Trump and Sanders are merely symptoms of what is being lost. Far, far worse is on the horizon.

Victor Davis Hanson

Sleeping Dogs Are Waking

. . . "Yet the Obama era has reawakened ethnic chauvinism and multiculturalism in a way we have never quite seen before in recent American history. Who would have thought that in 2009, the racist firebrand, tax-delinquent, anti-Semite, former FBI informant, and conspiracist Al Sharpton would become the chief presidential advisor on race, or that the attorney general would refer to blacks as “my people” and the rest of the country as “cowards,” or that the president would urge Latinos to “punish our enemies,” or that something chauvinistic called “Black Lives Matter” would consider a corollary ecumenical “All Lives Matter” as racist, or that “white privilege” would be a slur hurled against the largely working white classes by mostly minority and white elites in academia, politics, journalism and the arts?

"Coupled with years of open borders, a failure to enforce immigration laws, hostility to integration and assimilation, and racial preferences in hiring and admissions, the Obama administration in just over seven years has nearly achieved its aims of racializing the American experience to such a degree that everyone must now belong to his particular tribe first, and begrudgingly remain an American a distant second." . . .

The Nihilism of Sanctuary Cities

PJ Media

"There are an estimated 300 or so jurisdictions -- entire states, counties, cities, and municipalities -- that since the early 1980s have enacted “sanctuary city” laws, forbidding full enforcement of federal immigration law within their jurisdictions.

"Most of these entities are controlled by Democrats in general and liberals in particular. Sanctuary officials feel that federal enforcement of the southern border is either unnecessary or immoral, and thus they have decided that there is no real crime in entering and residing in the United States unlawfully. While the majority of illegal aliens are no doubt law-abiding and have avoided public dependence, the pool of unlawful immigrants is so large at over 11 million that even small percentages of lawbreakers can translate into hundreds of thousands of criminal aliens.

"The liberal Migration Policy Institute conceded that there are over 800,000 illegal aliens with criminal records, nearly 700,000 of them with felony arrest records.

"Those numbers, of course, reflect only those who have been arrested and faced trial, not the unknown number who have committed crimes without being apprehended or charged. In some sanctuary cities, lawlessness among undocumented immigrants has reached epidemic proportions.' " . . .

The baggage election

terrellaftermath

Hillary Blames Fracking For ‘Tragedy’ In Coal Country…

Weasel Zippers

"Nothing to do with Obama’s policies.

"Via Washington Examiner:

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Monday blamed natural gas and fracking for the “tragedy” being experienced in coal country.

“It is a complicated problem,” Clinton said. “Some people want to make it all political, but there are market forces, there are global challenges, there’s also the upswing in fracking … which has proved to be a very serious competitor to coal.”

Clinton made the comments while touring through Kentucky, and later West Virginia, as part of a tour to demonstrate her plans for revitalizing Appalachia ahead of primary elections there later this month. Thousands of jobs have been lost by the coal industry in the last year, with a number of companies filing for bankruptcy protection in the Mountaineer State alone.

The shale boom has dramatically increased natural gas supplies, making the U.S. one of the largest oil and gas producers in the world. The increased supply has caused the price of natural gas to drop dramatically, causing more utilities to switch from using coal to using more natural gas to supply the nation’s electricity.[…]

She is using the stops to emphasize her plan to create a $30 billion “Marshall Plan” to revitalize and bring jobs to the region, making the comparison between helping coal country and rebuilding Germany after World War II.

Keep reading…

Full article here.

More Biden Failure in Iraq

Max Boot

"When it comes to Iraqi politics, Joe Biden seems to have the reverse­Midas touch: Everything he touches turns to muck. 

"Given the Iraq portfolio by President Obama, Biden made his mark in 2010 by putting the U.S. firmly behind the reelection as prime minister of the Shiite sectarian Nouri al Maliki even though Ayad Allawi, a non­sectarian leader, had won more votes. In charge once again during negotiations over the Status of Forces Agreement, Biden didn’t secure a treaty to keep U.S. forces in Iraq in 2011. The result: With the U.S. gone, Maliki’s sectarian vendetta was unleashed against Sunnis, leading them into the arms of ISIS. 

