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Friday, January 11, 2019
Cheney Haters Flop at the Golden Globes
Anyone catching the television ads for the Dick Cheney-trashing movie “Vice” found a heavy promotion of the surprising six Golden Globe nominations it received from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
It’s About Time the United States Embraced My Immigration Plan
Judging from my Twitter feed, I’m some sort of nativist hatemonger for believing that borders should be enforced and that national sovereignty matters.
Bigoted King Out of Step With American Ideals
As a percentage of its population, Iowa sent more troops to fight in the Civil War than any other state.
Democrats Were for a Wall Before They Were Against It
The current government shutdown is, by far and away, the stupidest government shutdown in American history.
Hold Tight on the Wall, President Trump
The Democrats are no more serious about border security today than they were when they falsely promised Ronald Reagan they’d secure the border.
Social Media Is People
In the 1973 dystopian film “Soylent Green,” Detective Frank Thorn, played by Charlton Heston, investigates the Soylent Corporation.
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Trump Stands Strong
A White House meeting between President Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer ended just moments ago. Sen. Schumer angrily told reporters that the “president just got up and walked out.”
The Biggest Problem With Immigration
It has become hard to discuss immigration in our country today, because if you have any misgivings about anything remotely related to it, everybody thinks it’s about race. And now that I have noted the elephant in the room, everything I say will be considered to be code for race.
Miscellaneous Observations
The teleprompter is not Donald Trump’s best friend, so the edge was off on style points during his Tuesday night speech. But I would still give him high single-digit ratings.
Negotiating a No-Deal Brexit
In an ideal world, America’s break with King George III’s Britain would have been a clean, simple affair. We’d have announced our intention to leave, been told to suit ourselves and there’s the door, and bang — it would’ve been done.
Trump: National Security Is Worth Wall
At first, Maria Salinas didn’t understand why her guide was offering her birth control. Of all the things she could take on her trip through the desert, why this? Later on, she says, it made sense. The money she paid to get to the U.S. border was nothing, she found out, compared to the real cost.
The Trump ‘Resistance’: Right-Wing Racists Bad, Left-Wing Racists Not So Much
Newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in a recent “60 Minutes” interview, said there is “no question” that President Donald Trump is “racist.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Faces Poverty’s Demise Worldwide
As every public-spirited citizen of these United States knows by now, 29-year-old Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
Media Throw Everything at Wall to See What Sticks
Now that Trump has finally turned to the campaign promise that won him the election — build a wall and deport illegals — the Democrats, the media and even most Republicans are hysterical.
The Ironies of Illegal Immigration
In sum, illegal immigration is both logical and nonsensical.
The Trump Speech and the Response
Despite advance billing that President Trump’s border wall speech would break news and contain new information, it was mostly familiar rhetoric: criminals and drugs, rapists and murderers are coming to America and the wall is the only way to stop them.
The DOJ Shouldn’t Reignite the Fight Against Intrastate Gambling
The government has been shut down for over two weeks and is on track to become the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
A Message to Our Newly (Re)Elected Officials: You Won! Now What?
The election season is over. For some voters, going to the polls was merely a civic duty. For others, voting was a matter of stewardship and understanding that God gives us this American privilege, and we will be held accountable for every vote we cast.
Beyond the Border
The problems of illegal immigration and mass migration extend well beyond border communities and deep into the interior of the country. There are tremendous costs imposed on taxpayers everywhere.
Trump Won the Night. Schumer and Pelosi Lost.
WASHINGTON — President Trump did something Tuesday night that he has rarely done since taking office: He used the presidential bully pulpit to reach beyond his hardcore base of supporters to make his case to the American people as a whole.