ANTI-MILITARY: No number of threats to America will ever make some people put their new-fangled, small-minded obsessions to the side. According to Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT), the administration of Southern Methodist University's (SMU) law school could not resist criticizing the American military for its policy of excluding active homosexuals, saying in an e-mail about JAG recruiters on campus: "Because the faculty of the SMU Dedman School Of Law subscribes to the policies of the Association of American Law Schools and the American Bar Association, that together prohibit employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation, we offer access to this employer under protest," said the official e-mail. Federal law requires schools that receive federal funds to allow recruiters to make their pitch to students. Said YCT General Counsel Marc Levin in a statement October 25, "If cheese-eating surrender monkeys, Chomsky-worshipping leftists, and hate-America-first blowhards in America's Ivory Towers abhor our military, that is their business. No one is asking them to suit up and defend this country from terrorist thugs hell-bent on driving America from the face of the Earth. Rather, all we are asking is that these professors and educrats stop impeding the military from recruiting patriotic students willing to serve this country and put their lives on the line to defend these professors' right to spew their politically correct, post-modernist pabulum."
UNHEARD VICTIMS: Liberals love to find victims and talk about how much they care about them, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) did just that when she said that illegal alien workers at Wal-Mart stores were being "terrorized" by immigration law enforcement officials who were rounding them up. But didn't she victimize the law enforcement personnel by suggesting they were terrorists? "The fact that the highest-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House would equate enforcing our immigration laws with terrorism is both embarrassing and offensive," said Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.), chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. "Law enforcement officials are already fighting an uphill battle protecting our borders and enforcing our laws. They do not need political opportunists like Nancy Pelosi to use the issue as a way to pander for votes."
BLOOMBERG'S BLACKLIST: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R.), host of next year's Republican convention, released his blacklist of fellow Republicans whom he thinks New Yorkers should not give money to. Immigration hawks Tancredo and Rep. Charlie Norwood (R.-Ga.) were on it for daring to take a stand against out-of-control immigration policies. Said Norwood in response on October 24, "By prohibiting New York City government officials from enforcing immigration laws, Mayor Bloomberg has made it perfectly clear he's more interested in creating safe harbor for the 80,000 criminal aliens living within our borders than ensuring the safety of his own residents."
COMING TO AMERICA? As government minions of Big Brother continue their efforts to install traffic cameras for issuing tickets to drivers all over the United States, this piece of news from Britain-several years ahead of us in surveillance saturation-might give Americans pause. "Being caught by speed cameras could cost up to £1,500 [$2,550] in insurance premiums, a report has revealed," reported the London Evening Standard on October 27. "Penalty points on a license are seized upon by insurers, who are expected to make an extra £400 million [$680 million] from drivers who get caught this year alone. . . . Last week, a survey by the RAC Foundation and Autocar magazine found that one in six drivers now have speeding points, compared to one in ten five years ago."
MORE, PLEASE: Concerned Women for America (CWA) and other conservative groups have praised the Bush Administration for prosecuting a handful of distributors of particularly loathsome pornography, and they would like to see expanded efforts. President Bush declared October 26 to November 1 "Protection from Pornography Week." Said Jan LaRue, chief counsel for CWA, "If you really want to protect people from something, you go after the source and you prosecute all hard-core porn, not just the most deviant and violent forms."
