With the tyrannical Arizona illegal immigration law enraging everyone from East coast liberals to hapless Mexicans, few stop to consider the underlying causes of the conflict between increased security and the conservative ideology of its propagators.

Point in fact, America has always been the country where immigrants could start a new life. Government, for the most part, has struggled and often failed to regulate incoming foreigners. And until recently, it didn’t really matter. Sure, it’d be nice to know everyone’s legal name, have their birth certificate, and make sure they weren’t carrying infectious diseases. But for the majority of American history, the United States government has had other priorities.

Recently, however, the ever-expanding problem of citizen entitlement has pushed border conflicts to new levels of partisan intensity. Conservatives paradoxically push for more regulation, more exclusivity, and more fences of bureaucracy for would-be immigrants to climb.

Perhaps they’re forced to. The Government has exponentially increased benefits available to citizens and stepped up enforcement to make sure that laborers are working in humane conditions. Naturally, this makes U.S. citizenship one of the best financial deals on Earth. With expanding health care rights, the deal is only getting better.

Of course, if a deal sounds …

Wabash Always Fights, and tonight is no exception. Tonight, three Republican Wabash men, running against strong candidates in three separate congressional districts, have had impressive showings. Todd Rokita, whose primary opponent Brandt Hershman was endorsed by the incumbent Congressman Steve Buyer, won an overwhelming victory tonight, taking 41% of the vote to Hershman’s 15%

The contrast is clear. Long before the polls showed Senator Bayh vulnerable and Dan Coats sensed the opportunity to return to Indiana to take his old seat back, long before John Hostettler decided to get back into politics, long before Todd Rokita or Mike Pence ever flirted with the idea of running for Senate, Marlin Stutzman was travelling the state, talking to Hoosiers, and spreading his message that politicians need to “change Washington, not America.”

Republican United States Senate candidate Richard Behney has been working on his stock answer to the question of illegal immigration.

First, in the Warsaw Senate debate, he implied, but stopped short of actually saying, that he would physically harm a metaphorical intruder “climbing through the back window” of his home instead of using the “front door.”

You know, there’s two facts about our country. One is, we are a nation of immigrants. That’s what makes us great. All different races, colors, cultures. We’re also a Republic of laws. And we live by the law. You know, if you come to my house, and the front light is on — the porch light’s on — you’re welcome. Come knock on the front door, open up, come on in. If I catch you climbing through the back window, in my house, I’m likely to, uh…we don’t need another YouTube moment but…you know, I don’t know what’s going on. You know, and while you’re in my house, I ask that you live by my house rules. And I would like that you speak English, thank you very much.

He then decided not …

This is being written on a manual typewriter. Even though everyone who reads this will see it on a computer screen, I assure you that as I compose these words I am using all the strength in my fingers to make metal typing levers fly up and whack an ink-covered ribbon with a loud clacking noise, moving the carriage forward another space and printing a letter on a physical piece of paper. Typing this way is indeed a challenge, but an intoxicating one—I imagine, rather like the challenge of drinking a fine wine for the first time. Anyway, I greatly look forward to improving my skill with this machine in the future.

As I use this portable printing press, the question of why must inevitably arise. In fact, a little thought (like Pope’s “little learning”) is enought to make it seem dangerously insane. Think of the computer technology that no one uses because it is obsolete. But when this technology was itself fresh out of the cradle, the manual typewriter I am using was already a dinosaur. In fact, it would have been rather ridiculous even back when the Web could only be used to communicate messages as simple …

People in the Crawfordsville area tuning into the Fox News Channel on cable this week will have noticed two new congressional campaign ads from familiar faces. Both Luke Messer (Wabash class of 1991) and Todd Rokita (class of 1992) have hit the airwaves over the past week, demonstrating that they are forces to be reckoned with in their respective primaries.

Rokita, running here in the fourth district to replace retiring Republican congressman Steve Buyer, is in an especially strong position. As the current Indiana Secretary of State, Rokita has name recognition that the other candidates (and there are many of them) lack. The latest poll taken from the district shows Rokita with a commanding lead — taking 40 percent of the vote, with his next closest challenger, State Senator Mike Young, pulling only 10 percent (and Buyer’s favored replacement, Brandt Hershman, thus far only receives 8 percent). The primary is not until May, and things could change quickly — Rokita, being the frontrunner, no doubt now has a huge target on his back, with thirteen challengers to shoot at it. But for the time being, the Rokita campaign must feel fairly …

Okay, in the past twenty-four hours, I have perhaps been too trigger happy when it comes to these blogs. But I refuse to apologize. I will, however, be brief.

I awoke this morning at 5:30. Why? Because I am the off-season equipment manager of Wabash’s football team. During the regular season, I’m the videographer. These two jobs may seem not so different, but they are. Both require steadfast dedication, patience and discipline. The necessity of each has helped me translate such values into a work ethic, but managing is not the only place I’ve received such lessons. You see, I am an Eagle Scout.

To say that I learned much from my time in Scouts would be an understatement. The training I received, the values I gained and the friendships I made will be with me for the rest of my life. Thanks to the dedication, patience and discipline of the Scouting parents who ran my troop, I have become a better person. The same can be said from my experience as a high school and college football manager.

Why am I telling you this, especially on a seemingly all-political organization’s website? I am telling you this because these are values I …

Check this link out. Will direct you the fiery speech given by Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOdvn2dtM0A

To those of you readers, members of the faithful or newcomers, I want to gauge your interest by a.) stating my complete dissatisfaction with the passage of universal healthcare and b.) give you a solid reason for why this is the case. My father is a cardiothoracic surgeon, medicalspeak for a heart doctor. This law will not only effect my father’s work, it will therefore effect me. Now, I hate being selfish, but this really hits close to home. To say that I am livid is an understatement, but I refuse to rant.

Let me just say that there is something positive coming out of this. Because of the fact that, according to the polls, 54% of Americans are against this, this will probably ensure the election of several Republicans into currently Democratic seats. This will give us back the majority, and set us on the right path. I do not pretend that I have forgotten what transgressions occurred by members of the GOP. But we cannot undo what has already been done… We can only work to make positive changes and decisions NOW.

That is all.

As I returned to my fraternity on Sunday night after a Wabash Conservative Union meeting, I pondered over what could happen in the next 60-90 minutes. Here’s what I came up with:

1. Democrats in the House could exert full political force and pass the Healthcare legislation without batting an eye, possibly by 35 or 40 votes.

2. Some Democrats and all Republicans would realize that Americans don’t want this bill and the vote would be close.

3. Bart Stupak wouldn’t buy the (false) notion that President Barack Obama would cut federal funding for abortion from the bill. He then, along with the pro-life bloc of Democrats in the House would do America a favor and vote “nay.”

Alas, my second thought came true. 219-212 in favor of Obamacare. With 6 minutes remaining in the vote a sense of false hope came over me when I realized only 8 more Democrats needed to vote “nay” if Republicans stayed the course. The GOP did their part. If only 4 more Democrats could have.

Monday was not a very pleasant day. The thought of worse health coverage at higher prices just didn’t see to make me feel better.

Today, Barack Obama signed this legislation into law. While the …