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POPSIsrael: Massive Rocket Barrage In South It was the first indication that the blast was caused by an accident, a claim earlier made by Israel "We deny any connection to this incident," IDF spokeswoman Maj. Avital Leibovich had said, adding that the army had not been operating in the area at the time. Meanwhile, IDF soldiers opened fire at a car that approached the border fence in northern Gaza. The army said the Palestinians in the vehicle apparently attempted to infiltrate Israel. Earlier, three Palestinian gunmen were killed by IDF soldiers operating in Gaza. The army said that two gunmen were identified alongside the security fence near Beit Lahiya and were fired upon by Givati Brigade troops, who confirmed a hit. A third operative was killed in an IAF air strike in the nearby Jabalya refugee camp. Palestinian sources claimed that Fatah operatives had attempted to infiltrate an IDF outpost in the northern Gaza Strip and were killed in the ensuing gun battle.
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POPS 'Trouble At The Border'? I Had No Idea!
Three Democrat legislators spoke to reporters about what they claim is "anti-immigrant coverage" Apparently, they think floods of illegal aliens crossing into America and the crime and violence at the border are just overblown incidents developed by conservative media outlets. In the Cybercast News Service interview, Rep. Solis expressed her concern about "the murder of women" but added, "I'm more concerned about people having their civil rights violated here." More concerned about the civil rights of law-breaking illegal aliens than Americans being the targets of violence and murder? Just exactly what country do you represent? According to Cybercast News Service, "Speakers at the briefing said that CNN and Fox News Channel should be held accountable for television personalities who have 'played major roles in creating this anti-immigrant hysteria.'" Let's send that message to the Americans who are victims of border violence... I'm sure they'll find comfort
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POPSSAVE Act Discharge Petition Filed, Gaining Momentum The Senate attached an immigration enforcement measure sponsored by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to its Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Resolution before passage on March 13. The amendment would create a deficit-neutral reserve fund that fully covers completion of the 700-mile border fence and at least 6,000 National Guard troops at the border. The fund also would cover: implementing the exit data portion of the U.S. VISIT entry/exit system at airports, seaports, and land ports of entry; training/ reimbursement for state and local immigration law enforcement under the Section 287(g) program; and expanding the zero tolerance illegal entry prosecution policy to all 20 border sectors. The principle mission of the caucus, which includes Republican Senators David Vitter (La.), James DeMint (S.C.), Jeff Sessions (Ala.), James Inhofe (Okla.), Elizabeth Dole (N.C.), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Richard Burr (N.C.), and Roger Wicker (Miss.), "promote a true, achievable alternative
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POPSTo Die For NAFTA Hillary won Ohio denouncing the NAFTA deal Bill Clinton cut. The lady gets it. McCain admits to knowing almost nothing about economics and is now being advised by my old friend Jack Kemp. In a Wall Street Journal essay bemoaning my views, Kemp concedes, "I'm on the advisory board of Toyota North America and now drive a hybrid Lexus." Ex-secretaries of state and Cabinet officers, ex-senators and congressmen, and ex-White House aides are getting rich working for foreigners who are carting off American jobs, American technology, American markets, American factories -- and America's future. Look at the Bush-McCain record: $4 trillion in trade deficits, $2.5 trillion in manufactures alone. One in every six manufacturing jobs, 3 million, gone. With America borrowing $2 billion a day to pay for foreign goods, we have seen a collapse of the dollar, the price of gold quadruple to $1,000 an ounce, oil soar to $107 a barrel and gas heading toward $4 a gallon.
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POPSThe "Build The Border Fence As Promised" Petition As the San Diego fence has proved, border fences do work. That's why I am calling on leadership to put the will of the people first and take the necessary steps to protect our borders from invasion--first by undoing the damage of the Hutchison Amendment and then by building the border fence as originally promised. Support H.R. 4987 and H.R. 5124 which repeal the Hutchison amendment and restore the specific provisions of the Secure Fence Act
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POPS BLACK WORKERS VICTIMIZED BY IMMIGRATION McCain and Friend By Mark Cromer Tuesday, February 5, 2008 While Sen. John McCain is clearly more embittered than humbled by the crushing defeat that a furious American people dealt his mass amnesty plan last summer, the co-architect of the scheme to grant as many as 30 million illegal aliens instant legal status now swears he has found religion on immigration and is ready to secure the border. Correctly assessing that his chances of winning the Republican nomination would be somewhere south of Rep. Ron Paul's if he were to continue to promote his plan for comprehensive immigration reform, Mr. McCain now blurts out the sound bite "I'll secure the border" anytime he is within five feet of a microphone. washingtontimes.com
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POPSE-Mail Fence By Date Certain Act Would Mandate Border Security! HR 4987 would largely reinstate language that was included in the Secure Fence Act that became law in October 2006. Congress then passed, and the President signed, the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill, which included language that effectively gutted the Secure Fence Act. This bill would remedy the situation.
