h/t Instapundit
If confirmed as Trump’s attorney general, the Alabama senator would instantly become one of the most powerful people overseeing the nation’s immigration policy, with wide latitude over the kinds of immigration violations to prosecute and who would be deported.
As the nation’s top cop, Sessions would be able to direct limited department resources to pursuing immigration cases. He could launch federal investigations into what he perceives as discrimination against U.S. citizens caused by immigration. He would be in charge of drafting legal rationales for immigration policies under the Trump administration.
And Sessions, as attorney general, could find ways to choke off funding for "sanctuary cities," where local officials decline to help federal officials identify undocumented immigrants so they can be deported.
Doesn’t that sound great? And it’s not all, either. But first, this:
Some immigrant advocates are alarmed by the idea of a Justice Department led by someone they see as far outside the mainstream.
It can’t be "far outside the mainstream" to enforce existing federal law. On the contrary, it is the president’s most fundamental constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Barack Obama violated this duty, to his everlasting shame. It also can’t be "far outside the mainstream" for Trump and Sessions to carry out the policies on which Trump campaigned and was elected.
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"Far outside the mainstream" is taken as 'not in alignment with my current feelings and hopes for change.'
The other guy won; get over it.
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Progressives who can't see "illegal,"
Say Sessions is some sort of kleagle,
And fear that he'll backwash
Near eight years of blackwash,
Unhooding the federal eagle.
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau will skip Fidel Castro’s funeral after receiving a worldwide mocking on Twitter. BBC:
Canada will be represented by Governor General David Johnston at a memorial service in Havana on Tuesday. Mr Trudeau’s decision comes after his initial statement on Castro’s death was mocked worldwide.
Over the weekend, the hashtag #trudeaueulogies trended after the prime minister’s office released a statement referring to "Cuba’s longest serving President" as a "remarkable leader" for whom the Cuban people had "a deep and lasting affection".
A selection of some good ones: Truly Rantburg-Worthy Snark.
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Ahk! Beat me to Mussolini.
Tamurlan was not only an accomplished architect, introducing new concrete pouring techniques, his introduction of multi-culturalism to Delhi solidified his contributions to the humanities.
[PJ] The Ohio State University assistant director of residence life allegedly expressed sympathy for Somali stabber Abdul Razak Ali Artan in a bizarre Facebook post Monday that has since gone viral.
Stephanie Clemons Thompson urged her followers to have compassion for Artan after he expressed a desire "to kill a billion infidels" and then tried to kill as many as he could at OSU. She also urged people to "think of the pain he must have been in," and used the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHisName (which BLM uses to denote victims of police brutality). Of course you knew, without opening the link or asking.
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To my knowledge, none of the usual MSM culprits has seen fit to simply display the screen capture of Artan's Facebook post on their news sites. Instead, they give carefully edited snips / quotes of his ranting that effectively cover up the venom spewing from him just before the attack. JihadWatch -- who are NOT "real journalists" and who are also apparently unable to create a genuine JPG from a "screen capture" either -- has posted a poor quality image of the screen, which may or may not be true.
"every single Muslim who disapproves [sic] of my actions is a sleeper cell"
"I am willing to kill a billion infidels" are the two apparent money quotes which the media has been suppressing.
[Jpost] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled his scheduled speech at a conference for the National Library and other items on his Tuesday itinerary, because he was suffering from a case of the flu.
Chances are the flu will remain on Wednesday, when the Knesset is set to vote on the controversial outpost and muezzin bills. But it is doubtful he will be able to use his illness to get out of those votes.
Barring a last-minute political deal, Netanyahu will have to choose between upsetting his traditional right-wing political base and infuriating the administration of outgoing US President Barack Obama. Definition of outgoing
a : going away : departing
b : retiring or withdrawing from a place or position e.g. the outgoing president
When he had to make the same decision last time, at the preliminary reading of the bill, he voted for legislation that would enable the legalization of outposts built on privately owned Palestinian land.
The vote was reportedly seen by the Obama administration as "spitting in its face," even though the preliminary reading of a bill is usually irrelevant within the perspective of the lengthy Israeli legislative process. I wonder how the Obama admin will view it this time?
