If this new Homeland Security agency called Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement were properly staffed it would be a part-time job, given that according to a 2015 Cato Institute study the numbers show that immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans. But that’s not good enough for Trump’s followers. They firmly believe immigrants make America …
Oust millions of people from the economy and just watch the G.D.P. drop. Source: The Immigration Facts Donald Trump Doesn’t Like – The New York Times I differ slightly with the Times’s headline. I don’t think Trump knows the facts, and I don’t think he’s interested in hearing them. I think he’s fixated on being …
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The subject is the START treaty which caps the number of nuclear weapons held by Russia and the United States. Trump is on the phone with President Putin of Russia. “Hold on, Vlad, I gotta talk to this guy.” (Puts hand over mouthpiece) What’s this deal, now?” (Putin hears muttered unintelligible conversation from Oval Office. …
“That man in the White House” may have cost Los Angeles a chance to host the 2024 Olympics and the United States a chance to host the 2026 World Cup in soccer. How? By banning Muslims from entering the country. “But wait,” you say. “It’s only for ninety days and only for seven countries and …
We are really going to miss this man. Even if you disagreed with every policy he espoused you knew it was going to be well thought out. You knew he wasn’t going to overreact to events and do something without consultations with his staff, and you knew he wasn’t going to embarrass our country in …
I’ve bought the tickets, reserved the hotel room, and all I have to do now is get a rental car lined up. 4,826 miles from HNL to DCA. That’s a long trip. Even broken up into two sections, it’s five hours and change a pop. It’s been a long while since I’ve done that. I …
What part of national security do Secretary Clinton’s emails constitute, and what part of national security is letting Trump skate by asking him repeatedly if he thinks he’s qualified to be Commander in Chief? Matt Lauer is no more a tough-minded journalist than my dog Abby is. NBC has half-a-dozen more qualified reporters who could …
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why Republicans want — nay, demand — accountability from federal agencies like the NIH and the CDC but ignore the concept when the Pentagon sends up its budget? The unofficial motto of the Republican party might as well be “Get Sick and Die.”
You don’t have to be in combat to die when you’re in the military. Sadly, we got proof of that again today when a Marine MV-22 Osprey crashed at Bellows Air Force Station on the Windward side of Oahu. Reports so far indicate one Marine dead and twelve more hospitalized. The investigation is ongoing.
House Republicans and Senate Republicans can’t agree: should the Department of Homeland Security be funded through the end of this fiscal year if it means President Obama’s executive orders which mandate that prosecutorial discretion should be used when deciding which undocumented immigrants should be deported are left as policy? The House says no; the Senate …