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Now that Georgia, Arizona, and Oklahoma have passed some of the country’s toughest laws against illegal immigration, Virginia maybe next:

Virginia Republicans announced legislation Wednesday that would prohibit public colleges and universities from accepting illegal immigrants even if they attended a public high school and were brought to the United States at an early age by their parents.

GOP leaders, who control both houses of the legislature, suggested that some Virginia residents are being denied access to college because too many illegal immigrants are taking available slots.

“If a legal Virginia resident is applying to schools, should they be admitted? Or should that slot be set aside for someone who has arrived here illegally?” asked James K. “Jay” O’Brien Jr. (R-Fairfax), the sponsor of the proposal.

The Republican proposal would also require city and county jails to check a defendant’s immigration status and to have at least one person on duty who has been certified by the federal government to detain illegal immigrants until deportation proceedings. It would also routinely deny bail for illegal immigrants charged in a crime and suspend the business licenses of anyone convicted of hiring illegal immigrants.

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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) said that he is eager to work with the Republicans to curtail illegal immigration but that he is waiting for the findings of a state commission studying the issue before he endorses a specific proposal. The commission is expected to complete its work in October.

On the immigration issue, even liberal-Democrat governors like Kaine, and Janet Napolitano of Arizona, now understand which side to take in order to assure their political survival.

-- PoliPundit

I saw some of Chris Matthews’ show tonight, and was shocked by his bias.

* Matthews saw “Republican hypocrisy” because Republicans proclaim moral values but have a few bad apples like Mark Foley and Larry Craig.

* Matthews poo-poo’d Democratic corruption a la Alcee Hastings, William Jefferson, Ted Kennedy, etc.

Apparently, if the Democrats don’t profess to stand for any moral values, they have nothing to answer for. Corruption is fine, as long as you don’t claim you’re clean.

Disgusting. No wonder he’s on the same zero-rating cable network as Keith Olbermann.

-- W.C. Varones

It’s good to see that there are still some sane people involved in the education of our children. “Educational” video shown to THIRD GRADERS highlighting same-sex couples has been pulled from the curriculum:

The Evesham school board last night voted 7-1 to stop showing third graders a controversial educational video that includes depictions of families headed by same-sex couples.
The vote came after a committee of scholars and educators, appointed by the board to review the issue, recommended keeping the video in the curriculum, but showing it to fourth graders, instead of to third graders, as had been done.

But after a number of board members spoke against the film, the board did away with the video, called That’s a Family, altogether.

The half-hour video shows children explaining their various family structures, including those with mixed-race couples and divorced, single and adoptive parents.

Jeanne Smith, a spokeswoman for the board, said: “The opinions expressed by members of the board against the video dealt with their worry that the video had become so divisive that it would continue to inflame the district and that there would be no healing.”

This is the problem. The NJEA, the NEA and Pro-Homosexual groups try to use the school system to push their unhealty agenda on our children. Thankfully, these parents caught on andput a stop to it, 3rd grade, 4th grade, now it’s NO grade:

Reacting to last night’s vote, Steven Goldstein, chairman of the gay civil rights group Garden State Equality, said: “It’s very likely that we in the civil rights community will take legal action to have the committee’s recommendation to show this film enforced. We believe the board’s actions are illegal.”

Steven Goldstein has been at the forefront of the New Jersey homosexual agenda for years, from using results from one-sided push polls to increasing the percentage of actual homosexual’s in the country, no age is to young to be spared from his agenda:

A similar scene played out at the school board’s next regular meeting a few weeks later. By then, national talk-radio hosts and Fox News commentators had weighed in on the issue, and Garden State Equality also had jumped into the fray.

I’d say skipped into the fray is more like it….

-- 'The Commish' A.J. Sparxx

And you know you’re a liberal if,

You’re outraged about Senator Craig’s “hypocrisy” but you remained utterly silent when the last Democratic President, the leader of the party of “women’s rights” groped a woman in the White House and the proceeded to pardon a Congressman who had sex with a minor female.

Happy Friday liberals, hypocrisy is etched in your political DNA.

-- The Ace

Good news,

Idaho Sen. Larry Craig is considering resigning, Republican activists said Friday, after days of public and private pressure stemming from his arrest in June in a police undercover operation at an airport men’s room.

Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct on Aug. 1, and while he has since said he did nothing wrong, the episode has roiled the Republican party and produced numerous calls for him to step down.

As a measure of the pressure Craig faces, party officials said a statement had been drafted at Republican Party headquarters calling for the third-term senator to resign. It was not issued, these officials said, in response to concerns that it might complicate quiet efforts under way to persuade the 62-year-old lawmaker to give up his seat.

Take note Democrats, you and your ilk would never try to persuade one of your members to resign over something like this.

-- The Ace

See, being a Democrat means you never have to say you’re sorry or wrong. You’re just “slimed” or “taken out of context”

The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone, distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank. So when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) asked a soldier last weekend just what he was holding, the congressman was taken aback to find out.

In the soldier’s hand was a thumbnail biography, distributed before each of the congressmen’s meetings in Baghdad, which let meeting participants such as that soldier know where each of the lawmakers stands on the war. “Moran on Iraq policy,” read one section, going on to cite some the congressman’s most incendiary statements, such as, “This has been the worst foreign policy fiasco in American history.”

The bio of Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.) – “TAU (rhymes with ‘now’)-sher,” the bio helpfully relates – was no less pointed, even if she once supported the war and has taken heat from liberal Bay Area constituents who remain wary of her position. “Our forces are caught in the middle of an escalating sectarian conflict in Iraq, with no end in sight,” the bio quotes.

“This is beyond parsing. This is being slimed in the Green Zone,” Tauscher said of her bio.

Aw, what’s a matter wittle baby Democraps, you don’t like it when people actually take what you say at face value? Political cowards. All of them.

-- The Ace

Not soon enough,

Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia, one of the most authoritative voices in Congress on the military and a key figure in the debate over Iraq, said Friday he will not seek a sixth term in 2008.

Warner, 80, has held the seat since 1979, when the dashing former Navy secretary campaigned alongside his wife at the time, Elizabeth Taylor.

Warner is leaving what would have been a safe seat for the Republicans if he had chosen to run again. His departure gives Democrats a better chance to protect or even expand their one-seat majority in the Senate.

“Public service is a privilege and I urge all to try to find time some time in their lifetime to serve the needs of others,” Warner said at a news conference. “I have tried to be not only true to myself, but true to the people of this great commonwealth I’ve served for 29 years now.”

One of the poster children for term limits. No matter the outcome of this Senate race I won’t be sorry to see him go.

-- The Ace

Bush unveils mortgage proposals:

They would make it easier for borrowers now holding adjustable rate mortgages that are resetting to higher monthly payments to refinance those loans using the resources of the Federal Housing Administration. The FHA is a Depression-era agency created to help low and moderate-income Americans afford homes.

Under the Bush proposal, which FHA officials said would take effect immediately, an estimated 60,000 homeowners who have fallen behind on payments because their mortgages have reset would be able to refinance with FHA-insured loans. That marks a significant change because FHA does not now insure refinanced loans from borrowers who are currently delinquent.

Great. So if private mortgage insurers and private lenders see someone as a bad risk, no problem! We’ll just put the risk on the taxpayers! What could possibly go wrong putting government guarantees on loans for people who are already delinquent?

And, as the AP notes, it’s going to get a lot worse:

Housing analysts said it was highly likely the limited steps Bush outlined will be expanded in coming weeks by a Democratic-controlled Congress intent on responding to growing voter anxiety as up to 2 million homeowners worry about losing their homes.

I don’t think Bush has ever met a problem that more big government couldn’t solve.

-- W.C. Varones

Senator Larry “I’m not gay, but I act like one in the men’s room” Craig will be resigning from the Senate on Saturday, so says Fox News.

That’s one less Shamnesty supporter to deal with.

-- 'The Commish' A.J. Sparxx

More news from Hooverville,

The economy grew at its strongest pace in more than a year during the spring as solid improvements in international trade and business investment helped offset weakness in housing.

The gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic health, expanded at an annual rate of 4 percent in the April-June quarter, significantly higher than the 3.4 percent rate the government had initially estimated a month ago, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

Click on the link and read the very next paragraph hinting at doom & gloom.

-- The Ace