[LiveLeak] From Oz Analysis: At this point, the only thing that will delay the liberation of East Aleppo is that the foreign islamoterrorists (mostly turkish tools) have no incentive to give up. So, expect some islamoterrorist-on-islamoterrorist warfare as the Syrian ones fight the foreign ones. As always, pity the civilians caught in the middle, though by now it is clear that the count of such civilians bandied around by the UN and the MSM is but a fantasy, exaggerated perhaps five-fold to excuse the US-turkish-saudi-qatari axis of terrorist support.
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[AccordingToHoyt] ...For years now, I’ve been telling you guys that this country is functionally occupied. Sometime between the forties and the seventies, a significant portion of our most promising young were proselytized and converted by the then USSR, an enemy that was not markedly skilled at much, except subversion, but who were very skilled at that.
This means, as my friend Bill Reader says, that "we’re doing all right, we just lost the cold war."
Oh, we won it, economically and militarily, and everywhere else, but they’d taken our culture, and their long march had acquired all the command positions, and therefore they were in control. And having been, effectively, turned into enemy agents, even after the enemy had disbanded, this meant that they treated us like an occupied land.
...We’re doing okay, it’s just that we’re occupied. And the couple of days have been an "oh, boy, howdy, and how!" as we watch people who pretend to care for the fate of the republic and to be proselytizers for freedom and liberty deliver themselves of painful and cringingly-awful encominiums to Castro, a man who would have been Stalin, had he had more territory than Cuba to rule over; a man who enslaved his own people and who, by hiring his army out, like the Hessian mercenaries of old, but worse, laid fire and waste to Africa and perpetrated (there) racist aggression as was rarely seen under European powers (except maybe by the Belgians who were special all over Congo and of course the soviets who were the masters of the Cubans.)
It’s been breath taking to watch the masks drop, and the would-be officials of our own country act like quislings and traitors. Their beards all seem to have grown longer overnight, (particularly the women’s) and the noises that comes from their mouths are no longer the sounds of rational human beings, but the eructations of the long-dead masters who possess them. They are channeling Marx and Lenin, Stalin and Pol Pot, standing atop the pile of corpses of their victims, and speaking with the rotten voice from the grave, lamenting the passing of one of the last of their comrades to resist the encroaching of liberty, and to carry on their carrion-tainted legacy.
Remember them. Keep in mind that moment when the masks dropped. They will try to don them again, and look, once more, impartial and over it all, and like gods among men. Don’t forget though, the death-marked visage they revealed and how their empathy for this repulsive tyrant reveals what they’d do, given a chance.
...and there's still one day to go!
[WashingtonExaminer] ESPN reportedly lost 555,000 subscribers this month, according to sports writer Clay Travis.
The drop in November for the sports media company comes right after its worst-ever month, when it lost an estimated 621,000 subscribers in October.
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The network isn't totally oblivious to the role that politics has played in its recent coverage, and it has commented publicly about the issue in the past.
Whether the recent decline in subscriptions is motivated more by the supposedly political tone of its coverage or by the growing trend of Americans simply moving away from cable bundles is yet be determined. But if it's the former, and if subscriptions continue to trend downward, the network may find itself changing its tune real fast. Ima thinking it's too late for that...
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ESPN owns cable. Cable products are bundled. If you want ESPN then you have to buy The Discovery Channel as well, but ESPN is what the customer is actually interested in 90% of the time. If the Left is killing ESPN, then they are killing cable.
We got rid of our cable connection a few years ago. If we want to watch a show, we have Netflix,Amazon Prime, Hulu and a Roku box.
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You can also mount up an HD (Digital) Antenna to pick up local channels. You might be amazed what you can find out there. no subscription necessary.
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...not to mention the broadcast tax (rent seeking) open broadcast stations tack on to your satellite or cable bill. They got their 'cut' on the original ad revenue.
Tell me again why they shouldn't be charged a exorbitant licensing fee to use the public bandwidth, no different than miners, loggers, or oil men tapping public land.
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The network isn't totally oblivious to the role that politics has played in its recent coverage, and it has commented publicly about the issue in the past.
Whether the recent decline in subscriptions is motivated more by the supposedly political tone of its coverage or by the growing trend of Americans simply moving away from cable bundles is yet be determined. But if it's the former, and if subscriptions continue to trend downward, the network may find itself changing its tune real fast.
BS lip service, ESPN. Suzy Gobbler was prattling on about FAKE NEWS(TM) Monday night.
