Varifrank just can't help but point out the obvious--the UAE has managed terminals in the U.S. for nearly 20 years already.

So, let me get this straight - While the entire US political-wonk class is frothing out the mouth over the sale of "port dock concessions to the United Arab Emirates" in a fashion I havent seen since the great "Flouride Wars of the 1950's", it turns out that "Emirates Air" and its subsidiary "Emirates Sky Cargo" has Passenger and Cargo Terminal Space at JFK.

I expect Chuck Schumer etal to get silly on an issue like this, but I've been disappointed in various conservatives. The other morning I was listening to Laura Ingraham, who while complaining about being "demonized" for disagreeing, engaged not in discussion, but rather lame slight-on-hand rhetoric.

Hey, if she wants to do Sean Hannity schtick, that's her business, but that pretty much turned me off her show.

When KSL aired a story yesterday of a massive immigration raid at Swift and Company meat processing plants in Utah and five other states you would think the news station might have referred to some of their earlier stories on identity theft, such as this one.

Instead, what we received were mostly sympathetic images of people “who only want to work” being hauled off by immigration officials. There were several cuts of illegal immigrant advocates but none of Anthony Cereni who “couldn't even pay his taxes, because the IRS said they'd already been paid. That's how completely someone stole his identity”. Anthony’s identity was stolen by an illegal immigrant.

As someone who has had a bank account cleaned out because of identify theft, I’m somewhat cognizant of the troubles caused by people stealing social security numbers and other personnel information.

I’m not unsympathetic to the plight of those trying to come to America to seek a better life. Nor am I ignorant of the need for workers in a booming economy. But what makes this country work, in contrast to most countries supplying us with illegal immigrants, is the rule of law. Allowing massive ILLEGAL immigration takes us down the path of lawlessness that generated the economiic problems for illegal immigrants in their home countries.

UPDATE 12/14/06: Someone at KSL must have been feeling the heat from their one-sided broadcast. Tonight they had a segment relating the immigration raid to ID theft.

As a Catholic, I appreciate the wisdom in what the pope has had to say these last few days. But perhaps his perception of America has been too much influenced by the Catholic elite, who too often confuse socialist social justice for real justice. Perhaps upon reflection, the Vatican