In The Mailbox: 01.11.19
Posted on | January 12, 2019 | 1 Comment
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: There’s No Cure For Being Mitt Romney
Twitchy: Byron York Questions Whether NYT Article is About Trump Or FBI Malfeasance
Louder With Crowder: Three MS-13 Members Stab Teen In The Neck. Yes, They’re Here Illegally.
According To Hoyt: The Crazy Is Infectious
Monster Hunter Nation: House Of Assassins Book Tour Schedule
Vox Popoli: Heuristics Are Not Proof
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Illegal Immigrants Are Illegal Edition
American Power: Emma Cline, The Girls
American Thinker: Hiding Evidence – The Continuing Coverup
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Political Hypocrite News
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 11
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Ford Has Chosen – Now How Many Christians Like Me Will Make Different Choices? also, Andre Galloway, Jazmine Barnes, And Da Tech Guy’s Third Law Of Media Outrage
Don Surber: Who Gave National Review The Power To Excommunicate? also, Star Democrat Freshman Says She’ll Vote For The Wall
Dustbury: When You Need Better Friends
First Street Journal: The Only Acceptable Answer? None Of Your F*cking Business!
The Geller Report: UK Exhibit Featuring Muslims Who Helped Jews During Holocaust Canceled Due To Muslim Protest, also, Marco Rubio Explains Anti-BDS Bill Blocked By Democrats
Hogewash: This Offends Me, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Why Upside May Change Kevin Hart’s Career
Joe For America: New Study Says Pork Fat One Of Top Ten Most Nutritious Foods
JustOneMinute: Girding For Ginsburg
Legal Insurrection: CNN’s Ana Navarro Files Her Nails During Discussion Of Americans Murdered By Illegals, also, Dem Rep Tulsi Gabbard Is Running For President, And That’s Important
The PanAm Post: Colombia – Calls For Greater Initiative In Border Region As Venezuelan Collapse Continues
Power Line: A Warning From Robert P. George – Democrats Will Turn On Israel, also, The Great Undoing Continues
Shark Tank: DeSantis Replaces Scott Israel, Appoints New Broward County Sheriff
Shot In The Dark: “Pour Encourager Les Autres”
STUMP: Math Stupidity – Comparing Pizzas & What’s Important
The Political Hat: Is there A Catgirl Gap?
This Ain’t Hell: Sgt. Trey Troney Saving The World, also, Marines To Reduce Infantryman’s Load By Recruiting Fewer Wussies
Victory Girls: Texas GOP Squashes Bigotry In Its Own Ranks
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: NC Police Report Three Illegals Busted With $200,000 In Meth, also, Former Broward County Sheriff Israel Blames NRA For His Removal
Megan McArdle: Let’s Step back From The Wall And Consider – Why Does Anyone Even Care?
Mark Steyn: The Beto & Cher Show
Crazy People Are Dangerous
Posted on | January 12, 2019 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous
On Dec. 28, sheriff’s deputies in Stevens County, Washington, responded to the report of a shooting at a home near Colville, about 70 miles north of Spokane. They arrived to find that Mark Leland, 51, had been shot with a .357 revolver by his father-in-law, James Gates, 72, as the result of an apparent domestic dispute. Leland died later than night in a nearby hospital. He and his wife had been visiting her father, and this shooting in Washington state made headlines in the Portland Oregonian because Leland’s wife — Gates’s daughter — was one of the most notorious killers in Oregon history. In 1980, when she was 13 years old, Michele Gates drowned a 4-year-old girl she had been babysitting. While being questioned by police, Michele Gates confessed that two years earlier, she had drowned her 3-year-old cousin by shoving her into a pond at the zoo. The case spent years in the juvenile justice system:
Psychiatrists deemed the girl a sociopath, incapable of controlling short-term impulses. She almost avoided prosecution because of debate over her mental state. She spent time at a home for troubled kids in Maine, and at one point before the case was resolved, police were alarmed to learn she had gotten a job as swimming coach at the local YMCA.
Finally, in January 1985, when she was 18, Gates was convicted of the juvenile equivalent of murder. She avoided prison because state law at the time forbade incarcerating female juvenile offenders past the age of 18. That conviction was later expunged, allowing her to legally say on job applications that she’d never been convicted of a crime.
That lasted until 1992, when Gates, then 26 and using the last name Shorthouse, was indicted in federal court on charges of arson and solicitation to commit murder. She was accused of hiring one of her ex-boyfriends to kill her fiance’s ex-girlfriend.
