Democrats now back George W. Bush 'technological wall' at border - Washington Times

Democrats now back George W. Bush 'technological wall' at border - Washington Times:

“Technology has only improved since then,” he said.
National security scholar James R. Phelps, co-author of the 2014 book “Border Security,” said the question isn’t whether the technology works in detecting border jumpers — it does.
“The question then becomes, ‘Do they actually stop anybody?’ The answer to that is no,” he said. “It is definitely not a substitute. It works in conjunction with physical barriers.”
A big difference between sensors and fences, he said, is where Border Patrol agents apprehend smugglers or illegal immigrants. The high-tech sensors and video cameras don’t prevent or hamper illegal border crossings.

California Starbucks Closes After Open Door Policy Backfires – The Liberty Eagle

California Starbucks Closes After Open Door Policy Backfires – The Liberty Eagle
"A Starbucks in California has been forced to close after the company’s social justice policies allowed the store to become overrun with homeless people and drug addicts.
According to several employees at North Park Starbucks, the increasing number of homeless people being allowed to loiter in the store has led to a sharp decline in sales.
The closing comes some seven months after Starbucks announced customers would no longer be required to buy something to use the restroom or hang out.
Critics said the policy could attract more homeless..."
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Macron Govt: Yellow Vests Have Destroyed 60 Percent of Speed Cameras

Macron Govt: Yellow Vests Have Destroyed 60 Percent of Speed Cameras:
"Emmanuel Macron’s interior minister has revealed that Yellow Vest protesters have destroyed 60 per cent of France’s speed cameras.
“Nearly 60 per cent of the radars today have been neutralised, attacked, destroyed” by the anti-globalist movement Christophe Castaner railed, disparaging the anti-globalist movement as “imbeciles”.
“I saw on social networks some idiots appear next to burned radars… I do not wish them to face tomorrow the reality of a death on the road,” he seethed, vowing “resolute action” by the Gendarmes — France’s paramilitary police force..."
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The Frustrating Flip-Flopping of Politicians Over the Border Wall

The Frustrating Flip-Flopping of Politicians Over the Border Wall:

What frustrates average Americans is the flip-flopping by politicians who were for a border wall and holding people who broke our laws accountable before they were against it.
These include Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Chuck Schumer, all of whom once championed stronger border security. When he was a senator from Illinois in 2006, Obama said:

Dems cutting terror subcommittee to investigate Trump - WND

Dems cutting terror subcommittee to investigate Trump - WND
"The new priorities that will push the Democrats in the U.S. House, now that they have the majority, are becoming clear.
For one thing, they’ll be investigating President Trump, instead of terrorism.
That’s according to Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., who is the incoming chief of the House Foreign Relations Committee.
...“Trump, in other words, is a bigger threat than terrorism,” said one on social media.
...It was the New York Post that quoted Engel, “We just thought, if we’re going to do something relevant in this era where Congress is going to reassert itself, where there are so many questionable activities of this administration vis-à-vis foreign policy, that it made sense to have this.”
At the same time, he’ll close the terrorism subcommittee, the report said.
He claimed there “wasn’t a great clamor” to keep the terrorism panel.
“Instead, he said, his committee will focus on what Trump promised Russian President Vladimir Putin during their private meeting last year — and the president’s business ties to Russia and Middle East countries,” the report said..."
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Greece temperatures plunge to -23C as Europe is hit with snow

Greece temperatures plunge to -23C as Europe is hit with snow:
"Temperatures in Greece have dropped to -23C as Europe is blanketed by snow, leaving several dead and hundreds of flights cancelled.
Greece has been blighted by -23C temperatures and snowfall as Europe is devastated by a deadly winter storm that has killed several people and sparked travel chaos.
According to The Sun those living in Athens awoke to the rare sight of snow as some of the city’s most famous monuments became topped with white powder.
...Snow covers the archaeological site of the temple of Zeus and the National Garden in Athens, Greece, with temperatures in parts of the country plunging well below freezing..."
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The reason why Vizio smart TVs are so affordable: They track your data - Business Insider

The reason why Vizio smart TVs are so affordable: They track your data - Business Inside
"Did you get a 4K/HDR capable TV this past holiday, perhaps on sale? 
Millions of Americans did. 

• The vast majority of televisions available today are "smart" TVs, with internet connections, ad placement, and streaming services built in.
• Despite the added functionality, TV prices are lower than ever — especially from companies like TCL and Vizio, which specialize in low-cost, high-tech smart TVs.
• There's a simple reason that smart TV prices are so low: some TV makers collect user data and sell it to third-parties, which can offset the cost.

