UPDATED: O'Rourke El Paso rally, um, trumped by it's neighboring rally

UPDATE: In El Paso, Beto O’Rourke Makes It Easy For Trump To Target ‘Extreme’ Democrats  . . . "It’s hard to interpret O’Rourke’s comments as anything but advocating for open borders. Or at the very least, that we should have less security along the border than we currently do—indeed, that some or all of those 650 miles of border fencing should be torn down. There is quite simply no other way to parse what he said.
"This is exactly what Trump wanted O’Rourke to say, because it confirms his supporters’ worst fears about the Democratic Party." . . . 

Big, bold, beautiful, and very Trump: The president takes El Paso

Bobby O’Rourke Drowned Out at El Paso Rally by Trump Rally Music a Quarter-Mile Away  Video with sound.  His Messiah pose except for the palm branches:

"They love me! They really love me!"

IBD Report: Yes, Democrats Are Now The Party Of Open Borders . . . "On Wednesday, the House voted on a bill that simply expressed Congress' "continued support for all United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and personnel who carry out the important mission of ICE" and "the efforts of all Federal agencies, State law enforcement, and military personnel who bring law and order to our Nation's borders."
"Such nonbinding resolutions don't have the force of law. They're just a statement.
"Just 18 Democrats voted for this resolution. Thirty-five voted no. And the other 133 dodged the issue altogether by voting "present." Democrats complained that the vote was just a political stunt." . . .

Mexican flags fly at small Beto counter-rally as Trump draws thousands

Brad Parscale

✔ @parscale

It looks like Beto only had 900 people at his March, Tiny! @realDonaldTrump has over 35000 in attendance. 8000 inside and tens of thousands outside. Stretching into the surrounding streets. 70000+ RSVPs, hard to get everyone here. #winning

. . . "Way to win the voters over, Beto. (Is this guy running for president of Mexico?)

Tony Branco

Phonies on parade

Power Line   "The defining characteristic of the Democratic presidential field in its current configuration is the phoniness of the candidates. This characteristic is shared by all of the major entrants. Consider:

"Elizabeth Warren claimed to be an Indian. She isn’t.

"Kamala Harris claims to have been a “progressive prosecutor.” She wasn’t.

"Amy Klobuchar holds herself out as “Minnesota Nice.” She isn’t.

"Klobuchar’s mistreatment of staff members is legendary. In 2015, Harry Reid, then the Senate Majority Leader, felt the need to counsel Ms. Nice about it.

"Kirsten Gillibrand posed as a moderate throughout her time as a congresswoman from a moderate to conservative district in upstate New York. Once elected to the Senate, she abandoned moderation. Now, it’s nearly impossible to get to her left.

"Cory Booker is a fabulist. He used an imaginary friend — “T-Bone” — to tell self-serving stories in furtherance of his image. During his Spartacus moment, Booker bragged about risking expulsion from the Senate for violating the rule on publicly discussing classified documents. But the document in question had been declassified and, in any event, didn’t say what Booker claimed it said.

"Other serious candidates almost certainly will enter the Democratic race. Some will be phonies.

"However, there is one potential entrant who is not susceptible to this charge. With Bernie Sanders, what you see is what you get. He’s the real deal."

Pelosi Releases Weak Statement on Anti- Semite Democrat Ilhan Omar—But Won´t Kick Her Off Foreign Affairs Committee

Republicans including Dr. Mark Green and Liz Cheney also came out yesterday, strongly condemning the anti-Semitism being spewed by her Somali Muslim colleague, Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

The Gateway Pundit

"A good Democrat. Rep. Ilhan Omar has a record of radical statements and positions. Ilhan Omar also called for a lenient sentence against an ISIS supporter in Minnesota just three years ago, in 2016. And Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar blamed the US for the al-Shabab attack at a Kenyan mall killing nearly 70 people. On Sunday Democrat Ilhan Omar tweeted out another anti-Semitic attack. Ilhan Omar responded to a Glenn Greenwald tweet with an anti-Semitic slur: Ilhan Omar: It’s all about the Benjamins babyAnti-Jew Democrat lawmaker Ilhan Omar continued her string of anti-Semitic tweets on Monday morning following a night
of Controversial statements". . . 

