We are the drain the swamp people

Commentary below:

• The irony of the college administration’s actions will of course be lost on the tantrum throwers and other kiddies there
• College – where actual liberalism goes to die . . .
  
• And the little zombies then infect corporate America

Middlebury College Cancels Conservative Philosopher’s Lecture on Totalitarianism 

“In the interest of ensuring the safety of students, faculty, staff, and community members, the lecture by Ryszard Legutko scheduled for later today will not take place,” the email read. “This decision was not taken lightly. It was based on an assessment of our ability to respond effectively to potential security and safety risks for both the lecture and the event students had planned in response.”

There you have it! The very definition of oppressive totalitarianism! And the idiots who ‘run’ this nuthouse don’t have a clue as to their role in the process.

It is too trite to say simply that they are bowing to the threats of violence by the bolsheviks who apparently are the de facto administrators of this educational dumpster.

Anybody who pays the tuition to send their kid to this ‘academic black hole’ deserves the nasty little communist they get!          DLH

From the Washington Free Beacon article:

A professor of philosophy at Jagiellonian University and a member of the European Parliament, Legutko was scheduled to speak Wednesday at the Vermont college’s Alexander Hamilton Forum, delivering a lecture entitled “The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies.” A member of the anti-Communist Polish resistance during the Cold War, Legutko warns that western democracy is also susceptible to creep towards totalitarianism.

But in the days leading up to the speech, some Middlebury students and professors wrote an open letter demanding the university rescind its sponsorship. The liberal activists took issue with Legutko’s pointed critiques of multiculturalism, feminism, and homosexuality, calling them “homophobic, racist, xenophobic, [and] misogynistic.”

“Inquiry, equity, and agency cannot be fostered in the same space that accepts and even elevates homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic discourse,” they demand. “Bigotry of any kind should not be considered a form of inquiry.”

The chairmen of both departments denied the activists requests, defending the event on grounds of academic freedom. But hours before the event was scheduled, Middlebury Provost Jeff Cason and Vice President for Student Affairs Baishakhi Taylor sent a campus-wide email indicating the lecture was canceled.   . . .

The cancelation comes two years after a Middlebury lecture by conservative academic Charles Murray was disrupted by protesters, who later attacked Murray as he walked to his car and sent another professor to the hospital. None of the dozens of students who participated were suspended or expelled, with most receiving “a permanent record in the student’s file.”

Ed note: Don’s piece was intended to be posted yesterday. In the mean time Michael Barone writing at Townhall has a related offering identifying how corporate America has given succor to the little Trotskyites.  We wish we had come up with the title of his article.

Stopping the Campusfication of American Life 

I used to imagine that the effects of restrictive campuses would wear off when graduates encountered the real world. Instead, the post-campus world has come to embrace the idea suppression of the campuses. FIRE’s success in overturning campus speech codes has been outmatched by the mudslide of restrictions promoted by corporate HR departments, as their Nurse Ratcheds eagerly pursue violators, and even more by the giant media companies through which so much of the communication of ideas passes. Even though Congress shielded Google, Facebook and Twitter from legal consequences for the ideas they transmit, they are actively in the business of idea suppression.

Barone identifies some push back as regards campus speech codes and discrimination against  conservatives ( from the Trump administration and other organizations) Barone correctly calls for more: Those are encouraging signs that the host society can fight back against the infections festering in its campus wing. It needs to fight back against the campusfication suppression of free speech as well.

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• One of the Paper’s best Columnists, Riley rehashes the Journal’s lame case against Trump’s latest migrant invasion measure
• Dutifully Toes the Journal’s “Open Borders Line”

We’ve heard it before from the Wall Street Journal’s news pages and a majority of its editorial board. The Journal enthusiastically supports the U S Chamber of Commerce’s position in favor of unlimited illegal immigration to keep the flow of low wage workers coming.

Nevertheless it is kind of sad to see a columnist of Jason Riley’s stature join ranks with the Democrat left, business’ short-sighted aims, and the Never-Trumpers.

Riley’s latest column takes on the Administration’s idea to locate illegals into “sanctuary cities”. One of his WSJ “talking points”

– Correctly notes it is not only Democrats who have opposed Trump’s every effort to address our illegal immigration crisis; many Congressional Republicans have also and Obama-appointed members of the Judiciary; he might have added that the liberal media has done its utmost help the opposition; he might have mentioned that his own publication has been ‘all in’ as well.

– Riley points out, he thinks triumphantly, that “apprehended illegal immigrants are released into society while awaiting their court dates. He observes that Trump “complains” about it “regularly”.

