Maybe you've heard, a blue wave is set to refill the swamp faster than Trump can drain it, as wild-eyed liberals will be rushing to the polls to reject the president in November. That may or may not happen, but Democrats aren't flooding the swamp again without overcoming some massive obstacles; some that are so big that you can't miss them, even though the media won't tell you about them. President Trump will need his supporters to keep unhinged, impeachment hungry Democrats at bay, as midterms tend to go against the president's party.
The Democrats have some serious advantages, but we have put together a list of the problems that could stop the blue wave cold. Number 5 is the wildcard that could change history.
1.) Millennials Are Not Buying It;
Reuters just released a poll that Democrat support among millennials has fallen by ten% since 2016. The group is not naturally inclined towards President Trump, but aren't engaged at the level needed to secure Democrat gains in Congress. 34% favored Democrats on the economy, while 32 % favored Republicans.
In 2016, Democrats outperformed Republicans on the economic question by 12 points. If younger, center-left voters don't show in November, Democrats fall short.
2.) Economy Is Better Under Trump Than obuma;
Democrats won the House in 2006 in better economic times, with the unpopular Iraq war and Bush's low approval ratings revving their turnout, but Trump isn't Bush.
Trump has devastated ISIS, passed tax cuts that are boosting the economy and is making history with North Korea. Trump's approval rating is higher than obuma's in 2010, meaning Democrats have their work cut out for them to offer a better vision to midterm voters.
3.) They Have More Candidates Than Money.
The DNC has been outraised by the RNC 3-1, even though individual Democrat candidates are doing well. Dems are chomping at the bit to ride the blue wave, and have flooded primaries, where they are having costly fights with other Democrats. It was reported that House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is asking various far-left candidates to drop out so that more electable Dems can win; this inflames tensions from the killary/bernie battles of 2016. All told, they aren't as unified as the media portrays.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Cali.) has quickly become a liberal darling, nicknamed “Auntie Maxine.”
But to Republicans, she seems to be the gift that keeps on giving. In an interview with Peter Alexander of MSNBC, Waters criticizes Trump for firing FBI Director james comey—but admits an incredible bias: that she would’ve backed killary clinton if she had been the one to fire the embattled comey. “You said that FBI Director james comey had no credibility,” Alexander told Waters.
“Wouldn't you support the fact that the president, then-candidate Trump, now president Trump, made the decision to get rid of him?” “No, not necessarily,” Waters said. They continued to tussle over the fact that Waters thought comey had no credibility and was unable to conduct the duties of his office—but didn’t support Trump firing him. Alexander then asked: "So if killary clinton had won the White House, would you have recommended that she fire FBI Director james comey? " "If she had won the White House, I believe that given what he did to her, and what he tried to do, she should have fired him! Yes,” Waters said, referring to clinton’s allegation that comey had helped sway the 2016 election by reopening an FBI investigation into her emails days before the vote. "So she should have fired him but had he shouldn't fire him,” clarified Alexander. "This is why I'm confused." "No, no, you're not confused," Waters told Alexander. "I AM confused," Alexander responded. The Democrats, who had been blaming comey for spoiling killary clinton’s chances at the White House as recently as last week, have done a complete 180—and slammed Trump for firing a man they hated. Like Peter Alexander, the rest of us are all confused.
President Trump blasted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as an “embarrassment” to the country and said it's “DEAD as we know it,” in the latest fallout over Saturday night's crude comedy routine. In a tweet Monday morning, the president slammed the annual dinner held by the White House Correspondents’ Association, following a routine by Michelle Wolf that many -- including the head of the association -- found inappropriate. “The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is DEAD as we know it. This was a total disaster and an embarrassment to our great Country and all that it stands for. FAKE NEWS is alive and well and beautifully represented on Saturday night!” Trump tweeted.
The presentation comes just days before President Trump is expected to make a decision about whether to scrap or fix the Iran nuclear agreement.
European allies have argued the deal must stay, while they admit there are serious flaws when it comes to the sunset provision, terrorism and Iran's destabilization of the region.
"President Trump in a few days time will make a decision about what to do about the nuclear deal," Netanyahu said. "I'm sure he'll do that right thing."
President Trump responded to Netanyahu's presentation at the White House shortly after Netanyahu concluded his remarks.
"This is not an acceptable situation," President Trump said from the Rose Garden. "In seven years, that deal will have expired and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons.
That is not acceptable! "Seven years' is tomorrow, that’s not acceptable.
If anything, what Israel has done today in the news conference was right."
Speaking from Tel Aviv Monday afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed the world that Iran had a secret nuclear program, one they say never existed, before lying about it and signing the 2015 nuclear agreement under the obuma administration.
"Iran is brazenly lying when it says they never had a nuclear weapons program," Netanyahu said.
Standing in front of a power point presentation labelled "Project Amad," Netanyahu revealed Israeli intelligence confiscated 100,000 documents from a secret location in Tehran. Those documents, many of which were in binders and on discs for visual reference, detail Iran's nuclear program through videos, blue prints, spreadsheets and more. The documents have been authenticated by the United States.
"This is just a fraction of the total material we have," Netanyahu said. "Iran lied about never having a nuke program. One-hundred thousand secret files prove that they lied." netanyahu: “Iran lied… After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear files.” Fox News Apr/30/18
Iran has always denied every having a nuclear program, but the files show the regime not only developed one, but had plans to put five Hiroshima sized warheads on ballistic missiles.
netanyahu: “These files conclusively prove that Iran is brazenly lying when it says it never had a nuclear weapons program.” Fox News Apr/30/18
After lying about their existence, instead of destroying the files in 2015 when the nuclear agreement was signed,Iran moved to preserve the documents. In other words, to preserve their nuclear program.
"Even after the deal, Iran continued to preserve and expand its nuclear wepaons knowhow for future use. This is a fraction of what was in the files, Netanyahu says. But there are 4 main conclusions: 1.Iran lied about developing nuclear weapons. 2.They kept the program up after the nuclear deal. 3.They lied in the IAA reports. 4.The entire Iran nuclear deal is based on lies. Lahav Harkov Apr/30/18
Earlier today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed the confiscation of 100,000 Iranian nuclear documents, which were taken out of Tehran by intelligence operatives. The documents show Iran lied about having a secret nuclear program!
Netanyahu described the collection and extradition of the information as a "great intelligence achievement." It was a major, seemingly impossible intelligence success. So, the truth comes out.
Some international affairs experts who are decidedly not inclined to praise this president are openly conceding that his much-pilloried tactics have paid startling and striking dividends:
There's already non-frivolous chatter about a Nobel Peace Prize, of which Trump is arguably already more deserving than the basically-symbolic award foolishly bestowed upon his predecessor.
Will Trump's predecessor ever tire of being embarrassingly wrong?
(3) And oh-by-the-way, the president is making good on a critical and lasting legacy promise that is quite possiblytheprimary reason he won the election, winning over enough dubious conservatives who were swayed by the significance of the federal judiciary:
It's true that this confirmation bonanza is only possible thanks to Harry Reid and the Democrats' Obama-era overreach, but Trump's White House deserves credit for prioritizing this issue -- as does Mitch McConnell. Republican voters should similarly have their collective eye on the ball: Continuing this string of confirmations is one of the most pressing reasons to keep the US Senate in GOP hands following the midterms.
But to all appearances, it’s too late now. They have the bomb and they’ll very shortly be able to deliver it to the mainland United States.
If we’re not game to fight Korean War II, and I don’t think we are, then all diplomatic options are necessary on the table." New pressure points, American leadership, and uncertainty about Trump's designs were major contributors to this historic moment:
The U.S. economy slowed in the first quarter as consumer spending grew at its weakest pace in nearly five years, but the setback is likely temporary against the backdrop of a tightening labor market and large fiscal stimulus. Gross domestic product increased at a 2.3% annual rate, the Commerce Department said in its snapshot of first-quarter GDP on Friday, also held back by a moderation in business spending on equipment and investment in home building. The economy grew at a 2.9% pace in the fourth quarter.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast output rising at a 2.0 percent rate in the January-March period.
The labor market is near full employment and both business and consumer confidence are strong.
These are real, tangible victories for the American people.
(2) A foreign policy breakthrough on the Korean peninsula. After years of predictable US "stability," which the regime in Pyongyang exploited, an unpredictable but attentive American president has shifted the calculus.
Last week we analyzedPresident Trump's assignment of an A-plus grade to his presidency thus far -- noting some of his policy achievements, while pointing out a number of reasons why his approval rating does not reflect his generous self-assessment.
Trump-skeptical conservatives seem so invested in criticizing him that they're either blinded to some of the huge accomplishments playing out before their eyes, or they're allowing the other drama -- both legitimate and exaggerated -- to drown out the wins. This is a mistake!
President Trump is in the process of notching a series of substantial victories for the conservative movement and for America.
“I know the Americans are inherently disposed against us, but when they talk with us, they will see that I am not the kind of person who would shoot nuclear weapons to the south, over the Pacific or at the United States,” Mr. Kim told Mr. Moon, according to Mr. Yoon’s account.
Is this too good to be true? It remains to be seen.
North Korea has made such overtures before and nothing has come of it. Bolton has said that for this to work, North Korea has to agree to Libyan-style disarmament, where then-leader Muammar Gaddafi gave up his weapons of mass destruction program.
We’ll see what happens, a great many on the Left and their allies in the media would hope this fails to give their side a better chance in the upcoming elections and to ensure that President Trump does not one up obuma, whose Iran nuclear deal is falling apart. Were President Trump to win a Nobel Peace Prize, it would destroy most of the left wing talking points against Trump, that he’s an unstable madman whose Twitter account will cause a nuclear apocalypse.
Keeping diplomatic developments coming at a head-snapping pace, the South Korean government said on Sunday that North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, had told President Moon Jae-in that he would abandon his nuclear weapons if the United States agreed to formally end the Korean War and promise not to invade his country.
In a confidence-building gesture ahead of a proposed summit meeting with President Trump, a suddenly loquacious and conciliatory Mr. Kim also said he would invite experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States to watch the shutdown next month of his country’s only known underground nuclear test site.
In Washington, Trump officials spoke cautiously about the chances of reaching a deal and laid out a plan for the dismantling of the North’s nuclear program, perhaps over a two-year period.
That would be accompanied by a “full, complete, total disclosure of everything related to their nuclear program with a full international verification,” said John R. Bolton, President Trump’s new national security adviser.
The apparent concessions from the youthful leader were widely welcomed as promising signs of ending the standoff on the Korean Peninsula, frozen in place since fighting in the Korean War ended 65 years ago.
But skeptics warned that North Korea previously made similar pledges of denuclearization on numerous occasions, with little or no intention of abiding by them. Mr. Kim’s friendly gestures, they said, could turn out to be nothing more than empty promises aimed at lifting sanctions on his isolated country.
A South Korean government spokesman, Yoon Young-chan, provided remarkable details of a summit meeting the two Korean heads of state held on Friday, when Mr. Kim made history by becoming the first North Korean leader to set foot in the South
America’s left wing could get slapped in the face like never before if these Korean peace talks actually accomplish the denuclearization of the peninsula and the end of the decades-long war that’s kept both nations (and the world) on edge.
The Korean War was a three-year bloodbath before an armistice ended the carnage.The war has not yet officially ended.
Since then, South Korea has become a technological hub, with a modern military and a booming economy that catapulted them into the G-20. They’re members of the trillion-dollar club.
North Korea, the world’s largest prison, is a communist hellhole, fraught with human rights abuses. It’s an economically backward nation, one that we really don’t know about concerning the actual socioeconomic situation of the country.
What we do know is that they have nuclear weapons, which they’ve used expertly to capture the world’s attention in order to gain more food and economic aid.
South Korea has heaped much praise on President Trump for bringing the North Koreans to the table, even suggesting that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The series of sanctions slapped against them for missile tests, with added Chinese pressure caused North Korea to renew negotiations. One of their big demands is that the U.S. pledge to never invade North Korea. The U.S. reportedly has a similar agreement with Cuba; we pledged to the Soviet Union/Cuba not to invade in exchange that the U.S. not invade. It led to the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis (via NYT):
About 100 individuals who were a part of the caravan from Mexico have reached the U.S. border in search of asylum. They have not gotten any further because border patrol is detaining them.
Some media outlets are painting the situation as cruel and unusual. Just a take a look at some of the ledes.
NBC: More than a hundred migrants who made a grueling journey to the U.S. border were stranded on the last leg of their trip on Monday as they waited to plead their case to seek asylum after immigration officials said the crossing was at capacity.
CNN: After a difficult, monthlong journey from Central America to the US-Mexico border, dozens of asylum-seeking migrants are vowing to remain outside an immigration processing center until "every last one" is admitted into the country, an organizer with the caravan said late Sunday.
The caravan, CNN adds, "is both a humanitarian and an activist mission, as organizers created the event to draw greater attention to the migrants' plight."
The Washington Post's headline was also sympathetic toward the caravan. "At end of migrant caravan on U.S. border, families fear what comes next." The migrants are "depleted" but "defiant," the editors wrote.
Trump doesn't exactly see the situation through the same empathetic eyes. In a tweet last week, he vowed not to let the trespassing alien caravan pass!
At a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari Monday, President Trump was asked how many of those individuals at the border he believes deserves asylum?
"We are a nation of laws," he responded. "If we don't have a border we don't have a country!"
He's been watching the caravan "for weeks," he said, before reiterating they need a wall.
His decision to send more National Guard troops to the border has been having "a big impact," but policies like catch and release are "ridiculous."
U.S. border laws are "obsolete," "weak" and "pathetic," Trump said.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen emphasized Trump's stand.
"If members of the 'caravan' enter the country illegally, they will be referred for prosecution for illegal entry in accordance with existing law," she said in a statement.
The NRA has said on its website that due to Pence’s attendance, the U.S. Secret Service is responsible for security then. It’s standard for the Secret Service to bar firearms from being carried into places visited by the people they protect, regardless of state laws.
There you have it.The NRA did not ban guns at the event, but in cases where the president and vice president of the United States are addressing the convention, it’s quite understandable that the Secret Service doesn’t want firearms near them.
The Secret Service made this security measure, not the NRA!
Yet, even leaving the Secret Service element aside, the notice about carrying firearms was clearly stated on the website:
During the 2018 NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits,This NOTICE was posted.
Lawfully carried firearms will be permitted in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and the Omni Dallas Hotel in accordance with Texas law.
When carrying your firearm remember to follow all federal, state, and local laws.
So, can we drop this idiocy about the NRA banning guns? This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s just another attempt to bash one of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations by anti-gun left-wingers. Keep it up, folks. We know there’s an election in November.
UPDATE: Kudos to AP for correcting their headline:
FAKE News: The NRA Didn’t Ban Guns At Their Annual Event.
Apr/30/18 Matt Vespa
The National Rifle Association’s annual meeting is upon us and like allergy season, the news media is saying that the organization banned guns because Vice President Mike Pence and President Trump are attending.
