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Re: A Bad Border Bargain

“The compromise bill would ‘allow more than 1.8 million illegal crossings a year.’ Come again? Exactly how does a legally legislated bill ‘allow’ 1.8 million ILLEGAL acts? This is how Democrats work: they create a crisis, then pass some compromise law that allows half of the crisis to continue legally. Rinse, repeat. End result: They get what they want — unregulated illegal border crossings — yet they claim it was via bipartisan legislation.” —Virginia

“The Eisenhower administration was able to deport over one million in one year with a lot less resources than the CBP has now. The entire government, no matter which party, and businesses that knowingly employ illegals are complicit in all of this.” —Tennessee

Re: The Abbott-Biden Mexican Standoff

“Appreciate the navel-gazing, but we Texans are way past the point of caring whether anything we do passes the legal muster of an illegitimate government. We don’t need to be held to any standards beyond what the administration is being held to, which is none. We are fully capable of interpreting the spirit and intent of the Constitution, including the duty to throw off an oppressive government when necessary.” —Texas

“Texas has every right to protect its citizens. Just because the feds abdicate their responsibility to protect the border is no reason for Texas to roll over and whimper. What Biden and his lackeys/puppeteers have done is treasonous as well as a violation of their oaths of office!” —Washington

Re: Tuesday Short Cuts

“Two months ago, my team [began] to work with a bipartisan group of senators to put together the toughest, smartest, fairest border security bill in history. … If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.” —Joe Biden

“He may be in mental decline, but slick career politician Joe Biden knows very well he can close the border down today as a ploy to gain votes. Even if he did close it, it would not erase the damage his open-border policy has done to the United States, especially Texas. This treacherous disregard of his presidential duty would seem to indicate that his intent all along has been to destroy the republic in accordance to what his boss, Barack Obama, has always wanted to do.” —North Carolina

Re:: Biden’s ‘[Insert Policy Failure Here] Crisis’

“We are going to end up with another toothless response to the border crisis. The correct number of illegals to be allowed into America is ZERO, NIL, NADA, NONE.” —New Jersey

“Does anyone think that Biden actually sits in conferences with his military and intelligence analysts and makes decisions to move forward based on a complex review of the issues and consequences? Haha! Except there is nothing humorous about the deadly perils our nation faces under Biden and his ilk. God help us.” —Massachusetts

“This was an outstanding summary of where we have come from and where we are now. It should be mandatory reading for anyone in this debate, starting with congressional staffers.” —California

Re: Leftmedia Layoffs Are Great News

“You cannot blame the journalists for the death of print media. You have to blame the editors and the publishers for allowing such poor-quality reporting, omission of facts, lack of actual fact-checking, commentary, personal hit pieces, and outright partisan slants to everything. If editors and publishers did their job and kept news reporting to just the facts, they wouldn’t have lost face, or sales, so quickly. It has become too easy to rewrite press releases, or sometimes just print them as received, without any research or boundaries. A pre-1970s print media would have outed all the shenanigans that occurred in politics over the last 60 years.” —Nebraska

Re: Pacific Sunset for the U.S. Navy

“Antimony and rare earth elements have important civilian applications. White LEDs are made by coating blue LEDs with yellow phosphor, most commonly erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Er-YAG). Neodymium or cerium-YAG fibers are used in industrial and medical lasers. Other rare earth elements are used in many permanent magnets, including those made for DC motors and generators. Antimony and bismuth are part of low-melting point alloys for thermal cutoffs and fire sprinkler heads. There are rare earth deposits in Wyoming and Greenland, but they’re still not open after 20+ years of effort, including fighting lawsuits against exploration and development. Any foreign influence behind environmental litigation against mining should be exposed.” —Minnesota

Re: Biden Halts LNG Exports to Spite Texas

“I guess that means no export of LNG outside of Texas. Texas can shut down gas to the rest of the country. Maybe it is a good time to shut down the plants and get caught up on annual maintenance. Saving of labor costs and less taxes for the government might change things some. I guess they call it Russian roulette?” —Texas

Re: DEI at the FBI

“The entire Biden administration is unquestionably compromising not only our national security but also our standing and influence among nations of the world, both allied and opposing. One need only look at the increasing tension and threats everywhere from the likes of Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea. And if this isn’t startling enough, how about the bungling incompetence increasingly encountered in just performing the routine, daily tasks of living? The progressive woke establishment’s preoccupation with DEI must be replaced with expedient merit. The sooner the better.” —Florida

Re: Profiles of Valor: Roger Donlon

“I read Roger Donlon’s book Outpost of Freedom and it was the primary inspiration for my Army Special Forces service. I suspect that many others in my age cohort would say the same thing. Thank you, Colonel Donlon!” —North Carolina