Border chief: Wall cuts illegal crossings 80% - Washington Times

Border chief: Wall cuts illegal crossings 80% - Washington Times:

A 20-mile section of new border wall built near El Paso, Texas, cut illegal crossings by more than 80%, the government’s top border official told Congress on Thursday.
Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said the key is not just the border wall but the entire system being built, with roads and lighting and, in some cases, multiple layers of fencing.
He said that’s giving agents more time to get to spots where breakthroughs happen, and when they can respond they can make arrests or force people to retreat back into Mexico.

And the USA!-----HOW AUSTRALIA DEFIED THE WHO ON ITS TRAVEL BAN.

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HOW AUSTRALIA DEFIED THE WHO ON ITS TRAVEL BAN.

"Why were the Australians ahead of the world? For a very simple reason. They don’t trust the WHO. The information from multiple international sources is that the WHO is under intense pressure from the Chinese government, and succumbing to it...
...The travel ban was decided immediately after the US made the same call. Beijing instantly lashed both the US and Australia on that occasion – the Chinese Communist Party’s official mouthpiece, People’s Daily, calling it “racist”.

But, of course, that decision now looks very wise, more so with each passing day.

Plus:

“With the ongoing China travel ban, I’m very sympathetic about the impact on tourism and farmers, but I’m much less so with the universities,” he began. “Because they have been warned for years that they are over-reliant on the Chinese market...

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UPDATE:

Posted by Glenn Reynolds" 

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History for February 29

History for February 29 - On-This-Day.com
Ann Lee (Anne the Word or Mother Anne) 1736 - Founder of Shakerism in United States, John Philip Holland 1840 - Inventor of the first submarine accepted by the U.S. Navy, Herman Hollerith 1860 - Engineer, teacher, inventor of first electric tabulating machine (forerunner of the calculator)


Jimmy Dorsey 1904 - bandleader, Dinah Shore 1916 - Singer, entertainer ("The Dinah Shore Show"), Jack Lousma 1936 - Astronaut


1288 - Scotland established this day as one when a woman could propose marriage to a man. In the event that he refused the proposal he was required to pay a fine.


1940 - Hattie McDaniel became the first black person to win an Oscar. She won Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind."

‘This Is A Fight We Must Wage And Win’: Nikki Haley Warns Against ‘Trendy’ Socialism Of Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders | The Daily Caller

‘This Is A Fight We Must Wage And Win’: Nikki Haley Warns Against ‘Trendy’ Socialism Of Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders | The Daily Caller:

“Socialism has failed everywhere it’s ever been tried,” Haley said. “Instead of prosperity, it leads to poverty.”
“Instead of opportunity, it creates dependency. Instead of liberty, it means oppression at home and often means aggression abroad instead of hope for a better tomorrow,” she said.
She pointed out that though countries around the world suffer from socialism, “socialism has become trendy in parts of America these days,” drawing on Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s affinity for socialism.

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'Progressivism' Versus Progress | The Pipeline

'Progressivism' Versus Progress | The Pipeline
"A cry is going up across the world— in Cambridge England, in Germany, and above all in Canada. It’s the cry heard down the ages from the Common People, the Reasonable Person, the Over-burdened Taxpayer, the Forgotten Man, the Silent Majority, and whoever is feeling his shoes pinching and his belt tightening.
That cry today is more puzzled and poignant than usual because it expresses bafflement as well as indignation.
That cry is: “What the hell’s going on?”
The note of inquiry is entirely justified.

...Nevertheless, the environmental history of socialism provides a very weak argument for getting rid of capitalism. 
Yet, it is where most solutions to the climate emergency end up and, not coincidentally, where they begin too.
Why so?
XR’s multiplication of justifications for their hooliganism is explicable when you realize that their predictions of doom keep not happening. 
And when any particular doom doesn’t happen, the climate seer needs to invent another likely catastrophe to justify his activism. 
Dr. Madsen Pirie, founder of the Adam Smith Institute in London, gave a fairly comprehensive list of such predictions here.

