When Is a Wall Not a Wall?
That is the question that has been plaguing me lately. Campaigner Trump said he wanted an actual wall. President Trump says he would be happy with some sort of actual barrier, whether it is composed of cement or steel stakes. The Democrats, in the meanwhile, say they want border security, but definitely oppose a wall.
That is the question that has been plaguing me lately. Campaigner Trump said he wanted an actual wall. President Trump says he would be happy with some sort of actual barrier, whether it is composed of cement or steel stakes. The Democrats, in the meanwhile, say they want border security, but definitely oppose a wall.
Frankly, I don’t care what materials they use in building the thing or whether they call it a wall, a fence or a doodad, so long as it keeps out those who would sneak in if they could.
I happen to favor a barrier that border agents can see through, so they can easily keep an eye on what the chiselers are up to. I would also like to see the agents using drones to provide them with a bird’s eye view of what’s being staged on Mexico’s side. In addition, I would like to have our side mined with sound-sensors, so we can finally put an end to the tunnels that drug and people smugglers have used for decades to avoid detection.
As for the Democrats, they’ve been lying for over 30 years, ever since they vowed to build Ronald Reagan a wall if only he’d agree to sign a bill granting amnesty to the 3.5 million illegal aliens who were already inside our borders. Typically, the Democrats reneged on their word, leaving Mr. “Trust-But-Verify” with egg on his face.
Today, when the likes of Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Nancy Pelosi, speak of border security, what they mean is an open border that provides security for the constant stream of interlopers whom they have good reason to believe will spend their lives voting for liberals.
Speaking of which, Judicial Watch, one of the few groups worthy of your donations, announced the other day that it has signed a settlement agreement with the State of California and County of Los Angeles under which they will begin the process of removing from their voter registration rolls as many as 1.5 million inactive registered names that may be invalid. These removals are required by the National Voter Registration Act.
The NVRA is a federal law requiring the removal of inactive registrations from the voter rolls after two general federal elections. Inactive voter registrations belong, for the most part, to voters who have moved to another county or state or have passed away.
In Chicago, such a draconian ruling might deplete the voter rolls by as much as 50%.
Someone sent me side-by-side photos of Mitt Romney and Elizabeth Warren. It shows him saying: “I’m a Republican.” It shows her responding: “I have more Indian in me than Mitt has Republican in him.”
Here in L.A., we are so desperate for good news that I was tempted to don a party hat and toss confetti in the air on January 1st, when I got into my car, turned on the radio and found that my favorite talk radio station had replaced Michael (“I attended Yale Law School with Hillary Clinton and she was very nice”) Medved with Sebastian Gorka, author of “Defeating Jihad” and President Trump’s former special advisor on terrorism.
So far as I’m concerned, that’s the equivalent of trading a utility infielder for a young Derek Jeter.
It occurred to me that if I ran Fox News, I would dispatch a camera crew to go around the country and photograph the homes of all the high-profile Democrats who so self-righteously object to Trump’s wall, and show the walls that surround their own domiciles, which include mansions and castles.
On second thought, it might be even better if Trump ordered it done. He does, after all, have a much larger audience than Fox. Just let Nancy Pelosi insist that walls are immoral and inefficient when the world gets a gander at the one that surrounds her own 3-story, 13,500 square foot, home in the ritzy Pacific Heights section of San Francisco.
As if that’s not bad enough, her district office is 3,075 square feet and costs the American taxpayer $18,736-a-month. It is, in case you were wondering, the most expensive congressional district office in the nation.
Recently, an American astronaut set off alarm bells at NASA when he placed a call from space. He left off the all-important zero when making the call, so that it ended with his calling 911 in Houston. Clearly, this was a Houston problem, but not the sort they’re accustomed to hearing about.
J Street, a Jewish group that identifies itself as the political home for Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace Americans, dedicated to bringing about a diplomatic resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Unfortunately, it is an ultra-liberal group, which is part of the reason that a lot of people deem it, quite appropriately, as being pro-Arab and anti-Israel. Whether it is or is not is, frankly, beside the point. Anyone who believes that the Palestinians, led by the terrorist group Hamas, wants anything less than the extinction of Israel is too dumb to be trusted.
In any case, like other such groups, it is more than willing to take seriously anyone who speaks high-sounding bilge, sprinkled with the usual references to “brotherhood,” “meeting of the minds” and “peaceful ends,” etc.
During the 2018 midterms, one of its missions was to help elect Rashida Tlaib, a 42-year-old Palestinian-American running in Michigan’s 13th District.
As it happened, the district, which is located in Detroit, wound up with five candidates in the general election, four of them black, one of them Ms. Tlaib.
Because the four blacks split up 68.8% of the votes between them, Tlaib wound up getting elected with just 27,803 (31.2%) of the 89,179 votes cast.
As it happens, if even the one who came in dead last, Shanelle Jackson, had stayed out of it, her 4,848 votes would have been enough to put second-place finisher, Brenda Jones (31,084 votes) over the top.
Judging by her comment the other day, Ms. Tlaib will be a worthy addition to the left side of the House aisle. Shortly after being sworn in as a member of the 116th Congress, she received an ovation from her brainless supporters at MoveOn.org when she announced: “When your son looks at you and says, ‘Momma, look you won. Bullies don’t win.’ And I say, ‘Baby, they don’t because we’re gonna go in there and we’re going to impeach the mother—er!’”
I imagine, but can’t swear to it, that among those cheering her the loudest were her new sorority sisters, Maxine Waters and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Good luck, Speaker Pelosi, you’re going to need it. If you thought herding cats in the past was tough, you ain’t seen nothing yet. You just might want to consider building a wall around your House office.
