The Border & Illegal Aliens, And What We Are Doing About It.

[Bullheaded Texan]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.

“We are not going to let this country be invaded!

We will not be stampeded!

We will not capitulate to lawlessness!

This is NOT business as usual.

This is the Trump era!," the Attorney General said.
 

[Bullheaded Texan]

The Latest On Capital Gazette Shooting.

 8:30 am  6/29/18 by Tom Knighton

Yesterday, the world of journalism was rocked by news of a shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, MD. 

 While early reports indicated that this wasn’t a particularly well-planned attack and that the newsroom may not have even been intentionally targeted, and a number of other things, this morning, we have learned a whole lot more.

 We have learned the identity of the alleged shooter and his motivations, such as they were.

As per Bearing Arms policy, however, we will not share the killer’s name, however, we will note that it is a mexicano  surname, which means that this wasn’t a white thug this time around.

 The suspect in the deadly shooting at a Maryland newspaper building has been identified as 38-year-old [Name Redacted] of Laurel, Maryland, law enforcement sources tell CBS News.

 He is suspected of opening fire Thursday at the offices of Capital Gazette in Annapoli..., and fatally shooting five people while injuring others.

 He used a shotgun and was carrying smoke grenades or flash-bang grenades when he was apprehended, police said. -  “This was a targeted attack on the Capital Gazette,” Anne Arundel County acting police chief Bill Krampf said at a press conference Thursday evening. Krampf declined to name the suspect. “This person was prepared to shoot people. His intent was to cause harm.”

 The shooter was taken into custody at the scene and refused to cooperate with authorities. He carried no identification and had damaged his finger tips in an apparent effort to thwart identification by law enforcement, sources said. Authorities resorted to using facial recognition software and comparing his face to databases of passports and driver’s license photos.

 It seems that the killer had a score to settle with the newspaper.

He pled guilty in a case of criminal harassment. A few days later, the Capital Gazette ran a story about the harassment back in 2011. Then the suspect then filed a lawsuit against the newspaper for defamation. Unfortunately for him, as he’d pled guilty to the charges, thus essentially admitting the truth of them, there wasn’t squat he could do and the judge essentially told him so.

 In 2012, a judge dismissed the lawsuit on the basis that “there is absolutely not one piece of evidence, or an assertion by you that the statement in the article was false.”

 “I think people who are the subject of newspaper articles, whoever they may be, feel that there is a requirement that they be placed in the best light, or they have an opportunity to have the story reported to their satisfaction, or have the opportunity to have however much input they believe is appropriate,” Judge Maureen M. Lamasney said when dismissing the case. “But that’s simply not true. There is nothing in those complaints that prove that anything that was published about you is, in fact, false.”

 The suspect wasn’t done. He took to Twitter to lash out at the paper at every opportunity.

In other words, this appears that it may be the culmination of years of rage targeted at the newspaper itself.

 As a journalist myself, making people angry comes with the territory. Back when I covered local news, I can’t tell you how many angry calls I fielded from people furious that they weren’t painted in a more favorable light.

 But I never worried about something like this. The closest I ever got to worrying about something like this was after a story about voter fraud when word got to me that I might be targeted in some way. As I was carrying already, I was already taking all the precautions I could and didn’t worry too much.

 But, never anything like this.

Of course, journalists may well latch onto this shooting because it hits close to home. Or, they may not because it doesn’t seem to advance the narrative.

 

[Bullheaded Texan]

Anti-Gun Writer Flips, Joins Pro-Gun Side - Bearing Arms.

   https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2018/06/01/anti-gun-writer-flips-join...

Jun 1, 2018 - H.A. Goodman once railed against gun ownership from the pages of Salon and Huffington Post. Now, he's defending the Second Amendment.

[Bullheaded Texan]

Anti-Gun Writer Flips, Joins Pro-Gun Side!  

 6/1/18  by Tom Knighton 

As a general rule, I find that the vehement 'anti-gunners' are people who will not change their minds.

 I find that when you argue with people like that, what you’re doing is really laying out arguments for all those people who aren’t part of the discussion.

 As author and gun enthusiast Larry Correia noted, arguing on the internet is a spectator sport. You’re just not going to change that person’s mind.

 But sometimes, anti-gun voices do change their opinions.

Writer H.A. Goodman notes that his personal revelation came from how it seems some animals are more equal than others.

