It’s probably time we stopped calling Buick-Chevy-GMC-Caddy GM’s “core.” In fact, this is all GM really has, assuming the sales and wind-downs of the other brands goes as planned. What was the core is now the company.

-Matthew DeBord, Slate

Article in La Opinion (longer version here) detailing protest by various activist groups against DUI checkpoints that might also serve to arrest illegal immigrants.  Seems like a typical piece – ICE sweeps bad, rights are being violated, etc. – but this part caught my eye:

“This is why we’re requesting an urgent meeting with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, to ask him to investigate why ICE is doing sweeps of indocumented people during Christmas, knowing that within a few months immigration reform could be finalized,” said Gutierrez.

“Por eso estamos pidiendo una reunión, de carácter urgente, con el fiscal general de EE.UU., Eric Holder, para pedirle que investigue por qué es que ICE hace redadas de personas indocumentadas en Navidad, sabiendo que dentro de pocos meses se podría consumar una reforma migratoria”, reveló Gutiérrez.

Once Obama is done having his way with health care, could immigration reform really be next?

Jonah Goldberg is calling for Napolitano’s head to roll.  Me, I’m just waiting for Bush to get blamed for the whole thing.

What to read?

If you want your heart touched, read this.

If you’re looking for some grief and heartache, read this.  Background here.

If you’re looking for some humor, go here.

If so, it adds an interesting wrinkle.

Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, believed to be the suspected terrorist’s father, told a Nigerian news outlet that six months ago he alerted the U.S. Embassy to his son’s fanatical religious views, the Post reported.

He allegedly told Nigerian newspaper This Day that he had informed both the U.S. Embassy and the Nigerian security services of his 23-year-old son Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s activities, the Post reported.

I’ll admit to not keeping up with this story very closely (we had more Christmas stuff today, so I was startled to see this story on Drudge this morning around 10 a.m.).  But regardless of the extent of those activities, it’s be very disturbing indeed if we didn’t heed warnings from the guy’s own father.