The Democratic Party is having an identity crisis. For the past couple of months, Democrats have loudly declared protecting so-called DREAMers – children who entered this country illegally when younger than 18 – is their top priority. President Trump has made it clear he will sign a bill that accommodates [sic] these young people, and many Republicans are willing and eager to put together a proposal that does just that. So why hasn’t the Democratic Party gotten it done? The answer is simple: they don’t actually care about DREAMers. Their fixation with these young people is political calculation.On Thursday, not one, not two, but FOUR immigration reform proposals failed to pass the Senate after Trump made it clear he would not sign a bill unless it included funding for a border wall, end “chain migration,” and stopped the visa lottery system. Trump has been very vocal about what he will and won’t sign – it’s not like this is a secret. The leaders of the Democratic Party know what they will have to concede in order to create legal favors for these DREAMers, and they are simply unwilling to do it.
The Trump administration is moving ahead and filling appellate court positions.....this is a huge development that gets very little coverage..........— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 18, 2018
"Bush, on other hand, understands that the only acceptable exit strategy is victory. (If, as Woodward reports, he's been bolstered in that view by Henry Kissinger, then good for Henry. Invite him to the Oval Office more often!)
To that end, Bush should do more. He should send substantially more troops and insist on a change of strategy to allow a real counterinsurgency and prevent civil war.
But at least he's staying and fighting. And the great majority of Republicans are standing with him.
The Democrats, as Bush has put it, "offer nothing but criticism and obstruction, and endless second-guessing. The party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut-and-run."
So there really is a profound difference between the parties, as Democrats are happy to acknowledge, since they think Iraq is a winning issue for them.
The Democratic talking point is this: We're against Bush on Iraq, but we are as resolute as Bush in the real war on terror (understood by them to exclude Iraq).
Except that they're not."
"For years I have contended that today's mass emigration from Mexico to the U.S. is harmful to Mexico. It encourages the Mexican government to export the people rather than solve the problems here in Mexico. It exacerbates family disintegration and social problems. It distorts local economies. For Mexico, emigration is like an addictive drug that encourages Mexicans to escape to the U.S. rather than solve the problems here. There are actually people here in Mexico who agree with me on this point."It's time to force the Mexican government to get over the "border fence" and the victim mode. Instead, it should tear down the many other fences that keep foreign capital and modernity out of Mexico.
"Well, if you turned on cable news at any time since the shooting, it's safe to say you didn't get the news. That's because when it comes to guns, news anchors take off their journalist hats and put on their activist hats. And they do it without shame or disclaimers because they believe righteousness is the same thing as being right.Well said.
"There is a certain irony in all this. Our avant-gardist artistic establishment preens itself on being "transgressive," "challenging," "provocative," etc.Back to the opera. As a rule, I don't like attacks on religion, whether it's my Catholic Church or anything else. Religious leaders and symbols should be respected. However, I am not going to blow up an opera house because they run a show mocking The Virgin Mary. I will show my displeasure by posting on my blog or punishing the advertisers.
But it prefers to exercise its anti-bourgeois animus within the coddled purlieus of bourgeois security.
It has discovered that there is a big difference between exhibiting photographs of Christ on the cross in a bottle of urine or Madonna having herself "crucified" on her current concert tour and poking fun at Muhammad.
The former earns you the delicious obloquy of the Catholic establishment while shoring up your credentials as a brave artistic and moral pioneer.
The latter sends murderous hordes into the streets looking for something, or someone, to destroy."
"When he was 16, Gonzalo Llamas left his home in Zacatecas, Mexico, and illegally crossed the border by paying $20 to use an American citizen's passport.
Though the passport holder was older and balding, Llamas made it across and began his new life cleaning restaurants for $9 a job.
Now 50, Llamas is a U.S. citizen and owns a construction company in San Diego. And he wants the border sealed. The reason? Violent crime."
Saw some students on TV this morning calling for a national march.......unfortunately, one of the students attacked the NRA......You can not have a rational discussion about guns UNTIL the left stops demonizing the NRA......let's focus on protecting students at our schools..— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 18, 2018
In South Texas & Florida, two troubled young men bought guns because the background checks did not include negative information. Before we pass another law to "feel like we're doing something", why don't we make sure that information is updated into the databases.— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 18, 2018
The economy is slowly moving off the table as an issue for Dems in 2018. So it looks like gun control is now the new issue. Is that really going to play in the rural areas where they have to flip districts to win the House? It did not in the past....— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 18, 2018
The best way to shut up Joy Behar is for Christian women to switch channels or turn it off. Stop watching and you’ll see how quickly ABC will get the message.— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 18, 2018