 "After witnessing the union of the Democratic Party and former spy chiefs james clapper, james comey and john brennan, I slowly realized my trust in the federal government had been naive. Of course, I’d never advocate an armed rebellion, but the fact 37% of American families own some type of firearm ensures that unelected officials think twice about the extent of their schemes.

 Since intelligence chiefs like brennan and clapper can lie under oath without perjury charges, or james comey can overlook clinton’s private server (storing SAP intelligence) because of “intent,” imagine the extent of their chicanery with a disarmed population.

 The Second Amendment isn’t necessarily a call to arms — it’s an inconvenient reality for unelected officials who continually act with impunity and without government oversight.

 As for mass shootings, the propaganda of the Left will not save lives!

dianne frankenstein admitted that no legislation could have prevented the Vegas shooting.

 The FBI botched the Charleston massacre and according to The New York Times, “Dylann Roof, 21, was allowed to buy the .45-caliber handgun because of mistakes by F.B.I. agents.”

 The FBI knew about the recent Florida shooter before he killed 17 people.

The FBI also knew about the Orlando Pulse shooter years before he murdered 49 human beings.

 As for the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 people, he roamed the university for 15 minutes using a .22 and a 9 millimeter; two smaller caliber handguns that have never been the targets of a ban by liberals.

 I joined the NRA and Gun Owners of America, because the groupthink that I once spewed, hurts law-abiding citizens and does nothing to prevent the next deranged copycat criminal.

 I now have a firearms channel on YouTube promoting the Second Amendment safely and responsibly; something I never imagined in 2014.

 Stranger things can happen, and I’m really glad Goodman has seen the light.

I suspect he will be able to reach people that would never consider something I wrote.

 His background of Salon and Huffington Post are very different from my right-leaning background.

Goodman may well know how to reach them whereas I can’t.

 Now that Goodman supports the Second Amendment, he’s not likely to find too many on that side willing to talk to him. I hope not, though.

 The Second Amendment is a check on the government, a reminder that this country was founded on revolution and that we’re more than willing to do it again, so act accordingly.

 The exact position that Goodman once scorned he has seen and embraced.

To quote one of the great action movie heroes of all time, “Welcome to the party, pal.”

[Bullheaded Texan]

Will the Law Catch Up to killary and Her Money Laundering Cronies?

 6/28/18  Source: The Federalist  by: Dan Backer

 **** I'LL GIVE YOU THREE GUESSES. ***

killary clinton’s days of political relevance may be behind her, but her scandals are not. While Clinton’s years at the State Department were marred by scandal after scandal, they pale in comparison to her time running for higher office.
 In 2016, the Democratic presidential candidate presided over the largest campaign finance scandal in U.S. history!

 A lawsuit based on federal records alleges the clinton machine laundered $84 million in excessive six-figure contributions through the killary Victory Fund, to dozens of Democratic state parties, on to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and ultimately to clinton’s campaign.
 Democrats and their media allies downplay the accusation as some partisan ploy, claiming the accusers are “fishing for publicity.” They chalk it up to a Donald Trump supporter’s anti-clinton bias. That’s when Democrats mention it at all, otherwise staying stunningly silent in the face of growing information that boggles the mind.
  Yes, I’m a Trump supporter, but dodging the question doesn’t make it go away:

Did killary clinton, dozens of Democratic Party officials, and hundreds of liberal mega-donors break the law?

 The evidence—built entirely from Democrats’ own Federal Election Commission (FEC) reporters and public statements—clearly points to “YES.”

[Bullheaded Texan]

Bill Seeks To Block Federal Dollars Backing Any Gun Registration Scheme.

 6/27/18  by Tom Knighton 

Gun registration is the bane of gun rights activists, and for good reason.

 The moment you enact registration, you make it clear that guns are a privilege, not a right, and that the government should know who has what. You’ve thus empowered tyranny since the first logical move of any tyrant is to disarm the populace.

 The federal government is barred currently from registering guns.

 Now, a bill is being proposed that will stop them from funding anyone else’s registration schemes as well.

 The Gun-owner Registration Information Protection, or GRIP Act, would extend the current prohibition on the use of federal funds for the maintenance of a full or partial gun registry to money allocated to state and tribal governments.

 Proposed by U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, she argues that work is already underway in a number of states to store personal information on gun owners and some of it may be supported by grant money from Washington.

 “My bill would ensure no federal funds are used, either intentionally or not, for these misguided gun control efforts,” said Hyde-Smith in a statement.

 “This legislation is needed to ensure the federal government is not involved in exploiting the personal information of law-abiding people who own or purchase firearms legally.”

