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Have you ever felt like you’ve duped or played for a fool? What about that old adage, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me? Well, conservatives have been played for fools, there is no other way to put it, by extreme environmentalists and anti-capitalist liberals determined to limit the population of the United States in order to save the planet.

The very real problem is conservatives have done such a good job of damning ALL liberal organizations that the “good” ones are thrown out with the scurrilous ones. And, there are some very good, honorable liberal organizations such as the ADL and the SPLC. Yes, they are liberal and have a liberal agenda, but they are honorable. As such, they deserve our respect. The more fascinating aspect of all of this is the “conservative” organizations doing the most damning of both the ADL and the SPLC are the ones who have been targeted by both organizations as extremists. If you are aren’t familiar with the workings of both, they both target the “bad guys” regardless of political leanings, taking out liberals as well as conservatives who truly give conservatives a bad name.

If a conservative organization, leader, politician, or lobbyist cannot stand up to liberal scrutiny, then something is wrong. I’m not talking ideological scrutiny, but an examination of associations and funding. I’ve yet to find anything about the SPLC that would eliminate it as a source other than the tawdry love life of Morris Dees. (and that doesn’t’ count). No matter how conservatives try to take either organization out, they can’t. The same does not hold true for anything sponsored by Soros or anything connected with William Greene, Richard Viguerie, or funded by Sun Myung Moon.

I keep a back-up archive of material dealing with various exposes at my 2nd site, The Subway Canaries. For this article I am not linking to any of the individuals mentioned. You can track them over at The Subway Canaries, which is now on the SPLC’s resource list. (FYI - At The Subway Canaries you will find an extensive ‘expose’ into the background of the SPLC).

Thursday in Part I of my Pink Flamingo expose of the anti-immigration roots, I discussed the history of the humanity within the GOP. The Republican Party has a glorious history of abolition, and the protection of the innocent, be it the life of the unborn or insuring the safety of the escaping slave through the underground railroad. Consequently, since the co-opting of the “conservative” agenda by John Tanton and his minions, this beautiful history of protecting those who need it most has been cast aside for a more “conservative” agenda of protecting our borders. Even the established and highly respected Front Page has dealt with John Tanton and the extreme liberal environmental roots of the anti-immigration industry.

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Here is a guest post by Pamela Lyn at Pam’s Coffee Conversation.

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Now that their State Dept. contract has been extended for another year Blackwater is trying to use a back door maneuver to resume its plans to build a base in the San Diego area, just three blocks from the Mexican border.

Well if you love those Blackwater guys as much as I do you might be interested in this Courage Campaign petition (which I just signed) asking Speaker Pelosi to support legislation effectively banning Blackwater from Iraq. We need to stop Blackwater before they use their mercenary profits from Iraq to set up a base of operations on the US Southern border.The Courage Campaign is reporting:

Blackwater is back in California.
Just a few months after the courageous people of Potrero kicked Blackwater out of their small town on the California border, Blackwater has announced plans to open a 61,600 square-foot “training facility” in San Diego just THREE blocks from Mexican border.

In other words, Blackwater is using your tax dollars on a mercenary war in Iraq — $320 million paid so far, over 60% in no-bid contracts — to subsidize building a base of operations inside California.

Blackwater’s border bait-and-switch has shocked the citizens of San Diego. Shortly before pulling their plans on Potrero, the private military contractor quietly used a shell company called “Southwest Law Enforcement” to gain city permits for a “vocational trade school” a stone’s throw from the Tijuana Airport. While Blackwater denies that this deception is a trojan horse to land border security contracts from the federal government before George W. Bush leaves office, the ominous writing is on California’s wall.

What will it take to stop Blackwater for good in California and Iraq? Local and national pressure. This time, the Courage Campaign plans to fight a two-front battle against Blackwater — on the border in San Diego and in the halls of Congress.
To block Blackwater in California for good, we need to put them out of business in Iraq forever. That’s why we’re supporting Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s “Stop Outsourcing Security Act” (H.R. 4102), which would phase out private security companies like Blackwater in Iraq and Afghanistan. An identical bill in the Senate (S. 2398) has been co-sponsored by Senator Hillary Clinton.

If we can convince Speaker Pelosi to stop Blackwater from privatizing national security with our tax dollars, it could be the beginning of the end for Blackwater in Iraq, in California and hopefully send a message that American citizens do not condone the use of paramilitary contractors at home or abroad.

Please join thousands of thoughtful Americans in asking Speaker Pelosi to take leadership by supporting the “Stop Outsourcing Security Act” as soon as possible.

