Andrew Klavan: Imagine There's No Border

Obama's "my military": No Lib Outrage for Andrew Tahmooressi

Daniel John Sobieski

If you want to consider the alleged harshness of U.S. immigration policy, consider Mexico's treatment of Tahmoressi and the callous indifference of President Obama to his plight, as Obama was really putting illegal alien children in cages after separating them from their families: . . .

"It depends on whose ox is being gored, the saying goes, or maybe it depends on whose border is being crossed for those now outraged over U.S. border policy were silent when Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a decorated U.S. Marine Corps veteran suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), languished in a Mexican prison in 2014 for the crime of making a wrong turn and wandering into Mexico with legal U.S. firearms in his vehicle.

"Tahmooressi, a 25-year-old combat veteran, was jailed in late March 2014, after he missed a freeway exit near San Ysidro, Calif. and drove into Tijuana.  The active U.S. Marine reservist, who served two combat tours in Afghanistan, was moving to San Diego to be close to his treatment center for his PTSD at the time of his arrest.

"In his trunk, Mexican authorities found three guns legally owned in the United States.  Tahmooressi was incarcerated in La Mesa Prison in Tijuana.  After Mexican authorities said he allegedly attempted to escape and suffered a self-inflicted stab wound, he was at one point placed in a jail infirmary with his arms and legs restrained.  That April, Tahmooressi even attempted to take his own life." . . .

. . . "President Obama had quite a different approach in the matter of Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl.  Bergdahl did not miss a highway sign when he deliberately left his post in Afghanistan to find himself and commune with the Taliban enemy.  President Obama didn't care, and neither did the liberal legacy media:"

. . . "From the famous "latte salute" to the Marine holding the presidential umbrella, President Obama's respect for our men in uniform has been open to question.  Unless, of course, they desert their post in Afghanistan to try to join the Taliban, like Bowe Bergdahl.  Then you have the parents to the White House and trade the Taliban general staff to obtain their release.  After all, we leave no one behind.  Except, maybe, for Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi." . . .

Hilarious satire of Dem apoplexy over Trump’s next Supreme Court pick

Thomas Lifson  "Hilarious satire of Dem apoplexy over Trump’s next Supreme Court pick

"The obsessive media hatred of President Trump has made them entirely predictable. Everything he does is not just wrong, it is an outage. And everyone he appoints to office is utterly, irredeemably evil, so malign that dining at a restaurant is a threat that must be countered by mobs.

"Blogger Don Surber has provided us with a splendid satire of the spittle-flecked media madness that will erupt as soon as President Trump announces his nominee for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Kennedy. What makes this brilliant satire is that it is a generic editorial that could (and will) be published against anyone the president chooses. Don instructs journalists:" . . .

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How Congress Can Stop Family Separation at the Border Without Allowing Amnesty

Heritage   KEY TAKEAWAYS
"The choice for the government is to detain the parents until their case is completed but release the child after 20 days, or to release the entire family.

Those who illegally cross into the U.S. and then claim asylum should have to explain why they didn’t seek asylum from other governments or a U.S. consulate.

"Congress should appropriate funds for more immigration court judges, prosecutors, and support staff as well DHS asylum officers.

"The Trump administration is struggling to figure out how to enforce U.S. laws and  keep keeping families together. The matter is made more complex and difficult because of  loopholes and restrictions in current law.

"But it doesn’t have to be difficult and confusing. Congress can and should ensure that families are kept together and U.S. laws are well-enforced.

"How so? Here’s a checklist for Congress:" . . .Full article

ICE director: Democrats should 'get their facts straight' before protesting family separation

Washington Examiner  "Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan said Friday that Democrats who protest his agency for separating illegal immigrant families are barking up the wrong tree, since his agency has nothing to do with it.

" 'They need to educate themselves," Homan said on Fox News. "I mean, this protest yesterday to protest about family separations on the border, ICE doesn't separate families on the border. That's the Border Patrol. We're a different agency."

