Many people are like instant coffee: the minute they get in hot water they dissolve. ~ Unknown

OK. Let’s try this again. Another hour+ power outage here after an hour or two of searching for first cup items.

Wizbang (Jay Tea) Taking a shotgun to the illegal alien problem — “As far as I’m concerned, the root causes is an irrelevant issue. If someone is bleeding to death from a cut on their arm, how important is it to know if the injury was caused by a knife, a chain saw, an animal attack, or struck by a passing car? The most important thing is to stop the bleeding, THEN worry about the larger issues.”

Outside The Beltway (James Joyner) Castro: Zarqawi Raid a Barbarity — “This is rather amusing given Castro’s human rights record. While we obviously want to be better than him, this does not extend so far as to providing trials before killing enemies during wartime. Zarqawi was killed, not in retribution for his many attrocities, but because he was the leader of the most dangerous faction of the “insurgency” we are fighting.”

Blue Star Chronicles (Beth) Irey on Murtha: He Still Doesn’t Get It — “It seems that Murtha has a problem accepting the reliability of intellegence from Iraqi citizens that al-Zarqawi was killed in an air strike. But he’s willing to accept that kind of intellegence from ‘unnamed sources’ that our Marines are ‘cold blooded killers’.”

TMH’s Bacon Bits (The MaryHunter) DHS Now Accepting Fake IDs — “Get a load of this: (HT: Penelope) from today’s Washington Times we have this encouraging story of our Department of Homeland Security and it’s ultra-high-security system.”