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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny out of coma

FAA reviews Boeing Dreamliner quality-control lapses after production problems: WSJ reports

Ilhan Omar endorses riots — calls them an ‘uprising’

Trump trumpets John Kelly aide denial to crush ‘The|Atlantic’ story

Boris Johnson: Britain will move on if there’s no Brexit deal

White House has talked to VA Secretary about taking Pentagon job if Trump fires Esper

Al-Shabab uprising in Somalia injures U.S. service member

Only one-fifth of voters say they would get Covid vaccine ‘as soon as possible’ ...

Trump blasts Harris for trying to damage vaccine push

Mnuchin expects Congress will extend government funding into December

Biden’s amnesty pledge is even worse than you thought

Poll: Trump ‘erases’ Biden’s lead in Texas

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

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How Bloomberg plans to create his own lane in 2020

IMF says the world economic expansion  is loosing moment as it cuts its growth forecasts

Beijing confirms birth of gene-edited babies ...

Pence: Trump's immigration proposal is not amnesty

A temporary DACA fix for a permanent wall? Trump's proposal gathers more Dem resistance

Democrat Sen. Kamala Harris jumps into 2020 White House race

Second suicide bomb hit US convoy in Iraq ..

Gillette commercial becomes 28th most disliked YouTube ever

Trump tweets 40 times on day 30 of shutdown

Davos opens with the US vs. China contest emerging as 'the key problem of our time'

Freshmen Dems balk at impeachment ...

Democrat leader: Ban teens from wearing MAGA hats

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[Jeff] Flake floats GOP primary run against Trump: 'Someone has to run'

Trump's trade war could dent China's domestic consumption, dragging down the rest of Asia

Malibu apocalypse, stars flee [wildfire]

Fraud expert: Florida election official allowed illegal aliens, felons to vote

Trump, without evidence, accuses Democrats of 'election theft' in Florida Senate race

The 'world's first' A.I. news anchor has gone live in China

114,637,000 Americans in households getting gov't assistance ...

Michael Moore: 'Preventing black people from voting' only way GOP can win

Trump calls Macron's comments on building a European army to defend against U.S. 'Insulting'

White House trade advisor Navarro says China trade deal will be on Trump's terms, not Wall Street's

Deems plan most aggressive gun-control legislation in decades ...

Update: Presidential proclamation bars illegal immigrants from full amnesty

More Perplaxing Questions

Why did Rep. Guiterez flee the SOTU when the croud started chanting, "USA, USA"?

- Will former.FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe still get his pension while in prison?

- Will the House Intel Committee's minority "memo" be leaked before it' is voted to be released?

- Why did far fewer than one-half of eligible Dreamers choose to register under Obama's DACA program?

- If refugees are such an asset to the U.S., why are they then such a liability to their homelands if they are asked to return?

- Why should the parents of Dreamers, who had brought them to America, then be rewarded under the DACA amnesty program for their previous illegal actions?

- Why is Elon Musk making and selling a flamethrower ... of all things?

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McConnell and Schumer hit rock bottom

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: White House blames Democrats, won't negotiate on DACA

Neighbor charged with assault on [Sen.] Rand Paul ...

... CNN poll: Amnesty advocates big loser in shutdown ...

House Republicans clash [with Democrats] over release of secret [FISA-Fusion GPS] memo

69 Republicans lawmakers call for immediate release of FISA memo

Border wall prototypes thwart commandos in tests ...

Facebook announces plan to seize control of Newsfeed from users ...

Shutdown threatens Trump's economic winning streak

Google has an actual secret speech police

Italians on track to be minority in own nation ...

DOJ files Notice of Intent to re-try Sen. Menendez

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Headlines

Trump's threat to take down the GOP still stands

Clinton aides went unpunished after making false statements to anti-Trump FBI supervisor

Mueller subpoenas Trump's Deutsche Bank records ... [fake news?]

Voters reject by 2:1 Democrats' amnesty-or-shutdown threat

Billy Bush to Trump: 'That is your voice'

[Roy] Moore accuser comes out with fresh evidence

FACEBOOK bans women for calling men 'scum' ...

Heads explode: Trump phones Roy Moore to offer support ...

Prosecutors: Manafort tried to write op-Ed with Russian operative while on house arrest

Pelosi suggests that Republicans leave California if they support tax bill

MAG: Pence was 'contemplated coup' to take Trump's place as nominee

Trump shrinks National Monuments in Utah ...

Obama Nation Update

Back in early 2008, well before Barack Obama was elected, I made some predictions as to what might happen if this were to occur … see: Obama Nation. I here list those predictions that came true or are close to coming true:

- The U.S. will recognize Hamas
- Taxes will be increased across the board
- The budgets for the Defense Department and U.S intelligence activities will be slashed
- Sharia law will be made a local option throughout the U.S.
- All U.S. soldiers will be out of Iraq and Afghanistan by July 1, 2009
- All wire-taps will be stopped and those who have been tapped will be informed and any such evidence collected will be destroyed
- Illegal immigrants will be granted amnesty and given Social Security benefits

- Presidential pardons – Lynne Stewart and all current and past Guantanamo prisoners

- Oil will hit $200 per barrel
- A national carbon tax will be endorsed by the U.S. and implemented through the U.N. 

