[NR] Representative Mo Brooks (R., Ala.) was unmoved by a humanitarian appeal to open America’s southern border to a caravan of Central American asylum seekers Friday.
"There are literally billions of people who could make that same kind of argument," Brooks said on CNN’s New Day Friday morning when asked if the would-be immigrants should qualify for asylum in the U.S.
Brooks cited fiscal concerns in defending his position, pointing out that a number of federal agencies have warned of impending insolvency should the federal government continue to spend at current levels.
[Daily Caller] A memorandum signed by President Trump on Friday could be the beginning of the end for America’s longstanding "catch and release" policy at the border.
The memo gives the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies 45 days to detail "all measures that their respective departments have pursued or are pursuing to expeditiously end ’catch and release’ practices," according to The Hill.
In addition to other measures, the departments are also supposed to provide "a detailed list of all existing facilities, including military facilities, that could be used, modified, or repurposed to detain aliens for violations of immigration law at or near the borders of the United States."
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have also been directed to identify additional means "that may be needed to expeditiously end ’catch and release’ practices."
The practice allowed captured illegal immigrants to be released from custody until their court date. "Catch and release" has been sharply criticized by President Trump and others because many illegals often don’t appear for their court dates.
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...When the Previous Occupant made his comment about having a pen and a phone, he and his legions of followers forgot that if he could do it, somebody else could too.
Mike
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[PJ] Planned Parenthood, an organization that receives hundreds of millions of federal dollars every year, has teamed up with MTV on a website called It's Your (Sex) Life, where they claim to offer comprehensive information on sex to teens. Considering Planned Parenthood's record of giving terrible and dangerous advice to minors, I tested it out by posing as a 15-year-old girl on their "chat with an expert page," asking if anal sex is safe.
This is the conversation I had with Planned Parenthood.
[Townhall] Planning for a show-down, a column of 1,500 Central Americans, largely from Honduras, has been beating a path to the Mexican-American border.
Some report that the column has been halted; others dispute that. Interviewed by Reuters in Mexico, a sojourning mother of seven‐what are the chances none is an MS13 gangster?‐signaled her intention to proceed to the US, if only to teach President Trump a lesson.
Yes, "Make America Great Again" to you, too, Colindres Ortega.
Organizers and participants in this farce aim, very plainly, to publicly demonstrate that the US doesn’t have borders. Led by anti-American agitators, the procession catalyzed the urgency of action to stop an ongoing invasion.
Whether it arrives or not, the caravan is a positive bit of theatre. For one thing, the actors are quite correct. The US doesn’t have borders. For another, the caravan vividly exposes the antagonists in this ongoing tragedy: our overlords in DC. All of them.
To narrow the indictment a tad, note the extent to which the Democrats and their news media have avoided mentioning or covering the caravan. At a time when Democrats are fielding populists like Conor Lamb (who won in Pennsylvania) and former rodeo champion Billie Sutton (he hopes to govern South Dakota)‐the mess on the border damns them like nothing else.
It’s these villains who’ve agreed to laws that permit anyone to arrive at that border, do their Les Misérables act, claim to face a "credible fear" back home, get a court date, and bolt like so many rabbits, to be seen again only at the voting booth, the welfare office, the DMV and at DACA demonstrations. They’re the malcontents holding up signs that read "America is racist."
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Does the CIA looking into matters like the status of this column? Seems to me like that should be their job.
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Notice that Congress has done nothing to help resolve the illegal issue. They do not solve problems. More like obstruction. A bicameral nest of enemies of this country. This is more pure evil.
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WSJ Excerpt:
One of the least discussed parts of America’s income tax is how progressive it is, and the tax overhaul didn’t change that fact. In 2018, top earners will pay a higher share of income taxes.
The individual income tax matters—a lot—because it is the largest single source of U.S. revenue. And its share has risen in recent years. For 2018, it could raise 50% of total federal revenue, according to estimates from Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation, up from about 48% last year.
So who pays what share of this tax?
IRS data aren’t available until long after people file, so estimates for 2017 and 2018 come from the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research group.
They divided about 175 million American households into five income tiers of roughly 65 million people each. The income includes earnings from wages and investments plus untaxed amounts, such as from health coverage. These additions nearly double the income of people in the lowest tier and add about 20% for those in the highest tier.
[Vox] Are search engines making us more racist? A new book shows how Google’s search algorithms quietly reinforce racist stereotypes.
