by contrast, the three leaders appeared on the defensive, doing their best not to advance the SPP agenda but to save the NAFTA agreement itself, now 14 years old, and persuading their respective national publics that NAFTA has been good for the economies and workers of the three countries and necessary for future North American economic growth.
"NAFTA exists," Bush insisted. "Now is not the time to renegotiate NAFTA or walk away from NAFTA. Now is the time to make it work better for all our people, and now is the time to reduce trade barriers worldwide."
Turning toward his latest proposed free trade partner, Colombia, Bush urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold a vote.
"My biggest concern is to turn our back on our friends in Colombia," Bush said.
"Pelosi has effectively killed the Colombia free trade agreement," he said. "It's her responsibility, and she's going to have to explain why the voices of false populism have been strengthened, why anti-Americanism could flourish, when America turns its back on a strong leader like President Uribe and a friend for democracy like President Uribe."
Again, Bush characterized the Colombia free trade agreement as an agreement "negotiated in good faith." He said, "It would be a big mistake for the Congress to turn its back on Colombia."
Bush also hit back against the Democratic party challengers competing to succeed him, charging, "So people who say, let's get rid of NAFTA, because of a throwaway political line, must understand this had been good for America, and it's also been good for Mexico and Canada – and that's what you want in your neighborhood."
While the three leaders avoided referring directly to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, a joint statement they released suggested the SPP "complements the success of NAFTA, which has helped to triple trade since 1993 among our three countries to a projected $1 trillion in 2008."
Much of Tuesday morning's summit meeting was devoted to a closed-door meeting between the three heads of state and attending cabinet officers from the three countries with representatives of the North American Competitiveness Council, or NACC.
In an "event backgrounder" the White House handed out to the press covering the New Orleans summit, the following NACC members were identified as meeting in the closed-door session:
Thomas Donahue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce since 1997. He previously served as president of American Trucking Association.
Michael Haverty, chief of the Kansas city Southern Railway. He began his railroad career in 1963 as a brakeman and completed the company's management training in 1967. He moved up until he was named president in 1995. Today he serves as chairman of Kansas City Southern as well as Kansas City Southern de Mexico.
Susan Segal, president of the Council of the Americas. She was appointed to that position in 2003 after spending part of her career with an investment and advisory group focused on Latin America.
Douglas Stotlar, president of Con-Way Inc., a $4.7 billion freight operations organization.
Jeff Zucker, president of NBC Universal. In his 20-year career with NBC he's worked with production of NBC's coverage of several major events, including the "Decision 2000" election night as well as the 1993 and 1997 presidential inaugurations.
The NACC is a group of 30 multi-national corporations handpicked by the chambers of commerce in the three countries to provide closed-door advice to the 20 trilateral bureaucratic working groups assigned to "integrate" and "harmonize" North American regulations over a wide range of policy areas.
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was first declared on March 23, 2005, at the conclusion of a Waco, Texas, summit between President Bush and Mexico's then-President Vicente Fox and Canada's then-Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Attending the New Orleans summit were two of the three cabinet officers assigned to manage the 20 bureaucratic trilateral working groups established under SPP: Secretary of Commerce Carlos Guiterrez, representing the "Security Working Groups" and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, representing the "Prosperity Working Groups."
Visibly absent was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Her absence, and the absence of her counterparts from Mexico and Canada, signaled the meeting had been demoted by the three leaders from the status of an official state meeting where the secretary of state and her counterparts would have taken the lead in an official State Department-level diplomatic agenda.
Also in attendance was Stephen Hadley, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. (WND)
Tell Congress 97 percent oppose North American Community without congressional approval.
Alert: A new poll by the American Policy Center has revealed that the lack of widespread opposition to the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, announced in 2005 by President Bush and his counterparts from Mexico and Canada, is because more than half of the American residents polled hadn't heard of it.
But when they did, their voices were clear, with overwhelming majorities opposing the concept, plans and ideas.
The poll was done by the APC, a grassroots activist group in Washington that asked a series of questions about the SPP, the Trans Texas Corridor transportation project and other issues.
"While President Bush and his counterparts in Mexico and Canada continue to deny that the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) is the beginning of a North American Union, Americans around the nation are expressing their growing opposition to the scheme," the center said in introducing its poll results.
The poll of one million American households revealed that 58 percent of the households contacted had not heard of the SPP.
