Illegal aliens openly welcomed into Virginia public colleges?

Does it make sense to anyone that the state has denied issuing driver’s licenses and photo ID cards to taxpayers who aren’t able to find their original birth certificates to prove they are legal U.S. residents, but the General Assembly is now arguing over allowing illegal aliens into our public colleges and universities?

House Bill 2910 states that persons who are illegally living in the U.S. may not be admitted to any public institution of higher education in Virginia.

Of course. That makes sense. Why would we allow known criminals into our colleges?

Those who don’t think the bill makes sense (including local Democrats Onzlee Ware (Roanoke) and Blacksburg and Alleghany’s Jim Shuler) argue that denying college admission to fugitives from justice could be harmful to their economic advancement in America!

I am sitting here in total shock just thinking about that statement.

The bill passed the House of Delegates and now goes to the Senate, where it (unfortunately) will likely be voted down, as similar legislation was also rejected last year.

More fun with the DMV

In a response to last week’s column about the state government getting ridiculously harsh about requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to get a driver’s license, one reader wrote, “Does anyone besides me think it's ironic that the DMV will not take my NATIVE AMERICAN tribal enrollment card as proof of U.S. citizenship?”

I was right!

I pride myself on the research I do for my columns. I try to make sure that my writing is factually correct. That research is proving to be right on target regarding my column about politically correct Christmas gifts for children.

My toy recommendation of the year was the SpongeBob SquarePants doll. For those who don’t know, SpongeBob is a cartoon character. He’s a talking household sponge with arms and legs, and he wears pants and a tie.

He was my top choice because he was the ultimate in multicultural: He could change “skin” color, depending on whether he was dry, soapy, green and moldy, or spaghetti stained red from cleaning last night’s dishes.

Also, as far as sponges go, you really couldn’t tell if he was skinny or fat, so there were no unrealistic expectations about body sizes to drive young girls to starve themselves to look like him.

But the one thing I neglected to research was his sexual orientation. I thought most sponges were asexual (they reproduce with themselves, rather than with partners). Little did I know that SpongeBob’s sexuality was going to come into question a couple of weeks ago.

You probably heard the flack recently about Dr. James Dobson of the Christian family group Focus on the Family, when he claimed two weeks ago that SpongeBob was being used in a “pro-homosexual video” being shown in elementary school classrooms across America.

Although the news media jumped all over the incident as ridiculous, Dobson’s statements were factually correct – the video was used to promote a program for schoolchildren about diversity and tolerance, and the program encourages tolerance of those with different “sexual identities.”

Citing an online guidebook, Dobson said, “There was a teacher's guide there that gets kids talking about 'what if you … were a homosexual?' And it's a guide to talk to kids through this.”

Wow! SpongeBob is now even more politically correct than ever. I was right.

Now you can look forward to my upcoming politically correct gift ideas for Easter, including chocolate fruits (so vegetarians don’t have to eat little chocolate bunnies), chicken-free tofu Easter eggs, and more….