GOP lawmaker: Pelosi, Schumer have 'American blood' on their hands by not funding wall

"Those Americans are dying either because they’ve been murdered by illegal aliens, vehicular homicides by illegal aliens, or the illegal narcotics that are shipped into our country by illegal aliens and their drug cartels with the drug overdoses that are in the tens of thousands of lost American lives per year," he said, without providing any evidence to support his claims. 

"And so the question’s going to be, how much American blood do you have to have on the hands of Democrat leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer before they will help us with border security? Or is their craving for power such that they’re willing to accept the loss of American life?" Brooks added.

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Abortion Leading Cause of Death in 2018 with 41 Million Killed

 

Abortion was the number one cause of death worldwide in 2018, with more than 41 million children killed before birth, Worldometers reports.

As of December 31, 2018, there have been some 41.9 million abortions performed in the course of the year, Worldometers revealed. By contrast, 8.2 million people died from cancer in 2018, 5 million from smoking, and 1.7 million died of HIV/AIDS.

Worldometers — voted one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association (ALA) — keeps a running tally through the year of major world statistics, including population, births, deaths, automobiles produced, books published, and CO2 emissions.

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The Governments Coup Against the People of America

 

The United States of America is unsustainable as a political unit. It is at a moment when enough of the population has been indoctrinated into the new way of thinking and enough of the population has either avoided it long enough or recovered from it to create a solid line of division.

There are no longer illusions about legitimacy on the left, what with the rampant voter fraud orchestrated by governmental units across the nation from Georgia to Texas to California and everywhere in between, if on a less conspicuous scale.

More @ Christian Mercenary

Map of USA

Via Susan Lee

California Sheriff SLAMS Sanctuary Cities, Illegal Immigration After SEVEN More Individuals Are Arrested In Cop Slaying

 

"We were prohibited — law enforcement was prohibited because of sanctuary laws and that led to the encounter with officer Singh,” Christianson said. “The outcome could have been different if law enforcement wasn’t restricted, prohibited, or had their hands tied because of political interference.”

Seven additional men have been arrested in connection with the murder of Newman, California, Police officer Ronil Singh, for helping suspect Gustavo Perez Arriaga try to flee into Mexico, authorities say.

ABC News reports that Arriaga was hoping to escape back to his home country of Mexico with the help of his girlfriend, family members, and co-workers, after he allegedly shot and killed Singh during a routine traffic stop in northern California on Wednesday. Arriaga was in the United States illegally.

More @ The Daily Wire

Tar Heel (Ass Hole) of the Year: The Rev. William Barber — activist, advocate and preacher

Via Cousin John

 

 North Carolina’s Rev. William J. Barber II is The News & Observer’s 2018 Tar Heel of the Year. He led the state’s Moral Monday rallies as leader of the NC NAACP. The MacArthur Fellow has since launched a rebirth of the national Poor People’s Campaign.

 "Thoughts, prayers?"

 Absolutely disgusting.

Says more about the News & Observer than it doe about Barber, or our state.
Question: Is there any way to slow down our public institutions from churning out legions of liberal activists "journalists"?
Have we not seen enough yet to recognize that there is a fundamental problem with our tax payer funded centers of higher learning - particularly with regard to the journo departments?

 apparently the sole criteria is sheer size.

 The biggest damn joke of the decade

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GAO: IRS Had 4,487 Guns; 5,062,006 Rounds of Ammunition

Via 4 Branch

The Internal Revenue Service had in its weapons inventory 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition as of late 2017, according to a report published this month by the Government Accountability Office.

Included in this arsenal, according to the GAO, were 15 “fully automatic firearms” and 56,000 rounds of ammunition for those fully automatic firearms.

The same report--"Federal Law Enforcement: Purchases and Inventory Controls of Firearms, Ammuntion, and Tactical Equipment"--says that the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services had 194 fully automatic firearms and 386,952 rounds of ammunition for those fully automatic firearms.

More @ CNS News

California’s Women’s March Rally Canceled For Being 'Overwhelming White' In Overwhelming White County

 

“Up to this point, the participants have been overwhelmingly white, lacking representation from several perspectives in our community.”

Organizers of the Women’s March rally for Humboldt County in northern California canceled its January march over concerns that the participants would be “overwhelmingly white.”

