Can't forget S-G-L too. And whatever the Kaus-Limbaugh one was called. Was 'RINO intervention' supposed to be a regular one too?

I guess I'm not allowed to win this listener of the week thing twice, right?

No podcast this week?

Why not stay there & send them a fat bill each year for providing for their defense?

We maintain our security interests and make them pick up part of the tab.

This is 100% correct.

The "fiance visa" process prevents the newly arrived legal immigrant from re-entering the US (legally) for months at a time while INS processes paperwork. There are several gaps where a legal immigrant lacks sufficient documentation to cross the border/

I still like GoldPoLo

Thanks again for having me on.

Just started listening to the first couple minutes & maybe the NCAA hockey audience isn't as limited as you think. After I got off the line last night, I watched the rest of the Gophers-'Sue' game and opened a Bell's Hopslam.

Pretty much anyone Obama nominates to anything will be someone deeping troubling to most of us. Thus, Hagel, Kerry & whoever else. If I were the GOP, I would voice the obvious objections, but devote the majority of effort towards real cuts in the next round of fiscal negotiations.

Probably not surprisingly, Cato Institute people have been endorsing Hagel in various places including a rebuttal of the anti-Israel charges, for what that's worth.

I don't think having him at Defense would be the end of the world. All in all, having a nominal, off-the-reservation, outcast Republican in there is probably slightly better than having a Dem in there, right?

It is also basic economics - the supply & demand for units of labor.

Unless you believe in a scenario of zero immigration, legal & illegal, the optimal scenario is one with a balance tilted heavily towards highly skilled productive immigrants and away from the stereotypical illiterate, unskilled, uneducated ones, is it not?

I think we need a little more of this attitude than the one I quoted above.

This is idiotic. Do you say the same to fat people? People with bad clothes or haircuts?

These tattoo conversations, this one & the one about the San Fran QB a month or so back, remind me sadly once again that minding other people's business isn't an exclusive habit of the Democratic Party.

Fiscal cliff, I guess

For just the price of a large popcorn, Coke & pack of Milk Duds at your local movie theater...

Imminent membership price increase ought to kill that line dead, right?

How about: "...that's the price of a grande latte at Starbucks"