The organization’s convention will be held in Dallas, Texas this week.
Oh, and you know this is fake news, right?
NRA bans guns at President Trump, VP Pence speeches during it's annual meeting in Dallas. The Associated Press Apr/30/18
The NRA posted a disclaimer on the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum event page, saying that due to Pence’s attendance, Secret Service will be responsible for event security. Therefore, “firearms and firearm accessories, knives or weapons of any kind will be prohibited in the forum prior to and during his attendance."
President Donald Trump will also reportedly speak at the convention and firearms will be banned for his portion as well.
Attendees at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Dallas can carry their firearms — except during the forum where President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence speak Friday.
A White House official said Monday that Trump will attend Friday. Pence had already been slated to speak at Friday’s leadership forum,
About 2,000 people, some toting handguns and rifles, gathered on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol Saturday, to support gun owners’ rights and to decry firearm regulations proposed by some legislators.
The rally was organized and promoted by several gun-advocacy groups, including the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance and the National Rifle Association.
A handful of speakers, including NRA board member Willes Lee, spoke in support of gun ownership.
“I call B.S. on the government … taking our civil rights,” Lee told the crowd, to cheers. “The Second Amendment affirms my God-given right of self-defense.”
Other speakers included state Republican Party Chair Jennifer Carnahan, state Rep. Marion O’Neill, R-Maple Lake, and two Republicans who are running for congressional seats. All urged the crowd to support GOP candidates in November’s midterm elections.
Rally attendees booed mentions of Gov. Mark Dayton, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and state Sen. Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis Park, who introduced two gun-safety measures that were rejected earlier this week. They jeered mandatory gun registration, chamber limits and universal background checks.
“There’s some that don’t want to carry a gun on their hip or own a firearm to protect their family, and that’s fine,” said Pete Stauber, who is running for a congressional seat in Minnesota’s Eighth District. “But you don’t take it away from us defending ourselves, our families and our grandkids.”
Several in attendance had handguns holstered to their waists or rifles slung across their backs and chests.
I’m not a fan of carrying a gun at a political rally or protest for a lot of reasons, but partially because it gives journalists a reason to mention it, thus painting us all as 'loonies' who can’t go a single minute without a gun in reach, like we’re addicts. But I get that not everyone agrees, and it’s not the end of the world.
What really matters, is that thousands stood before their state capitol and made it clear that they support the Second Amendment.
While anti-gunners routinely think the public is really with them, this sends lawmakers a clear signal that polling numbers are irrelevant in the face of determined patriots who AREN'T going down without a fight.
This is especially true, considering many who may support gun control don’t make it a priority while those who support the Second Amendment do. In other words, come after the guns if you wish, but it won’t work out well for you.
Two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan left at least 30 people dead Monday, including at least eight journalists. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The bomber targeted journalists, disguising himself as a cameraman going to the site after a first explosion, according to Agence France Presse.
AFP photographer Shah Marai is among the dead.
AFP Global News Director Michele Leridon commented on the death of the photographer in a statement.
"This is a devastating blow, for the brave staff of our close-knit Kabul bureau and the entire agency,” she said. “Shah Marai was a treasured colleague who spent more than 15 years documenting the tragic conflict in Afghanistan for AFP."
BBC listed other journalists that have been identified as victims:
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement on the social media app Telegram, according to CNN.
The group said a "martyrdom brother" blew his explosive vest up among a group of "apostates." They identified the first bomber as Qaqaa al-Kurdi and the second as Khalil al-Qurshi, but did not provide evidence of their claims.
Interior minister spokesperson Najib Danish told BBC that at least eight journalists and four police officers were among the dead.
Forty-five people total have been reported injured thus far.
REPORT Trump's Deportation Leader Stepping Down.
4/30/18 The Hill by: Avery Anapol
Thomas Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who President Trump had tapped to lead the agency permanently, reportedly plans to retire in the coming months.
Three sources familiar with Homan's plans told The Wall Street Journal that he will announce his retirement on Monday and leave the agency in June.
Trump tapped Homan to permanently lead the agency in November, but his nomination has been stalled in the Senate.
The agency's arrests have risen sharply under Homan as part of the Trump administration's push to crack down on illegal immigration.
This is just a sample of what is really going on out there. There are various gangs from different groups that have members join the military to hide in plain sight, get training, recruit members, arrange for helpers, and then go on to train other gang members after completion of duty. I am quite sure there are some that have infiltrated military intelligence and pass on info to their associates here and abroad.
The drug cartels have people in the military, the street gangs have people in the military, and the terrorists de jour have people in the military.
It should come as no surprise to find them in the police. I suspect that there are far more of these slugs in local, state, and federal law enforcement than we would like to think is possible.
Middle Eastern Gang’s” Man On The Inside Exposed, “ Closer Than You Would think,
Apr/27/18
Like Mohamed Noor in Minneapolis, Jiyayi Suleyman’s presence on the Nashville police force appears to be a manifestation of the general anxiety to avoid charges of “Islamophobia”:
Nashville officials were so anxious to have a Kurdish Muslim police officer that they put Suleyman on the force and kept him there even after he was caught with the gang, when similar activity would have gotten a non-Muslim officer fired.
“Gang member infiltrates Metro Police Department,” by Carley Gordon, WSMV, April 20, 2018 (thanks to Robert):
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) – Jiyayi Suleyman became Nashville’s first Kurdish police officer in 2012.
According to an investigative file obtained by News4, Suleyman was a member of the Kurdish Pride Gang, a group known for selling illegal guns and drugs.
Jiyayi Suleyman became Nashville’s first Kurdish police officer in 2012.It was a source of pride for both the community and the department.
“He was the first Kurdish cop, so he made all of us proud,” said Hamid Hasan, the owner of House of Kabab in Nashville.
Now Suleyman is out of a job and in trouble. He’s the subject of a criminal investigation.
According to an investigative file obtained by News4, Suleyman was a member of the Kurdish Pride Gang, a group known for selling illegal guns and drugs.
Police said he lied on his application about who he was and who he hung out with.
Once on the inside, he used the TBI’s computer program to look up fellow gang members which is against the rules.
“I am very surprised, honestly to goodness, I am so mad too because this is not good for anything,” said Hasan when asked by News 4.
Investigators said they caught Suleyman associating with other gang members at House of Kabab.
Even after police arrested those gang members for selling drugs and guns they said Suleyman continued to associate with them.
A search warrant revealed pictures of Suleyman flashing gang signs and wearing gang colors before he ever joined the force….
The greatest mistakes the stupid co-exist bed wetters can ever make is to put someone who will follow the rules of a barbaric, inbred, 7th Century cult over any laws or the U.S. constitution! muslims will always be muslims first and always. They are encouraged to lie to infidels when it will increase the power of islam. Anything that gives them power of any kind over infidels, increases the power and influence of islam, and the muslims that follow it, are a cancer upon the earth!
What about the administrators of the Nashville Metro Police Department who (supposedly) vetted, hired, trained and deployed him? Will they be investigated for corruption, or at least rank incompetence? When are the Keystone Kops who hire these criminals onto their forces going to be held responsible for their stupid PC decisions that put the public at risk?
Hornady Takes Stand Against Bullying State Of New York.
10:00 am Apr/30/18 by Tom Knighton
Let’s be honest here, the battle lines have already been drawn. As people like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seeks to pressure banks into not doing business with the firearm industry, the firearm industry needs to have some kind of response. Realistically, they’re limited in what they can do. It’s not like anyone in the gun industry has the power to tell banks not to do business with the State of New York.
Today, the State of New York did one of the most despicable acts ever perpetrated by any state by asking New York banks, financial institutions and insurance companies to stop doing business with the gun and ammo industry.
While it may not make a difference to New York, Hornady will not knowingly allow our ammunition to be sold to the State of NY or any NY agencies. Their actions are a blatant and disgusting abuse of office and we won’t be associated with a government that acts like that. They should be ashamed.
-Steve Hornady, president of Hornady Manufacturing Company
This looks like a drop in the bucket.
However, think for a moment what would happen if every company in the firearm industry stepped up and followed Steve Hornady’s lead?
While Andrew Cuomo may like to think he’s holding all the cards, he’s not.
He’s protected by people who need guns and ammunition. Multiple state agencies need guns and ammunition, as well.
What happens when, because of his comments and his push to destroy the gun industry, they can’t get the resources they need? What then?
Oh, someone will sell to them…at exorbitant prices that keep the retaliatory aspect intact. The law of supply and demand will come into play, after all. If you’re the only one who will sell to them, and they absolutely need it, you can name your own price.
It’s important to note that Hornady’s decision isn’t exactly unique.
Today, we’re fighting for our lives. There are moves at every angle to try and stick a knife in the heart of the firearm industry as anti-gunners have become desperate to kill our Second Amendment rights.
They’ve decided that if they can’t take out the Second Amendment, they’d at least make it impossible for firearm-related companies to do business.
Well, two can play that game.
Everyone needs to follow the lead of Hornady on this. In an industry that embraces the concept of self-defense, doing things like this make sense. This is self-defense. This is protecting your right to exist from someone who doesn’t believe you have that right.
Andrew Cuomo is the proverbial thug in an alley threatening the life of the industry.
The question is, do companies blink, or do they shoot back?
Russia has claimed it can disable the entire US Navy in one fell swoop using powerful electronic signal jamming.
A news report from the country – where the media is essentially controlled by the state – said the technology could render planes, ships and missiles useless.
The newsreader says: “Today, our Russian Electronic Warfare (REW) troops can detect and neutralise any target from a ship’s system and a radar, to a satellite.”
The news report claimsa single Russian war plane flew several times around American destroyer the USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea several years ago, disabling its systems and leaving it helpless.
There’s An App for Illegal Aliens That Helps Them Avoid Feds, Guess Who’s Behind It?
A new app that helps illegal immigrants evade federal authorities has just launched, and it’s funded by left-wing billionaire george soros, according to Judicial Watch.
The app, Notifica, allows illegal aliens to have a predetermined plan and activate it by sending messages to family if they fear of deportation or have come in contact with immigration authorities.
“Users can prepare a set of automatic messages to alert — with one click — family members, lawyers and others if they, or someone they care about, encounter immigration enforcement authorities,”LMT Online reports. “The tool was developed last year and distributed on a small scale and is now available for the public on Google and Apple apps stores.”
'United We Dream' is the group who invented the app. They claim to be the largest immigrant youth-led community in the country, aiming to “embrace the common struggle of all people of color and stand up against racism, colonialism, colorism, and xenophobia.”
The group was a project for the National Immigration Law Center, according to Judicial Watch, and was funded for “immigration-related employment discrimination public education.”
The U.S. government granted the NILC over $200,000 between 2008 and 2010, who also claim to be dedicated to “defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.”
Both the NILC and its United We Dream branch are heavily funded from Soros’ Open Society Foundations; OSF is listed as a key financial backer for both nonprofits.
“OSF has also funded a liberal think-tank headed by former killary clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and the scandal-ridden activist group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), so corrupt that Congress banned it from receiving federal funding,” Judicial Watch reports.
“I am not surprised by the app,” said Marri Velasquez, a Republican activist from Texas who co-founded the mexicans for Trump group. “It’s like fugitives, always running around trying to find the new thing. … They use Nextdoor.com and other network groups to alert each other.”
“There is always going to be another protection, another cover-up,” Velasquez continued. “But this is not going to change anything.”
Yet, liberals in Mexifornia think it’s logical to do so.
Officers don’t want to go through a critical incident like taking a life. Some handle the task better than others, some don’t handle it at all. In fact, it is not uncommon for officers to leave law enforcement altogether after being compelled to use deadly force.
New officers are taught in field training that when a driver takes time to pull over, there is a higher chance for nefarious activity such as hiding contraband, or they may be looking for a place to bail out and run. Officers senses become heightened, and rightfully so, as in this case.
Let’s put this into context and place Officer Adams and the suspect in Mexifornia after the law has passed.
Officer Adams would not be allowed to shoot first in self-preservation. He would have to become a target first. All the while, having a perfectly capable weapon and authorization by federal law to stop the threat to his own life.
Officers should not be expendable for the sake of criminal who decides to point a firearm, or what can reasonably be perceived as a firearm, at an officer.
Yes, there are inherent dangers in law enforcement. We all know that being shot is one of them. However, officers do not “sign up to get shot,” as critics ignorantly say.
Don’t point a firearm, or something that is intended to look like one, at an officer, and no one will get shot. It’s common sense.
This week, the Mexifornia State Assembly proposed a law that dictates when an officer can fire their weapon in self-defense. I previously touched on how dangerous such a law would be to officers, their families, and society.
A recent officer-involved shooting in Pasadena, Texas shines some light on these problems.
Officer Marc Adams, a 13-year veteran of the department, conducted a traffic stop on March 29th. The suspect took his time to pull over, and when he did stop, he do so abruptly and quickly pushed his door open. Officer Adams began giving loud verbal commands for the suspect to stay in his car, but the man shouted back “no.” He then turned the right side of his body away from Adams. Since the majority of the population is right-handed, common sense tells the officer the man is hiding something in his hand.
So, he commanded the suspect to show his hands. Instead, the suspect presented and pointed a firearm at the officer. Before the suspect could shoot, Adams got off multiple shots, striking the suspect in the left arm. This was enough of a distraction for him to retreat to the rear of his patrol vehicle, take cover, and create distance.
The suspect then stumbled to the middle of the street while still holding the handgun. Officer Adams took a position on the passenger side of his vehicle, keeping the suspect in view. When the suspect began to take aim again, Adams fired a few more rounds, striking the suspect in the right side of his rib cage. The shot was fatal.
And the Mexifornia assembly wants to legislate this? Leftists must be further out of touch than I realized. They believe they can write a bill that dictates when an officercan determine, often times in dark, whether a perceived firearm is an actual firearm or just an airsoft gun with the orange tip removed. Or if a real firearm has a chambered round or inserted magazine. Unfortunately, there is no time for “making sure” in these situations.
Officer Adams didn’t have time to determine if the suspect had a projectile in the chamber of his handgun.
DOJ Cracks Down on Illegal Caravan With Federal Charges.
May/1/18 11:00 AM Katie Pavlich
The Department of Justice has started issuing charges against members of a caravan parked at the southern border with Mexico.
Late Monday night, charges were filed against 11 aliens for illegally entering the United States. One of the caravan members has been deported before.
“When respect for the rule of law diminishes, so too does our ability to protect our great nation, its borders, and its citizens,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions released in a statement. “The United States will not stand by as our immigration laws are ignored and our nation’s safety is jeopardized.
U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman and his team should be commended for quickly filing illegal entry charges for individuals apprehended along the southwestern border. We will continue to work with our partners in each U.S. Attorney’s Offices to aggressively pursue prosecutions of criminal illegal entry.”
According to DOJ, the members charged purposely evaded immigration authorities by entering the country at "a time and place other than as designated by Immigration Officers, and eluded examination and inspection by Immigration Officers."