• 1966: Oil will run out in ten years
• 1967: Famines by 1975
• 1968: Worldwide overpopulation
• 1970: World's natural resources run out
• 1970: Ice Age by 2000
• 1970: Water rationing in US by 1974, food rationing by 1980
• 1971: New ice age by 2020 or 2030
• 1974: Satellites show new ice age near
• 1976: Scientific consensus that Earth is cooling.
• 1978: 30-year cooling trend continues
• 1980: Acid rain kills life in lakes
• 1980: Peak oil in 2000
• 1988: Regional droughts by 1990s
• 1988: Maldives underwater by 2018
• 1989: Nations will be wiped out if nothing done by 2000
• 2000: Children won’t know what snow is
• 2002: Peak Oil in 2010
• 2002: Famine in 10 years unless we stop eating fish, meat, and dairy products
• 2004: Britain will be Siberia by 2020
• 2008: Arctic will be ice free by 2018
• 2008: Al Gore predicts ice-free Arctic by 2013
• 2009: Prince Charles says we have 96 months to save the world
• 2009: Gordon Brown says we have 50 days to "save the planet from catastrophe"
• 2013: Arctic ice-free by 2015
• 2014: Only 500 days before ‘climate chaos’

Of course, Pirie was writing in 2014; the list will be longer now.
But however often the predictions are falsified, the soothsayers never admit error. 
Like the religious lunatics who assemble on a mountain to witness the Apocalypse in this Peter Cook sketch, their conclusion is always: “Okay, next week, same time, same place. We must get a winner some time.”

The Monstrous Lie Behind CrowdStrike – American Greatness

The Monstrous Lie Behind CrowdStrike – American Greatness:

• There’s a simple explanation for the Democratic National Committee’s unwillingness to let outsiders have a peek at evidence its servers were infiltrated by the Russians in 2016: There isn’t any. The Russian hacking that’s caused so much division and turmoil at home and abroad never really happened. It was all a ruse.

"Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 presidential election was predicated largely on the claim Russian intelligence had hacked the Democratic National Committee’s servers ahead of the November election.

...A lot of ordinary folks just can’t stop wondering why the DNC wouldn’t let any federal investigators examine their servers. 
Only CrowdStrike, an independent contractor on the DNC’s payroll, was allowed to do so..."
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EXCLUSIVE: Steve Scalise To Donate Millions To NRCC In Effort To Win Back The House | The Daily Caller

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Scalise To Donate Millions To NRCC In Effort To Win Back The House | The Daily Caller:

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise has donated millions of dollars to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and plans on doubling his commitment in an effort to win back the House of Representatives, the Daily Caller has learned.
Scalise has given $6 million to the NRCC this cycle and told the Daily Caller that he will be doubling his commitment to $12 million. He’ll start by giving another $2 million this week. Scalise has raised over $13 million online alone in small-dollar donations so far this cycle, and $7.8 million alone during impeachment; this is an unprecedented number and the highest amount raised by any GOP member.

Schools tell pupils boys can have periods too in new guidelines on transgender issues - Mirror Online

Schools tell pupils boys can have periods too in new guidelines on transgender issues - Mirror Online

• Primary school children will now be taught "all genders" can have periods in a bid to be more inclusive to transgender children, a council has revealed.
• Advice on menstruation will be issued to boys and girls after Brighton and Hove City Council passed a motion to help minimise discrimination against the trangender community.
• The guidelines also advise that bins for sanitary products and waste should provided in both male and female bathrooms.

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How Iran's Regime Spread Coronavirus to the Middle East :: Middle East Forum

How Iran's Regime Spread Coronavirus to the Middle East :: Middle East Forum
"On Monday, Iranian official Ahmad Amirabadi said there have been up to 50 deaths in Iran from coronavirus. 
The regime did what it knows how to do best: It sought to silence him and condemn him for spreading the news, claiming that only 12 had died from the virus and that there were only 61 cases in the country.

However, for five days Iran has known that there were likely more cases concentrated in the holy city of Qom, where religious pilgrims gather.

Iranians have been largely left in the dark since last Wednesday, when two deaths were announced in the Islamic Republic from coronavirus. The regime wanted elections to go well on February 21, so it sought to prevent any news of the virus for days.