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POPSMcCain's Immigration Policy Close To Democratic Candidates On NBC's Meet the Press, McCain said he would sign the bill into law if it passed the Senate while he was president. However, McCain maintained the bill would not be resurrected in that form because the American people sent the message that they want border security first. But in Wednesday's night's CNN presidential debate, the GOP frontrunner said he would not vote for McCain-Kennedy if it came to the Senate floor again.
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POPS FOUR PINOCCHIOS AND THE GEPPETTO CHECK MARK The cut-and-paste job Huckabee needed to come up with an immigration plan in a hurry last month. He was beginning his remarkable ascent in opinion polls, but was under attack from GOP rivals for a "liberal" position on immigration while governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. When the campaign announced the governor's nine-point immigration plan on Dec. 6, it noted that it was "partially modeled" on Krikorian's proposal three years earlier. But Huckabee took credit for the plan in the Republican debate on Thursday night, and Mitt Romney's campaign is crying foul. A point-by-point comparison of the two plans supports the Romney critique. Huckabee's is virtually identical to Krikorian's, with the exception of two points: Build the Fence and Establish an Economic Border. Huckabee says that his proposal for a flat-rate sales tax, known as the "fair tax," would create an "economic disincentive" for illegal immigration, by forcing undocumented workers to pay taxes.
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POPSCongress Slashed $3 Billion From Border Funds! Petitions are being handled by NumbersUSA, a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Arlington, Virginia, with more than 531,000 activists committed to reducing immigration. By signing this petition, you have agreed to receive periodic updates from us via email and you may opt out at any time.
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POPSSmugglers Build an Underground World Shrink-wrapped bundles of marijuana, nearly 14,000 pounds worth $5.6 million in street sales, were found in the shipping container and in a trailer next to it, making clear the tunnel’s purpose: to serve as another major smuggling corridor. Found Mo
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POPSInsist That Congress Provide Border-Fence Funding Last year Congress passed the Secure Fence Act that committed the U.S. to build nearly 700 miles of double-tiered fencing along some of the most porous parts of the U.S.-Mexico border, but that legislation did not provide the funding.Insist that Congress follow through and provide the appropriations.
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POPSCandidate Calculator Well, there are no little fun heads to watch go up... Mostly I was just surprised some of these are actually considered "issues" in the USA.
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POPSRockets, Shells Batter Negev
Rockets, Shells Batter Negev; Electricity Still Flowing to Gaza. The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday afternoon to push off for at least two weeks the government's decision to reduce electricity to Gaza in response to ongoing Kassam rocket fire. The Court - Judges Dorit Beinish, Esther Hayut and Yosef Elon - ruled that the State has one week in which to document its claim that reducing electricity to Gaza would not cause unreasonable harm to the Arabs of Gaza. It also ruled that the left-wing groups who oppose the electricity cut-off could then have another week in which to prove the opposite. A Kassam rocket fired from northern Gaza exploded near a kibbutz in the Shaar HaNegev Regional Council on Wednesday afternoon. No casualties or damages were reported. Earlier, four mortar shells were fired from central Gaza and landed near the border fence; no one was hurt. In the morning hours, Palestinian terrorists fired at an IDF patrol jeep near northern Gaza, without effect. On T
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POPSFence's Presence Felt A balanced article that gives both sides of the issue. While this issue of "illegal immigration" has lost some of it's political impact for the time being, I was glad to read that the fence is actually being built and that it's effective. To what degree...actually, only time will tell.
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POPSMega-donors prepare for '08 battle Do these super-wealthy donors (and policy dictators) represent your ideals for your family and neighborhoods? Or do they represent their own interests and agendas? It's pretty scary to me to see who actually *runs* America; it's not us. Can you imagine what this kind of money could do if it were used to actually help the elderly, the infirmed, the genuine poor of our Country? It could build better bridges, find alternative sources of energy, build that border fence, build new levees, etc....
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POPSWhat Part Of Illegal Don't You Understand? "We are stuck with a bogus, deceptive strategy — a 700-mile fence on a 2,000-mile border to stop a fraction of border crossers who are only 60 percent of the problem anyway, and scattershot raids to capture a few thousand members of a group of 12 million. None of those enforcement policies have a trace of honesty or realism. At least they don’t reward illegals, and that, for now, is all this country wants."
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