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Washington firearm owners are facing the most serious threat to their Second Amendment rights since 1994. Eight bills are pending executive action and the Washington Senate Judiciary Committee could bring the bills up for a vote at any time. NRA members and firearm owners must contact their legislators and respectfully urge him/her to oppose all the bills listed below. To speak directly with your legislator please call the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-562-6000. To find your local legislator, please use the "Write Your Representatives" tool at www.nraila.org . HB 1473 ("CAP" bill) - Creates the crime of negligent storage of a...

The Immigration Problem January 31, 2005 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT John Fund on the trail, his piece at Opinionjournal.com today has a subheadline that says: "Limbaugh issues a warning to President Bush. -- On Friday, Rush Limbaugh, a staunch Bush supporter, took two separate opportunities to warn the president that he faced conservative opposition on some key issues that could hurt his chances of passing the rest of his agenda in the second term. First was federal spending which is surging out of control. The other was immigration which Mr. Limbaugh told his listeners could break up the Republican conservative coalition...

The Mexican-American War, Round 2By Don FederFrontPageMagazine.com | January 10, 2005 For decades now, our bad neighbor to the south has aided and abetted its impoverished citizens in their efforts to enter the United States illegally – a process that pays handsome dividends to Mexico, but results in massive trauma and social upheaval for the gringos.The latest attack on our sovereignty is a 32-page color comic book published by Mexico’s foreign ministry and designed as a self-help manual for illegal aliens.The publication (which should be titled "Juan and Miguel Join Mexico’s National Synchronized Swimming Team") contains helpful advice on crossing...

Sound PoliticsSound Commentary on Current Events in Seattle, Puget Sound and Washington State December 31, 2004 That Abysmal Media The Seattle P-I is misfiring on all cylinders today. They begin a calumny masquerading as an editorial by exposing fatal ignorance: Absolutely preposterous. Dino Rossi's call for a rerun of the governor's election has no basis, at least so far.And it just gets worse after that. They exhibit a fawning attitude towards the AG which highlights their ongoing dereliction of journalistic duty in researching the plethora of King County ballot irregularities.Gregoire's conduct throughout the difficult post-election period has been exemplary....

Border Security Can't Be Ignored By Bobby Eberle GOPUSA.com | December 3, 2004 Although the heated political debate from the presidential campaign is now over, the business of governance and protecting the homeland remains. One of the issues being addressed by the lame duck Congress is that of reforming the way national intelligence information is gathered, shared, and organized. Reforming the intelligence community is a vital element in waging an effective war on terror, and through this debate an equally important element has resurfaced. Legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives is now stalled, and this is partly due to...

How Liberal Christianity Promotes Open Borders and One-WorldismBy Lawrence AusterFrontPageMagazine.com | December 2, 2004 According to historian Arnold Toynbee, civilizations grow and survive by overcoming successive challenges, and break down when they fail to meet some new challenge. With regard to mass non-European immigration and its attendant problems of multiculturalism, Islamization, and globalism, America and other Western nations face a challenge unique in history: to save ourselves from open-borders chaos and cultural destruction without becoming, in our own eyes, "racist," "mean," "exclusivist," and "un‑Christian." This is a moral and intellectual dilemma that most contemporary Westerners—if we bother thinking about it...

WHY ISN'T THIS FRONT-PAGE NEWS? By Michelle Malkin   ·   November 30, 2004 04:22 AM Raid at mosque reveals use as car-bomb factory Excerpt: BAGHDAD - A mosque raided by security forces in southern Baghdad contained a workshop to rig suicide car bombs, with seven vehicles ready for terror attacks, an Iraqi Defense Ministry official said Sunday. Car bombings and remote-controlled roadside blasts have become routine in the Iraqi capital in recent weeks, including a blast Sunday that wounded two U.S. soldiers...National guard forces raided the Sunni Muslim Al Yassen Mosque in the southern Baghdad area of Abu Dshir on Saturday,...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico is holding out hope that Latin America will get more attention during President Bush's second term and obtain changes in what a senior Cabinet minister calls ``absurd'' U.S. immigration policies. (excerpted since required for CNN)

REPUBLICANS FOR OPEN BORDERS By Michelle Malkin   ·   October 22, 2004 07:44 AM ^&*$%#@$%^#! Sorry for the spleen-venting so early in the morning, but read this from the AP, headlined "Bush wants intelligence bill free of immigration provisions:" The White House yesterday asked Congress to reject an attempt in the House to place illegal-immigration measures in an intelligence reform bill. The Bush administration wants "an effective bill that both Houses can pass and the president can sign into law as soon as possible to meet the nation's security needs," national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and budget director Joshua Bolten said...