Thus, Riley says, “shipping..(the migrants).. to sanctuary cities would only increase the odds that they don’t show up for their hearings. And…it will make those cities even more of a magnet for fake asylum seekers and others who shouldn’t be in the country.”

Sad that Riley can actually write that with a presumably straight face.

Come on, Jason! “Apprehended illegal immigrants”, everybody, including every would be migrant in the world, knows that only the tiniest percentage of these people show up for their hearings” now!

Furthermore, Mr. Riley, making this action a “magnet” for those “who shouldn’t be in the country” is the most creative and appealing reason for sending them to sanctuary cities. They are not a “magnet now because they’re getting a better deal with the current system. Now, they are “shipped” to locations all over the country, often without the knowledge of the cities getting them, and certainly not requiring any permission from those communities and consequently they are already almost certain to not “show up for their hearings”.

But more importantly, the “welcoming” sanctuary cities should experience first hand the consequences of their ‘compassion’ by sharing the overwhelming burden that they happily impose on the cities that don’t wish to be flooded by unlimited numbers of illegal immigrants, many unwilling to assimilate, or even learn the language of their ‘new home’.

How long do you suppose the ‘caring’ residents of this cities would be willing to tolerate the conditions that hordes of illegal immigrant would impose on the schools, hospitals and other facilities in their ‘warm and compassionate’ communities?

Surely, any American paying the mildest attention to this crisis finds the hypocrisy stunning on the part of the liberals of the sanctuary cities who tell us that illegal immigrants make communities safer, more economically vibrant , culturally exciting with the diversity they bring…just don’t bring them to our community!

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– That’s where my money is

Paul Ryan to guest lecture at Notre Dame; no surprise there with President Jenkins still in charge

“As an Irish Catholic from the Midwest, the University of Notre Dame has always held a special place in my heart,” (Paul) Ryan said in a university statement. “It is an honor to be part of a University where Catholic principles, robust debates, academic freedoms and diverse viewpoints are allowed to flourish. As much as I hope to impart as a lecturer, I know that I will learn a tremendous amount from Notre Dame’s remarkable students as we discuss the big challenges before our nation and collaborate on how best to address them.””

COULD THERE BE A MORE AMENABLE COLLEGE TOWN THAN SOUTH BEND TO WELCOME A PSEUDO-CONSERVATIVE/REPUBLICAN LIKE PAUL RYAN?

“As much as I hope to impart as a lecturer, I know that I will learn a tremendous amount from Notre Dame’s remarkable students…”

Paul, some things Notre Dame’s ‘remarkable students’ won’t be able to teach you about is glib hypocrisy, nauseating disloyalty, and utter disdain for the people who believed you’re campaign promises.

You gotta love that Father/President Jenkins; he and Ryan deserve each other. But then, President Jenkins has an accommodating nature when it comes to politics and church doctrine.

Other Great moments in Irish/Jenkins History:

– “When asked about his tenure at Notre Dame he reveals a high note to be President Obama’s visit to campus in 2009. Then in the same interview he refuses to say if President Trump will receive the traditional invitation to speak at commencement, before adding “if you’re betting, I’d advise you to bet against it.” (You do recall President Obama’s eager support for late term abortion and opposition to “Born Alive” legislation? Fr. Jenkins apparently thought those positions worthy of an honorary degree from the “Catholic” institution he heads.

– The University of Notre Dame has established a “GLBTQ” student organization.
Notre Dame’s president, Father John Jenkins, on Dec. 5 accepted the Office of Student Affairs’ recommendation to “expand and enhance the support and services for students who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning (GLBTQ).” The recommendation includes the creation of a university-recognized student organization.

A March 6 article in the Notre Dame newspaper, The Observer, discussed how homosexual students at the school “hook up” and meet “potential romantic partners” in the absence of an officially recognized student group.

So, let’s see if I get this. Without the GLGBTQ organization, gay students will run around the campus searching out other gay students for potential hookups. Now they won’t have to search them out…they can meet all the gay students at GLGBTQ gatherings fostered by the university.

More “Jenkins Wisdom” on the subject:

“Father Jenkins said that Catholic teaching is “about the role of sexuality, about intimacy, about human relations, about responsibility to the community, about relationships to the Church.”

“To put this in a ‘Well, you can do this; you can’t do that’ [category] is to distort the issue,” the university president said.”