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March for Life Celebrates Science Revealing ‘Humanity of Child in Earliest Stages in Womb’

March for Life Celebrates Science Revealing ‘Humanity of Child in Earliest Stages in Womb’:

She explained the reason why the theme of this year’s March for Life — the world’s largest pro-life event — is “Unique from Day One: Pro-Life is Pro-Science.”
“Years ago, the other side claimed developing babies were ‘lifeless blobs of tissue,’” Mancini said. “They don’t even try that anymore. Ultrasound advances allow us to hear and see heartbeats now at six weeks, and a blood test can tell a baby’s sex by seven weeks now.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s Attacks On Democrats Have Party Scrambling For Damage Control - Tea Party News

Ocasio-Cortez’s Attacks On Democrats Have Party Scrambling For Damage Control - Tea Party News
(Breitbart) – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became an overnight sensation when she unseated longtime New York House Democrat Joe Crowley, but now she is causing tension in the establishment wing of the party and some are seeking ways to put a damper on her anti-establishment agenda.
...Politico reported on the effort to rein in Ocasio-Cortez, described by some 20 Democrat lawmakers and aides as “part carrot, part stick..."
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AM Fruitcake

History for January 14

History for January 14 - On-This-Day.com
Benedict Arnold 1741, Albert Schweitzer 1875, William Bendix 1906


Faye Dunaway 1941, Carl Weathers 1948, Lawrence Kasdan 1948     
  

1784 - The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.


1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator. The new company was called the American Motors Corporation.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faces poverty's demise worldwide - Washington Times

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faces poverty's demise worldwide - Washington Times:

She is a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist, in other words a reactionary. She and people like her have been missing how the world has changed, lo these past decades.
She would bring us back to the levels of taxation practiced 40 years ago. Now she and other reactionary socialists, for instance Bernie Sanders, long for those days of higher taxes, lower growth, less stress on the world’s resources, more government control. In other words, life as it is lived in Cuba, but without the obtrusive dictatorship we are told.

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JustOneMinute: Drinking The Haterade At The FBI

JustOneMinute: Drinking The Haterade At The FBI

Janet Shagam 

Dan Bongino --Verified account @dbongino

The NY Times “bombshell” should’ve read:
BREAKING: Hard Evidence Emerges That The FBI Used Political Misinformation To Target Trump

JOM - "No arrests, no indictments, just a deeper understanding - well, that might cover the last two years. Hard news for The Resistance, if that is where this is headed."

"Drinking The Haterade At The FBI
OK, wow - the NY Times tells us that after Comey was fired the FBI complemented their criminal investigation of Trump with a counterintelligence probe.
No reporting on whether the FBI sought, or found probable cause for, FISA warrants for folks other than Carter Page.
Why the revelation? 
Who knows?
But a Trump-philic spin would be that Team Mueller is shifting the goalposts and trying to let The Resistance down gently.
Note this deeply buried explanation of the two types of investigations:
The F.B.I. conducts two types of inquiries, criminal and counterintelligence investigations. 
Unlike criminal investigations, which are typically aimed at solving a crime and can result in arrests and convictions, counterintelligence inquiries are generally fact-finding missions to understand what a foreign power is doing and to stop any anti-American activity, like thefts of United States government secrets or covert efforts to influence policy. 
In most cases, the investigations are carried out quietly, sometimes for years. 
Often, they result in no arrests.
No arrests, no indictments, just a deeper understanding - well, that might cover the last two years. Hard news for The Resistance, if that is where this is headed..."

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Why Humans Increasingly Are Unaware of Their Ignorance (And Why it's a Big Problem) | Intellectual Takeout

Why Humans Increasingly Are Unaware of Their Ignorance (And Why it's a Big Problem) | Intellectual Takeout
"At what point does collective ignorance parade as truth?
“Has there ever been a time in the world’s history when people were more sure of their opinions?” asks Jim Ferrell of the Arbinger Insitute.
Ferrell observes, “We become set in our opinions precisely because we have lost sight of the fact that they are merely opinions…our culture is suffering from what one might call ‘opinion creep’—the elevation of unsupported thoughts to the status of opinions and opinions to convictions.”
We don’t know how to have civil disagreements anymore. 
We fail to recognize that having a thought doesn’t make our thinking the truth. Ferrell writes, “We tend to have convictions about many things and to have opinions about almost everything else. We blind ourselves to the enormity of our ignorance.”...
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Obama Border Patrol chief: Agents arrest 'rapists, murderers, gang members every single day'

Obama Border Patrol chief: Agents arrest 'rapists, murderers, gang members every single day':

The Obama appointee who oversaw U.S. Border Patrol in 2016 made a rare public comment Thursday that those illegally entering the U.S. from Mexico have previously committed heinous crimes.
Mark Morgan, stealing a line from President Trump's presidential campaign announcement in June 2015, said his agents were "apprehending and interdicting pedophiles, rapists, murderers, gang members every single day."

San Diego TV station: CNN declined our 'local view' because of reports on wall effectiveness | TheHill

San Diego TV station: CNN declined our 'local view' because of reports on wall effectiveness | TheHill
"A San Diego television station on Thursday said that CNN had asked for a "local view" and then "declined to hear from us" after past reports from the station showed that a border wall was effective.
A CNN spokesperson pushed back on KUSI's claim on Friday, calling it a "non story" since the network ultimately didn't book any reporters from stations in the San Diego area..."
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Lawsuit reveals LA County has more registered voters than US citizens. Now state has to fix its lists. - TheBlaze

Lawsuit reveals LA County has more registered voters than US citizens. Now state has to fix its lists. - TheBlaze:
"California and Los Angeles County have agreed to clean up their voting rolls after a lawsuit revealed that more than 1.5 million inactive registered names could be invalid. Los Angeles County alone has a registration rate of 112 percent of its population of adult U.S. citizens..."
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