The march was originally scheduled to take place on January 19, in Eureka but was canceled after “many conversations between local social-change organizers and supporters of the march,” one of the organizers said in a statement on the group’s Facebook page.

More @ The Daily Wire

One person dead after lion gets loose at North Carolina animal center

Via Billy

One person was killed Sunday after a lion escaped an enclosure at an animal center in North Carolina, according to media reports.

"While a husbandry team led by a professionally trained animal keeper was carrying out a routine enclosure cleaning, one of the lions somehow left a locked space and entered the space the humans were in and quickly killed one person," the Conservators Center said in the statement, according to ABC News.

More @ The Hill

Indian medical student kicked out of college by racist white professors for questioning their SJW beliefs

Via comment by Anonymous on Ignore the pollsters, pundits and static noise. Tr...

 

Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya was a medical student at the University of Virginia and he has been kicked out after having questioned his white college professor's SJW beliefs.

Here is the audio of the lecture where he questioned his professor's SJW beliefs:

https://m.soundcloud.com/user-381804527/microagressions-presented-by-amwa

He speaks from 28:45 to 34:00

Here is the audio of the suspension hearing:

https://m.soundcloud.com/user-381804527/asac

Here is a picture of the people who were at the suspension hearing:

https://imgur.com/a/RUvKXNH

Notice how 14 out of the 16 people at that suspension hearing are white people. If this is not an act of racism against a sincere indian medical student, then I don't know what is. Look at their smug arrogant faces as they kick him out for DARING to question their SJW beliefs.

His twitter handle is kieranravib if you want to ask him questions or set up an interview with him

Ignore the pollsters, pundits and static noise. Trump is winning big!

Via Ryan 

 

Ignore the pollsters, pundits, and static noise! Trump is winning big! As Capitol Hill Blue reported earlier in fall 2018, “The establishment is in for another shock: President Trump’s administration may soon win significant breakthroughs in our trade agreements.” While alarmist ideologues write scathing op-eds about the perils of tariffs, they miss the genius and practicality of Trump’s strategy on trade. Trump has utilized tariffs, and the implied threat of greater tariffs, as a cudgel—an effective negotiating tool—to pry open essentially protectionist markets that have been lopsided and imbalanced against the United States.

 

In foreign relations, there’s a certain consummate naivety among the laissez nous faire (“let it be”) crowd who posit do-nothingism in the face of lopsided agreements. Increasingly the snarks at the now defunct Weekly Standard and declining National Review under David French are echoing the asinine critiques of Trump that parallel Libertarians.

More @ Burke

Real Refugees

Via Thuyền Nhân

 

 

 

 

 

 

The federal courts have shut down our ENTIRE government

 

Amid the imbroglio over a partial furloughing of nonessential workers in a handful of federal departments, the political class has ignored that the government has already been shut down – in full and permanently. Individual district judges now control our national sovereignty, border policy, and every other political question. And now Chief Justice John Roberts has essentially barred the doors of the Supreme Court shut to any judicial redress of this judicial crisis.

Just as reporters were going offline last Friday for the Christmas holiday, the Supreme Court announced that it had denied the government’s request to overturn a universal injunction on Trump’s commonsense asylum policy directing the flow of “asylum requests” to our points of entry. Northern California District Judge Jon Tigar and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated all rules of standing, 200 years of precedent, and John Roberts’ own recent opinion on presidential power to regulate or exclude entry into the country, yet Roberts refused to join the four conservatives in summarily staying the injunction.

More @ Conservative Review

Carolina’s next cash crop?: Farm bill will add hemp into more growers’ rotation

Via Cousin John

With Congress’ passage of last week’s farm bill that decriminalized the hemp plant, North Carolina farmers will have the choice of adding a needed money crop to their rotations.

“I haven’t read the whole thing. It’s 800 pages and 6 inches thick, but I think it’s going to be a good thing for North Carolina,” said Mann Mullen, who has experimented with growing hemp and processing it.

Mullen is a farmer and the owner of tobacco warehouses in Wilson and Bunn.

President Trump signed the bill, also known as the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, on Dec. 20.

More @ The Wilson Times

Trump Scores, Breaks Generals’ 50-Year War Record

 

His national security team had been trying to box him in like every other president. But he called their bluff.

