[WASHINGTONTIMES] A federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday that the government must fully restart the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals deportation amnesty and accept brand new applicants as well as renewals, throwing a potential wrench in the ongoing debate over the fate of "Dreamers" on Capitol Hill.
Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis said the administration does have the power to revoke DACA, but it must give a sound reason for doing so ‐ and the Homeland Security Department’s September 2017 rationale fell far short of what is required in that regard.
Appointed by Bill Clinton in 2000! Nuff said.
He even used Mr. Trump’s own tweets as evidence that the DACA program was ended precipitously, pointing to President Trump’s claims that he could "revisit this issue" as proof the program could have been continued.
Judge Garaufis is the second federal judge to rule Mr. Trump’s aides bungled the phaseout ‐ but his decision is the most wide-ranging, ordering the government to not only allow those already in the program to renew their applications but also ordering the government to accept new applications.
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Jackass. That is the President ending an illegal order.
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...no he's not. He's a Prince who sits for life in what used to be a Constitutional Republic (no longer) who has no loyalty to the law only to power. Accept your fate peasants.
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Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis said the administration does have the power to revoke DACA, but it must give a sound reason for doing so ‐ and the Homeland Security Department’s September 2017 rationale fell far short...
Once again take the issue straight to the Supreme Court, get a ruling that supports the president, and move on. Or get a ruling that supports the judge, rewrite the rationale that the judge objected to, and move on. President Trump has made it clear he does not object to the principle embodied in DACA, but that it was illegally done by his predecessor, and needs to result from the passage of Congressional legislation in the customary fashion, not by presidential phone and pen.
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President Trump has made it clear he does not object to the principle embodied in DACA, but that it was illegally done by his predecessor, and needs to result from the passage of Congressional legislation in the customary fashion, not by presidential phone and pen.
Not by the order of some piss ant little judge either.
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So this judge is ordering the president of the united states to Violate Federal law.
Need rationale? How about that little part of the U.S. consitition that says only congress has the power to create laws and DACA is only a Executive Order (and an illegal one at that) and not 'law'.
[BIZPACREVIEW] White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced the president’s doling of the salary on Tuesday.
"Today, the president is proud to donate his fourth-quarter 2017 salary to the Department of Transportation to support their programs to rebuild and modernize our crumbling infrastructure," Sanders said at the press briefing.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao accepted the president’s salary, which symbolically represents the White House’s emphasis on infrastructure.
Also on Tuesday, it came out in Politico that former White House aide Omarosa’s firing may have been transportation-related. It was reported that she had been using the presidential car service known as CARPET as a personal limo service.
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I'm only surprised the left=Dems hasn't turned this headline into: "Trump swindles money from under-privileged DACA children and their families."
[THEHILL] President Trump's newly proposed budget includes a proposal to end federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), part of a package that includes $300 billion in new spending overall. If it was "Public" it would be neutral in outlook. It ain't, so it ain't.
CPB provides federal funding for PBS and National Public Radio stations.
"The Budget proposes to eliminate Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) over a two year period," according to the proposal.
"CPB grants represent a small share of the total funding for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), which primarily rely on private donations to fund their operations," it continues.
"To conduct an orderly transition away from Federal funding, the Budget requests $15.5 million in 2019 and $15 million in 2020, which would include funding for personnel costs of $16.2 million, rental costs of $8.9 million; and other costs totaling $5.4 million."
Because Dems feel the nation needs to continue funding 80 year old dinosaurs like Mark Shields to lecture and talk down to us? Also, "immigrant journalist" to constantly berate us as illiterate racists while they are paid with our tax dollars?
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Why not? Because they may actually may turn a profit?
Or because no one who is a serious person takes it serious because it is leftists (Government) propaganda?
They already advertise.
They profit greatly from their "non-profit" status, but look in the toys'r'us isles for sesame street crap and it's all over.
It is a shelter and a funnel for tax payer dollars into the democrat party and their megaphone of hatred of sanity.
To me, the less balance sheet items, the better managed. And there is not a necessity for this "public service".
They broadcast 9 HD channels, none of which I watch.
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Amazing isn't it. A minority demand and get a wall of separation of church and state (although we are about to see the state demand to set the rules of religion when it comes to baking cakes or taking wedding photographs), but no wall of separation between a 'free press' and the state. NPR and PBS are just part of the LBJ Great Society parasites who have sucked up the Social Security surplus of the 60s. That surplus no longer exists.
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Every time I'm on the Mass. Turnpike, I have to look at the obnoxiously gaudy PBS Building (top three pics on the left hand side). Cut their funding and give me a sledgehammer.