“The American Dream has beckoned immigrants from across the globe because of the promise that prosperity and success are within reach for all,” United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mexifornia Adam Braverman said. “Those aliens have contributed their voices and perspectives to make up our uniquely American experience. But the foundation for the American Dream, and what allows our democracy to flourish, is commitment to the rule of law!
These eleven defendants face charges now because they believed themselves to be above the law. Those seeking entry into the United States must pledge fidelity to the law, not break them, or else face criminal prosecution.”
The members of the caravan, made up of illegal aliens from Honduras, arrived in the United States late last week after Mexico failed to stop them.
They claim to be seeking asylum in America.
**** ONLY 11 ARRESTED!??? ****
Guns Saving Lives; Don't Mess With Texas!
Texas Educators Receive Active Shooter Training.
2:00 pm Mar/13/18 by Tom Knighton
While we wait for the federal government to decide whether there will be a program at that level to allow teachers to be armed, some places are taking matters into their own hands. After all, this most likely will happen at the state level anyway, with Florida already considering a program — and they’re not alone.
In Texas, for example, they’re not waiting around. They’re getting teachers ready, just in case!
In ENNIS, Texas, Teachers are readying themselves in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting that killed 17.
Sixteen teachers and school staff members got a whole day of training Saturday on how to handle a weapon in the event of an active shooter situation. The free event was led by a former Irving police officer.
Teachers like Kim Raney got a lesson in protecting their students. “Its scary sometimes. We do our best to have security at our schools, but you never know what’s going to happen. And it’s better to be prepared than not prepared,” said Raney.
Tim Bulot owns Strategic Weapons Academy of Texas. He’s a former Irving police officer with nearly 30 years in law enforcement. “This is the first time I’ve done anything like this… normally it’s police officers, SWAT and overseas contractors who we train here,” said Bulot.
Unfortunately, we live in a world where teachers need training like this.
Of course, they’ve needed it since Columbine, but no one wanted to listen then.
Regardless, it seems likely that we’ll soon see plenty of outrage stories all about how this is horrible, that what we need to do is take away people’s Second Amendment rights. But, as Jazz Shaw notes at Hot Air:
I’m sure we’ll be able to find someone to complain about this in no time at all, but doesn’t this seem like a best last resort if there are no other options available?
Particularly in rural areas, it may be quite a while before the authorities arrive.
And as we saw in Parkland, you may not even have any immediate relief then. Simply teaching someone about proper safety precautions and giving them a few sessions on the practice range is definitely important, but these folks are going one step further, and if the lessons stick with them it could mean the difference between life and death.
There’s also the deterrent factor to be considered. Rarely are these school shootings done by some stranger who travels in from far out of town. Usually, it’s someone from the community.
And if the local news makes it very clear that any shooter arriving on the scene will be met with multiple armed teachers with training on bringing down an intruder, there’s a fair chance they’re going to look for another target.
This is the kind of thing that will save lives without a firearm ever being drawn. Many times, these killers want to create a massive death toll, like they’re keeping score in a video game or something. They want to kill and kill a lot.
The fact that there will be teachers in these schools who are trained to respond with lethal force will act as a deterrent, since there’s now too great a risk the shooter will be killed before he can get a “high score.”
That’s the heart and soul of not just the idea of allowing teachers to carry a firearm but concealed carry in general.
It’s that the bad men have to factor in the possibility of being shot before they can accomplish their goal, be it killing dozens of people, stealing a wallet, or raping a woman.
The point is to not allow them to do it and make others think it’s too risky to try.
What This Gun Range Is Doing in the Wake of the Texas Shooting Is Incredible!
3:00 pm Nov/20/17 by Erika Haas
A good guy with a gun isn’t much help if he (or she) doesn’t know how to properly use that firearm, especially in a high stress situation.
That’s where Top Guns owner, Steve Ellis comes in.
The local Indiana gun shop and range offered free firearms training to 24 churches in the area last weekend. More specifically, volunteer gun experts taught church officials what to do in an active shooter situation, including how to identify the shooter.
“Part of it is situational awareness, threat assessment, be a good whiteness, knowing what to look for and what to watch out for so that you can get that information and communicate to other members of the team,” Ellis tells MyWabashValley.com.
With only one day of training and over 40 attendees, the Top Guns owner knows they didn’t prepare everyone for everything. But that wasn’t the goal.
“We may not be able to catch every scenario but man, if we can catch some of these, boy that would be a great thing to be able to prevent the next incident from taking place,” Ellis explains.
Hopefully, more gun ranges across the country start offering these types of classes – and open them up to all citizens, not just church officials!
As Ellis says:
“Don’t go through life being scared.
But do go through life being prepared!”
Professional Civilian Security Company Starts Training in New York. 10:50 pm Apr/23/16 by Jenn Jacques Have you ever walked through different scenarios on how to survive and save lives in an active shooter situation?
That’s exactly what a pair of Navy SEALS did in their first active shooter training session for civilians yesterday.
“I was a sniper, explosive expert, communications,” says Navy SEAL Michael Donnelly.
“The majority of people are sheep. And we want to train those sheep to become sheep dog and be vigilant and to survive an attack,” said Navy SEAL Hector Delgado.
The men teamed up with Dr. Terrence Burns to form SAFGRU, a professional civilian security company providing training to regular people how to survive active shooter scenarios.
“They want to teach regular citizens, ordinary people what to do in this type of event. We wanted to alarm them in a controlled fashion get their heart rates up a bit. It was a ten second scenario that ended promptly. But a real life scenario would continue for perhaps up to 15 minutes before law enforcement brings the situation under control,” said Terrence Burns M.D., president of SAFGRU.
“They are not likely to have an authority figure present to guide them. They need to be prepared to take action to defend themselves and their loved ones,” said Dr. Burns.
WGRZ reports:
After a conference on how to survive an attack at a hospital, they decided to pass along those skills to as many people as possible. They will go through tactics usually reserved for the professionals during the drills you have heard about, but probably have not been able to participate in unless you are a first responder.
“If you can realize what surroundings you’re in, where your exits are, basics of minor details, you can act very quick and deflate the situation basically,” says Donnelly.
“Give them the immediate knowledge of when there’s a crisis how to either lock themselves down, fight, or escape and leave the building. So there’s three things they need to consider, and it has to be done within the first 90 seconds,” says Delgado.
“If you make yourself a hard target, whether it’s hiding or running, or escaping, then you’re doing yourself justice and you’re helping others get out. Remember, if you’re locked in a building, or you’re locked in a room, and someone’s trying to get in, and they can’t get in to hurt you, they’re going to move on,” says Delgado.
The fledgling company certainly hits an untapped market at a time when citizens are eager to accept their own and others’ security. Their mission statement sums it up: “The modern world has created a critical void that relates to the very survival of ordinary people. SAFGRU, LLC closes that gap using the technical expertise, survival and leadership methods proven under fire.”
SAFGRU is currently in Buffalo New York, but will host sessions nationwide, opening offices in Miami and New York City.
Insurance Company Offers Interesting Seminar for Businesses in TX. Aug/25/16 by Jenn Jacques An insurance company in Amarillo, TX is arming it’s clients with the knowledge they may need in the workplace by offering an Active Shooter Safety Seminar.
That’s right: an active shooter safety seminar for businesses offered by their insurance company as a way to bolster their risk management program. BRILLIANT.
“An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area. To best prepare your staff for an active shooter situation, business owners need to create an emergency action plan (EAP) and conduct training exercises. Together, the EAP and training exercises will prepare your staff to effectively respond and help minimize loss of life,” said Kimberly Dryden, a Risk Advisor with the company. “Because these types of issues are part of a good risk management program, we look at the complete risk of a community, our business partners and our families. It is our desire to share our resources and start the conversation within the Texas Panhandle to prevent, respond and mitigate safety and security issues.”
The seminar will be held Thursday, September 1 from 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. at the Amarillo College Downtown Campus, located at on Polk St. in Amarillo.
Pennsylvania Game Commission Gives Thumbs Up To Semi-Auto Shotguns. 2:00 pm May/1/18 by Tom Knighton For many people, the shotgun is the ultimate do-all firearm. They’re capable of taking down just about any game you want them to, so long as you can get close enough.
However, not all shotguns are authorized to be used for all game. Sometimes for good reason, but still…
In Pennsylvania, at least there’s been a bit of sanity interjected. Now, hunters can use semiautomatic shotguns.
Semiautomatic centerfire shotguns that propel single-projectile ammunition will be lawful sporting arms in most of Pennsylvania’s firearms deer, bear and elk seasons in 2018-19. The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today gave unanimous approval to regulatory changes that permit these sporting arms for deer, bear and elk hunting. For elk, the shotgun needs to be 12-gauge or larger.
The Game Commission historically has permitted the use of semiautomatic shotguns for deer and bear seasons within its special regulations areas near Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
With today’s vote, such authorization is extended to the remainder of the Commonwealth, as well as to the state’s elk hunters.
It seems that Pennsylvania is a little behind the times when it comes to guns. In particular, they seem to be just now recognizing semiautomatic weapons as being viable for hunting.
No, seriously. It’s not just shotguns. As Dean Weingarten over at The Truth About Guns notes:
In 2016, Pennsylvania gave the Game Commission the authority to approve semiautomatic rifles for hunting. In January of 2017, the Game Commission approved hunting big game, small game and furbearers with semiautomatic rifles. In spite of the 2016 law, the decision to allow hunting big game with semiautomatic rifles was reversed in March of that year.
Semiautomatic rifles are legal to hunt small game and furbearers in Pennsylvania, but not big game. Furbearers include coyotes, foxes, and raccoons.
The first semiautomatic rifle designed for big game was patented in 1900 and introduced in 1906 by Remington. It proved a popular and successful design!
In other words, a 100-year-old design used for legal and ethical hunting pretty much all over the world is illegal for taking big game in the state of Pennsylvania.
At least now they can use semi-auto shotguns for big game.
The question is whether this rule would be reversed as well or not. At this point, I’d advise hunters in Penn. to not purchase a semiautomatic shotgun for hunting alone unless you don’t mind it the state deeming it illegal shortly thereafter. But, if you’re willing to take that risk, have fun.
Personally, maybe I’m just overly cautious, but I wouldn’t want to hunt bear without something semi-auto. As a general rule, though, I don’t play around with any game animal that might eat me in turn. Call it a quirk.
With luck, the state of Pennsylvania will step up into the 21st century in the very near future and allow hunters to use whatever kind of action they deem appropriate for the various game.
It’s one thing to say a caliber is insufficient to take a certain variety of game.
It’s quite another to say certain action types should be banned as well.
White House Reacts To Stunning Data About Unaccompanied Alien Children. May 1, 2018 The costs from America’s porous immigration system continue to rise. At the end of April, news broke that between October 2016 and December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was unable to locate nearly 1,500 of the 7,635 unaccompanied alien minors it attempted to reach—almost one-fifth of its file.
"I don’t care what you think about immigration policy, it’s wrong,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) said.
He’s right:
A very small percentage of the unaccompanied alien children (UAC) who illegally enter the United States each year are ultimately removed, creating a major public safety challenge.
Loopholes in our immigration laws put both UACs and American citizens at risk. Most UACs are older teens (16-17 years old) from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Some are MS-13 gang members who use our immigration system to infiltrate the United States, but UACs who are not gang members are still at risk of harm from MS-13. This broken system is dangerous for everyone!
Under the obuma Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services documented that 80% of the 71,000 Central American children placed between February 2014 and September 2015 were released to sponsors who are in the United States illegally.
Parents were more than half of the cases; many others were siblings, aunts, and uncles.
In Texas, a criminal alien convicted of aggravated assault, deadly conduct, or causing injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual would not necessarily qualify as an aggravated felon. In Oklahoma, a criminal alien convicted of forcible sodomy or assault and battery on a police officer would not necessarily classify as an aggravated felon. As the law currently stands, no burglary crimes in Mexifornia, Iowa, South Carolina, Oregon, Michigan, and Florida would qualify as an aggravated felony.
Due to these judicially-created loopholes, criminal aliens convicted of these egregious crimes could potentially remain in the country.
Efforts to remove criminal aliens were further hamstrung by a recent Supreme Court decision that found unconstitutional a legal provision that was used to define which “crimes of violence” constitute aggravated felonies.
In effect, the ruling invalidated a law that empowered Federal authorities to remove many violent felons from our communities.
WHY: Congress must take swift action to close loopholes in our immigration system that threaten the safety and security of American communities.
President Trump has repeatedly called on Congress to close the judicially-created loopholes in our immigration system, including the aggravated felony loophole, in order to help keep Americans safe!
In October 2017, the Administration released its immigration priorities which called on Congress to clarify the aggravated felony definition.
The Administration also endorsed a bipartisan proposal this Feb. which would have fixed the aggravated felony loophole.
Calls to fix to the aggravated felony definition have been further echoed by numerous Federal judges.
For example, a judge on the Ninth Circuit described the current system as “bizarre and arbitrary” and noted it allows criminals to “escape the consequences that Congress intended.”
Congress needs to act, plain and simple. Without a legislative fix, Federal authorities will remain unable to remove violent criminal aliens, jeopardizing the safety and security of our communities.
Loopholes Prevent Removal Of Dangerous Criminal Aliens, have created by judicial rulings have made it nearly impossible to remove many criminal aliens. Apr/27/18 The costs from America’s porous immigration system continue to rise. At the end of April, news broke that between October 2016 and December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was unable to locate nearly 1,500 of the 7,635 unaccompanied alien minors it attempted to reach—almost one-fifth of its file.
“I don’t care what you think about immigration policy, it’s wrong,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) said.
He’s right: A very small percentage of the unaccompanied alien children (UAC) who illegally enter the United States each year are ultimately removed, creating a major public safety challenge.
Loopholes in our immigration laws put both UACs and American citizens at risk. Most UACs are older teens (16-17 years old) from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Some are MS-13 gang members who use our immigration system to infiltrate the United States, but UACs who are not gang members are still at risk of harm from MS-13. This broken system is dangerous for everyone.
Under the obuma Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services documented that 80 percent of the 71,000 Central American children placed between February 2014 and September 2015 were released to sponsors who are in the United States illegally. Parents were more than half of the cases; many others were siblings, aunts, and uncles.
In drafting the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), Congress included that criminal aliens convicted of any number of serious offenses referred to as aggravated felonies should be subject to immigration consequences. Federal courts, however, have created loopholes that prevent some serious criminal convictions from qualifying as aggravated felonies under the INA. As a result, the government is often unable to use the only grounds available to remove many criminal aliens.
For example, in Mexifornia, a criminal alien found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, robbery, or child abuse would not necessarily be considered an aggravated felon.
