Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring ~ U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849

California Conservative (Gary Gross) And Then What? — “Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, AKA the Dim-witted Duo, along with Congressional Democrats, are promising to capture bin Laden, a neat trick if they could pull it off.”

Red State (Leon H. Wolf) McCain-Kennedy: A Good Bill Or, In Which I Don My Asbestos Shorts — “I have come to a very simple conclusion: despite the demonization of this bill as a “soft on immigration” “amnesty proposal,” this bill is neither of those things. It’s not a perfect bill (no bill is), but it’s a surprisingly good one, and the Republican Senators who voted it out of Committee absolutely do not deserve to treatment they have received in some quarters of the conservative blogosphere.”

Or for a different perspective.

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) A Virtual Wall Brings Virtual Amnesty — “[T]he bare minimum necessary for such a program to succeed is border security successful enough that it forces those who want to enter the US to do so through either legal immigration or the guest worker program. And that is precisely where the Senate bill fails, and fails miserably.”

SoCalPundit (Kevin K.) Oh, The World Owes Me A Living… — “Judging by the riots going on in France in the last few days over a new law, making it easier for employers to dismiss young workers during the first two years of employment, French kids apparently think that they not only deserve a good job with good pay and lots of vacation time, but plenty of job security as well.”

Dr. Sanity (Pat Santy) DOGMA , DENIAL, AND DIBS ON THE KOOL-AID — “Just a few days ago I predicted that the left would be unable to deal with the information coming out in the recently released Iraq documents:”