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  • Policy on illegal aliens lacks political coherence

    02/23/2006 11:55:47 AM PST · by JZelle · 4 replies · 309+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 2-23-06 | TOM KNOTT
    Maryland lawmakers are forever trying to resolve the vexing issue of illegal aliens seeking driver's licenses, which would be almost funny if their moral flaccidity did not show how vulnerable we are to another terrorist strike. The obtuse thought process is hardly limited to Maryland's windbags. Nothing provokes doublespeak or total capitulation in a politician like the seemingly clear-cut issue of illegal aliens. They are here illegally, so send them back, right? That old-school thinking apparently has no place in these enlightened times of feeling pain and emoting on Oprah's couch. We are obligated to embrace the desperate plight of...
  • Snuff out do-gooders before cigarettes, please

    01/19/2006 4:34:38 PM PST · by qam1 · 139 replies · 1,537+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 1/12/06 | Tom Knott
    Here is a thumbs-down to the Smokefree D.C. do-gooders and the D.C. Council, which voted 11-1 in favor of a smoking ban that begins next year. I am thinking of starting a Do-Gooder-free D.C. because of the scientifically proven study that shows freedom-hating do-gooders cause high blood pressure in others. There is nothing like a smug, arrogant, condescending know-it-all to get the eyes rolling up in the back of your head. The city, unfortunately, is awash in this character type. These self-important nitwits seem to think they know what is best for the masses and then pat themselves on the...
  • Forgive and forget? Not this time, Mr. Barry

    01/05/2006 12:00:51 PM PST · by JZelle · 21 replies · 1,006+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 1-5-06 | TOM KNOTT
    Marion Barry is in a forgiving mood after being robbed at gunpoint by two men in his Southeast apartment Monday night, which is an abdication of his responsibilities as a public servant. Although one of the men cocked a handgun and pointed it at Mr. Barry's head, he professes to "love" both men and urges authorities not to prosecute them if they are apprehended. This should be taken as reassuring news to those constituents Mr. Barry represents in his Ward 8 neighborhood. If the two hoodlums think nothing of sticking a cocked gun to the head of the former mayor...
  • Will state hit brakes on illegals driver's licenses? (MD)

    11/17/2005 11:23:10 AM PST · by JZelle · 13 replies · 729+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 11-17-05 | TOM KNOTT
    The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration is not awarding driver's licenses to illegal aliens in a timely fashion, according to a government-funded advocacy group that has filed a lawsuit in Baltimore Circuit Court. This is as it should be in a state that has rolled out a welcome mat to the illegal aliens streaming across the Rio Grande. Maryland is one of the favored destinations of illegal aliens because the state aims to show its pronounced level of multiculturalism. All this is symptomatic of a nation that has lost its way, of politicians who lack the spine to enforce our laws,...
  • Say 'adios' to consistent logic, 'hola' to Kaine

    11/10/2005 11:57:08 AM PST · by JZelle · 3 replies · 611+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 11-10-05 | Tom Knott
    It is a time to celebrate for the tax-and-spend and illegal-alien supporters of Virginia after the gubernatorial election of Democrat Timothy M. Kaine. The self-styled Minutemen of Herndon videotaping the contractors who pick up the day laborers loitering next to the 7-Eleven hard by the Dulles Toll Road might as well shut down their operations and go home to bone up on their Spanish. Virginia has placed its welcome mat out to Latin America: Give us your tired, your poor, your $10-an-hour illegal aliens. We will provide them with day centers that come with television sets tuned to Spanish-language channels,...
  • Air Force coach guilty of speaking his mind

    10/28/2005 11:00:33 AM PDT · by JZelle · 16 replies · 607+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 110-28-05 | Tom Knott
    Air Force Academy coach Fisher DeBerry has apologized for voicing a need to recruit more black athletes to fill the speed positions of his football team. This is not too far removed from a basketball coach expressing a desire to acquire taller athletes in the frontcourt. Both prototypes on the sports wish list fall under the heading of, "Duh." Perhaps the objection to DeBerry emanates from the ideal to have a color-blind society, a hopelessly impossible goal because of the highly visual nature of humans. You might as well be pining for the day that Vogue magazine routinely splashes plus-size...
  • Illegals, Fairfax wants to aid your bladder woes

    09/15/2005 12:05:55 PM PDT · by JZelle · 49 replies · 986+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 9-15-05 | Tom Knott
    Memo to our amigos in Central America: The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has agreed to put out a $400,000 welcome mat to ease the illegal transition of your citizens in Herndon, Annandale and Culmore. In case you have not heard, some of your citizens illegally cross the border with bladder conditions and then have no choice but to relieve their discomfort after setting up shop on the grounds of private businesses. We crazy gringos never knew that our Central American friends were afflicted with so many bladder issues. But now we do, and in true American spirit, our duly...
  • Code Pink's 'truths' just cheap sloganeering

    09/01/2005 10:53:46 AM PDT · by JZelle · 12 replies · 498+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 9-01-05 | TOM KNOTT
    The members of Code Pink who descend on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center each Friday purport to know the truths governing the foreign policy of the Bush administration, although theirs are the kind of truths spun in the dark recesses of Oliver Stone's mind. They are a cartoonlike series of messages made out of the same old cloth, from the "lies" of the administration to the all-powerful influence of Halliburton. These charges are in the family of "No blood for oil," which, as we all know, never resulted in dollar-a-gallon gas. The latter was one of the theories going...
  • Traffic-camera craze won't eliminate all threats

    05/26/2005 11:16:51 AM PDT · by JZelle · 9 replies · 377+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 5-26-05 | Tom Knott
    The deployment of a traffic camera a day keeps the mortician away in the nation's Jersey barrier capital, or so goes the justification to expand the intrusive practice. We all have our privacy threshold, some more liberal than others, but the city is on pace to test the resolve of the most open-minded with its seeming addiction to snapping and fining. More cameras are coming our way, predictably enough, because it is the low-maintenance police work that keeps on filling city coffers.
  • Hypocrisy Cropps up on Council

    12/17/2004 4:44:05 AM PST · by 7thson · 15 replies · 589+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | December 17, 2004 | Tom Knott
    Linda W. Cropp, the newly fashioned woman of the people, is drawing kudos from certain corners of the city, which is understandable. That is not the work of a populist. That is just another politician motivated by self-interests.
  • Surprise! D.C. gets it wrong

    11/17/2004 11:41:59 AM PST · by JZelle · 7 replies · 647+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 11-17-04 | Tom Knott
    Fix the schools. That appeal has become the self-serving mantra of the anti-ballpark brigade in the city. The purpose is to disarm those who embrace the vision of a publicly funded ballpark along the Anacostia River waterfront in Southeast. It is an intellectually dishonest course, for the broken-down D.C. public school system remains impervious to