Arizona’s new immigration law will not stop illegal immigration, but it may lead to a second term of majority control for the Democrats – and President Barack Obama. In 2012 Republicans will need to win close races in New Mexico, Nevada and Florida. President Bush was able to carry these valuable states with an immigration reform package that targeted solutions – not people. But Arizona’s new law targets people over illegal behavior; an obvious violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. What we don’t need is a patchwork of piece meal ideas that become “wedge issues” for the Democrats to use as they continue to drive this country toward an ideology of socialistic collectivism.

Republican Senator Hollingsworth’s pension reform legislation is one piece to the puzzle for California’s future…but getting the Democrats to agree to the salvation of the state over their allegiance to the unions is an impossibility. For far too long California has featured a narrow battle of the makers versus the takers. Ever since Governors Jerry Brown and Gray Davis signed legislation granting government union workers lucrative pensions contracts the taxpayers of California have had to foot the bill by increasing their annual government enforced contributions; also known as fees, revenue streams and simple taxes. Now that the state is running a $30-plus billion deficit, the unions – and their hired majority party leaders – leave the state no other option. It’s time to head back to the drawing board and “re-do” the contracts with some economical sanity.

After leading the gubernatorial race by margins of 40, then 49 points in two major polls, how should voters evaluate the ‘next reported gap’ between Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner? What voters will be attempting to decode is whether Poizner’s expected increase in polling significant enough to be considered a ‘serious threat to Meg Whitman’s large lead heading into the final quarter. What we’re talking about is nothing more than natural statistical regression. Sure, we can hope for the Flute-like “Hail Mary” pass at the buzzer. But remember, Flute’s Boston College Eagles were never 30, or 40 – let alone 50-points behind the Miami Hurricanes. The most scientific conclusion is to know that a wide majority of blowouts always look better on paper than they do during the game itself.