Gates had blamed the woman for telling others of her criminal past, and Gates wanted to help her fiance win back custody of his young son, prosecutors alleged. She pleaded guilty that year to lesser charges of abetting arson and interstate travel with intent to commit murder, and was sentenced to 15 years in federal custody.
To recap: Sociopath killed two children and later attempted to kill another woman, and now her father shot her husband to death.
Crazy people are dangerous.
(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)
Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Posted on | January 11, 2019 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
by Smitty
“Haven’t been across Grandpa Eddy’s Bridge in 40 years,” I say, looking at young Tim, angry at being peeled off of his iPad for a walk with his grandfather, “I heard they’d renovated it last year.”

“This is stupid,” decides Tim with a 7 year old’s vehemence. We make the right turn, head down.
“Stupid? He took me up into the forest where he had a still.”
“A still what?”
“Still haven’t figured out there’s more to life than electronics.”
We go up the hill quite a bit slower than I used to.
The old oak marks the turn.
There it is.
—
via Darleen
Girl Found Alive After Being Kidnapped by Man Who Murdered Her Parents
Posted on | January 11, 2019 | Comments Off on Girl Found Alive After Being Kidnapped by Man Who Murdered Her Parents
Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs escaped with her life Thursday after being held captive for nearly three months by the man who police say murdered her parents James and Denise Closs. The suspect, 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson, specifically targeted the Closs home Oct. 15 with the intention of kidnapping Jayme, according to authorities in Wisconsin:
Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said Patterson had ‘zero’ criminal history, but said he had “specific intent” to kidnap Jayme Closs, during a 4 p.m. press conference Friday.
Fitzgerald said the suspect used a shotgun to shoot open the door to the Closs family home on Oct. 15 and then used the gun to kill James and Denise Closs before kidnapping Jayme. Fitzgerald said law enforcement recovered a gun that is consistent with the gun used at the crime scene. Investigators are waiting on forensics to prove that it is the same weapon.
Patterson planned his actions and took significant steps to hide his identity from law enforcement, according to Fitzgerald. Those steps included shaving his head so he would not leave trace evidence of his hair at the crime scene.
Jayme escaped from Patterson’s home in Gordon, which is in Douglas County, Thursday afternoon when Patterson was not home, according to Fitzgerald.
“Jayme is the hero in this case, there is no question about it,” Fitzgerald said.
She left the house on foot and was found around 4:30 p.m. Thursday, a short distance away from Patterson’s home, after approaching a woman who was walking her dog. The woman took Jayme to a neighbor’s home and the homeowner called 911.
Douglas County Sheriff Tom Dalbeck said his deputies responded and quickly identified Jayme. They soon located a vehicle matching the description of the suspect’s vehicle given to them by Jayme. Police believe Patterson was out looking for Jayme when they made contact with him. Patterson was arrested 10 minutes after Jayme was found. Officers interviewed Patterson and then brought him to Barron County.
The place where Jayme was found was about 70 miles north of where she was kidnapped, and at this point we don’t know how or why Patterson choose her as the target of what was evidently a crime he had planned carefully. We know almost nothing about Patterson, but there must be something unusual in his background to explain the level of evil required to do what he is accused of doing. Details of her escape:
On Thursday, Closs was able to escape from a cabin before flagging down a person walking a dog in Gordon and asking for help. Jeanne Nutter, the woman who first spotted Closs, told The Associated Press she “was terrified” but wanted to “get her to a safe place.” She recalled the teen looked disheveled, dirty and thin. She also noted Closs was wearing shoes too big for her feet.
“She [Closs] just yelled, ‘Please help me, I don’t know where I am. I’m lost,'” Nutter recalled.
The two went to the home of Peter and Kristin Kasinskas who called 911.
Kristin Kasinskas told The Associated Press she did not know why the teen was targeted. She said Closs told her that the suspect “killed my parents and took me.” Kasinskas said she didn’t know Patterson, although he lived three doors down from her. She said she taught him science in middle school but remembered him as being quiet. She said she did not see him during the months Closs was missing.
Another “quiet loner” type.
Google: ‘To Control the Narrative, We Planted Stories with Journalists’
Posted on | January 11, 2019 | 1 Comment
One of the things I noticed during the August 2017 controversy about Google’s firing of James Damore was that the media were promoting “fake news” about the Harvard-educated scientist:
Repeatedly, headlines mischaracterize Damore’s views as “anti-diversity” (despite his clearly stated support for diversity) and news articles falsely assert that Damore argued women were “genetically unsuited” (Washington Post) or “biologically unfit” (CNN) to work in high tech.
Are these journalists simply illiterate? Do they lack the reading comprehension skills necessary to understand what James Damore wrote?