– and here is more, remember this one:

– Here is Reverend Jenkins’ version of the ‘Cuomo faith doctrine’:

In justifying the birth control decision (to provide contraception in student health program) , Jenkins said that Catholic tradition requires respect for the “conscientious decisions of members of our community…”. Seems to us a play on the Cuomo ‘principle’: ‘The university’s religious views should not be imposed on its students’.

So, what happens when a rowdy band of activist students calls for the Rev. Jenkins to stop imposing the church’s views on abortion on them?   (Veritaspac, 3/9/18)

DLH

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Ryan issued a statement dripping with lickspittle upon his appointment

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan Has A New Gig

“As an Irish Catholic from the Midwest, the University of Notre Dame has always held a special place in my heart,” Ryan said in a university statement. “It is an honor to be part of a University where Catholic principles, robust debates, academic freedoms and diverse viewpoints are allowed to flourish. As much as I hope to impart as a lecturer, I know that I will learn a tremendous amount from Notre Dame’s remarkable students as we discuss the big challenges before our nation and collaborate on how best to address them.”

What he was really saying to the hardcore libs there likely to object:

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Monday’s WSJ has an editorial blasting/belittling Trump’s “provocative” threat to send illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities

– Claims the action would be “illogical” and would undercut “two Trump interests” (as if the Journal would not cheer about that)

– “…it would increase the likelihood that these migrants will remain in the U.S. for years under city and state protection. This is all too typical of the Trump White House’s self-defeating immigration policy record—like refusing to compromise on Dreamers, making immigration the main 2018 election issue, and shutting down the government over the wall.” (“…”refusing to compromise on ‘Dreamers”!!!?? Wasn’t it Pelosi/Schumer who rejected Trump’s offer of amnesty for those ‘poor souls’?). (“Making immigration the main issue in 2018!!!??? That WAS the “Main Issue” in 2016!!)

– “…it would increase the likelihood that these migrants will remain in the U.S. for years under city and state protection.” (Duh! Does the Journal think the American people don’t know that this is already the case?? But that it is now in cities and states which are forced to accept illegals!)

– “Most sanctuary cities are in Democratic strongholds, so by sending thousands of immigrants there Mr. Trump would also be adding to their strength in reapportionment for Congress after the 2020 Census.” (Oh No! Don’t tell me this could cause San Francisco, LA, New York, Boston, etc., to vote for and elect only Democrats! Gosh! Who’da thought?)

– (And here is one of the Journal’s most insulting attempts to make their case): “The Supreme Court will soon hear a case about whether the Commerce Department can include a citizenship question in the Census, but Commerce may lose. Why would Mr. Trump want to give California more Congressional clout than, say, Missouri?”
(Anybody think that SCOTUS, under the ‘great’ leadership of Chief Justice Roberts will allow the citizenship question to be asked in the census? Oh, come now!)

The Wall Street Journal’s love of illegal immigration has been long established. Its ‘less than passionate embrace” of Donald Trump as president is also well-known.

All those Americans who are paying attention are seeing the sheer panic gripping the nation’s liberals/progressives, fearing that hordes of illegal immigrants will be flooding into their cities and schools and welfare offices and hospitals and housing !

They (the ‘progressives’) are “compassionate” and “welcoming” when its other peoples’ cities that are doing the ‘welcoming”…but not so much when its theirs. DLH

The WSJ editorial (behind ‘pay wall’)

Sanctuary City Illogic
Busing migrants to coastal cities undercuts two Trump interests.
By The Editorial Board

Donald Trump says many things to be provocative that never happen, and maybe his threat to unleash asylum-seeking immigrants to sanctuary cities is another example. We hope so because while such a policy may taunt Democratic mayors, it contradicts two important legal and political interests.

And it would increase the likelihood that these migrants will remain in the U.S. for years under city and state protection. This is all too typical of the Trump White House’s self-defeating immigration policy record—like refusing to compromise on Dreamers, making immigration the main 2018 election issue, and shutting down the government over the wall.

Most sanctuary cities are in Democratic strongholds, so by sending thousands of immigrants there Mr. Trump would also be adding to their strength in reapportionment for Congress after the 2020 Census. Tens or hundreds of thousands of new non-citizens in California or New York would be counted toward the number of seats in Congress and Electoral College votes those states will have. Relatively fewer migrants settle in the rural heartland.

The Supreme Court will soon hear a case about whether the Commerce Department can include a citizenship question in the Census, but Commerce may lose. Why would Mr. Trump want to give California more Congressional clout than, say, Missouri?
We doubt the President has thought about any of this. His sanctuary city taunt is designed to get media attention and make Democrats fulminate. They are doing so right on cue, though note some mayors are saying they’ll welcome the migrants. Maybe they’ve figured out what Mr. Trump apparently hasn’t.

