Are conservatives going the way of the looney left over the immigration issue? Could be. President Bush's speech just seemed to make a lot of people mad, because he didn't propose to round up all the tired, the poor illegal aliens and dump the huddle masses, yearning to breathe free, teeming masses on some other shore.

I think the fence will help a lot, but I also think we ought to take the poem off the Statue of Liberty and replace it with one of those Yosemite Sam pictures I used to see on truck mudflaps. The one with the words "Back Off!"