Bob McCarty Writes

If you’ve been tasked with lining up entertainment for end-of-year events, now is the time to get them booked.  One of the best is a Dallas-based tribute to Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash and The Tennessee Three known as Walkin’ the Line.
I was introduced to Bennie Wheels, the front man for the act, several years [...]

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Simultaneous studies released this week show soaring costs of illegal immigration in Florida and demonstrate strong voter objections to the burdens placed on them by illegal immigration.

A new Zogby International poll of 801 likely voters across the state found that, by an overwhelming margin, Floridians believe that illegal immigration is harming their state. Their perceptions [...]

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Why does Congress do so little to enact real immigration reform legislation? A new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform offers answers.

The report, Immigration Lobbying: A Window into the World of Special Interests (pdf), is the first and only study of lobbying on immigration policy and reveals a scope of influence previously unknown.  [...]

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National Council of La Raza misses the mark when it uses a prominently-placed graphic to encourage web site visitors to “take the hate out of the immigration debate.”  To be on target, the group needs to encourage everyone in this country to obey the law.

Today, NCLR, the Mexican-American Legal Defense Education Fund and other organizations [...]

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The subject of so-called “hate crimes” has been discussed in this space several times during the past 18 months, ranging from proposed federal hate crime legislation to observations that Thomas Jefferson hated “hate crime” legislation and that “love crimes” receive little attention from the FBI. When I learned the people at the Southern Poverty [...]

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