op ed review 1/13
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump addressed the nation on the border wall: “Trump
won the night. Schumer and Pelosi lost.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2019/01/09/trump_won_the_night_schumer_and_pelosi_lost_463015.html
Trump warns Dems that emergency declaration is coming
without border deal.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Smith
(D-WA) admits President Trump DOES have the authority to declare a national
emergency and have the military build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Democrats funded a 287-mile wall in Jordan last year — but
won’t fund a border wall in the U.S.
Border Patrol agents in Rio Grande Valley have detained an
average of 600 undocumented immigrants a day and have seized more than 40,000
pounds of marijuana since October.
In one day at Rio Grande, 113 illegal entry apprehensions
from countries OTHER THAN Mexico and Central America: Pakistan, India, China, Ecuador, Romania……
Investigative journalist Sara Carter goes to the border and
immediately encounters 2 men from Bangladesh entering the US illegally.
President
Trump's Call for Action - Flood the Capitol's Switchboard! Contact your House
Representative or Senators by phone by calling the Capitol Switchboard. Simply
call the number below, give the operator your zip code, and he/she will connect
you with your elected officials' office. (202) 224-3121.
California Governor Newsom Vows ‘Sanctuary To All Who Seek
It’ In Inauguration Speech
NYC Mayor Guarantees Comprehensive Health Care for All,
citizens or not.
No surprise: 158
million migrants want to move to the US, world’s top pick
Weeks after mainstream media outlets reported that illegal
immigrants don’t bring disease into the United States, the Border Patrol
reveals that it is getting slammed daily with dozens of illegal immigrants
carrying “serious illnesses.” This includes tuberculosis, influenza,
parasites….. “it’s unlike anything they’ve ever seen before.”
Illegal immigrants cited in theft of 39 million Social
Security numbers
Homeland Security Secretary: Border walls work. Yuma sector
proves it. Wall built in 2006 with support by then-Sens. Clinton, Obama, Biden and
others, cut illegal border crossings by 90%.
Ocasio-Cortez Suggests Illegal Immigrants are ‘More
American’ Than Trump Supporters
How refreshing! ‘Age of self-inflicted American shame is
over’: Secretary of State Pompeo delivers blistering anti-Obama speech in Cairo
President Trump to Liberal Media: “I’d Say 80% of You Are
Possibly in Coordination with the Opposition Party”
20 Latin American leaders criticize Pope’s call for
‘reconciliation’ with brutal communist regimes
Quiet preparations are underway within conservative legal
circles and the White House counsel’s office in the event that Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg retires
New Brazilian President Bolsonaro declares Brazil's
'liberation from socialism' as he is sworn in
Bolsonaro Vows to Legalize Guns for Self Defense
Bolsonaro Pulls Brazil From U.N. Migration Accord
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
recently proposed a 70 percent top federal income tax rate. This
would nearly double the current top tax bracket. Ocasio-Cortez fails to mention that the tax
code is already steeply progressive.
The Top 20% of Households Pay 88% of Federal Income Taxes
Boston Mayor’s Office to Force Doctors to Identify and
Document Patients Who Own Guns
Protesters demand Hillary’s friend, California Democratic
megadonor Ed Buck's arrest after second man found dead in his apartment. Buck,
a well-known figure in LGBT political circles, has given more than
$500,000 to a range of Democratic groups and candidates. In July of last year, LA prosecutors declined
to file charges after the first body was found.
New American Psychological Association guidelines warn of
'traditional masculinity,' men harmed by too much 'competitiveness'.
Professor at Portland State uses ‘feminist buzzwords’ to get
entire passage from Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ published in academic journal. Peter Boghossian and his colleagues said they were stunned by
how easily the joke papers were published in what he described as 'grievance
studies'.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8161194/professor-uses-feminist-buzzwords-hitler-mein-jampf-published/
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Investors Business Daily
1/10
Yes, There Is A Crisis At The Border — The Numbers Show It
Democrats
and the mainstream press accuse President Donald Trump of manufacturing a
crisis at the border. The numbers tell another story.
As
soon as the words "growing humanitarian and security crisis at our
Southern border" left Trump's lips in his Oval Office address this week,
Democrats and media "fact-checkers" were trying to dispel it as a
deliberate lie.
House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump "must stop manufacturing a crisis, and
must reopen the government." NPR's
"fact check" — like countless others — dismissed Trump's claim as
false because "illegal border crossings in the most recent fiscal year
(ending in September 2018) were actually lower than in either 2016 or
2014." What they aren't telling you is border patrol agents
apprehended more than 100,000
people trying to enter the country illegally in just October and November of
last year. Or that that number is way up from the same two months the year
before. Nor do they mention that last year, the border patrol apprehended more
than half a million people trying to get into the country illegally.
And that number, too, is up from the year before.
Trump's
critics certainly don't bother to mention that those figures only count
illegals the border patrol caught. It does not count the ones who
eluded border patrol agents and got into the country. The Department
of Homeland Security
claims that about 20% of illegal border crossers make it into the country.
