TONIGHT (Tuesday, July 31st) at 9 Eastern, I will be talking to Hazleton, PA mayor LOU BARLETTA, whose city enacted ordinances prohibiting businesses from hiring illegals and landlords from renting to them.

However, last week, a federal court judge ruled the ordinances violated the Constitutional rights of the illegals. Mayor Barletta says the city will appeal the ruling and take it to the Supreme Court if necessary.

BARLETTA has been on several TV and radio talk shows in recent days. He joins us tonight on “A Conversation with Andrea and …” Click here to listen:

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TONIGHT ON “A Conversation with Andrea and…” guest Paul Ibbetson takes a scholarly look at the Patriot Act. Author of “Living Under The Patriot Act: Educating A Society”, Ibbetson says the book educates instead of advocates a position on this law.

“I have issues with the ACLU on the Patriot Act and their stance on about every issue dealing with national security. However, there are many conservative groups including but not limited to the gun owners of America, the conservative union, Cato Institute, among others who oppose the Patriot Act and I cover those groups in the book,” Ibbetson says.

“My goal is to take learning beyond the 30 second soundbite and help people to make their own independent, educated conclusions on where they stand on the most powerful law in the country in the war on terror.”

Join us at 9 p.m. EDT on Blog Talk Radio. You can get there from here:

See a timeline of the creation of the Patriot Act at Patriot Act Research.
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MEET AMERICAN HERO RANDY TERRILL!

More than 100,000 illegal immigrants are estimated to live in Oklahoma. The Federation of American Immigration Reform has said they cost state taxpayers up to $200 million a year in public benefits, law enforcement costs and other resources. Most folks in the Sooner State are FED UP with supporting these illegal freeloaders, and have done something about it.

Rep. Randy Terrill took the initiative to bring it to a stop by authoring HB 1804, the nation’s most meaningful legislation to deny jobs and public benefits to the illegals.

The Oklahoma State Legislature passed it by overwhelming margins and Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry signed it, describing it as a stopgap measure to deal with an illegal immigration problem that is actually the responsibility of the federal government.

The “Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007″ contains tough language. Rep. Terrill will be with me tonight on my internet radio program at BlogTalkRadio to tell us what’s in the bill.

Join me tonight to meet Randy Terrill, an American Hero. Get there from here:

 Also posted at The Radio Patriot

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Reading this post about what other states and communities are doing to deal with the growing problem of illegals in our communities, I began wondering “What’s Florida planning?”

Oklahoma is taking illegal immigration seriously. Since the Feds will not enforce the current laws, citizens are taking matters into their own hands, forcing local and state officials to pass sweeping laws to deal with the problem. HB1804, known as the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007, is scheduled to take effect Nov. 1. It makes it a felony to knowingly transport, move, conceal, shelter or harbor an illegal immigrant. The measure passed 84-14 by the House and 41-6 by the Senate. The Governor is a Democrat and was unenthusiastic about signing the bill but had to because it passed in the legislature by a No Veto margin.

The new law will allow police to check on immigration status as well as handing employers stiff penalties for hiring illegal workers.

Citizens of Arizona have forced their officials to take action too. A new law just signed by Democrat Gov. Janet Napolitano makes it a state crime to hire illegal immigrants and requires all businesses to verify the employment eligibility of workers through a federal database. Beginning in January, if they are caught hiring illegals, they face having their business licenses suspended for up to ten days and a three- year probationary period during which they would be required to report new hires to prosecutors. Second time violators would have their business licenses revoked permanently.

Is Florida considering similar legislation?

In Hazleton, Pennsylvania, the mayor and city council have voted to enact ordinances that require every prospective renter to appear at city hall to provide proof of citizenship or the legal right to be in the United States, and penalize businesses that hire illegal immigrants and landlords that rent to them.

I think we’re getting a glimpse of what’s about to happen all over this Nation, not at the Federal level, but at the STATE level. The citizens are taking back their communities. (Something about the 10th Amendment???)

My question to you is this: What is YOUR State doing to prevent illegals from living and working in YOUR COMMUNITIES? Has YOUR legislature proposed any legislation to address this? Has YOUR governor?

I WROTE TO MY STATE SENATORS ASKING THEM. FEEL FREE TO USE THIS POST AS A TEMPLATE TO WRITE TO YOURS.

