I Stand With The Santa Barbara News-press.

There Is No Such Thing As A 'free' Government Benefit. Ask Small-business Owners Who Are Footing Skyrocketing Bills For Bottomless Jobless Benefits.

Instead Of Basic Roads And Bridges, Infrastructure Spending Will Go To Bloated Unions Overseeing Pie-in-the-sky Construction Projects Like The $30 Billion-plus High-speed Rail Line From Los Angeles To San Francisco, Which California Officials Fully Expect To Be Funded.

Those Of Us And So Many Other Stalwart Critics And Opponents And Questioners And Dissidents In Conservative Media Were Attacked For Doing What Those People In The Mainstream Media Should Have Been Doing. Do Your Job! Subject These Political Candidates To The Same Amount Of Scrutiny That You Are Now Trying To Compensate For With The Incoming Trump Administration!

It's Not Just That Miers Has Zero Judicial Experience. It's That She's So Transparently A Crony/"diversity" Pick While So Many Other Vastly More Qualified And Impressive Candidates Went To Waste. If This Is President Bush's Bright Idea To Buck Up His Sagging Popularity--among Conservatives As Well As The Nation At Large--one Wonders Whom He Would Have Picked In Rosier Times. Shudder.

It's Time For Ordinary Americans To Come Out Of The Shadows And Remind Washington Every Day In Words And Actions That We Are A Sovereign Nation, Not A Sanctuary Nation.