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The terrorism trial of Pfc. Naser Abdo (pictured) has concluded in Waco. For a while, he was the poster boy of the anti-war left, but lately not so much.

Mitt Romney was in Philadelphia, visiting an inner city charter school.  Plenty of protestors, including the mayor of Philadelphia, were outside the school.   Inside the school,  Romney made a rather amazing claim, stating that

Although the New York Times hasn't yet gotten around to covering the recent pogrom in Tel Aviv against black "illegal infiltrators" (here's video footage of the riot -- not all that violent as far as race riots go), Abraham H. Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, issued the following statement today:

I have been grumbling a lot recently about the Drudge Report’s lack of immigration coverage.

Many Americans became irate when they heard about the outrageous tax credits (cash, not deductions) that illegal aliens have used to rip off billions of dollars from this country.

On Tuesday, Senate budget hawks Jeff Sessions and David Vitters asked for unanimous consent to pass legislation that would close the loophole — an effort that was blocked by the Majority Leader, Harry Reid.

A colleague asks,

How do you deal with the argument that crime is falling nationwide?

And answers his own question, by sending along the following article.

For immigration-sanity patriots, this is a reminder about using the incessant donation-begging mailings that you probably receive from Republican and/or Democratic national committees to our possible advantage: Print copies of the faux zero-peso notes that you'll find appended to this blog entry—one featuring George Bush Jr. (as the late, much-missed Terry Anderson dubbed him), the other featuring Wonderboy—and send them in the postage-paid envelopes that usually accompany the begging letters.

Thus these shameless beggars wind up paying the first-class postage to get a well-deserved (figurative) stick in the eye from us.  If enough of us do this, perhaps the lowly envelope-openers will notice and pass the word to their post-patriotic plantation masters.

I've been doing this steadily since the peso notes first appeared on the scene some years ago, but in recent months I've let the return envelopes and the accompanying donation forms accumulate, so now I'm ready to inject a whole slug of them into the system, all at once:

- 2 to "Friends of John

There's a Mexican presidential election going on now, with voting scheduled for July 1st. There are three major candidates (Enrique Pena Nieto, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Josefina Vasquez Mota) and then there is the candidate Gabriel Quadri de la Torre, who, according to polling is way down in 4th place with low single digits.

Quadri is curently a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Texas.  Now supposing, in the remote possibility that Quadri is the winner, how would he juggle being president of Mexico with his academic work?