Thursday - July 15, 2010

Good Reads

Yeah, what they said. A short list of links to some new essays worth a look.

Ann Coulter can actually act like a lawyer on occasion. In her latest, New Black Panthers, You’re Free to Go—Not So Fast, Arizona she pulls up legal precedent that shows that the Holder/Obama suit against Arizona’s new illegal immigrant law is nothing but a nuisance / harassment suit.  If the glove of “pre-emption” don’t fit, you must acquit! Much ado about nothing, other than wasting more money and generating a media event to get the minorities riled up in hopes that they will stay that way and actually vote come November.

If Obama thinks there’s a conflict, I believe he’s made a damning admission. There’s a conflict only if the official policy of the federal government is to ignore its own immigration laws.

Only slightly less preposterous is the argument that although Arizona’s law agrees with federal law, Congress has engaged in “field pre-emption” by occupying the entire field of immigration, thus prohibiting even harmonious state laws.

But the point is: According to the Supreme Court’s most recent pre-emption ruling, Arizona’s law is not pre-empted because Congress did not expressly prohibit state regulation of illegal aliens.

In fact, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected the pre-emption argument against state laws on immigrants—including laws somewhat at odds with federal law, which the Arizona law is not. In the seminal case, De Canas v. Bica (1976), the court held 8-0 that a California law prohibiting employers from hiring illegal immigrants was not pre-empted by federal law.

So there’s no “field pre-emption” of state laws dealing with aliens, nor is there an explicit statement from Congress pre-empting state regulation of aliens. On top of that, the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld state laws on immigrants in the face of pre-emption challenges. Arizona’s law is no more pre-empted than the rest of them. Unless, of course, Obama is right and it’s a violation of federal law to enforce federal immigration laws, which is the essence of the Department of Justice’s lawsuit.

Newly appointed black person (read her columns) Michelle Malkin gives the NAACP a smack upside the head in The National Association for the Advancement of Coddled People . Slap yo ho Michelle!

In just a few short decades, the stalwart strivers for equality have turned into coddled whiners for hypersensitivity. The NAACP is a laughingstock. The group no longer represents the best interests of oppressed minorities, but the thin-skinned whims of the black elite and the ravenous appetite of the Nanny State.

To compensate for squandering the proud history of the civil rights organization on innocent greeting cards, NAACP leaders introduced a much-hyped resolution at their annual convention this week attacking the nation’s biggest racial bogeyman: the tea party movement. It’s a tried and true tactic of worn-out grievance-mongers: When you can’t find evil enough enemies to blame for your problems, manufacture them. (Just ask hate crimes huckster Al Sharpton.)

VDH points out the obvious to those not paying enough attention: Eric Holder is a racist hypocrite. No shit. Read Victor Davis Hanson’s Holder’s Hypocrisy for just a few of the more egregious examples.

On matters of race, the attorney general castigated Americans as “a nation of cowards” for not engaging in a national conversation on his own terms. This was an odd accusation since at present we have a black president, attorney general, EPA head and NASA chief, Hispanic secretaries of Labor and the Interior, and a recent Hispanic Supreme Court appointment, not to mention that the two previous secretaries of state were black.

The president himself accused police of stereotyping minorities and acting “stupidly” in arresting his friend, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Some conversation.

Can I get an eye roll and a head shake everybody? From the $600 ghettotastic sneakers to the slob outfits on Air Force One to the green polyester stretch pants with major panty lines and camel toe to the garden party happy dress for a post-humus Medal of Honor ceremony, I just don’t understand why the fashionistas like the two at GFY haven’t created a whole new category for Michelle Obama, FKOTUS (K for Klingon). What the hell, the only real duty of that implied office is the implied duty to look elegant at all times. Multiple layers of irony expressed via couture are just too much for us dumb plebes; we don’t see the delicious humor in her sartorial splendor. We only see that she seems to be flipping off the whole nation at every opportunity. Here she is in Florida, in a fashion disaster that seems to mock the fashioned disaster right off the beaches of Panama City, urging people to come and vacation in the few unpolluted spots left in the Gulf, just prior to her own family’s jetting off to Maine for their own vacation as far from it as possible, while wearing what looks like her own personal oil spill.  This is too nuanced for me, so I’ll link you over to Moonbattery. At least the theme of her talk there wasn’t her Let’s Move® rallying drive, which would be too ironic a message to the economically suffering folks living along the Gulf, but the name of her anti-obesity campaign. No, that bit was delivered to the NAACP convention, and I’ll give her double props for that, not just for looking good but for talking sense and trying to motivate her peeps. (and I love how this was covered at the blog I linked to. Maybe this shows how certain black people truly feel about the NAACP? I hope so. ( Note to me and you other out of touch crackers who take that link: “pop it” is an expression of support that’s used as a verb. Like “kudos”, “props” or “daps” I think; it indicates appreciation of a job well done, like the simple co-joined double declaratives “Represent.” “Respect”. Hey, it’s hard being white sometimes you know? Nobody sends us the updates to the elocution manual. )

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