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Here are some random political news items from the wire reports:
Don’t Mess With the U.S.
A 56 year-old California man has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison for selling critical parts for military jet fighters to China.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Dean Boyd said Amanullah Kahn was sentenced Monday evening by [...]

Earlier today, I posted a thread discussing President Bush’s plans to improve Border Security and begin the long-overdue process of Immigration Reform. The thread met with little interest, except for a small troll problem.
One possibility is that the abbreviated post quickly disappeared down the page, which is why I linked it. But I [...]

Florida
In this recent case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit affirmed a seaborne “coyote’s” conviction for attempting to smuggle illegal aliens into the country.
Texas
In this case, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an enhanced sentence given to an illegal alien who was prosecuted by the feds for reentry.
California
In this case, a [...]

Nancy Pelosi.

Read Michelle Malkin’s latest “Unhinged” themed column and pick an “Al”. I think I will make that my standard response the next time I hear anyone claim that conservatives are angry. (Yes, you have to read the column to “get” the “Al” thing.)

Apropos Jayson’s post on economic growth rates below, I created this little graph to illustrate the effects of President Bush’s “tax cuts for the wealthy” on the US economy.

In addition to dramatically growing the economy, the “tax cuts for the wealthy” have also resulted in anuual federal revenues increasing by hundreds of billions of dollars, [...]

The Commerce Department reported this morning the U.S. economy grew at a rate of 4.3 percent last quarter. That’s an upwards revision from their initial estimate of 3.8 percent growth.
Over the past four years, the economy has posted the following real (i.e., inflation-adjusted) growth rates:
4.3 – Q3 2005
3.3 – Q2 2005
3.8 – Q1 2005
3.3 [...]

Here’s a news item seasoned political observers will find to be nearly as *stunning* as low student test scores and high dropout rates in big cities controlled for decades by Democrats:
Many of America’s inner cities continue to hemorrhage jobs despite years of federal programs designed to improve their economies.
Nearly half of the country’s 82 largest [...]

President Bush: “These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders, not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.”

Meet “Jane.”

Ace of Spades summarized the liberal approach to terrorism much better (and certainly more concisely) than I could.

Well, someone on Team Obvious finally got through to Dubs, and convinced him to repackage his Immigration Reform plans. Good thing too. The original version took a basically good plan, and sent it out with all the enthusiasm of going to the prom with your mother. Not that the new version has [...]

Here are excerpts of various press releases that did not receive headline treatment from the likes of CNN, NPR, MSNBC or National Review:
Florida
Eleven convicted predators were among 65 illegal aliens deported . . . to Mexico by [ICE’s] Office of Detention and Removal.
U.S. Virgin Islands
[ICE] announced that 21 citizens of Haiti were arrested [in St. [...]

Legal eagles might get a kick out of this post.
Fair warning, however:
People who are not into legal stuff might become bored to tears.
{ahem}
I decided to surf the Web to see how some of President Bush’s more noteworthy judicial nominees were doing.
After all, what glory is there in helping to win the White House twice and [...]