 Filed as S.3135, the bill would help ensure that a myriad of federal grant programs made available to local and state agencies and governments wouldn’t be used to bolster efforts to store and track gun owner information.

 Currently, the U.S. Department of Justice funnels millions every year to local authorities through the National Criminal Histories Improvement Program, NICS Amendment Records Improvement program and the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program, much of it used to prop up local criminal databases.

 The NRA has endorsed this bill. Them backing it isn’t surprising. It would be major news if they didn’t.

Frankly, every gun rights advocate should be tripping all over themselves to support this one!

 Especially if you don’t like federal tax dollars going to stupid things.

For a man like me, this is just win-win. I fail to see a downside here.

 The 'anti-gun activists' will lose their minds, of course. They’ll scream all about how the feds have no authority to tell states what to do–funny how federalism is only good when it’s something they agree with–but those arguments will fall on deaf ears.

 No one is telling states they can’t have gun registration. I wish it did, but it doesn’t.

Instead, it just means that my tax dollars from Georgia won’t help fund Mexifornia’s registration system. That’s important to me.

No, that may not be happening now, but think for a moment and it won’t be hard to see anti-gun politicians trying to sneak something like that into a budget bill that no one is going to read anyway until it’s way too late. This, at least, makes that kind of thing illegal. It’s a strategic preemptive strike and a damn good one too.

Every now and then, someone in Congress really screws up and does something right. Amazing, isn’t it?

[Bullheaded Texan]

 NJ Gun Control Works So Well, 17 People Shot At Art Gathering.

 6/18/18  by: Tom Knighton

New Jersey has strict gun controls. I’ve had readers reach out to me, at least in part, to vent about the draconian laws in their home state and how it keeps them from defending themselves.

 In New Jersey, you need to 'define a clear need' for a concealed carry permit, for example.

Saying you’re concerned about mass shootings isn’t enough. You have to have a real, viable reason to fear for your life. -- That’s too bad.

 'Someone' might have been able to stop a couple of rampaging lunatics from shooting 17 people at an all-night art gathering early Sunday morning.

*The gunmen were identified in a mass shooting that left 17 people shot, 22 injured and one person dead at an all-night art celebration in Trenton early Sunday, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. Authorities are calling it a “mass casualty shooting” on Father’s Day.

 Four people – including a 13-year-old boy – were in extremely critical condition on Sunday, according to the MCPO. Three of those people, including the boy, were upgraded to stable condition by late Sunday. A third suspect is in critical condition.

 A 33-year-old gunman Tahaij Wells, 32, is dead. Another, Amir “Mir” Armstrong, 23, is in police custody and charged with unlawful possession of a handgun.  Both were identified as Trenton residents.

 One of the shootings was labeled “officer-involved.”

Tahaij Wells was just released from prison on homicide-related charges, according to the MCPO.

 “Devastated by last night’s shooting at Art All Night Trenton,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said. “We must eradicate the scourge of gun violence from our communities.”

 The Art All Night festival was an opportunity for local artists to present their works, and some ironically used it as an opportunity to protest gun violence.

 The shooting reportedly started near a booth that said: “Imagine a world fee of gun violence.”

I’m not sure if that last bit has a typo or not, but I’m going to assume the booth said: “Imagine a world free of gun violence.”

  Honestly, it’s a noble sentiment. I wish there weren’t any kind of violence in the world.

But there is, and the Art All Night Trenton got to witness it first hand.

 So much for noble sentiments.

A police officer apparently put down Tahaij Wells.

 I can’t help but think how this would have been different, if this had been in a state that trusts its citizens when it comes to guns.

 I promise you the chances are damn good that both bad thugs would have been put down long before 17 people were shot.

 Remember what happened when terrorists showed up at an art show in Texas? They had AK-47s and didn’t even make it through the door for crying out loud.

 I somehow doubt these two yahoos would have lasted much longer!

Keep in mind that New Jersey also just passed a whole slew of new gun control measures, but guess what? None of them would have stopped this rampage, especially since Tahaij Wells was a convicted felon and couldn’t legally own any firearm.

 You see, the bad guys don’t obey gun laws any better than they obey other laws! Go figure.

[Bullheaded Texan]

NRA PAC Tops Rivals In Fundraising. Again! 

 6/28/18  by Tom Knighton

While the National Rifle Association may appear to have their backs against the wall, nothing is further from the reality.