" 'So they need to get their facts straight and inform themselves what's actually happening," he said." . . .

Get Your Facts Straight: ICE Director Has Harsh Words For Democrats

Ben Shapiro Fights Back When Bill Maher Tries To Pin Incivility On Trump — ‘I Needed 600 Officers To Protect Me At Berkeley’

Daily Caller  "Ben Shapiro punched back at Bill Maher during a Friday night appearance on HBO’s “Real Time,” taking issue with Maher’s claim that President Donald Trump was ultimately responsible for the decline of civil discourse in American politics.

“ 'I needed 600 officers to protect me at Berkeley,” he reminded Maher."

"Maher asked whether there were any circumstance under which Shapiro would vote for a Democrat.

“ 'I would say under some circumstance,” the Daily Wire editor-in-chief responded, “but the Democratic Party would have to stop being insane. Meaning that they would actually have to approach something like moderation in terms of policy, and also present a face that doesn’t look like people shouting down people at gas stations or entering restaurants and trying to throw them out.”

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"Maher argued that Republicans chanting “lock her up” in reference to Hillary Clinton or “lock him up” in reference to former FBI Director James Comey were indicative of the roots of the problem. “Shouldn’t we stop the ‘lock them up’ before we care about who gets their entree?” he asked.

"But then Shapiro brought up the recent comments made by California Rep. Maxine Waters, arguing that it was possible to simply say that civility was lacking on both sides. (RELATED: Maxine Waters: God Is On The Side Of People Driving Trump Officials From Restaurants)" . . .

This does not bode well for Nancy Pelosi

Daily Caller

If she has to go, how far left will her replacement take the Democrats?

Country Overboard! Women And Children Last!

Ann Coulter  . . . "Last week, in a column that does not misstate the facts and the law about immigration, I covered some typical asylum and refugee admissions to our country, including Beatrice Munyenyezi. She was the Rwandan who got into our country by claiming to be a victim of the genocide that killed nearly a million people, even though she had helped orchestrate it.

Munyenyezi 

"Munyenyezi wasn’t the only participant in the Rwandan genocide who got in as a victim and was then unmasked as a perpetrator. So far, nearly 400 Rwandans granted special refugee status have been convicted of lying on visa applications about their role in the genocide. Great job, U.S. refugee admissions officials!

"Courts are dealing with so many genocidal Rwandans who came to America as “refugees” that just last Friday, a federal appeals court upheld the conviction of another one, Gervais “Ken” Ngombwa, who not only lied about his participation in the genocide, but also about his family relationships. (You can’t get anything past our State Department!)

"Aside from our immigration authorities missing little things like the Rwandan genocide, what is the argument for taking in millions of people from backward cultures, hotbeds of real racism, pederasty, misogyny — as opposed to the “microaggressions” that are the bane of our culture?

"It’s one thing to use quotas as a response to slavery and Jim Crow in our own country, but why do we have to have an immigration quota for “people who don’t live here, have never seen an indoor toilet, and rape little girls for sport?”

"Liberals act as if they are striking a blow for feminism by importing desperate women from misogynistic cultures to America. But, even to the extent they’re telling the truth, the women aren’t always victims only. They’re often co-conspirators." . . .

James Nachtwey’s Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide:  
. . . "The number most often heard is 800,000. It’s a big number no matter what it’s applied to. Trying to imagine 800,000 people with their heads bashed in by rocks and clubs, impaled on spears, hacked to death with hoes and machetes – in just three months – stuns the mind, and we struggle to wring meaning out of words like “biblical” or “apocalyptic.' ” . . .

Can the (Maxine) Waters be stilled? Don't bet on it

. . . Upon further reflection, while the moniker “Mad Dog” is appropriate Mattis, it is not for Waters. It was given Mattis as an honorary title for his battlefield leadership. One would not wish to diminish it in any way. Thus, to give a moniker to Waters, perhaps we should consider the 1979 dystopian action film “Mad Max.” After all, that movie was about chaos evolving in the wake of societal collapse. By her inciting words, “Mad Max” Maxine is promoting America’s societal collapse. . . .

