Notorious cop beater and Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia) is struggling to hold on to her seat.

Facing two primary opponents, McKinney’s long run in Congress may come to an end tonight…and not a moment too soon as far as I am concerned.

You might recall a few months ago when she smacked a Capitol Hill police officer simply because he had the gall to ask her for identification–which of course, she did not have. To make matters worse, she later held a press conference where she basically accused the police officer of racism as though her behavior could then be considered self-defense or something.

Yeah, I’ll never forget her opening remarks: “I am a BLACK woman!!”

Thank goodness she cleared that up…

It wasn’t long before she realized her claims of racism (her customary get-out-of-jail-free-card) were not going to fly this time–she made a very public apology for her uncivilized and criminal behavior on the House floor.

Yeah, she may have been a day late and a dollar short.

The returns in her district as of 10:45 EST with only 59% of preceincts reporting are:

McKinney 16,492 or 46.0%
Johnson 16,273 or 45.4%

Earlier in the evening, she lead by a good eight points.

As of 20 minutes ago, Johnson had pulled ahead by several points.

Now it seems she holds a puny 0.6% lead…roughly 200 votes…not a very good showing for a six-term politician.

She may pull it off, we’ll watch throughout the evening.

Listen to the audio report about the rise of kidnapping on the Mexican side of the border [California Report: Fearing Kidnappings, Families Flee Tijuana, KQED, 7/18/06].

In Tijuana, kidnapping is no longer an intramural activity between criminals. Nope, the bad guys realized the revenue potential in people snatching, so they have busied themselves with the latest crime trend. At least 50 Tijuana residents have been kidnapped so far this year.

As a result, fearful Tijuana Mexicans are increasingly relocating to the United States to escape the violence (including 490 murders in the city last year). An estimated 350-400 families have recently moved from Tijuana to San Diego. A local real estate agent estimated that 60-70 percent of his clients are from Tijuana.

There is no mention of the touchy matter of citizenship “status” — this is public radio — so the “exodus” of hundreds (thousands?) of Mexican nationals across the border to relocate in California is treated as normal, like I might move to Sacramento.

People have long been lured from Mexico to the United States by the promise of better wages. Now the prospect of safety has many Tijuana families fleeing north to San Diego. Mexican citizens groups say a record number of people have been kidnapped in Tijuana this year. The problem has caused an exodus to Southern Califonia.

There is one discouraging word, though: some San Diegans are concerned that the crime wave will follow the Mexican influx to their community — imagine that.

Will anarchists like Emma Lozano, executive director of Centro Sin Fronteras in Chicago, ever grow up? Haven’t you all grown just a tad weary of these people and their nonstop assault on the rule of law and American sovereignty?

These days Lozano and her ilk are no longer content with beating the “contributions made by illegal aliens” drum and waving the flags of foreign countries. Now they’re really pushing the “climate of fear” ranting to keep their faces in the news and their agenda before our many stupid, pandering politicians, e.g., these guys. For example, in Hazelton, Pa., just prior to the city council’s passage of a law that drops the hammer on illegals, their employers and landlords, there was this ranting from a local activist with Catholic Charities:

“If you pass this, you will go down in history as the council that made this city the first Nazi city in the country.”

Back in Illinois, Lozano (e-mail her) currently is wringing her hands to this same tune because the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) has refused to knuckle under to the latest complaint from Latino leaders, [Minutemen name rescued, By Jason George, Chicago Tribune,July 16, 2006]

Got your Kleenex handy?

For 40 years IDOT has provided emergency roadside service to stranded motorists; these 24/7 workers are known as the “Illinois Minutemen” because of their rapid response record. They are NOT the same Illinois Minutemen who are trying to help Illinoisans left stranded by the political eunuchs in Washington who lack the you-know-what to do what is necessary to end illegal immigration.

In a nutshell: The state will keep the “Minutemen” name given these tireless workers after it was discovered that certain politically correct IDOT employees near the bottom of the chain of command thought it a fine idea not to be confused with the anti-illegal immigration group. Without consulting IDOT’s top brass these employees, who probably were mindful of the fact there is a stiff price to pay if you offend the Mexican government, began removing the Illinois Minutemen patch from the workers’ coveralls and replacing them with “Emergency Traffic Patrol” patches. (Sounds like something for which kids years ago saved cereal box tops in hopes of being the “first on the block to have one,” right?)

When Lozano got word of IDOT’s decision, she blubbered:

“I wish they would have [made the change] because it would have shown such understanding about what the [illegal alien]immigrant community is going through.”

Lozano said the word “minuteman” has developed a negative connotation for many Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, especially new immigrants who know the word only from the immigration debate. (The word also is a burr under President Bush’s saddle.) She doesn’t doubt that someone, somewhere has mistaken the tow trucks for an illegal-immigrant patrol.

With apologies to the late Ray Charles: “Hit the road, Emma, and don’t come back no more.”

on now!

“Sometime in the next hour”, I’ll be on the Peter Boyles Show, 630 KHOW Denver, to discuss the Rocky Mountain News attack on immigration patriots. Listen here.

Ok, so last year this stupid kid named Nick Minucci hit a man over the head with a baseball bat leaving him with a fractured skull.

Nick is a White and the victim, Glenn Moore, is Black…and Nick allegedly uttered some derivation of the N-word during the assault. With the hate crime enhancement, Nick will serve 15 years in prison for second-degree assault…without the hate crime enhancement, he would served maybe five.

Moore has admitted that he and his friends were in the neighborhood to steal a car so it is difficult to look upon him as a true victim–HOWEVER, he was not attempting to steal Minucci’s car and it seems fairly clear that fracturing Moore’s head with a baseball bat was an unwarranted assault.

(Minucci also has a history of violence including stabbing a man so it is probably safe to assume that he’s a bit of a nutbag.)

All of this aside, what I found interesting was the coverage of events by the New York Daily News.

Earlier exclusive: Go easy on Nick, victim’s pop says by Scott Shifrel 7/18/06

Look at this quote from Shifrel’s column:

“Moore, who was clubbed and slurred more than a year ago in a crime that sparked headlines, is expected to speak at today’s sentencing of Minucci, who faces up to 25 years behind bars.”

Umm…he was clubbed and slurred? Seriously, slurred…when did name-calling become a crime?

Good grief, what’s next? A first grader gets 18 months in County Jail for calling his classmate a Doo-Doo Head? Can you imagine the 6 year-old child of tomorrow?

Billy called me a Doo-Doo Head! He slurred me and I feel offended and oppressed…I’m calling the police and suing this school!

By all means, let’s lock up the loonies who run amok with baseball bats and harm other people…harm as in fracture their skulls not hurt their feelings.

He was slurred…ooh, can you imagine if he was shushed?