"Posturing from the left" doesn't narrow things down much. They posture all the time, especially before they steal something from you. As a matter of fact, one of Theocritus' undeniable truths to life is that as soon as a liberal starts holding himself up as being morally superior, he's setting the stage for taking something from you against your will. Footpads are at least more honest--they don't pretend that they're doing anything other than robbing you and a robbery, vile as it is, is not a perpetual entitlement.

As we've heard, the Los Angeles city council voted overwhelmingly to suspend travel to Arizona and ending future contracts with the state. David Beltran is a spokesman for the slightly absurd mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, and he allows us:

We're not going to respond to threats from a state which has isolated itself from the America that values freedom, liberty and basic human rights

This is of course utter rubbish. The current wisdom, which is as addlepated as most current wisdom, is that the Arizona cops can swagger around and call for anyone's identification and chuck him over the border on a whim. Not so, and not a bit of truth to it. The 16-page law, which is unread by anyone but conservatives lest the liberals be hampered in their screeds by facts, specifically prohibits racial profiling. Cops may inquire as to legal status of people they've come into contact with. This is an entirely different thing but the left has spread the Big Lie and it's sticking. Well, they know all about lying. They've invented new wrinkles in the black art.

The Arizona Corporation Commission is composed of five members and they jointly control, among other things, Arizona's electrical and water utilities. One of the members is Gary Pierce, who did not take kindly to the posturing of the City of Poseurs. Mr. Pierce wrote a letter to the mayor of Los Angeles, and he used some choice phrases:

Doggone it -- if you're going to boycott this candy store ... then don't come in for any of it....

I received your message; please receive mine. As a statewide elected member of the Arizona Corporation Commission overseeing Arizona's electric and water utilities, I too am keenly aware of the "resources and ties" we share with the city of Los Angeles...

If an economic boycott is truly what you desire, I will be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements so Los Angeles no longer receives any power from Arizona-based generation..."

I am confident that Arizona's utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands. If, however, you find that the City Council lacks the strength of its convictions to turn off the lights in Los Angeles and boycott Arizona power, please reconsider the wisdom of attempting to harm Arizona's economy.

Good for Mr. Pierce. Nothing like a bit of brisk sense cutting through the smog of the high-minded sentimentality of a bunch of progressives. And it's just wonderful to see someone who is not falling over, presenting his soft underbelly to be scratched while bleating that he's sorry he wasn't sensitive enough as a bunch of thugs accused him of rubbish just to eruct high-sounding platitudes which don't pass the briefest of analysis.

I recall over 30 years ago during the Carter imposed energy crisis there was much gnashing of teeth in the northeast because they weren't getting what they wanted at the price that they wanted. Like a spoiled brat. Do you recall the bumper stickers, "Let the bastards freeze in the dark"? I think that Mr. Pierce has told the oily mayor of Los Angeles just that.

I promote Mr. Pierce to an Honorary Texan.