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Monday, January 26, 2004 Report from Fox government finds number of annual border hoppers now at 1 million A report from a Mexican government agency released today says the number of Mexicans entering the U.S. illegally increased by 66 percent from 1990 to 2002. According to the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the study was conducted by the National Population Council, or Conapo. It found the number of illegals coming from Mexico each year now exceeds 1 million. The report says about one-third of those who enter illegally, 390,000 annually, achieve their goal of staying in the U.S. Deutsche Presse-Agentur...

Do we want an immigration agency that works, or not? A recent Cato Institute forum revealed the true attitude of many in the White House about immigration-law enforcement. The forum (watch the Real Video filehere) featured, among others, Margaret Spellings, assistant to the president for domestic policy, and point person for the president's immigration proposal. Everyone gave the speech he was expected to, but it was during the Q&A that things got interesting. One of the other panelists, my director of research, Steven Camarota, briefly mentioned the alternative to the president's amnesty plan: using consistent, across-the-board enforcement of the immigration...

<p>About 80,000 illegal criminal aliens, including convicted murderers, rapists, drug dealers and child molesters who served prison time and were released, are loose on the streets of America, hiding from federal immigration authorities.</p> <p>Despite the creation of a new agency to hunt down criminal aliens and the infusion of millions of dollars to get the job done, many state and local police agencies who make contact with the aliens either never learn of their immigration status or never advise the federal government of their release.</p>

Holland's 30-year experiment in trying to create a tolerant, multicultural society has failed and led to ethnic ghettos and sink schools, according to an official parliamentary report. Between 70 and 80 per cent of Dutch-born members of immigrant families import their spouse from their "home" country, mostly Turkey or Morocco, perpetuating a fast-growing Muslim subculture in large cities. The 2,500-page all-party report by the Dutch parliament was the establishment's tentative answer to the critique of Pim Fortuyn, the shaven-headed firebrand who warned that Holland's easy-going way of life was threatened by militant Islam and over-crowding. He was assassinated by an...

New details are emerging that suggest the energy giant Halliburton did not overcharge the Defense Department for fuel in Iraq — contrary to the claims of critics in Congress and in the field of Democratic presidential candidates. The Pentagon is investigating allegations that Halliburton overcharged it by $61 million for gasoline and other fuels delivered to Iraq. Halliburton delivered gasoline to Iraq from Kuwait at a price of $2.27 per gallon, while it delivered gas from Turkey for $1.18 per gallon. The obvious question raised by the discrepancy was: Why would Halliburton deliver high-priced fuel from Kuwait when it could...

Freeper Dr. James L. Hirsen, J.D., Ph.D., author of the recent New York Times Bestseller "Tales From the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood's Stars and Their Outrageous Politics," will be appearing today Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 5 PM PST on Radio Free Republic. Support Radio Free Republic, support Jim Hirsen and listen in!!!

Mel Gibson's forthcoming movie, "The Passion," will dramatize the death of Jesus, portraying certain Jews of his day as morally culpable. It is already being denounced as antisemitic. From the anti-defamation groups, you expect this — scaring us is how they raise money. But when a painstakingly careful scholar such as Paula Fredriksen promises that Jews will suffer real dangers as a result of this film's release, now that's serious. In an August 4 New Republic article, Fredriksen gives it not as speculation but as fact that when the film appears with translated subtitles in countries like Poland, Spain, France...

NEW YORK "The Jews didn’t kill Christ," my stepfather was fond of saying. "They just worried him to death." Nonetheless, there was palpable relief in my Jewish household when the Vatican officially absolved us of the crime in 1965. At the very least, that meant we could go back to fighting among ourselves. These days American Jews don’t have to fret too much about the charge of deicide — or didn’t, until Mel Gibson started directing a privately financed movie called "The Passion," about Jesus’ final 12 hours. Why worry now? The star himself has invited us to. Asked by...

Attacks on liberal film stars are hilariously wrong-headed. But that doesn't stop them. John Patterson on mudslinging in Tinseltown Every time I turn on my TV, it seems, I don't have to listen long before another empurpled, fulminating, rightwing blowhard starts pontificating about all the damage that "the liberal media" is doing to our airwaves, to our children's future, to our morals, to the institution of heterosexual marriage, to our once-proud schools, to our precious bodily fluids and to our national ability to achieve and sustain workable hard-ons. Now, I get 300 channels on my telly, and I clock between...

The new book by Freeper Jim Hirsen (member since 1998), "Tales From the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood's Stars and Their Outrageous Politics," published only a fortnight ago by Crown Forum (which also publishes Ann Coulter's new book, "Treason") has just made it to the New York Times Bestseller List!Many, many thanks to Freepers for their support! Jim couldn't have done it without his fellow Freepers!!!