[ABCNews] Three of the nation's top intelligence officials confirmed Tuesday that they have seen evidence of Russian meddling in the upcoming midterm elections ‐ part of what they say is Moscow's escalating cyber assault on American and European democracies. Facilitated by the donks.
"We have seen Russian activity and intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle," CIA Director Mike Pompeo told the Senate intelligence committee.
National Intelligence Director Dan Coats and Adm. Mike Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, agreed that Russia's interference is ongoing. "This is not going to change or stop," Rogers said.
They didn't describe the activity, other than to say it was related to information warfare.
"This is pervasive," Coats said. "The Russians have a strategy that goes well beyond what is happening in the United States. While they have historically tried to do these types of things, clearly in 2016 they upped their game. They took advantage, a sophisticated advantage of social media. They are doing that not only in the United States but doing it throughout Europe and perhaps elsewhere."
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I'd be upset with the Russians for doing this if the United States didn't go around the world perpetrating "regime change" on any government where the people look cross eyed at us. But the problem is that we do not have the moral high ground.
OTOH, I believe there are counter measures that could be implemented that would put a stop to some of their hacking and trolling. Baraq had eight years to come up with a plan along those lines and he didn't do squat. I hope Trump doesn't waste his time the way Obama did.
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How is this any different than what they have done since at least Stalin’s time, almost the entire time without any public comment by the intelligence agencies, nor any notice at all taken by the press?
[Bloomberg] The chairman of the House’s main investigative committee ramped up pressure on White House chief of staff John Kelly with a letter seeking answers on who knew about spouse abuse allegations against a former top White House aide and when they knew it.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, said he was launching an investigation of the White House’s handling of the security clearance for former Staff Secretary Rob Porter. It raises the prospect of extended public embarrassment for the administration as White House and FBI officials could face questioning in front of a hostile committee, led by the president’s own party. Again, if POTUS wanted OJ Simpson and Nidal Hasan to have TS/SCI clearances and be 'read on' to every Special Access Program in the beltway, the INDOC's would begin tomorrow morning. This is much to do about absolutely nothing.
[THEHILL] State Attorneys General Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), Eric Schneiderman (D-N.Y.) and Maura Healey (D-Mass.), joined by 16 others sent a blistering letter Monday warning Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross against approving a question about citizenship status in the 2020 Census.
Doing so, they said, would be unconstitutional. The nation has no need to know how many non-citizens are inhabiting it.
Also, adding a citizenship question this late in the planning for the 2020 Census, they argued, “would significantly depress participation, causing a population undercount that would disproportionately harm states and cities with large immigrant communities.”
“This undercount would frustrate the Census Bureau’s obligation under the Constitution to determine ‘the whole number of persons in each state,’ threaten our states’ fair representation in Congress, dilute our states’ role in the Electoral College, and deprive our states of their fair share of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds that are allocated in part on decennial Census data,” they wrote.
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I have had it with this ass clown show. Voter ID, Recert USB on election machines offline before elections, and only US citizens vote in these elections period.
[American Spectator] John Brennan, Obama’s CIA director, gives himself this description on his Twitter account: "Nonpartisan American who is very concerned about our collective future." In other words, Brennan is still in the disinformation business.
Liberal partisan who is very concerned about our collectivist future ‐ that would be a more apt description for one of the most politicized CIA directors ever, whose ascent to the top of the CIA began with a lie-detector test in which he revealed that he was a supporter of the Soviet-controlled American Communist party.
Brennan was the fox guarding the henhouse ‐ a role he played to the hilt for Hillary Clinton in 2016 as he set in motion a sham investigation into the Trump campaign. NBC recently signed Brennan up as a "national security" correspondent. So the fox will now get to comment on the henhouse he raided.
Where are the successors to the Kalb brothers to tsk-tsk news programs for using as "correspondents" on a story figures who have a vested interest in its outcome? Brennan is under Congressional investigation for possible perjury. But instead of challenging his yarn-spinning about the Steele dossier, NBC gives him a platform to continue it. How much longer before the media adds Sally Yates, Susan Rice, and (if they could get him) Christopher Steele as "correspondents"? What a farce.
Last week, in keeping with the media’s ho-hum atmosphere of normalized political espionage, Jonathan Winer blandly outed himself as a State Department cog in Obamagate. He made his role in it ‐ briefing John Kerry and company on the Hillary-financed Steele dossier in the heat of the campaign, then passing material from Cody Shearer, another dirt-diver for Hillary, to Steele (who then gave it to the FBI) ‐ sound like just another day at the State Department.
