This Land Is Their Land. California throws a hissy fit.

Weekly Standard

"On occasion, Trump has said that the only illegal immigrants he intends to deport are violent felons, a position White House spokesman Sean Spicer reiterated the first week of the new administration. But immigration activists are opposed to deporting even—perhaps especially—violent criminals."

 

"To hear governor Jerry Brown tell it, California is all that stands between Washington and the ruin of the nation. In his recent “State of the State" address, Brown promised to defy Donald Trump, fashioning it as a great patriotic quest: "When we defend California," Brown said, "we defend America."

"California's combative stance toward Washington began as farce the night after Donald Trump's election when several hundred people paraded around the state capitol in Sacramento waving banners promoting what's called Calexit, the agenda of the secessionist Yes California Independence Campaign. By the time the state legislature convened a month later, the laughter had been replaced with angry invective directed at the Trump team's intention to deport undocumented immigrants, build a border wall, relax environmental regulations, and gut Obamacare.

"Trump's policies are "cynical, shortsighted, and reactionary," proclaimed assembly speaker Anthony Rendon immediately after gaveling the session to order. "White nationalists and anti-Semites have no business working in the White House." He dismissed any notion of reconciliation or compromise: "Californians do not need healing. We need to fight.' " . . .

OK, maybe it's bias, maybe not

Republican first lady on the left; Democrat on the right.

Newsbusters called it like they saw it.  "Two articles. Two completely different views. One biased liberal author." 
 " . . .Philadelphia Inquirer fashion critic Elizabeth Wellington bashed Melania Trump for daring to wear a white dress for her RNC speech. . . . the white designer dress was a “scary statement,” and supposedly gave off the subliminal message “that in the G.O.P. white is always right.”

"Ten days later, Wellington changed her mind and decided that white was an ok color for politicians to wear.

"When Hillary Clinton took the stage last week, also garbed in all white, Wellington had nothing but praise for her fashion choice. This time around, the critic wrote that “white is a hue that’s both soft and strong,” not scary. She went on to claim that “Clinton's white pantsuit is telling us she has arrived. This is surreal. A dream come true' ”

The Left's Persecution of Real Refugees from Islam and Communism

"It is the left that stands on the side of the leftist anti-Semites who oppress and persecute Jews.
"When the Marxist Sandinistas persecuted Jews, they were the toast of the left. John Kerry lobbied for them and Bill de Blasio supported them. But President Reagan courageously denounced them."

Sultan Knish  "The President of the United States announced that refugees fleeing persecution by a totalitarian regime would be deported. It did not matter that they had risked their lives to come here.

"They would be sent back.

"No leftist lawyers crammed airports. No protesters chanted at terminals. No celebrities offered sanctimonious lectures about “who we are”. No one dared to call the lying thug behind it un-American.

"Because his last name was Obama and the refugees were Cubans fleeing socialism.

"Their arrival irritated the leftists gleefully going on tours of Havana while worrying that capitalism would ruin all the poverty, misery and oppression they were showing off on their Instagram pages.

"The same leftists howling over Trump’s refugee pause from Muslim countries cheered loudly for Obama’s Cuban refugee ban. A majority of Cuban Americans had voted for Trump.

"So the left wanted to keep them out of America." . . .

The Tolerant Left

Hate Trumps Free Speech   "Again, the tolerant left can’t tolerate any speech that doesn’t agree with them. Just ask Milo."

The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly.

"They hate you.

" Leftists don’t merely disagree with you. They don’t merely feel you are misguided. They don’t think you are merely wrong. They hate you. They want you enslaved and obedient, if not dead. Once you get that, everything that is happening now will make sense. And you will understand what you need to be ready to do. 

"You are normal, and therefore a heretic. You refuse to bow to their idols, to subscribe to their twisted catechisms, to praise their false gods. This is unforgivable. You must burn.

" Crazy talk? Just ask them. Go ahead. Go on social media. Find a leftist – it’s easy. Just say something positive about America or Jesus and they’ll come swarming like locusts. Engage them and very quickly they will drop their masks and tell you what they really think. I know. I keep a rapidly expanding file of Twitter leftist death wish screenshots. 

