Dr. Putnam’s Bunker-Buster

By Patrick J. Buchanan

If you were looking for a truce in the immigration wars once the Bush-Kennedy amnesty went down to defeat, look again.

Communities, cities, states are passing tough new laws to deal with the 12-20 million illegal aliens in our midst. Town likes Hazleton, Pa., and Farmers Branch, Texas, which sought to punish landlords who rent to and businesses that hire “undocumented workers,” have been hauled before federal judges by the ACLU. Arizona has passed a law to de-certify and close businesses caught hiring illegals twice. Protests have begun over removal of National Guard troops from the border.

The Department of Homeland Security is getting off its posterior to demand that businesses, when told the Social Security numbers of employees do not match Social Security Administration records, clear up the discrepancy in 90 days, or fire the workers, or face stiff fines.

Mitt Romney is raking Rudy Giuliani for maintaining New York’s status as a “sanctuary city,” where cops cannot ask criminal suspects to prove they belong in the country. Failure by New York cops to learn the illegal status of four thugs and deport them enabled them to stay in town, where they kidnapped and sexually assaulted a Queens woman for three hours in a shack near Shea Stadium.

Comes now a blockbuster report by political scientist Robert Putnam, author of the runaway bestseller “Bowling Alone.” Putnam provides supporting fire from Harvard Yard for those who say America needs a time-out from mass immigration, be it legal or illegal, like the immigration moratorium we had from 1924-1965.

“E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the 21st Century” is the title of Putnam’s five-year study, which makes hash out of the politically correct cliché, “Our diversity is our strength.”

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Up to 80 Congressmen Visiting Israel in August

By Qrswave

They should just hold their next session in Tel Aviv and do away with the useless formality of meeting on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is spending a week in Israel on a privately funded trip sponsored by the America Israel Education Federation (AIEF), her office announced Wednesday.

The AIEF — the charitable arm of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — is also the sponsor of a trip to Israel next week by a separate delegation of lawmakers that includes Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.

Bachmann’s group left for Israel on Sunday. The 21-member delegation, led by Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., has met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, a former prime minister. They are scheduled to meet with Israeli President Shimon Peres today.

The trip marks Bachmann’s second visit to the Middle East, following a recent trip to Iraq and Pakistan.

AIPAC is an influential voice in Washington on behalf of Israel and frequently sponsors congressional trips there.

Along with Bachmann and Ellison, the group is sponsoring trips to Israel in the coming weeks for nearly 40 other Republican and Democratic lawmakers, many of them freshmen.

That’s 21 this week, 20 on Ellison’s trip, and another 40 after them –> over 80 representatives in total.

And that’s just “in the coming weeks.”

By the time the year is out every single member of Congress will have made their rounds in israel!

Now, that’s loyalty! – WakeUpFromYourSlumber.com