Part of Kerry’s retinue of conspiracy-minded radicals ‐ Winer once tried to write a film treatment for Oliver Stone (see Eric Hamburg’s JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone, and Me) ‐ Winer works hard to affect a nonchalance about it all, casting his friendship with Steele and Sidney Blumenthal in a nonpartisan light (he met Blumenthal, he hastens to tell us in a laughable virtue-signaling aside, during the righteous days of Iran-Contra when Blumenthal "was a reporter at The Post"). Winer plays dumb about Shearer, calling him absurdly a "journalist" whose work "I did not know." But once apprised of his Trump-Russian notes by Blumenthal, Winer decided ‐ "on his own," he guiltily emphasizes ‐ to share them with Steele in order to get his "professional reaction." You know, just one professional talking to another.
He then primly informs us that he didn’t dare tell his colleagues about Shearer’s notes: "Given that I had not worked with Shearer and knew that he was not a professional intelligence officer, I did not mention or share his notes with anyone at the State Department. I did not expect them to be shared with anyone in the government." Oh, but they were ‐ by his trusted "professional" colleague Steele who just so happened to be an opposition researcher for Hillary. Winer writes the piece in a comically innocent and blameless tone ‐ "I am in no position to judge the accuracy of the information generated by Steele or Shearer" ‐ but then with considerable cheek (given that he is a blatant example of how the U.S. government interfered in the election) wraps up with a lecture about the Russian government and Trump: "I believe all Americans should be alarmed ‐ and united in the search for the truth about Russian interference in our democracy, and whether Trump and his campaign had any part in it."
Yes, "united." In other words, nailing Trump is a "nonpartisan" cause anyone worried about "our collective future" should undertake. Perhaps this media-created climate of utter fraudulence explains another exceedingly peculiar confession note that has come to light: Susan Rice emailing herself what wags call an "I am not guilty" note.
On her last day in office, she suddenly remembered a pearl of wisdom from Obama that she wanted to jot down. Musing on a previous meeting, in prose that couldn’t be more stilted if written by her defense attorney...
[DAILYWIRE] In his big budget proposal on Monday, President Trump offered a novel idea: Instead of giving people in need government stamps they can redeem for food, why not just give them actual food? Ah, the good old days...
As you might guess, liberals were enraged by the notion. How dare Trump try to take away food stamps from hungry people and give them — of all things — food! Yep. Used to actually have to go down to the firehouse to pick the stuff up. We didn't have a car, so we had to walk the whole way there and back. Musta been six, seven blocks!
Here's how the liberal HuffPost saw it: "Facing a trillion-dollar deficit because of his just-passed tax cuts, President Donald Trump has an idea for how to get some of that money back: making poor people eat beans and rice." It wuz terrible! No potato chips! No Fritos. Instead we got flour, powdered eggs, lard, butter, Spam. canned pork and gravy. You can't eat that stuff right outa the container!
Oh the humanity! Mom had to spend time unwrapping stuff and cooking!
Currently, food stamps — known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — are provided for some 42 million people, 80% of whom get food vouchers each month worth at least $90 per person. They can be redeemed at many stores for food, but the program is rife with abuse. You could eat on a block of cheese for six months. But it just wudn't Cheetos. I did trade one once for a baseball bat. We had a half dozen of them, couldn't eat 'em fast enough. We didn't have indoor plumbing, but with that much cheese, did it matter?
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Local Stop-N'-Rob selling beer under the counter hardest hit?
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For welfare in general, make em show up to actually punch in and out. They don't have to stay all day, but try must show up, on time, to punch in and out every weekday. The majority of em couldn't even manage that...
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The 60's 'government' Peanut Butter was really very good. You actually had to mix the peanut oil back into it before spreading. And there were few, if any, additives.
None of that homogenized cr*p.
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Who says you can't eat lard right out of the container?
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This is another area I know all too well. I remember hauling many a block of yellow gubmint cheese on the back of my bike growing up. This move is an incentive to get off welfare, which is why (as DV notes) the libs hate it.
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WE no loner subsidize farmers to not grow crops, we use the AAFES logistics system to move government food products to their regional warehouse systems, and then on to military bases. Local food banks connect directly with the AAFES warehouse centers for bulk food pickup, and free distribution to those entitled. Less subsidy, no cash for criminal fraud of EBT, robust enhancements of existing logistical system, enlargement of local, often religious based charities of every denomination, or none for that matter. Where is the shortfall, except the decrease in corruption?