"They will tell you that Christians are idiots and vets are scum. That normals are subhumans whose role is to labor as serfs to subsidize the progressive elite and its clients. That you should die to make way for the New Progressive Man/Woman/Other" . . .

The war on Betsy DeVos is all about the teachers unions

NY Post.  "Get past all the noise, and the opposition to Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s pick for the Education Department, is all about the teachers unions — which consider it their right to have a friendly face running federal policy even in Republican administrations.

"Yes, two Senate Republicans have come out against DeVos — the only two who routinely get A’s on the National Education Association’s “report card” because they vote the union line. Efforts to find another GOP vote against her will almost surely fail, because the other 50 Republicans aren’t in unions’ pocket, and Vice President Mike Pence can deliver a 51st vote if needed.

"We wish DeVos were an existential threat to the unions, but the feds don’t really run US schools; that’s a state and local power. And the unions are too entrenched in those corridors of power, especially in states like New York.

"At best, she’ll manage to reduce the sway of the NEA and the American Federation of Teachers — by giving more power to the nation’s parents, and to school innovators who refuse to toe the union line.

"DeVos is an ardent supporter of school choice — public charter schools; voucher programs to help families choose qualified private or parochial schools when they think that’s best for their kids, and so on. Critics call this “radical,” and pretend it could mean educational Armageddon. In fact, school choice is near-universal in Canada, and the kids learn just fine.

"But choice does threaten union power, which rests on most families having no choice beyond the public schools, where unions can call the shots.

"By picking DeVos, Trump showed that he’s eager to “fight the power” — for the good of America’s kids. That battle begins as soon as she’s confirmed."

Mainstream Media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome Epidemic

"So, thanks to all on the Left for a most entertaining two weeks. One last helpful hint: All your tactics have become timeworn and your target audience jaded. The day is rapidly approaching when you will, to your horror, actually have to win elections by debating ideas backed by self-evident truths. Good Luck."

American Thinker  "Donald Trump concluded his second week as President of the United States last Friday.  Prompted by virtually every utterance and action of the current President, the never-ending demonstrations and delirium of the professional activist Left as well as the Democratic Party hierarchy and much of the mainstream media and entertainment cabal has produced perhaps the most memorable and entertaining fortnight in recent American political history.   Judging by their permanent state of hysteria it appears that this assemblage of left-wing factions is unaware that there are, at a minimum, 206 weeks remaining in the Trump presidency.  Maintaining the current level of frenzy will be a formidable task.

"Which prompts me, as someone who observed and at times participated in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations of the 1960’s and has been on this planet more than three score and ten years, to offer some observations and a few helpful hints." . . .

Why Police Wonder: ‘Will I Make It Through This Shift?’

Hard being a cop? It has little to do with the low pay scale, thanklessness, and demanding hours. It has far more to do with depraved humanity often shrouded by deception and fueled by unbridled hatred.

Lifezette  . . . "With soon-to-be confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the wing, police have good reason to believe he will parlay positive change, and rightly so. Sen. Sessions (R-Ala.) made supportive statements pertaining to the law enforcement community and has candidly described how society has severely maligned the unwavering efforts of cops.

"A new justice earmarks a “police first” mentality and ebbs away from the former knee-jerk, stone-throwing, anti-cop rhetoric we’ve seen throughout recent years.

"Our 45th president appears wholly supportive of law enforcement, so there is solace in knowing he intends to harvest principles in policing and not go the way of the former commander-in-chief. As a presidential bidder in 2015, Trump stated that, should he win the White House, he would endorse an executive order mandating an automatic death sentence for anyone who murders a police officer." . . .

CONFUSION: Maxine Waters claims Putin ‘continuing to advance into Korea’

The American Mirror  "Maxine Waters is continuing to bang the drums of impeachment, even though she has yet to accuse President Trump of breaking the law.

"But her statement today on the topic may be the most embarrassingly ridiculous yet.

"Speaking to reporters with other House Democrats today, Waters attempted to build the case for why Democrats “may” push for impeachment."

. . . "But then the already wobbly wheels began falling off Waters’ rhetoric wagon.