According to Safiya Umoja Noble, a professor of communication at the University of Southern California, the answer is almost certainly yes. Noble's bio is revealing. You'll only need to read the first 50 words or so.
Noble’s new book, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, challenges the idea that search engines like Google provide a level playing field for all ideas, values, and identities. She says they’re inherently discriminatory and favor the groups that designed them, as well as the companies that fund them.
This isn’t a trivial topic, especially in a world where people get more information from search engines than they do from teachers or libraries. For Noble, Google is not just telling people what they want to know but also determining what’s worth knowing in the first place.
I reached out to Noble last week to find out what she had learned about the unseen factors driving these algorithms, and what the consequences of ignoring them might be.
A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.
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Does Safiya realize how racist card catalogues have kept her down all these years?
Safiya holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Fresno with an emphasis on African American/Ethnic Studies.
The shootings in California just a few days ago point out just how hard the national media is pushing for even more gun control. The Iranian individual who committed the act checks all the wrong boxes: female, foreign born, with radical lifestyle views. We continue to hear from the media, however, that warnings were made regarding the shooter's intentions to the FBI.
Due process has to include at least three elements, allowing a governmental entity to seize firearms before any crime has been committed: 1) there has to be a criminal act, 2) there has to be an object of crime (evidence) and 3) there must be a finding of guilt. Red flag laws fail in those three critical areas. A judicial mandarin passing judgement doesn't mean that due process has been met, not even close.
It should be noted that just because a lawyer writes rules permitting the state to seize property and a legislature passes it, calling it due process doesn't make it due process.
Laws are intended to be custodial in nature, not preventative, As I have stated elsewhere, whenever law is applied to prevent a crime, that is the tool of the tyrant. And a tyrant can be a collective of individuals, especially those who insist a collective right supersedes an individual's right to the Blessings of Liberty
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Quarterly ammunition price reports are available below.
In the wake of two large mass shootings, the only ammunition class that has showed any signs of radical change from the previous quarter is the 7.62x39mm AK ammunition, a rifle that was not used in either Parkland, Florida, or in Las Vegas.
AR 5.56x45mm ammunition has remained steady in price, even declining in price from the previous year. Whatever factor external to the manufacturing of ammunition exists, AR ammunition prices have not been affected negatively, and this despite threats from democrats to impose background checks on the purchase of ammunition.
Pistol ammunition prices were mostly steady. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were higher. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q4, 2017: .22 per round, +.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Silver Bear, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks) (From Q4, 2017: .21 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, Reloads .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: East Carolina Trading, FP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 weeks) (From Q4, 2017: .14 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Extreme Reloading, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Fedarm, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017) (From Q4, 2017: .23 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks) (From Q4, 2017: .24 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes Ammo, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Prvi Patizan, RNL, Brass Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017) (From Q4, 2017: .20 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Able's, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 800 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q4, 2017: .32 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .30 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each (From Q4, 2017: .19 per round, -.04 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Classic Firearms, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: True Shot Gun Club, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each )
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks) (From Q4, 2017: .54 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .53 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks) (From Q4, 2017: .81 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .81 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Target Sports USA, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .85 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: +.13 Each (From Q4, 2017: 2.50 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, FMJ, Brass Casing, 2.50 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Cabelas, Prvi Partizan, FMJ, Brass Casing, 2.80 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks) (From Q4, 2017: .04 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammomen, Remington, RNL, Brass Casing, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Armscor, RNL, Brass Casing, .04 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))
[Townhall] President Trump's new trade policy is getting criticized by people who usually rush to his defense. Top Republicans are urging the president to reconsider his tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, in part because of how it will impact American farmers. China is coming for them first with their retaliatory action. In response to Trump's tariffs, China hit U.S. agriculture by placing a 25 percent tariff on imports of U.S. soybeans, airplanes and automobiles.
"The United States should take action to defend its interests when any foreign nation isn’t playing by the rules or refuses to police itself," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said. "But farmers and ranchers shouldn't be expected to bear the brunt of retaliation for the entire country."
"Let's absolutely take on Chinese bad behavior," Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) agrees. "But with a plan that punishes them instead of us. This is the dumbest possible way to do this."
Meanwhile, Democrats are singing his praises. Former Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh wrote a whole op-ed for Fox News explaining the merits of Trump's decision to add tariffs.