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In my neighborhood there is a convenience store inside a gas station where they proudly display a sign that says EBT Cards Accepted. Apart from my misgivings about EBT cards in general I wouldn't have a particular problem except for one thing. The gas station is in the same strip mall as a big super market. Now you know that people will use their EBT cards for junk food in the convenience store because that's pretty much all the convenience store has to offer. What's worse is that the same junk food will cost a lot more in the convenience store than it would in the super market. To put it mildly, this is wasteful.
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I remember in my youth visiting some guys who, though able bodied, had somehow gotten themselves on welfare. They had a big, maybe a gallon sized can of some kind of processed meat product. Some people might call it baloney or lunch meat. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt you or make you sick. It would probably keep you alive if there was absolutely nothing else. But I can see how that would be an incentive to get off welfare because that stuff was gross.
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I know what a mre is,but what is a fema meal. I read somewhere that a zillion of them are missing in Puerto Rico.
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FEMA meal is probably like Ricochet Biscuit - "...if it don't bounch back, you go hungry"
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Well you know when a mre and a fema really like each other they get together and rip off their wrappers and ... oh wait... this is a family site right?
I suspect a fema meal is a FEMA version of the mre. Think T.V. dinners, but produced by the government's lowest-cost producer. Glowing blue sauce and all...
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There was a time when folks didn't want be seen as surviving on foodstamps. It was a matter of pride, of carrying your own weight. Now its a right and a lifestyle. Sigh.
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I have zero doubt that this would raise, not lower food stamp expenses. The idea that government can distribute food more efficiently than for-profit retailers just doesn't square with anything I've read (or experienced) about the performance of government agencies vs the private sector.
[DAILYWIRE] The Department of Education has decided it will not investigate or interfere if transgender students complain they are barred from bathrooms that match their chosen gender, according to Buzzfeed News.
On Thursday, Buzzfeed asked Liz Hill, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, if restroom complaints from transgender students are not covered by a 1972 federal civil rights law called Title IX. Hill answered, "Yes, that’s what the law says," adding on Friday, "Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, not gender identity."
Hill made it clear that some complaints by transgender students will indeed be investigated, but bathroom complaints will not be among them. She stated, "Where students, including transgender students, are penalized or harassed for failing to conform to sex-based stereotypes, that is sex discrimination prohibited by Title IX. In the case of bathrooms, however, long-standing regulations provide that separating facilities on the basis of sex is not a form of discrimination prohibited by Title IX."
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Let them use the Teachers WP.
Who kneeds all the stupid drama the kooks dreamed up?
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Note that the Equal Rights Amendment failed ratification. There was a reason that the founders put the bar so high. Never the less, the independent judiciary aristocracy is implementing it anyway. You can count on them overruling any representation of the people that they don't approve of, to include this.
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I look forward to the day some pharmaceutical stumbles on a cure for Gender dysphoria and are called horrible things for their efforts by those they hope to help.
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I look forward to the day some pharmaceutical stumbles on a cure for Gender dysphoria
That’ll get anxiety in most of its forms, no doubt, including anorexia, bulimia, and possibly OCD and PTSD. Those with gender dysphoria as a rule have a number of the other expressions of anxiety as well, on top of depression. It is highly likely that any medication that acts on GD will be developed and tested for other anxiety problems — because the populations available for clinical testing are so much larger, the impact on GD only being realized when that tiny subpopulation gradually stops playing at being something they’re not. Much like it was finally noticed after many decades that severely depressed people who took scopolamine for motion sickness inexplicably stopped being depressed for weeks before reverting.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday that the government must fully restart the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals deportation amnesty and accept brand new applicants as well as renewals, throwing a potential wrench in the ongoing debate over the fate of "Dreamers" on Capitol Hill.
[BIZPACREVIEW] White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced the president’s doling of the salary on Tuesday.
[THEHILL] President Trump's newly proposed budget includes a proposal to end federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), part of a package that includes $300 billion in new spending overall.
[THEHILL] State Attorneys General Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), Eric Schneiderman (D-N.Y.) and Maura Healey (D-Mass.), joined by 16 others sent a blistering letter Monday warning Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross against approving a question about citizenship status in the 2020 Census.
[American Spectator] John Brennan, Obama’s CIA director, gives himself this description on his Twitter account: "Nonpartisan American who is very concerned about our collective future." In other words, Brennan is still in the disinformation business.
[DAILYWIRE] In his big budget proposal on Monday, President Trump offered a novel idea: Instead of giving people in need government stamps they can redeem for food, why not just give them actual food?