<p>On Jan. 27, the Copley News Service reported that shortly after President Bush announced his plans to amnesty millions of illegal aliens in the U.S., more than half of the Mexicans trying to sneak into the U.S. through San Ysidro told authorities they were doing so to position themselves for the amnesty.</p>

H-4410.1 _____________________________________________ HOUSE BILL 3029 _____________________________________________ State of Washington 58th Legislature 2004 Regular Session By Representatives Fromhold, Kenney, Moeller, Quall, Lovick, Sommers, Santos, Lantz, Conway and Upthegrove Read first time 01/26/2004. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. AN ACT Relating to use of Mexican consular photo identification cards for identification purposes; amending RCW 46.20.035; adding a new section to chapter 46.20 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 30.04 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 30.38 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 31.12 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 31.45 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 32.04...

<p>President Bush will use Tuesday's State of the Union address as a firm defense of his proposal to loosen immigration laws, issue a "passionate" plea to make his tax cuts permanent and soberly remind the country that we are still a nation at war.</p>

| Washington University School of Law Home Page | Publications Home Page | | Quarterly Home Page | Quarterly Issues | © 1997 by Washington University -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 75 Number 3 Fall 1997 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OF HOLOCAUSTS AND GUN CONTROL Cite as 75 Wash. U. L.Q. 1237 DANIEL D. POLSBY Don B. Kates, Jr.[*] This essay seeks to reclaim a serious argument from the lunatic fringe. We argue a connection exists between the restrictiveness of a country's civilian weapons policy and its liability to commit genocide[1] upon its own people. This notion has received a good deal of disdainful public attention...

Thanks for your phone calls, emails, and faxes over this past week against the Bush guestworker amnesty proposal. Your continued efforts are needed. Reports indicate that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) are planning to help pass legislation modeled after President Bush's proposal. Calls are coming into their offices both for and against the Bush proposal. But it's imperative that WE FLOOD their offices with calls AGAINST this outrageous proposal. Action Needed: Call Majority Leader Frist (202-224-2708), Speaker Hastert (202-225-2976), and the White House (202-456-1111) immediately to voice your strong opposition. Send free faxed...

HR 3534 IH 108th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3534 To enhance border enforcement, improve homeland security, remove incentives for illegal immigration, and establish a guest worker program. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 19, 2003 Mr. TANCREDO (for himself, Mr. DEAL of Georgia, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. HEFLEY, and Mr. HERGER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such...

FAIR's January Action Plan Greetings and Happy New Year! The Congress will reconvene on January 20, 2004. Therefore, we must take steps now to set the stage for a productive year for immigration reform. As you know virtually all the Presidential candidates have proposed some type of sweeping guestworker/amnesty program and President Bush is set to announce his own this week before heading to Monterrey, Mexico for talks next week with President Vicente Fox. As you will see below, however, action by the Congress on promising immigration reforms is very possible. Here's What You Can Do Now We urge you...

RICO Laws Becoming the Last Resort of American Workers Facing Onslaught of Illegal Aliens in the Work Place (January 6, 2004 – Washington, DC) A lawsuit being filed today in Rome, Georgia, against Mohawk Industries Inc., is an indictment of the federal government’s refusal to enforce laws against the employment of illegal aliens as much as it is of the company itself, says the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). With federal enforcement of employer sanctions laws – meant to protect American workers against unfair competition from illegal aliens – virtually nonexistent, American workers are being forced to seek relief...

<p>Up until last night, people had been very cooperative with this effort, and for that I was grateful. Last night, I think there must have been a full moon or something, but we'll get that straightened out.</p> <p>When thousands of Californians refused to go to work one day in mid-December, and thousands more kept their kids home from school, it was all because Governor Schwarzenegger had barely brushed the new third rail of American politics. While Social Security is conventionally the third rail (touch it and you die), nearly all politicians of all parties would endure the agony of remaining silent for an entire day rather than say a word about one increasingly high-voltage issue: illegal immigrants. Trouble is, like Arnold, they'll soon have no choice.</p>

Despite initial pledges to bring America's borders under control following 9/11, America's elected officials -- including conservative Republicans both inside and outside the Bush Administration -- have advanced programs to reward illegal immigration. Recently, the highest ranking officials charged with protecting Americans from terrorist attacks, including President Bush himself, have been dropping hints that deals are underway to legalize some 13 million "undocumented workers" living among us -- and possibly send Social Security checks south of the border. Speaking before a town hall meeting in Miami recently, Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge let slip a prospective plan to legalize 13...

Bush to Propose Broad Amnesty Tell Congress to Say No! We regret having to interrupt your holiday season with bad news on the immigration reform front, but the Washington Post reports this morning that President Bush and Karl Rove-in order to appeal to Hispanic voters-are poised to announce a sweeping amnesty plan during the second week of January. If you like amnesty, mass legal immigration, and the continued unprecedented decline in the American economic standard of living, you'll love President Bush's proposal. While the details of the plan remain unclear, President Bush is expected to propose an outline modeled after...