The Dane links us to a great report by Robert E Rector of the Heritage Foundation, on the true costs of the Shamnesty Immigration Bill that failed in the Senate last week:

Heritage research has shown that low skill immigrants (those without a high school degree) receive, on average, three dollars in government benefits and services for each dollar of taxes they pay. This imbalance imposes a net cost of $89 billion per year on U.S. taxpayers. Over a lifetime, the typical low skill immigrant household will cost taxpayers $1.2 million.[4]

 Future taxpayer costs will be increased by policies which increase (1) the number of low skill immigrants entering the U.S., (2) the length of low skill immigrants’ stays in the U.S., or (3) low skill immigrants’ access to government benefits and services. Unfortunately, this is exactly what the Senate immigration bill does:

Listening to late night talk radio, no one was more one sided, biased and openly conservative hating then Mike Webb.

His show on KIRO was genuinely hard to listen too, as he played to his base and consistently sought to offend conservatives.

He was rude, he baited his callers so he could hang up on them, he utilized deceptive tactics and he was obnoxious.

Yes, I am speaking ill of the the dead, not out of anger or malice, but because I know of nothing positive to say about him.

His rambling incoherent tirades against Bush for winning the 2000 election were ludicrous, but no sense trying to argue against him, he would never let facts stand in his way.

His curtain call was fueled by a conviction of insurance fraud which also showcased his paranoia, both in accusing a faceless conspiracy to silence him and attacking reporters for taking his picture.