Now, the radical new Somali Congressmuslim, Ilhan Omar, wants the Dept. of Homeland Security to be defunded  The Democrat Party has become a magnet for this type of politician.

Joy Villa’s barbed-wire ‘Build the Wall’ dress makes splash at Grammys, but she wasn’t the only one this year

BPR

"Singer Joy Villa turned heads at the 2019 Grammy Awards, when she sashayed down the red carpet in a traffic-stopping “Build the Wall” dress ― topped off with a red Make America Great Again purse and barb-wire shoulder accents.
“ 'To no surprise, I’m still a Trump supporter. I support the president and what he’s doing,” Villa told Fox News.

“This is my Make America Great Again purse and dress is by Desi Designs Couture. It represents the wall.
Obama wanted to build a wall. Clinton wanted to build a wall. It’s nothing new. But I believe [Trump is] the one that’s going to get it done.”  

"‘I’m Latina and Black’ and I Support the Wall
"Villa says her “Build the Wall” dress is much more than just a fashion statement. Joy wore it to spotlight the plight of women and children who are raped and sold as sex slaves after being smuggled illegally into the United States by human traffickers.
"This is all made possible because there is no border wall to stop the human trafficking.". . . 
@LaylaAlisha11  tweeted:
 Former DHS agent combating child sex trafficking: If DEMS Cared about children, they’d Want the Wall! Tens of thousands of children are kidnapped & sold into the commercial sex trade & if we had the Wall, this would save these kids from being Sex slaves!

Bizarro World: Demented Anti-Trump Feminists Chant 'Allahu Akbar' & Bow In Muslim Prayer

Youtube  Radovan Gavrilovich commented on this video:  "

I would love to see these feminists go to the middle east and make these chants in front of a Capitol building in Libya, Sudan, Iran, etc., while also talking about equality. They wouldn't last 1 hour before they got thrown into a hole, buried up to their heads before the entire city stoned em....or maybe they can go to Saudi Arabia where they are a tad bit more progressive and they just decapitate you in the square for everyone to watch and record on their camera phones."

"Yes, They're That Stupid. Pro Islam Anti-Trump feminists chant 'Allahu Akbar' during protest in Berlin Germany. Feminists joined Muslims in an Arab call to prayer during an anti Trump protest. One of the women was wearing a pink p*ssy hat while she happily submitted to Islam by kneeling with Muslims during their prayer. Islam and feminism go together so beautifully because Islam has done wonders for the women’s movement. The women’s marches are a natural magnet for Islamists who seek to infiltrate American society. The feminists readily embrace them. Who knows why. It’s the liberal thing to do? They are infiltrating leftist groups worldwide.
"Get a grip on yourselves, feminists. o protest President Donald Trump, feminist in Germany donned hijabs while chanting "Allah Akbar," a strange dichotomy since the hijab oppresses women in the name of "Allah Akbar" in the Muslim world.
"Feminists in the United States did similar stunts during the "Women's March" in Washington D.C. this past Saturday, also donning hijabs to show solidarity with Muslim women. None of them seemed to realize that women in the middle-east are mandated to wear hijabs under pain of death.
"Some American Muslim women like Asra Q. Nomani and Hala Arafa have asked the feminists to please stop doing this since the hijab represents oppression to them, not liberation. 
" 'In the name of 'interfaith,' these well-intentioned Americans are getting duped by the agenda of Muslims who argue that a woman’s honor lies in her 'chastity' and unwittingly pushing a platform to put a hijab on every woman," the women wrote in Washington Post. "Please do this instead: Do not wear a headscarf in 'solidarity' with the ideology that most silences us, equating our bodies with 'honor.' Stand with us instead with moral courage against the ideology of Islamism that demands we cover our hair."
"However, donning the hijab in solidarity doesn't come close to the absurdity of having an actual Shariah Law advocate, Linda Sarsour, as one of the organizers.
"As brilliantly displayed by Steven Crowder, none of the feminist at the so-called "Women's March" have been able to identify just what right they're afraid of losing under President Trump, other than their precious abortions, but good luck getting the general public to sympathize with them on that.
"In the meantime, "Allah Akbar" and hijab away, feminists. Just be sure the cameras can see you, and the GOP will retain their congressional majorities come 2018." Let's hope that isn't too optimistic, given the education of Americans today. TD

The Virginia train wreck has set the stage for 2020. Should Kermit Gosnell now be set free to resume his abortion business?