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Well down in Texas they refer to ESPN as ESiPN because of its shameless shilling for the texas university longhorn football team.
ESiPN worked up a deal with the longhorns to carry texas university sports. The deal quickly went sideways as the university wouldn't share revenue with other schools in the conference and because of that found it hard to work around commitments made by other schools to other broadcast venues such as Fox.
The end result is the longhorn network thing has soured a lot of people in the conference and in the State of Texas on ESiPN and are dropping them for other sports venues that are not so flaming biased for one school
I wondered this as I read over an article at The Atlantic entitled "The Understudied Female Sexual Predator" by Conor Friedersdorf. The author and the researchers in the article seem surprised to find that so many women are predators, although shows like Snapped have been around for years and Patricia Pearson told us this info in the 1990's in her book When She Was Bad...: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence. But hey, better late than never.
Anyway, at least the article points out that sexual violence against men by women has been going on for some time:
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Well, some have been keeping track. Equality is a bitch, baby. Shouldn't have used the word when you really just want power and privilege without all the nasty stuff of responsibility and consequences.
[PJ] You'd think we'd learned our lesson by now, but no. At the Observer, John Schindler writes:
It’s happened again. Yesterday, on the campus of Ohio State University, an angry young man used his car as a weapon, plowing through a group of bystanders, whom he then attacked with a butcher knife. Eleven innocent people were injured, though mercifully all are expected to make a full recovery.
This time, we got lucky. A campus cop was on-scene within a minute and, when the madman running amok refused to follow orders to drop his knife, the policeman opened fire, killing him before he struck lethally. Which was clearly his intent, as described by a student who witnessed the event unfold: "He seemed like a crazed animal. He seemed like he was determined. He seemed like he was there for one reason--to do as much damage as he could."
Before any facts were established, the left-wing online outrage machine went into overdrive, like clockwork, with Democratic politicians and activists denouncing their usual suspects. One was Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, recently the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, who tweeted, "Deeply saddened by the senseless act of gun violence at Ohio State this morning." Countless fervent Social Justice Warriors took to social media to express their deep hope that the shooter was a white racist--presumably inspired by President-elect Donald Trump and his message of "hate."
Embarrassingly for the Left, the failed spree killer in Columbus turned out to have no gun at all. Worse for the liberal smart-set, he was a Somali refugee--hardly a redneck domestic terrorist. The disappointment felt online was palpable as it turned out the perpetrator was a Muslim of color, plus an immigrant to boot. He seemed to be practically a caricature drawn from Trump’s repeated warnings about the dangers posed by importing Muslims to America.
Virtually every liberal cliché was on display here. The dead man, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old (some sources say 20), was a recent refugee arrival from Somalia, via Pakistan. His family moved to the United States in 2014 and Artan got an associate’s degree in 2016, then transferred to Ohio State to continue his studies.
Although Columbus has a considerable Somali community, Artan clearly did not feel at home there, as he told a campus newspaper back in late August, upon his arrival, complaining about how inadequate Ohio State was for a Muslim like himself. Artan was miffed about the lack of prayer rooms: "I wanted to pray in the open, but I was scared with everything going on in the media. I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be. If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don’t know what they’re going to think, what’s going to happen."
What did happen is exactly what any reasonable person might expect was going to happen -- another holy warrior masquerading as a "refugee" (a Somali who spent years in Pakistan, no less) -- exploded in Sudden Jihad Syndrome and began attacking innocent real Americans in the heart of the Midwest. When do we say, enough?
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"I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be" is he quibbling with that Islam's a religion of peace or is he saying he is non-violent then probed everyone right by his actions. .
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"I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be".
Yeah, we know--our media here has pretended since 9/11 itself that you're all just peace-loving. A lot of us know quite fucking well that you're anything but. My voter registration read "Democrat" on 9/11...but I've not voted for one single Democrat since then. The outright *collusion* between the mainstream media and the Democratic party in the couple of weeks following 9/11 was all it took for me to decide that I could no longer support those traitorous assholes (Joe Liebermann excluded).
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.
#TRUDEAUEULOGIES
[PJ] The Ohio State University assistant director of residence life allegedly expressed sympathy for Somali stabber Abdul Razak Ali Artan in a bizarre Facebook post Monday that has since gone viral.
[PJ] You'd think we'd learned our lesson by now, but no. At the Observer, John Schindler writes:
