Weekend meme

Found somewhere on social media by a Steelers fan (with apologies to all you die-hard Browns fans):

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Update: immigration, DACA amnesty

Neil Munro at Breitbart reports:

President Donald Trump and a group of GOP senators quickly rejected a DACA amnesty deal pushed by Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday afternoon – but left the door open to future negotiations.

They will now wait until after the Supreme Court decides on the legality of Barack Obama’s work permit giveaway to 800,000 younger illegals, says multiple media reports.

NumbersUSA adds (via subscriber newsletter):

Other Senators reported at the White House meeting represented some mixed immigration positions: Ted Cruz of Texas, Kevin Cramer of South Dakota, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Martha McSally of Arizona, Mike Lee of Utah, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and David Perdue of Georgia.

Sens. Tillis and McSally would be open to joining Graham in supporting a mass amnesty, particularly if it came with the right tradeoffs. Sen. Tillis, along with Sen. Johnson, is looking for an expansion of guest worker programs. Sen. McSally would likely be willing to trade amnesty for increased border security in Arizona.

Thankfully, Sens. Cotton and Cruz were also in attendance. Both Senators have pushed back against the idea of granting a permanent amnesty to DACA recipients. Coincidently, Sen. Cotton slammed the Trump Administration's decision to increase the number of low-skilled H-2B visas for FY 2020 via Twitter while the meeting was taking place.

For now, the issue is still up in the air, and the NumbersUSA Action Alert to fax or call Senators is probably better implemented closer to the Supreme Court’s decision, expected in June.

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Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words

Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words

The documentary on Justice Clarence Thomas is playing at Tower City Cinemas starting Friday, March 6.  Showtimes are listed through March 12;  click here.  

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March 17 primary election resource: Judge4Yourself

The Judge4Yourself page rates the judicial candidates running in the March 17 (Tuesday, St Patrick's Day) primary election for judgeships in Cuyahoga County and the Eighth District Court of Appeals. It may not be a perfect resource, but if you don’t recognize the names of candidates, it’s a place to start. At the least, you can cross off candidates who do not respond to the questionnaires and interviews, or who get the dreaded “Not Recommended” verdict.  Click here. 

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Trump rally, Clarence Thomas documentary

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Two media notes. One, President Trump is holding a rally in North Carolina this evening, and it may be fun to see his takes on the shrinking field of Democratic party primary candidates, and his update on the Coronavirus (or Corona Flu, as Don Surber suggests).  As usual, Sundance has the livestream links, including to Right Side Broadcasting.  Click here.

Two, the documentary on Clarence Thomas is scheduled to run at Tower City Cinemas, possibly starting on March 6 (this Friday).  No showtimes have been posted, but the film is now listed as an upcoming attraction.  Will update as appropriate.

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President Trump at CPAC - just one minute

President Trump gave a speech at CPAC this afternoon.  Great speech, but here's the one-minute clip that is going viral.  Too funny.

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Reasons to Stop Freaking Out About Coronavirus

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Joel B. Pollak at Breitbart has some public service comments on the media hysteria over the Coronavirus. Here’s the beginning:

Coronavirus is an “info-demic,” a panic caused by the spread of partial and often misleading information about a health risk, sometimes deliberately.

The virus is real, and a small number of people have been infected. But it is going to pass.

It is an unpleasant respiratory illness, but it is not an organ-destroying horror like Ebola. Precautions are being taken, a vaccine will emerge, and life will continue as usual.

Here are five specific reasons to chill out.

1. Coronavirus is a familiar illness, and not as bad as others. It is from the SARS family — and less deadly. As Ha’aretz noted, “the mortality rate from the current disease ranges from 0.5 to 2 percent, and is significantly lower than the mortality rate from the 2002 SARS outbreak (9.5 percent) and much lower than the 2012 SARS outbreak (34.4 percent). It may even be close to the mortality rate from an ordinary flu outbreak in the United States.”

2. The U.S. response has been exceptionally good. There have only been 16 cases thus far, none deadly. . . .

Pollak’s additional 3 reasons are here.

UPDATE From Conservative Treehouse:

If you are following the tiered and strategic deployment of COVID-19 hype, you’ll note the next round of heavy artillery (the WHO/CDC have been saving) is the announcement of an official global “pandemic status” being reached.  That will be worth a week of panic media and perhaps another thousand point drop for U.S. stock market.

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