Rich Terrell

M. Catharine Evans  "Virginia's Del. Kathy Tran's and Governor Ralph Northam's open and public admission that their bill, H.B. 2491, allowed for the murder of a baby up until the time of birth and afterward was never supposed to happen.

"Tran's and Northam's partial-birth abortion-funders, Planned Parenthood and EMILY's List,  have always encouraged their candidates in Southern states to stay mum on abortion until they get into office.

"For example, in the run-up to the 2018 midterms, in blue state Virginia, where there are still plenty of conservative voters and where congressional races were tight, Democratic candidates focused on health care, fair wages, and security issues.  Abortion, if mentioned at all, was couched in the more moderate-sounding "reproductive rights."

"Consequently, Tran's and Northam's startling and unpredictable honesty about H.B. 2491 had the Democratic Party and its pro-abortion benefactors trying to stifle any reporting suggesting that Democrats are the party of infanticide." . . .   Read more...

Two from the Earl of Taint

Remember this video from 2015?  Planned Parenthood kept aborted babies alive to harvest organs, ex-technician says

Gosnell: When Art Collides with Reality and Exposes the Truth   "A new law in New York legalizes the actions for which abortionist Kermit Gosnell was sent to prison for life." 

. . . "Gosnell director Nick Searcy wrote at TownHall that New York has now legalized almost everything that Gosnell and his aides did in Philadelphia: Gosnell was convicted of killing breathing infants who had already been born. It is now legal in New York to kill an infant who survives an abortion. Gosnell was convicted of allowing untrained and unlicensed medical personnel to perform abortions. It is now legal in New York for non-physicians or any “health professionals” to perform abortions. Gosnell was convicted of performing at least 21 late-term abortions past the legal limit of 24 weeks. It is now legal in New York to terminate a pregnancy up until the due date. In New York, there is no longer any such thing as a “late-term abortion.' ” . . .

Americans Don’t Read… and That’s Affecting Our Elections

Annie Holmquist

. . . "But so what, right? In our enlightened digital age, what harm does it really bring if American literacy is tanking?

"A lot of harm, according to John Adams, particularly when it comes to elections. In 1761, he noted:

“The very Ground of our Liberties, is the freedom of Elections. Every Man has in Politicks as well as Religion, a Right to think and speak and Act for himself. No man either King or Subject, Clergyman or Layman has any Right to dictate to me the Person I shall choose for my Legislator and Ruler. I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any Man judge, unless his Mind has been opened and enlarged by Reading. A Man who can read, will find in his Bible, in the common sermon Books that common People have by them and even in the Almanack and News Papers, Rules and observations, that will enlarge his Range of Thought, and enable him the better to judge who has and who has not that Integrity of Heart, and that Compass of Knowledge and Understanding, which form the Statesman.”

"Considering the state of the modern election circus, would you say it’s high time for Americans to step up their literacy game?" 

How PC Moralism Cuts Us Off From Our Cultural Heritage

Intellectual Takeout

 To today's Politically Correct generation, books should not be read because they are good, but only because we agree with them. Because of this, our society is becoming increasingly inbred--which is why we see so many intellectual hemophiliacs: people who can't sustain the wound of disagreement, lest they bleed to death.

"Anyone who has read classic literature knows that there are things in old books that offend our sensibilities. And this isn't a new phenomenon either. Every generation sees something in the thought and writing of previous generations that it doesn't like or that it finds offensive. 

"The difference today is not that there are any more things about the past we don't like, but in our reaction to them.

"Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Brian Morton takes note of the increasing tendency among young people to condemn out-of-hand any piece of literature that contains an intolerant character or distasteful idea.

"In the article, titled "Virginia Woolf? Snob! Richard Wright? Sexist! Dostoyevsky? Anti-Semite!" Morton mentions meeting a college student who couldn't bring himself to read more than fifty pages into Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth because he encountered an anti-Semitic character.

