National Security Debates on the Border and Beyond

*All the key Democrat Party leaders, including incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have repeatedly advocated for border security and strong immigration laws — until it was no longer politically expedient to do so. Democrats oppose securing our southern border for two reasons: first, because Trump supports it, and second, because these illegal immigrants and their progeny represent the Democrat Party’s most promising and powerful source of new votes.*

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Two national security issues are casting a long shadow over 2019.

By Mark Alexander  ~

“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.” —George Washington

Sometimes, the first column of the year is an easy one — just a few reflections about the year past and the year to come.

Unfortunately, the last week of 2018 was marred by a couple of political confrontations that are casting a long shadow over the new year. Most notable among those issues are two significant national security issues.

The first of these is a rather straightforward interruption of some “non-essential government bureaucracies” beginning on 22 December, which…

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Let the Battle Royal Begin!

*Because the interviewer didn’t follow up with the obvious question, I was left to wonder by what conceivable standard they could determine the authenticity of someone named Robert Patrick O’Rourke who called himself “Beto” during the campaign in the hope of convincing Hispanic voters in Texas that he was one of their own.*

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By  Burt Prelutsky    ~   

It was odd to hear a couple of talking heads on Fox handicapping the 2020 Democratic primaries the other evening and declaring Robert O’Rourke the front-runner.

The reason it struck me as odd isn’t because he recently lost the Texas Senate election to Ted Cruz. Texas, after all, is big, but it’s not the entire nation. After all, a conservative like Cruz couldn’t get elected in most places, whereas O’Rourke would surely have won if he’d been able to run in a great many other states.

What struck me as peculiar about the conclusion the two pundits came to was that they explained that unlike Elizabeth Warren, who has advanced herself over the years by passing herself off as a Cherokee, O’Rourke was, of all things, “authentic.”

Because the interviewer didn’t follow up with the obvious question, I was left to wonder…

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Churchill and Carlson

*Why anyone would be particularly invested in having a Cherokee represented on the faculty is something that only virtue-signaling ignoramuses who have managed to transform an Ivory Tower into an ivy-covered Tower of Babel can explain.*

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By  Burt Prelutsky   ~    

I’ve had Elizabeth Warren on my mind lately because she is said to be questioning her chances of garnering her party’s presidential nomination in 2020 because of the controversy over her ludicrous claim to be a Cherokee. She feels it has wrecked her chances of obtaining the support of minorities.

That would certainly set her back in spite of Deval Patrick’s dropping out of the race because, in spite of their playing coy about their intentions, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris are definitely seeking the brass ring.

So far as Warren’s cultural appropriation goes, passing herself off as an Indian definitely got her a professorship at Harvard, where a premium is placed on certain minority groups; all of them in fact, except the Chinese.

Why anyone would be particularly invested in having a Cherokee represented on the faculty is something that only…

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Will Democrats Get the Recession They Want?

Three months ago when stock prices were at record highs, The Washington Post’s Beltway elitists declared, “A record-breaking market doesn’t matter to most Americans.”

Really? Even though more than half of Americans own stocks and other types of investments, including their homes, that are dependent on a strong economy?

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For the next two years, job and income prospects for tens of millions of American workers and their families will fall victim to the Demos politically induced recession.

By Mark Alexander   ~  

“[Members of Congress] are the Servants of the People, sent together to do the People’s Business…” —Benjamin Franklin (1785)

Three months ago when stock prices were at record highs, The Washington Post’s Beltway elitists declared, “A record-breaking market doesn’t matter to most Americans.”

Really? Even though more than half of Americans own stocks and other types of investments, including their homes, that are dependent on a strong economy?

Of course, the WaPo was lamenting the fact that most of the value of equities held by Americans is in the hands of 20% of investors. Ironically, a sizable chunk of that is held by Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest individual in the world. Ironic…

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Opportunity Zones: Trump’s Angelic Plan to Revitalize Our Inner Cities — Goldfire Media

You won’t find much attention on this development from the disgustingly hateful and divisive mainstream media. President Donald Trump has just launched a new interagency-wide council to help funnel federal spending into the designated low-income zones created in last year’s tax bill. These zones, called “opportunity zones” were originally brainstormed by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, […]

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No Jingle Bells For You! Trump Cancels White House Christmas Party For Press

*It’s a much more festive press party when the president is someone that 99.9 percent of the press eagerly voted for on Election Day. Call them the “Enemy of the People,” and they might forego the free food and photos.*

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By Tim Graham ~

Fox News media reporter/anchor Howard Kurtz broke the scoop that the Trump White House cancelled the annual Christmas party with the press. This shouldn’t be that much of a surprise, in that the Trumps haven’t attended the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and after the court fights over the brief suspension of CNN yeller Jim Acosta’s press pass, it was not going to be a chummy get-together.