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The $14 billion system of levees and floodwalls built around New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is already sinking less than a year after it was completed
• Army Corps of Engineers said this month that New Orleans levees are sinking
• Warned that 100-year flood protection could be compromised by 2023
• Proposed a study to see if the cost of improvements would be worth it
• Cost could run into the ‘hundreds of millions’ with most from federal taxpayers
• Levees were completed just 11 months ago at a cost of $14 billion

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Serious stuff, right?
And then, there’s this little excerpt from the breathlessly reported ‘news story’:

“The agency said it it was concerned by ‘weak soils, general subsidence, and the global incidence of sea level rise that will cause levees to require future lifts to sustain performance.”   

We thought Obama took care  of that ‘sea level rise’…levels are supposed to be receding, aren’t they? Anybody happen to know if there are any Obama holdovers at the Army Corps of Engineers? Any transferees from the IRS or FBI maybe?

‘Weak soils” –  so they built anyway, or built and called it a 100 year type protection when they surely knew it was sinking ???

“General subsidence” — the gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land (also the state of top brass in the military bureaucracy).

Those sound like Corps of Engineers problems in engineering /design given the type and  lay of the land but especially the fault of politicians who insisted “something be done”  in an area that should be incentivized to “float their own boats”, so to speak, if they want to live there. Of course we understand the immutable “natural” law of politics — the law of concentrated gain and diffuse pain (to taxpayers)

But as regards this made up if not gratuitous inclusion (how many millimeters are we talking?!) the global incidence of sea level rise that will cause levees to require future lifts to sustain performance.”  —

This recent article at Climate Depot puts the nuts in a nut shell:

World Leading Ocean Expert Calls Sea Level Rise Claims ‘Anti-Scientific Nonsense’ 

DLH with R Mall

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“The memory of 9/11 is sacred ground, and any discussion of it must be done with reverence,” Pelosi tweeted. “The President shouldn’t use the painful images of 9/11 for a political attack.”

Oooh nooo! The children must not be exposed to  those “painful, sacred images”. They might be traumatized.

Seriously she said that to defend someone from her caucus, a Muslim, who was so utterly flippant about the event in a speech in which she described the 9/11 attack as “something some people did”  (you know, like the Holocaust). Trump simply showed the horrible moments of the attacks with reverence.

PERHAPS FOLKS SHOULD BE REMINDED THAT TODAY’S COLLEGE FRESHMEN (‘FRESHPERSONS’) WERE NOT EVEN BORN YET WHEN 9/11 OCCURRED.

HOW MANY OF THEM WILL LEARN ABOUT IT FROM THEIR LIBERAL PROFESSORS AS:

“SOME PEOPLE DID SOMETHING? NOW LET’S MOVE ON AND STUDY THE ‘ME TOO’ MOVEMENT’S IMPACT ON AMERICA.”        DLH

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Among the “good things” illegal immigrants do for a community, “a much better culture because of the ‘diversity’ they bring? And they can eliminate almost entirely the crime of “cultural appropriation”!

Now There’s a Mayor with the Right Attitude

Philadelphia, ‘a model of a well run city’ (insert smirk here) has a mayor who believes President Trump’s idea to send illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities is a great idea: “While the Trump administration’s proposal shows their disdain to basic human dignity, the City (Philadelphia) would be prepared to welcome these immigrants just as we have embraced our immigrant communities for decades.”

And, why not? Keep in mind, and we are not the first to note this (Tucker Carlson gave an excellent commentary on this Friday night on Fox), Democrats, especially those in control of sanctuary cities (the Wall Street Journal referred to them in a ‘news’ article Saturday as “so-called” sanctuary cities) have cited all the good things illegal immigrants can bring to America:

– the crime rates in the illegal immigrant population are lower than in the American citizen population
– illegal immigrants make our economy stronger
– illegal immigrant neighborhoods are ‘safer’ in sanctuary cities
– illegal immigrants have stronger “family values”
– illegal immigrants do jobs Americans refuse to do (and cheaper too, it has been shown)
– illegal immigrants are harder workers than American citizens
– Illegal immigrants contribute more to the US economy than they they receive/cost

Nancy Pelosi says that: “it’s just another notion (Trump’s idea to provide sanctuary cities with all the illegal immigrants that will make their communities better) that is unworthy of the presidency of the United States and disrespectful of the challenges that we face, as a country, as a people, to address who we are, a nation of immigrants.”

