…keep on associating the party with anti-immigrant nativism. Thankfully, the president has always supported reasonable immigration reform, and so has California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, one of the biggest Republican winners in the debacle of 2006.

Take a look at these points in this Michael Medved column:

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Regular visitors to M* will have noticed lately that we were out of service for several days last week. In addition, there was a time that we considered shutting down the site for several reasons. Since then, we have gotten some additional technical support and another permablogger. We will be attempting to move to a new server. So, service may continue to be spotty.

Here is the bottom line: we are trying to keep M* going. We are optimistic we will be able to for the next few months. Keep on signing on to see how things progress.

Thinking about becoming a U.S. citizen? The application for naturalization has basically normal questions. One, however, caught my eye. In the section to determine if the applicant is “of good moral character”, the question is asked, “Have you ever persecuted (either directly or indirectly) any person because of race, religion, national origin, membership in a particular social group or political opinion?”

According to the application instructions this and the other questions in the section (mostly about taxes and plans to overthrow the government) will be used “to determine your eligibility for citizenship.”

So how bad of an anti-Mormon do you have to be before you can’t be a U.S. citizen?

Famed LDS author and Democrat Orson Scott Card writes that Tuesday’s election only has one issue: the war on terror. I couldn’t help but think of the Ender’s Game books as I read Card’s analysis. (Did you know that some middle schools, military schools and high schools have Ender’s Game as required reading?)

It’s always interesting to see the White Horse prophecy discussed in major media outlets. This might be a good time to read this excellent article by FAIR on this particular prophecy. To summarize: the White Horse prophecy is not official Church doctrine and there are many reasons to doubt its accuracy. However, there are many reasons to believe that Joseph Smith did, on several occasions, predict that the Constitution would be saved by Elders of the Church. There is reason to believe that the prophet meant that Elders of the Church would support good government and protect the Constitution (not assume control of the government). As a supporter of Mitt Romney’s candidacy, I don’t believe any of these prophecies are relevant to him directly.