As this post goes live, there are lots of rumors of some sort of “deal” between Democrat and Republican “moderates” to end the government funding impasse.
The Democrats, and particularly Chuck Schumer, have talked themselves into a dead end of seeming to put the interests of illegal aliens ahead of U.S. citizens....
We are now in Day 2 of the government shutdown, and things are not moving favorably for the Democrats, and they know it.
One sign may be that some leading Democrats are talking about capitulating on funding a wall on the Mexican border.
The Wall is symbolic in many ways.
Several readers have emailed me an article in The Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren’s Native American problem goes beyond politics. It’s worth a read, and *relatively* balanced for The Globe.
One of the readers wrote:
Donald Trump’s announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and ordering preparations to commence to relocate the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv, did not lead to the widespread violence that critics predicted. It has, however, caused the Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas to lay bare his decades old anti-Semitism in a recent...
UPDATE: A cloture vote to end debate in the Senate on the funding bill passed by the House failed. So we’re heading to “shutdown” unless there is a last minute deal reached.
As a reminder of how Obama weaponized the 2013 shutdown, see my post Flashback to when Obama weaponized 2013 government shutdown.
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The Supreme Court granted certiorari in the government’s appeal from the 9th Circuit/Hawaii District Court order regarding Travel Order No. 3.
The Supreme Court Order accepting the case for review stated:
It’s unclear at this point whether there will be a short-term budget deal, or a government “shutdown.” Despite the drama, a shutdown is not really a shut down. Essential services continue.
It’s more of a scale-back, and the government has a lot of discretion as to what gets scaled back. In a...
During the 2017 Women’s March on Washington and follow up Women’s Strike, anti-Israel activists attempted to hijack the movement.
Anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour attempted to steer the movement against Israel, and the Women’s Strike was co-organized by and honored convicted supermarket bomber murderer (and immigration fraudster) Rasmea Odeh.
The government just filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari Before Judgment (full embed at bottom of post)(pdf.) in the Supreme Court seeking pre-judgement review of the federal District Court order preventing the Trump administration from terminating DACA.
That District Court decision was absurd, as pointed out when we covered the decision,
The House of Representatives just approved a short term continuing spending bill to keep the government fully funded until mid-February.
The vote was 230-197. 11 Republicans voted no. 5 Democrats voted yes
It now moves on to the Senate, where Democrats say they have the votes to stop the funding, and at...
We covered the other day how North Carolina was ordered to redo it’s congressional maps, Court Tells North Carolina to Redraw Congressional Lines by Next Week.
The Supreme Court just issued a Stay of that order.
We long have complained about the slow pace of judicial nominees due to Democrat stalling tactics.
Despite the fact that a record number (12) of appeals court nominees were confirmed last year, there remained a serious backlog to fill over 100 vacancies.
The Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee just voted 12-11, on a straight party line vote, to advance the nomination of Kenneth Marcus to become Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education, the press office of Chair Lamar Alexander has confirmed. The vote took place after...
Donald Trump promised Fake News Awards.
Tonight he and the GOP delivered, The Highly-Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards
The GOP website crashed from the demand (an archived link is here).
Things look glum for Republicans in 2018, if you listen to the left and right punditry.
The generic ballot sways heavily towards Democrats, Democrats did well in Virginia, and the Alabama Democrat win is claimed to be a precursor of things to come despite the unique circumstances of Republican Roy...
Iran’s Mullah regime is not only a state sponsor of terrorism, it is a terrorist regime that targets, directly and through others, not only Israelis but Jewish institutions.
Iranians were involved in the bombing of the Buenos Airies...
Every single crime committed by an illegal alien is a crime that never should have happened here, because the perpetrator should not have been in the country. So you can disregard purported statistics, which are highly questionable to begin with, asserting that people in the country illegally have lower crime rates.
The...