WHEN YOU FIND OUT, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I’ll be discussing it on my programs and interviewing legislators and city officials who are taking the initiative that our federal representatives aren’t. Join me on my radio program (Orlando WDBO - Sunday nights) and on my weeknight internet radio program where we’ll begin exploring what our local governments are doing about the illegal immigration problem.

Links to articles (for you and your elected representatives):

http://www.joplinglobe.com/statenews/local_story_129002552.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19466978/
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=6740115&nav=menu216_1
www.smalltowndefenders.com/public/node?page=2
http://www.smalltowndefenders.com/public/node?page=2

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“More and more I wish that I had the opportunity to do the things that only a president can do.”

So began Fred Thompson during an interview with Sean Hannity on H&C tonight.

I have to hand it to him — rather than stand on a stage with the other Ten Little Indians Who Would Be President, Thompson stepped out onto the set of possibly the highest rated conservative talk show on TV to be interviewed by one of the top three most popular conservative talk show hosts.

Brilliant.

I’ve got the vid clip for you to watch, but first some remarks that favorably impressed me:

On Iraq:

“I also listen to the parents of young people who are over there… and re-upped more than once… They’re full of optimism… hope. They think they’re doing something positive for their country and… the people of Iraq. And as long as they have hope and optimism, I have hope and optimism.”

Would he pre-empt Iran from acquiring nuclear capability:

“Yes… Yes.”

On Democrats:

“It baffles me that we’re facing the bankruptcy of the nation and a global threat that we’re not fully prepared to deal with and they’re talking about some of the things they’re talking about with the cliches that they’ve been using now for fifteen years.”

What he’d do during his first 100 days in office:

“I’d go to the American people first of all and explain to them the significance of this global war on terror and what we need to do… We need to come together the way our country’s done time and time again over the last 200 years and exercise a little common sense and get back to the basics that are in the Constitution.”

Here now, my fellow Americans, in his own words — the man who says he never desired the office of President of the United States.

Fred Thompson on Hannity & Colmes

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The behavior of the audience at the Miss Universe in Mexico City was was another example of how ungrateful many Mexicans can be. Representing the United States was Miss USA Rachel Smith. She’s a beauty contestant, nothing more. But to many of the 9,000 barbarians in the seats it was a chance to show the world just how cowardly and classless they are - not even the honor of so many of their poor farmers can be afforded those who make ingrates of themselves at public events. They screamed and booed a woman who had no ability to respond to their mewling. They’re just mad at us, Donald Trump says. Why? Our wallet isn’t open wide enough:

U.S.-Mexico relations worsened in the past year after the U.S. National Guard was sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to assist the U.S. Border Patrol and help build hundreds of miles of wall to keep out illegal migrants.

Mexicans are also upset over a U.S. Senate proposal for a sweeping immigration reform bill that would limit the consideration of family ties, capping visas for foreign parents of U.S. citizens at 40,000 a year. The plan would change a system that favored family ties for four decades. Many Mexicans also feel that the United States exerts its influence to tip the balance in its favor, whether in global politics or sports events.

There’s nothing I can write that will impress upon those in that crowd just how pathetic they are more than what they see through their own eyes as their sons and daughters flee from home to ‘find a life’ in America. Every Mexican I see here, legal or illegal, I know represents a brain drain on that insipid excuse for a country. Immigrants, legal and illegal, work hard, pray hard, and understand the difference between the groveling that passes for work in Mexico and the hope for a respectable life that exists here in America.

Every Mexican national ought to feel shame that America must build walls to stem the tide of your best and brightest running from Mexico into America - because you have failed to fashion a country worth living in. You heckle a beauty contestant when you should be hanging your heads in shame for your failures. What would your country look like if we turned off the spickots? Would you even be able to feed yourselves?

But American taxpayers and the American economy will continue to feed and clothe you. Our flooded emergency rooms will continue to close in bankruptcy and our schools continue to burst at the seams, and our hospitals will continue to midwife your anchor babies for free so that your can steal a little bit of the American dream. Your convicts will still prey on us while murderers and rapists find protection in Mexico against the American justice they deserve. Our politicians will still work to find ways to prop up your regime and grant amnesty to 12 million Mexicans because they know to let Mexico collapse upon itself; its withered legs wobbling under the engorged mass of charitable obesity and professional incompetence - would put an international disaster right on our doorstep. Either way we pay. But you can keep your candy laced with lead, and your murderous drug cartels, and the tunnels they dig to flood my country with drugs. You can keep your crooked cops and your NAFTA trucks belching through America. And don’t forget that damned Chupacabra. You can keep him, too.

