On the last 'Conscience of Kansas' Radio Program:

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Democrats act as if the right to run across the border when you're 8 1/2 months pregnant, give birth in a U.S. hospital and then immediately start collecting welfare was exactly what our forebears had in mind, a sacred constitutional right, as old as the 14th Amendment itself.

The louder liberals talk about some ancient constitutional right, the surer you should be that it was invented in the last few decades.

In fact, this alleged right derives only from a footnote slyly slipped into a Supreme Court opinion by Justice Brennan in 1982. You might say it snuck in when no one was looking, and now we have to let it stay.

The 14th Amendment was added after the Civil War in order to overrule the Supreme Court's Dred Scott  decision, which had held that black slaves were not citizens of the United States. The precise purpose of the amendment was to stop sleazy Southern states from denying citizenship rights to newly freed slaves -- many of whom had roots in this country longer than a lot of white people.

The amendment guaranteed that freed slaves would have all the privileges of citizenship by providing: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

The drafters of the 14th amendment had no intention of conferring citizenship on the children of aliens who happened to be born in the U.S. (For my younger readers, back in those days, people cleaned their own houses and raised their own kids.) [continue]

A former neighbor once had an illegal immigrant tenant from South America. The tenant worked hard and had the money to pay his rent. He deliberately withheld payment in protest after the landlord asked for a small increase

My neighbor gave the tenant several chances until he had to evict. In broken English, the tenant called my neighbor a racist, and insisted, “American doesn’t like brown people.” In disgust, he announced, “I will go back to my country.”

In other words, America sucks, the immigrant’s home country is superior.

The anecdote symbolizes the problems with immigrants who pass through the revolving American door every year. Many take for granted the opportunities this country offers. Most do not understand the importance of the Constitution, nor do they care. Some flatly refuse to speak English, have no investment in the future of this country, and maintain allegiance to their country of origin.

Some immigrants promote anti-Americanism, even though most benefit financially or socially from being here. For example, the Hispanic paramilitary group, Brown Berets, surfaced at a recent pro-Arizona rally. These counter protesters screamed, “Go back to Europe. You are white. This is Mexican land. We will take it back.”

How inane. Instead of spewing anti-American hatred with bullhorns, they should learn history. Hispanics are descendants of Europeans. Some 75% of Mexicans have European heritage

My maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Italy. He died before I was born. I learned about him from my mother. He came here with nothing except the search for freedom from a fascist government. He kissed the ground when he arrived.

He left his old world behind and embraced the new one that lay at his feet. He lived free, worked as a roofer, drank his wine, and raised his family in Westchester.

He did not wave the Italian flag at baseball games when Joe DiMaggio went to bat. He did not think America should become a Tower of Babel. My mother learned Italian from him, but was forbidden to speak it even at home. He wanted his daughter to speak English and have a better life. That better life was achieved by assimilation.

In some circles, the word “assimilate” is deemed to be racist. How dare we -- a nation more welcoming to illegal immigrants than any other, giving away free health care and other social supports -- expect immigrants to respect our laws, language and culture? (continue)

Hey mama grizzlies, it appears as if the White House wants more time with your cubs. Yep, I guess Barack and his socialistic cabal have had a rough go at “fundamentally transforming our nation” in dealing with the increasingly-jaundiced thinking adults who’ve lost the Obama buzz, still dig America, love God and our Constitution, and ask questions (and crap like that). So, like good brainwashers who cannot bamboozle adults, they go in for our babies.

Yep, for the sake of socialism and with an eye to “changing our traditions, our history,” as Michelle Obama said, BHO’s boy Arne Duncan is tabling a plan for parents to give “them” more time with our tots. That means “alone time,” as in big chunks of alone time with the teachers whom “they” have fed a steady diet of “America sucks and socialism is yummy” sauce.

It’s the same stack of teachers the NEA has greatly encouraged to read Saul Alinsky’s commie rag, Rules for Radicals. And you won’t have to worry about them being physically harmed while they’re away from your gaze, Mr. and Mrs. Grizz, because radical gay activist Kevin “Fistgate” Jennings will make sure your kids are okay. Especially your teenage boys.

This past week, Secretary of (Re)Education Arne Duncan said at the National Press Club that he’d like to have schools open 12 to 14 hours a day and 11 to 12 months out of the year. Dr. Evil couched his desires for huge chunks of time spent with your children in the most flowery of language, musing aloud that he wanted to have your children for an extended period to help them “compete internationally.”

Really, Arne? Correct me if I’m wrong, but we used to compete internationally … as in run the flippin’ planet … didn’t we? That is until dipsticks like you and your progressive posse decided to toss God, the Constitution, common sense, a clear delineation between right and wrong, and discipline out of school and replace it with Muslim sensitivity training classes, books about Penguins sodomizing each other, and social justice as you passed out condoms to first graders and provided secret abortions for 13-year-old girls. It’s funny that America never had a problem excelling until secular progressives, with their Marxist bent, became the pace car for the public school system. (continue)