"Last Thursday Biden returned to the scene of the crime in a show of support for the new American Backed(sp) leader, Haider al Abadi, who replaced Maliki in September 2014. A senior official traveling with the vice president said the visit was a “symbol of how much faith we have in Prime Minister Abadi.”

" Within days, thousands of Muqtada al Sadr’s followers had overrun the seat of Iraq’s government, revealing Abadi’s impotence–and also the hollowness of a U.S. policy based on supporting him. " . . .

The primaries in living color

What to Expect in the Indiana Primary Tonight

PJ Media

. . . "The Hoosier State will bind 57 delegates on Tuesday: 30 delegates to the state-wide winner and 3 each to the winner in the state's nine congressional districts. Even a small win in Indiana translates into a large delegate win, and of the remaining states only California would net more delegates. In order to stop Trump from reaching the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination, Cruz (or John Kasich) would have to win Indiana or win California big.

"Conventional wisdom suggests that Indiana would be a great state for Cruz. The Hoosier State has the largest share of evangelical Protestants of any state yet to vote, at 31 percent (9 points higher than Wisconsin, Cruz's great triumph last month). In the 2012 Republican primary, voters toppled Sen. Richard Lugar in favor of Tea Party challenger Richard Mourdock (who then lost the general election due to an off-color pro-life comment). Like Wisconsin, Indiana has a robust population of well-educated, high-income conservatives.

"But those who know Indiana better have pegged it for Donald Trump." . . .

Hillary’s Turn: Gets Ripped By Laid Off Coal Worker At West Virginia Roundtable.

After this, imagine! Hillary, from the Obama administration, actually apologizes to an American! See below this article.

The Lid  "Earlier today we reported that former president Bubba Clinton got booed during a Sunday campaign stop in West Virginia.  On Monday it was Hillary’s turn.  It seems that the people of West Virginia have not forgiven Ms. Clinton for bragging how she was going to take away their jobs. Back in March, Hillary Clinton infamously stated on CNN that, “We have to move away from coal,” and she promised if elected she was, “going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

"At a roundtable in West Virginia this afternoon, Bo Copley, a 39-year-old father who lost his job as a foreman in the struggling coal industry handed the Democratic candidate a picture of his kids as he confronted Clinton asking, how she could pledge to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business and “then come in here and tell us how you’re going to be our friend?”  (Emphases in the original. TD)

These are the words of the woman who said the Mohammed video caused the Benghazi attacks.

Here are her previous words:

Hillary apologizes in West Virginia for saying, 'We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business'

"In what Monica Alba of NBC News called “a rare candid moment” (I love it that even NBC News acknowledges Hillary is such a phony), Hillary Clinton“apologized to a man who confronted her over comments made earlier this year about putting coal miners "out of business.' ”

. . . 

"Shohsanna Weissman points out at the Weekly Standard that Hillary actually reversed herself and now says she wants coal jobs:" . . .

Video here.
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. . . "Hillary is a captive of green extreme, consisting of religious fanatics and crony capitalists, so she can’t actually reverse the policies that are destroying the coal industry. All she can do is more skillfully employ euphemisms to try to deceive people she thinks of as gullible."

West Virginia was not kind to husband Bill either.

How to Explain the Necessity of Jesus' Death to Muslims

PJ Media

"I have been in a few face-to-face debates with Muslims, and all of them were polite and respectful. One question from my Muslim friends kept popping up, however: "Why did Jesus have to die on the cross for our sins? If we sin, God just forgives! He does not need for someone to take our place." Muslims have told me that this substitutionary sacrifice is actually very unfair of God. God would never let a righteous man die for the guilty. They illustrate it this way: "Would God allow an innocent baby to die for the crimes of murderers? Of course not! So, it would be immoral for God to send a righteous man to pay for others' sins."

"The Quran states very clearly that Jesus did not die on the cross: "They declared: 'We have put to death the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, the apostle of God.' They did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but they thought they did (Surah 4:157-158)." And it says that one person cannot bear the burden of another (Surah 6:164), so a human cannot die for the sins of others. (However, elsewhere in Surah 29:12-13 it says others, such as Christians and Jews, will be punished for the sins of Muslims. So, the Quran does teach that at least some will be punished in the place of others.)

"To answer this I begin with the question . . ."