Other studies, however, say border agents fail to apprehend as much as 50% of
illegal crossers. Even at the lower percentage, that means that 104,000
illegals made it into the country in 2018 alone.
Is
that not a crisis at the border?
Pelosi
and company also don't bother to mention the fact that there are already
between 12 million and 22 million illegals — depending on which study you use —
in the country today. Let's put that number in perspective.
At
the high end, it means that the illegal population in the U.S. is larger than
the entire population of countries like Syria, Chile, the Netherlands
and Ecuador. Even if the number is just 12 million, that's still more than the
entire population of Sweden, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Denmark, Finland, Norway,
Ireland and New Zealand. It is, in short, a massive number.
Here's
more perspective. The U.S. is virtually alone in the world in having such a
large share of its population in the country illegally. An analysis by the
nonpartisan ProCon.org found that in 2010 almost 4% of the
U.S. population was in the country illegally. The average for 13 other
countries it analyzed was just 1.3%. In France, for example, illegals make up
just 0.9% of its population. It's 0.3% in Germany, 0.8% in Spain, and 0.5% in
the Netherlands.
Isn't
having millions in the country illegally, with thousands joining them every
day, not a crisis at the border?
Critics
also complain that Trump overstated the risk of illegal immigrants committing
crimes. They all point to a report from the Cato Institute, a pro-immigration
libertarian think tank. Cato did a statistical analysis of census data and concluded
that incarceration rates for Hispanic illegals were slightly lower than those
of the native-born.
But
the Center for Immigration Studies looked at federal crime statistics. It found that
noncitizens accounted for more than 20% of federal convictions, even though
they make up just 8.4% of the population. "It is almost certain that a
majority of noncitizens convicted of federal crimes are illegal
immigrants," said Steven Camarota of the CIS.
Texas
also has been monitoring crimes committed by illegals. It reports that from 2011 to 2018, it booked 186,000
illegal aliens. Police charged them with a total of 292,000 crimes. Those
included 539 murders, 32,000 assaults, 3,426 sexual assaults, and almost 3,000
weapons charges.
Even
if Cato is right that the crime rate among Hispanic illegals is a bit lower
than for natives, that's cold comfort to victims of these crimes, which would
not have happened had the border been more secure. They would likely agree with
Trump about their being a crisis at the border.
Here's
another problem with claims that we don't have a crisis at the border. Past
presidents all treated it like one. In 1982, for example, President Ronald
Reagan said that "The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in
violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to
the interests of the United States." President Bill Clinton said in his
1995 State of the Union address that "All Americans … are rightly
disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country."
That's why, he said, "our administration has moved aggressively to
secure our borders." President George Bush, in a prime-time Oval Office
speech in 2006, declared that securing the U.S. border is a basic
responsibility of a sovereign nation. It is also an urgent requirement of
our national security." Bush also promised to end the practice of
catch-and-release "once and for all." He said that "people will
know that they'll be caught and sent home if they enter our country illegally."
President Barack Obama in 2005 declared that "we simply cannot allow
people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented,
unchecked." And in 2014 even he admitted there was a crisis on the border
— one that he did virtually nothing to fix. (Apprehensions at the border last
year were almost the same as in 2014.)
Yet
despite repeated promises by presidents and Congress for the past three
decades, the border remains nearly as porous as ever. And catch-and-release is
still alive and well. Is it any wonder so many try to cross the border
illegally every month. Isn't the failure of leaders to do what they all say is
necessary to protect national security interests the very definition of a
crisis at the border?
Democrats,
it seems, want to label everything a crisis. We have a health care crisis. A
clean water crisis. A "food desert" crisis. An infrastructure crisis.
A homelessness crisis. Democrats label just about everything a
crisis. Why? Because they want to whip up public support for bigger, more
expensive, more intrusive government programs.
Everything,
that is, except for the very real, long-standing crisis posed by a porous
border that each year lets in tens of thousands of illegals.
Michelle Malkin flashback:
“The Incredible
Disappearing Border Fence” In
2007 Democrats and Republicans in Washington responded to continued public
outrage over border chaos by passing the “Secure Fence Act.” The law specifically called for “at least two
layers of reinforced fencing, the installation of additional physical barriers,
roads, lighting, cameras and sensors” at five specific stretches of border
totaling approximately 700 miles. GOP leaders patted themselves on the back for
their toughness. President Bush made a huge to-do in signing the bill into law…..one
year after implementation, only five miles of fencing had been built…To add
insult to injury, Congress failed to adopt a ban on federal aid to “sanctuary
cities”, voted to stall implementation of stricter ID standards at border
crossings, and miraculously found enough money to provide $10 million in
“emergency” funding for attorneys of illegal aliens.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“I believe in what the president is doing. When he says that
this is a national security problem, he’s absolutely correct. And that doesn’t
come just from me — that comes from professionals who have been doing this
their entire adult lives, serving the country on the border, protecting the
citizens. They’re saying [the wall] works.”
-Obama
Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan
“More physical barriers are part of the solution. The goal
of the migrants is simply to set foot into the United States and then perhaps
stay for years or never leave as their asylum claims are adjudicated. It gives
us more control if it is harder to cross illegally and they can be made to
apply at ports of entry.”
