Drips and Drabs

Arizona's immigration king Charles Pearce is back at it again. This time he wants to repeal the 14th amendment by depriving children born of immigrants on U.S. soil for their citizenship. If you follow where the idea comes from, it's part and parcel of the Christian Nationalist and White Supremacist movements' dogma. There are real Americans like me and then anyone legalized by the 14th Amendment--freed blacks and women and immigrants are second-class citizens. That is the core of their argument against Obama's elgibility for office. Now Arizona wants to purge the state of their Hispanic and native American heritage.



Rand Paul had a few hectic days after his primary win. He joins Louis Farrakhan and Prince Bandar as the only people who have failed to show on Face The Nation after booking an appearance. Rand Paul's response about repealing the Civil Rights Act for public accomodations not only produced considerable backlash from the media and Democrats but also led to the unsightly emergence of old conservative thoughts on the Civil Rights Act itself, including the very ugly writings of Bill Buckley,Jr. in the 1950s, writings which he later publically regretted. The more research into Rand Paul and his positions the worse it got. He appeared before the extreme right Constitution Party conference and the neo-Nazi Stormfront website endorsed him. A raw libertarian candidate dramatizes the deep weaknesses in libertarianism as an actual governing philosophy.



America's Sheriff Joe Arpaio doesn't look like he'll be riding the anti-immigration tide in Arizona much longer. Papers delivered to the court showed that the sheriff has a slight problem of manipulating $50 million of public funds in Maricopa County and the County Board would like to know more.



Linda McMahon showed that the Republicans are recruiting high caliber candidates. The World Wrestling Federation head beat Ann Coulter's favorite Rob Simmons for the Republican nomination for the Conneticut Senate seat. I hate to say it but Ann Coulter was right.



In Nevada, "Chicken Lady" Sue Lowden won a victory of sorts. Voters will not be able to cast their ballots wearing chicken outfits. I guess this constitutes compaigning.



Sarah Palin endorsed the daughter of a Punjab Sikh for the governorship of South Carolina. Nikki Haley was also supported by Jenny Sanford, the former wife of the Love Gov. But this morning things went the way they always do with South Carolina's Republicans--Nikki Haley had an "inappropriate physical relationship" with a fellow party member.



Charles Djou became the first Republican congressman from Hawaii in twenty years in a special election to replace Neil Abercrombie, who's running for governor. The Democrats split nearly 60% of the vote. Djou runs again in November. Lots of luck.



Charlie Crist still leads in the Florida Senate race with 30% over teabagger Marco Rubio's 27%.



Secessionist Rick Perry leads Democrat White by nine in the latest polls. However, as expected, White has insurmontable leads in the Hispanic community as a result of the Arizona law and the Republican support of it. The fly in the oinment may come as the Libertarians are to select their candidate, who may or may not endorse Perry. By and large, the poll is good news for White this far out from November.



Oklahoma over-rode the vetoes against their antediluvian abortion laws, again reinstating the ultrasound requirement of all pregnant women.



The Book you waited a Century For: This November the University of California will finally publish the Memoirs of Mark Twain. Sam Clemens spent the last decade of his life writing his memoirs but in his will demanded they not be published until 100 years after his death. To be published as a trilogy, they consist of 1/2 million words on his opinions about God, religion, missionaries, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Spanish-American War. He devotes over 400 pages in an addendum to his affair with his secretary Isabel Van Kleek Lyon, with whom he took up after the death of his wife Olivia in 1904. He writes that she bought him a electrical vibrating sex toy. And that's the nice part. He then says she hypnotized him and tried to take financial advantage of him. As a celebrity writer,it's fitting that he makes a comeback now.