"It is important to note that APC did not select households that might represent specific ideological positions," the group said. "The chosen households represented neither conservative nor liberal positions. Instead the recipients were a wide [variety] of Americans who live in the direct path of the proposed Trans Texas/NAFTA Corridor, from Texas to Minnesota."
The center said the first question was whether the residents had heard of the SPP, and 58 percent said they had not.
But the rest of the results were lopsided. The center said 95 percent of those responding opposed the concept that "private corporations should have the power to enforce trade policy that may adversely affect our national sovereignty and independence."
That related to the public-private partnerships being established across the U.S., from foreign corporations running highways and airports in Illinois to Spanish investors building a new transportation corridor across Texas.
"Chapter 11 of the NAFTA Agreement states that disputes over NAFTA-related issues will be heard in NAFTA courts superseding U.S. local, state and federal courts…." the third question noted, and 91 percent of the respondents indicated that would threaten U.S. sovereignty.
A total of 87 percent said they did not believe it would enhance U.S. security by expanding the nation's security perimeter to include Canada and Mexico, and 95 percent opposed a Mexico truck program instituted by federal administrators.
That program set up by the Bush administration allows Mexican trucks directly on U.S. highways, even though the 2008 omnibus spending bill "was clearly written and designed to put the brakes on the current pilot program," according to sponsor Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.
A total of 92 percent said they opposed a common North American currency such as the "amero."
"Though denied by the Bush Administration, there has been much discussion in economic and academic circles about the creation of a North American currency much like the euro," the center, which has compiled an information sheet about the plans, said. "In October 2007 during an appearance on the Larry King Show on CNN, former Mexican President Vicente Fox answered in the affirmative when King asked him about the creation of a united currency."
Ninety-five percent said public hearings and debate should be held before the plans move further forward.
"To date, there has been no congressional legislation, no congressional hearings and no congressional oversight concerning the establishment or operation of the SPP," the center said. "No federal money has been officially allocated by Congress. No official authority has been provided for the creation of the SPP."
The opposition figure was even higher – 97 percent – when surveyors asked: "Should the Bush administration be allowed to move forward with its plans to create a "North American Community' without congressional approval?
A still-high 88 percent opposed the suggestion that the "United States should be 'harmonized' or merged into a union with Mexico or Canada," the survey said.
"Finally, responders were asked to provide their own comments and thoughts on the SPP. The word most often used was 'treason.' Another said, 'I want no part of the social health care of Canada and I do not want to incorporate Mexico's turmoil and poverty into our United States," the center said.
"Yet," said Tom DeWeese, president of the APC, "as the Texas Department of Transportation signs an agreement with the Spanish company Cintra containing no-compete clauses and guaranteed returns; as the Kansas City council loans $2.5 million to build the inland truck port called KC Smart Port; as the 20 SPP working groups continue to write policy; as the Mexican trucks roll over our borders; as high level meetings go on – the Bush administration dares to deny that ANYTHING is happening. Why? The responses to APC's survey show why. When Americans understand the truth, they say NO in resounding numbers."
The government's original statement announcing the "partnership" said it would "increase the security, prosperity, and quality of life of our citizens. This work will be based on the principle that our security and prosperity are mutually dependent and complementary, and will reflect our shared belief in freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic values and institutions."
But the SPP organization itself has taken the unusual step for a government agency of posting on its website a multi-page "debunking" of "myths."
For example, the document says the SPP is not even an agreement, but is a "dialogue," and it "does not attempt to modify our sovereignty or currency."
Further, it says the SPP updates and consults with members of Congress, although there is no mention of a congressional authorization or oversight.
It does affirm that the SPP is a White House-driven initiative but denies having a "secret plan" to build a NAFTA superhighway. Critics say it's just called the Trans-Texas Corridor. (WND)
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Tell Congress to Stop the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership.
Alert: As the fourth annual summit of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America begins in New Orleans, the White House is engaged in a public relations campaign to reposition the meeting away from the controversial issue of continental integration.
The "North American Leaders Summit,:" as it is called, appears designed to create photo opportunities showing President Bush with Mexico's President Felipe Caldron and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper rather than emphasize the trilateral cooperation that was the centerpiece of previous SPP summit meetings.
As reported, the SPP has engendered an increasing number of critics who see the intercontinental group as a North American Free Trade Agreement-plus arrangement that could easily lead to the creation of a North American Union by pursuing the same path of regulatory and bureaucratic integration used in Europe to create the European Union.
