MILWAUKEE, WI: Peggy West is a member of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors and is calling for support of the Arizona boycott. She finds Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer out of line for her desire to seal the border and thinks boycotting Arizona in retaliation is appropriate payback. After all, according to Ms. West, Arizona doesn’t even share a border with Mexico.

Congratulations Peggy for showing us why the left is so hard to deal with. Could it be that others on the left are like you, woefully ignorant of facts but still more than willing to opine based on their feelings and political orientation?

BABE HUGGETT: One of the most astute and witty political and cultural journalists of our time, Mark Steyn, recently mocked President Obama as a “modern major generalist” in reference to Obama’s over-arching, bloodless speeches, pedantic dependence on failed political theory and tanking presidency. Steyn so enjoyed his pun that he used it again in a different article and who can blame him? It’s a brilliant observation but how many readers are even familiar with Gilbert & Sullivan’s song, I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General, in particular and it’s operetta in general, The Pirates of Penzance?

Now, I am not going to go into the history, Victorian politics or plot of the The Pirates of Penzance or the artistic tensions and musical rivalries between Gilbert & Sullivan here. That is for the curious to find out for themselves. So my apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan but what I am going to do is, in my own way, bring their satiric observation of Peter Principle leaders up-to-date: Read more…

WASHINGTON: Last Friday Arizona Senator Jon Kyl spoke about his private meeting with President Obama. During this meeting he learned why Obama refuses to secure the border of the United States. Obama told Kyl:

The problem is if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform. Barack Hussein Obama

So on one hand Obama concedes that securing the border would solve the illegal immigration issue, and on the other he reveals that he is more interested in gaining votes than national security. Comprehensive immigration reform means instant citizenship for 20 million illegals who will thank Obama by voting Democratic. This is a disgusting misuse of power, where politics comes before the interests of the American people.

The NIP is grateful for Senator Kyl’s candor. He should consider himself lucky that he isn’t getting the McChrystal treatment and being fired for exposing the President’s perfidy.

Judge Stephen C. Robinson

PORT CHESTER, NY: Port Chester has 30,000 residents and nearly half are Hispanics. The village is run by six elected trustees, none of whom have been Hispanic. The Federal court says that the dim-witted people in this village should have elected an Hispanic to the village trustees by now and since they haven’t, federal judge Stephen Robinson has torn up the traditional one man, one vote system that our country has used since its founding and directed that each citizen vote up to six times beginning as early as five days before the election day.

Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate. Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation…

Although the village of about 30,000 residents is nearly half Hispanic, no Latino had ever been elected to any of the six trustee seats, which until now were chosen in a conventional at-large election. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.

Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates. He rejected a government proposal to break the village into six districts, including one that took in heavily Hispanic areas. Jim Fitzgerald, AP

Some voters have given all their votes to one candidate in the hopes to help stack the deck, presumably much to the satisfaction of Judge Robinson. The election is now going on and final results aren’t in yet. This election scheme could be the one that finally puts Alfred E. Neuman into office.

What if the newly rigged system fails to elect a Hispanic? We here at the NIP certainly hope that Judge Robinson will throw out the election and just go up to Port Chester and pick the trustees he wants. That’s how they do it in Iran, Venezuela and other more modern countries.

What, Me Worry?

WASHINGTON: The Treasury Department stated that the US Debt reached $13 trillion for the first time in history on June 1st. Just six months ago the debt topped $12 trillion for the first time. The increase in just 6 months was 8%.

At this rate our debt will reach $14 trillion by the end of the year, increasing the national debt by 16% in one year. The US GDP was only $14 trillion in 2009, our debt soon will exceed the entire economy of this once great nation and the rate of increase is accelerating.

You or I could never dig ourselves out of this kind of debt, only the government can, and they will do it by inflating the currency. Back in November the NIP has warned about the dire consequences that await us if we pursue this course. This should give concern to every American. Our elected representatives need to be sent packing. Faced with our massive deficit, this Congress apparently subscribes to the Alfred E. Neuman school of philosophy, “What, Me Worry?” At the NIP we too are beginning to see Mr. Neuman as a viable candidate. His campaign slogan of 1956 still rings true today, “You could do worse… and you always have!”

NEW YORK CITY: What they don’t want you to see, thousands of New Yorkers rallying against the building of a $100 million mosque at Ground Zero. You don’t see this in the lame stream media, part two from LookingAtTheLeft.com.

WASHINGTON: Saturday found Obama once more pleading for additional “Emergency” money. When we at the NIP saw the headlines we thought good for him, he is pleading for money to help the embattled gulf coast. We almost didn’t pursue the story further. But no, this is not oil spill related, this is bailout money to prop up insolvent state and local governments:

President Obama urged reluctant lawmakers Saturday to quickly approve nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid “massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters” and to support the still-fragile economic recovery.

In a letter to congressional leaders, Obama defended last year’s huge economic stimulus package, saying it helped break the economy’s free fall, but argued that more spending is urgent and unavoidable. “We must take these emergency measures,” he wrote in an appeal aimed primarily at members of his own party. Lori Montgomery, Washington Post

So let’s get this straight: influence-peddling local politicians drive their local and state governments bankrupt by pushing social programs and wacky environmental projects. Faced with deficits they seek to pay for their social programs by cutting education and essential services. Then faced with this “crisis” they created by mismanagement they seek money from the Obama administration.

So financially conservative states now need to fund irresponsible states. Iowans and Texans need to send their money to help politicians prop up their administrations in California, Chicago and Detroit. This fits in well with the Progressive aim to enact social and economic justice. It’s way past time for taxpayers to quit putting up with this nonsense.