Is there anything the McCain campaign won’t lie about? It’s becoming pathological: Now they're falsifying Barack Obama's immigration reform -- and pretending the problem isn't his fellow Republicans. The McCain campaign has started airing a new Spanish-language television commercial in the battleground states of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico that lays the failure of comprehensive immigration reform at the feet of Barack Obama and his Democratic colleagues -- despite the fact that Obama supported the bipartisan John McCain-Edward Kennedy efforts to enact such

Lou Dobbs pays us a nightly visit from up-is-down Planet Bizarro in his weekday show. But this week, his special Bizarro launching pad is the "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" anti-immigrant lobbying push -- you know, the one sponsored by a hate group.

Sure enough ...

One of the main events involved in FAIR’s charade as a "mainstream" immigration-reform group has been its annual “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” gathering of lobbyists, who then descend up on congressmen and legislators and their staffers to push their decidedly xenophobic brand of immigration “reform.” Well, turnabout is only, er, fair play. So this year, organizations seeking progressive immigration reform are holding FAIR’s feet to the fire – along with all the lobbyists and talk-show hosts participating. They’re running an ad campaign pointing out FAIR’s long history of indulging and promoting a frankly xenophobic and frequently outright racist campaign against immigrants.

The McCains' yearly household-staff budget alone for their bazillion homes is nearly six times the US median household income. How many of those persons are citizens, or documented workers of any sort, and are they all being paid living wages? It wouldn't surprise me if some of them weren't.

Whatever you do, don't let Michelle Malkin and her horde of flying monkeys hear about Henry Cejudo, the Olympic gold-medalist wrestler.

We've already seen, here in the States, the travesties created by the Republican push to deport illegal immigrants: police-state tactics, the bastardization of justice, the destruction of families. But that's just the beginning of the ugliness. Then there's what happens afterwards -- particularly to the children.

Right-wing nativist assholes are also right-wing authoritarian assholes. They come in the same package. Case in point: Arizona's notorious Crazy Sheriff Joe Arpaio ...

I'm going to file this one under "shit about the Bush administration you couldn't possibly make up." Is it possible to build a border wall without the help of the very people it is intended to keep out? That's an open question all along the border, and especially in the Rio Grande Valley, where the wall is widely unpopular but is now becoming a reality.

It's "Back to School" time, with ads everywhere for clothes, backpacks, pencils and notebooks and school supplies of every kind. But "back to school" takes on a whole new meaning for Iraqi children living as refugees outside Iraq.

The folks over at The Sanctuary -- one of the premier group blogs about Latino issues -- last month sent out a questionnaire to the Obama and McCain campaigns trying pin them down on the specifics of key issues, particularly immigration. They get a prompt response back from Obama. McCain, well, that's a different story.