A press release on the White House website notes Bush, Caldron and Harper are meeting in New Orleans to "review progress and continued cooperation under the Security and Prosperity Partnership," yet no update for the New Orleans meeting has been put on the SPP homepage, maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Even the logo on the event's media guide has no reference to the SPP, presenting instead an image of a riverboat and the flags of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
The riverboat logo appears currently on no government website or local Louisiana website created for the event.
Nevertheless, the media advisory distributed to the press has time blocked out today for the SPP working group bureaucrats and leaders of the three nations to meet with the North American Competitiveness Council, or NACC.
As reported, the NACC is a group of 30 multi-national corporations handpicked by the chambers of commerce in the three countries to provide closed-door advice to the 20 trilateral bureaucratic working groups assigned to "integrate" and "harmonize" North American regulations over a wide range of public policy areas.
The third annual SPP summit held last August in Montebello, Quebec, placed the attending media from the three nations in a commonly shared press area, with separate rooms for each nation.
In New Orleans, the media of the three countries were separated physically into different locations, with separate press advisories indicating which events were open to which country's media.
Much of the agenda in New Orleans appears dominated by bilateral events, compared to previous SPP meetings where trilateral meetings were the emphasis.
For instance, the meeting agenda indicated a bilateral meeting today for Bush with Mexico's Calderon, followed immediately by a separate bilateral meeting between Bush and Canada's Harper.
The first trilateral meeting scheduled involved a reception at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in New Orleans, followed by a private dinner, closed to the press, between the three heads of state.
In keeping with bilateral theme, Bush and Calderon began the "leaders meeting," going directly from their arrivals at New Orleans airport to a U.S.-Mexico ceremony reopening the Mexican consulate in New Orleans. Harper did not attend.
The Mexican government closed the consulate in 2002, when budget cuts in Mexico forced scaling back expenditures.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina has led to an influx of 30,000 Mexican nationals in southeastern Louisiana.
The Mexican nationals in Louisiana have had to rely on the Mexican consulate in Houston prior to the reopening of the New Orleans consulate.
The press covering the Mexican consulate reopening was dominated by Mexican local radio, print and television news reporters, with U.S. coverage limited primarily to pool reporting from the White House press corps.
At the opening ceremony, Bush stressed, "I chose New Orleans for our meetings with Mexico and Canada because I wanted to send a clear signal to the people of my country that New Orleans is open for business."
In his remarks at the consulate opening, Bush did not mention the SPP, commenting instead that reopening the consulate is "a good sign, because we celebrate the values that cause Mexico and the United States to be friends – values like family, and faith and culture."
Similarly, Calderon neglected to mention SPP by name, commenting only that he believed the reopening of the consulate would lead to greater security and prosperity between the two nations.
The reopening of the Mexican Consulate was attended by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was first declared March 23, 2005, at the conclusion of a Waco, Texas, summit between Bush and Mexico's then-President Vicente Fox and Canada's then-Prime Minister Paul Martin. (WND.com)
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Alert: Darryl Hopkins was asleep in a recliner in the living room of his Fisher Road home early this week when he was startled awake by a crash.
At first he thought the handgun he sleeps with had fallen to the floor. Then he realized the gun was still in his lap, and he was covered with glass shards from a broken windowpane in the nearby front door.
A framed picture of Jesus had been knocked from the wall next to the doorjamb and now laid behind a bookcase.
"It woke me up big time. I couldn't get myself together. I didn't know what happened," said the 65 year-old Air Force veteran and retired electrician, still shaken a day later.
Hopkins called 911. A couple of minutes later, he looked outside and saw the source of the impact -- a white 1995 Hyundai with Mississippi license plates was lying on its side near the front door, its headlights still shining toward the road.
Hopkins' front porch was demolished and the driver was already gone, leaving behind a wallet containing a Mississip-pi driver's license issued to Fidel Chavez Escalante.
The driver had not been found as of late this week, according to First Sgt. JP Koushel of the Virginia State Police, putting a spotlight on hit-and-run cases involving falsified vehicle registrations that seem to be increasing.
"We can't solve these (cases) because in Mississippi, this car is registered to a person who doesn't exist," Koushel said.
His department has complained to that state, as well as Tennessee and the FBI, but he said the problem now includes Virginia.
"All they want is proof of address," he said of changes in policy at the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles since 2005. Applicants for car registration and title do not have to prove their identity, he said.
"These cars are untraceable; they all come back to a fictitious person," Koushel said. "If you don't have to prove who you are, what's the use of registering and titling a car? If migrant workers can do it, criminals can do it."
