Free Republic

or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the free market May 1st, and the "No Gringo Day" boycott of America, has passed largely unnoticed -- except, of course, by the left-wing media. In a striking example of media-bias, the AP has published an article which is transparently sympathetic to the illegals: Immigrants Demonstrate Economic Clout. The very first line of this article? "Immigrants made their point Monday: A lot of work wouldn't get done without them." Wrong. False. No es la verdad. There is no job which cannot be performed by hard-working Americans -- for the right wage....

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a potential candidate for president in 2008, sat down with a few bloggers last week while he was in town for a National Governors Association meeting (Read here and here). He seems to have gotten a fair treatment from them, but nobody asked him why he has been a habitual tax-hiker while in office. Let’s run through the laundry list: * Huckabee signed a 3-cent gas tax increase in 1999 * He called for a state sales tax hike in 2002 * He signed a 25-cent cigarette tax in 2003 * He allowed a major tax...