Confused by the Immigration Debate? Not sure what to think of illegal workers from Mexico? Let National Review’s John Derbyshire explain the intricacies as can only be explained by an Englishman who has opinions about Black People!

In some offline conversations I’ve been having, and on some websites I’ll leave you to search out by yourself, the opinion has been expressed that some portion of America’s white elites welcome Hispanic immigration as a way of sticking it to American blacks. That portion, it is suggested, would prefer to have its lawns mowed by small, polite, brown people, rather than large, surly black ones, even if the price is the same in both cases.

I think there is something in that, but more than I have yet heard discussed.

Uhh …. Okay, let’s have this frank discussion about America’s wealthy households and the preferred race of their servants and how that explains why Bush & Walnuts & Kennedy want the amnesty so bad, after the jump.

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* Don’t forget, starting January 1 no more indentured servants in New Hampshire. [Washington Wire]
* Traditional children’s Christmas poem reimagined, with skinny kid instead of little round belly. [Hotline on Call]
* Bill O’Reilly has fond memories of all the things Liberace had. [Media Matters]
* Guys who think legalized abortion stops criminals before they happen really like Tom DeLay’s blog. [Freakonomics]
* If Christopher Dodd actually believes hiring Kerry’s ‘04 campaign manager will win him the nomination, he’s not winning the nomination. [The Swamp]
* Death of Turkmeni dictator could allow for new American military base near the Iranian border, so that’s convenient. [Think Progress, The Economist]
* Jimmy Carter not racist, just baby racist, diet racist, racist light — like a racist drink with too many ice cubes. [The Volokh Conspiracy]
* The skeleton in Bill Richardson’s closet wears a blue dress. [Wizbang Politcs]

Do you have Biden ‘08 fever yet? He sure does. And he’s not at all worried about wooing voters in the South.

Jabberin’ Joe appeared on Fox News Sunday and amused all 73 viewers when he gave his southern-fried bonafides:

“You don’t know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth-largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a Northeast liberal state.”

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