Iranians have been largely left in the dark about the local spread of the virus.

By Saturday it was too late, and the country moved to shut down schools and universities. 
But Iranians and other pilgrims who came to Qom and became sick with the virus were already on the move.

They flew back to Iraq's Najaf and via Dubai to Bahrain, as well as arriving in Kuwait and Oman. Iran did not inform its neighbors until it was too late. 
Last Friday, Turkish government officials were already warning that there might be 750 cases in Iran..."
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Revealing Bernie’s dark side — one 1980s quote at a time - Glenn Beck

Revealing Bernie’s dark side — one 1980s quote at a time - Glenn Beck:

For starters, Sanders had (during the height of the Soviet Union) a very cozy relationship with people who openly advocated for Marxism and communism. He was an elector for the Socialist Workers Party and promoted the party's presidential candidates in 1980 and 1984.
To say the Socialist Workers Party was radical would be a tremendous understatement. It was widely known SWP was a communist organization mostly dedicated to the teachings of Marx and Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution.
Among other radical things I've discovered in interviews Sanders conducted with the SWP's newspaper — appropriately named The Militant (seriously, you can't make this stuff up) — is a statement by Sanders published in June 1981 suggesting that some police departments "are dominated by fascists and Nazis," a comment that is just now being rediscovered for the first time in decades.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Korea Cases Top 2,000; Nigeria Confirms Infection...

Instapundit Blog Archive CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: 
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: 

• Korea Cases Top 2,000; Nigeria Confirms Infection.
• As Virus Spreads, Koreans Blame Refusal to Stop Chinese Visitors.
• FDA reports 1st drug shortage due to novel coronavirus outbreak.
• Coronavirus spreads in three continents; $5 trillion wiped off markets.
• Coronavirus Found In Sub Saharan Africa As WHO Says Spread Could Get Out of Control.
• China Spins Coronavirus Crisis, Hailing Itself as a Global Leader.
• ‘It’s no worse than the flu’: busting the coronavirus myths.
• Geneva Motor Show to be canceled after coronavirus causes government to ban large events.
• Coronavirus: Quarantined inside Italy’s red zone.
• France: “force majeure” can be declared over coronavirus in contracts with smaller firms.
• Coronavirus is drying up the supply chains of Southeast Asia’s factories.

More at link.

Plus, today in Muskegon MI, Walmart bleach aisle: 

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WHAT is GOING ON at Boeing?!!-----Boeing Company Funds Al Sharpton Event; Executives Refuse Comment

Boeing Company Funds Al Sharpton Event; Executives Refuse Comment
NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina — The Boeing Company sponsored a breakfast for Democratic Party presidential candidates hosted by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network on Wednesday morning, but Boeing executives refused to comment.

Sharpton has a long history of controversial rhetoric, especially on racial issues. He was blamed for encouraging antisemitic mobs in riots in Crown Heights, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in the early 1990s.

More recently, he helped inflame the death of teenager Trayvon Martin into a major national issue in 2012, presenting it, falsely, as a racially motivated killing. The issue caused major damage to race relations..."

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#1 This day 1998-----Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Live on Billboard Music Awards 2017) ...

Everything You Think You Know About Cuba Is A Lie

Everything You Think You Know About Cuba Is A Lie

• Here is the side of socialist Cuba we saw that the American media refuses to show you: Bread lines, gas lines, food shortages, crumbling infrastructure, crippling poverty, and an oppressed people.

HAVANA, CUBA — A sense of relief washed over me as my documentary team huddled in the corner of the American Embassy in Havana.
The American flag flying above the building meant we had our rights again. 
Inside the heavily garrisoned fortress of an embassy, we were able to use the internet without massive government restrictions to book our emergency flights home. 
We drank our first sips of clean water. 
Both of these privileges we had forgotten about after three days in the socialist country.
...Indeed, if there is one major takeaway from our trip to Cuba, it is that you will never appreciate the God-given rights and protections we take for granted here in America more than when you are stripped of them by a socialist regime. 
This is a valuable lesson I wish those pushing for socialist policies in America could realize..."
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