— which is shocking, because, as noble, hard-working immigrants yearning for freedom, they are indeed the best among us, and all they want is to pick watermelons and lettuce and wash dishes and raise their families in peace, unmolested by the nativists and xenophobes. But if whether or not they’re left alone to do so requires a bit of voter fraud along the way, well… the ends justify the means,

I post this here because I believe it important to make it clear to Republicans who are pushing it as our duty to back Mitt Romney, should they succeed in garnering him the nomination, that what they are asking us to do is give our one vote to a man who fundamentally disagrees with foundational tenets of free market capitalism, backing instead a kind of government-guided command and control, corporatist

oatmeal: “Sure, it’s probably a racist hate crime to note that, put a little white chef’s cap on his dome, and the President looks just like that officious Cream of Wheat bitch. “But that doesn’t make it any less true.”*

I know. What’s being reported is that the unemployment rate has fallen yet again (hell, not just a fall, but a “plummet”!) And subsequent reports will likely show unemployment continuing to edge down in the run-up to the 2012 election, creating a picture of an economy on the mend under the steady stewardship of a driven President refusing to be defeated by either the fiscal mess Bush bequeathed him, or

In his “The Case for Romney,” Jonah Goldberg suggests that, because Mitt Romney is not particularly ideological, he’d make for a controllable — and grateful — President: Many conservatives argue that Romney’s stiffness is a superficial objection, and that he’s a solid conservative who can appeal to moderates and independents. Other conservatives think Romney’s lack of fluency is a real problem, not because it proves he’s faking his conservatism but