Dem, Who Groped High School Friend Without Her Consent, Is Running for President

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Well, mark this under not shocking. Those close to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said they were told by him that he was running for president. This was expected. The New Jersey Democrat planned to make it official during Black History Month, which starts today. This morning, as Leah noted, Booker formally announced that he was running. So, here’s to you, roamin’ hands Spartacus…I’ll get to that in a second. Yesterday, there was a lot of buzz that news of Bookers’ 2020 run would be coming soon (via The Hill):

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Thursday began calling members of Congress informing them he is running for president and is quietly making overtures to members for support, three congressional sources told The Hill.

“Yes, he is reaching out to members for their support,” said a former Democratic aide with direct knowledge of Booker’s intentions. “He’s going to do it during Black History Month,” which starts on Friday.

Now, Bernie Sanders is looking to mount another White House run, but he’s being criticized for how his 2016 campaign operated concerning the human resources department. It was reportedly a den of sexism and sexual harassment. For Booker, well, he straight up admitted to groping a high school friend without her consent. He detailed it in his school’s newspaper.

This story was unearthed during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings, where Democrats put on a great show of theatrics, smearing a qualified candidate for no other reason other than they didn’t like Kavanaugh or Trump for nominating him. It was a character assassination, but in the end, Kavanaugh persisted. (Read more from “Dem, Who Groped High School Friend Without Her Consent, Is Running for President” HERE)

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One Shutdown Is Over but Another One Is in the Near Future

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Honestly, I wish he had maintained the shutdown until Democrats felt the heat and started seeing the light. Of course, I am not one of the 800,000 furloughed federal employees. It’s not fun not to take in a paycheck, to wonder how you are going to pay the rent. I have worked without getting paid in the past. At first, I was tempted to quit right away. Fortunately, I held my peace and backpay came my way. I am sure well-meaning people who work for the Feds are glad that they can be fed and feed their families.

Still, the federal government employs too many people. A cursory list of the furloughed federal workers from US Senator Pat Leahy reveals 3,600 weather forecasters. I can watch Fake News to get the real scoop on the weather. How about laying off the 52,000 IRS employees and abolishing the federal income tax, too? They’ve been on everyone else’s phones and monitoring their emails. It’s time for them to get real jobs and stop living off our tax dollars (literally and figuratively).

Last week, libertarian conservative John Stossel showcased the power of the people, the individual American citizens who picked up their own trash (and other people’s). The TSA should be privatized ASAP. Better yet, why even have them, since some studies suggest that their invasive searches into our luggage—and our bodies—is not that effective. Israel has two walls, but they don’t have their own version of the TSA. Can we switch with them? . . .

The Democratic Party is not going to sign off on any compromise which will undermine their future. President Trump needs to get work and realize that there is no “Art of the Deal” to fix this Washington crisis. Abraham Lincoln didn’t make a deal with Democrats during the Civil War. They either had to accept the results of Election 1860 or leave the country. Besides, he had compromised during his first campaign, stating that he would not abolish slavery, but stop its spread to further territories.

President Trump has compromised enough. On security of our nation there can be no compromise. Lincoln broke the law by directly appropriating funds from the United States Treasury to ready the Union army. The tens of thousands of Latin American migrants marching toward and crowding around our Southern Border is a national emergency. President Trump, build that wall! Declare a national emergency, and spare no expense to secure the homeland! (Read more from “One Shutdown Is Over but Another One Is in the Near Future” HERE)

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Delete Facebook: Study Reveals Facebook Users Are Happier After Leaving for a Month

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You’ve no doubt heard anecdotal evidence of Facebook users feeling better after they’ve quit the social network, but how often does that help, really? A fair amount, according to researchers. A study from New York University and Stanford showed that Facebook users were happier, more satisfied with life and slightly less likely to feel anxious, depressed or lonely. They also used other social networks less, and used Facebook less when they came back. . .