The mainstream media has attacked President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria as impulsive, blindsiding his own national security team. But detailed, published accounts of the policy process over the course of the year tell a very different story. They show that senior national security officials and self-interested institutions have been playing a complicated political game for months aimed at keeping Trump from wavering on our indefinite presence on the ground in Syria.

More @ The American Conservative

‘Angry White People with Money’

In the latest National Review cover story, Kevin D. Williamson writes an on-the-ground report from an “Abolish ICE PDX” march and explores the historical driving forces behind the “fascists styled as antifascists” who are running amok in Portland, Ore. Here he talks to Madeleine Kearns.

Madeleine Kearns: Other than some local yahoos, what did you see in Portland that’s worthy of national news coverage?

More @ NRO

How many more until we build the wall?

Via Dennis Le"Don't know what's in their brains. May be all tofu. Democ.....rats."

Dershowitz: A defense that might have freed Flynn — and still could

 

Ever since former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn was arrested for lying to FBI agents, I have argued that he had a strong defense to that charge: namely, that his lies were not material because the FBI questioned him for an illegitimate purpose — to give him an opportunity to lie, rather than to obtain information it did not already have.

The question posed by the Flynn case is whether a lie can be material if the FBI already had indisputable evidence of the truthful answer and asked him the question for the sole purpose of giving him an opportunity to lie.

More @ The Hill

Franklin Graham Says He Was Banned from Facebook over 2-Year-Old Post

 

I must admit I sneered at all of the “First they came for Alex Jones …” posts right after he was banned from every social media platform save Geocities.

True, I found it anomalous that every major tech company found him in violation of its terms of service with felicitous simultaneity for doing the same things that he’d been doing for nigh on a decade and a half, but even most conservatives would agree Jones was sui generis as a fringe voice. I disagreed with the decision but couldn’t summon any outrage; Jones was a singular figure and surely the banning was a singular occurrence — even as it was obvious to anyone paying attention that social media was cracking down on conservative voices in more covert ways.

More @ Western Journal

Christmas in Fallbrook

Via Daughter Christine

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Mental Illness

Via Thang Bui

Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Fox Meet St. Nicholas (Uncle Remus)

Appropriate as my Nephew Bill gave me the CD below for Christmas.  I'm sure it will be wonderful and runs almost 6 hours.

 

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On one fine evening, in which winter’s chill hung in the air and the stars sparkled merrily in the heavens above, a happy song of the season could be heard faintly weaving it’s way through the trees and rolling hills surrounding the humble home of Uncle Remus.

“Ho my Riley, in this happy Christmas time, the black folks shake their clothes, a hunting for a dime. Hi my rinktum! And then they shake their feet, and grease der se’f with the good ham meat. Ho my Riley! They eat and they cram, And by-and-by old Miss will be a’sending out the dram!”

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A Merry Christmas from Vietnam before '75

Via Minh Lê

 

Cheap VietnameseTooth Removal

Via Chính Phạm Ngọc  
 

My 3rd Daughter Bonnie and Family [Named after the Bonnie Blue, of course. :) ]

 

 At my second Daughter Virginia's house.

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Santa is coming!!! I hope he brings small gifts for our plane ride home 😉

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You'll Put Your Eye Out With That Thing Kid !

Russians: Irrefutable Evidence

Via Billy

Logic v Liberals

Via Thang Bui

André Rieu - Hallelujah

Via Cousin John

Dropkick Murphys - "The Season's Upon Us"

Via John

Speaker Ryan Said He Would Never Support President Trump and He Never Has – Now We Know His Office Was Also Pushing Fake Russia Dossier!

 

Walk out the door.
Don’t turn around now.
‘Cause you’re not welcome anymore.

Famous words by Gloria Gaynor

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Speaker Paul Ryan was adamantly against candidate and then President Trump.  He said so in a tape released after the election of Ryan speaking with House Republicans. 

He was also allegedly linked to the release of the p*ssy tape which almost cost candidate Trump the election.

More @ The Gateway Pundit

Board of Governors denies Chancellor Folt, UNC's Silent Sam proposal & Protests and rallies mark Winter Commencement in Chapel Hill

Via Billy

Update 4:50 p.m.: Folt said the University will reconsider off-campus options in the relocation of Silent Sam in a conference call with reporters.