Please add your voice?

http://www.couragecampaign.org/BanBlackwater

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This is a guest post by Anne-Marie of Backyard Beacon.  Thank you Anne-Marie

Troop pullout may deliver the Latino swing vote, writes La Opinión, the Spanish-language newspaper in Los Angeles. “Editors of La Opinión assert the independence of the Latino electorate, saying they weigh the candidates and their proposals instead of voting blindly for either party.”

“The war figures highly in Latino voters’ concerns, above immigration. Nearly half (49 percent) prefer an immediate pullout of troops. About the same number (48 percent) know someone personally affected by the Iraq war; in 26 percent of cases the person is a family member,” according to a poll conducted by Hispanic media group ImpreMedia and market research firm Avanze.

In the five states with the highest Latino populations (California, Illinois, New York, Florida, and Texas), thirty-four percent of registered Latino voters do not report a preference for either a Democratic or Republican candidate.

This is from a post by Kim Pearson at BlogHer.

Did you watch the CNN/Youtube Debate for the Republican candidates last week? More than 4,000 videotaped questions were submitted online; about three dozen made it to air. The result? Instead of a offering greater insights into the Republican candidates, CNN found itself dubbed the “Corrupt News Network” by LA Times columnist Tim Rutten.

What got Rutten’s back up? The columnist charged CNN with weighing the debate down with several questions on illegal immigration — an issue he says Americans don’t care that much about, according to recent polls. Candidates were also asked whether they believed every word in the Bible, and what the Confederate flag meant to them. At a time when surveys show that the Iraq War and the faltering US economy are primary concerns,

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This is from a post at the Blonde Sagacity.

Did anyone watch the CNN-YouTube Debate last night? I’m wondering how involved people are –or how fed up people are already…

Anyway, the snitty little exchange between Romney was quite amusing. Romney accused Giuliani of making NYC a sanctuary city and Giuliani turned it back around and claimed MA had 6 sanctuary cities and that the governor’s home was a “sanctuary mansion” that employed illegals. (That was a pretty good one…)

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*see video recap here

This is from a post at Anderson@Large.

I spent three years on “The Farm” but I’m a city girl to the bone. The closest I get to rural life is when I have a cow over illegal immigration.

Folks in Iowa are also fed-up with the influx of illegals. Questions about illegal immigration are sure to come up during the Heartland Presidential Forum, which is being organized by the Center for Community Change and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement.

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This is a post from Frustrated Incorporated. 

Now, there’s so much media conventional wisdom that’s wrong, and one of the things that was forever wrong during the amnesty bill debate was, from the Republican side, they said, “We have got to show these people that we care about them and they’re the backbone of America because we’ve gotta get these votes. We’re alienating these Hispanics and it’s not going to be good.“

That’s what the whole thing was about, anyway: the pursuit of votes by both parties. So the conventional wisdom almost always is wrong, and this story yesterday gave evidence of that, of how these people came out and said, “We’re voting Republican.“ They resent all the illegals and all of the efforts to make them legal without having to go through the process that the people who have gone through it have had to endure.

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Here is a post from theGarance.com

Does anyone else remember back when Eliot Spitzer could do no wrong and was being hailed as the most likely candidate for first Jewish president? It seems like a very long time ago.

CNN is reporting that Spitzer, who was in DC meeting with the New York delegation, will announce plans to withdraw his controversial driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants proposal today.

The RNC already sent out a press release, crowing: “Hillary Left Holding The Bag.”

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This is from a post by Taylor Marsh.

People just don’t seem to understand how important it is to give each candidate scrutiny. Deification is the order of the day. Clinton hasn’t won the nomination yet and frontrunner status shouldn’t inspire a one target questioning spree. Because it doesn’t help if we know every nuance of Clinton’s political philosophy, but we don’t get to know what the other candidates think about critical issues that matter. If Clinton wins we’re informed on our nominee. If she doesn’t win we won’t know what we’re getting.

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An “I told you so” from Anderson@Large.

It’s bad form to say “I told you so.” But New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, a self-styled “!@#$ steamroller,” asked for it.

For weeks, Spitzer insisted he would not reverse his decision to reward illegal aliens with a driver’s license that would be indistinguishable from the one given to citizens and legal residents. He vowed that “no amount of hysterical rhetoric will prevent us from doing what is right.”

Earlier this month, Spitzer proclaimed:

What deserves to be condemned are the hysterical allegations that have no basis in fact and are only intended to prey upon the public’s fears.

Well, in response to those “hysterical allegations,” Spitzer is now proposing three separate licenses. The third-tier basic license for illegals will be marked “not for U.S. government purposes.” It cannot be used to enter a federal building or board a plane.

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