Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Securing southern border is Trump’s obligation
Protecting the sovereignty and security of the United States are responsibilities of the commander in chief and if those elements are being compromised by an influx of immigrants at the southern border, President Trump must use the tools at his discretion to remedy the matter.
Border Patrol officials have indicated that border apprehensions have skyrocketed and there are more than 12,000 migrants in the custody of federal agencies. Last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, said, “Two weeks ago, I briefed the media and testified in Congress that our immigration system was at the breaking point. That breaking point has arrived this week at our border.” .
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Tucker Carlson Beats CNN's Entire Prime Time Line Up Combined
Fox News' Tucker Carlson absolutely dominated CNN last week, beating their entire prime time line up combined in total viewers by over 1,000,000 viewers — and CNN is not handling the news well.
Ocasio-Cortez Fires Back At Tucker Carlson Over 'Moron' Comment
CNN's entire prime time line up garnered 2,474,000 total viewers compared to Carlson's 3,475,000 total viewers.
Ratings from Nielsen Media Research for 03/25-03/29
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Pro-Life Movie ‘Unplanned’ Opens at No. 4 at Box Office
Hollywood Reporter reported that the movie faced advertising rejections from cable TV outlets, including Lifetime, Travel Channel, Cooking Channel, HGTV, Food Network, Hallmark Channel, and USA Network. Fox News Channel and the Christian Broadcasting Network accepted ads.
A movie about Abby Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood clinic director who became a pro-life activist, overcame a lack of advertising venues to become the No. 4 film at the U.S. box office during its opening weekend.
“Unplanned,” which took in an estimated $6.4 million, according to Box Office Mojo, tells the true story of Johnson, who moved up at Planned Parenthood but changed her mind about abortion after witnessing the procedure performed during the 13th week of a pregnancy.
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The First Congress
A review of The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government (Simon and Schuster, 2016) by Fergus Bordewich
Amateur historians usually write excellent histories. Left unshackled by the latest groupthink of the academy, these historians tend to be independent thinkers and more importantly better writers than their professional counterparts. Shelby Foote used to implore historians to learn to write better. After all, our job is to influence the public, to “interest it intelligently in the past” as G. M. Trevelyan wrote. Popular histories tend to accomplish this needed and worthwhile goal. Most Americans gather their historical knowledge from the amateurs, but when the amateur lacks a comprehensive understanding of the past or has so ingested the propaganda and dogma of his age that his writing suffers from countless mistakes, it brings to mind Polybius’s question, “But if we knowingly write what is false whether for the sake of our country or our friends, or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers?” Fergus Bordewich fits that last description.
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Tolerating the Past
Historian Charles P. Roland wrote in his forward to Francis Butler Simkins “The Everlasting South” that “probably the great majority of historians today disagree with Professor Simkins’ logic, but probably the great majority of the common folk, wittingly or unwittingly, agree with the gist of it.” As a historian, Simkins was aware that by the late 1950s and early 1960s, major publishing houses in the US were forcing authors to modify their manuscripts to suit liberal values. Speaking honestly about American history was unwanted.
In a letter to a Northerner offended by his writing, he wrote: “You may not understand that I am attempting to give what actually the ordinary Southerner thinks [and] our press – liberal and reactionary – and our politicians will not give publicly to what is actually happening; they want to be overly tactful so as to attract Northern industry . . .” His students reverently referred to Dr. Simkins as “Doc”– and he warned them that they might be making a mistake in following his example.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.org
Tolerating the Past
“What distinguished Doc from so many of his contemporaries was that he refused to truckle to current historical fads, indeed, to use his phrase, he believed that historians ought to “tolerate the South’s past.”
Simkin’s was unashamed of being a Southerner; he was proud of his origins and ancestry. This alone, he knew, was reason enough for most Yankees and Yankeefied Southerners to object to his views.
“I do not attempt to emphasize here the contributions of the South to the history of the United States,” Doc explained in his Southern history textbook. “I propose instead to stress those political and social traits that make the region between the Potomac and Rio Grande a cultural province conscious of its identity.” To him the changes that occurred over time in the South were not nearly as significant as the presence of cultural continuity in the region.
“The militant nationalism of the Southern people supplemented rather than diminished their provincialism; devotion to State and region went along with devotion to the United States,” Doc observed. “Gloating pride in growing cities and imported industries went along with retention of growing habits. The interest of the youth of the region in rifles, dogs and wildlife, like that of the Virginia gentlemen of the eighteenth century, was often greater than their interest in classroom studies.”
Doc often provoked conventional historians by saying or writing things that they did not want to hear. Invited to become a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, he willingly admitted to the administrators that he was something probably no Canadian university had ever had on its faculty – the grandson of a Confederate field officer. Doc even delighted in revealing the full name and regiment of his ancestor – Lieutenant-Colonel John Calhoun Simkins of the 3rd South Carolina Artillery.
In the Southern Historical Association presidential address, “Tolerating the South’s Past,” he denounced the tendency of modern historians to judge the South and its people by today rather than those of the past.
“Chroniclers of Southern history,” he charged, “often do not grasp the most elementary concept of sound historiography: the ability to appraise the past by standards other than those of the present. They accept a fanatical nationalism which leaves little room for static contentment, and a faith in the American dream of human equality which leaves little room for one person to get ahead of another except in making money.”
(The Legacy of Francis Butler Simkins, Grady McWhiney, Southern Partisan, 2nd Quarter 1995, excerpts pg. 23-24)
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
‘Worst Crisis In Border Patrol History,’ Says Border Patrol Union President “If we don’t do something, it’s going to continue to get worse.”
In a radio interview on Tuesday, National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd said that U.S. Border Patrol agents are facing the “worst crisis” the agency has ever seen since its formation in 1924.
When asked about the 20,000 migrants that Mexico warned are presently approaching the border, Judd said there is not much Border Patrol can do.
“We ultimately end up letting them go,” Judd said on WMAL. “They cross the border illegally and then we give them what we call a ‘notice to appear,’ and we release them on their own recognizance and what that means is they promise us that they will return for all of their proceedings, but we know that they never do...They know this, that’s why the numbers are so large.”
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HAMMER: Here Are Three Reasons Why I Plan To Vote For Donald Trump In 2020
Josh Hammer
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The predominant question that will face 2020 Democratic Party primary voters: Do you prioritize dividing the American populace along Marxist-inspired economic class warfare lines or along intersectionality-inspired racial tribal warfare line? That is not an exaggeration.
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Like Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, in the 2016 election I ended up firmly — and, at times, quite zealously — in the "NeverTrump" camp. As such, I decided not to charge the proverbial Flight 93 cockpit and did not vote for Donald Trump in the general election. (Nor did I vote for Hillary Clinton, of course.)
Nearly two and a half years after Trump's momentous defeat of "Felonia von Pantsuit," however, the political landscape for conservatives has dramatically altered. In trying to craft and ascertain what precisely the future of the conservative movement looks like, one thing above all else stands out as obvious: There is no returning to the pre-Trump status quo ante.
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