-National
Review
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MORE ON TUCKER CARLSON’S MONOLOGUE
“The
invisible political hand is not the baker and the butcher and the brewer, but
rather the banker and the bureaucrat and the Bloombergs…..now that those same sentiments have
been expressed, not just by President Trump but by Fox News host Tucker
Carlson, they are considered heresy by the anti-Trump Right. In his passionate monologue
on January 3, Carlson
gutted Washington’s ruling class for its indifference to the plight of wide
swaths of the American populace. Carlson argued that the health of a nation cannot
just be measured in GDP—thinking so makes you “an idiot,” he declared—and that
the disintegration of the family coupled with a rise in drug use, suicide rates
and chronic unemployment in rural America is largely the result of not just
antipathy but animus toward our working class brethren.”
Red Lobster Faces Boycott, Mockery After Pulling Ads From
Tucker Carlson
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LEFTIST WATCH
“The Godfather: How Saul Alinsky went from Al Capone underling
(really!) to the godfather of political chaos.”
Important article connects a lot of dots. "The nonsense did not start with Occupy
Wall Street……Indeed, Hillary Clinton's speech (on Alinsky, 1969) was a sign of
things to come. A spirit of Alinsky-style activism ebbed and flowed for the
next half-century.” (and goes on now)
Newly minted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she isn't
modeling her brand of socialism on socialist basket cases like Venezuela, but
on successes like Sweden, Norway and Finland. Apparently, she hasn't bothered
to look at just what sorts of economic policies those "socialist"
countries have been pursuing lately.
In an example of journalism used to conceal, rather than
expose, truth, CBS's 60 Minutes can stand up and take a bow for its
mother of all puff pieces on New York's newly elected socialist congresswoman,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Cream puff journalism at its finest. Heck, it was a campaign ad. Or
call it a belated campaign contribution, because it was anything but
hard-hitting.
Ocasio-Cortez compares herself to Lincoln, FDR.
Vatican News Pays tribute to 60th anniversary of Cuban
communist revolution, then deletes post
Important article, cited by Mark Levin in his comments on Trump’s
Oval Office address: A liberal explains to a liberal audience “How Democrats Lost
Their Way on Immigration” “Between 2008
and 2016, Democrats became more and more confident that the country’s growing
Latino population gave the party an electoral edge. To win the presidency,
Democrats convinced themselves, they didn’t need to reassure white people
skeptical of immigration so long as they turned out their Latino base. “The
fastest-growing sector of the American electorate stampeded toward the
Democrats this November,” Salon declared after Obama’s 2008 win. “If
that pattern continues, the GOP is doomed to 40 years of wandering in a desert…..
Alongside pressure from pro-immigrant activists came pressure from corporate
America, especially the Democrat-aligned tech industry… This combination of
Latino and corporate activism made it perilous for Democrats to discuss
immigration’s costs, as Bernie Sanders learned the hard way..”
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ISLAM
Amazon agrees to remove products offensive to Muslims.
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GLOBALONEY
Did You Know the Greatest Two-Year Global Cooling Event Just
Took Place?
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ARTICLES
The Great Wall of America Will Break the Democrats
Katie Pavlich: Nancy Pelosi’s immoral border stance.
Alabama Republican Roy Moore was reportedly targeted during
the state's Senate special election in 2017:
“Democrats created a Facebook page that gave the false impression that
it was the work of Baptist teetotalers supporting Moore in the contest. That
“Dry Alabama” Facebook page – which called for outlawing alcohol in the state –
intended to alienate pro-business, moderate Republicans from Moore.”
Hollywood values: Christian
Bale made sure to thank Lucifer during his acceptance speech at the Golden
Globes. Rep. Liz
Cheney (R-WY) — daughter of former Vice President Cheney — won the day with the
best response. “Satan probably inspired him to
do this, too: ‘Christian Bale arrested for ‘assault on mother and sister’, The
Independent.”
VDH: FBI Hillary
investigation: An Epidemic of Erasures, Redactions, Omissions, and
Perjuries
Since Watergate, the Washington wisdom has always held that
it’s not the crime, it’s the coverup that sinks a politician. But that’s only
the case when the coverup fails. But what if the coverup succeeds? The crimes are never uncovered and the
perpetrators are never brought to justice no matter how serious their crimes
may be. That is precisely what has happened because of the FBI and Justice
Department’s coverup of their abuses of power and illegal actions during the
2016 election. In this case, the FBI and the Justice Department have
succeeded in the most significant coverup in American political history. The
abuses of power and crimes they have succeeded in covering up are not only
against the law: they are crimes against our system of law and government. They
were perpetrated by employees of the government, under color of law, with the
intention of affecting the outcome of an election.
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INTERESTING
29 Facts About the Border and Mexican Cartels You Need to
Know
Top 10 Things Liberals Will Try To Ban Within The Next
Decade
“Is the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia?” Interesting story.
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WISE
WORDS
“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a
statesman.”
-John Adams
(1815)
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