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January 2015

The cat is out of the bag: Rep Jeff Denham tips GOP establishment hand on comprehensive immigration reform

“GOP Retreat: Rep. Jeff Denham Says Party’s Quietly Crafting Broad Immigration Bill”: The GOP’s most outspoken proponent of comprehensive immigration reform let loose in an interview with reporters here, detailing quiet efforts to draft far-reaching legislation, saying House leadership is “committed” to bringing the hot-button topics on the floor and criticizing President Obama for carrying out too many deportations. “We’re the party of deportation? Look at this president’s numbers!” Rep.

The argument over Obama’s “fundamental transformation” is over

If you believe in liberty, which requires individual sovereignty and the eschewing of a powerful centralized authority in a free market economy, then this may be the most important article you’ll read in a long time, evincing as it does the death spiral of free enterprise and the unconscionable, anti-American (in the strictest sense) movement toward a liberal fascist political ruling structure — exacerbated under Obama and helped along by

“Of Course it is Islam” [Darleen Click]

Rich Lowry It is settled: The Paris terror attacks had almost nothing to do with Islam. If there is any doubt about this, consider that on the one hand, you have the chilling new tape of the Charlie Hebdo attackers declaring, “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad,” and on the other, you have the tortured reassurances of White House spokesman Josh Earnest. Which are you going to believe? The Obama

Is desiring a decrease in legal immigration “anti-immigration”?

This is the position of Alex Nowrasteh writing for Cato, who in the course of a useful Twitter exchange tried to convince me that his use of “anti” (see: “Rebuttal of Senator Sessions’ Anti-Immigration Talking Points”) was some accurate hyper-literal label, bracketing the fact that I’m certain he knows it to be fraught with the weight of implied xenophobia, nativism, et al. My response to Mr Nowrasteh was that favoring

D.R. Horton homes and the business of ethics [UPDATED: DR Horton refers us to their counsel; UPDATED again: class action suit?]

Okay, here’s the deal: my wife and I spent a good deal of money on our new home, including requesting lots of “custom” features that we had to have subcontracted out through the builder (spray foam, upgraded insulation, soft close drawers and cabinets, a pocket door in the jack n’ jill bathroom to fix a design flaw in the house, plumbing for the installation of our own upgraded laundry sink,

Hey, what happened to the phrase “I’m not anti-Semitic, I’m just anti-Zionist”? [Darleen Click]

Ah, the state of “journalism” today when a reporter — in this instance the BBC’s Tim Wilcox — lectures a frightened French Jewish woman on how the Jews are the ones really to blame for any hate directed at them … cuz ISRAEL!!

Clash of Civilizations: “It is time for the West to change.” [Darleen Click]

Sharia is the whole package: On the Ben Shapiro Show Thursday, Imam Anjem Choudary said the President Obama is “inventing” his own version of Islam to forward his foreign policy agenda and that the “radical” form Choudary espouses simply aligns with the principles of the Koran and Sharia Law. Shapiro led into the segment by quoting from Choudary’s USA Today Jan. 8 opinion piece titled “People Know the Consequences,” which

“I AM NOT CHARLIE” — Islamist terrorism in Paris reveals clash of civilizations at Al Jazeera [Darleen Click]

As previously pointed out, the equivocation by Americans reveals those who can’t seem (or want) to fully grasp American values. The heated exchange of emails and fury at Al Jazeera demonstrates even “peaceful” Muslims want to add the “BUT” at that end of the phrase “I condemn these murders …” As journalists worldwide reacted with universal revulsion at the massacre of some of their own by Islamic jihadists in Paris,

Districts are here!

Saturday a.m., Satchel takes part in the Metro League District tournament in the 56 lb division. With my Mom’s death and other distractions, Satch has wrestled less this year than last, but if the last few practices indicate anything, it’s that he’s in good form and, if he keeps his feet back, should have a strong chance of moving on to Regionals. We’ll be up and on our way by

“Foreign Policy Editor Blames Paris Terror Attack on Abu Ghraib”

His timing, given the closing down of Jewish shops and attacks on Jews, is impeccable — just what one expects out of the editor of an august magazine purportedly nuanced in its understanding of foreign diplomacy, but in reality just another venue for massaging specific progressive narratives in an effort to will them, through repetition, into “truths.” MRC: Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, David Rothkopf, CEO and editor