Today the Wall Street Journal ran an article covering how wireless companies are finding a new customer base in the immigrant market. The WSJ takes a very soft hand towards illegal immigration, so the article never actually says the words “illegal immigrants”. But two sentences from the article lets you know that illegals are the true target market.

I make a big distinction between legal immigrants and illegals. As I’ve explained before I have no problem with legal immigration and think it is a good thing. But it is clear that these new marketing efforts are being made to illegal aliens. Legal immigrants have identification and usually have a fixed address. The major wireless companies are not the ones doing this, since they require customers to wait months before making international calls. Resellers of wireless services are the ones targeting people who have no identification (illegals).

I usually don’t say much about private companies that sell goods and services to illegals and most people focus attention on companies that hire illegals or give them public services. But private companies targeting illegals with goods and services is something that everyone should be aware of. Because although resellers are targeting illegals in their customer base (they never say it explicitly) the major carriers are ultimately running the services used. This means any effort to crack down on illegal immigration will have an impact on the bottom line of the entire wireless sector. That potential impact is going to eventually cause wireless providers to become more overt in supporting illegal immigration. Meaning, the more illegal immigration is allowed, the more private companies cater to them, the more private companies will become dependent on them and more companies will support illegal immigration.

Allowing illegal immigration has caused a self feeding cycle, where private companies will depend on illegals and tax payers will see their money going to services for illegals. Companies will show more support to candidates that are soft on illegal immigration. President Bush was Governor of Texas for 2 terms. He never put the National Guard on the border while he was Governor of Texas and many of the same issues being faced on the border now existed then. Only now we better realize the threat of terrorism coming over our borders, which makes matters worse. Imagine how much this wireless access helps terrorist and criminals make calls to support their illegal and deadly activity! The large influx of illegals has created a market for a service that is a criminal’s dream.

Companies will continue to want light enforcement of illegal immigration. Which is why the WSJ already reflects a soft hand when it comes to people violating our nation’s borders. (And overall the WSJ is better than many of the Liberal rags out there.) The longer illegal immigration is allowed, the harder it will be to stop it.

I don’t think anything more needs to be said other than job well done to all that fought to make this happen. We cannot allow another “Borking” of a good conservative. And because of plenty of hard work, all Liberal efforts were thwarted!

More from The Political Pit Bull.

La Shawn Barber has the roundup.

Just a little over 2 weeks ago I mentioned here that she was starting to show signs of recovering from a stroke. But I guess it was her time to go. She apparently died in her sleep, given her daughter Bernice King was unable to wake her this morning.

Needless to say, there is massive media coverage, as their should be for the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and of course she performed plenty of work herself. Living here in Atlanta we are hearing from plenty of people that knew her well.

One important thing that should be mentioned, is that while it is true there is disagreement in the King family about how to handle the affairs of the King Center, they love each other very much. It is a disagreement of opinion, but not a family feud.

Coretta Scott King (aka Mother King) was the main driving force behind Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday becoming a national holiday. Proving that she had the ability to influence the nation even after her husband’s passing.

Here are some of the media reports about her passing:

• Reuters: Rights leader Coretta Scott King dies
• Atlanta WXIA News: Coretta Scott King Dies at 78 (includes video)
• Flags Lowered in Mrs. King’s Honor (includes video)

What those reports don’t mention, is that she successfully raised 4 children as a single mother, while many parents have trouble raising one child today. I think that’s just a sad example of how times have changed. Despite any disagreements I may have had with some of her views she was a strong woman. I would see her from time to time at a church I used to attend. She was not an “Easter Sunday only” kind of Christian. She tried her best to do what she felt the Lord wanted her to do till her death. And everyone should respect her for that. Regardless of whether you agreed with her views or not.

Lastly I must mention, there are plenty of people saying things like “she’s seeing Martin now”. But to be theologically accurate, she like Martin awaits the last trumpet. Paul best described this in the following verses.

I pray she rest in peace with the Lord.

La Shawn Barber is doing a roundup of blog coverage.

While checking out blog The Universe and Other Things, I came across this link to a post in The Siegrist Blogs. It is a write-up from independent journalist Robert Young Pelton. He is the man who had the very first interview with American traitor John Walker Lindh. In it Mr. Pelton rips Lindh’s father (Frank) to pieces for trying to trash him and exposes John Walker Lindh as the true al Qaeda member that he is! Not a member of the Taliban.

Reading the piece my jaw was firmly connected with the floor. Because it was Robert Young Pelton who claimed years ago that John Walker Lindh was just a kid with no ill intentions towards America, that was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Here is what he was saying in March of 2002.

I always felt those words from Mr. Pelton were simply rooted in Liberal media bias, given the traitor was found on the battlefield with the enemy. And for years I’ve been defending my position on this while my detractors were able to hold up the words of Mr. Pelton as their proof that I was wrong.

Well now Mr. Pelton is coming clean, taking off the gloves and anyone who felt I was wrong has lost their foundational witness. He is now my own foundational witness, to the truth that John Walker Lindh is a traitor to America, an al Qaeda member and should have been treated like other enemy fighters. Not at all like an American with a trial on US soil.

When I read this latest write-up from Mr. Pelton, I simply had trouble believing that he actually wrote it given his previous position. So I found Mr. Pelton’s web site. And it just so happens that he has a message board there. Where he posted (using account ID “RYP”, his initials) Frank Lindh’s attempt to smear him and in a later post in the same thread he post his response, less than 2 hours later. It seems that Frank Lindh’s attempts to get his son clemency have also ticked off Mr. Pelton. So now he’s coming clean with the whole truth.

Here are the other relevant links of interest:

• Robert Young Pelton’s message board thread that includes his response with the truth about John Walker Lindh
• Transcript and video of Robert Young Pelton’s original interview with traitor John Walker Lindh
• Online chat with Robert Young Pelton about his latest book “The World’s Most Dangerous Places”

Given Mr. Pelton seems to want his new side of the story to be told, I’m also including a full copy of his response below.
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Democratic attempts to run a filibuster on the vote for Samuel Alito have been defeated. David Kopel reports that the filibuster attempt was busted by a vote of 72-25.

In other Alito related news, Liberal Republican Senator for Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee says he will vote against Alito, although he did not support a filibuster.

I hope Senator Chafee is defeated in his party’s next primary election.

update (1/30/2006 6:25PM ET): Expose the Left, the blog formerly known as The Political Teen has video of Senator Edward (I lost her in the lake) Kennedy having a COW over Samuel Alito. Senator Kennedy, nobody likes an angry drunk!