“ 'And knowing that he’s responsible for supplying the bombs that killed innocent children and families in, um, in, um,” she said, forgetting the name before someone behind her murmured, “Aleppo.”

“ 'Yeah, in Aleppo,” she said.

"Waters continued, “And the fact that he is wrapping his arms around Putin while Putin is continuing to advance into Korea.' ” . . .

How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data

Daily Mail

• The Mail on Sunday can reveal a landmark paper exaggerated global warming
• It was rushed through and timed to influence the Paris agreement on climate change
• America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration broke its own rules
• The report claimed the pause in global warming never existed, but it was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data

. . . "But the whistleblower, Dr John Bates (pictured), a top NOAA scientist with an impeccable reputation, has shown The Mail on Sunday irrefutable evidence that the paper was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data.

"It was never subjected to NOAA’s rigorous internal evaluation process – which Dr Bates devised.

"His vehement objections to the publication of the faulty data were overridden by his NOAA superiors in what he describes as a ‘blatant attempt to intensify the impact’ of what became known as the Pausebuster paper.

"His disclosures are likely to stiffen President Trump’s determination to enact his pledges to reverse his predecessor’s ‘green’ policies, and to withdraw from the Paris deal – so triggering an intense political row." . . .

The Left Blasts Lady Gaga for Not Ruining the Super Bowl

PJ Media

"Playing the Super Bowl halftime show is a daunting task: no matter how well you perform, some will invariably say your show was awful. But I'm sure Lady Gaga, considering her ... unique style, has a thick skin by now and was prepared for it.

"However, I'm fairly sure she didn't expect her fellow leftists to take to social media to blast her halftime show not for her performance itself, but because she didn't exploit an opportunity to shove politics down the world's throat.

"She did open her show with a generic comment about how America stands for "liberty and justice for all." This could have been construed as a poke at President Trump and his recent executive order restricting immigration from a handful of Islamic nations, but it could just as well have been a tribute to America. And apparently, being less than explicit is unacceptable:

Lady Gaga is the epitome of dumb white ally. Every opportunity to stand up to trump & instead preached togetherness.

— Taylor Nicole (@keepittaylored) February 6, 2017

Apparently not entirely:  Lady Gaga's Halftime Show Started Off With a Subtle Anti-Trump Message   . . . "And many protesters have been singing the Guthrie song as part of their anti-Trump rhetoric too. While subtle, Gaga made some political commentary after all. And of course, Lady Gaga did sing her hit sing "Born This Way," which claims LGBT populations were born with their sexual or gender identities."

Cecile Richards Says Planned Parenthood, Which Spent $30 Million To Help Hillary, Is Non-Partisan

RedState  . . . "During the 2016 election season, Planned Parenthood spent millions in an effort to elect Democrats in general, and Hillary most of all. CBS News reported in October:

In the final stretch of a campaign that has seen a stream of disparaging language about women from the Republican nominee, Planned Parenthood Votes is launching what they say is their most robust get-out-the-vote effort in their history.

It’s no secret that Trump’s field operation pales in comparison to Hillary Clinton’s, but she also has the support of well-organized and data-rich outside groups like Planned Parenthood that have added to the pile on.

In all, Planned Parenthood has spent over $30 million to reach voters throughout this cycle with ads, direct mail, phone banks and one of the largest canvassing operations in the country, they say.

"Partisan? I think so. Cecile Richards will claim they’re not, though. She also claims abortion is women’s healthcare, so I wouldn’t take her word for…anything.

"This non-partisan talk from Richards is a far cry from the display she and other “nasty women” put on recently during the Women’s March." . . . 

Prosecute the Rioters

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY

And make sure that we condemn them as well.

" It was famously in the Chicago living room of Ayers and Dohrn that their fellow “community organizer” Barack Obama made his political debut. Soon the radical leftists who actually had been prosecuted were being sprung from prison by President Bill Clinton with the help of his trusty deputy attorney general, Eric Holder — himself a onetime student radical, having participated in the occupation of an ROTC headquarters at Columbia University in 1970. First Clinton commuted the sentences of FALN terrorists. Then, in an infamous pardon spree on his last day in office, he released two Weather Underground confederates of Ayers and Dohrn."