"Every generation down to the last one took the warnings of the occasional disagreeableness of the past under consideration and then read old books anyway. You were not expected to find these things appealing, but it was always expected that you understand the mentality behind them, a mentality you could only understand if you read about it.

"But today's readers are different. Says Morton:" . . . Read more...

AOC: The Perfect Graduate of Today's Biased Colleges

The real problem is our colleges (and earlier education, obviously) that are turning out the likes of AOC on an assembly line of the sort that drove Charlie Chaplin mad in Modern Times.

Roger L. Simon "In the immediate sense, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be the best thing to happen to the Republican Party since Abraham Lincoln. Her Green New Deal is as much dead in the water as it is brain dead and constitutes a fabulous talking point for the GOP to run on in 2020.

"But there is a point of concern — and in the long run a more important one.

"AOC represents the natural outgrowth of our extraordinarily biased higher educational system. She is its valedictorian, its Social Justice Summa Cum Laude. Give her the SJWPhD honoris causa and, while you're at it, give the United States of America to China. They won't have to fire a shot.

"Think I exaggerate? Consider the level of writing and thinking in her Green Deal in whatever ever-changing iteration, with or without the banning of cow flatulence and air travel, and notwithstanding the guaranteed income for those unwilling to work. (Isn't that already the case with internet trolls — but I digress?) This document, if one can call it that, resembles nothing more than the kind of swill presented to — and highly approved by — professors in today's grievance-obsessed colleges, where Shakespeare and Milton are dismissed or rejected and actual thought (i.e., intellectual reasoning) is ridiculed as manifestations of "white privilege." . . .

California schools advise their students to make CNN their source of news!

High-powered Dem Andre Fladell: What’s hurting the country the most is dysfunctional and disgusting CNN  "Palm Beach County Democrat and political powerbroker Andre Fladell is as angry at CNN’s fake news as Donald J. Trump.

"And, it sounds a little different when it’s coming from one of the most powerful Democrats in the Sunshine State.

“ 'What’s hurting the country the most, in my opinion, is the dysfunctional and disgusting reporting of a cable channel called CNN,” Fladell said during a meeting earlier this month of the United South County Democrats.

"Once awarded the honorary title of “Prince of Palm Beach” by the county’s commissioners, Fladell is a legendary political operative recognized across Florida, in part for the way he united six warring Democrat clubs and establishments into a united faction: the South County Political Cooperative. His history is a fascinating one, to say the least."

"He is, in short, a man of immeasurable influence and power among liberals, which makes his remarks about the news media — and especially CNN — that much more glaring. Listen to some of his speech below:"   . . .

Liberty Bugle

Lemon then became defensive of Obama’s characterization of law enforcement across the country as broadly biased against blacks and “people of color.”

. . . Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke made left-wing CNN’s Don Lemon visibly uncomfortable on Sunday night as he described the neo-Marxist Black Lives Matter as pushing a “hateful… anti-cop ideology.” . . .You can confront Lemon with obvious examples of his biases and he will lie just as Hillary would, unabashedly.

Even Media Matters calls out Lemon! CNN's Don Lemon Highlights The Media's Bias When Reporting On Black Victims And Criminal Records

Acting AG Matthew Whitaker: Football impresario, stomper of Democrats

Ed Timperlake  "The Judiciary Committee hearing on February 8, 2019, held by Chairman Nadler (D-N.Y.) with committee witness Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, became an epic historic failure.  Acting A.G. Whitaker's testimony is for the ages.

"It is simple: just watch clips from the hearing while taking note of the video of the Iowa Hawkeyes scoring a touchdown on a pass thrown to Number 46, Matt Whitaker.  If a person is capable of doing what Number 46 did under tremendous pressure, then the hearing was easily a symbolic walk in the park for the Acting A.G.

. . . 

"The former Iowa varsity Rose Bowl player symbolically ran every play he knew on the Democrats of the committee, while keeping a true Iowa nice style.  It was a day of symbolic smash mouth football while at times channeling his brilliant fake punt for a TD.

" 'Five minutes for lunch"?  They did not see that coming.

"A moment for the ages is captured in a lasting quote by witness  Whitaker in his reminding the chair that if Nadler sets the rules, then he also must play by the rules.  "Mr. Chairman, I see that your five minutes is up" will soon be part of congressional legends." . . .