[American Thinker] A study by City.com reveals that the crime rate in Phoenix dropped dramatically after the city dropped its sanctuary city policies.
There are many reason why crime rates decline over a certain period of time. But the study suggests a provacative link between fewer criminal illegal aliens roaming the streets and a falling crime rate.
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Push them into the remaining sanctuary cities. One at a time, those sanctuaries will give up, further concentrating illegals in those that refuse to give up. Repeat as necessary until only southern California remains, then push it off into the Pacific ocean.
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Fewer illegals? More likely the Coyotes relocated their bases to safer territory and with them leaving the Mob-related crime statistics naturally dropped.
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The first phase reduced the number of illegals in Arizona overall. The flow of gangs from Mexico, who came in for specific 'jobs' and then mostly left, remained the same. The dropping of sanctuary city status in Phoenix in 2008 was the second phase.
[USA Today] Since my son is about to start basic training with the U.S. Marine Corps, I have been thinking lately about honor, courage and commitment -- the core values of the Marines. Citizen soldiers have fought for freedom and democracy since April 1775, when the local Massachusetts militias first confronted the most feared army of its day at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Few could have imagined that a rag-tag army of irregulars and citizen soldiers could bring the British Empire to its knees and win independence for this fledgling democracy. Even more astonishing is the fact that 242 years later, the Republic has not only survived, but it has become the greatest and most powerful nation on earth.
Like several generations of his forefathers who have served their country before him, my son will soon raise his right hand along with many other patriotic young men and women, and solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same. They will come from all backgrounds, races, colors and creeds, but the one thing they have in common is a devotion to their country and a willingness to fight and -- if necessary -- die for it.
Unfortunately, the spirit of public service and self-sacrifice appears to be waning. Few of my son’s classmates seem to be attracted to government service, such as the Peace Corp or VISTA, and almost none are signing up for military service.
I am saddened, but not surprised. How can we expect our younger generation to follow the call of honor, duty and dedication to the common good when they can plainly see that our country’s elected leaders are driven more by craven self-interest and egotism?
Our young men and women must be deeply concerned about the direction in which our country is going. Is it still worth fighting and dying for? They must have some doubts.
The gulf between the very rich and the rest of us in America has widened over the past several decades. More and more Americans are struggling to make ends meet, and as they see the American dream rapidly fading, they are increasingly turning in despair and desperation to alcohol and opiates. No longer is a good education and hard work a sure ticket to participation in the American dream. The only guarantee now is that you will be paying off your student loans for the rest of your working life.
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With the libs controlling the education system and God and the Pledge kicked out of the schools no wonder. Many don't know civics nor the proud history of America as it isn't being taught. I pray that Trump is able to turn this around. God bless our military for their honor, courage and commitment to our country.
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Eight years of President Obama's loathing and misuse of the military has had an effect. President Trump has only been in office a few months, and the traditional media have been ignoring his successes as hard as they can the entire time. But as the stories come out despite them, the attitude will change.
I just read yesterday that the first of the post-Millennial generation was able to vote last Novemer, and they went for Trump. The article described the rising generation as considerably more conservative than their elders, habitually church-going, frugal, patriotic...and accustomed to the idea of being at war. They are also just reaching the age when they can volunteer, and won't have been warned away from the career by their elders who served, as so many of those at the tail end of the Millennials have been, these past eight years.
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Eight years of President Obama's loathing and misuse of the military has had an effect.
Only good for photo opportunity. To understand the Left, they perceive the military as nothing more than mercenaries. Which is why they don't understand that the military will NOT follow them to the man in a coup or a suppression of the country. There would be some but I expect any such act would sunder the institution rather quickly.
It's rather old by now like me, but a study during my time showed there were lots of competing reasons for enlisting. No one was overwhelming. However, when it came to the first reenlistment and on, patriotism jumped up the list. It's part of the spirit of the tribe, which ever one you picked.
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We have the good fortune to live in the greatest country in the world. Happy Fourth of July, the Day the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia proclaiming the independence and sovereignty of the thirteen colonies from the kingdom of Great Britain.
What would you call it? "Happy Fireworks Day"? "Happy grilled hamburger and hotdog day"? Happy let's be a liberal and "Ignore the meaning of Independence Day"?
Oh wait, since you're not an American, I guess you would call it "Happy death to America Day"?
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Iggy, I don't know the 'Burgers personally, but I've lurked here quite a bit, for quite a while. Trust me, they're on this. You're heckling Cagney playing Cohan singing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" for saying "born on the 4th of July" instead of "born on Independence Day." Happy whichever, though!
[National Review] Europeans are realizing that their immigration policy is unsustainable.
The migration crisis that has been central to the European political drama since 2014 is rapidly changing. You can see signs of change everywhere, from subtle intensifications of bureaucratic language to an increasing frankness about what the migration crisis has done to Europe’s nations and societies.
It also shows up in the numbers. The overall rate of migration into Europe is starting to decline, but the number of migrants who are dying in their attempt is going up. But you can see it most of all in the willingness of European leaders to tell the truth.
Just in the past ten days, you can see a shift. European Council president Donald Tusk admitted that most of the people coming in have no right to do so: "In most of the cases, and that is actually the case on the central Mediterranean route, we’re talking clearly and manifestly about economic migrants." He added, "They get to Europe illegally, they do not have any documents which would allow them to enter the European soil."
In other words, these primarily aren’t refugees fleeing war, they’re economic migrants, who are coming in to countries along the southern Mediterranean that already suffer massive unemployment. The reality is sinking in within the member states as well. Aydan Ozoguz,
... who has a very Turkish name...
the German commissioner for immigration, refugees, and integration, admitted this week that three-quarters of the refugees Germany took in recently will still be unemployed in five years.
