From CNN:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush will call for the deployment of “less than 10,000″ National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to serve a “supportive role” in the mission to keep people from entering the United States illegally, a senior administration official said Monday.

From the Times (via IHT):

So far, seven states have amendments against gay marriage on the ballot this November - South Dakota, Idaho, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin and Colorado - according to the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group, compared with 11 states in 2004. And there is now talk in some states, including Ohio, of a measure that would bar adoption by same-sex couples.

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From: Karl of Rove, Despoiler of the Liberalites, Savior of the True Path
To: All Who Would Follow to Glory
Re: Faith is Rewarded, Doubt is Punished

(1)Behold! For though lo these many months have you toiled in bitter despair, and knew not thy way, and feared thy Fall in the fall - behold! - for I have given thee hope.

(2)Lo! For long it hath been said that the people would not come out for the Voting, and yet they will come, for I have given them Fear, and they know not where to turn.

(3)For it was said in the days of the Doubting that there was no hope, but did I not Dispel that?

(4)It was said that the people of Ohio could not vote ‘gainst the marriage of gays again, and yet - behold! - for I have given them Gay Adoption.

(5)It was said that those of the Right had felt we had lost our way, and may not Come Out, but - behold! - for I have given them Mexicanaanites, and the Force to fight them. [Or nay, not to fight them, but to stand on the border, too few - alas! too few - to stem the terrifying tide!]

(6)Thine doubts did not become thee, but I have forgiven thee, and do make this new Covenant: Obeyest me in every way, and I will give thee both Houses again.

(7)For the people have feared before, and they shall fear again. Do they not tremble before the Gayites? Do they not quiver before the multitudinous Mexicanaanites? Do they not quake before the Terrorites?

(8)Nay, all this they have done, and all this they shall Fear again, and in that fear they shall assemble at the Time of the Voting.

(9)And Behold! For I will give thee still more as the Time approaches, and the peoples’ hearts will be sore afraid too of Attacks, and the Flu of Birds, and the Madness of Cows, and the Aborting of Babies, and the Coming of the Taxman, and the Rebirth of the Welfare Mom, and the Burning of Flags, and the Singing of Spanish Anthems, and the Expulsion of God Himself, and the many and mighty threats from all those and all that who are Foreign and Different and Alien and Unfamiliar and therefore bent upon the Peoples’ destruction. And they SHALL vote, and there shall be the Thundering of the Elephant upon the land once more.

(10)And though thou hast doubted my Power and my Vision, behold! For I have not forsaken thee, and ask only for thy Love and Obedience in these dark times. For the Rove is forgiving, and the Rove lovest thee, and the Rove shall show thee the way, and thou may knowest the Rove by the Fear that he soweth and, in sowing, redeems thy hopes. Look thou not towards Policy. Look thou not towards Ideas. Look thou towards the Rove, and thou shalt Prosper. Look thou away, and Terrible shall be My wrath.

Love,

Karl