This doesn’t necessarily mean that you should rush to delete your account — as TechCrunch observed, there are some factors to consider. This is self-reported data, so there’s a chance this doesn’t represent the subjects’ complete emotional landscape. It’s unclear what would happen if the break were longer, for that matter. Also, the researchers conducted this study ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, right when political tensions were high. It might have been more enjoyable to leave Facebook simply because it helped users avoid heated debates and rhetoric. (Read more from “Delete Facebook: Study Reveals Facebook Users Are Happier After Leaving for a Month” HERE)

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Meet Washington’s Plastic Straw Cop

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With all the municipal governments banning the use of plastic straws, somebody has to be the guy that enforces it. In our nation’s capital, that man is Zach Rybarczyk, an inspector for the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment, who goes from restaurant to restaurant issuing notices to any violators, reports the Anchorage Daily News.

Rybarczyk described his recent patrol of D.C.’s Union Station food court, where one violator, the Chinese restaurant Lotus Express, was issued a warning: Should the restaurant fail to eliminate their stash of plastic straws, they would be fined up to $800.

“At Lotus Express, the inspector, one of three dispatched by the city to check cafeterias, bars and restaurants, scribbled the restaurant’s name on the paper sleeve of the plastic straw and tucked it into his back pocket, along with two others from scofflaw restaurants,” reports the Anchorage Daily News. “He planned to later check whether they floated in water, another telltale sign of prohibited plastic.”

Julie Lawson, director of D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s Office of the Clean City, told the Anchorage Daily News that plastic straws will soon become as socially unacceptable as tobacco.

“It’s pretty absurd the amount of resources we put into creating plastic materials that we are using for five minutes to an hour, and then never again,” said Lawson. “Single-use plastics are taking the same cultural place as tobacco, where it’s socially unacceptable.” (Read more from “Meet Washington’s Plastic Straw Cop” HERE)

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HORROR: Mother Found Guilty of Mutilating 3-Year-Old Daughter’s Genitals

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On Friday, a Ugandan migrant living in London was found guilty of mutilating her 3-year-old daughter’s genitals, a sexist practice meant to tame females’ sexuality common in some Muslim-majority countries in Africa and the Middle East.

The 37-year-old mom became the first in the U.K. to be convicted of female genital mutilation (FGM). According to the New York Times, the victim’s father, 43, was cleared of all charges. . .

The little girl was “deliberately cut and her injuries amounted to F.G.M.,” according to prosecutors. Medical experts refuted the mother’s claim that the girl’s injuries were from a fall onto a metal line cupboard door in the kitchen . . .

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that is estimated that “more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation in the countries where the practice is concentrated.” The practice “has been documented in 30 countries, mainly in Africa, as well as in the Middle East and Asia.”

The United Kingdom is flush with migrants. In 2017, for example, London absorbed 3.4 million foreign-born people, according to Oxford University’s Migration Observatory. The city’s first FGM case follows a series of other assimilation-related problems increasingly plaguing the city, including an onslaught of acid attacks – over 1,800 reports of such a crime since 2010. Notably, as reported by the BBC, “Since 2014 about 74% of investigations have been wound down due to problems with identifying perpetrators, or victims being unwilling to press charges.” (Read more from “HORROR: Mother Found Guilty of Mutilating 3-Year-Old Daughter’s Genitals” HERE)

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It’s Time for Pro-Lifers to Realize They’re Losing

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When is it time to question the power of the pro-life movement? This week the state of New York passed a law that will mean babies can be killed up to the moment of birth. Babies that feel pain, cry, and could easily survive outside the womb will be brutally killed, chopped up, and sucked out like pieces of meat. Vermont is considering a similar bill. So is Virginia.

Meanwhile, the annual March for Life had a huge turnout this year, estimated to be as high as 300,000 people. How do these two things go together? Perhaps big marches are not a sign of success.

A New York book store owner, who became somewhat famous after he shut down his store in protest of the new abortion law, put it this way: “When intense pro-life involvement is defined by going to an annual pep rally or giving five bucks to a pro-life lobbyist at a Sanctity of Life Sunday, it’s not surprising that someone hanging a sign in his window, turning off the lights and going home is viewed as heroic.”

The pro-life movement has too much bark and no bite, too much signal and too little virtue. It takes participation in a march as more significant than legal victories ending abortion. The simple truth is that the pro-life movement is stagnant, dominated by an uncritical and defeatist attitude. It needs some new life.