And America will continue to politely ignore all your failures. We’ll give, you will take, and the sordid comedy will grind on until one day, when enough Americans have listened to you boo our national anthem or harass our women, they will come to recognize the pathetic creature holding the cardboard sign to our south deserves neither our money or our sympathy any more.

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This despicable immigration/amnesty disaster has us in an uproar. A sputtering, white hot, tearing our hair out, over the top fit to be tied conniption over the absolute arrogance of our US Senate. Can we all agree to vote out the incumbents? Arrrgh!!!

Where to begin? You could start here. But stay with me and read this post first. Here will still be here when you finish reading this.

Let’s start with Senator “I’ve-Never-Met-a-TV-Camera-That-I-Didn’t-Love” John McCain?

He reminds me of when I worked as a TV reporter covering the Maine state legislature.  Politicians would trip over themselves in their race to get to our camera, salivating to be featured on the six o’clock news. We’d flip the switch, lighting the darkened halls of the Augusta State House, and these boys would magically appear like moths drawn to a flame, elbowing each other to be first. “Pick me! Pick me!” We’d have to shoo them away.

McCain is one of those opportunistic moths — more fascinated with his reflection in a camera lens than the good of our country. My instincts aren’t wrong: to wit — McCain-Feingold, The Gang of 14, and now this piece of garbage McCain-Kennedy Amnesty bill.

That seals it for me. McCain’s bid to represent me as my president is DOA as far as I’m concerned. Stow the defibrillators.  Thank you for your military service, sir. Now go on back home to Arizona and take a nap.

I see I’m not alone in coming to this conclusion.

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Sen. Fred “Montecristo” Thompson is coming on strong in the blogosphere. Mister Law & Order is pretty doggoned smart about conducting his “non” campaign for the Oval Office. If you think he isn’t running, you’re politically naive. He’s in. With both size 13 wingtips firmly planted on the campaign trail. The hokey good ol’ boy is dumb like a fox.

The man-actor is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Can you spell u-b-i-q-u-i-t-o-u-s? Good. Now define it: “Fred Thompson”. Very good, class.

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The other Non Candidate — Newt “See you in September” Gingrich also has come out against this bill. Folks say he’s unelectable. Too much “political bah-gahj.” Heck, I’d vote for him, regardless of his trunkfull of crap. The man is more intelligent than most and has solid, sensible ideas. Doesn’t get flustered, no matter how obnoxious Alan Colmes gets. And he calls a spade a SPADE.

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Rudy Giuliani? Not a man for all seasons. Yeah, he’s got some strengths, but strengths carried to an extreme are weaknesses. He was balls to the wall in the days following 9-11, and we loved him for it. He talks a good game. But folks, can we do better than a man who’s been divorced twice, supports abortion, kept NYC a sanctuary for illegals, and is fully engaged in the movement to merge America with Mexico? Can we? I think so.

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Romney — the guy looks crisp, has all the right attributes — attractive and intelligent wife, tons o’ bucks, $4,000 suits, experience in government and private industry. Hmm… Yet somehow, I can’t shake the sense that that’s as far as it goes.

Leave alone the fact that he’s a — gasp! Mormon! (Oh come on…) To his credit, he’s come out strong against the Amnesty bill.

What’s important to me is this: WHAT would Mitt do if a nuclear attack took out one or more of our cities? I don’t think even he knows. How deep is this man? What’s beyond the perfect teeth, engaging smile, chiseled jawline?

We’ve got to have an Oval Office Occupant who knows exactly what he’ll do if push comes to shove. So far, though I’m looking at “The Candidate”, Romney’s not shown me he’s capable of being “The Terminator”.

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Tancredo? I like Tom. Met him and his wife at last November’s Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, grabbed a coupla snapshots with him, and chatted about the border situation. He’s an Average Joe whose heart is in the right place — passionate about sealing the borders and protecting us from terrorist threats. But presidential?

I’d peg him to head up the Department of Homeland Security. Perfect. He’d do a better job than Bush’s political chump Chertoff has done. Damn better.