The U.S, has a right to be a sovereign Nation; to decide who/whom may come into this country legally. Illegal aliens face many dangers, one huge danger is Human Trafficking which happens to the youth, the unsuspecting, to the illiterate, the desperate as well as the greedy…guiled by Traffickers makes these people victims so easy. And as for the Taxpayers of America and their families and friends, the ability for American citizens and legals to vie for jobs, decent pay, homes-whether owned or rent–costs continue to rise;
schools continue to be short of monies and problems with language as well as becoming food kitchens for students-not education,roads/highways/streets continue to deteriorate , just to name a few problems, even food and health become problems as many on welfare/food stamps and another-Life becomes cheap-killings through robberies, stealing-crime rises.
The economics of Illegal alien has never been addressed, time for it to be addressed, time for Truth to be told.
Canada has open borders and are seeing the problems that I have mentioned and probably more as they are Socialists.
So the Wall between Mexico and the U.S. needs to be built and secured by our Border Patrols with support by the U.S. Government. As well as the American citizen and taxpayers.
For the past decade, attempts at immigration reform have failed because open borders special interests in both parties have dominated the discussion. The framework laid out by the White House represents mainstream, common sense approach to immigration. ◾The U.S. cannot truly secure its borders without legislative reforms to close loopholes that prevent the prompt return of illegal aliens who do not have a legitimate claim for asylum. ENDING EXTENDED-FAMILY CHAIN MIGRATION: President Trump wants to keep nuclear families together while reforming our current legal immigration system, so it no longer serves as a conduit for low-skilled immigration.
◾Under our current immigration system, more than 70 percent of immigrants entering the United States do so based on family ties rather than on skill or merit. ◾Our current law allows new immigrants to sponsor various members of their extended families for immigration to the United States.
◾Between 2005 and 2016, the U.S. admitted more than 70 percent of lawful immigrants based on family ties alone.
◾Chain migration has been a leading source of low-skilled immigration into the United States, hurting vulnerable American workers. ◾Our current immigration system puts a strain on federal resources and burdens American taxpayers. ◾Half of all immigrant-headed households receive benefits from at least one welfare program.
CANCELING THE VISA LOTTERY: President Trump has called for the cancelation of the visa lottery system, which selects applicants at random and has been subject to fraud and abuse. ◾Currently, about 50,000 immigrants enter the United States each year through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, commonly called the visa lottery or Green Card lottery. ◾Individuals are selected at random to apply for a visa that permits permanent residence in the United States, and the qualifying criteria are very low. ◾Eligible countries have low levels of immigration to the U.S. over the last 5 years.
◾The program requires participants to have only a high school education or two years of work experience.
◾Upon entering the United States, those who have received a Green Card may eventually gain U.S. citizenship through naturalization. ◾The visa lottery has been highly vulnerable to fraud and abuse. ◾A 2003 report by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found the visa lottery system is subject to widespread abuse. ◾A 2007 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the program was vulnerable to fraudulent activity.
PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR A DACA FIX THAT ENDS CHAIN MIGRATION, ELIMINATES THE VISA LOTTERY, AND SECURES THE BORDER: Recent polling shows Americans support turning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy into a lawful policy in exchange for ending chain migration, the visa lottery, and border security. ◾According to a recent Harvard-Harris poll, 58 percent of those polled oppose shutting down the government over the DACA program. ◾65 percent of those polled would support an immigration deal that gives work permits and a path to citizenship to aliens brought to the U.S. by their parents in exchange for prioritizing merit-based immigration over family ties, ending the visa lottery, and providing border security funding.
◾More than three quarters of those polled, 79 percent, believe immigration policy should be based on a person’s ability to contribute to America rather than on family ties.
◾68% opposed the visa lottery system which randomly selects up to 50,000 foreign nationals to become permanent residents of the United States.
◾Currently, about 50,000 immigrants enter the United States each year through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, commonly called the visa lottery or Green Card lottery. ◾Individuals are selected at random to apply for a visa that permits permanent residence in the United States, and the qualifying criteria are very low. ◾Eligible countries have low levels of immigration to the U.S. over the last 5 years.
◾The program requires participants to have only a high school education or two years of work experience.
◾Upon entering the United States, those who have received a Green Card may eventually gain U.S. citizenship through naturalization.
◾The visa lottery has been highly vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
◾A 2003 report by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found the visa lottery system is subject to widespread abuse.
◾A 2007 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the program was vulnerable to fraudulent activity.
PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR A DACA FIX THAT ENDS CHAIN MIGRATION, ELIMINATES THE VISA LOTTERY, AND SECURES THE BORDER:
Recent polling shows Americans support turning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy into a lawful policy in exchange for ending chain migration, the visa lottery, and border security.
◾According to a recent Harvard-Harris poll, 58 percent of those polled oppose shutting down the government over the DACA program.
◾65% of those polled would support an immigration deal that gives work permits and a path to citizenship to aliens brought to the U.S. by their parents in exchange for prioritizing merit-based immigration over family ties, ending the visa lottery, and providing border security funding.
◾More than three quarters of those polled, 79%, believe immigration policy should be based on a person’s ability to contribute to America rather than on family ties.
◾68% opposed the visa lottery system which randomly selects up to 50,000 foreign nationals to become permanent residents of the United States.
WH: Factsheet About Our Broken Immigration System. Jan/30/18 For the past decade, attempts at immigration reform have failed because open borders special interests in both parties have dominated the discussion. The framework laid out by the White House represents mainstream, common sense approach to immigration.
SECURING THE BORDER:
President Donald J. Trump’s Administration has taken action to secure the border, but the United States has seen an uptick in attempted illegal entries and more resources are needed to accomplish the job.
◾In fiscal year (FY) 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded 310,531 apprehensions by Border Patrol agents, 303,916 of which were on the Southwest border.
◾More than 97% of all CBP apprehensions occurred on the Southwest border.
◾In FY 2017, 10% of aliens apprehended by CBP had been previously apprehended on at least one other occasion.
◾Criminal organizations continually exploit border vulnerabilities and legal loopholes to help illegal aliens gain entry into the United States.
◾In FY 2017, CBP apprehended 20,131 criminal aliens and another 10,908 individuals wanted by law enforcement.
◾Dec/17 marked the eighth month in a row that southwest border apprehensions increased.
◾CBP remains concerned about the steady increase in the flow of unaccompanied children and family units. ◾Family-unit apprehensions and inadmissible cases at the Southwest border reached approximately 105,000 by the end of the year.
◾CBP’s daily southwest border inadmissible/apprehended numbers averaged 1,132 in Jan/18 to-date.
◾The U.S. cannot truly secure its borders without legislative reforms to close loopholes that prevent the prompt return of illegal aliens who do not have a legitimate claim for asylum.
ENDING EXTENDED-FAMILY CHAIN MIGRATION: President Trump wants to keep nuclear families together while reforming our current legal immigration system, so it no longer serves as a conduit for low-skilled immigration.
◾Under our current immigration system, more than 70 percent of immigrants entering the United States do so based on family ties rather than on skill or merit.
◾Our current law allows new immigrants to sponsor various members of their extended families for immigration to the United States.
◾Between 2005 and 2016, the U.S. admitted more than 70% of lawful immigrants based on family ties alone.
◾Chain migration has been a leading source of low-skilled immigration into the United States, hurting vulnerable American workers.
◾Our current immigration system puts a strain on federal resources and burdens American taxpayers.
◾Half of all immigrant-headed households receive benefits from at least one welfare program.
CANCELING THE VISA LOTTERY: President Trump has called for the cancelation of the visa lottery system, which selects applicants at random and has been subject to fraud and abuse.
Sheriff Joe Notches Major Endorsement 5/1/18 by: AAN World-class rocker and diehard Second Amendment supporter Ted Nugent came out in support of Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Senate.
The Nuge has long had a close relationship with Arpaio, who the Maricopa County Sheriff deputized back in 2012.
Although Arpaio's late entrance into the critical Arizona Senate race poised to shake things up, recent polling shows he's slipped behind former State Sen. Dr. Kelli Ward and Representative Martha McSally.
Nugent's enthusiasm was palpable:
"The liberal-left cannot tolerate a straight shooter like Joe Arpaio in the U.S. Senate, and they will pull out all the stops to defeat him once and for all."
We can't let this huge opportunity for Joe, for America, and for freedom slip away – let's send America's Sheriff to the U.S. Senate!"
Arpaio remains a favorite target of the left for his aggressive enforcement of immigration laws in America's fourth-most populous county.
5/1/18 by: AAN
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World-class rocker and diehard Second Amendment supporter Ted Nugent came out in support of Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Senate.
The Nuge has long had a close relationship with Arpaio, who the Maricopa County Sheriff deputized back in 2012.
Although Arpaio's late entrance into the critical Arizona Senate race poised to shake things up, recent polling shows he's slipped behind former State Sen. Dr. Kelli Ward and Representative Martha McSally.
Nugent's enthusiasm was palpable:
"The liberal-left cannot tolerate a straight shooter like Joe Arpaio in the U.S. Senate, and they will pull out all the stops to defeat him once and for all."
"We can't let this huge opportunity for Joe, for America, and for freedom slip away – let's send America's Sheriff to the U.S. Senate!"
Arpaio remains a favorite target of the left for his aggressive enforcement of immigration laws in America's fourth-most populous county.
Judge Roy Moore Is Taking All Of His Accusers To Court. Apr/30/18 By Luke Rohlfing Last year’s special election to find a replacement for Alabama’s Junior Senator was rocked when Judge Roy Moore, who was poised to win the seat, was hounded by rumors of sexual assault from three women.
Those claims were so damaging to his reputation that Doug Jones, an unknown Democrat candidate, was able to beat Moore on election night.
While the media played up the accusations against Moore being from nine or more people, Judge Moore’s legal counsel made it clear at a press conference that there were three women accusers, and any inflated numbers were false.
Melissa Isaac, who is representing Judge Moore and his family, stated that they are suing all three accusers, along with two people connected to the accusations made against Moore.
The five people being sued are Richard Hagadorn, Marjorie Leigh Corfman, Debbie Wesson Gibson, Beverly Young Nelson, Tina Turner Johnson.
The complaint against the three accusers, and two accomplices, is being filed in Etowah County, where the allegations against Moore took place, and where the five being sued all live.
The complaint against them is for political conspiracy, among other charges.
Lindsey Graham: President Trump Should Get The Nobel Peace Prize. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) backed Trump’s efforts that led to the monumental developments involving North and South Korea, reports CNS News. On Fox & Friends, Graham praised the historic agreement between the two countries, crediting it largely to President Trump, and saying he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
“It wouldn’t have happened without Trump!,” Graham said. “It may not happen, but this is the biggest change since the end of the hostilities. The fact that the North Korean and South Korean president met, and they vowed to end the war.”
“What happened?” Graham continued. “Donald Trump convinced North Korea and China he was serious about bringing about change. We’re not there yet. But if this happens, President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Graham applauded Trump’s composure even after feeling pressured to dismiss his “fire and fury” approach to North Korea.
“He has convinced North Korea you got two options,” Graham said. “You can become a normal country, or we will take you down if you keep trying to build missiles to hit the American homeland.”
The senator also claims that North Koreans knew President Trump would do all he could to put a stop to their nuclear program.
“Every president before him tried this. What is different about Trump? They believe, in North Korea, if he had to as a last resort, he would stop their nuclear program.
We’re not there yet, but if we get there, it will be because of President Trump,” Graham continued.
Graham gave a “word of warning” to the North Korean leader, advising him to stay true to his word.
“A word of warning,” Graham added. “The worst thing Kim Jong-un could do is play Trump — to go through all these motions and go back to the old way of doing business. Donald Trump will not tolerate being played. We’re either going to have peace or we’re going to have a war now, because Kim Jong-un has made a mistake if he’s not serious; and that’s playing Trump.”
9 Killed in School Massacre the Liberal Media Wants Nothing to Do With. 4/29/18 Conservative Tribune by: Ben Marquis A horrific mass killing occurred at a middle school Friday that left nine students dead and several other injured, but the media has given the tragic story the most minimal of coverage.
Why has the media largely shied away from this incredible tragedy?
Because it totally undermines and upends their narratives about the most prominent danger young students face in the world today.
For starters, the horrible attack didn’t take place in America, nor was it committed with the type of weapon the liberal media most often frets over. Thus they have decided to ignore the tragedy as much as possible.
Normally the media would provide wall-to-wall coverage of a school attack that left nine students dead, but since the murders occurred in China and the murderer used a knife to do his evil deed, the media can’t rail against the Second Amendment and demand everyone to “do something” about gun control.
Death toll rises to 9 in school stabbing attack in China https://t.co/kZgilsyssZ pic.twitter.com/6GxvkkjrcX
— CBS News (@CBSNews) Apr/29/18
2) Only two colleges of the top 66 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 list have a modicum of equality in numbers between Democratic and Republican faculty members. They are the U.S. Military Academy, aka West Point, with a Democrat-to-Republican ratio of 1.3-to-1, and the U.S. Naval Academy, whose ratio is 2.3-to-1.
Many professors spend class time indoctrinating students with their views. For faculty members who are Democrats, those views can be described as leftist, socialist, or communist.
It is a cowardly act for a professor to take advantage of student immaturity by indoctrinating pupils with his opinions before the students have developed the maturity and skill to examine other opinions. It is also dereliction of duty of college administrators and boards of trustees to permit the continuance of what some professors and students are doing in the name of higher education.
Langbert’s findings suggest biases in college research and academic policy, where leftist political homogeneity is embedded in the college culture. The leftist bias at most of the nation’s colleges is in stark contrast to the political leanings of our nation.
According to a number of Pew Research Center surveys, most Americans identify as conservative.
These Americans are seeing their tax dollars and tuition dollars going to people who have contempt for their values and seek to indoctrinate their children with leftist ideas.
Bullheaded Texan
The Democrats Are In Trouble, Here Is Why.
4/30/18 by: TTN Staff
Maybe you've heard, a blue wave is set to refill the swamp faster than Trump can drain it, as wild-eyed liberals will be rushing to the polls to reject the president in November. That may or may not happen, but Democrats aren't flooding the swamp again without overcoming some massive obstacles; some that are so big that you can't miss them, even though the media won't tell you about them.
President Trump will need his supporters to keep unhinged, impeachment hungry Democrats at bay, as midterms tend to go against the president's party.
The Democrats have some serious advantages, but we have put together a list of the problems that could stop the blue wave cold. Number 5 is the wildcard that could change history.
1.) Millennials Are Not Buying It;
Reuters just released a poll that Democrat support among millennials has fallen by ten% since 2016. The group is not naturally inclined towards President Trump, but aren't engaged at the level needed to secure Democrat gains in Congress. 34% favored Democrats on the economy, while 32 % favored Republicans.
In 2016, Democrats outperformed Republicans on the economic question by 12 points. If younger, center-left voters don't show in November, Democrats fall short.
2.) Economy Is Better Under Trump Than obuma;
Democrats won the House in 2006 in better economic times, with the unpopular Iraq war and Bush's low approval ratings revving their turnout, but Trump isn't Bush.