We now know the answer to that question, thanks to an anonymous Google employee who has told the truth about what happened:
I was involved in the internal decisions involving James Damore’s memo, and it’s terrible what we did to him. . . .
To quell dissent, we: told executives to write to their employees condemning the memo; manipulated our internal Memegen to bias the ratings towards anti-Damore posts (the head of Memegen is an “ally” to the diversity cause); and gave every manager talking points on what to tell their reports about the memo. In all our communications, we concentrated on how hurt employees purportedly were and diverted attention from Google’s discriminatory employment practices and political hegemony, never mind the science.
We needed to make an example of Damore. . . . When we did fire him, our reputation and integrity took a hit, but at least other employees were now afraid to speak up. . . .
To control the narrative, we planted stories with journalists and flexed Google’s muscles where necessary. In exchange for insider access and preferential treatment, all we ask for is their loyalty. For online media, Google’s ads pay their paycheck and our search brings their customers, so our influence shouldn’t be underestimated. . . .
Read the whole thing by Deb Heine at PJ Media (hat-tip: Instapundit).
What happened to Damore was eerily reminiscent of Stalin-era purges in the Soviet Union — the dezinformatsiya campaign spread through party-controlled channels, demonizing the targets as an “enemy of the people” (vrag naroda) to justify their destruction.
A successful campaign to “control the narrative” produces a strange reversal of reality: When all the “respectable” media are repeating the officially approved lie, those who tell the truth are made to seem like dangerous extremists, proponents of “racism,” etc. If you have read Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, you know the targets of Stalin’s purges — veteran Bolsheviks who had risked their lives for the Revolution — were smeared as spies, saboteurs, Trotskyists and so forth. And many in the Western media repeated these transparently false Stalinist propaganda smears as if they were actually true.
The quote emblazoned atop my blog — “One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up” — is from Arthur Koestler, a disillusioned ex-Communist whose famous novel Darkness at Noon dramatized the reality of Soviet life under Stalinism. The younger generation, who know nothing of the bloody 20th-century history of “social justice,” are being led toward their own destruction.
In The Mailbox: 01.10.19
Posted on | January 11, 2019 | 1 Comment
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: 911 Response Times Will Never Be Zero
EBL: Homeless Man Brings Dead Raccoon To San Francisco McDonald’s
Twitchy: President Trump & Donald Trump Jr. Double-Team Jim Acosta After Wall Self-Own
Louder With Crowder: Jim Acosta Tries Proving The Wall is Unnecessary, Does The Complete Opposite
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: An Added Bonus Of The Government Shutdown
American Power: Albert Camus, The Rebel
American Thinker: Our New “Most Dangerous Of Morons”
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Gun Buy-Back Shenanigans News
BattleSwarm: El Chapo Ensnared By His Own Spyware
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: End The Fed Instead Of Just Firing The Chairman, also, The Unexpectedly Chronicles
Don Surber: NBC’s Myth Of Sawing Through The Wall
Dustbury: She Has A Roof Over Her Head
The Geller Report: Democrats Approve $500 Million For Border Wall…In The Middle East, also, Linda Sarsour Claims Mohammed Was A Human Rights Activist
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Are Psychologists Losing Their Minds?
Hollywood In Toto: Author Says Traditional Publishing Is “Too Slow, Incestuous”
Joe For America: Cher Sides With Trump, Tells Pelosi To Build The Wall
Legal Insurrection: Kamala Harris Expected To Announce Run For White House On MLK Day, also, Trump Arrives In Texas For Border Visit, Meeting With Border Patrol
The PanAm Post: Paraguay Condemns Maduro, Breaks Diplomatic Relations, also, OAS Declares Maduro An Illegitimate President
Power Line: Marijuana, Mental Illness, & Crime, also, The Great Issue Of Our Time
Shark Tank: Trump Holds The Line On The Border
Shot In The Dark: Nerd Rituals I’ve Never Participated In
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – BOLO Death
The Political Hat: Anti-White – Disallowing White People, Genociding White People, & Abolishing White People
This Ain’t Hell: Thoughts From Poetrooper, also, Navy Admits Railroading Marine Operator Falsely Accused Of War Crimes
Victory Girls: CNN Analyst Files Nails, Doesn’t Care About Border Security
Volokh Conspiracy: Textual Analysis Of HR8, Bill That Requires Background Check For Every Firearm Sale
Weasel Zippers: Democrats Don’t Want To Fund The Wall – What Do They Want Funded? also, Pelosi Dismisses Deaths Of Cpl. Singh, Migrant Children As “Plural Anecdotes”
Megan McArdle: No, Ocasio-Cortez, It’s Not Because You’re A Woman
Mark Steyn: Je Suis Charlie, Four Years On
The Happiness Gap
Posted on | January 10, 2019 | Comments Off on The Happiness Gap
The secret to happiness is low expectations.
