Politcal correctness is now reaching the debate on illegal immigration. Florida legislator, Frederica Wilson, D-Miami whose district is home to thousands of Caribbean immigrants wants to ban the term “illegal alien” from the state’s official documents.

“I personally find the word ‘alien’ offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children,” said Sen. Wilson. “An alien to me is someone from out of space.”

In Miami-Dade County, Wilson said, “we don’t say ‘alien,’ we say ‘immigrant.’”

Ms. Wilson said she encountered the situation when trying to pass a bill allowing children of foreigners to get in-state tuition at colleges and universities.

“There are students in our schools whose parents are trying to become citizens and we shouldn’t label them,” she said. “They are immigrants, through no fault of their own, not aliens.”

“‘Illegal,’ I can live with, but I like ‘undocumented’ better,” Wilson said.

A key point, beyond the ridiculous political correctness bill, is students in our schools of non-citizen parents. Some of these “students” are illegal aliens/immigrants also.

Source: The News-Press

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It doesn’t matter in the Beltway, the Left will always utter their negative mantra and it doesn’t matter if the U.S. Military is in harms way or the State Department changes course.

Item 1:

U.S., North Korea to normalize ties – North Korea’s top nuclear negotiator was on his way to the United States for talks on issues that a State Department official said would include first steps toward the normalization of diplomatic relations.

Item 2:

U.S. to join Iran, Syria in talks about Iraq - The first meeting, at the ambassadorial level, will be held next month. Then, Secretary Condoleezza Rice will sit down with the foreign ministers from Syria and Iran at a second meeting in April in the Middle East region.

Item 3:

• “Better late than never,” said Leon Panetta, a former White House chief of staff from the Clinton administration.
• “The administration is right to reverse itself and engage Iran and Syria on Iraq,” said Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE).
• Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said the Bush administration’s decision to join talks with Iran and Syria “should have been made long ago.”

Of course Reid is taking credit for this new diplomacy, saying Democrats have insisted all along that the U.S. must be willing to talk with “all major nations in the region, including Iran and Syria, if we are ever to find the necessary political solution in Iraq.”

Item 4:

A liberal advocacy group insists Vice President Dick Cheney is “inching closer to war with Iraq.” MoveOn.org (Left-Wing Nut House), is urging supporters to help pay for a newspaper advertisement that reads, “If you like war in Iraq, you’ll love war in Iran.”

Like the newly minted Democrats in Congress who claim a mandate and “speak for the American people“, MoveOn.org say’s it’s important to let decision-makers in Washington know that the American people “won’t tolerate more reckless behavior” in the Persian Gulf region.

Nobody asked for my opinion on this matter. Did they contact any Conservative groups about this? The Liberals skip the part about Iran and Syria fomenting violence in the Middle East and threatening our allies and the United States.

Guns not Butter

“These countries are responsible for the maiming and deaths of hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq,” said Dr. Yaron Brooks, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute.

“For months Iran and Syria have been fomenting terrorist activity against American troops and Iraqi civilians, providing terrorists with training, weapons and explosive devices.”

“The United States should be bombing, not ‘meeting’ these terrorist regimes,” Brooks said. “By evading the evil of these regimes and pretending that they’re peace-seekers who share our goals, the United States would be encouraging and rewarding their aggression.”

Is Opportunity Knocking?

“The truth of the matter is that these countries (Iran and Syria) have now got the choice to make,” President Bush said. “If they want to sit down at the table with the United States, it’s easy: Just make some decisions that will lead to peace, not to conflict.”

Appeasing the enemy doesn’t work when they publicly announce the goal of destroying the United States. The U.N. has issued resolutions and sanctions, European countries have negotiated with Iran and the rhetoric has continued.

In the end, no matter what the Bush administration attempts in the Middle East, Democrats, and other Liberals will beat the drums of negativity, self-defeat and wish to appease terrorist regimes. When to they begin criticizing the enemy?

Despite opinions from the tree hugging left, environmentalists, Al Gore and John Edwards and the “blame Bush” for everything crowd President Bush may be “greener” than the folks in their energy inefficient mansions.

From TreeHugger.com we find that President Bush’s Crawford ranch is quite efficient and modest.

Is it possible that George Bush is a secret Green? Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling.

“By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small,” says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. “Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses.”

Furthermore for thermal mass the walls are clad in “discards of a local stone called Leuders limestone, which is quarried in the area. The 12-to-18-inch-thick stone has a mix of colors on the top and bottom, with a cream- colored center that most people want. “They cut the top and bottom of it off because nobody really wants it,” Heymann says. “So we bought all this throwaway stone. It’s fabulous. It’s got great color and it is relatively inexpensive.”

We don’t hear the President discussing the environment too much but he does work his ranch and he practices what the hypocrites preach. We can’t imagine Kerry, Edwards, Gore or the Clinton’s working up a sweat and getting dirty. This ilk on the left does enjoy slinging mud however.