Trump has devastated ISIS, passed tax cuts that are boosting the economy and is making history with North Korea. Trump's approval rating is higher than obuma's in 2010, meaning Democrats have their work cut out for them to offer a better vision to midterm voters.
3.) They Have More Candidates Than Money.
The DNC has been outraised by the RNC 3-1, even though individual Democrat candidates are doing well. Dems are chomping at the bit to ride the blue wave, and have flooded primaries, where they are having costly fights with other Democrats. It was reported that House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is asking various far-left candidates to drop out so that more electable Dems can win; this inflames tensions from the killary/bernie battles of 2016. All told, they aren't as unified as the media portrays.
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Democratic Congresswoman Embodies Stupidity By Saying This About comey, Trump and killary.
5/12/217 American Action News by: Remington Strelivo
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Cali.) has quickly become a liberal darling, nicknamed “Auntie Maxine.”
But to Republicans, she seems to be the gift that keeps on giving.
In an interview with Peter Alexander of MSNBC, Waters criticizes Trump for firing FBI Director james comey—but admits an incredible bias: that she would’ve backed killary clinton if she had been the one to fire the embattled comey.
“You said that FBI Director james comey had no credibility,” Alexander told Waters.
“Wouldn't you support the fact that the president, then-candidate Trump, now president Trump, made the decision to get rid of him?”
“No, not necessarily,” Waters said. They continued to tussle over the fact that Waters thought comey had no credibility and was unable to conduct the duties of his office—but didn’t support Trump firing him.
Alexander then asked: "So if killary clinton had won the White House, would you have recommended that she fire FBI Director james comey? "
"If she had won the White House, I believe that given what he did to her, and what he tried to do, she should have fired him! Yes,” Waters said, referring to clinton’s allegation that comey had helped sway the 2016 election by reopening an FBI investigation into her emails days before the vote.
"So she should have fired him but had he shouldn't fire him,” clarified Alexander. "This is why I'm confused."
"No, no, you're not confused," Waters told Alexander.
"I AM confused," Alexander responded.
The Democrats, who had been blaming comey for spoiling killary clinton’s chances at the White House as recently as last week, have done a complete 180—and slammed Trump for firing a man they hated.
Like Peter Alexander, the rest of us are all confused.
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Trump Slams Correspondents Dinner, Drops Devastating Nickname.4/30/18 Fox News by: Brooke Singman
In a tweet Monday morning, the president slammed the annual dinner held by the White House Correspondents’ Association, following a routine by Michelle Wolf that many -- including the head of the association -- found inappropriate.
“The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is DEAD as we know it. This was a total disaster and an embarrassment to our great Country and all that it stands for. FAKE NEWS is alive and well and beautifully represented on Saturday night!” Trump tweeted.
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
The presentation comes just days before President Trump is expected to make a decision about whether to scrap or fix the Iran nuclear agreement.
European allies have argued the deal must stay, while they admit there are serious flaws when it comes to the sunset provision, terrorism and Iran's destabilization of the region.
"President Trump in a few days time will make a decision about what to do about the nuclear deal," Netanyahu said. "I'm sure he'll do that right thing."
President Trump responded to Netanyahu's presentation at the White House shortly after Netanyahu concluded his remarks.
"This is not an acceptable situation," President Trump said from the Rose Garden. "In seven years, that deal will have expired and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons.
That is not acceptable! "Seven years' is tomorrow, that’s not acceptable.
If anything, what Israel has done today in the news conference was right."
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Netanyahu Presents Iran's Own Documents to Prove They Tried to Build a Nuclear Bomb and Lied About It.
Apr/30/18 Katie Pavlich
Speaking from Tel Aviv Monday afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed the world that Iran had a secret nuclear program, one they say never existed, before lying about it and signing the 2015 nuclear agreement under the obuma administration.
"Iran is brazenly lying when it says they never had a nuclear weapons program," Netanyahu said.
Standing in front of a power point presentation labelled "Project Amad," Netanyahu revealed Israeli intelligence confiscated 100,000 documents from a secret location in Tehran. Those documents, many of which were in binders and on discs for visual reference, detail Iran's nuclear program through videos, blue prints, spreadsheets and more. The documents have been authenticated by the United States.
"This is just a fraction of the total material we have," Netanyahu said. "Iran lied about never having a nuke program. One-hundred thousand secret files prove that they lied." netanyahu: “Iran lied… After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear files.” Fox News Apr/30/18
Iran has always denied every having a nuclear program, but the files show the regime not only developed one, but had plans to put five Hiroshima sized warheads on ballistic missiles.
netanyahu: “These files conclusively prove that Iran is brazenly lying when it says it never had a nuclear weapons program.” Fox News Apr/30/18
After lying about their existence, instead of destroying the files in 2015 when the nuclear agreement was signed, Iran moved to preserve the documents. In other words, to preserve their nuclear program.
"Even after the deal, Iran continued to preserve and expand its nuclear wepaons knowhow for future use. This is a fraction of what was in the files, Netanyahu says. But there are 4 main conclusions:
1.Iran lied about developing nuclear weapons.
2.They kept the program up after the nuclear deal.
3.They lied in the IAA reports.
4.The entire Iran nuclear deal is based on lies. Lahav Harkov Apr/30/18
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
What Israeli Spies Just Pulled Off on Iran is Absolutely Nuts!
Apr/30/18 Katie Pavlich
Earlier today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed the confiscation of 100,000 Iranian nuclear documents, which were taken out of Tehran by intelligence operatives. The documents show Iran lied about having a secret nuclear program!
Netanyahu described the collection and extradition of the information as a "great intelligence achievement." It was a major, seemingly impossible intelligence success. So, the truth comes out.
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Some international affairs experts who are decidedly not inclined to praise this president are openly conceding that his much-pilloried tactics have paid startling and striking dividends:
There's already non-frivolous chatter about a Nobel Peace Prize, of which Trump is arguably already more deserving than the basically-symbolic award foolishly bestowed upon his predecessor.
Will Trump's predecessor ever tire of being embarrassingly wrong?
(3) And oh-by-the-way, the president is making good on a critical and lasting legacy promise that is quite possibly the primary reason he won the election, winning over enough dubious conservatives who were swayed by the significance of the federal judiciary:
It's true that this confirmation bonanza is only possible thanks to Harry Reid and the Democrats' Obama-era overreach, but Trump's White House deserves credit for prioritizing this issue -- as does Mitch McConnell. Republican voters should similarly have their collective eye on the ball: Continuing this string of confirmations is one of the most pressing reasons to keep the US Senate in GOP hands following the midterms.
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
But to all appearances, it’s too late now. They have the bomb and they’ll very shortly be able to deliver it to the mainland United States.
If we’re not game to fight Korean War II, and I don’t think we are, then all diplomatic options are necessary on the table." New pressure points, American leadership, and uncertainty about Trump's designs were major contributors to this historic moment:
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Within the last few days, we've seen the fruits of those efforts on three crucial fronts.
(1) The US economy is strong and growing.
The U.S. economy slowed in the first quarter as consumer spending grew at its weakest pace in nearly five years, but the setback is likely temporary against the backdrop of a tightening labor market and large fiscal stimulus. Gross domestic product increased at a 2.3% annual rate, the Commerce Department said in its snapshot of first-quarter GDP on Friday, also held back by a moderation in business spending on equipment and investment in home building. The economy grew at a 2.9% pace in the fourth quarter.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast output rising at a 2.0 percent rate in the January-March period.
The labor market is near full employment and both business and consumer confidence are strong.
Tax reform is working, the employment picture is robust.
These are real, tangible victories for the American people.
(2) A foreign policy breakthrough on the Korean peninsula. After years of predictable US "stability," which the regime in Pyongyang exploited, an unpredictable but attentive American president has shifted the calculus.
All of the cautionary caveats apply to the new developments:
The North Koreans cannot be trusted, they've played these games before, everything could still fall apart, and they may be setting up the South Koreans.
"At this point, what’s the alternative?
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Three Recent, Enormous Trump Accomplishments Must Not Be Overlooked.
Apr/30/18 Guy Benson
Last week we analyzed President Trump's assignment of an A-plus grade to his presidency thus far -- noting some of his policy achievements, while pointing out a number of reasons why his approval rating does not reflect his generous self-assessment.
When he's wrong or reckless, I say so.
When he's doing well, I say so.
Trump-skeptical conservatives seem so invested in criticizing him that they're either blinded to some of the huge accomplishments playing out before their eyes, or they're allowing the other drama -- both legitimate and exaggerated -- to drown out the wins. This is a mistake!
President Trump is in the process of notching a series of substantial victories for the conservative movement and for America.
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
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“I know the Americans are inherently disposed against us, but when they talk with us, they will see that I am not the kind of person who would shoot nuclear weapons to the south, over the Pacific or at the United States,” Mr. Kim told Mr. Moon, according to Mr. Yoon’s account.
Is this too good to be true? It remains to be seen.
North Korea has made such overtures before and nothing has come of it. Bolton has said that for this to work, North Korea has to agree to Libyan-style disarmament, where then-leader Muammar Gaddafi gave up his weapons of mass destruction program.
We’ll see what happens, a great many on the Left and their allies in the media would hope this fails to give their side a better chance in the upcoming elections and to ensure that President Trump does not one up obuma, whose Iran nuclear deal is falling apart. Were President Trump to win a Nobel Peace Prize, it would destroy most of the left wing talking points against Trump, that he’s an unstable madman whose Twitter account will cause a nuclear apocalypse.
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Keeping diplomatic developments coming at a head-snapping pace, the South Korean government said on Sunday that North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, had told President Moon Jae-in that he would abandon his nuclear weapons if the United States agreed to formally end the Korean War and promise not to invade his country.
In a confidence-building gesture ahead of a proposed summit meeting with President Trump, a suddenly loquacious and conciliatory Mr. Kim also said he would invite experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States to watch the shutdown next month of his country’s only known underground nuclear test site.
In Washington, Trump officials spoke cautiously about the chances of reaching a deal and laid out a plan for the dismantling of the North’s nuclear program, perhaps over a two-year period.
That would be accompanied by a “full, complete, total disclosure of everything related to their nuclear program with a full international verification,” said John R. Bolton, President Trump’s new national security adviser.
The apparent concessions from the youthful leader were widely welcomed as promising signs of ending the standoff on the Korean Peninsula, frozen in place since fighting in the Korean War ended 65 years ago.
But skeptics warned that North Korea previously made similar pledges of denuclearization on numerous occasions, with little or no intention of abiding by them. Mr. Kim’s friendly gestures, they said, could turn out to be nothing more than empty promises aimed at lifting sanctions on his isolated country.
A South Korean government spokesman, Yoon Young-chan, provided remarkable details of a summit meeting the two Korean heads of state held on Friday, when Mr. Kim made history by becoming the first North Korean leader to set foot in the South
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Here's What N. Korea Wants From The U.S. Before It Ends Nuke Program.
Apr/30/18 Matt Vespa
America’s left wing could get slapped in the face like never before if these Korean peace talks actually accomplish the denuclearization of the peninsula and the end of the decades-long war that’s kept both nations (and the world) on edge.
The Korean War was a three-year bloodbath before an armistice ended the carnage. The war has not yet officially ended.
Since then, South Korea has become a technological hub, with a modern military and a booming economy that catapulted them into the G-20. They’re members of the trillion-dollar club.
North Korea, the world’s largest prison, is a communist hellhole, fraught with human rights abuses. It’s an economically backward nation, one that we really don’t know about concerning the actual socioeconomic situation of the country.
What we do know is that they have nuclear weapons, which they’ve used expertly to capture the world’s attention in order to gain more food and economic aid.
South Korea has heaped much praise on President Trump for bringing the North Koreans to the table, even suggesting that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The series of sanctions slapped against them for missile tests, with added Chinese pressure caused North Korea to renew negotiations. One of their big demands is that the U.S. pledge to never invade North Korea. The U.S. reportedly has a similar agreement with Cuba; we pledged to the Soviet Union/Cuba not to invade in exchange that the U.S. not invade. It led to the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis (via NYT):
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Media Paint it As Cruel that Immigrants from Caravan Are Being Detained at Border.
Apr/30/18 Cortney O'Brien
About 100 individuals who were a part of the caravan from Mexico have reached the U.S. border in search of asylum. They have not gotten any further because border patrol is detaining them.
Some media outlets are painting the situation as cruel and unusual. Just a take a look at some of the ledes.
NBC: More than a hundred migrants who made a grueling journey to the U.S. border were stranded on the last leg of their trip on Monday as they waited to plead their case to seek asylum after immigration officials said the crossing was at capacity.
CNN: After a difficult, monthlong journey from Central America to the US-Mexico border, dozens of asylum-seeking migrants are vowing to remain outside an immigration processing center until "every last one" is admitted into the country, an organizer with the caravan said late Sunday.
The caravan, CNN adds, "is both a humanitarian and an activist mission, as organizers created the event to draw greater attention to the migrants' plight."
The Washington Post's headline was also sympathetic toward the caravan. "At end of migrant caravan on U.S. border, families fear what comes next." The migrants are "depleted" but "defiant," the editors wrote.
Trump doesn't exactly see the situation through the same empathetic eyes. In a tweet last week, he vowed not to let the trespassing alien caravan pass!
At a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari Monday, President Trump was asked how many of those individuals at the border he believes deserves asylum?
"We are a nation of laws," he responded. "If we don't have a border we don't have a country!"
He's been watching the caravan "for weeks," he said, before reiterating they need a wall.
His decision to send more National Guard troops to the border has been having "a big impact," but policies like catch and release are "ridiculous."
U.S. border laws are "obsolete," "weak" and "pathetic," Trump said.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen emphasized Trump's stand.
"If members of the 'caravan' enter the country illegally, they will be referred for prosecution for illegal entry in accordance with existing law," she said in a statement.
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
The NRA has said on its website that due to Pence’s attendance, the U.S. Secret Service is responsible for security then. It’s standard for the Secret Service to bar firearms from being carried into places visited by the people they protect, regardless of state laws.
There you have it. The NRA did not ban guns at the event, but in cases where the president and vice president of the United States are addressing the convention, it’s quite understandable that the Secret Service doesn’t want firearms near them.
The Secret Service made this security measure, not the NRA!
Yet, even leaving the Secret Service element aside, the notice about carrying firearms was clearly stated on the website:
During the 2018 NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits,This NOTICE was posted.
Lawfully carried firearms will be permitted in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and the Omni Dallas Hotel in accordance with Texas law.
When carrying your firearm remember to follow all federal, state, and local laws.
So, can we drop this idiocy about the NRA banning guns? This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s just another attempt to bash one of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations by anti-gun left-wingers. Keep it up, folks. We know there’s an election in November.
UPDATE: Kudos to AP for correcting their headline:
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
FAKE News: The NRA Didn’t Ban Guns At Their Annual Event.
Apr/30/18 Matt Vespa
The National Rifle Association’s annual meeting is upon us and like allergy season, the news media is saying that the organization banned guns because Vice President Mike Pence and President Trump are attending.