A friend who worked for a pro-life organization very much in the “the movement” confirms this. He became frustrated that people there ignore the evidence in front of them, and instead show excitement about the size of the marches, acting “as if our country is turning a corner and is getting closer and closer to life.” Meanwhile, they react more strongly to those who challenge their approved legal tactics or rhetoric than they do actual political defeats, as if questioning the success of the movement is some sort of heresy. (Read more from “It’s Time for Pro-Lifers to Realize They’re Losing” HERE)

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Latest Ilhan Omar Interview Adds Weight to Charges She’s Anti-Jew

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In a recent interview with Yahoo News, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) revealed both an astonishing ignorance about American foreign policy and renewed questions about her anti-Semitism, which at this point appears increasingly probable. Yahoo asked Omar, “How can America work productively towards a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians?”

Omar responded, “By having an equal approach to both. Most of the things that have always been aggravating to me is that we have had a policy that makes one superior to the other and we mask it with a conversation that’s about justice and a two-state solution when you have policies that clearly prioritize one over the other.”

When asked to provide examples of such policies, Omar responded, “Our relationship really, with the Israeli government and the Israeli state. And so when I see Israel institute, um, law that recognizes it as a Jewish state and does not recognize, um, the other religions that are living in it and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East, I almost chuckle because I know that if, you know, we see that in any other society we would criticize it, or any other place that sort of upholds its religion. And I see that now happening with Saudi Arabia. And so I am aggravated truly in those contradictions.”

Omar’s answer was predictably starved of reason and facts. Shrouded as a mere critique of Israel, the primary thrust of Omar’s response was that the country’s existence as both a Jewish state and a democracy is problematic, if not impossible; that the U.S.-Israeli alliance harms relations between Muslims and the United States; and that the state of Israel is comparable to Iran, the world’s largest state-sponsor of terror.

It would be easy and perhaps forgiving task to chalk such commentary up to simple ignorance. However, given Omar’s past comments regarding the Jewish state, to dismiss her most recent insights as merely uninformed gibberish would evince a repeated failure to condemn what can only be anti-Semitism. (Read more from “Latest Ilhan Omar Interview Adds Weight to Charges She’s Anti-Jew” HERE)

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New Mexico Under Attack: Yes, the Border Crisis Is a Real Invasion

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If a picture is worth 1,000 words, this table from CBP of border apprehensions broken down by sector is worth 1,866:

As you can see, although the surge of family units has exploded in almost every sector of the border for the first few months of fiscal year 2019, nowhere is this surge more evident than in the El Paso sector, which lies along the borders of both Texas and New Mexico. What has been a relatively dormant sector for many years is now the second largest alien-smuggling corridor behind the Rio Grande Valley, even surpassing San Diego, Tucson, and Yuma. This sector also experienced the sharpest increase in unaccompanied teens, five times greater than the increase in San Diego. That number is beyond staggering, and more than any other data point, it encapsulates the unprecedented degree of emergency at our border. There are many lessons from what we are seeing in this sector.

Where exactly is the surge within the El Paso sector? Going from east to west, this Border Patrol sector includes Hudspeth and El Paso Counties in Texas and the three border counties in New Mexico – Doña Ana, Luna, and Hidalgo. At first glance, the numbers are surprising, given that El Paso has a substantial border wall that has been effective for many years. That wall goes all the way out to parts of Hudspeth county. While I have been unable to obtain any definitive data on the number of apprehensions in the El Paso urban area, it is quite clear from the reality on the ground that most of the emergency levels of infiltrations are occurring in New Mexico. There is almost no substantial fencing anywhere in those three New Mexico counties as strong as the fences in Yuma and El Paso.

Based on statements from CBP, local officials and ranchers, and local media, it seems clear that Hidalgo County, the westernmost county, is experiencing the worst of the invasion.

26 groups of 100 or more people have been shoved by the cartels at the border agents at or near the Antelope Wells port of entry in Hidalgo County since the beginning of the fiscal year. Just last week, a group of 306 migrants was apprehended, many of whom were experiencing health problems, including one man who was diagnosed with a flesh-eating bacteria. Bizarrely, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported this week that rates of syphilis and gonorrhea have skyrocketed in New Mexico, but leaves the source of the problem as “the million dollar question.”