 You see, while the anti-gun left and their allies in the media continue there incessant assault on our right to keep and bear arms, pro-gun activists are fighting back…and sending money to help the NRA do the exact same. --- And, frankly, the NRA is doing a better job of it.

*The NRA’s Political Victory Fund, the gun-rights group’s PAC, raised $1,164,540.23 in the month of May. That’s nearly $325,000 more than the top three gun-control PACs combined. It is also, however, a retreat of $687,783.05 from the NRA PAC’s April fundraising total.

*The NRA PAC raised the majority of its money, $977,260.77, from small donors who gave less than $200. The other $187,279.41 came from those who gave more than $200. It spent $84,821.50 in May and ended the month with $8,697,964.23 cash on hand. 

*Though still raising significantly less than the NRA, gun-control PACs from Giffords and Everytown for Gun Safety both saw increases in their fundraising totals over April. Giffords brought in $804,821.74, which is $151,311.21 more than the previous month.

*Everytown brought in $35,077.30, which is $18,524.97 more than the previous month.

*The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Voter Education Fund, which raised $4,015.00 in April, did not have a filing available for May on the FEC website.

*Giffords spent $536,234.38 in May and ended the month with $6,182,515.90 cash on hand. *Everytown spent $10,458.66 in May and ended the month with $85,752.11 cash on hand. There was no mention of how many small donors Giffords received funds from.

 Fundraising is very important. After all, fundraising allows groups like the NRA to keep their Political Victory Fund going, obviously. If this didn’t happen, make no mistake, we’d be looking at the greatest gun control hits from the last 50 years. Not only would we see assault weapon bans but also registration schemes, an end to concealed carry, potential handgun bans, and any number of other things.

  After all, there wouldn’t be the powerful voice of the NRA to tell them “NO!”

The one thing you can never let anyone do here is to allow groups like Giffords and Everytown to have free reign in Congress. They don’t understand firearms or the culture that surrounds them. They only understand their own hoplophobia and they let it guide them on every decision. This isn’t reasonable, and it has to be countered.

 Which is why the NRA is raising so much money. They’re the most effective pro-gun lobby out there so people are throwing money their way to block the onslaught.

 We know the anti-gun zealots are coming. We know they’re going to do everything in their power to strip us of our right to keep and bear arms as humanly possible. Right now, they say they’re only wanting some “common sense gun control,” but anyone with half a brain knows that’s not where they’ll end. They’ll keep pushing.

 We know that. We’ve seen that for years and years. That’s why so many in our community are donating.

Frankly, if anti-gun groups want to strangle the NRA, the first thing they have to do is…well, everything they’re doing. Their every effort feets the NRA beast they lament so much, which I find kind of hilarious, actually.

[Bullheaded Texan]

Judicial  Watch----

We are pleased that Justice Kennedy’s retirement from the Supreme Court will provide President Trump another opportunity to nominate a constitutional conservative who will honor the Constitution and the rule of law, rather than legislate from the bench. 
  And the U.S. Senate should move quickly to work with President Trump to consider and approve a new justice who will apply the U.S. Constitution as written and understood by our Founding Fathers.
  The importance of the solidifying a conservative majority on the Supreme Court was made clear this week in the court’s 5-4 vote to uphold President Trump’s so-called travel ban. The wording of the law under which he established the ban, and which politically motivated anti-Trump lower court judges simply ignored, could not be clearer:

 Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
 The president’s right to make these decisions is clear on its face, and it is troubling that this had to go all the way to the Supreme Court to be settled.

 Chief Justice Roberts wrote in the majority opinion: “By its plain language, the law grants the President broad discretion to suspend the entry of aliens into the United States. The President lawfully exercised that discretion based on his findings—following a worldwide, multi-agency review—that entry of the covered aliens would be detrimental to the national interest.”

 The law is designed to protect all of us.

The court’s decision is a victory for national security, the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law, and the safety of U.S. citizens and other innocents.

 It also represents a major defeat for the anti-Trump judiciary and its political attacks on President Trump.

Judicial Watch Files Complaint Against Rep. waters for Inciting Violence and Assaults
 This week we hand-delivered a letter to the chairman and co-chairman of the House Office of Congressional Ethics calling for an investigation into whether Rep. maxine waters (D-CA) violated House ethics rules by encouraging violence against Trump administration Cabinet members.
  Rep. maxine waters addressed a rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 23, telling a crowd:

* If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them! And you tell them that they are not welcome, anymore, anywhere.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Fu3g1MGHY

 In our letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics co-chairman, I wrote:

 "In encouraging individuals to create “crowds” who will “push back” on President Trump’s Cabinet members at private business establishments and in seemingly trying to prevent these Cabinet officials from obtaining basic necessities without fear of assault and violence, Rep. waters seems to be violation of House rules, specifically:
  A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall conduct himself at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House. [House Rule 23, clause 1.]
 We hereby request that the Office of Congressional Ethics conduct a preliminary investigation into whether Rep. maxine waters violated House Rules in encouraging attacks on Cabinet officials.

 maxine waters incited violence and assault against members of President Trump’s Cabinet.

