Illegal border crossings decrease by 40 percent in Trump's first month, report says | Fox News

Illegal border crossings decrease by 40 percent in Trump's first month, report says | Fox News:

"The number of people illegally crossing the U.S. southern border has dropped 40 percent in President Trump’s first full month in office, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Wednesday.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol reported that the number of illegal border crossings dropped from 31,578 to 18,762 persons. Kelly said border agents usually see a 10 to 20 percent increase in illegal immigrant apprehensions from January to February."

Must Read of the Day!-----The Exhaustion of American Liberalism - WSJ

The Exhaustion of American Liberalism - WSJ: "The Exhaustion of American Liberalism"
Shelby Steele-Updated March 5, 2017 6:20 p.m. ET
"The recent flurry of marches, demonstrations and even riots, along with the Democratic Party’s spiteful reaction to the Trump presidency, exposes what modern liberalism has become: a politics shrouded in pathos. 
Unlike the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, when protesters wore their Sunday best and carried themselves with heroic dignity, today’s liberal marches are marked by incoherence and downright lunacy—hats designed to evoke sexual organs, poems that scream in anger yet have no point to make, and an hysterical anti-Americanism.

All this suggests lostness, the end of something rather than the beginning. What is ending?

America, since the ’60s, has lived through what might be called an age of white guilt. We may still be in this age, but the Trump election suggests an exhaustion with the idea of white guilt, and with the drama of culpability, innocence and correctness in which it mires us.

White guilt is not actual guilt. Surely most whites are not assailed in the night by feelings of responsibility for America’s historical mistreatment of minorities. 
Moreover, all the actual guilt in the world would never be enough to support the hegemonic power that the mere pretense of guilt has exercised in American life for the last half-century.

White guilt is not angst over injustices suffered by others; it is the terror of being stigmatized with America’s old bigotries—racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia. 
To be stigmatized as a fellow traveler with any of these bigotries is to be utterly stripped of moral authority and made into a pariah. 
The terror of this, of having “no name in the street” as the Bible puts it, pressures whites to act guiltily even when they feel no actual guilt. 
White guilt is a mock guilt, a pretense of real guilt, a shallow etiquette of empathy, pity and regret.

It is also the heart and soul of contemporary liberalism. 
This liberalism is the politics given to us by white guilt, and it shares white guilt’s central corruption. It is not real liberalism, in the classic sense. 
It is a mock liberalism. 
Freedom is not its raison d’être; moral authority is.

When America became stigmatized in the ’60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else. 
Subsequently the American left reconstituted itself as the keeper of America’s moral legitimacy. 
(Conservatism, focused on freedom and wealth, had little moral clout.) 
From that followed today’s markers of white guilt—political correctness, identity politics, environmental orthodoxy, the diversity cult and so on.

This was the circumstance in which innocence of America’s bigotries and dissociation from the American past became a currency of hardcore political power. 
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation’s past. 
“I had to vote for Obama,” a rock-ribbed Republican said to me. “I couldn’t tell my grandson that I didn’t vote for the first black president.”

For this man liberalism was a moral vaccine that immunized him against stigmatization. 
For Mr. Obama it was raw political power in the real world, enough to lift him—unknown and untested—into the presidency. 
But for Mrs. Clinton, liberalism was not enough. 
The white guilt that lifted Mr. Obama did not carry her into office—even though her opponent was soundly stigmatized as an iconic racist and sexist.

Perhaps the Obama presidency was the culmination of the age of white guilt, so that this guiltiness has entered its denouement. 
There are so many public moments now in which liberalism’s old weapon of stigmatization shoots blanks—Elizabeth Warren in the Senate reading a 30-year-old letter by Coretta Scott King, hoping to stop Jeff Sessions’s appointment as attorney general. 
There it was with deadly predictability: a white liberal stealing moral authority from a black heroine in order to stigmatize a white male as racist. 
When Ms. Warren was finally told to sit, there was real mortification behind her glaring eyes.

This liberalism evolved within a society shamed by its past. 
But that shame has weakened now. 
Our new conservative president rolls his eyes when he is called a racist, and we all—liberal and conservative alike—know that he isn’t one. 
The jig is up. 
Bigotry exists, but it is far down on the list of problems that minorities now face. 
I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. 
It’s harder now for young blacks to find a closed one.