What is she thinking??!! In her own words, this is “who we are”! Trump is merely trolling proposing helping them “self-actualize”

Don’t know about you, but this seems like the best idea I’ve heard since the Democrats have proclaimed there should be no limits to the number of illegal immigrants our nation should accept! ( Look at, as an example, what it will do for employment opportunity for ‘second language’ teachers in sanctuary city schools!)      DLH

Trump weighs sending ‘unlimited supply’ of immigrants to sanctuary cities

By Richard Cowan at Reuters

WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday he was considering sending illegal immigrants in the country to so-called sanctuary cities, prompting U.S. mayors to accept such an offer as the battle over border security raged.
Frustrated by rising numbers of undocumented immigrants arriving at the southern border and a failure to get Congress to fully fund a U.S.-Mexico border wall, Trump taunted Democrats by dangling the possibility of an influx of illegal immigrants into their communities.

“Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney responded in a statement: “While the Trump administration’s proposal shows their disdain to basic human dignity, the City (Philadelphia) would be prepared to welcome these immigrants just as we have embraced our immigrant communities for decades.”

In February, a federal appeals court said the Trump administration could not terminate federal grants to Philadelphia for its refusal to cooperate with immigration agents seeking to deport immigrants.

In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a statement “We would welcome these migrants with open arms, just as we welcomed Syrian refugees, just as we welcomed Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria and just as we welcome Rohingya refugees fleeing genocide in Myanmar.”

Sanctuary cities are local jurisdictions that generally give undocumented immigrants safe harbor by refusing to use their resources to help enforce federal immigration laws that could lead to deportations.

Those localities argue that it is not their responsibility to get involved in federal enforcement and that doing so could hinder policing efforts within communities.

The Washington Post first reported on Thursday that the White House has been considering a plan for transporting immigrants in detention and releasing them into sanctuary cities that are Democratic strongholds.

The newspaper reported there was resistance from some high-level Department of Homeland Security officials concerned about several aspects of such a plan, including the potential costs.

Nevertheless, Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, said of sanctuary cities, “We can give them an unlimited supply” of immigrants.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said these would be “illegal aliens that are already set for release,” which likely would include families with children.

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hometown of San Francisco is another sanctuary city.

In remarks to reporters on Friday, Pelosi, a Democrat, said she was not aware of the newspaper report. But she added, “it’s just another notion that is unworthy of the presidency of the United States and disrespectful of the challenges that we face, as a country, as a people, to address who we are, a nation of immigrants.”

Pelosi was in Leesburg, Virginia, where House Democrats were wrapping up a three-day retreat.

One immigration expert, who asked not to be identified, noted that undocumented immigrants in federal custody could be at one of several stages of the adjudication process and that Trump likely has the power to have them sent to different jurisdictions from where they are being held.

But the source added, “This is a stunt. It doesn’t enhance the efficiency of the process.”

Trump’s challenge to Democrats came one day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican like Trump, told reporters that he wanted to launch bipartisan negotiations to seek solutions to the nation’s immigration woes.

In March alone, 103,492 undocumented immigrants have been taken into custody along the southern border or turned away. Many of them are from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and are seeking asylum in the United States away from high levels of violent crime and illegal drugs at home.

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Great commentary by former District Attorney for the District of Columbia Joe DiGenova:

James ‘Cardinal’ Comey — the man who destroyed the FBI

Really puts the Comey ‘career’ in its most accurate perspective.

BUT,
My favorite recollection of FBI Director “James ‘Cardinal’ Comey” is him wearing a suit to match the drapes in the White House so he wouldn’t be noticed attending a Trump ceremony. (I’ve always thought a nice suit to match the carpeting in the White House would’ve been more appropriate for this malicious doofus).      DLH

From the Huffington Post, May 19, 2017:

Former FBI Director James Comey was once so uncomfortable about meeting President Donald Trump that he once tried to blend into the White House curtains to avoid being noticed, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Benjamin Wittes, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Comey friend, told the Times of a January White House ceremony to thank law enforcement for providing security at the inauguration.
The newspaper reported:

“Mr. Comey ― who is 6 feet 8 inches tall and was wearing a dark blue suit that day ― told Mr. Wittes that he tried to blend in with the blue curtains in the back of the room, in the hopes that Mr. Trump would not spot him and call him out.”

Twitter person @darth posted a funny rendering of Comey back at the time the above was reported (caption as it appeared there as well)

“Isn’t Comey supposed to be here tonight has any body seen James Comey”

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