http://rightweare.com Victory is Patriotic Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:38:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jennifer Youssef has an article in The Detriot News on efforts to help veterans enter or reenter the civilian labor market after years and sometimes decades of service in the Armed Forces. The degree of difficulty faced by veterans is the nature of the job market in their state, and ... http://rightweare.com/2007/02/13/helping-veterans-enter-the-civilian-job-market/ Well, that was disappointing. Disappointing and more serious than some of the surprisingly upbeat and even breezy commentary I've seen on may right-wing blogs. The Republican party took a beating, lost the House, will probably lose the Senate and lost six governorships. Geographically, the party is being squeezed into the South, ... http://rightweare.com/2006/11/07/election-day-2006/ Bob Laurence, TV critic at San Diego Union-Tribune reveals a certain lack of knowledge about Fox News: I'd like to offer a couple of possible reasons for the lack of attention given to the kidnapping of the two guys from Fox: One is that, sadly, they are far from the first to ... http://rightweare.com/2006/08/22/feeling-news-at-you/ Washington Post's probably most left-wing op-ed columnist Harold Meyerson doesn't like that the Republican controlled Congress is doing what it can to not increase the federal minimum wage. Here's what he has to say: So the solutions for national problems get kicked downstairs. To date 23 states have passed minimum-wage standards ... http://rightweare.com/2006/08/02/so-whats-his-problem/ There is a strong and perhaps unstoppable push for an increase in the federal minimum wage. Republicans have tried to stall it by tying it to an extension of the estate tax cut in the House of Representatives, but it could well be that Congress in the end finds itself ... http://rightweare.com/2006/08/01/republicans-should-not-hike-the-federal-minimum-wage/ One of the many preposterous assumptions of the Senate's Judiciary Committees illegal alien amnesty bill is that the Department of Homeland Security is somehow capable of performing meaningful background checks on millions of people. I don't believe it, nor does Mark Steyn: We're now expected to believe that this system will ... http://rightweare.com/2006/04/10/background-checking-11-million-illegal-aliens-good-luck/ There is much belly-aching that a wall along our border with Mexico would be a "Berlin Wall." Apart from the boneheaded analogy - the wall, or fence, would be more like Hadrian's Wall - 7 million of America's household live in gated communities, according to a U.S. Census survey refered ... http://rightweare.com/2006/04/07/whats-wrong-with-a-wall/ Michelle Malkin has an expansive post detailing the incompetence, ineptitude, and cronyism that plagues our Department of Homeland Security and other critical elements of border and immigration enforcement. http://rightweare.com/2006/04/07/our-house-of-self-inflicted-pain-dhs-ins-ice-et-al/ Hispanic pressure group La Raza (Spanish for "the race") fears "patriotism and traditional American values language in a way which is potentially dangerous to our communities" according to an email from the group. I guess one should appreciate that they did write the email in English Click here to read the message. http://rightweare.com/2006/04/02/la-raza-shows-its-colors-and-they-aint-red-white-and-blue/ Expected, yet sad. I guess this is what President George W. Bush calls "immigrants shaping our identity." Or as Kansas Senator Sam Brownback tells the New York Times: But when he wrestled with the issue, Mr. Brownback decided that he could not join the ranks of those who wanted simply to push out ... http://rightweare.com/2006/03/29/mexican-immigrants-express-their-gratitude/