Musings of the Great Gonzo

I went to a funeral today. The man who passed was a local police officer and died while riding his motorcycle through the mountains of eastern Tennessee. By all accounts he was a good man, a loving father, and a decorated patrolman. He was known as the “Gentle Giant” to many of his fellow officers and, in a touching eulogy, his daughter spoke of his tender love for her and his dislike for her growing up. He received full honors at the church – a color guard, honor guards, and hundreds of uniformed officers including the sheriff himself. After the service his casket was placed in the hearse and then escorted to the cemetery by motorcycle officers and patrol cars all with lights flashing and sirens wailing. Traffic was stopped on the road to his final resting place in both directions and at every cross street by what seemed a full regiment of police from numerous surrounding cities and counties. There was bagpiper playing Danny Boy and Amazing Grace , a trumpeter playing Taps , a 21-gun...

“The children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West," warns columnist and politician Pat Buchanan in his new book, State of Emergency: Third World Invasion and Conquest of America. The book goes on to compare the current American and European immigration situation to that of ancient Rome. Western civilization, Buchanan says, is doomed. Why then, are the cries to our lawmakers falling on deaf ears? Why are there no initiatives – or very few anyway – to secure our borders? At the current rate of entry, the United States’ infrastructure will collapse under the weight of illegal immigrants using services essentially for free. In a matter of years, our own government will be unable to continue to support the influx and will begin to shut down. In California the shut downs have already begun in the form of hospitals closing their doors by the dozens because they can not continue to provide health care to uninsured immigrants using Emergency Rooms as cl...