A search of General District court records this week turned up three cases involving a person with the name on the license found in the car with a Parksley address -- one for speeding, one for not having a Virginia driver's license and one for no license. The man was found guilty in all three cases and paid fines ranging from $75 to $100.
In this most recent incident, the car apparently rounded a sharp curve just west of Hopkins' house and ran off the road into his yard, missing a utility pole by inches and leaving deep tire tracks in the lawn. It then flipped over and destroyed Hopkins' front porch before coming to rest against a picket fence.
Fisher Road
Cars leaving the road and crashing into things is apparently not an uncommon occurrence on Fisher Road, a short stretch near Parksley that connects two busy thoroughfares -- Parksley and Greenbush roads, both of which lead into town.
Tuesday's crash wasn't even the first time Hopkins' front yard has been invaded by an errant vehicle -- last year, a westbound car flipped and took out his lamppost, he said. A week or so later, he found a half-gallon jug of vodka nearby while cleaning up his yard.
"It's a zoo back here," said Hopkins, who grew up in the farmhouse next door to the bungalow where he now lives after retiring to the Shore in 1995. "This is a major corridor for drugs, alcohol and illegal immigrants."
There were 10 motor vehicle accidents reported on the 1 1/2-mile-long Fisher Road between 2000 and 2007, according to highway department statistics -- and a half-dozen more at the intersection where Fisher veers off from Parksley Road, which connects Parksley with Route 13.
Hopkins said neighbors across the street also recently had a car run into their yard, barely missing their house.
One car that hit a utility pole on the road had Mississippi license plates on the front and Tennessee on the rear, he said.
A half-century ago Fisher Road was rural with few houses, Hopkins said, but now it is a "major bypass for Parksley," as well as the location of a migrant labor camp that came in the 1970s and a new mobile home park. Besides the problem with car accidents, Hopkins said he sometimes hears gunfire in the night, and two years ago a building at the labor camp was set afire.
"It's going to be a big disaster back here," said Hopkins.
The accident has left Hopkins with a host of problems, including the trouble of rebuilding his porch and repairing other damage to his house.
Hopkins is a veteran who enjoys big-game hunting. He also is an experienced sailor who once survived being struck by lightning while boating on the York River. Still, he has been shaken by his close brush with disaster this week.
"I slept in my truck last night; I wouldn't even sleep in there," he said.
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Cross posted from our friends at FAXDC.com
Until next time,
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Tell Congress to Stop the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership.
Alert: Poster urging protest of North American Security and Prosperity Partnership
On the verge of next week's North American summit in New Orleans, a Canadian think tank has suggested renaming the "North American Union" to renew progress toward continental integration in the face of mounting criticism.
A paper entitled "Saving the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership", published last month by the Fraser Institute in Canada, contends President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have decided to expend no more political capital in pursuing "the bust" that has occurred because of the "brand" of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America or SPP.
The solution, the authors argue, is a public relations makeover in which the goals of North American political and economic integration remain the same but the names get changed to keep trilateral arrangements between the U.S., Mexico and Canada on track.
While the paper continues to dismiss critics of the SPP as "conspiracy theorists," Fraser Institute political scientist Dr. Alexander Moens and his co-author Michael Cust, a Fraser Institute intern, proposes the name "North American Union," or NAU, be dropped in favor of a declaration that the three countries now want to create a "North American Standards and Regulatory Area," or NASRA.
Moens and Cust write that the attacks of SPP critics "are starting to hurt."
"In the wake of the Montebello Summit (in Quebec last summer), one Canadian commentator declared the SPP 'dead' and 'defunct,'" Moens and Cust noted. "Another stated recently that the SPP has 'collapsed under a heap of conspiratorial rubbish."
But the authors argue the SPP is "far from dead."
Acknowledging the SPP has a "low profile" currently, the Frasier Institute authors stress that trilateral talks in the bureaucratic working groups constituted under SPP by the three governments are continuing on both security and competitiveness policy issues.
"Its critics may have tarnished the 'SPP brand,'" Moens and Cust concede, "but the precise areas of its work – to follow where NAFTA left off and to do so by incorporating post-9/11 security criteria as well as public safety and quality of life issues (pandemic illnesses and food safety) – are key Canadian interests."
The Fraser Institute paper also encourages the SPP working groups to develop "a better communications strategy," so that the public "can begin to understand its benefits."