This is the reality that made Ms. Warren’s attack on Mr. Sessions so tiresome. 
And it is what caused so many Democrats at President Trump’s address to Congress to look a little mortified, defiantly proud but dark with doubt. 
The sight of them was a profound moment in American political history.

Today’s liberalism is an anachronism. 
It has no understanding, really, of what poverty is and how it has to be overcome. 
It has no grip whatever on what American exceptionalism is and what it means at home and especially abroad. 
Instead it remains defined by an America of 1965—an America newly opening itself to its sins, an America of genuine goodwill, yet lacking in self-knowledge.

This liberalism came into being not as an ideology but as an identity. 
It offered Americans moral esteem against the specter of American shame. 
This made for a liberalism devoted to the idea of American shamefulness. 
Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive. 
Thus liberalism’s unrelenting current of anti-Americanism.

Let’s stipulate that, given our history, this liberalism is understandable. 
But American liberalism never acknowledged that it was about white esteem rather than minority accomplishment. 
Four thousand shootings in Chicago last year, and the mayor announces that his will be a sanctuary city. 
This is moral esteem over reality; the self-congratulation of idealism. 
Liberalism is exhausted because it has become a corruption."

Mr. Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, is author of “Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country” (Basic Books, 2015).

Farrakhan: America You Are Most Rotten Nation on Earth - No.1 on 'God's' Hit List (Video)

Farrakhan: America You Are Most Rotten Nation on Earth - No.1 on 'God's' Hit List (Video):
"Another lovely weekend sermon by Minister Louis Farrakhan to his brainwashed flock.

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tweeted out a few lines from his latest sermon.

“America: You are the most rotten nation on the Earth. That is why God has come, and you are number one on His list to be destroyed.”

America: You are the most rotten nation on the Earth. That is why God has come, and you are No. 1 on His list to be destroyed. pic.twitter.com/sqK6lHvtO0

— MINISTER FARRAKHAN (@LouisFarrakhan) March 7, 2017

And remember: The current DNC deputy chairman Keith Ellison is a longtime apologist for Farrakhan.

Lunch video-----Why I Left Greenpeace

Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Travel from Six Terror-Tied Countries - Breitbart

Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Travel from Six Terror-Tied Countries - Breitbart:

"The new order shifts the task of stopping the refugees from officers at U.S. airports over to officials at U.S. embassies overseas, who have been told to stop preparing needed travel documents until Trump’s aides complete a national security review, according to documents released today by the White House.

The shift to overseas embassies may prevent judges from trying to block the new order, just as three California judges on Feb. 3 blocked part of Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order on refugees. Under the Constitution, judges have even less authority to block administrative actions in overseas embassies than judges now claim to have over officers working for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency."

I Went to Hooters on The Day Without Women and It Changed My Life Forever - Washington Free Beacon

I Went to Hooters on The Day Without Women and It Changed My Life Forever - Washington Free Beacon:

"I wasn't exactly sure what to expect when I decided earlier this week that the "Day Without a Woman" would be a good time to give Hooter's new smoked wings a try.

...Hooters, which famously sports an exclusively female wait staff budding with mounds of talent, is undoubtedly more susceptible to a women's strike than any other restaurant.
Despite the unknown, I ventured to Hooters on Wednesday afternoon. It was open and had quite a few cars in the parking lot.
I got a table by the bar and told my waitress that I was happy to see that Hooters was serving customers, given that it was the "Day Without a Woman."
"What are you talking about?" she asked.
She was not alone in her confusion, given that I also didn't know exactly what the day entailed. 
I explained what I was talking about and, given a bit of a push, she remembered seeing something about the protest...
"Oh, that thing with the girls?" she said. "That's not going down here. I wish I was still in school though, so I could get the day off."
...That was the last we spoke about protests.
Then, as if my waitress knew exactly why I came, she let me know that the new Smoked Wings were all the rage lately. I ordered a large plate with the Texas BBQ dry rub.
...Largely thanks to the smoked wings, it was my best eating experience at a Hooters.
The rest of the experience was great, too. I sat under a sign that said "Man cannot live on Hooters alone, but we won't stop you from trying," which made me laugh. 
It also made me laugh that the men's bathroom is labeled "Standing Proud" and the women's is labeled "Sitting Pretty."
All in all, whether the day is with or without women, I shall return.

