NYT Meets The Clarion Ledger. . .

Seems that a favorite pastime of The New York Times and New York folks such as tax-scoundrel Charles Rangel is to kick Mississippi at any chance given in order to keep things right in the world.

Well NYT, I think the French say it best: touché!

Americans like to say: sucks to be you!

Either way, The Clarion Ledger, our local paper, puts a grand smackdown on the New York Times in rebuttal to Monday's NYT editorial calling out Mississippi for misuse of HUD funds after Hurricane Katrina.

Pot meet kettle.

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Finally. . .

the courts get smart.

From the Clarion Ledger:

Ramon Lagos Andrade came to this country from Honduras for the American dream.

Now, that dream has gone bad: Andrade, 34, is going to federal prison because he came here on the wrong side of the law.

"We ask the court for leniency," Andrade's attorney, Joe Holloman, told U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate on Monday. "He made a terrible mistake. He was in this country illegally."

Wingate showed no leniency. He more than doubled the 13-month sentence U.S. Attorney Erin Chalk recommended Andrade receive for being here illegally while also in possession of a firearm.

Terrible mistake. Boo hoo.

Chalk one up for justice.

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