"As we work with the Board of Governors, our work will involve more fully exploring off-campus options as put forward in the initial report," Folt said. "This was the stated and strong preference that the Board of Trustees and I made in our proposal for the plan because we learned from our analyses that relocating off campus, for example to the North Carolina Museum of History, was the best way to ensure the safety and security of our people and campus and was more feasible and cost-effective."

More @ The Daily Tar Heel

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Protests and rallies mark Winter Commencement in Chapel Hill

Amazing Christmas display with 176 channels and 45,000 lights! The show is so popular that it requires a crew of 3 people to manage the traffic.

Via Cousin Colby

James Comey Contradicts Brennan’s Testimony on ‘Pee’ Dossier Influencing Intel Community Report

 

In testimony, former FBI Director James Comey contradicted the claim made during previous testimony by former CIA Director John Brennan that the anti-Trump dossier was “not in any way used as the basis for the intelligence community’s assessment” that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

The dossier, authored by former British spy Christopher Steele, was produced by the controversial Fusion GPS firm. Fusion was paid for the dossier work by Trump’s main political opponents, namely Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via the Perkins Coie law firm.

A January 6 U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) report released by Comey’s FBI, Brennan’s CIA and the NSA under Mike Rogers assessed that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. It also claimed that Russia worked to aid Trump’s electoral victory.

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Video Leaks of Mexican Cartel Ambushing Cops

The Mexican government responded to the release of a video capturing the deadly ambush of four police officers in October 2018, which was recently leaked via social media.

The Ministry of Security and the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Mexico said they are investigating the release of the video, which was seized as evidence and was otherwise in the possession of authorities, according to local reporting. The video depicts the ambush killing of four officers of the Secretariat of Security of the State of Mexico (SSEM). They were traveling on a mountain road in the municipality of Almoloya de Alquisiras on October 28 of this year at the time of their deaths. A spokesperson for the Attorney General’s Office said the video was seized from one of the suspected perpetrators of the ambush who was detained by elements of the state police.

The shocking video, which began to circulate on social media, is split into two segments. The first captures a group of approximately seven cartel gunmen believed to belong to La Familia Michoacana with their faces uncovered, dressed in tactical vests, and armed with rifles on an elevated ambush position looking down toward a dirt road, where they anticipated the passing patrol. The second segment captures the actual ambush.

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Updated: The Red Ryder AR-15

Via John   

"You'll shoot your eye out, Kid"

All’s unfair in love, war: Media’s extraordinary hypocrisy on Trump

 

I watched with amusement the past few days as the news media savaged President Donald Trump, first for forcing some ex-generals off his team and then for drawing down troops from the conflicts in Syria and Afghanistan.

My colleagues at many publications and networks were in full-throated hysteria, suggesting the nation is approaching the brink of disaster. Some actually used that very word.

Things sounded so dire that I almost felt like I was reading a chapter from the Book of Revelations or a script from a new Bruce Willis movie. Take, for example:

More @ The Hill

Supreme Court Intervenes In Apparent Mystery Mueller Case

 

Chief Justice John Roberts stayed a contempt order in a case that likely arose from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in a Sunday night order.

Sunday’s order could mark the first time that the Supreme Court has intervened in the Mueller inquiry.

Very little is known of the case, which reached the high court on Saturday, because the matter has proceeded through the federal courts under seal, meaning strict confidentiality prevails over every detail.

The scant facts which are available about the case are these: a grand jury issued a subpoena to an unnamed company owned by a foreign government some time during the summer of 2018. That firm, referred to in court filings as “the corporation” has been fighting the subpoena in federal court since August.

More @ The Daily Caller

Trump Arms Kurdish Allies After US Pulls Out of Syria

 

Last week Trump shocked many with his announcement that the mission was won in Syria against ISIS and he would pull out the 2,000 US troops there.

Democrats, their mainstream media and neocons were outraged.

General Mattis resigned in disgust.

