Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip. ~ Pope Leo XII

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Willisms (Ken McCracken) Border Security Solves All Problems

One of the great mistakes of the Bush administration was not securing our southern border in the wake of 9/11. The President has clung to the baffling belief that immigration reform must come in a comprehensive package, and faith in this concept has done irreparable harm. Comprehensive immigration reform was exactly the wrong thing to do, and securing the border first would have ironically left the President in a far stronger position to complete reform later on, because without border security none of his plans have any credibility.

Don Surber Has the 2008 race jumped the shark?

But if we’re going to insist on all these debates, couldn’t we do like “American Idol” or “Survivor” and at least vote one of them off the show every week?

Don also has the best headline I’ve seen in a while: Paris spent more time in jail than 12 million illegal aliens

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Final Cloture Motion? (Update: Failed!)

Maybe now, Congress will do something serious. Secure the border, in part by building the fence Congress authorized and funded last year. Fix the visa program so that people can be properly tracked, as Congress demanded be done by 2005. Bolster the Border Patrol so that they can get the job done. When Congress has done that and rebuilt some of the credibility that they have tossed away over the last 21 years, then let’s talk about normalization in a rational manner, and without adding entitlement programs like the DREAM Act.