…you are on your own.

This is just a basic reality that the so-called “reality-based” community doesn’t want to accept.

Josef Stalin died sixty years ago.

But too many (any is too many) still mourn his passing.

As Andrew asks, what would be the reaction if people were so publicly lamenting the death of Hitler? The odious double standard, particularly on campus, remains.

[Late afternoon update]

How fitting, even poetic, that Hugo Chavez has assumed room temperature on this date. March 5th is now a double date to celebrate.

This.

Let them live here, let them work here, let them have drivers’ licenses, but if they want citizenship, they have to go to the back of the line. And that means no welfare either.

Of course, the Dems hate it, because it doesn’t give them all the new welfare-state oriented voters they want and need.

[Update a while later]

What this comes down to is two fundamentally different views: citizenship as a right, versus a privilege to be earned. Heinlein had it right.