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Illegals at military bases raise concerns

Scores of illegal aliens working as cooks, laborers, janitors, even foreign-language instructors have been seized at military bases around the country in the past year, raising concerns in some quarters about security and troop safety. The aliens did not work directly for the military but for private contractors, as part of a large-scale effort by the Pentagon to outsource many routine rear-echelon jobs and free up the troops to concentrate on waging war.

IF the bean counters had ANY security awareness at all, this could not be happening. If there was security awareness, the cost of checking security on these outsourced jobs would more than offset any hypothetical savings, to say nothing of the cost if just one of them turned out to be an Islamofascist operative with a plan.

Anothe case of "penny wise, pound foolish". Like the old comis strip character Pogo observed: "We have met the enemy, and he is us!"

This site has obliterated the line between serious blogging and complete frivolity lately, and there's a simple reason for it: my sanity. Recently I've found that I just can't keep up with all of the whole wide swirling world of...

I have held off on denouncing Harriet Miers and calling for her withdrawal, as so many conservative bloggers have been willing to do. The reason is simple. As Michael Ledeen says over at National Review, there is no award for...

I still can't get last night's NLCS game out of my mind. Albert Pujols inflicted more damage on the Houston baseball psyche than the law ought to allow. The sound of that stadium when that bomb he hit ricocheted off...

Joseph Bottum discussed good 'ol South Dakota, America, and the Fall of Memory: American Childhood and the American Memory. Excerpt: WHEN I LONG FOR ESCAPE, I dream of the prairie. The last time I was out west, visiting my childhood...

New results are in from the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Results are mixed. You can look at state results here, and then gain more details at the offical NAEP site here. First, let's look at South Dakota. That's...

Bottom 3rd: This has really been a fine series so far. Both clubs are well managed and play hard, and there's been good pitching but there's also been some quality offense. ONe thing that I can definitely say now is...

Recently I added a bunch of Errol Morris films to my Netflix queue, and have enjoyed what I've seen a great deal. He's one of those filmmakers that I've always heard a lot about, but for one reason or another...

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