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Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes Of All Time from museumofhoaxes.com.

My favorite: #9 Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers.

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal for about 30 minutes yesterday to discuss immigration reform.

He addressed:

• border fencing - about 14 miles of fence in San Diego. Now hard to find locals who want the fence down. It’s a good thing, he said, and property values are going up in that area.
• will take significant manpower and willpower, the latter being more important than the former.
• Democrats view illegals for hispanic votes, Republicans for cheap labor.
• Supply and demand keep wages low for citizens in areas affected by low cost illegal labor.
• The supply of illegals keeps some industry from using advanced technology to plant and harvest without machines.
• Mexicans aren’t the only illegals
• for every 1 we stop, 3-5 get by us.
• SSN ‘instacheck’ system gives employer lookup for valid SSN.
• Republicans tried to lower illegal entry from a felony to shorten the deportation process but Democrats blocked it
• all countries south of the US enforce their borders and immigration laws
• a majority of legal hispanic immigrants oppose illegal immigration

One outraged caller voiced his umbrage at illegals demanding civil rights they haven’t earned.

This issue is going to cost the GOP if they don’t get spines.

Powerline discusses misreporting a recent hearing in the New York Times in The verdict, take 2. The entire hearing can be viewed here. The particular clip they deal with in their post is here.

After hearing the testimony, I think Powerline has it right. All the judges agreed the president has inherent authority which sometimes trumps statutes. Most seemed to agree presidents would be remiss to cede authority, which is the reason for presidential signing statements.

President Bush spoke at The Cleveland City Club today, watch the C-SPAN video here.