The Washington Examiner interviewed the local emergency medical director in Hidalgo, who has a tiny team of professionals who are now strained with dealing with diseases of illegal aliens rather than their own county’s needs.
He said there is an “ongoing” issue with scabies at the local Border Patrol station in Lordsburg. The county manager, Tisha Green, is quoted as suggesting that “the biggest concern” is the “fact that they don’t vaccinate.” She heard that “a good 20 of the immigrants walked in with Border Patrol and all of the local residents that were there waiting for appointments were kind of pushed to the side and several of the people got up and left because they didn’t want to be around any type of illness they could be bringing in.”

The strain of an invasion of impoverished, disease-ridden migrants into a county of 5,000 people with no services is bad enough. But what else happens when these migrants come, or more accurately said, are strategically pushed forward by the smugglers? “Every time we hear that asylum seekers have turned themselves in, when it’s 100 people or more, they’re pulling the Border Patrol off the road,” said Amanda Adame, a local rancher, in an interview with the Los Cruces Sun-News. “So the drug cartels are coming in. The Border Patrol is not catching them. Those guys are the bad guys.”

KOAT Albuquerque reports that some of the illegal immigrants have broken into barns, trucks, and homes and have left drugs on the properties. KOB reported the following from ranchers:
“We’ve had vehicles stolen,” said Randy Massey.

“They’ve had bundles of weed, coke and carrying heavy artillery,” said Cammi Moore.

“The worst part of it, we had an employee kidnapped. And that was probably the worst night of my entire life until we got him back,’ said [Tricia] Elrock.

“It’s getting to the point where these confrontations are getting more aggressive and more and more violent,” said Kris Massey.

Hidalgo County has just 5,000 people living in a huge geographical space with few funds for public services. It only has four sheriff’s deputies. That is enough to deal with the residents’ needs, because they don’t have much internal crime. But they face an external invasion, which they rely on the Border Patrol to deter. The growing problem is that the cartels tie down the border agents with bogus asylum claims and force them to act as a hospital service while the cartels bring the criminals and drugs into these neighborhoods and properties. As the Silver City Daily Press reported, “While the few agents available are attending to the issues of those arriving, smugglers are trafficking drugs into the country. The Border Patrol posted a video of a large group of people climbing over the low Normandy barrier fence on the border in that remote area and into the U.S.”

Thus, they have nothing at the border but Normandy vehicle barriers and barbed wire that can easily be crossed. No major military presence (except for a contingent of the National Guard that the governor wants to pull), and just four certified deputies to deal with 3,446 square miles of land. With the cartels tying down the few agents with the wave of asylum seekers, it’s no wonder they turned Hidalgo County into their playground.

Isn’t this why we have a military, to deter such an invasion, where brutal cartels have operational control of our border to the point where they can strategically choose which areas to inundate? Don’t we owe it to the people of Hidalgo County that not one inch of their land should be vulnerable to the brutal terrorist cartels and their evil criminal behavior? Do we really need it to get worse before we act?

Earlier this week, Sheriff Mark Dannels of neighboring Cochise County, Arizona, appeared on my podcast, and he said, in contrast to New Mexico, that his county has never been better. He has the resources and the willpower from local officials to prosecute everyone, including juveniles, for drug trafficking. The cartels know to avoid his county. This is why the Sinaloa Cartel is driving all the migration either to the east of Cochise, into New Mexico, or to the west in Tucson and Yuma.

What are the results? Here’s a rancher quoted in the Santa Fe New Mexican:

“I’m scared for my life and I’m scared for my kids’ lives. Who knows what’s coming across? They don’t know what’s coming in because they’re not catching them. I feel that the biggest thing I should be scared of out here in the middle of nowhere are rattlesnakes, not two-legged rattlesnakes.”

Indeed, Tuesday evening, Border Patrol apprehended four illegal aliens near the border in the southern part of the county carrying marijuana packages and dressed in camouflage and special footwear to mask their footprints.

On December 26, the county manager and county commissioners in Hidalgo County sent a letter to the governor and senators saying they were in “dire need of resources and reinforcements” because the Border Patrol is “stretched thin” thanks to “the amount of immigrants coming in daily.” They recounted the safety concerns of their citizens, who see “up to 30 or more immigrants daily in their yards.” They also warn about the way the illegals are using the porta-potties, leaving a pile of used toilet paper out in the open. “The smell is horrific and the thought of any type of disease that many now be exposed.”