The organization’s convention will be held in Dallas, Texas this week.
Oh, and you know this is fake news, right?
NRA bans guns at President Trump, VP Pence speeches during it's annual meeting in Dallas. The Associated Press Apr/30/18
Here’s what Politico reported;
Parkland survivors criticized the National Rifle Association after it banned guns from Vice President Mike Pence’s upcoming speech at the organizati...
The NRA posted a disclaimer on the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum event page, saying that due to Pence’s attendance, Secret Service will be responsible for event security. Therefore, “firearms and firearm accessories, knives or weapons of any kind will be prohibited in the forum prior to and during his attendance."
President Donald Trump will also reportedly speak at the convention and firearms will be banned for his portion as well.
Here’s the Associated Press after they tweeted that the NRA banned guns.
See Update;
Attendees at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Dallas can carry their firearms — except during the forum where President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence speak Friday.
A White House official said Monday that Trump will attend Friday. Pence had already been slated to speak at Friday’s leadership forum,
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Thousands Stand For Gun Rights At Minnesota Capitol Rally.
2:00 pm Apr/30/18 by Tom Knighton
The anti-gunners aren’t the only ones who can rally. Pro-gunners can be very activist-like when they want to be. A prime example comes from Minnesota, where thousands attended a pro-gun rally at the state capitol.
About 2,000 people, some toting handguns and rifles, gathered on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol Saturday, to support gun owners’ rights and to decry firearm regulations proposed by some legislators.
The rally was organized and promoted by several gun-advocacy groups, including the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance and the National Rifle Association.
A handful of speakers, including NRA board member Willes Lee, spoke in support of gun ownership.
“I call B.S. on the government … taking our civil rights,” Lee told the crowd, to cheers. “The Second Amendment affirms my God-given right of self-defense.”
Other speakers included state Republican Party Chair Jennifer Carnahan, state Rep. Marion O’Neill, R-Maple Lake, and two Republicans who are running for congressional seats. All urged the crowd to support GOP candidates in November’s midterm elections.
Rally attendees booed mentions of Gov. Mark Dayton, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and state Sen. Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis Park, who introduced two gun-safety measures that were rejected earlier this week. They jeered mandatory gun registration, chamber limits and universal background checks.
“There’s some that don’t want to carry a gun on their hip or own a firearm to protect their family, and that’s fine,” said Pete Stauber, who is running for a congressional seat in Minnesota’s Eighth District. “But you don’t take it away from us defending ourselves, our families and our grandkids.”
Several in attendance had handguns holstered to their waists or rifles slung across their backs and chests.
I’m not a fan of carrying a gun at a political rally or protest for a lot of reasons, but partially because it gives journalists a reason to mention it, thus painting us all as 'loonies' who can’t go a single minute without a gun in reach, like we’re addicts. But I get that not everyone agrees, and it’s not the end of the world.
What really matters, is that thousands stood before their state capitol and made it clear that they support the Second Amendment.
While anti-gunners routinely think the public is really with them, this sends lawmakers a clear signal that polling numbers are irrelevant in the face of determined patriots who AREN'T going down without a fight.
This is especially true, considering many who may support gun control don’t make it a priority while those who support the Second Amendment do. In other words, come after the guns if you wish, but it won’t work out well for you.
Like the flag warns, “Don’t Tread On Me!”
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Kabul Suicide Bombing Leaves 30 Dead, Including At Least Eight Journalists.
Apr/30/18 Lauretta Brown
Two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan left at least 30 people dead Monday, including at least eight journalists. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The bomber targeted journalists, disguising himself as a cameraman going to the site after a first explosion, according to Agence France Presse.
AFP photographer Shah Marai is among the dead.
AFP Global News Director Michele Leridon commented on the death of the photographer in a statement.
"This is a devastating blow, for the brave staff of our close-knit Kabul bureau and the entire agency,” she said. “Shah Marai was a treasured colleague who spent more than 15 years documenting the tragic conflict in Afghanistan for AFP."
BBC listed other journalists that have been identified as victims:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty confirmed that three of its journa... were killed in the attack.
Abadullah Hananzai, a journalist and cameraman, had been working on a story about narcotics.
Maharram Durrani worked on the weekly women's programme.
Sabawoon Kakar had earlier been listed as injured, but died later in hospital
Tolo News said its cameraman Yar Mohammad Tokhi was among the victims
Afghanistan's 1TV said reporter Ghazi Rasooli and cameraman Nowroz ....
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement on the social media app Telegram, according to CNN.
The group said a "martyrdom brother" blew his explosive vest up among a group of "apostates." They identified the first bomber as Qaqaa al-Kurdi and the second as Khalil al-Qurshi, but did not provide evidence of their claims.
Interior minister spokesperson Najib Danish told BBC that at least eight journalists and four police officers were among the dead.
Forty-five people total have been reported injured thus far.
Apr 30, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
4/30/18 The Hill by: Avery Anapol
Thomas Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who President Trump had tapped to lead the agency permanently, reportedly plans to retire in the coming months.
Three sources familiar with Homan's plans told The Wall Street Journal that he will announce his retirement on Monday and leave the agency in June.
Trump tapped Homan to permanently lead the agency in November, but his nomination has been stalled in the Senate.
The agency's arrests have risen sharply under Homan as part of the Trump administration's push to crack down on illegal immigration.
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
This is just a sample of what is really going on out there. There are various gangs from different groups that have members join the military to hide in plain sight, get training, recruit members, arrange for helpers, and then go on to train other gang members after completion of duty. I am quite sure there are some that have infiltrated military intelligence and pass on info to their associates here and abroad.
The drug cartels have people in the military, the street gangs have people in the military, and the terrorists de jour have people in the military.
It should come as no surprise to find them in the police. I suspect that there are far more of these slugs in local, state, and federal law enforcement than we would like to think is possible.
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Middle Eastern Gang’s” Man On The Inside Exposed, “ Closer Than You Would think,
Apr/27/18
Like Mohamed Noor in Minneapolis, Jiyayi Suleyman’s presence on the Nashville police force appears to be a manifestation of the general anxiety to avoid charges of “Islamophobia”:
Nashville officials were so anxious to have a Kurdish Muslim police officer that they put Suleyman on the force and kept him there even after he was caught with the gang, when similar activity would have gotten a non-Muslim officer fired.
“Gang member infiltrates Metro Police Department,” by Carley Gordon, WSMV, April 20, 2018 (thanks to Robert):
According to an investigative file obtained by News4, Suleyman was a member of the Kurdish Pride Gang, a group known for selling illegal guns and drugs.
Jiyayi Suleyman became Nashville’s first Kurdish police officer in 2012.It was a source of pride for both the community and the department.
“He was the first Kurdish cop, so he made all of us proud,” said Hamid Hasan, the owner of House of Kabab in Nashville.
Now Suleyman is out of a job and in trouble. He’s the subject of a criminal investigation.
According to an investigative file obtained by News4, Suleyman was a member of the Kurdish Pride Gang, a group known for selling illegal guns and drugs.
Police said he lied on his application about who he was and who he hung out with.
Once on the inside, he used the TBI’s computer program to look up fellow gang members which is against the rules.
“I am very surprised, honestly to goodness, I am so mad too because this is not good for anything,” said Hasan when asked by News 4.
Investigators said they caught Suleyman associating with other gang members at House of Kabab.
Even after police arrested those gang members for selling drugs and guns they said Suleyman continued to associate with them.
A search warrant revealed pictures of Suleyman flashing gang signs and wearing gang colors before he ever joined the force….
The greatest mistakes the stupid co-exist bed wetters can ever make is to put someone who will follow the rules of a barbaric, inbred, 7th Century cult over any laws or the U.S. constitution! muslims will always be muslims first and always. They are encouraged to lie to infidels when it will increase the power of islam. Anything that gives them power of any kind over infidels, increases the power and influence of islam, and the muslims that follow it, are a cancer upon the earth!
What about the administrators of the Nashville Metro Police Department who (supposedly) vetted, hired, trained and deployed him? Will they be investigated for corruption, or at least rank incompetence? When are the Keystone Kops who hire these criminals onto their forces going to be held responsible for their stupid PC decisions that put the public at risk?
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Hornady Takes Stand Against Bullying State Of New York.
10:00 am Apr/30/18 by Tom Knighton
Let’s be honest here, the battle lines have already been drawn. As people like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seeks to pressure banks into not doing business with the firearm industry, the firearm industry needs to have some kind of response. Realistically, they’re limited in what they can do. It’s not like anyone in the gun industry has the power to tell banks not to do business with the State of New York.
But Hornady is on the right track.
Today, the State of New York did one of the most despicable acts ever perpetrated by any state by asking New York banks, financial institutions and insurance companies to stop doing business with the gun and ammo industry.
While it may not make a difference to New York, Hornady will not knowingly allow our ammunition to be sold to the State of NY or any NY agencies. Their actions are a blatant and disgusting abuse of office and we won’t be associated with a government that acts like that. They should be ashamed.
-Steve Hornady, president of Hornady Manufacturing Company
This looks like a drop in the bucket.
However, think for a moment what would happen if every company in the firearm industry stepped up and followed Steve Hornady’s lead?
While Andrew Cuomo may like to think he’s holding all the cards, he’s not.
He’s protected by people who need guns and ammunition. Multiple state agencies need guns and ammunition, as well.
What happens when, because of his comments and his push to destroy the gun industry, they can’t get the resources they need? What then?
Oh, someone will sell to them…at exorbitant prices that keep the retaliatory aspect intact. The law of supply and demand will come into play, after all. If you’re the only one who will sell to them, and they absolutely need it, you can name your own price.
It’s important to note that Hornady’s decision isn’t exactly unique.
Barrett made a similar move years ago with the state of Mexifornia. No one followed then, but we live in a different world today.
Today, we’re fighting for our lives. There are moves at every angle to try and stick a knife in the heart of the firearm industry as anti-gunners have become desperate to kill our Second Amendment rights.
They’ve decided that if they can’t take out the Second Amendment, they’d at least make it impossible for firearm-related companies to do business.
Well, two can play that game.
Everyone needs to follow the lead of Hornady on this. In an industry that embraces the concept of self-defense, doing things like this make sense. This is self-defense. This is protecting your right to exist from someone who doesn’t believe you have that right.
Andrew Cuomo is the proverbial thug in an alley threatening the life of the industry.
The question is, do companies blink, or do they shoot back?
May 1, 2018
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Russia Claims It Has “Cyber Pearl Harbor” Strike Capabilities
Russia has claimed it can disable the entire US Navy in one fell swoop using powerful electronic signal jamming.
A news report from the country – where the media is essentially controlled by the state – said the technology could render planes, ships and missiles useless.
The newsreader says: “Today, our Russian Electronic Warfare (REW) troops can detect and neutralise any target from a ship’s system and a radar, to a satellite.”
The news report claims a single Russian war plane flew several times around American destroyer the USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea several years ago, disabling its systems and leaving it helpless.
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
There’s An App for Illegal Aliens That Helps Them Avoid Feds, Guess Who’s Behind It?
A new app that helps illegal immigrants evade federal authorities has just launched, and it’s funded by left-wing billionaire george soros, according to Judicial Watch.
The app, Notifica, allows illegal aliens to have a predetermined plan and activate it by sending messages to family if they fear of deportation or have come in contact with immigration authorities.
“Users can prepare a set of automatic messages to alert — with one click — family members, lawyers and others if they, or someone they care about, encounter immigration enforcement authorities,” LMT Online reports. “The tool was developed last year and distributed on a small scale and is now available for the public on Google and Apple apps stores.”
The group was a project for the National Immigration Law Center, according to Judicial Watch, and was funded for “immigration-related employment discrimination public education.”
The U.S. government granted the NILC over $200,000 between 2008 and 2010, who also claim to be dedicated to “defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.”
Both the NILC and its United We Dream branch are heavily funded from Soros’ Open Society Foundations; OSF is listed as a key financial backer for both nonprofits.
“OSF has also funded a liberal think-tank headed by former killary clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and the scandal-ridden activist group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), so corrupt that Congress banned it from receiving federal funding,” Judicial Watch reports.
“I am not surprised by the app,” said Marri Velasquez, a Republican activist from Texas who co-founded the mexicans for Trump group. “It’s like fugitives, always running around trying to find the new thing. … They use Nextdoor.com and other network groups to alert each other.”
“There is always going to be another protection, another cover-up,” Velasquez continued. “But this is not going to change anything.”
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Yet, liberals in Mexifornia think it’s logical to do so.
Officers don’t want to go through a critical incident like taking a life. Some handle the task better than others, some don’t handle it at all. In fact, it is not uncommon for officers to leave law enforcement altogether after being compelled to use deadly force.
New officers are taught in field training that when a driver takes time to pull over, there is a higher chance for nefarious activity such as hiding contraband, or they may be looking for a place to bail out and run. Officers senses become heightened, and rightfully so, as in this case.
Let’s put this into context and place Officer Adams and the suspect in Mexifornia after the law has passed.
Officer Adams would not be allowed to shoot first in self-preservation. He would have to become a target first. All the while, having a perfectly capable weapon and authorization by federal law to stop the threat to his own life.
Officers should not be expendable for the sake of criminal who decides to point a firearm, or what can reasonably be perceived as a firearm, at an officer.
Yes, there are inherent dangers in law enforcement. We all know that being shot is one of them. However, officers do not “sign up to get shot,” as critics ignorantly say.
Don’t point a firearm, or something that is intended to look like one, at an officer, and no one will get shot. It’s common sense.
May 1, 2018
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Texas Officer Shoots Suspect During Traffic Stop.
5:00 pm Apr/5/18 by John Dempsey
This week, the Mexifornia State Assembly proposed a law that dictates when an officer can fire their weapon in self-defense. I previously touched on how dangerous such a law would be to officers, their families, and society.
A recent officer-involved shooting in Pasadena, Texas shines some light on these problems.
Officer Marc Adams, a 13-year veteran of the department, conducted a traffic stop on March 29th. The suspect took his time to pull over, and when he did stop, he do so abruptly and quickly pushed his door open. Officer Adams began giving loud verbal commands for the suspect to stay in his car, but the man shouted back “no.” He then turned the right side of his body away from Adams. Since the majority of the population is right-handed, common sense tells the officer the man is hiding something in his hand.
So, he commanded the suspect to show his hands. Instead, the suspect presented and pointed a firearm at the officer. Before the suspect could shoot, Adams got off multiple shots, striking the suspect in the left arm. This was enough of a distraction for him to retreat to the rear of his patrol vehicle, take cover, and create distance.
The suspect then stumbled to the middle of the street while still holding the handgun. Officer Adams took a position on the passenger side of his vehicle, keeping the suspect in view. When the suspect began to take aim again, Adams fired a few more rounds, striking the suspect in the right side of his rib cage. The shot was fatal.
