Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) questioned attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch on immigration at a confirmation hearing today.
“Who has more right to a job in this country: a lawful immigrant who’s
here, a green card holder, or a citizen, or a person who entered the
country unlawfully?” he asked her.
Lynch said the “right and obligation to work is shared by everyone in this country regardless of how they came here.”
On Sunday, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow penned an Op-Ed
entitled, “Library Visit, Then Held at Gunpoint; Charles Blow: At Yale,
the Police Detained My Son.” His son, a third year student at Yale, was
stopped by police and held at gunpoint because he fit the description
of a suspect who committed numerous robberies around campus. Police were
responding to a report of robbery in progress.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said in a recent radio appearance
that while in New York for his Fox News show, he experienced significant
culture shock from all the “trashy” women swearing in a professional
setting.
“In the South, or in the Midwest, there in Iowa, you
would not have people who would just throw the F-bomb or use gratuitous
profanity in a professional setting,” Huckabee told host Jan Mickelson
in a Friday appearance on Des Moines’ “Mickelson in the Morning.”
“In New York, not only do the men do it, but the women,” he said.
“My gosh, this is worse than locker-room talk,” Huckabee continued. “As we would say in the South, that’s just trashy.”
Obama administration Muslim adviser Mohamed Elibiary is no stranger to regular PJ Media readers.
In September, Elibiary was unceremoniously removed from his fellowship position with the Department of Homeland Security, which he tried to spin as a “resignation,” but letters sent to members of Congress by DHS officials indicated he would not be reappointed.
But Elibiary has apparently not learned his lesson, engaging in a
hate-filled anti-Christian rant on Twitter yesterday, even going so far
to attack Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as a “bottom feeder”:
Israel and Hezbollah are at war. On top of everything else that is
going on in the world, now we have a new war in the Middle East, and
nobody is quite certain what is going to happen next. Israel has been
preparing for this moment for more than 8 years. So has Hezbollah.
According to some reports, Hezbollah has amassed an arsenal of 50,000 rockets
since the end of the Hezbollah-Israel war in 2006. If all-out warfare
does erupt, we could potentially see tens of thousands of missiles rain
down into an area not too much larger than the state of New Jersey.
And of course the Israeli military is also much more sophisticated and
much more powerful than it was back in 2006.
If cooler heads do not
prevail, we could be on the verge of witnessing a very bloody war. But
right now nobody seems to be in the mood to back down. Hezbollah is
absolutely fuming over an airstrike earlier this month that killed six
fighters and a prominent Iranian general. And Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel is “prepared to act powerfully on all fronts”
in response to a Hezbollah ambush that killed two Israeli soldiers and
wounded seven. Just such an incident is what sparked the war between
the two sides back in 2006. But this time, a conflict between Israel
and Hezbollah could spark a full-blown regional war.
The vast majority of Americans cannot comprehend the reality of combat. Media portrayals, no matter how seemingly realistic, only dimly reflect the true nature of what it means to come under fire from an enemy.
Films like “Lone Survivor” and “American Sniper” may be gripping, but the reality is even more intense, unsettling — and consequential.
Serving in Afghanistan in 2006-2007 with the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division, my platoon and I engaged Taliban combatants repeatedly along the Pakistan border area. My platoon was deployed 485 days, with one of the highest casualty rates of the entire war.
The hardest lesson I learned was that in a combat situation, sheer uncertainty stalks you constantly. Amid that uncertainty, you’re forced to make instantaneous >To grasp the price of that uncertainty, consider the case of Clint Lorance — a 29-year-old U.S. Army lieutenant sentenced to military prison for ordering his men to fire upon Afghan nationals he believed were a threat. The facts suggest the punishment rendered to Lorance is a stark injustice — and is a chilling example to all who have had to make tough decisions in complex combat situations.
........says Raisin Valley Farms owner Marvin Horne.
This is but one absurdity that
Marvin and his wife Laura have faced during their decade-long legal
battle with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Every
year, the Hornes plant seeds, tie vines, harvest fruit, and place grapes
in paper trays to create sun-dried raisins. And every year, the federal
government prevents them from bringing their full harvest to market.
It’s called an agriculture
marketing order. Depression-era regulations meant to stabilize crop
prices endanger the livelihoods of small farmers across the country, but
the raisin marketing order is particularly egregious. An elected board
of bureaucrats known as the Raisin Administrative Committee decides what
the proper yield should be in any given year in order to meet a
previously decided-upon price. Once they can estimate the size of the
year’s harvest, they force every farmer to surrender a percentage of
their crop to raisin packers. The packers then place the raisins in a
“reserve pool,” a special holding vat for raisins that cannot be sold in
the U.S. Eventually, the packers can sell the reserve pool raisins
overseas at highly discounted prices set by the government or funnel
them into school lunch programs for next to nothing.
The farmers were always
supposed to get a percentage of the money raised from the reserve pool
raisins, but as profit margins dwindled over the years, so did the
return to farmers. The tipping point came in 2003, when farmers received
zero dollars in return for the 47 percent of the crop they had
surrendered.
“You can’t work for a whole year and then give 47 percent of what you made away and still keep that business afloat,” says Laura Horne.
In the five months since Jan Morgan banned Muslims from her gun range
in Hot Springs, Ark., business has boomed and predictions of a lawsuit
brought by federal civil rights enforcers have so far proved inaccurate.
Morgan, who claims keeping Muslims out of her Gun Cave Indoor Firing
Range is a matter of public safety and not a constitutional issue, says
she made the decision in September after two customers she deemed
suspicious visited. She said their furtive behavior and cellphone
ringtones of “Allahu Akhbar” prompted her to revise her range’s
policies.
The State Department hosted a delegation of Muslim
Brotherhood-aligned leaders this week for a meeting about their ongoing
efforts to oppose the current government of President Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi of Egypt, who rose to power following the overthrow of Mohamed
Morsi, an ally of the Brotherhood, in 2013.
One member of the delegation, a Brotherhood-aligned judge in Egypt, posed for a picture
while at Foggy Bottom in which he held up the Islamic group’s notorious
four-finger Rabia symbol, according to his Facebook page.
That delegation member, Waleed Sharaby, is a secretary-general of the
Egyptian Revolutionary Council and a spokesman for Judges for Egypt, a
group reported to have close ties to the Brotherhood.