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Others in the Republican stable bring various strengths — and weaknesses — to the mix. The second and third tier candidates probably don’t have a snowball’s chance of making it to the finish line, but are viable contenders for other posts, nevertheless. Example: Put Ron Paul in charge of protecting the Constitution. As a bulldog (Jack Terrier?) sentry, he could guard his post alongside The Document to make sure we’re all strictly adhering to the enumerated powers. Added benefit: He’d bite the ankles of anyone who’d dare do otherwise.

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Okay, that’s the “traditional” view of things. Now for the “off-the-beaten-track’ non-traditional perspective. Which is a bit of an inverted irony, because the “non-traditional” has now become the “traditional”, wouldn’t you agree?

Do you really think there’s a dime’s worth of difference between the republicans and democrats anymore? Can you point to either side and say “Yep! That’s my party! They represent my view of limited government, lower taxes, individual responsibility, national defense, etc. etc.”?

You can’t. Neither can I. And that hacks me off. Here I am, late to the party (a Massachusetts liberal child of the 60’s and 70’s — code for “free love, free pot, psychedelic head shops with feminine butterfly roach clips”) with a post 9/11 epiphany that stopped me dead in my tracks and turned me 180 degrees to the Right.

I found a home in the Constitution, in traditional values. And an appreciation, love and respect for today’s fighting men and women along with those who shed precious blood for their Sacred Honor to protect this great Republic.

Then “Whoomp!” The party I thought represented these ideas falls apart!!! Abandons everything I thought it stood for! Merges into an amorphous mass that is indistinguishable from the socially progressive Democrats who have bloated our government beyond recognition.

So now what? Now what???

Is it time to repudiate the Republicrats and find or form a Party that embodies everything we hold dear? That adheres to the Constitution? That embraces and embodies the traditional Judeo-Christian values upon which our Country was founded?

“A third party? Hah! Never happen!”, you harrumph.

Well, maybe.

Then again, maybe not. Maybe this piece o’ crap amnesty bill is the tea-tipping point where we toss the Tetley overboard and join our forefathers in deciding, “Enough is enough! Come what may, let the revolution begin!”

Come what may… The times are ripe for a revolution. A constitutional revolution to take back our country from those arrogant SOBs in Washington who tax us without representation.

A movement is afoot. Smart people are checking the powder houses. Do you see a lighted lantern in the steeple of the old North Church? Me too. Time to mount up.

You ready? Let’s roll.

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I warned against the thought crimes bill here. I even said  “I can just see CAIR scampering to get this passed.” They will wield this legislation like a club. Well it passed the House and CAIR is ecstatic. Here is the CAIR alert;

CAIR PRAISES HOUSE PASSAGE OF ANTI-HATE CRIMES BILL

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/3/2007) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today congratulated the US House of Representatives on its passage of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

To see how your U.S. representative voted, go here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll299.xml

CAIR has supported the act since 2005 and last week renewed its call for the community to urge elected officials to pass the measure.

SEE: Support the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007
http://capwiz.com/cair/home/

The Senate now must consider its version of the bill, known as S. 1105.

If passed, the law would allow the Attorney General to provide federal assistance to local law enforcement to aid investigations of crimes motivated by “…prejudice based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin…” of the victim.

The White House has indicated that it will most likely veto the measure if it reaches the President.

Thank G-d for Bush.

UPDATE: From the guys in the white hats;

“This legislation is harmful to all Americans because it perpetuates the very hatred and strife that it seeks to prevent,” noted the RSC letter.  “This legislation would federalize every state and local crime, so long as there exists the possibility that the crime was potentially motivated by hate - but only the specific ‘hate’ directed to the special groups included in this bill and other hate crime legislation across the country.”

“The Republican Study Committee respectfully urges you to veto any legislation which threatens to undermine our most cherished constitutional rights - the freedom of speech and religious expression and equal protection under the law - and asks you to issue a strongly worded veto threat against H.R. 1592 or any bill that contains the vestiges of this legislation.”

This morning, the White House responded to the letter by issuing a veto threat (attached) noting that the bill is “unnecessary and constitutionally questionable.”

“We are pleased that the President will side with the Constitution on behalf of ALL people - regardless of their class, status, or identity,” said RSC Chairman Jeb Hensarling.  “All of us, regardless of party or ideology, want to deter crimes against young women, old men, African Americas, homosexuals, pregnant women, veterans and everyone else.  What we don’t believe in is dehumanizing people by segregating them into different groups while ignoring them as individual human beings.  This bill is unconstitutional, undermines individual liberty and is well deserving of the President’s veto.”