And the Mexifornia assembly wants to legislate this? Leftists must be further out of touch than I realized. They believe they can write a bill that dictates when an officer can determine, often times in dark, whether a perceived firearm is an actual firearm or just an airsoft gun with the orange tip removed. Or if a real firearm has a chambered round or inserted magazine. Unfortunately, there is no time for “making sure” in these situations.
Officer Adams didn’t have time to determine if the suspect had a projectile in the chamber of his handgun.
May 1, 2018
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May/1/18 11:00 AM Katie Pavlich
The Department of Justice has started issuing charges against members of a caravan parked at the southern border with Mexico.
Late Monday night, charges were filed against 11 aliens for illegally entering the United States. One of the caravan members has been deported before.
“When respect for the rule of law diminishes, so too does our ability to protect our great nation, its borders, and its citizens,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions released in a statement. “The United States will not stand by as our immigration laws are ignored and our nation’s safety is jeopardized.
U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman and his team should be commended for quickly filing illegal entry charges for individuals apprehended along the southwestern border. We will continue to work with our partners in each U.S. Attorney’s Offices to aggressively pursue prosecutions of criminal illegal entry.”
According to DOJ, the members charged purposely evaded immigration authorities by entering the country at "a time and place other than as designated by Immigration Officers, and eluded examination and inspection by Immigration Officers."
“The American Dream has beckoned immigrants from across the globe because of the promise that prosperity and success are within reach for all,” United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mexifornia Adam Braverman said. “Those aliens have contributed their voices and perspectives to make up our uniquely American experience. But the foundation for the American Dream, and what allows our democracy to flourish, is commitment to the rule of law!
These eleven defendants face charges now because they believed themselves to be above the law. Those seeking entry into the United States must pledge fidelity to the law, not break them, or else face criminal prosecution.”
The members of the caravan, made up of illegal aliens from Honduras, arrived in the United States late last week after Mexico failed to stop them.
They claim to be seeking asylum in America.
**** ONLY 11 ARRESTED!??? ****
May 1, 2018
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Texas Educators Receive Active Shooter Training.
2:00 pm Mar/13/18 by Tom Knighton
While we wait for the federal government to decide whether there will be a program at that level to allow teachers to be armed, some places are taking matters into their own hands. After all, this most likely will happen at the state level anyway, with Florida already considering a program — and they’re not alone.
In Texas, for example, they’re not waiting around. They’re getting teachers ready, just in case!
In ENNIS, Texas, Teachers are readying themselves in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting that killed 17.
Sixteen teachers and school staff members got a whole day of training Saturday on how to handle a weapon in the event of an active shooter situation. The free event was led by a former Irving police officer.
Teachers like Kim Raney got a lesson in protecting their students. “Its scary sometimes. We do our best to have security at our schools, but you never know what’s going to happen. And it’s better to be prepared than not prepared,” said Raney.
Tim Bulot owns Strategic Weapons Academy of Texas. He’s a former Irving police officer with nearly 30 years in law enforcement. “This is the first time I’ve done anything like this… normally it’s police officers, SWAT and overseas contractors who we train here,” said Bulot.
Unfortunately, we live in a world where teachers need training like this.
Of course, they’ve needed it since Columbine, but no one wanted to listen then.
Regardless, it seems likely that we’ll soon see plenty of outrage stories all about how this is horrible, that what we need to do is take away people’s Second Amendment rights. But, as Jazz Shaw notes at Hot Air:
I’m sure we’ll be able to find someone to complain about this in no time at all, but doesn’t this seem like a best last resort if there are no other options available?
Particularly in rural areas, it may be quite a while before the authorities arrive.
And as we saw in Parkland, you may not even have any immediate relief then. Simply teaching someone about proper safety precautions and giving them a few sessions on the practice range is definitely important, but these folks are going one step further, and if the lessons stick with them it could mean the difference between life and death.
There’s also the deterrent factor to be considered. Rarely are these school shootings done by some stranger who travels in from far out of town. Usually, it’s someone from the community.
And if the local news makes it very clear that any shooter arriving on the scene will be met with multiple armed teachers with training on bringing down an intruder, there’s a fair chance they’re going to look for another target.
This is the kind of thing that will save lives without a firearm ever being drawn. Many times, these killers want to create a massive death toll, like they’re keeping score in a video game or something. They want to kill and kill a lot.
The fact that there will be teachers in these schools who are trained to respond with lethal force will act as a deterrent, since there’s now too great a risk the shooter will be killed before he can get a “high score.”
That’s the heart and soul of not just the idea of allowing teachers to carry a firearm but concealed carry in general.
It’s that the bad men have to factor in the possibility of being shot before they can accomplish their goal, be it killing dozens of people, stealing a wallet, or raping a woman.
The point is to not allow them to do it and make others think it’s too risky to try.
May 1, 2018
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3:00 pm Nov/20/17 by Erika Haas
A good guy with a gun isn’t much help if he (or she) doesn’t know how to properly use that firearm, especially in a high stress situation.
That’s where Top Guns owner, Steve Ellis comes in.
The local Indiana gun shop and range offered free firearms training to 24 churches in the area last weekend. More specifically, volunteer gun experts taught church officials what to do in an active shooter situation, including how to identify the shooter.
“Part of it is situational awareness, threat assessment, be a good whiteness, knowing what to look for and what to watch out for so that you can get that information and communicate to other members of the team,” Ellis tells MyWabashValley.com.
With only one day of training and over 40 attendees, the Top Guns owner knows they didn’t prepare everyone for everything. But that wasn’t the goal.
“We may not be able to catch every scenario but man, if we can catch some of these, boy that would be a great thing to be able to prevent the next incident from taking place,” Ellis explains.
Hopefully, more gun ranges across the country start offering these types of classes – and open them up to all citizens, not just church officials!
As Ellis says:
“Don’t go through life being scared.
But do go through life being prepared!”
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Professional Civilian Security Company Starts Training in New York.
10:50 pm Apr/23/16 by Jenn Jacques
Have you ever walked through different scenarios on how to survive and save lives in an active shooter situation?
That’s exactly what a pair of Navy SEALS did in their first active shooter training session for civilians yesterday.
“I was a sniper, explosive expert, communications,” says Navy SEAL Michael Donnelly.
“The majority of people are sheep. And we want to train those sheep to become sheep dog and be vigilant and to survive an attack,” said Navy SEAL Hector Delgado.
The men teamed up with Dr. Terrence Burns to form SAFGRU, a professional civilian security company providing training to regular people how to survive active shooter scenarios.
“They want to teach regular citizens, ordinary people what to do in this type of event. We wanted to alarm them in a controlled fashion get their heart rates up a bit. It was a ten second scenario that ended promptly. But a real life scenario would continue for perhaps up to 15 minutes before law enforcement brings the situation under control,” said Terrence Burns M.D., president of SAFGRU.
“They are not likely to have an authority figure present to guide them. They need to be prepared to take action to defend themselves and their loved ones,” said Dr. Burns.
WGRZ reports:
After a conference on how to survive an attack at a hospital, they decided to pass along those skills to as many people as possible. They will go through tactics usually reserved for the professionals during the drills you have heard about, but probably have not been able to participate in unless you are a first responder.
“If you can realize what surroundings you’re in, where your exits are, basics of minor details, you can act very quick and deflate the situation basically,” says Donnelly.
“Give them the immediate knowledge of when there’s a crisis how to either lock themselves down, fight, or escape and leave the building. So there’s three things they need to consider, and it has to be done within the first 90 seconds,” says Delgado.
“If you make yourself a hard target, whether it’s hiding or running, or escaping, then you’re doing yourself justice and you’re helping others get out. Remember, if you’re locked in a building, or you’re locked in a room, and someone’s trying to get in, and they can’t get in to hurt you, they’re going to move on,” says Delgado.
The fledgling company certainly hits an untapped market at a time when citizens are eager to accept their own and others’ security. Their mission statement sums it up: “The modern world has created a critical void that relates to the very survival of ordinary people. SAFGRU, LLC closes that gap using the technical expertise, survival and leadership methods proven under fire.”
SAFGRU is currently in Buffalo New York, but will host sessions nationwide, opening offices in Miami and New York City.
May 1, 2018
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Insurance Company Offers Interesting Seminar for Businesses in TX.
Aug/25/16 by Jenn Jacques
An insurance company in Amarillo, TX is arming it’s clients with the knowledge they may need in the workplace by offering an Active Shooter Safety Seminar.
That’s right: an active shooter safety seminar for businesses offered by their insurance company as a way to bolster their risk management program. BRILLIANT.
“An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area. To best prepare your staff for an active shooter situation, business owners need to create an emergency action plan (EAP) and conduct training exercises. Together, the EAP and training exercises will prepare your staff to effectively respond and help minimize loss of life,” said Kimberly Dryden, a Risk Advisor with the company. “Because these types of issues are part of a good risk management program, we look at the complete risk of a community, our business partners and our families. It is our desire to share our resources and start the conversation within the Texas Panhandle to prevent, respond and mitigate safety and security issues.”
The seminar will be held Thursday, September 1 from 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. at the Amarillo College Downtown Campus, located at on Polk St. in Amarillo.
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Pennsylvania Game Commission Gives Thumbs Up To Semi-Auto Shotguns.
2:00 pm May/1/18 by Tom Knighton
For many people, the shotgun is the ultimate do-all firearm. They’re capable of taking down just about any game you want them to, so long as you can get close enough.
However, not all shotguns are authorized to be used for all game. Sometimes for good reason, but still…
In Pennsylvania, at least there’s been a bit of sanity interjected. Now, hunters can use semiautomatic shotguns.
Semiautomatic centerfire shotguns that propel single-projectile ammunition will be lawful sporting arms in most of Pennsylvania’s firearms deer, bear and elk seasons in 2018-19. The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today gave unanimous approval to regulatory changes that permit these sporting arms for deer, bear and elk hunting. For elk, the shotgun needs to be 12-gauge or larger.
The Game Commission historically has permitted the use of semiautomatic shotguns for deer and bear seasons within its special regulations areas near Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
With today’s vote, such authorization is extended to the remainder of the Commonwealth, as well as to the state’s elk hunters.
It seems that Pennsylvania is a little behind the times when it comes to guns. In particular, they seem to be just now recognizing semiautomatic weapons as being viable for hunting.
No, seriously. It’s not just shotguns. As Dean Weingarten over at The Truth About Guns notes:
In 2016, Pennsylvania gave the Game Commission the authority to approve semiautomatic rifles for hunting. In January of 2017, the Game Commission approved hunting big game, small game and furbearers with semiautomatic rifles. In spite of the 2016 law, the decision to allow hunting big game with semiautomatic rifles was reversed in March of that year.
Semiautomatic rifles are legal to hunt small game and furbearers in Pennsylvania, but not big game. Furbearers include coyotes, foxes, and raccoons.
The first semiautomatic rifle designed for big game was patented in 1900 and introduced in 1906 by Remington. It proved a popular and successful design!
In other words, a 100-year-old design used for legal and ethical hunting pretty much all over the world is illegal for taking big game in the state of Pennsylvania.
At least now they can use semi-auto shotguns for big game.
The question is whether this rule would be reversed as well or not. At this point, I’d advise hunters in Penn. to not purchase a semiautomatic shotgun for hunting alone unless you don’t mind it the state deeming it illegal shortly thereafter. But, if you’re willing to take that risk, have fun.
Personally, maybe I’m just overly cautious, but I wouldn’t want to hunt bear without something semi-auto. As a general rule, though, I don’t play around with any game animal that might eat me in turn. Call it a quirk.
With luck, the state of Pennsylvania will step up into the 21st century in the very near future and allow hunters to use whatever kind of action they deem appropriate for the various game.
It’s one thing to say a caliber is insufficient to take a certain variety of game.
It’s quite another to say certain action types should be banned as well.
May 1, 2018
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White House Reacts To Stunning Data About Unaccompanied Alien Children.
May 1, 2018
The costs from America’s porous immigration system continue to rise. At the end of April, news broke that between October 2016 and December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was unable to locate nearly 1,500 of the 7,635 unaccompanied alien minors it attempted to reach—almost one-fifth of its file.
"I don’t care what you think about immigration policy, it’s wrong,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) said.
He’s right:
A very small percentage of the unaccompanied alien children (UAC) who illegally enter the United States each year are ultimately removed, creating a major public safety challenge.
Loopholes in our immigration laws put both UACs and American citizens at risk. Most UACs are older teens (16-17 years old) from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Some are MS-13 gang members who use our immigration system to infiltrate the United States, but UACs who are not gang members are still at risk of harm from MS-13. This broken system is dangerous for everyone!
Under the obuma Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services documented that 80% of the 71,000 Central American children placed between February 2014 and September 2015 were released to sponsors who are in the United States illegally.
Parents were more than half of the cases; many others were siblings, aunts, and uncles.
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
In Texas, a criminal alien convicted of aggravated assault, deadly conduct, or causing injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual would not necessarily qualify as an aggravated felon.
In Oklahoma, a criminal alien convicted of forcible sodomy or assault and battery on a police officer would not necessarily classify as an aggravated felon.
As the law currently stands, no burglary crimes in Mexifornia, Iowa, South Carolina, Oregon, Michigan, and Florida would qualify as an aggravated felony.
Due to these judicially-created loopholes, criminal aliens convicted of these egregious crimes could potentially remain in the country.
Efforts to remove criminal aliens were further hamstrung by a recent Supreme Court decision that found unconstitutional a legal provision that was used to define which “crimes of violence” constitute aggravated felonies.
In effect, the ruling invalidated a law that empowered Federal authorities to remove many violent felons from our communities.
WHY: Congress must take swift action to close loopholes in our immigration system that threaten the safety and security of American communities.
President Trump has repeatedly called on Congress to close the judicially-created loopholes in our immigration system, including the aggravated felony loophole, in order to help keep Americans safe!
In October 2017, the Administration released its immigration priorities which called on Congress to clarify the aggravated felony definition.
The Administration also endorsed a bipartisan proposal this Feb. which would have fixed the aggravated felony loophole.
Calls to fix to the aggravated felony definition have been further echoed by numerous Federal judges.
For example, a judge on the Ninth Circuit described the current system as “bizarre and arbitrary” and noted it allows criminals to “escape the consequences that Congress intended.”
Congress needs to act, plain and simple. Without a legislative fix, Federal authorities will remain unable to remove violent criminal aliens, jeopardizing the safety and security of our communities.
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Loopholes Prevent Removal Of Dangerous Criminal Aliens, have created by judicial rulings have made it nearly impossible to remove many criminal aliens.
Apr/27/18
The costs from America’s porous immigration system continue to rise. At the end of April, news broke that between October 2016 and December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was unable to locate nearly 1,500 of the 7,635 unaccompanied alien minors it attempted to reach—almost one-fifth of its file.
“I don’t care what you think about immigration policy, it’s wrong,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) said.
He’s right: A very small percentage of the unaccompanied alien children (UAC) who illegally enter the United States each year are ultimately removed, creating a major public safety challenge.