More @ The Gateway Pundit

Vietnamese Immigrants in the United States

Via Lê Bá Dzũng

 

Large-scale immigration from Vietnam to the United States began at the end of the Vietnam War, when the fall of Saigon in 1975 led to the U.S.-sponsored evacuation of an estimated 125,000 Vietnamese refugees. As the humanitarian crisis and displacement of people in the Indochina region (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos) intensified, more refugees and their families were admitted to the United States. The Vietnamese immigrant population has grown significantly since then, roughly doubling every decade between 1980 and 2000, and then increasing 26 percent in the 2000s. In 2017, more than 1.3 million Vietnamese resided in the United States, accounting for 3 percent of the nation’s 44.5 million immigrants and representing the sixth-largest foreign-born group in the country.

More @ Migration Policy

 

The White House just unveiled this year's Christmas decorations, and they're simply magical.

Via Thuy Jones
 

Why Trump Can't Be Airbrushed Out of the Picture

Via John

Only one sitting president who had won the first term failed to secure re-nomination by his party. He was Franklin Pierce, whose demise came in exceptional circumstances created by the division over the issue of slavery as the nation moved towards the War of Secession.

President Donald Trump has put a number of burning issues back on the agenda. These include the widening income gap in the United States, the unintended and unexpected consequences of outsourcing, and the disequilibrium created by signing trade agreements with countries with different labor laws and environmental, health and safety standards.

In foreign policy, Trump has managed to pass on an important message: don't take American heavy lifting for granted! More importantly, Trump has persuaded millions of Americans excluded or self-excluded from the political arena to end their isolation and demand a meaningful place in collective decision-making.

Thus, for the time being at least, air-brushing Trump out of the picture is a forlorn task.

More @ The Gatestone Institute

NC: Over a Dozen Criminal Illegal Aliens Released After Sheriff Vows To Go Against ICE

 

Well, here’s a gambit that can only end well: A North Carolina sheriff has released over a dozen illegal immigrants from jail in order to keep them from being deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker, a Democrat sworn in Dec. 3, had promised to end participation in the federal government’s 287(g) program, according to WRAL-TV. That involves transferring prisoners who were believed to be illegally in the country into ICE’s custody
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“At this point, the sheriff is not going to be honoring those requests of detaining individuals from ICE,” legal adviser Rick Brown told WRAL

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Watch: Lindsey Graham Hammers Dems for Acting ‘Like Children,’ Calls On Trump To ‘Break Them Now’

Via Billy

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Lindsey Graham 2.0 is the greatest software upgrade in history. For those of you old enough to remember, it puts the leap from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 to absolute shame.

Gone is the milquetoast functionary so convinced of his own importance that he thought he was a plausible 2016 presidential candidate and ended up getting vote percentages that needed to be expressed in scientific notation. Now — well, have you been paying attention to the news lately?

More @ CT

'NOW OR NEVER': Ronald Reagan's Son Warns Trump About Border Wall

 

The son of former President Ronald Reagan issued a warning for President Donald Trump this week, telling the president that this is his last chance to get the funding that he needs to build the border wall.

"Hey @POTUS in 1986 my father made a deal with the Democrats Amnesty for Border Security my father is still waiting," Michael Reagan tweeted on Thursday. "U have no choice its now or never.
 #BuildTheWallNow."

More @ The Daily Wire

Remembering Sarge

Via Eddie

 
                   A Herd of Turtles
 

Our family is deeply saddened to inform you that Sarge passed away Friday night. This blog was one of his deepest passions and he enjoyed interacting with each and every one of you, except for Joe. He thought Joe was an asshole.

Thank you for reading and frequenting this blog.

Sincerely,

Sarge's son, Private.

CHECKMATE – Saudi Crown Prince MbS Sends Replacement Troops To Defend Kurds in Syria…

Via Daniel

Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the DC Decepticons are concerned about the Kurdish groups in Syria as the President Trump withdraws U.S. forces.  The concern stems from a possibility of Turkey taking hostile action toward our Kurdish allies.  However, a new report from the region highlights Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is sending his forces to replace the U.S. troops.

SAUDI ARABIA – Saudi Arabia and the UAE have sent military forces to areas controlled by the Kurdish YPG group in north-east Syria, Turkey’s Yenisafak newspaper reported.

The paper said the forces will be stationed with US-led coalition troops and will support its tasks with huge military enforcements as well as heavy and light weapons.

More @ The Last Refuge