Free Republic

Hank Williams was born in Butler County, Alabama, on September 17, in 1923. 100 years ago today. He changed the way people could hear the real American voice. An astonishing contribution to world culture. Here are just a few of his best words: “I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin’ like myself.” “To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.” “Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and...

According to DavidHarrisJr.com, “two top enablers who are sponsored by George Soros have been arrested for helping illegal aliens commit the crime of crossing our borders against our laws. This has thrown a huge scare into other open border advocates, who consider it wrong for this country to enforce our laws. Pueblo Sin Fronteras leader Irieno Mujihca and Migrant Culture Collective’s Cristóbal Sánchez have been arrested for aiding and abetting illegal aliens invading the country. The open border advocates consider the United States to be immoral for trying to make sure immigrants enter the country legally.” Big League Politics reports:...

NBC is under increasing pressure to nix GOP presidential candidate Donald J. Trump’s scheduled appearance as host of “Saturday Night Live” early next month, as immigrant-rights groups attempt to flex their economic muscle in what they’re calling the “Dump Trump” petition drive. America’s Voice, a leading advocacy, and MoveOn.org, a liberal pressure group, have teamed up for the campaign, saying Friday that NBC is giving a platform to Mr. Trump’s immigration plans, which the groups described as “one of the worst humanitarian atrocities in modern history.” “It is appalling to see NBC and ‘Saturday Night Live’ give essentially free campaign...

Mark Krikorian and Frank Sharry talked about the prospects for immigration reform in the Republican-led 114th Congress, which would convene January 6, 2015, and the effect of President Obama’s executive action on the issue.

Advocates of immigration reform are calling on their House Republicans allies to adopt Tea Party tactics to force party leaders to bring legislation to the floor by the end of the year. A week after hailing a trio of Republicans for signing on to a comprehensive immigration bill, liberal advocates turned up the heat on two of them and vowed to campaign for their defeat if they didn’t do more to pressure Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). “Lovely as it is that three Republicans have put their names on H.R. 15, that’s not nearly enough,” said Tom Snyder, the immigration campaign...