Freeper Jim Hirsen's new book "Tales from the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood's Stars and their Outrageous Politics" published in association with Newsmax.com, is now No. 20 on Amazon.com's bestseller list! Nine more slots up and Jim will beat Hitlery!!!Freepers, put in your order now, and move Jim up the list!Listen to Jim today on Bob Grant!See and hear Jim tomorrow on the O'Reilly Factor!

Freeper Jim Hirsen's "Tales From the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood Stars and their Outrageous Politics," published by Crown/NewsMax, has gone from No. 22,000 in Amazon.com sales rank to 101 in just one day! Help Jim go over the top and make his book a best-seller!Hear him tonight 7/8 on the Al Rantel show on ABC; tomorrow 7/9 on Bob Grant; and Thursday 7/10 see and hear Jim Hirsen on the O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel!

<p>Can you believe that U2’s Bono has as much clout in Washington, D.C., as President Bush, or that when Sean Penn goes on a fact-finding tour to Iraq it becomes front-page news? It’s no secret that Hollywood has a leftward tilt when it comes to politics (Steve Martin said as much in his Oscar monologue). But what the celebrity-obsessed media fail to show is how Hollywood’s liberal bias affects not only the movies we see, but even government public policy. In TALES FROM THE LEFT COAST (Crown Forum; July 2003), James Hirsen shows exactly what kind of effect this liberal bias has.</p>

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's praise of Saddam's offer of "unconditional" inspections may prove to be one colossal blunder. He has, however unintentionally, managed to put the Bush administration in the catbird seat. It seems that the secretary-general couldn't wait to run to the microphone to tell the world of Saddam's extraordinary capitulation. But what Kofi actually succeeded in doing was to diminish even further his own declining credibility. Virtually no informed person would ever believe that a dictator who has turned his back on billions of dollars in oil revenues to avoid inspections, and who also has a long history...

Believe what you read about Ann Coulter and you could be forgiven for wanting to skip a lunch date with her. Surf the web and you can take your pick - she is anything from a "Right-wing telebimbo", "America's favourite blonde neo-fascist" or "Ku Klux Coulter" to the "whore of babble on". She is also the "Queen of the Maneaters", a female friend warns me. Coulter is not difficult to spot as she enters the chic La Goulue restaurant on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. She is rail-thin, wears a skirt so short that it would be better described as a...

A new era of intolerance has begun. The target is not one that typically elicits a huge amount of sympathy. And that's problematic because there's no sign that the current wave of insensitivity is going to ease up anytime soon. What we're talking about is the frequently low-profile, beleaguered business executive. Men and women in suits are getting dirty looks from people on the street. And accountants are lying about their profession, especially if they've ever worked for Arthur Andersen. I know what you're thinking. Executives who manipulate things for their own best interests, as opposed to their shareholders', or...

Ask Detective Carl McLaughlin if the police prey on black people, and this normally ebullient Brooklyn cop will respond icily: “I just prey on people that are preying on others. It shouldn’t be a race thing.” A cop’s denial that policing is racist is perhaps not noteworthy—except for one thing: Detective McLaughlin is himself black. As such, he represents an ignored constituency in contemporary policing controversies: black officers who loathe race-based cop-bashing as much as any Irish flatfoot. As the ACLU and other professional cop-haters flood the media with tales of endemic police racism, rank-and-file minority officers, who might be...

There are three instances when the U.S. Supreme Court needs to step in and overturn a lower court ruling: When a lower court misapplies constitutional principles; When a lower court misapplies a previous Supreme Court decision; When the lower court happens to be the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The 9th Circuit is the most-overturned appellate court in the nation. It is sure to maintain its dishonorable reputation thanks to the ruling that a teacher-led recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance and a 1954 Act, which added the words "under God" to its content, violate the Establishment Clause of the...

LOS ANGELES, June 24 (UPI) -- Several IQ researchers, accustomed to having their field of expertise ignored or denounced as racist and fraudulent, were bemused by Thursday's vote by six Supreme Court Justices to ban the execution of murderers, in effect, who score poorly on IQ tests. As staunch defenders of the much-maligned concept of the intelligence quotient, these scientists found vindication in the Supreme Court's embrace of intelligence testing, though they cautioned that the Justices' understanding of the complex subject was simplistic. The IQ experts were particularly amused that newspapers that routinely condemn IQ tests as biased and meaningless...

It seems that some terrorists have housed themselves within our cities, within our schools, within our churches, within our backyards. This has created a dilemma that our system has not really had to face before; that is, how do we handle domestic terror suspects? A recent appeals court filing by the Justice Department in the Yasser Esam Hamdi case argued that enemy combatants do not have the right to a lawyer. They can be held by the government indefinitely and civilian courts have no standing to intervene. A portion of the filing says the government can call a detainee an...