How are all these intel leaks happening? Look at one of the last things Obama did before leaving office | BizPac Review

How are all these intel leaks happening? Look at one of the last things Obama did before leaving office | BizPac Review:
"Former President Barack Obama made a last-minute change to the way wiretapped intelligence is shared Jan. 12, which may have contributed to the proliferation of leaks plaguing the Trump administration.
Obama changed the way National Security Agency intelligence is shared 8 days before leaving office, which allows globally intercepted communications to be disseminated across the entire intelligence community.
...Obama administration officials also scrambled to spread classified intelligence related to Russian meddling in the 2016 election to as many people within the U.S. government as possible..."

Sessions May Appoint Outside Counsel to Investigate Obama's DOJ - Cortney O'Brien

Sessions May Appoint Outside Counsel to Investigate Obama's DOJ - Cortney O'Brien:

"Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not opposed to appointing an outside counsel to investigate the many scandals of President Obama's Department of Justice and IRS.

To jog your memory, recall two major, yet underreported stories - "Fast and Furious" and the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for covering up the former scandal, "

Everyone Is a White Supremacist Now | Tom Woods

Everyone Is a White Supremacist Now | Tom Woods:
"Once they had called everyone else on earth a “racist” and the word had begun to elicit nothing but eye rolls from normal people, the left had to move on to something else to get people’s attention again.
Hence the recent use of “white supremacist” to refer to, well, pretty much everyone. 
That people being called this name are not in fact white supremacists by any conceivable definition of the term means nothing, I hardly need to tell you.
Not sure what they’re going to call people once we’ve all been called “white supremacists” and even that term loses its sting.
The new use of “white supremacist” serves two helpful purposes for the left.
(1) It is a career-destroying smear that can ruin the careers of people they target with it, and if there’s anything the left enjoys, it’s completely destroying people.
If their victims try to apologize, the left just crushes them with even more vigor.
(2) It feeds into their natural drama-queen tendencies, for if “white supremacy” is everywhere, they feel justified in shouting people down, intimidating people, and beating people up. 
For they are saving civilization itself!..."
Read on!

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History for March 11

History for March 11 - On-This-Day.com
Lawrence Welk 1903, Ralph David Abernathy 1926, Rupert Murdoch 1931 - Media mogul


Antonin Scalia 1936 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Mark Metcalf 1946 - Actor ("Animal House"), Bobby McFerrin 1950 - Singer


537 - The Goths began their siege on Rome.


1867 - In Hawaii, the volcano Great Mauna Loa erupted.


1888 - The "Blizzard of '88" began along the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard shutting down communication and transportation lines. More than 400 people died.(March 11-14)


1907 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt induced California to revoke its anti-Japanese legislation.


1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the Lend-Lease Act, which authorized the act of providing war supplies to the Allies.


1969 - Levi-Strauss started selling bell-bottomed jeans.


1986 - Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a one-stick model.


1990 - Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union. It was the first Soviet republic to break away from Communist control.

IRS Admits to Court it Needs To Search 6,924 Previously Unreported Documents in Response to a 2015 Judicial Watch FOIA Lawsuit over IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups - Judicial Watch

IRS Admits to Court it Needs To Search 6,924 Previously Unreported Documents in Response to a 2015 Judicial Watch FOIA Lawsuit over IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups - Judicial Watch:

"“The corruption at the IRS is astounding.  Our attorneys knew that there were more records to be searched but the Obama IRS ignored this issue for years,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.  “President Trump needs to clean house at the IRS as quickly as possible.”

In July 2015, Judicial Watch released Obama IRS documents confirming that the agency used donor lists of tax-exempt organizations to target those donors for audits. "

Must see!-----SHELBY STEELE VS TUCKER CARLSON (3/8/2017)

CIA Leaks: The Palace Eunuchs Have Exposed Themselves | The Daily Caller

CIA Leaks: The Palace Eunuchs Have Exposed Themselves | The Daily Caller:

"Fortunately for President Trump, the American people are tuning out from the deep state propaganda in record numbers and are instead finding out for themselves how the deep state bureaucrats have been ruining the country. It is not the emperor who has no clothes this time, but the eunuchs. They stand naked and exposed before a citizenry that feels angry and disenfranchised. With every fresh revelation of their misbehavior and treason toward the president, their position becomes less and less secure."