Loopholes in our immigration laws put both UACs and American citizens at risk. Most UACs are older teens (16-17 years old) from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Some are MS-13 gang members who use our immigration system to infiltrate the United States, but UACs who are not gang members are still at risk of harm from MS-13. This broken system is dangerous for everyone.
Under the obuma Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services documented that 80 percent of the 71,000 Central American children placed between February 2014 and September 2015 were released to sponsors who are in the United States illegally. Parents were more than half of the cases; many others were siblings, aunts, and uncles.
In drafting the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), Congress included that criminal aliens convicted of any number of serious offenses referred to as aggravated felonies should be subject to immigration consequences. Federal courts, however, have created loopholes that prevent some serious criminal convictions from qualifying as aggravated felonies under the INA. As a result, the government is often unable to use the only grounds available to remove many criminal aliens.
For example, in Mexifornia, a criminal alien found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, robbery, or child abuse would not necessarily be considered an aggravated felon.
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
The U.S, has a right to be a sovereign Nation;
to decide who/whom may come into this country legally. Illegal aliens face many dangers, one huge danger is Human Trafficking which happens to the youth, the unsuspecting, to the illiterate, the desperate as well as the greedy…guiled by Traffickers makes these people victims so easy.
And as for the Taxpayers of America and their families and friends, the ability for American citizens and legals to vie for jobs, decent pay, homes-whether owned or rent–costs continue to rise;
schools continue to be short of monies and problems with language as well as becoming food kitchens for students-not education,roads/highways/streets continue to deteriorate , just to name a few problems, even food and health become problems as many on welfare/food stamps and another-Life becomes cheap-killings through robberies, stealing-crime rises.
The economics of Illegal alien has never been addressed, time for it to be addressed, time for Truth to be told.
Canada has open borders and are seeing the problems that I have mentioned and probably more as they are Socialists.
So the Wall between Mexico and the U.S. needs to be built and secured by our Border Patrols with support by the U.S. Government. As well as the American citizen and taxpayers.
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For the past decade, attempts at immigration reform have failed because open borders special interests in both parties have dominated the discussion. The framework laid out by the White House represents mainstream, common sense approach to immigration.
◾The U.S. cannot truly secure its borders without legislative reforms to close loopholes that prevent the prompt return of illegal aliens who do not have a legitimate claim for asylum.
ENDING EXTENDED-FAMILY CHAIN MIGRATION: President Trump wants to keep nuclear families together while reforming our current legal immigration system, so it no longer serves as a conduit for low-skilled immigration.
◾Under our current immigration system, more than 70 percent of immigrants entering the United States do so based on family ties rather than on skill or merit. ◾Our current law allows new immigrants to sponsor various members of their extended families for immigration to the United States.
◾Between 2005 and 2016, the U.S. admitted more than 70 percent of lawful immigrants based on family ties alone.
◾Chain migration has been a leading source of low-skilled immigration into the United States, hurting vulnerable American workers.
◾Our current immigration system puts a strain on federal resources and burdens American taxpayers. ◾Half of all immigrant-headed households receive benefits from at least one welfare program.
CANCELING THE VISA LOTTERY: President Trump has called for the cancelation of the visa lottery system, which selects applicants at random and has been subject to fraud and abuse.
◾Currently, about 50,000 immigrants enter the United States each year through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, commonly called the visa lottery or Green Card lottery.
◾Individuals are selected at random to apply for a visa that permits permanent residence in the United States, and the qualifying criteria are very low. ◾Eligible countries have low levels of immigration to the U.S. over the last 5 years.
◾The program requires participants to have only a high school education or two years of work experience.
◾Upon entering the United States, those who have received a Green Card may eventually gain U.S. citizenship through naturalization.
◾The visa lottery has been highly vulnerable to fraud and abuse. ◾A 2003 report by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found the visa lottery system is subject to widespread abuse.
◾A 2007 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the program was vulnerable to fraudulent activity.
PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR A DACA FIX THAT ENDS CHAIN MIGRATION, ELIMINATES THE VISA LOTTERY, AND SECURES THE BORDER: Recent polling shows Americans support turning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy into a lawful policy in exchange for ending chain migration, the visa lottery, and border security.
◾According to a recent Harvard-Harris poll, 58 percent of those polled oppose shutting down the government over the DACA program.
◾65 percent of those polled would support an immigration deal that gives work permits and a path to citizenship to aliens brought to the U.S. by their parents in exchange for prioritizing merit-based immigration over family ties, ending the visa lottery, and providing border security funding.
◾More than three quarters of those polled, 79 percent, believe immigration policy should be based on a person’s ability to contribute to America rather than on family ties.
◾68% opposed the visa lottery system which randomly selects up to 50,000 foreign nationals to become permanent residents of the United States.
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◾Currently, about 50,000 immigrants enter the United States each year through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, commonly called the visa lottery or Green Card lottery.
◾Individuals are selected at random to apply for a visa that permits permanent residence in the United States, and the qualifying criteria are very low.
◾Eligible countries have low levels of immigration to the U.S. over the last 5 years.
◾The program requires participants to have only a high school education or two years of work experience.
◾Upon entering the United States, those who have received a Green Card may eventually gain U.S. citizenship through naturalization.
◾The visa lottery has been highly vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
◾A 2003 report by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found the visa lottery system is subject to widespread abuse.
◾A 2007 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the program was vulnerable to fraudulent activity.
PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR A DACA FIX THAT ENDS CHAIN MIGRATION, ELIMINATES THE VISA LOTTERY, AND SECURES THE BORDER:
Recent polling shows Americans support turning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy into a lawful policy in exchange for ending chain migration, the visa lottery, and border security.
◾According to a recent Harvard-Harris poll, 58 percent of those polled oppose shutting down the government over the DACA program.
◾65% of those polled would support an immigration deal that gives work permits and a path to citizenship to aliens brought to the U.S. by their parents in exchange for prioritizing merit-based immigration over family ties, ending the visa lottery, and providing border security funding.
◾More than three quarters of those polled, 79%, believe immigration policy should be based on a person’s ability to contribute to America rather than on family ties.
◾68% opposed the visa lottery system which randomly selects up to 50,000 foreign nationals to become permanent residents of the United States.
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
WH: Factsheet About Our Broken Immigration System.
Jan/30/18
For the past decade, attempts at immigration reform have failed because open borders special interests in both parties have dominated the discussion. The framework laid out by the White House represents mainstream, common sense approach to immigration.
SECURING THE BORDER:
President Donald J. Trump’s Administration has taken action to secure the border, but the United States has seen an uptick in attempted illegal entries and more resources are needed to accomplish the job.
◾In fiscal year (FY) 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded 310,531 apprehensions by Border Patrol agents, 303,916 of which were on the Southwest border.
◾More than 97% of all CBP apprehensions occurred on the Southwest border.
◾In FY 2017, 10% of aliens apprehended by CBP had been previously apprehended on at least one other occasion.
◾Criminal organizations continually exploit border vulnerabilities and legal loopholes to help illegal aliens gain entry into the United States.
◾In FY 2017, CBP apprehended 20,131 criminal aliens and another 10,908 individuals wanted by law enforcement.
◾Dec/17 marked the eighth month in a row that southwest border apprehensions increased.
◾CBP remains concerned about the steady increase in the flow of unaccompanied children and family units. ◾Family-unit apprehensions and inadmissible cases at the Southwest border reached approximately 105,000 by the end of the year.
◾CBP’s daily southwest border inadmissible/apprehended numbers averaged 1,132 in Jan/18 to-date.
◾The U.S. cannot truly secure its borders without legislative reforms to close loopholes that prevent the prompt return of illegal aliens who do not have a legitimate claim for asylum.
ENDING EXTENDED-FAMILY CHAIN MIGRATION: President Trump wants to keep nuclear families together while reforming our current legal immigration system, so it no longer serves as a conduit for low-skilled immigration.
◾Under our current immigration system, more than 70 percent of immigrants entering the United States do so based on family ties rather than on skill or merit.
◾Our current law allows new immigrants to sponsor various members of their extended families for immigration to the United States.
◾Between 2005 and 2016, the U.S. admitted more than 70% of lawful immigrants based on family ties alone.
◾Chain migration has been a leading source of low-skilled immigration into the United States, hurting vulnerable American workers.
◾Our current immigration system puts a strain on federal resources and burdens American taxpayers.
◾Half of all immigrant-headed households receive benefits from at least one welfare program.
CANCELING THE VISA LOTTERY: President Trump has called for the cancelation of the visa lottery system, which selects applicants at random and has been subject to fraud and abuse.
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Sheriff Joe Notches Major Endorsement
5/1/18 by: AAN
World-class rocker and diehard Second Amendment supporter Ted Nugent came out in support of Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Senate.
The Nuge has long had a close relationship with Arpaio, who the Maricopa County Sheriff deputized back in 2012.
Although Arpaio's late entrance into the critical Arizona Senate race poised to shake things up, recent polling shows he's slipped behind former State Sen. Dr. Kelli Ward and Representative Martha McSally.
Nugent's enthusiasm was palpable:
"The liberal-left cannot tolerate a straight shooter like Joe Arpaio in the U.S. Senate, and they will pull out all the stops to defeat him once and for all."
We can't let this huge opportunity for Joe, for America, and for freedom slip away – let's send America's Sheriff to the U.S. Senate!"
Arpaio remains a favorite target of the left for his aggressive enforcement of immigration laws in America's fourth-most populous county.
5/1/18 by: AAN
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World-class rocker and diehard Second Amendment supporter Ted Nugent came out in support of Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Senate.
The Nuge has long had a close relationship with Arpaio, who the Maricopa County Sheriff deputized back in 2012.
Although Arpaio's late entrance into the critical Arizona Senate race poised to shake things up, recent polling shows he's slipped behind former State Sen. Dr. Kelli Ward and Representative Martha McSally.
Nugent's enthusiasm was palpable:
"The liberal-left cannot tolerate a straight shooter like Joe Arpaio in the U.S. Senate, and they will pull out all the stops to defeat him once and for all."
"We can't let this huge opportunity for Joe, for America, and for freedom slip away – let's send America's Sheriff to the U.S. Senate!"
Arpaio remains a favorite target of the left for his aggressive enforcement of immigration laws in America's fourth-most populous county.
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Judge Roy Moore Is Taking All Of His Accusers To Court.
Apr/30/18 By Luke Rohlfing
Last year’s special election to find a replacement for Alabama’s Junior Senator was rocked when Judge Roy Moore, who was poised to win the seat, was hounded by rumors of sexual assault from three women.
Those claims were so damaging to his reputation that Doug Jones, an unknown Democrat candidate, was able to beat Moore on election night.
While the media played up the accusations against Moore being from nine or more people, Judge Moore’s legal counsel made it clear at a press conference that there were three women accusers, and any inflated numbers were false.
Melissa Isaac, who is representing Judge Moore and his family, stated that they are suing all three accusers, along with two people connected to the accusations made against Moore.
The five people being sued are Richard Hagadorn, Marjorie Leigh Corfman, Debbie Wesson Gibson, Beverly Young Nelson, Tina Turner Johnson.
The complaint against the three accusers, and two accomplices, is being filed in Etowah County, where the allegations against Moore took place, and where the five being sued all live.
The complaint against them is for political conspiracy, among other charges.
May 1, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
Lindsey Graham: President Trump Should Get The Nobel Peace Prize.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) backed Trump’s efforts that led to the monumental developments involving North and South Korea, reports CNS News.
On Fox & Friends, Graham praised the historic agreement between the two countries, crediting it largely to President Trump, and saying he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
“It wouldn’t have happened without Trump!,” Graham said. “It may not happen, but this is the biggest change since the end of the hostilities. The fact that the North Korean and South Korean president met, and they vowed to end the war.”
“What happened?” Graham continued. “Donald Trump convinced North Korea and China he was serious about bringing about change. We’re not there yet. But if this happens, President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Graham applauded Trump’s composure even after feeling pressured to dismiss his “fire and fury” approach to North Korea.
“He has convinced North Korea you got two options,” Graham said. “You can become a normal country, or we will take you down if you keep trying to build missiles to hit the American homeland.”
The senator also claims that North Koreans knew President Trump would do all he could to put a stop to their nuclear program.
“Every president before him tried this. What is different about Trump? They believe, in North Korea, if he had to as a last resort, he would stop their nuclear program.
We’re not there yet, but if we get there, it will be because of President Trump,” Graham continued.
Graham gave a “word of warning” to the North Korean leader, advising him to stay true to his word.
“A word of warning,” Graham added. “The worst thing Kim Jong-un could do is play Trump — to go through all these motions and go back to the old way of doing business. Donald Trump will not tolerate being played. We’re either going to have peace or we’re going to have a war now, because Kim Jong-un has made a mistake if he’s not serious; and that’s playing Trump.”
May 2, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
9 Killed in School Massacre the Liberal Media Wants Nothing to Do With.
4/29/18 Conservative Tribune by: Ben Marquis
A horrific mass killing occurred at a middle school Friday that left nine students dead and several other injured, but the media has given the tragic story the most minimal of coverage.
Why has the media largely shied away from this incredible tragedy?
Because it totally undermines and upends their narratives about the most prominent danger young students face in the world today.
For starters, the horrible attack didn’t take place in America, nor was it committed with the type of weapon the liberal media most often frets over. Thus they have decided to ignore the tragedy as much as possible.
Normally the media would provide wall-to-wall coverage of a school attack that left nine students dead, but since the murders occurred in China and the murderer used a knife to do his evil deed, the media can’t rail against the Second Amendment and demand everyone to “do something” about gun control.
Death toll rises to 9 in school stabbing attack in China https://t.co/kZgilsyssZ pic.twitter.com/6GxvkkjrcX
— CBS News (@CBSNews) Apr/29/18
May 2, 2018
Bullheaded Texan
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Only two colleges of the top 66 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 list have a modicum of equality in numbers between Democratic and Republican faculty members.
They are the U.S. Military Academy, aka West Point, with a Democrat-to-Republican ratio of 1.3-to-1, and the U.S. Naval Academy, whose ratio is 2.3-to-1.
Many professors spend class time indoctrinating students with their views. For faculty members who are Democrats, those views can be described as leftist, socialist, or communist.
It is a cowardly act for a professor to take advantage of student immaturity by indoctrinating pupils with his opinions before the students have developed the maturity and skill to examine other opinions. It is also dereliction of duty of college administrators and boards of trustees to permit the continuance of what some professors and students are doing in the name of higher education.
Langbert’s findings suggest biases in college research and academic policy, where leftist political homogeneity is embedded in the college culture. The leftist bias at most of the nation’s colleges is in stark contrast to the political leanings of our nation.
According to a number of Pew Research Center surveys, most Americans identify as conservative.
These Americans are seeing their tax dollars and tuition dollars going to people who have contempt for their values and seek to indoctrinate their children with leftist ideas.
May 2, 2018