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Sunday, December 17, 2017
Friday, December 15, 2017
Action Alert: Amnesty Again
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RE: H-2B visas for 2018 and DACA amnesty
NumbersUSA sent this Alert out today:
NumbersUSA has learned that Congressional Leaders may include an
H-2B visa increase in the year-end spending bill. The H-2B visa is the
low-skilled guest worker program used to fill seasonal or temporary jobs in
landscaping, food service, hospitality, and more. This program adds extra job
competition for low-skilled American workers and adversely affects the wages
for these jobs.
In past year's spending bills, Congress has exempted returning
workers from the H-2B program, having the potential impact of quadrupling the
number of these guest worker visas issued each year. For FY2017, Congress
didn't exempt returning workers, but gave the Department of Homeland Security
authority to issue visas beyond the annual cap. DHS ultimately increased the
number of visas available by 15,000.
This new threat adds to the continuing threat of a DACA amnesty
being part of the spending bill. Despite rhetoric from leaders of both Parties,
Congress could still include this amnesty in the must-pass bill.
The ALERT:
Please
call your U.S. Representative and two U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose a
DACA amnesty and an H-2B visa increase in the must-pass, year-end spending
bill.
Sen. Sherrod Brown ~ (202) 224-2315
Sen. Rob Portman ~ (202) 224-3353
Rep. Marcia Fudge ~ (202) 225-7032
If Marcia Fudge is not your Representative, call the Capitol
switchboard at (202) 255-3121 to reach your Rep.
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Thursday, December 14, 2017
2017 official White House Christmas Portrait
Via Conservative Treehouse:
The White House released the official Christmas Portrait – President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are seen . . . in their official 2017 Christmas portrait, in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, D.C.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Judge Roy Moore vs RINO Mitch McConnell and the Uniparty
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Mark Steyn is a favorite of mine, and here are a few of his
post-election thoughts:
[Judge Roy] Moore lost narrowly enough
to suggest that it wasn't the accusations that did him in. He could have
survived those, just about. What killed him was that he was running against
both the Democrats and the Republicans - including Alabama's own senior senator,
Richard Shelby. (Trump post-Billy Bush was in a similar position, as the likes
of Paul Ryan, Kelly Ayotte, etc, stampeded to distance themselves.) But Roy
Moore was the nominee only because the smart guys over-invested in Luther
Strange (just as in 2015 they over-invested in Jeb Bush). In the first round of
primary voting, Mitch McConnell's priority was to prop up Strange by taking out
what he regarded as his principal threat, Mo Brooks. Congressman Brooks would
have made an excellent senator, and would have been elected in a walk, and he
can also claim more plausibly than Moore to be a populist conservative aligned
with the Trump agenda. But McConnell didn't want him in the Senate and, as he
saw it, once Brooks was gone, Luther Strange would have no trouble walloping
Moore in the run-off.
Unfortunately, Strange owed his eminence in Alabama to the
patronage of a corrupt and discredited governor. As I wrote three months ago,
given the disposition of GOP primary electorates in the Age of Trump, they were
unlikely to turn to "a creature from the Alabama swamp ...to drain the
Washington swamp". So, thanks to McConnell and the ten million
bucks he blew through, Moore won the run-off and became the candidate. And
thus, of all preposterous outcomes, Alabama is now a blue state.
. . .
A final thought on Moore:
Yes, he's a kook, and an insufficiently nimble one to dodge the incoming
schoolgirls. But as I wrote three months ago:
Whatever one feels about
Roy Moore, he's principled enough to be willing to lose his job over the Ten
Commandments and same-sex marriage. That's unusual in American politics.
Read Steyn’s full column here. I think he is correct to place blame on Mitch McConnell
and the GOPe Uniparty.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Catching up on last week’s news: Mike Gibbons running for U.S. Senate
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Last week, Jeremy Pelzer at cleveland.com reported (h/t Ralph King):
COLUMBUS,
Ohio--U.S. Senate candidate Mike Gibbons was endorsed by the Franklin County
Republican Party on Wednesday by an overwhelming margin, giving the
Cleveland-area businessman a high-profile win in his underdog bid to snatch the
GOP nomination from Treasurer Josh Mandel.
The county
party's central committee vote was 85-16, according to Gibbons. It's the first
time Gibbons has been endorsed by a county party; the Cuyahoga County GOP
previously endorsed Mandel.
Read the rest here. Mr. Gibbons's website is here.
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Sunday, December 10, 2017
Army-Navy Game Puts National Football League to Shame
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Tom Joyce reports at Lifezette on yesterday’s Army-Navy game:
The Army, which honored the 10th Mountain Division with their
uniforms on Saturday, ran for 221 yards on 49 carries while the Navy, which
honored the Blue Angels, ran for 294 yards on 46 carries. . . .
Thanks to the team's win
and its victory over the Air Force Falcons earlier in the season, the Army
received the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, which is given to the top military
football school annually. . . .
President Donald Trump
himself tweeted earlier in the day that he would be watching the game.
Following the results, he offered congratulations to the Army's Black Knights. . .
No matter what the teams' records are coming into the game or
which one comes out on top, the American people are still happy to support
these two sides. Without them and the rest of the military academies and the
military overall, there would be no United States, in which citizens are free
to enjoy things like football.
Joyce’s full column, with the President's Congratulatory tweet, is here.
UPDATE: Here's a video of the National Anthem before the game.
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Friday, December 8, 2017
Trump storms
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credit: cowgernation.com
Need a little
pick-me-up? David Prentice at American Thinker has some thoughts on President Trump's accomplishments in his first year in office, despite a corrupt and hostile media that
lies about him every day, despite the GOP elites that obstruct his agenda every inch of the way, despite the
howling from environmentalists, the academic community, etc., etc. Prentice’s
question: “how in the hell is
Trump doing this?” Below is a short extract from his article proposing some answers:
The art of building is an underestimated skill. It
requires a combination of deep intelligence, blue collar toughness, a mind
capable of great focus and flexibility. Walking onto a construction
site is like walking into a washing machine. Everything is moving;
machines, people, tools, and lots of noise. Lots of noise. All
being driven to a finish line of time, money, and hopefully the integrity of a
job that will endure. It’s the Wild West of being in business, and you’d
better be prepared to live your life in a storm that doesn’t stop until each
project is complete. After which you are fired. Well, not really,
but you are terminated with your final payment, and if you’re good, you get to
start another job all over again because you won a bid against other companies
that want the same job. The storm never ends.
. . .
It’s a storm that invigorates you to succeed, or drives you to
fail. You push, you press to figure out the process and master
it. Or go home. Donald Trump loved this process early
on. It was his early training, it was what molded his outlook, it was what
tested him. His life was a storm. He used the storm of New York
building to vault his company to the top of the heap. He used the storm
while building nationwide, and worldwide to propel it even further.
This is a man whose whole life has been lived within storms.
He thrives on them, welcomes them, and uses them to achieve his goals.
It’s clear Trump’s political career is following the same
course. Whoever tries to engulf him within a storm loses. The left
has been calling on storm after storm, and they are still losing. They
don’t get it yet. Return to that list of accomplishments cited
earlier. He is implementing his promises one at a time, the whole time
the left conjures multiple deluges, dark ones, like the witches in
Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
It’s amazing to watch.
Read the rest here.
And yes, it is amazing to watch.
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