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Editorial January 6, 2009  RSS feed
State of our borders, 2008
      If you think the bad economy has "solved" America's immigration problems, welcome to your reality check. It's certainly true illegal crossings from the south are down and that many foreign workers are returning to their native lands as work dries up. But border chaos, haphazard enforcement, massive backlogs and deportation negligence remain the order of the day.
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Bush and the firing squad
All the malice and unforgiveness directed Bush's way grew from the Florida vote count, and from the persistent feeling among liberals and Gore partisans that 'We wuz robbed.'
      So in a matter of days it's bye-bye, Bush. Then it's bye-bye, gradually, to the cottage industry dedicated to ridiculing, castigating, smearing and trashing the 43rd president of the United States who couldn't have pleased this surly gang save by expiring in office (even if his expiry would have vaulted Dick Cheney to the White House).
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Pres. Bush's reading list
      Karl Rove's recent revelation of President George W. Bush's passion for books wasn't a surprise to me. In a Wall Street Journal column last week, Rove explained that for the last three years, he and the president have had a friendly rivalry to see who could finish more books during the year. Rove won each year — but the president was no piker.
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From the Bible
      "Now this I say, he who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully. ...And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed.
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