[Gates of Vienna] The German anti-Islamization activist Tatjana Festerling has appeared in this space a number of times in the past, first when she spoke at PEGIDA rallies, and then later when she launched Fortress Europe.
The following interview with Ms. Festerling was recorded in Poland. Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation (both Polish and German), and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
[Townhall] For most Americans, Independence Day means firecrackers and cookouts. The Declaration of Independence--whose proclamation, on July 4, 1776, we celebrate--doesn't feature. Contemporary Americans are less likely to read it now that it’s easily available on the Internet, than when it relied on horseback riders for its distribution.
It is fair to say that the Declaration of Independence has been mocked out of meaning.
Back in 1776, gallopers carried the Declaration through the country. Printer John Dunlap had worked "through the night" to set the full text on "a handsome folio sheet," recounts historian David Hackett Fischer in Liberty And Freedom. And the president of the Continental Congress, John Hancock, urged that the "people be universally informed." (They were!)
Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration, called it "an expression of the American Mind." An examination of Jefferson's constitutional thought makes plain that he would no longer consider the collective mentality of contemporary Americans and their leaders (Rep. Ron Paul excepted) "American" in any meaningful way. For the Jeffersonian mind was that of an avowed Whig--an American Whig whose roots were in the English, Whig political philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Come to think of it, Jefferson would not recognize England as the home of the Whigs in whose writings colonial Americans were steeped--John Locke, Algernon Sidney, Paul Rapin, Thomas Gordon and others.
The essence of this "pattern of ideas and attitudes," almost completely lost today, explains David N. Mayer in The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson, was a view of government as an inherent threat to liberty and the necessity for eternal vigilance.
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It is fair to say that the Declaration of Independence has been mocked out of meaning.
Maybe, but I think there are many patriots within the country who value the principles of the Founders. The founders and signers of the Declaration of Independence showed much courage. There was great risk in doing what they did. "In doing so, they knew the signers were inviting a declaration of war by England. They knew that, they would be deemed traitors, they would be possibly forfeiting all their possessions and maybe their lives to the crown. In signing the document, they were putting bounties on their own heads.
How many would be willing to forfeit everything today if push came to shove. Today, the threats appear to be more from within than from without.
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Things you may or may not know about the 4th:
1. Only two people actually signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson, secretary of Congress. Most of the other signers did so on August 2nd.
2. There were disagreements about when to actually celebrate our nation’s independence. John Adams advocated for a celebration on July 2nd, which was the day Congress actually voted for independence.
3. Three U.S. presidents died on the Fourth of July. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe. Ironically, Adams and Jefferson both died on the holiday in 1826, which was the 50th anniversary of the independent United States.
4. In 1778, George Washington chose to celebrate the holiday with his soldiers by ordering a double ration of rum.
5. Break out the grill, you wont be the only one! Americans eat around 155 million hot dogs on the fourth every single year. We also spend $92 million on chips, $167.5 million on watermelon, and $341.4 million on beer.
The Horn News. https://thehornnews.com/5-little-known-fourth-july-facts-will-leave-shocked/
Seems like booze was and is an important part of celebrations of the 4th.
[AmGreatness] Trump’s strongest supporters are sometimes the most anxious critics of his tweeting--not because his is a failing presidency bordering on caricature, but because it is adroitly unwinding the Obama transformation. But why, then, the need to go after failed media has-beens without an audience?
Of course, tweeting commentary and news over the heads of a corrupt Washington media pack is innovative and wise--and to some degree got Trump where he is today by reinventing communications with the public. But burning time ridiculing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s failed "Celebrity Apprentice" gambit or, more recently, the psychodramas and daily inanities of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski seems a misspent investment of energy.
Yet that said, there are lots of uncertainties about consequences of the latest round of Trump’s seemingly counterproductive tweets, right on the eve of the most important legislative challenges, health care and tax reform, of his young presidency--and at a time when he is regaining momentum, successfully engaging world leaders and issuing executive orders that are overturning the prior eight years of "fundamental transformation" of the country.
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So difficult to find unusual amusements for an important dinner party, my dears. Such guests are so easily bored by anything approaching the commonplace.
[Haaretz] One morning in April 2007 journalist Sacha Batthyany was approached by an elderly colleague at the Swiss daily where they both worked at the time.
The colleague waved a newspaper clipping in front of him. It was an investigative report entitled, “The Hostess from Hell,” published by a German daily.
Glancing at the headline, Batthyany didn’t understand why he was being shown this article, but then he looked at the picture of the hostess and recognized it immediately. It was Margit, his father’s aunt —someone to whom the family demonstrated the utmost respect and also around whom they tended to tread carefully.
So he started to read the piece. In March 1945, it said, just before the end of World War II, Margit held a large party in the town of Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border to fete her Nazi friends. She, the daughter and heiress of European baron and tycoon Heinrich Thyssen, and her friends drank and danced the night away.
At the height of the evening, just for fun, 12 of the guests boarded trucks or walked to a nearby field, where 180 Jewish slave laborers who had been building fortifications were assembled. They had already been forced to dig a large pit, strip, and get down on their knees. The guests took turns shooting them to death before returning to the party. The organizer of this operation was Margit’s lover Hans Joachim Oldenberg. Margit’s husband, Count Ivan Batthyany, Sacha’s grandfather’s brother, was also at the party.
It was the first time that Batthyany, then 34, had heard about this incident. He was shocked. “Let’s set aside that it was my aunt,” said Batthyany, who visited Israel last week as a guest of the Jerusalem Book Fair. “It’s just an incredible, brutal story of this night. I mean, I know there are hundreds and thousands of other [violent stories] from the war — I don’t want to compare, but if you read what happened that night it is just unbelievable.” Full story at the link
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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