9.3 out of 22 isn't a bad batting average.

The First Ukase

President Obama has just transformed America ... as he had promised. He has issued his first ukase*... and I wonder how many more will follow?

In truth, what Obama did last night was to throw a bone to as many as 5 million illegal immigrants. This may not be all bad … except for one major flaw … and that was the way he did it. With the back of his hand he has undone what the framers of the Constitution feared most … he has become all-powerful. The people’s representatives, Congress, have just been neutered to the point of irrelevance … for they have no options. If they pass an immigration reform bill to his liking in the next six months, they will be bending to his will. If they don’t, then his ukase stands unless and until the Supreme Court finds the gumption to strip him of this authority … which may take months if not years. In the meantime the damage done will be irreversible.

The most insidious part of this ukase is that it appears to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship … but is gift-wrapped in quite a few more presidential lies. These lies are meant to sugar-coat this blatant usurpation of power with administrative niceties that we all know will never be implemented. They are:

-        Our border’s will be made more secure

-        These newly legalized illegal immigrants will not be allowed to vote

-        These newly legalized illegal immigrants will not be eligible for Obamacare and a myriad of other welfare benefits

-        These newly legalized illegal immigrants will have to pay back income taxes and continue to do so into the future

-        Illegal-immigrant criminals will be deported

These amnesty-mitigating lies are so obvious that they are laughable … probably the side-splitting tenor of the White House meetings in which they were inserted into the president’s speech. I wonder if Jonathan Gruber was somehow involved in constructing this ukase?

* “A ukase, in Imperial Russia, was a proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leader (patriarch) that had the force of law.”

Act of Love

Former Florida Governor, Jeb Bush, has created a bit of a huff and puff with his comments about those immigrants who come to this country illegally because they want to do well by their families. As per Bush, their breaking of the immigration laws of the United States is actually done as an “act of love,” an obviously unwise generalization … see: Breitbart Commentary.

Of course, in many instances … who knows the exact percentage … he is correct. But there are also many other nefarious reasons why our porous borders are breached by those who are less family-affectionate … the sex trade, drug smuggling, gang member recruiting, terrorist activities, those looking for our government’s handouts, those escaping criminal prosecutions at home, etc. The trouble is that there is no filtering process on this illegal immigrant influx to try to exclude such undesirables.

And even if 100% of these illegal immigrants were acting out of familial love, there still is the problem of America eventually becoming overrun with everyone in the world who is devoted to one’s own … there must be billions of them. The United States cannot possibly absorb all such caring people without imploding. Therefore, Jeb Bush has crawled out on an emotional limb which is easily pruned with simple logic.

Blanket amnesty cannot be the solution to the years of lax enforcement of our immigration laws … even if it is well-intentioned. This issue is now so thoroughly wrapped up in political motivations that it cannot be solved by naive utterances by would-be presidential candidates … of any party. I believe that the American people, in general, understand the conundrum we face … and such simple answers will not suffice.

I have previously offered my thoughts on this issue … see: Carrying Water in a Sieve. I believe that any real solution to this problem needs to stop the bleeding by strict enforcement of our existing immigration laws … including exporting of criminals and  those who overstay their visas … tighter inspection of amnesty claims … and an unbreachable barrier on our southern border. If this were done, maybe in twenty or thirty years this national problem would naturally dissipate ... without the granting of impassioned amnesty.

And I firmly believe that politicians who claim that they will enforce our immigration laws and then don’t ... are not acting out of love of country or compassion for those “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” They (yes, you know their names) are craven and self-serving.

King Barack

Government is a lot more efficient when you can ignore the will of the people.  The Dream Act was introduced over 12 years ago as an attempt to solve our illegal immigrant problems (see: Wikipedia  Entry).  Congress was deluged with complaints that this was an amnesty program and eventually had to abandon this legislation.  Now with the stroke of a pen, “President” Obama has circumvented this country’s Constitutional process and has executive-ordered many of the tenants of this deep-sixed law into effect.  Yesterday, this ukase was implemented around the country to an overwhelming reception from hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of those who have, until now, been living in the shadows (see: AP Story and NBC Chicago Story).

Independent of the charity arguments surrounding our tsar of tsar’s action, Obama has clearly and cleverly ignored the legal protocols that have been in place since our country’s founding. He is thumbing his nose at Madison and Jefferson and that great document they crafted.  And why is there not a hew and cry from Republicans?  Because they are unfortunately realistic … and know that many Hispanics would been even more inclined to vote against them in November.  And, to politicians, getting elected usually comes before all other considerations.

But my question is: Is it not also realistic to assume that a large percentage of these newly documented immigrants will also vote against Republicans … despite all laws to the contrary? And, if this travesty of justice does grease the skids for Obama’s re-election, will his highness not take even grosser liberties with that manuscript for which he once was a college lecturer?