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They call it border 'security' for a reason

In response to Illegal Immigration Influx Along US Southern Border Is A National Security Issue : You’re absolutely right, from the standpoint of thwarting not just terrorists, but also gang members and individual criminals.  While we wait for the terrorists

The myth of the Central American apocalypse

While we’re busy retiring the phony Obama talking point about how a 2008 anti-human-trafficking law means he can’t do anything to repel the human wave coming out of Central America, let’s also dispense with the equally bogus talking point that

No 'border fix' should be necessary

In response to Congressional Democrats Stonewalling Any Border Fix: It’s not surprising to see this sad little spectacle, as Democrats scramble to block any fixes to the law they claimed, just days ago, was tantamount to the hellish George Bush

The silence of the void

I’ve been fascinated by the search for extraterrestial life since I was a little kid, so I wasted no time clicking on the Drudge Report’s headline about NASA saying that the discover of intelligent life on other worlds was less

Bergdahl investigation going about as expected

In response to Bowe Bergdahl Returns To Regular Duty As ‘Investigation’ Ensues: I heard some reasonable theories yesterday that Bergdahl was returned to active duty because if the military cut him loose, it would be harder to pursue the investigation

Throwing conservatism under the bus

In response to Three More Reasons to Appreciate Rush Limbaugh: You wouldn’t happen to have anyone else in mind as a contrast to those three excellent points about Rush Limbaugh, would you?  Hmm… a prominent conservative media figure who recently

Boko Haram mocks hashtag diplomacy

Further evidence that “hashtag diplomacy” is worse than useless, as the Islamist thugs of Boko Haram release a video mocking the weepy efforts to beg them to release the large number of young women they have abducted: By “bring back

Is the Facebook bubble about to pop?

Facebook is a fascinating success story (good enough to make a movie about!) but that story might be entering its final chapter, as Robin Harris of ZDNet cites search-engine data that suggests interest in Facebook has already peaked, and is

Do not doubt the power of the Cloward-Piven strategy

Jonah Goldberg at National Review has a fine column today in which he dynamites the Obama talking point that our cross-border invasion is a flood of refugees from shocking new war-zone conditions in Central America, and has nothing to do

Why not dispense with the Presidency?

House Speaker John Boehner wants to push back against Barack Obama’s abuses of power with a lawsuit, which couldn’t possibly accomplish anything until Obama was out of office.  Sarah Palin is talking about impeaching him, which is the Constitutionally-provided tool

Welcome to the Panopticon, Muslim Americans

The ongoing exposure of the Surveillance State from materials appropriated by Edward Snowden continues, as Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain at The Intercept report that five Muslim Americans with no detectable link to national-security threats were treated to the old

The Obama's Katrina Moment fallacy

My spin-detection antennae went up as soon as I heart numerous people on the Left, almost simultaneously, begin fretting that Obama’s refusal to visit the border in Texas could be his “Katrina moment.”  Something fishy is going on when everyone

Nanny From Hell and the squatter ethos

The strange story of Diane Stretton, widely known as the “Nanny From Hell” (evidently sometimes known less poetically as the “Won’t-Go Nanny” by some local media) has been bubbling along for about a month now.  In short, Stretton is an

Hillary in P.R. crisis mode is fearsome to behold

In response to Hillary Changes Story on Rapist Defense, Claims She Had No Choice: Boy, you can tell this whole “Hillary Tapes” thing really struck a nerve.  She’s taking a huge chance by attempting to brazenly rewrite history, and… well,

Breaking: The CIA Doesn't Know Where Tupac Is

One of the strangest little corners of the Internet is the CIA’s official Twitter feed, which went live a month ago with a hilarious message: “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first Tweet.” What ensued was

What you earn vs. what you 'deserve'

In response to ”USA Today’ Knows Nothing About the American Dream: If you’ll permit me a bit of drive-by cross-linking, this is part of what I was talking about earlier with the “Takers who are also Makers” post.  Part of

Obama's border-camp horror gets worse

Last week, we heard about an epidemic of lice and scabies running through the population of young illegal aliens surging across the border and piling up in refugee camps for temporary storage, before they can be dispersed across the United

Part-time America: Makers who are also Takers

I thought I’d grown numb to the media’s relentless efforts to manufacture good news for Barack Obama, but the June unemployment report really takes the cake.  It was almost universally reported as phenomenal good news, with caveats brusquely related 10

Imaginary dragons are more easily slain

Here’s a little dose of “leadership” from the most divisive President in modern history: Throwback to last week when a woman–not her boss–made her own decisions about her health care. #TBT pic.twitter.com/xmQ5e7DFmW — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 3, 2014 This