The authors, however, are opposed to expanding the list of SPP advisers to include public interest groups or the media, preferring to stay with the closed-door advice offered by the 30 corporations picked by the chambers of commerce in the three countries to serve as members of the North American Competitiveness Council, or NACC.
They also concede that Mexico has been a "drag" on border security talks, especially since illegal immigration into the U.S. has continued, if not accelerated, under the SPP. They admit "there is an enormous problem of illegal entry, drug smuggling, and violent incidents on the Mexican border," while continuing to argue "there is also a very large legal and orderly flow of goods between Mexico and the United States."
In 1999, economist Herbert G. Grubel of the Fraser institute wrote a paper entitled, "The Case for the Amero," presenting the first arguments in print that a North American currency should be created on the model of the euro in the European Union as a replacement for the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso.
The third SPP summit, held last August in Montebello, Quebec, involved a series of closed-door meetings attended only by the three state heads, the cabinet members in attendance, the SPP trilateral bureaucrats assigned to head the 20 working groups established under the SPP and the NACC business leaders.
Next Monday and Tuesday, President Bush will meet in New Orleans with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Harper.
The White House has changed the name of the meeting from the "Fourth SPP Annual Summit" to simply the "North American Leaders' Summit." (Source: WND.com)
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Cross posted from our friends at FAXDC.com
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Tell Congress to Support the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088).
Alert: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership have apparently come up with a new strategy to prevent the House from approving the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088), an enforcement-only approach to the illegal immigration issue. The bill, introduced by Reps. Brian Bilbray, California Republican, and Heath Shuler, North Carolina Democrat, has garnered more than 160 cosponsors. The SAVE Act aims to reduce illegal immigration through such methods as employer sanctions and strengthened border security.
Mrs. Pelosi wants to bury the bill, but many members of the House Democratic Caucus are under pressure from their constituents to take a tough stand against illegal immigration, so the speaker has sought to find a way to pretend to be taking action while ensuring that H.R. 4088 never sees the light of day. The legislation has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee, which is expected to hold hearings on the issue in the coming weeks. In all likelihood, the very liberal committee will find that the legislation has serious problems and requires further "study." Mr. Bilbray and Mr. Shuler have launched a campaign to circumvent the obstructionists by getting 218 signatures on a discharge petition that would permit the legislation to come to the floor for a vote. As of Friday, some 40 House members had cosponsored the SAVE Act, but under pressure from the Democratic leadership had not signed the discharge petition.
According to a list compiled by the office of Mr. Bilbray, chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus, the "Frightened 40" are one Republican, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, and the following 39 Democrats: Reps. Jason Altimire (Pennsylvania); Michael Arcuri (New York); Brian Baird (Washington); Melissa Bean (Illinois); Marion Berry (Arkansas); Sanford Bishop (Georgia); Dan Boren (Oklahoma); Leonard Boswell (Iowa); Rick Boucher (Virginia); Allen Boyd (Florida); Steve Cohen (Tennessee); Jim Cooper (Tennessee); Bud Cramer (Alabama); Artur Davis (Alabama); Lincoln Davis (Tennessee); Kirsten Gillibrand (New York); Bart Gordon (Tennessee); Brian Higgins (New York); Baron Hill (Indiana); Paul Hodes (New Hampshire); Tim Holden (Pennsylvania); Steve Kagen (Wisconsin); Ron Klein (Florida); Jim Marshall (Georgia); Jim Matheson (Utah); Jerry McNerney (California); Charlie Melancon (Louisiana); Patrick Murphy (Pennsylvania); John Murtha (Pennsylvania); Ed Perlmutter (Colorado); Ciro Rodriguez (Texas); Mike Ross (Arkansas); Tim Ryan (Ohio); Joe Sestak (Pennsylvania); Zachary Space (Ohio); Bart Stupak (Michigan); John Tanner (Tennessee); Mark Udall (Colorado); and Peter Visclosky (Indiana). (Source: Washington Times)
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RUPERT, Idaho - A big Double Barreled Salute to Clint Straatman. Mr. Straatman is a physical ed. Teacher at Minico High School in Rupert. On 5/5/08, one of his students, Froylan Camelo, brought a Mexican flag to school for Cinco de Mayo. It seems that Mr. Straatman took the flag from Camelo as he was changing for gym class. As expected, there appears to be some discrepancy between the two sides of the story, but the flag ended up undamaged in the trash can. Camelo retrieved the flag from the gargage can at the end of the school day. Straatman was concerned that the Hispanic students who brought flags to school would create a situation that would escalate into a problem.