Amazingly, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a liberal Democrat, suggested that she hasn’t “seen anything that indicates that we have an emergency crisis here at the border.” A 1,866 percent increase in family units from impoverished and disease-stricken nations in 26 groups of 100 or more is evidently a walk in the park to Grisham. When KOB4 news sent the governor’s office the concerns of border ranchers in the county who thought it was “asinine” to suggest there is no crisis, the governor’s office responded:

“There is not an emergency crisis at the border that warrants the asinine and anti-American anti-immigration tactics endorsed by the president and his minions; that’s the proper context for the governor’s remarks, and the full story of what she was expressing.”

Have things gotten this political that one side is willing to ignore their own citizens’ plea for help from an external invasion, the very reason why we have a government?

Either we have a country where every state and county matters, or we don’t. (For more from the author of “New Mexico Under Attack: Yes, the Border Crisis Is a Real Invasion” please click HERE)

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The Dossier: The Case to Skip the Taliban ‘Peace Deal’ and Withdraw From Afghanistan ASAP

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. . .President Trump took to Twitter this morning to highlight the long wars in Afghanistan in Syria, stressing the need to bring American troops back home.

“I inherited a total mess in Syria and Afghanistan, the ‘Endless Wars’ of unlimited spending and death. During my campaign I said, very strongly, that these wars must finally end. We spend $50 Billion a year in Afghanistan and have hit them so hard that we are now talking peace…” the president tweeted.

“….after 18 long years. Syria was loaded with ISIS until I came along. We will soon have destroyed 100% of the Caliphate, but will be watching them closely. It is now time to start coming home and, after many years, spending our money wisely. Certain people must get smart!” he added.

It’s refreshing to see that President Trump is ready to draw down troops from places where there are few to no U.S. interests and where U.S. cash is being burnt away to the tune of tens of billions of dollars per year.

When he mentions “talking peace,” the president is referring to the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban and the central government in Kabul. The misguided idea of peace negotiations with a terrorist group has mostly been pushed by senior bureaucrats in the State Department and Pentagon and the Taliban’s hosts in Qatar. It’s a fool’s errand to negotiate peace with the Taliban, given that it is a full-fledged jihadi group with one goal in mind: to take over Afghanistan by any means necessary. They are not to be trusted. The president should skip negotiating a peace deal that is sure to fail. The Taliban has all the momentum. This reality is unfortunate for the people of Afghanistan, but in order to counter this momentum, the United States would need to deploy countless soldiers in harm’s way, sacrificing American troops for the interests of Afghans. These “peace talks” are not worth being held responsible for the aftermath of a U.S. withdrawal. Instead of negotiating our withdrawal, President Trump should simply prioritize the safety and security of American troops and depart Afghanistan as soon as possible. As I have written about at length at Conservative Review, there is no longer an American interest in deploying troops to Afghanistan. U.S. soldier casualty counts continue to escalate, leaving America’s bravest in harm’s way for no good reason. (For more from the author of “The Dossier: The Case to Skip the Taliban ‘Peace Deal’ and Withdraw From Afghanistan ASAP” please click HERE)

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Congressman Releases Disgusting Anti-Semetic Voicemail Left for Him

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Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York tweeted out an anti-Semitic voicemail left on his office phone Thursday afternoon. He tagged Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in the tweet, as the two of them have recently fought over their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The caller said in part:

Everybody’s anti-Semitic when it comes to talking about you people who have murdered black people, systematically enslaved them. You’re occupying the Palestinian region. You’re worse than Hitler. You maggots and bloodsuckers. Get the hell out of Israel and take your a** on back to Europe. I get sick of you calling people anti-Semitic when they’re not. I’m calling you a hater of the Palestinians. You stop murdering them and maybe people will look at you like you’re decent people. Right now you’re nothing but animals. You know Hitler told you that right? You got my phone number, you got my zip code. You come after me if you want. I don’t give a f*** cause I hate you people for what you did to us as black people and I wish Hitler would have done his f***ing job.

“We got calls like this all day long today and many were worse than what was in that voicemail. I went through K-12, college, law school, and 4 years on active duty in the Army and I never once experienced anti-Semitism,” Congressman Zeldin told The Daily Caller. “In the last several years though this anti-Israel, anti-Semitic hatred is only increasing in American politics, on college campuses, and in the halls of Congress.”

[Warning: voicemail contains extreme language]

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