It's Thursday night. Our Cleveland
Indians just extended their winning streak to 22 games, 2nd longest win streak in MLB
history!
WOW!
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Thursday, September 14, 2017
Dreamers Amnesty
image credit: zazzle
Old
news: Speaker Paul Ryan is pro-Amnesty. Yesterday, he had this to say:
House Speaker Paul Ryan said
Wednesday that it was “not in our nation’s interest” to expel
the roughly 800,000 young people protected from deportation by the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
William
A. Jacobson has more on DACA / Dreamer amnesty at Legal Insurrection:
Trump is on the verge of
turning a temporary Obama policy deferring enforcement against people here
illegally into a full-blown amnesty, which may even go beyond people brought
here as children.
Amnesty is the issue on which
to oppose Trump, particularly if you support Trump generally. It will kill his
presidency, something Schumer and Pelosi correctly diagnosed. Democrats want
amnesty for all illegal immigrants and open borders, they’ll take 800,000 as
the way to open the door. And they’ll use even the slightest sellout to seek to
separate Trump from the people who elected him so as to defeat him on other
issues.
Amnesty is the gateway drug to
a failed Trump presidency.
NeverTrump Republican are
particularly ecstatic on social media today. They want nothing more than for
Trump to fail so they can proclaim “I told you so.” They thrive on being out of
power. Schumer and Pelosi are NeverTrump Republicans’ best friends right now.
When Trump was elected,
my reaction was
that there was great opportunity, and I’d support him when his policies were
good, and oppose bad policies. Amnesty is a bad policy. It goes to something
more than the rule of law, it goes to whether we have a country.
Particularly if you support
Trump and want his positive policies to succeed, you need to oppose an amnesty
sellout.
NumbersUSA
has posted several Action Alerts over the past few days. One recommended action is to let Speaker
Paul Ryan know where you stand on DACA (Dreamers) amnesty:
We're hearing from a number of
NumbersUSA activists that Speaker Ryan's voicemail is full. You can also
contact his office by filling out the contact form on his website:
An
accessible background essay on the case against Dreamer amnesty is on the
American Thinker blog here.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Following up on Hurricane Irma
photo credit: CNN.com
The Cleveland-based charity that collected food and household goods for Harvey victims in Texas does not have
a stuff-the-truck project for South Florida on their current calendar. As I see it, truckloads -- and planeloads -- of
food, water, and household goods would be sorely needed in the central rural areas of Florida and also various Caribbean islands that were destroyed (Virgin Islands,
Barbuda, etc). Supplies and manpower are already coming in on military and
private transports.
So on this one, some Cleveland Tea Party people may decide to write a check. There's a rated list of charities at Charity Navigator. Our household is going with Samaritan's Purse, as they are going into the Caribbean as well as Florida. They have their own cargo plane and their Charity Navigator rating is excellent.
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Free Speech Week at Berkeley Sept 24-27
Remember what happened when Milo Yiannopoulis was scheduled to speak at Berkeley last February?
Photo credit: SFGate
It was cancelled. Breitbart Radio just announced:
Milo
Plans Four-Day Extravaganza At Berkeley For Free Speech Week
Yesterday,
Pamela Geller’s blog ran this headline:
Pamela
Geller To Speak at Milo’s Free Speech Week at Berkeley, Joins Steve Bannon, Ann
Coulter, David Horowitz
That’s
already a powerhouse line-up that will be impossible to ignore. (Berkeley is
already looking for safe spaces to protect poor snowflake students from the
presence of Ben Shapiro.) I plan to follow this, as it could be a watershed moment for First Amendment rights.
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Hurricane's silver lining
Restaurants, chefs rally to help feed those affected by Harvey
Photo and caption credit: Houston Chronicle
Don Surber finds the silver linings in Hurricanes:
The people of Houston and elsewhere in Texas
showed a cooperation that shamed the politicians. Guys in boats were trolling
their neighborhoods searching for people to rescue. . . .
A nation drunk on politics suddenly was watching
people struggle to survive four feet of rainfall.
That was sobering.
America changed. Instantly.
His
column is here. And I hope he's right.
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