In an affluent modern society, most of our emotional problems can be described as disappointment, originating in the failure of life to match our fondest hopes and ambitions. It’s not that the life we actually have is necessarily bad, but that we can imagine so many ways it could be better. So instead of being happy with the adequacy of our lives, we make ourselves miserable by thinking of how far our lives are from an imagined ideal. By the standards of most human beings throughout the world, or of our own ancestors in previous ages, the middle-class American’s life is a paradise of ease and luxury. Why shouldn’t we be happy?
Despite this objective reality — Americans have got it good — we are living amid an epidemic of mental illness, a plague of anxiety and depression that especially affects young women. Many experts blame this problem on excessive exposure to social media:
Now, a new study from the University of Essex and University College London finds that teenagers who spend more hours a day on social media have a greater risk for depression, and the connection appears to be particularly pronounced for girls.
The team looked at data from over 10,000 14-year-olds taking part in the UK Millennial Cohort Study. Participants filled out questionnaires about their social media use, and about their mental health—for instance, depression symptoms were assessed by the Moods and Feelings Questionnaire (the teens rated how much they agreed or disagreed with statements like, “I felt miserable or unhappy,” “I didn’t enjoy anything at all,” “I felt so tired I just sat around and did nothing” over the past two weeks).
In general, girls used social media more than boys, with 40% of girls, and 20% of boys, using it for more than three hours per day. Only 4% of girls reported abstaining completely, compared to 10% of boys.
And the more a person used social media, the greater their likelihood for experiencing depression symptoms: 12% of light social media users and 38% of heavy social media users had depression symptoms.
The fact is that men and women use social media in different ways, for different purposes. To generalize quite broadly, women care more about friendship than men, and use social media as a way of monitoring and/or enhancing their popularity. Because popularity — social status — is a transient and unstable value, anyone who becomes excessively concerned with it is chasing the wind. As students of evolutionary psychology have argued, however, this female concern with social status is a sort of survival instinct and is thus hardwired into women’s nature, and it gives rise to the poisonous emotion of envy. Sigmund Freud once remarked: “It must be admitted that women have but little sense of justice, and this is no doubt connected with the preponderance of envy in their mental life.” This has been cited by feminists as evidence of Freud’s misogyny, but the phenomenon he described is quite real, and intelligent women are aware of this problem. In fact, feminists themselves have lamented how envy has been harmful to their movement.
In the early days of the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, feminists identified this problem as “trashing.” As soon as any woman attained prominence as a leader of the movement, she would be attacked by other feminists envious of her success. This happened to Kate Millett and Shulamith Firestone, among others, and was evident in the aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat, when a round of finger-pointing ensued with “white feminism” being blamed for her loss.
Feminists have complained about the “wage gap” between men and women, and critics have shown this to be a statistical mirage. What has received less attention is the happiness gap — the greater levels of discontent among women, a problem that the feminist movement will not address in any meaningful way, because it is the purpose of feminism to incite discontent as a force to be harnessed for political activism.
Of course, feminists insist that men are the problem:
For the first time in its history, the American Psychological Association (APA) released guidelines concerning men and boys, saying that so-called “traditional masculinity” not only is “harmful” but also could lead to homophobia and sexual harassment.
“The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful,” reads the news release by the famed association.
It notes that research shows “traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.”
The 36-page document goes on to coin “masculinity ideology,” which stems from traditional masculinity, and claims that it harms boys and men.
What is particularly misguided here is the attack on stoicism. Why, we must ask, are boys taught to “suppress their emotions”?
Answer: Because these emotions cause conflict and violence.
The ability to endure hardship without complaint, and to stifle one’s resentment of minor insults, is necessary to male survival. Stoicism is conducive to male success, because cooperation is impossible if everyone’s sulking over their hurt feelings. There’s an old saying, “If you’re not the lead dog on the sled, the view never changes.” Effective teamwork requires us to accept organizational hierarchy as necessary to the joint effort. If you don’t like the coach’s rules, you can quit the team, but so long as you are a member of the team, you must uphold the coach’s authority. The childish attitude that manifests itself as whining self-pity must be prohibited in order for the team to maintain esprit de corps.
