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Now that we're all living in terror of identity theft, hard working diligent and honorable citizens that we are, here's an interesting take on the situation from today's New York Times: "Illegal Worker, Troubled Citizen and Stolen Name."

On the one hand, we have the American citizen (drug addict, sometimes jailbird, daughter of an incarcerated drug dealer, who has yet to hold a job in her life, and whose identity may have been "stolen" as many as twenty times). On the other hand, we have the Mexican illegal (who has been a good, if illegal, worker for more than ten years, raising her children under difficult circumstances but always turning in a good day's work at the plant where she is employed).

Guess which one is in jail. Hint: it ain't the drug addict.

Naturally, those who like to whip up fear will claim that you can always find an exception to the rule and this is just one story, but since when has this country not focused its attention on "the exception to the rule"?


The Silver Bullet:

You need a silver bullet to kill a werewolf, and the Democrats know exactly where it is, but they can't lay their hands on it. Congress, under the new Democratic majority, is going after their own deadly wolf, but the silver bullet they need has been hidden. They've gotten their hands on e-mail concerning the Justice Department's actions surrounding the recent firings of U. S. Prosecutors, except for e-mail between the dates of November 15 and December 7 of last year, the critical period. For some (uh-hum) reason there seems to have been no e-mail traffic during that time. Oh, really? (See The New York Times article.)