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Crying over spilled water.

Dictators’ sweetheart.

The Religion of Perpetual Outrage strikes again.

Phony-baloney ID requirements.

Actions have consequences. Plus: Lindsey Grah-amnesty’s latest hissy fit.

Pile-on.

There was a glimmer of hope on the shamnesty landscape today in the House. Stalwart immigration enforcement proponent Tom Tancredo won approval–by a significant margin–of his amendment banning DHS funds for renegade sanctuary cities. From Rep. Tancredo’s website: U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo’s (R-CO) amendment to cut funding from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Bill [...]

Boo-freaking-hoo.

Time to Move On, Trent.

Teddy’s new best friends.

Photoshop: David Lunde Military-smearing Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell released this statement about the shamnesty last night: Thursday, June 14, 2007 WASHINGTON, D.C.–Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement today: “We met this evening with several of the Senators involved in the immigration bill negotiations. Based on [...]

Are you paying attention? (Hat tip: Allah) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will approve a new deal on immigration on Thursday and move to bring the once-dead legislation back to the Senate floor next week, Democratic sources told FOX News. Details of the immigration compromise remain to be finalized, but top Democratic sources say Reid [...]

Yes, we still have a voice in Washington. Sen. Jim DeMint’s statement on the $4.4 billion Grand Ruse: “I appreciate the effort to fund border security, but there’s simply no reason why we should be forced to tie amnesty to it. If the administration was serious about fulfilling the border security promises, then this funding [...]

The jihadi’s guide to etiquette, MTV-style.

Honoring Old Glory.

WashTimes reports that President Bush will offer his amnesty “confidence-builder” in a speech this morning: President Bush will state in a speech this morning that he supports an amendment to the immigration reform bill that would immediately spend $4.4 billion on border security, in the White House’s latest effort to resurrect the bill that failed [...]

It’s what’s for breakfast this morning in Washington: On Tuesday, I mentioned the list of 15 GOP senators that the Shamnesty Grand Schemers want to flip to their side (asterisked senators are up for re-election in 2008): * Alexander (R-TN) Bennett (R-UT) * Cochran (R-MS) * Coleman (R-MN) * Collins (R-ME) * Cornyn (R-TX) * [...]

Bill Roggio rounds up news and analysis of the twin bombings of the al-Askaria mosque’s remaining minarets this morning in Samarra. John Burns at the NYTimes reports on efforts to avert sectarian reprisals: [A]fter Wednesday’s renewed attack on the shrine at Samarra, 75 miles north of Baghdad, appeals for calm by Shiite political and religious [...]

…sorry that he got caught! And now he’s got a brand-new song passing the buck and deflecting blame for his crude stage sex act with an underage girl in Trinidad. He blames the girl’s father, the Trinidad nightclub where he sandwiched the girl, and Verizon Wireless for pulling sponsorship of his concert tour with Gwen [...]

Eduardo “Piolin” Sotelo, a leader who organized the massive illegal alien marches in Los Angeles last year, is headed back to Washington to push for shamnesty. He’s due to arrive tomorrow with his open-borders caravan: A popular Spanish-language disc jockey began a cross-country trip Sunday to encourage Congress to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, planning [...]

Robert Spencer proposes some common-sense rules.

A left-wing spoof. Tom Elia gives it thumbs-up, calling it “an apt illustration of a lot of the hype surrounding Sen. Barack Obama.” Yesterday: Barack locks up the llama vote

Out of the shadows, via Judicial Watch: The favorable portrait of honest and hard-working illegal immigrants who simply want to feed their families was shattered when federal agents arrested dozens of undocumented workers using dead and elderly Americans’ Social Security numbers along with previously deported criminals at an Oregon food processing plant. More than 165 [...]

On Monday, I reported on how Congress gives special relief to convicted murderers, smugglers, and other alien law-breakers through private claims bills that sabotage deportation efforts. Today in my syndicated newspaper column, I report on another aspect of the deportation abyss–the endless appeals process and immigration litigation lottery played by deportable aliens and their open-borders [...]

Reader T.K. e-mails: Several months ago, when rumblings of a possible amnesty for illegal immigrants supported by President Bush and the GOP started to hit the blogosphere, I held back from sending in a check to renew my 2007 RNC membership, instead sending in a note that I would not financially support the party if [...]

You can say that again: “We . . . have lost credibility in Washington on the issue, and I think before the American people will really ever get behind an immigration policy, they’re going to have to feel that Washington is truly going to follow through on what it says,” said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). [...]

The latest from Sen. Obama’s campaign blog:

That wacky lawsuit involving a D.C. judge who took a dry cleaner to court over his lost pants has gone to trial: A Washington, D.C. law judge broke down in tears and had to take a break from his testimony because he became too emotional while questioning himself about his experience with a missing pair [...]

So, Bush had his meeting with Senate Republicans. He says “the status quo is unacceptable.” Yeah, tell me about it. So, now what? The backdoor wrangling continues. Congress Daily reports: …Senate Republican negotiators were close to agreeing on the number of amendments they want to bring up and could present that list to Reid as [...]

Just received word from Hachette Book Group that this book will be out tomorrow. Looks like a great Father’s Day gift: Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July, 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored [...]