"Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal."     Newt Gingrich in Iowa, 12/1/11, defending earlier remarks at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard that 'truly stupid' child labor laws should be suspended to allow very young poor children to work.

It is doubtful that Newt Gingrich has ever spent quality time in a 'really poor', inner-city public housing project. He probably has more first-hand knowledge of the hallowed ground under Pickett's doomed Charge at Gettysburg in 1863 than he does about low-life in high-rise poverty in New York or Chicago in 2011. If he knew about the culture of poverty that Oscar Lewis called La Vida, Gingrich never would have proposed suspending child labor laws and putting ghetto public school students to work as junior janitors in Fifth or Sixth Grade. Like his earlier calls to bring back orphanages and to deny support to unmarried woman who have children while on welfare, this Gingrich proposal is crass and creepy.

Eric Bolling and I fist-bumped when we ran into each other in the news room Wednesday morning. As always with the smiling, stylish businessman and broadcaster it was friendly.

Still, I had to vent.

"I felt like jumping through the TV screen when I watched you yesterday on "The Five," I told my Fox News friend and colleague.

"Why?" his expression asked.

"Deport them all?" I continued incredulous, referring to his harsh suggestion that we should simply arrest and evict the 11 million plus undocumented immigrants. "What about the babies?" I asked. "The grandmothers? You're starting to sound like what's her name…Michelle Malkin who wants everyone to snitch out their illegal alien neighbors!"

It is not exactly an invitation to "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore" or the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Nor should "the homeless," and "tempest-tossed" also mentioned in Emma Lazarus' epic Statue of Liberty poem feel welcome.

But a new bipartisan bill proposing an immigrant visa to those willing to buy homes in America deserves consideration. That is, if our do nothing Congress ever gets around to considering anything more meaningful than the reaffirmation of "In God We Trust" as our national motto.

What goes around has come around in Arizona. Russell Pearce, the chief architect of SB1070, the Grand Canyon State's mean-spirited, ill-conceived, provably self-defeating anti-immigration legislation has been driven from office.

So anti-immigration hard-liners beware. Harsh and divisive immigration scapegoating will not be tolerated by voters. The immigrant punching bag will hit back. Russell Pearce is out. Reason and civility are in. Bien hecho (well done) Mesa Arizona.

A classic sailboat and private, energy-independent, Tropical Island home.

Geraldo Rivera is looking for a few good Sports seeking partial ownership in a deal that includes a piece of perhaps the Nation's best known cruising sailboat, the Sparkman & Stephens' designed 'Voyager'.

Built as 'Palawan IV' in then West Germany in 1972 for famed yachtsman Thomas Watson Jr., Geraldo bought the rugged, family-friendly, elegant, four-stateroom, fast-sailing, sea-faring, ice-breaking, aluminum-hulled, 70' ketch back in 1995.