Uncommon Common Sense

An interesting article appeared today on the Fox News website titled, "What's the Matter With Utah?" by Chad Pergram. (http://congress.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/05/10/whats-the-matter-with-utah/comment-page-3/?action=late-new&order) His column was written in response to this weekend's ousting of Sen. Bob Bennett at the GOP convention in Utah. The four-term senator didn't even make it to the state primary. Pergram's stance is not against Utah, as the title makes it sound, but it is a gross misunderstanding of what is going on at the local level. When are the pols and pundits going to figure it out? I have nothing personally against Bob Bennett. He's seems like a really good man. But he has been in Washington too long and has gone squishy like too many others. His Democrat friend inadvertently summed up the exact reasons he has been fired by Utah. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said, "The Congress cannot and will not function properly if legislators are no long...

Recently the state of Arizona did the unthinkable. The state legislature passed a law requiring law enforcement officers to enforce existing immigration laws. What?! What is this country coming to? Where is their common decency? Is there no JUSTICE in this cruel, cruel world? Surely Arizona has become the newest acolyte of Nazi principles and governance. OH MY GOSH!!!! If you listen to the mainstream media and all the liberal punditry, you just might believe that malarky. You wouldn't know it, if you live in the United States, but we actually do have laws against illegal immigration. Generally, neither Republicans nor Democrats have been willing to see them enforced. For a while, I wondered why. Particularly during the Bush administration, I was baffled by their refusal to toughen up on illegal immigration. I wonder no longer. The reason has become painfully obvious. As I have pointed out multiple times in this blog, politicians have become wholly self-serving. Their main and highe...