Sounds like someone who believes in protecting the people of this country and enforceing the law.If that is a fanatic then I am one too.

Tancredo / Hunter  or Hunter / Tancredo.  I really wish one of these men would drop out of the race and become the others stated "VP" canidate. That alone would be worth some free media coverage.

You properly put "correspondent" in parentheses. David Shuster IS the Hardball propagandist. His daily reports are usually highly slanted to serve as set-up pieces for Chris Matthews' version of  speculative reality.

I surmise that Shuster's goal is to replace Tucker Carlson as host , and then vie with Olbermann for the most deranged MSNBC host.

I wish there WAS a border control fanatic in politics.  Unfortunately, nobody is fanatical enough.  Illegals still are crossing the border, bringing drugs, pregnant wives, lowering our standard of living, taking our tax-dollars, etc. (sigh)

And for the life of me, I don't know where I copied this from some time back, and I apologize to the source - but it's too good not to share.  (;~>

What happened to this Harry Reid? And.. the MSM is not going to revisit this.

In an Aug. 5, 1993 news release, Sen., Harry Reid's D., NEV (now Dem. Senate minority leader) office said he introduced the bill '[i]n response to increased terrorism and abuse of social programs by aliens." His "Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993," he said, "overhauls the nation's immigration laws and calls for a massive scale-down of immigrants allowed into the country from approximately 800,000 to 300,000."

"Our borders have overflowed with illegal immigrants placing tremendous burdens on our criminal justice system, schools and social programs," Reid said in 1993. "The Immigration and Naturalization Service needs the ability to step up enforcement."

Reid said during Senate debate at that time: "If making it easy to be an illegal alien is not enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that, right? Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee full access to all public and social services this society provides."

Reid, in his 1993 press statement, was quoted saying, "Safeguards like welfare and free medical care are in place to boost Americans in need of short-term assistance. These programs were not meant to entice freeloaders and scam artists from around the world."

Even worse, he said, "Americans have seen heinous crimes committed by individuals who are here illegally."

Reid said, at the time, the U.S. open-door policy was being "abused at the expense of honest, working citizens." "We are a country founded upon fairness and justice," Reid said. "An individual in real threat of torture or long-term incarceration because of his or her political beliefs can still seek asylum. But this bill closes the door to those who want to abuse America's inherent generosity and legal system."

Reid also emphasized, "Recent terrorist acts, including the World Trade Center bombing, have underscored the need to keep violent criminals out of the country."

Please note. That WTC bombing was in 1993 - and it shocked Harry Reid to his senses. 

It's a crying shame to see so clearly that what was true then, is even more true today. Had the country heeded the warnings and the reccomendations of immigration reform and in tearing down the wall between intelligence and justice, perhaps the lives of over 3,000 Americans might have been saved, and much that has followed since,  might have been preempted.

NB needs to have a "blackout area" where certain people like Shuster, Rosie and others that say obviously stupid/ignorant/hostile things on a regular basis can go. At the top of the page can say something like "The following people have indirectly declared themselves unfit to address social, political, or economic problems faced by the United States of America."

We need this to establish a level of standards in which we approach new stories and simultaneously declare we aren't interested in picking the low-hanging fruit (like Shusters' stupidity).

"Boats are safe in the harbor, but that's not what they're made for." -- Maritime quote