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Here are headlines from various columns covering Bush's speech he gave last night on securing the border.

Good speech, one bad idea:  The Seattle Times
Bush's speech leaves activists grumbling:  Chicago Tribune
President's Middle Path Disappoints Both Sides of Sharpley Divisive Immigration Issue:  The New York Times
Father's message lost on Bush: Boston Globe

Of course politician throw their proverbial two cents at the speech as well.

Sen. Hillary Rodham C., D-NY:  “It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scripture because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably Jesus himself."

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-TN: "Upholding the rule of law on our border is as important as defending our freedom in Iraq."

Sen. Richard Lugar, R-IN: "Immigration policy should be updated in a comprehensive way to provide some realistic resolution to the status of at least 11 million undocumented immigrants."

Gov. Bill Richardson, D-NM: "I need the National Guard in New Mexico to help with forest fires, emergency preparedness. The problem is that many of these guardsmen their mission is not border security. I'm concerned that they're tired from Iraq and Afghanistan."

Sen. George Allen, R-VA: "We need to secure the border. And I'm glad that the president has come around to recognizing that we need more enforcement at the border with personnel, detention centers, actual fences, and virtual fences."

Last night our local FOX station broke in with the latest news--"Sniper along 385."  OH NO, our very own Beltway sniper! 

Knowing that our local FOX tends to over react and dramatizes every little "might-be-news" story, my wife and I decided to flip through and see if any other channles were covering the story.  They were not.

To our humorous delight, we later found out that our sniper had hit only three cars using a b-b gun.  SNIPER?  You gotta be kidding me!  I know these little guns can be dangerous (they kill up to four people per year--I guess that's the quota they meet and then they stop), but I'd hardly call a teenager with a Daisy a sniper.  That'd be like calling me Chef just because I put peanut butter between two slices of bread.