Mexifornia Five Years Later

Another great piece by Victor Davis Hanson

Mexifornia, Five Years Later
Victor Davis Hanson

The flood of illegal immigrants into California has made things worse than I foresaw.

In the Spring 2002 issue of City Journal, I wrote an essay about growing up in the central San Joaquin Valley and witnessing firsthand, especially over the last 20 years, the ill effects of illegal immigration (City Journal’s editors chose the title of the piece: “Do We Want Mexifornia?”). Controversy over my blunt assessment of the disaster of illegal immigration from Mexico led to an expanded memoir, Mexifornia, published the following year by Encounter Press.

Mexifornia came out during the ultimately successful campaign to recall California governor Gray Davis in autumn 2003. A popular public gripe was that the embattled governor had appeased both employers and the more radical Hispanic politicians of the California legislature on illegal immigration. And indeed Davis had signed legislation allowing driver’s licenses for illegal aliens that both houses of state government had passed. So it was no wonder that the book sometimes found its way into both the low and high forms of the political debate. On the Internet, a close facsimile of a California driver’s license circulated, with a picture of a Mexican bandit (the gifted actor Alfonso Bedoya of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), together with a demeaning height (5’4”), weight (“too much”), and sex (“mucho”) given. “Mexifornia” was emblazoned across the top where “California” usually is stamped on the license.

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Latest Democrat Loser

Suspect Arrested In Republican Party Scare

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- By Frank Curreri FOX5Vegas.comA man has been arrested in connection with an incident earlier this month, when someone pressed a rifle to the face of a Nevada Republican Party official and threatened to "take action" if President George W. Bush vetoed a particular piece of legislation.

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Whassup My Nappy Headed Hos!

I thought this was one hell of an article.

by J.J. Jackson
Whassup My Nappy Headed Hos!

Well, Don Imus has done it. The mumbling fool has once again proven, completely unwittingly of course, that there are just some things that you cannot say without drawing the ire of so-called leaders of a particular group (any group) unless you are a member of that group.

What’s that? Double standard? Oh no. You don’t understand. It’s not a double standard. It’s a carefully constructed redistribution of responsibility. This alleviates people decreed as special from being held to the same standards to which others are held. All this is done by establishing fluid and nebulous rules determined by the self proclaimed protectors of said group.

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People don't stop killers. People with guns do

By GLENN REYNOLDS
Wednesday, April 18th 2007, 4:00 AM

On Monday, as the news of the Virginia Tech shootings was unfolding, I went into my advanced constitutional law seminar to find one of my students upset. My student, Tara Wyllie, has a permit to carry a gun in Tennessee, but she isn't allowed to have a weapon on campus. That left her feeling unsafe. "Why couldn't we meet off campus today?" she asked.

Virginia Tech graduate student Bradford Wiles also has a permit to carry a gun, in Virginia. But on the day of the shootings, he would have been unarmed for the same reason: Like the University of Tennessee, where I teach, Virginia Tech bans guns on campus.

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Spirit of Self-Defense

As NRO's designated chickenhawk, let me be the one to ask: Where was the spirit of self-defense here? Setting aside the ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals, why didn't anyone rush the guy? It's not like this was Rambo, hosing the place down with automatic weapons. He had two handguns for goodness' sake—one of them reportedly a .22.

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Down the Memory Hole...

If you've been reading the papers and you have spotty knowledge of history, you might be forgiven for thinking that the shootings this week were the "worst mass murder in U.S. history." If you're a journalist with a lot on your plate, you may have forgotten the mass murder of September 11, 2001, which left over 3,000 dead. Then again, that was nearly six years ago & all.

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Defend Your Freedom

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My condolences to the students, faculty and parents of Virginia Tech. It is a tragedy that will not be forgotten.

The problem that I see though is the aftermath of this tragedy will lead to the media and the liberal lunatics all over the world decrying gun control.

Gun control is not the issue, unless you are advocating less.

If the students and faculty at the VT campus were allowed to carry a concealed weapon, which is the case in the rest of Virginia, the nut job that killed all these people, would likely have met his fate after the first incident, if not at that time.

The anti-gun lobby has it all wrong. If the idiot that did this knew that other students/faculty were possibly armed as well, this tragedy would have likely been avoided.

Shame on the media and the liberal lunatics for turning this into a anti-gun argument.

The Second Amendment is pretty clear on this.