This is a Surprise?

Really, sometimes all you can do, reading the news, is shake your head.

TX Man of the Year?

I'm thinking that the following is a very bad idea.

I'm not denying that immigrants have changed America profoundly. Those changes, however, are not always beneficial.

Iowa Shaped by Immigrants, Legal & Illegal

I'm interested in seeing whether the Iowans can keep the illegals from voting, as well as restrict the caucuses to citizens of the United States.

Jim Crow - Pakistan-style

I didn't know about the background of the some of the opposition to Musharraf. This was found at Sigmund, Carl and Alfred.

The current hatred of Gen. Musharraf has little to do with the nature of his government. His real "crime" is that he is a Muhajir, the son of one of millions of Indian Muslims who fled to Pakistan during partition in 1947. Although it was Muhajirs who agitated for the creation of Pakistan in the first place, many native Pakistanis view them with contempt and treat them as third-class citizens.

Ms. Bhutto herself, as prime minister in the summer of 1995, referred to Pakistan's Muhajirs as "rats" and said they had "bad blood." In an interview with India Today, a Muhajir spokesman responded that "we have bad blood; it was this blood that built this country."

Even for Western-educated Pakistanis like Ms. Bhutto (the scion of an elite Sindhi family), the sight of a common Muhajir like Gen. Musharraf as Pakistan's supreme power holder is intolerable. Pushing for his fall has little to do with "a return to democracy." It is far more a matter of restoring Pakistan's equivalent of Jim Crow.

I'm kind of annoyed about the adulation that was being shown to Bhutto before her assassination. The massive looting of Pakistan's assets during her term in power is being glossed over. Just because she was a woman, corruption of her and her people (including her husband) is being Whitewatered whitewashed.

Voter ID Challenge to Go to Supreme Court

I'm waiting to see how this turns out. I'm strongly in favor of IDs; I've posted about it in the past.

• Voter Fraud, and
  
  
• No ID, No Vote

Nah, That Can't Be Right!

Enforcement works! Who'd thunk it?

Biodefense Program Shut Down

I initially was surprised that I hadn't heard more about the problems at the Texas A & M lab, but, on reflection, decided that it's probably more important to spend news time on the Spears sisters .