Here’s a less-than-laudatory Superbowl Sunday overview of this year’s hosting city, Miami, home to the largest foreign-born population in the country. The columnist uses Rep Tom Tancredo’s criticisms of a few months back as a starting point.

The NFL Network has been running a great series on the history of the Super Bowl called “America’s Game,” which will be played today in a city that, some say, no longer resembles America. [...]

[Tancredo] noted the rate of violent crime in Miami is triple the national average, while the murder rate was 2.5 times as great. He also quoted the U.S. Department of Justice, which labeled South Florida the “public corruption capital of the nation,” as almost 600 people were prosecuted on corruption charges between 1996 and 2005. I’m really envious of that. Rampant, relentless malfeasance by the government stooges there has made Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen a millionaire author.

In his Herald piece, Tancredo added that since 2002 “a net of 151,000 Miami residents, most of them middle class, have left Miami,” which is in a county with a 51 percent foreign-born population, the highest in America. On TV today, the setting will depict the city as glitzy, glamorous, exotic and sexy. Yet behind the cameras, as the numbers indicate, Miami is violent, corrupt, poor and, in many respects, alien to the rest of America. [Behind the Super city's glitz and glitter, By Bill Thompson, Ocala Star-Banner, February 4, 2007]

Following up on how nothing can be said about Obama but praise:

Michael Kinsley, in Time Magazine

It used to be, there was truth and there was falsehood. Now, there is spin and there are gaffes. Spin is often thought to be synonymous with falsehood or lying, but more accurately it is indifference to the truth. A politician engaged in spin is saying what he or she wishes were true, and sometimes, by coincidence, it is. Meanwhile a gaffe, it’s been said, [By Kinsley himself.]is when a politician tells the truth — or, more precisely, when he or she accidentally reveals something truthful about what is going on in his or her head. A gaffe is what happens when the spin breaks down.Gaffes Can Be Deceiving — Friday, Feb. 02, 2007 — Page 1 — TIME

Timothy Noah, in Slate:

Is Barack Obama—junior U.S. senator from Illinois, best-selling author, Harvard Law Review editor, Men’s Vogue cover model, and “exploratory” presidential candidate—the second coming of our Savior and our Redeemer, Prince of Peace and King of Kings, Jesus Christ? His press coverage suggests we can’t dismiss this possibility out of hand. I therefore inaugurate the Obama Messiah Watch, which will periodically highlight gratuitously adoring biographical details that appear in newspaper, television, and magazine profiles of this otherworldly presence in our midst. The Obama Messiah Watch. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine

Religion Columnist Terry Mattingly:

Meanwhile, journalists are not the only people struggling to learn all the words to the new political anthem, “Our Obama is an Awesome Obama.” According to Newsweek, stand-up comics are having trouble, too. Some are taking different approaches to this theological problem. Here’s my favorite:

MAKE FUN OF HOW YOU CAN’T MAKE FUN OF HIM

“Obamamania” has become absurd. “Daily Show” viewers heard a heavenly noise — “a choir of angels,” host Jon Stewart said. “It can only mean one thing: Barack Obama did something.” Jay Leno’s line: “The big story, of course: ‘American Idol.’ But enough about Barack Obama.”

Our Obama is an Awesome Obama » GetReligion

In my Guadalupe Hidalgo article I referred to a border protest beginning on February 2nd, anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Obviously, the date was chosen, not to celebrate Groundhog Day, but to delegitimize the border itself.

It’s part of a planned two-week “caravan” led by activist Enrique Morones , taking the protesters from California to Texas and back again.

According to Morones, one of the purposes of the trip is to collect testimonies from migrants along the border to share in Washington.

Something tells me they won’t be gathering testimony from Americans who have been harmed by illegal immigration, the kind of information you can find on Brenda Walker’s Immigration’s Human Cost website.

According to “La Jornada”, one of the participants in the Caravan is a Mexican official who openly talks of influencing American legislators.

The official is Mauricio Farah Gebara, of the CNDH (National Commission of Human Rights), a sort of Mexican ACLU, financed by the Mexican government. According to Farah,

“In this march we are going to gather testimony of migration, testimony that we hope will strongly impact the conscience of the (U.S.)authorities and legislators.”

(En esta marcha vamos a recoger el testimonio de la migración, un testimonio que esperemos pegue fuerte en la conciencia de las autoridades y legisladores” para motivar una reforma migratoria, señaló Farah.)

Here in Mexico, foreigners who participate in protest marches are expelled from the country.

Will any of our officials notice this ?

Steve Sailer has three posts about Barack Obama, the first ever Hawaiian Candidate for President. In the third, we learn that its a “gaffe” to call any resident of the state of Hawaii a Hawaiian, unless they have Hawaiian blood.

Barack Obama: World’s Most Ambitious Hawaiian?

Barack Obama’s Hawaiian upbringing

So, what’s the deal with Hawaii?