Not everyone would show up. In November 2017, CNN announced that it would not send its journalists to that year’s holiday party. At last year’s party — held in mid-afternoon, not the usual evening soiree — the Trumps did not uphold the tradition of taking photos with the journalists, possibly because few reporters would want the picture (to go with their giggly Clinton/Obama Christmas photos). As Kurtz explained:

But the biggest fringe-benefit was the picture-taking sessions, in which the…

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The Democrat Platform: Foment Fear, Anger, Hatred, and Division

*The unanticipated election of Donald Trump in 2016 resulted in the rapid disintegration of the tenor and tone of discourse between Republicans and Democrats. Given the latter’s rapid transformation from a once-proud political party into an unhinged socialist camp, the systemic assault on Liberty has never been as organized, well-funded, and targeted as it is today. Nor did it ever have the tacit approval of a major political party.*

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The Democrats are systematically disuniting America and giving rise to leftist mob rule.

By Mark Alexander ~  

“The influence of your personal character moderates the divisions of political parties…” —George Washington (1789)

In his extraordinarily forward-looking 1796 “Farewell Address,” President George Washington recommended for our “solemn contemplation” and “frequent review, some sentiments which are the result of much reflection” and “which appears to me all important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.”

Among the most notable advice he offered was a warning about the danger of those who would seek to divide the nation in order to empower their own partisan interests. He noted that the “love of power and proneness to abuse it” would result in “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled” political leaders who would “organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated…

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‘Are You Comfortable With Tear-Gassing Children?’

*TV networks, overreliant on emotional images and under-reliant on facts, are presenting this, as they present everything else, as an outrage caused by … President Trump. A radical group called “People Without Borders,” organizes hundreds of people to clash violently at the border, and somehow the only controversial player is Trump.*

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By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham ~

The well-publicized “caravan” of illegal immigrants has arrived in large numbers at our border near Tijuana, Mexico, despite MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough insisting it was like tales of Martians: “They’re not coming.” They are climbing over and through walls, which CNN’s Jim Acosta lectured the president would never happen.

TV networks, overreliant on emotional images and under-reliant on facts, are presenting this, as they present everything else, as an outrage caused by … President Trump. A radical group called “People Without Borders,” organizes hundreds of people to clash violently at the border, and somehow the only controversial player is Trump.

The November 26 NBC Nightly News was especially egregious, triumphantly broadcasting NBC White House reporter Hallie Jackson asking the president “Are you comfortable with tear-gassing children? Like what we saw at the border?”

So here’s the first thing we know. The Border Patrol…

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NY Times Offensively Tries To Ostracize Jared And Ivanka For Not Being ‘Good For The Jews’

The article was written by Amy Chozick and Hannah Seligson; Chozick wrote Chasing Hillary, a fawning book about her experience on the campaign beat with the Methodist “Saint Hillary.”

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By Clay Waters ~

The New York Times sank into an ugly ethnic and religious controversy in its Sunday Styles story on American Jewish reaction to the politically powerful couple of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, a take many found offensive: “But Are They Good for the Jews?”

That question is a traditional one in the Jewish community, but using it as a headline underlined the offensiveness of the article, which pondered if this Jewish couple should be anathema to the larger Jewish community.

The article was written by Amy Chozick and Hannah Seligson; Chozick wrote Chasing Hillary, a fawning book about her experience on the campaign beat with the Methodist “Saint Hillary.”

The story’s spin was all too clear, as an inappropriate anti-Trump rant by a movie producer was spun as brave free speech against a raucous mob.

On election night in Beverly Hills, Jason Blum, the…

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Ninth Circuit Rules Against Trump Ending DACA

*Wow. DACA – Democrats Against Citizens of America. Finally, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling gets to the Supreme Court.*

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Obama’s unconstitutional “Dreamers” order will now head to the Supreme Court.

By   Political Editors  ~  

 

On Thursday, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that President Donald Trump’s decision to end Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was illegal. In its ruling, the court rejected Trump’s correct argument that DACA was unconstitutionally created in the first place, ruling that “DACA was a permissible exercise of executive discretion.” No it wasn’t, and even Obama repeatedly said so … until it was politically convenient to change his mind. Furthermore, it’s ironic that the court doesn’t think Trump, as the president, has the same authority to rescind Obama’s executive order. In fact, the judges alleged that Trump’s decision to rescind was “based on an erroneous view of what the law required” and that “the rescission was arbitrary and capricious under settled law.”

Seems to us…

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