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www.OurCRNC.orgIt's Convention time again!
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Blog Lagging, but...Once again, it is tremendously frustrating, with so many things going on, so many issues that I wish to blog about**, but being preoccupied with other responsibilities, necessities, or distractions and hindrances. The
big election (Illinois Consolidated Election Day, for key local races throughout this state), is now only three days away. Though I was planning on getting a certain candidate-support website built and up, a week before the Election (like I did last time, for [now-Alderman] Frank Lesko), interruptions, temptations, as well as very-legitimate duties delayed my progress on that, until late tonight (two pages still need to be completed):
www.CapitalTownship.comAs I don't seem to be making progress, insofar as blogging, and since the big day is so soon, I
have decided to give up.
No, I'm not going to close (or even formally suspend) this blog.
I'm going to go ahead and get
Christian Hartsock set up (as discussed before), something
that I was planning on doing, after publishing certain entries, but since there are other pressing matters, I am going to go ahead and ask him if he would like to [finally!] resume blogging here. Another reason I'm going ahead with this is that I saw that he now has his own
Wikipedia encyclopedia article!! (Who am I to delay someone that famous from writing here?! ;-)
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** Christian will hopefully still have the time to guest-blog. Regarding what I mentioned above, about my own blogging; as I've said several times, I have a lengthy backlog, and some of those entries are saved as drafts. But in very-recent times, here is what I wanted to post:
- Fisking the deceptive nonsense from the extremist Southern Poverty Law Center,
regarding the immigration reduction movement - which was recently picked up by the
New York Times blog.
- Fisking the deception nonsense from the extremist Southern Poverty Law Center, regarding traditionalist young conservatives (who I know personally), and who have been publicly maligned.
- I just found out that the SPLC has even gone so far,
as to add to their "Hate Group" labeling/libeling, our friends at the
Illinois Family Institute!!
- Thankfully, the SPLC may be embroiled in another scandal, regarding the Missouri fusion center documents. This will hopefully serve as a tipping point, for organizations to finally marginalize this phony "civil rights organization"... And I hope that groups like the ACLU will join with us, in this regard; especially considering the surveillance issues.
- The
article from The Hill lifted my hopes, as did the formation of
Progressives for Immigration Reform. We have discussed before how it has been those on the political left who have actually been at the forefront of the immigration reduction movement, even before many conservatives joined on. Just as change in foreign policy, and support for the anti-war position will not be possible without conservative and GOP support, I think that the only way we may be able to make major progress, in the immigration field, is to amplify, support, and work with those who disagree with us on other major issues, but who concur on this matter, due to labor, social justice, minority-rights, and environmental issues (many of those reasons and rationales we also share). We need to form a
left-right (and
libertarian!!)
coalition against illegal immigration, and in favor of a reduction in legal immigration as well, like we had a decade ago, with the esteemed Barbara Jordan (D-TX), and U.S. Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Harry Reid (D-NV) [and also President Clinton, though he failed on this, after using it to help get re-elected], along with groups like
the Wilderness Society and the AFL-CIO, and a
diverse array of other conservative, liberal, conservationist, environmentalists, and civil rights organizations.
In the meantime though, welcome back, Christian Hartsock, from the [once-]Golden State of "Cully-Fone-Ya"!!
posted by Aakash at 2:06 AM
