Here are my observations and opinions on my selected news of the day.
JUST SAYING – More than 76,000 migrants crossed the southern border last month, the highest number in 12 years. Yet, the Democrats say President Trump has manufactured an emergency on our border.
THE IGNORANCE OF SOME AMERICANS – The American Thinker recently reminded its readers of a statement made by MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, when as chief architect of ObamaCare, he said the overall strategy to pass the bill “depended on the stupidity of the American voter.”
I prefer the use of the word “ignorance” over “stupidity,” believing that it implies a lack of awareness rather than insufficient intelligence to understand an issue.
The publication used the Gruber quote to try to get to the bottom of the current popularity of Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. “How could anyone believe that socialism might succeed in the United States when it has failed miserably everywhere it’s ever been tried?
A great question. If that popularity continues, with all of the fallacies of socialism in evidence to help voters understand this issue, perhaps we will need to rethink the reference to “stupidity.”
HERE’S ANOTHER EXAMPLE – According to a recent poll reported by The DC Caller, one third of Americans share Ocasio-Cortez’s worry about having kids with the threat of climate change. The Caller reports that some 60 women have joined BirthStrike, a movement to advance climate change regulations.
Is it ignorance or stupidity that causes women to believe the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that “having fewer children is the best way to cut down on C02 emissions?
AN INTERESTING POINT OF VIEW on the socialist movement by Marta Hernandez appeared in yesterday’s Victory Girls blog.
Referring to the young people as ignorant people “who have no actual understanding of socialism, what it means, how it destroys societies, and how it erodes individual freedoms. They don’t know history. They think that socialism in its historical sense simply wasn’t implemented correctly.”
Not one to mince words, Hernandez wrote, “Worse yet, these naive, immature, blasé little sh**s, who have never seen a world outside their soon-to-fail socialist coffee house, are pushing a philosophy they have never actually experienced, because they like to come across as caring and unselfish even as they accuse you of being selfish, hateful, bigoted and misogynistic.”
Judge Rushing (Photo Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
THE REPUBLICAN SENATE unanimously voted 53-44 to confirm Allison Jones Rushing, 37, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, making her the youngest federal judge in the country.
In typical Democrat form, questioning a nominee’s Religious beliefs, the left attempted to block her confirmation because she worked for a conservative Christian organization that has been classified as a hate group by the often- discredited Southern Poverty Law Center.
President Trump is dramatically reshaping our federal courts. He has now won approval of 32 circuit judges, 53 district judges and two Supreme Court judges.
MORE EMBARRASSMENT – While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tries to deal with the embarrassment of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib … Al Green, the pathetic Democrat representative who called for the impeachment of President Trump, was an embarrassment to the legislative body during a hearing Wednesday with Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen.
Rep. Green (CNN.com)
Speaking in an overly dramatic hushed tone, the representative of an area southwest of Houston, repeated the “give me your tired …” saying from the Statue of Liberty and tried to compare the way immigrants were handled at Ellis Island to that of our southern border ports.
Nobody reminded Green that those arriving at Ellis Island were returned to their point of departure if they were sick. Sick children over 12 years of age were sent back alone.
Men with criminal records, or believed to be unable to find work here, were routinely returned. Men were required to have at least $20 in their pocket, the equivalent of more than $500 today.
It’s so obvious that the left is using the current border crisis to tar the Trump administration, while he attempts to update an inadequate border and improve the outdated, and ill-conceived, immigration and asylum rules.
WHO THOUGHT MINNEAPOLIS would be an ideal place for Somali’s to assimilate in America? The weather difference alone is a negative. Reports out of the Twin Cities reveal that Somali’s are forced to call for police help to fight gang activity in what is referred to as Little Mogadishu.
ROLLING STONE magazine, it seems, will do anything to drum up sales of their magazine. You may recall it’s cover photo of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarvev in 2013, when the magazine was criticized for glamorizing terrorism.
The March issue will feature a cover story of four Democrat women who will be “Shaping the Future,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and Jahana Hayes (Conn)
At least the future in Hayes’ mind isn’t eminent. “We are at an intersection of history, and 20 years from now, its going to be the millennials, and the students, and the women, and the single moms, and the outliers who came in and restored faith in government. It’s happening.”
Twenty years? She needs to speak with Ocasio-Cortez, who said the world as we know it ends in 10 years due to climate change.
The fun begins. Stay tuned.
AND FINALLY, this from the creative mind of Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr:
“The Russia conspiracy Democrats flogged for so long at least painted him as an imposter and traitor. Now Democrats are attacking him for being exactly the guy voters knew they were electing.”
May God bless the United States of America.