It is urgent that the House Ethics Office quickly acts to hold her accountable for this dangerous incitement.

 As I wrote in an op-ed for FoxNews.com, this issue must be taken seriously:

Last week, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and members of her family were evicted from a restaurant and then reportedly pursued by the owner.

 Other Trump administration officials are being targeted with threatening and dangerous “protests” at their homes.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was harassed and heckled as she attended a movie during the weekend in Florida.
 President Trump’s opponents are posting names and addresses of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents on the Internet, placing their lives and the lives of their families at risk!
 According to ABC Radio:

“Around two dozen threat reports were issued in the past few days, primarily against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. In one example, a senior Department of Homeland Security official living in the Washington, D.C. area found a burnt and decapitated animal on his front porch, according to an official with knowledge of the incident.”
 waters’ incitement for violence, assault and riot sets a dangerous precedent, and the House should act swiftly to disavow her.

 Given the grave risk to the public safety and the rule of law, caused by waters’ remarks, expulsion from the House should be on the table.

[Bullheaded Texan]

Judge Calls Out Mueller's Motives.

 6/29/18  Source: TTN

While allowing the case against Paul Manafort to continue a federal judge took the opportunity to tell Mueller what he really thinks his motivations are.
  According to the Washington Post:

A federal judge in Virginia concluded Tuesday that special counsels are given too much latitude and that the current one is prosecuting Paul Manafort only so he will offer evidence against President Trump.
  But those thoughts do little for the ex-lobbyist, because U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ultimately ruled that Robert S. Mueller III’s prosecution of Manafort on bank and tax fraud charges can go forward.
 “Although this case will continue, those involved should be sensitive to the danger unleashed when political disagreements are transformed into partisan prosecutions,” the judge wrote.
 Ellis made waves when he grilled prosecutors from the special counsel’s office last month, questioning whether the crimes Manafort is accused of committing while working for a Russia-backed political party in the Ukraine were outside the scope of their investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

 Although the judge allowed the case to continue this shows the growing distrust in the investigation.

Calls are increasing for the probe to end, and the pressure is mounting on Mueller.

 Clearly, Robert S. Mueller III, has from the start constructed and maintained a biased and questionably authorized unlimited investigation for which no evidence or crime or wrong doing was, has, or is being provided.

 The only violations of the LAW we have witnessed to date, is by the investigators the Mueller team, FBI, and DOJ.

 It is NOW time to terminate, this circus, and for the President to order all documented evidence being withheld by the DOJ, FBI, or the Mueller team to be provided unredacted to the Congressional Oversight Committee,  Rowdy Trey Gowdy. And to seek prosecutions for those who have clearly violated the Constitution, ignored the Law, and/or attempted to subvert our Government, the people of America, and our duly elected President and this Administration. Pray for Our President, America, and Peace.

[Bullheaded Texan]

                        **** GOOD NEWS!  ABOUT ROWDY GOWDY! ****

BREAKING:  OFFICIAL Gowdy Selected As Top Investigator!

 6/09/17  by: FoxNews.com

The Republican Steering Committee has elected Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., to serve as the next chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
 “I am grateful to the Steering Committee and the Conference as a whole for this opportunity to serve,” Gowdy said in a statement. “I look forward to working alongside the other Committee members, as well as any member of Congress, as we discharge the jurisdiction assigned to us.”
 Gowdy will replace outgoing Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who is resigning from Congress at the end of June.
 "Trey Gowdy is the right person for the job," Chaffetz said in a statement. "He has a long history of demanding accountability, upholding transparency, and relentlessly pursuing the truth. Under his capable leadership, the Committee will continue to work towards ensuring effectiveness and efficiency throughout the federal government. As his friend and colleague, I have every confidence in his abilities moving forward."

 **** There isn't a man involved in any way with the Government that I respect more.
He's extremely intelligent, honorable, and well spoken.
I love the way he puts the truth out there. No one like Rowdy Gowdy! **** Bull