[Daily Caller] PETA is calling for Donald Trump Jr. to be deported as part of its "Deport Undesirables" border ad campaign.
In the billboard posted on Twitter Friday, Trump Jr. is pictured holding a knife in one hand with an elephant tail in the other next to artwork that read, "Deport Callous Cheating Opportunists Now!" and "All nations have their undesirables. Kindness welcome."
"PETA says ’Deport Undesirables!’‐like trophy hunter @DonaldJTrumpJr‐ in billboard as #NationalGuard troops are about to be deployed to the U.S.‐Mexico border," PETA tweeted Friday, along with a photo of the billboard.
[AlAhram] The mood in the office of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... is sombre. This old, frail and depressed Paleostinian leader, according to a former Paleostinian official, has been seeing things coming to an end, including the Paleostinian cause as it has been not just from the 1940s to the 1980s, but also since the Madrid Peace Conference in the early 1990s and until the election of current US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... The leader of the Paleostinian Authority (PA), according to visitors, knows that he has been weakened by Paleostinian differences, the confused regional situation, and the international obsession with the issues of terror and migration.
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The Arabs are telling him to take what is being offered because it is better than nothing.
Translation: Take the Hudna, stupid. You can always break the treaty in a totally pious manner when you feel like it.
[IsraelTimes] Images of thousands of Paleostinians massing near the fence between the Gazoo Strip and Israel, coupled with the news that almost 20 young men of fighting age were killed in the March 30 confrontation between Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and the IDF, looks like a public relations nightmare for the Jewish state.
But as bad as the optics are in the short-term, what is unfolding is a win for Israel. What the riots really tell us is that Hamas’ ability to disrupt Jewish national life every two years or so is being degraded. And that is a very good thing.
Hamas, a group that was previously able to terrorize Israelis with suicide kabooms, kidnappings and rocket attacks, is now reduced to staging riots, setting truck tires on fire and getting its young leaders killed in hopeless confrontations with the IDF to generate sympathetic media coverage. News outlets assist Hamas in its PR war, but the fact is, Israelis are increasingly safe from Hamas attacks ‐ and that’s the story that matters.
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[PJ] Kevin D. Williamson left the relatively safe space of National Review for the combative liberal environs of The Atlantic. I'm not sure why he made that move, but he did. He stepped out from the right-of-center media sphere and into the lockstep mainstream sector.
It did not go well for him.
Almost immediately after his hiring was announced, the baying hounds of Leftism wanted blood. So they found a statement from Williamson suggesting that women who get abortions should be hung, as he believes the law should charge abortion as capital murder.
He said it years ago, well before his hiring by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg. Since his hiring, Williamson went fairly dark on social media. He wasn't saying anything, much less anything controversial. None of that mattered, though.
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There is no compromise with the Left, they only accept surrender. The lines are drawn, the bridges are burned. Their minds, like those of the terrorists, are close.
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Uhhh..., you just noticed that leftists are hypocrites?
Like the part about, somebody else has to change what they're doing because everything isn't perfect?
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Notice all the hand wringing by the "conservative" commentariat when it's one of the their own that gets gored?
Yet now the deplorables are all supposed to come to the aid of people who were pissing all over us.
As all Good Little Troo Conservativezomg! should know, rewarding (or failing to punish) bad behavior just leads to more of the same.
Leaping to the defense of the likes of Williamson simply guarantees more cuckservative betrayal.
[PowerLine] On one hand we have foul-mouthed little twerps like David Hogg. On the other hand, we have Americans like Mark Robinson, who showed up at a Greensboro, N.C. city council meeting to protest against efforts by liberals to take away his constitutional rights. Robinson is remarkably eloquent. He sums up some of the essentials of the gun control debate passionately and well:
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.
[PJ] Planned Parenthood, an organization that receives hundreds of millions of federal dollars every year, has teamed up with MTV on a website called It's Your (Sex) Life, where they claim to offer comprehensive information on sex to teens. Considering Planned Parenthood's record of giving terrible and dangerous advice to minors, I tested it out by posing as a 15-year-old girl on their "chat with an expert page," asking if anal sex is safe.
[Vox] Are search engines making us more racist? A new book shows how Google’s search algorithms quietly reinforce racist stereotypes.
[PJ] Kevin D. Williamson left the relatively safe space of National Review for the combative liberal environs of The Atlantic. I'm not sure why he made that move, but he did. He stepped out from the right-of-center media sphere and into the lockstep mainstream sector.
