23 February 2013 –
Odds
‘n Ends
Politics
and Fame
Actress
and activist Ashley Judd is exploring the possibility of running in 2014 for
the Senate seat currently held Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,
(R-KY). Ms. Judd is a six or seven generation Kentuckian and is not
the only famous member of her family. Ashley’s mother, Naomi, and
her sister, Wynonna, The Judds, have been a country music singing duo for over
two decades with at least twenty hit singles to their credit. Ms.
Judd has been a pro-abortion activist for quite some time in the United
States. She also has traveled to many places in the world, including
several times here to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to work for women’s
rights to personal safety from sexual abuse. The latter effort is a
laudable one in this “rape capital of the world.” The former
activism certainly is not. I wish Ms. Judd all the success in
the world as she works to protect women and girls from the horrors of this
world. I only wish she would work to extend that protection to the
unborn girls in the United States. May the good Lord bless and keep
Ashley Judd, far away from the Senate.
Immigration
Reform
It
struck me this week that the current golden boy of the Republican Party,
Senator Marco Rubio, is espousing pretty much the same immigration “reform”
that the President is. Senator Rubio says that the ten or eleven
million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S. should have “probationary
legal status.” The President calls these lawbreakers “lawful
prospective immigrants.” Sheesh! If one person breaks the
law, it is a crime. When eleven million do it, I guess leaders of
all stripes want to call it movement toward citizenship?
So be
it. But, I wish at least one Republican or Democrat leader would
admit that we really messed up when we quit enforcing immigration laws and
allowed these eleven million illegal immigrants into our
country. I don’t hear it. If we don’t admit it,
then whatever our leaders say now panders to those who would replace national
laws and sovereignty with a global sovereignty of free movements of peoples for
their own motives. If you don’t believe that, I suggest that you
read the United Nations’ Declaration on Human Rights. We need to
admit that we failed to protect our sovereignty or else we simply can’t resolve
this problem. As well, I hate to say it, but the time indeed is long
past that we can clean up the current mess of wrong-headed thinking by kicking
out eleven million lawbreakers.
In
fact, resolving their status is not the top thing on our to-do
list. First, we need to assure America and warn the world that we
are serious about enforcing our laws and preventing all illegal immigrants from
entering the U.S. Then, we need to seal the borders. At
the same time, we must pursue with alacrity and then remove visa violators. Doing
these and other preventative and protective measures will allow us to seize the
initiative from those who do not have the best interests of the U.S. as their
primary motivation—illegal immigrants and their new-world advocates—and return
the initiative to our sovereign nation. Our safety and stability
require such rule of law. Then, when these remedies assure us
that future waves of illegal immigrants are stopped, we can much better
determine how the masses who did, indeed, break the law of our land can earn
amnesty. Tough love? I suppose. But, in the end, the
eleven million lawbreakers’ descendants are getting a pretty good deal out of
it. This grandson of a Polish immigrant did.
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