Nobody is non-partisan. Everybody has an agenda. Sadly too many people will only look for the things that support their own arguments or they’ll drink whatever kool-ade people are serving for their own party of choice.

As for the policy/economic arguments – when 49% of the people get more from government than they give we’re awfully close to the tipping point – if not already over it considering the percentage of people that actually think before they vote.

Those who tug at the heartstrings of sympathetic Americans casting illegal immigrants as simply those seeking a better life or something similar ignore a simple fact. A sovereign nation and civil society cannot survive without th rule of law. Those who violate the law and are subsequently held to account for their illegal actions must suffer the consequences.

On the topic of illegal immigration and the rule of law to suggest that those who enter the United States illegally should be afforded amnesty for themselves, their children and their extended families renders the rule of law impotent. moving America toward the lawless society that will signal its demise.

You may view that as a melodramatic characterization of the facts but one thing is clear. A sovereign nation without the rule of law is not a sovereign nation at all. Faiilure to provide national defense, security and border control subjects this same sovereign nation to all the threats from those who intend to do it harm.

The Badgers blew it again. They lost two Rose Bowl’s in a row. Funny, they stopped airing Badger sports on local broadcast stations before these two Rose Bowl trips. I watched the others when they were available. They won. I didn’t watch the last two cuz they were not available on local stations. They lost. Hmmm. I wonder.