Posted By Lt. Col. James Zumwalt  "Having a “mad dog” in your corner during a fight can be good or bad depending upon the battlefield involved.

"A mad dog, unleashed upon a foreign battlefield to do America’s bidding in combat, is good. Fighting militants in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004, Marine general and now Secretary of Defense James Mattis was respectfully given the name “Mad Dog” for being more determined than a determined enemy to win.

"But a mad dog unleashed upon the political battlefield is bad. It denies the American public a substantive and civil discourse on issues. With the rabid rage heard from Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., we see characteristics of a mad dog that mindlessly urinates upon civility, refusing to rationally debate diverse political views.

"The Democratic Party has obviously lost control of “Mad Dog” Maxine who recently added another bite to her bark. Ever since President Donald Trump took office, she has incessantly clamored for his impeachment. She does so while remaining hard-pressed to offer up concrete evidence upon which to justify impeachment, other than her personal opinion. Adding to her repertoire, Waters now howls encouragement to her minions to confront members of the Trump administration whenever and wherever they may be encountered in public.

"In October 2017, Waters threatened the president with the statement, she would “take Trump out tonight.” She later claimed it was “ridiculous” to view it as a threat, but any reasonable interpretation does. Yet, no voice within her party spoke out against her.

"At a June 23rd rally in Los Angeles, Waters whipped up supporters, instructing them: “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And 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 they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”

"Few people are willing to confront a mad dog on the prowl. However, Trump is not one of them. While suggesting Waters is a “low IQ individual,” he also tweeted a warning to her to “be careful what you wish for.”

"But, for the most part, there again has been dead silence from congressional Democrats about the political feeding frenzy Waters seeks to stir up. Save for a half-hearted comment by Nancy Pelosi, no one dares cast Maxine’s “call to arms” as being inciteful and a danger to our republic. All appear afraid to “be still the Waters.”

"Pelosi proved unwilling to unequivocally condemn Waters as she sought to give Maxine’s comments a justifying “spin”—done against the backdrop of lyrics from “America the Beautiful.” Pelosi said, “In the crucial months ahead, we must strive to make America beautiful again. Trump’s daily lack of civility has provoked responses that are predictable but unacceptable. As we go forward, we must conduct elections in a way that achieves unity from sea to shining sea.” A call for harassment or violence against non-violent government officials is never justified, and Pelosi irresponsibly failed to get that message out.

"One must consider whether Maxine’s endless rage and ranting against Trump might have an ulterior motive. We need remember that her flagrant disregard in the past for ethics once earned her the title of one of the most corrupt members of Congress. More recently, her effort to funnel campaign funds to a campaign worker that just so happens to be her daughter has raised eyebrows, particularly as it puts the daughter well on her way to millionaire status.

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"Waters still stands by her activist call to harass Trump administration personnel. What she fails to understand is there will always be those who take such a call to an extreme. Once she lets the “cat out of the bag,” she has no control over how it is manifested."

U.S. Estonia Ambassador Resigns Over Trump NATO Jibes

MSN  "The U.S. ambassador to Estonia is resigning in frustration at President Donald Trump’s jibes at America’s European allies. 

"Ambassador James D. Melville Jr. revealed in a Facebook posting that Trump’s comments about Europe had led him to bring forward his retirement. "

In the private Facebook post seen by Foreign Policy, Melville reportedly told friends: “A Foreign Service Officer’s DNA is programmed to support policy and we’re schooled right from the start, that if there ever comes a point where one can no longer do so, particularly if one is in a position of leadership, the honourable course is to resign. Having served under six presidents and 11 secretaries of state, I never really thought it would reach that point for me.

