U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, R-S.C., has introduced a resolution in the U.S. House calling on Congress to enforce immigration laws previously adopted.

Barrett, the Oconee County resident who represents South Carolina’s 3rd District, said Wednesday that members of Congress “need to live up to the laws you pass.”

“It’s real simple,” Barrett said. “If we say the fence is going to be funded, you need to fully fund it. If it says it needs to be built, you need to build it.”

The State

Sounds like common sense to me. This is, of course, why nobody believes a word that comes out of the Fed’s mouths when it comes to enforcing our borders and laws and why the vast majority of Americans came out against the “shamnesty” bill. You simply can’t trust Washington on this issue.

U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones has introduced a proposal to withhold federal education funds from schools that prohibit the display or wearing of American flags, his office announced today.

Jones, a Farmville Republican, introduced the bill this week after a tiff over a Sampson County high school policy earlier this month.

Raleigh News & Observer

What this is stemming from is an incident on this past September 11th in which a student in North Carolina was ordered to remove a t-shirt that had an American flag on it based on a policy the Sampson County School System has that apparently bans the clothing with flags of any nation. It’s an idiotic policy and the superintendent of the school system had an even more idiotic answer in that the educators shouldn’t be forced to pick which flags are permissible. I think that answer is a pretty obvious one and it’s frightening that this person is an “educator.”

Their stupidity aside, is this really an issue that the Federal Government should be involved in? Granted, if the school is receiving Federal funds and Congress doesn’t like the way they are running their schools I suppose they have the right to withhold that funding, which is what Jones’ bill would do, but is he overreacting here?