Monthly Archives: August 2019

NEW SFEED WEDNESDAY: Democrats to Fight Longer Hold of Illegal Families

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 21, 2019
  • 2 min read

The new rule would eliminate a 20-day cap for detaining migrant children and create a new licensing regime that would make it easier for federal officials to expand family detention nationwide. [snip]

Exercising greater control over family detention would mark a major coup for the White House, which has said the Flores agreement is among the most significant “loopholes” spurring mass migration at the border. Smugglers have sold families discounted trips to the border and instructed them to seek asylum because the Flores agreement meant they were likely to be released. Such families are rarely deported, officials said.

— Washington Post, August 21, 2019
Continue reading

Please share!

California Dreamin’ or Nightmare?

Rob Meyne

  • Aug. 21, 2019
  • 4 min read

Updated: Aug 22, 2019

We’re coming to you today from the Californian valley that encompasses Indian Wells, Palm Desert (not Palm Dessert), Palm Springs, Coachella, Indio, and more. It’s a beautiful place in its own way. Not green and lush like my native Indiana, but the mountains and palms and thirsty vistas of expansive fairways and greens are impressive.
Continue reading

Please share!

NEWS FEED TUESDAY: What the Filthy Streets of San Francisco Really Mean

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 20, 2019
  • 2 min read

[San Francisco] has more billionaires per capita than anywhere else in the world, but it also has a homeless problem so severe that it rivals some third-world nations. On any given day you can see souped-up Lamborghinis and blinged-out trophy wives in one part of the city, then walk over a few blocks and see piles of human feces, puddles of urine and vomit caked on the sidewalks. The misery of homelessness, mental illness and drug addiction hits deep in San Francisco and has turned parts of a beautiful city into a public toilet.

— Fox News, August 20 2019
Continue reading

Please share!

NEWS FEED MONDAY: Democrats Push for a Recession

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 19, 2019
  • 2 min read

These three things are all true: The United States almost certainly isn’t in a recession right now. It may well avoid one for the foreseeable future. But the chances that the nation will fall into recession have increased sharply in the last two weeks.

— New York Times, August 16 1969

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday that “there’s no recession on the horizon.”

— Fox News Sunday, via Real Clear Politics, August 18, 2019
Continue reading

Please share!

NEWS FEED SATURDAY:
Can Warren Beat Trump?

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 17, 2019
  • 1 min read

Joe Biden’s strongest selling point — that he’s the most likely to beat Donald Trump — is losing some of its edge, as Elizabeth Warren vaults into second place because a growing number of Democrats think she can win the general election.

— Bloomberg

QUICK TAKE

Bloomberg reports that more Democrats are seeing Liz Warren as a comer. She can beat Trump in 2020, they believe. Seems there’s no population limit in the Democrats’ Jonestown. They’ve got a factory churning out the Kool-Aid, folks!
Continue reading

Please share!

NEWS FEED SUNDAY: Woodstock: Three Days of Muddy Debauchery

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 17, 2019
  • 1 min read

WHITE LAKE — Tens of thousands of young music fans today began abandoning the muddy chaos of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.

Advertised as three days of “peace and music,” the fair in this Catskill community has turned into a massive traffic jam in a giant mud puddle that has resulted in the death of one youth and the hospitalization of scores of others, many of them suffering adverse drug reactions.

— UPI Archives, August 16 1969
Continue reading

Please share!

Philly, ICE, and Out of Control Cop Hate

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 15, 2019
  • 2 min read

You can’t make this up. Six cops were wounded in a shootout with a bad dude in the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood in Philly. Looks like Nicetown has some really mean streets. Locals turned against cops there, too. Cop hate is growing worse by the day. Beat cops in America’s gritty cities aren’t the only ones at risk, though.
Continue reading

Please share!

Needed: More Showgirls Running for Congress

Rob Meyne

  • Aug. 14, 2019
  • 4 min read

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that politicians will do almost anything to get elected. If that astonishes you, I would refer you to other recent news: water is wet, fish swim, and birds fly.

If hypocrisy were money, the political class could retire, en masse, move to desert islands, leave the rest of us alone, and let Buck, your yard guy, run the country. If he cares as much about us as he does about the palm trees, he’s my guy.
Continue reading

Please share!

Sure, nuclear war sucks, but the Mets pitching is worse

Rob Meyne

  • Aug. 12, 2019
  • 3 min read

Several lifetimes ago, I was privileged to work at the Republican National Committee during President Reagan’s re-election campaign. We may talk about that more in the months ahead, but it comes to mind today because of a piece by John Stossel.

In communications training, we would help candidates discuss political issues in terms that show how they impact specific values, those things Americans care deeply about. If you tell people you want to cut taxes, you must make the connection that it will leave you with more money to save, spend, or invest, thus enabling you to go on vacation, save for college, and more.
Continue reading

Please share!

NEWS FEED FRIDAY: Springfield, Mo. – A Gun Saves Lives at a Walmart?

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 9, 2019
  • 1 min read

Police say the man then made his way out an emergency exit where a former firefighter held the man at gunpoint. At that moment Springfield Police arrived on scene and detained the man.

— KY3-TV News NBC

QUICK TAKE

Guns are evil, we hear over and over from the gun control mob. But guns are only tools and only bad in the wrong hands.
Continue reading

Please share!