The Journal plays the race card

Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal headed up its "Review & Outlook” column with an editorial titled Republican Overregulation [no longer on web]. In their latest trip around the track aboard the paper’s pro-massive-immigration hobbyhorse, the Journal editors offered up this statement:

Republicans claim they oppose only illegal immigration but the truth is that many have grown hostile to all immigration.

Now although I don’t pretend to speak for all Republicans (or even "many” of them), and although the only pets around my house are cats, I can still spot a dogwhistle when I see one.

While the editors didn’t continue, the tone of the piece leaves little doubt that "...hostile to all immigrants so shut up, you bunch of ra-a-a-a-cists!” was their intent here.

And (again) although I don’t pretend to speak for all Republicans (or even "many” of them), and although I remain without the editors’ insights concerning "the truth,” I can say that, at least as far as I and the Republicans who I know are concerned, the Journal is full of it.

And while at times I may seem weary of immigration altogether, that has a lot  to do with our political establishment’s (and its media enablers’) total lack of interest in doing anything to actually address the problems produced by the illegals and their presence in my country.

And isn’t it interesting... that when they don’t get what they want, the Gentry "Conservatives” sound so very much like the Gentry Liberals.

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“THESE are the voices of modern conservatism?”

Yep.

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Happy 9th, DG

Amazing the way it adds up...

Nine doesn’t sound a terribly large number, so let me recalculate.  That’s 3287 days, at least 99% of which I’ve posted something on.  There are 4667 posts altogether, some of them piddly and small, others major 1000+ word essays.  I’m not sure precisely how many words I’ve written altogether, but it must be more than two million by now, which is approximately the same length as three Bibles.  And you’ve added 50000 comments...

...innit?

I’ve had Diamond Geezer in my bookmarks since October, 2003, shortly after he began his second year of posting (The link in my sidebar hides under Best London Trivia.), and if you find fascination in Things London (occasionally extending to Things British), you should, too.  Lots of history and geography.  Not much politics (except when the politicians do stupid things like replace the city’s beloved Routemasters with bendy buses - but now they’re getting rid of them, so that’s mostly settled, or do a rather slapdash job of "restoring” his neighborhood tube station).  Excellently written (even natives find out things they don’t know), and quite an achievement.

Highly recommended.

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Clipfile - September 7, 2011

"If your reaction to a proposal is ‘HOLY SHIT, THAT SOUNDS LIKE FUN,’ then as a government lawyer and member of law enforcement, you almost certainly shouldn’t be doing it.” - quoted by Ken

(via: Tam.)

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“Your cat is *stoned*.”

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Clipfile - September 4, 2011

"The defence of civilisation against barbarism cannot be organised merely to make life convenient for the Police.” - Brian Micklethwait

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Why government costs so much, cont’d.

J. Russell George (Treasury Dept. Inspector General for Tax Administration):

Individuals who are not authorized to work in the United States received billions of dollars from the IRS last year in a refundable tax credit based on earned income called the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC). ... Claims for this credit by these individuals have escalated sharply from $924 million in 2005 to $4.2 billion in 2010.

Those escalating claims tell me the illegals aren’t filing for the credits on their own; somebody has to be "helping” them.  That those somebodies are aiding in fraud against the government ought to interest the feds.  Unfortunately, the Justice Department seems to be too busy raiding Gibson Guitars to investigate.

(Not that it ever would, what with illegal immigrants and the "community organizers” who support them being two major Democrat client groups, and all...)

Via:  TaxProf via Insty

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Clipfile - September 1, 2011

"Until we force agents of tyranny to face individual consequences for their actions, they will continue to behave as barbarian savages preying on the communities that support them.” - Bill Quick

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Yes, there was a blogmeet Sunday

...with a 2-day project immediately following, hence no report here. Fortunately, you’ll find there are reports available:

Got to meet a bunch of interesting people, with several additions coming to the "Bloggers I’ve Met” section of the sidebar as soon as I can crawl out from under and catch my breath. As Tam noted, "pretty epic.” (Just imagine what next month will be like...)

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6 more years!

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