"For the president to say the EU was 'set up to take advantage of the United States, to attack our piggy bank', or that 'Nato is as bad as Nafta [the North American Free Trade Agreement]' is not only factually wrong, but proves to me that it's time to go."

"A career diplomat with 33 years in the foreign service, Melville was appointed to his position by President Barack Obama in 2015. " . . .

Reporter resigns after falsely tweeting that Maryland shooter wore MAGA hat

One wonders why this blame game continues. No one from . . . either side changes their minds about who is responsible. Most other Americans are repelled by this exercise in futility. But as America careens toward violent conflict between the two sides, the blame game will escalate and could eventually lead to tit for tat altercations. Violence will beget violence, reaction to counterreaction. Only losers will be left standing.

Rick Moran  "If the first casualty of war is the truth, it is also a casualty in the wake of any recent mass shooting in America.

"It has become de rigueur for both sides to heap responsibility for a mass shooting on the backs of their political opponents. Trying to make political hay out of a tragedy used to be an infamia - no one would dare use the bodies of innocent people to make a political point.

"Those days are in the past. Even if the shooter is demonstrably insane or mentally incompetent, there are always nuggets of information that can be unearthed in the shooter's past that will tie him to one side or the other. And sometimes both.

"A reporter in Springfield Massachusetts thought he was just playing the blame game when he tweeted that the man who killed 5 people in a Maryland newsroom "left behind" a MAGA hat. The intent was clear - blame the president's tirades against journalists for the massacre.

"But the reporter's newspaper reacted swiftly and decisively. The 21 year veteran newspaper man was fired.

Also in the above article:  

Reuters reporter Rob Cox tweeted Thursday, "This is what happens when @realDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people. Blood is your hands, Mr. President. Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul." 

What about the consequences of the "journalists"/ media and their unceasing call of this President being the enemy of the people? Is that restaurant's action against Sarah Sanders a foretaste of worse things to come? TD

The media, news and "entertainment" blame Trump for the Gazette murders? Well, what about THESE anti-Trump people?

Jerkitude  "The Jerk Store is open." 

Watch the Rogen-Colbert interview if you can stomach it. And they dare to say President Trump incites people to violence! TD

. . . The jerk culpably fails to appreciate the perspectives of others around him, treating them as tools to be manipulated or idiots to be dealt with rather than as moral and epistemic peers. . . .The jerk himself is both intellectually and emotionally defective, and what he defectively fails to appreciate is both the intellectual and emotional perspectives of the people around him.

"Which brings us to the owner who kicked Sarah Huckabee Sanders out of her restaurant, Robert DeNiro’s f-bomb at the Tony Awards, President Trump’s twitter feed, Corey Lewandowski’s “mwah-mwah” about a child with Down Syndrome, Maxine Waters, and actor, director, and thorough jerk, Seth Rogen." . . .

Suspect Arrested for Threatening to Kill FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s Children

“I will find your children and I will kill them”

"Federal authorities have located and arrested a California man suspected of threatening to kill FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s children. He faces a maximum of 10 years in the federal slammer.

"He “is charged with a threatening to murder a member of the immediate family of a U.S. official with the intent to intimidate or interfere with such official while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with the intent to retaliate against such official on account of the performance of official duties,” says the Department of Justice.

"According to a Department of Justice press release, the man was upset about the repeal of net neutrality and was trying to frighten Pai in retaliation." . . .

Journalists Spread Conspiracy Theory That DHS Document Contains Secret Nazi Code

Michael Moore Riles Up The Resistance: We Have To ‘Get Off The Couch’ And ‘Put Our Bodies On The Line’ Instead of sitting there growing corpulent

. . . "On the subject of civility, Moore began by calling out Democrats for being so “wimpy and weak” on “constantly giving in” on policy and insisted that “we don’t have to be violent.”[…]

"Colbert then asked the documentary filmmaker what the “end game” is if it avoids violence and some sort of “revolutionary confrontation.”