Only Ted can cut through the crap and point out the obvious. 

Guess what.  No fence or wall is going to work unless you have the will to enforce that security.  A physical barrier is not enough, they will go over, go under or around or even through.  Heck, they could swim around.

As long as being here is better then being there, they will come.  The sanctuary city movements that draw the illegals, as well as the jobs they can get no questions asked make this an attractive prize.  As long as we keep the carrot dangling, the mule will come.  Period.

And here is the reality check:  We don’t have the guts to do what would work.  Will we do what the Russians or Koreans did?  Will we mine the border and kill the people infiltrating it?  Will we set up machine gun nests and blow them away?  No, and frankly while that would certainly work, I cannot say I am unhappy we won’t but we won’t even impose sanctions on Mexico, whose government facilitates the flow of illegals.

The Ann and Liz show continues and as usual people spend most of the time accusing Ann of saying things she did not say.  Take this link for example, where they gleefully chortle that:

Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards A “Harridan”

Except she didn’t call Edwards anything.

Yes, she is upset, and when the left continually misrepresents you it has to be frustrating.  But she did not call any specific person a harridan, she made a unspecific reference to being attacked by Harridans.  No where did she point a finger, and Liz is not the only female to challenge her, so this is more grandstanding.

Newsmax has more:

 Furious Ann Coulter Strikes Back

An obviously angry Ann Coulter this morning ripped into critics who deliberately distorted her comments about former senator and presidential hopeful John Edwards.

After a relentless 24-hour firestorm during which much of the mainstream media used selective quotes to mangle the meaning of several of Ann’s comments about Edwards, Coulter set the record straight while talking with Joe Scarborough host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program.

Funniest clip I have seen in days. 

Watch as MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski refuses to run the lead story on Paris.

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We can all sleep soundly knowing she is back on the streets.

Can we all maybe get lives now?

From Townhall, Rich Galen has some good comments.

Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Ca) said on Sunday that she thought it would be a good idea if the Congress would pass a law bringing back what used to be known as “The Fairness Doctrine.”

First some history to understand ‘what’ the Fairness Doctrine is, or more accurately,  what it was.

On Fox News Sunday this past weekend, Feinstein, according to Broadcasting & Cable Magazine said that “talk radio is one-sided and ‘explosive.’ She said it ‘pushes people, I think, to extreme views without a lot of information.’”

Which sounds much like she’s describing the Senate Floor debate on the immigration bill, but maybe that’s just me.

The basic law covering the use of radio waves in the United States - including everything from radar to your local disc jockey - is built on the Communications Acts of 1934 and 1937 which, in turn, were based on the Radio Act of 1927.

Part of those laws included Section 315 which provided for equal time - or more precisely - equal opportunity for all legally qualified candidates for public office.

With all the crap John Edwards says about his rivals and the Republicans, she has a lot of gall to confront Ann and ask her to stop the personal attacks.

Pot meet Kettle. 

For those with short memories, this all ties back to Ann and her Faggot comment about Edwards, where she employed a paraleipsis and made a zinger about Edwards using the Isaiah Washington crisis on Grey’s Anatomy.

Well on the Today show, it came up again.  Newsbusters starts us off.

http://newsbusters.org/node/13750

Assume for a moment that you were a co-host on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and you were given the assignment to interview outspoken conservative writer Ann Coulter.

With everything going on in the world – from Iraq, to immigration, even to Gore-made global warming – what would be the first topic you would ask Coulter to address?

Well, ABC’s Chris Cuomo Monday chose none of those issues, and instead decided to ask his guest about a joke she made several months ago regarding Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards’ sexual preference (video available here):

And with good reason.

Three Quarters Believe Global Warming A ‘Natural Occurrence’

ALMOST three quarters of people believe global warming is a ‘natural occurrence’ and not a result of carbon emissions, a survey claimed today.

This goes against the views of the vast majority of scientists who believe the rise in the earth’s temperatures is due to pollution.

The online study which polled nearly 4000 votes found that a staggering 71 percent of people think that the rise in air temperature happens naturally.

And 65 percent think that scientists’ catastrophic predictions if pollution isn’t curbed are ‘far fetched’.

Obviously a random sampling of a few thousand is not a scientific conclusion, and all surveys are prone to error, but I think the point is still made that the average person is not ready to sign off on the issue, not with out actual proof.

The fact is that the facts are inconvenient to the alarmists, and so is the fact that people really do act independently and have opinion.

Yes, according to a Swedish scientist.

Swedish Scientist Accuses UN’s IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence

If you listen to the global warming alarmists working for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore, sea levels across the globe are rising at a rate that will eventually doom us all.

According to Swedish paleogeophysicist Nils-Axel Mörner, who’s been studying and writing about sea levels for four decades, the scientists working for the IPCC have falsified data and destroyed evidence to incorrectly prove their point.

Mörner was recently interviewed by Gregory Murphy of Executive Intelligence Review, and began by making it clear that the sea level claims made by the IPCC are a lot of nonsense (emphasis added throughout, h/t Eduardo Ferreyra):

[W]e can see that the sea level was indeed rising, from, let us say, 1850 to 1930-40. And that rise had a rate in the order of 1 millimeter per year. Not more. 1.1 is the exact figure. And we can check that, because Holland is a subsiding area; it has been subsiding for many millions of years; and Sweden, after the last Ice Age, was uplifted. So if you balance those, there is only one solution, and it will be this figure.

Boy: Taliban Recruited Me to Bomb Troops

The story of a 6-year-old Afghan boy who says he thwarted an effort by Taliban militants to trick him into being a suicide bomber provoked tears and anger at a meeting of tribal leaders.

The account from Juma Gul, a dirt-caked child who collects scrap metal for money, left American soldiers dumbfounded that a youngster could be sent on such a mission. Afghan troops crowded around the boy to call him a hero.

Though the Taliban dismissed the story as propaganda, at a time when U.S. and NATO forces are under increasing criticism over civilian casualties, both Afghan tribal elders and U.S. military officers said they were convinced by his dramatic account.

I don’t doubt that it is true.  It certainly would not be the first time a terrorist has used a child as  mule for a bomb attack.  It has happened in many wars where the fighters have no value on the life of innocents.

The Taliban and Al Qaeda have no regard for the lives of civilians, they prove that with each innocent life killed by one of there suicide bombers.