A stoic mindset — “mental toughness,” as I would call it — is conducive to success, and successful people are happier than failures, so why is the American Psychological Association targeting stoicism as a harmful aspect of “toxic masculinity”? Insofar as any man engages in toxic behavior, it’s certainly not because he’s been studying stoic philosophy (e.g., Marcus Aurelius). The mastery of one’s own emotions — the ability to remain calm amid adversity, to behave rationally in a crisis — is the proper lesson of stoicism. The true motive of the APA’s attack on “toxic masculinity” lies not in anything wrong with stoicism, but rather a problem in the field of psychology. About two-thirds of practicing psychologists (65% in 2016) are women, and among those 40 and younger, 80% of psychologists are female.
The declining number of males in the field of psychology can be explained by discrimination in academia. In recent decades, a concern for “diversity” among university administrators has made it nearly impossible for males (especially white males) to be hired as professors in the fields of sociology and psychology. As the faculty in these fields are now overwhelmingly female, the curriculum has become infused with anti-male bias. There is an overlap between the psychology faculty and university Gender Studies departments, so that the typical psychology professor is now a radical feminist ideologue, and it is therefore hardly surprising that very few male students major in psychology.
American Psychological Association responds to our Twitter criticisms of their anti-male statement by doubling down with preachy, vague, gender-feminist, social-justice rhetoric ('masculinities come in many forms' ; we must respect all genders' etc). https://t.co/Q1NpTdyTuo
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) January 9, 2019
Is conventional masculinity a disorder as the new @APA Guidelines suggest? My take: “Christina Hoff Sommers on the American Psychological Association Masculinity Warning “ ?@YouTube? ?@FoxNews? ?@TuckerCarlson? https://t.co/mU8MtQyMwX
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) January 9, 2019
Feminists now control the American Psychological Association, and feminists are not interested in helping men be happy. The fundamental purpose of feminism is to deprive men of happiness — identify something that makes men happy, and then destroy it. This new APA report about “toxic masculinity” is nothing more than a typical feminist exercise in demonizing and scapegoating males, per se. Have I mentioned lately that Deborah Frisch was once a psychology professor?
Colorado Inmate 182605 has a Ph.D. in psychology and was a tenure-track faculty member at the University of Oregon before she went off the rails. Her descent into complete madness was apparent long before she was sentenced to the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility. If an expertise in psychology leads to happiness, why is Dr. Frisch sitting in a Colorado prison? What happened to her may involve personal problems that are unrelated to her academic specialty, but certainly her advanced degrees in psychology did not inoculate her against insanity.
The epidemic of mental illness among young women cannot be explained by invoking a feminist theory of “toxic masculinity.” What the APA has done is to scapegoat males by demonizing traditional masculine values. If women are unhappy, men are to blame, but if men are unhappy, men are to blame for that, too! Feminist control of the psychology profession has produced “research” that claims to prove that (a) males are universally evil, and (b) women are never responsible for their own problems.
Well, I certainly can’t tell these “experts” what to do. They haven’t solicited my advice, and the APA is free to go to hell in the time and manner of their own choosing. All I can do is maintain my stoic resolve, to remain calm and cheerful as I bid them bon voyage.
In The Mailbox: 01.09.19
Posted on | January 10, 2019 | 1 Comment
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #495
EBL: Irony – Bill Kristol’s New Lefty-Funded Venture Name Is Synonymous With Wall
Twitchy: Sally Kohn, Marc Lamont Hill, & Electric Intifada Express Support For Vile Commie Angela Davis
Louder With Crowder: This Photo Of Schumer & Pelosi Watching Their Disastrous Response Is Everything
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Least Genetically Fit
American Power: Schumer & Pelosi Become Instant Memes With Their Response To Trump’s Border Speech, also, How The Pursuit Of Fame Is Warping American Society
American Thinker: Democrats Can Fund The World, But Not The Wall
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Daily Kos – Man, We Sure Love Us Some Old White Heterosexual Millionaires!
CDR Salamander: So, Let’s Talk About The 5″ General Purpose Gun
Da Tech Guy: The Holy Father, Captain Renault, & The Irony Of Truth, also, What We Need To Do Is Educate
Don Surber: CBS Caught Trump In A Lie. Hilarity Ensues
Dustbury: Make A Meal Of Deborah
The Geller Report: Sculpture Celebrating Saudi Arabia Erected At Ground Zero, also, Congressman Calls For Halt To Nation Of Islam Funding
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Fake Election Ads 2018
Hollywood In Toto: Dystopian Dogs Hits Too Close To Home
Joe For America: The Best Of The Pelosi/Schumer Memes
JustOneMinute: Top Tax Rates Outside The Bubble
Legal Insurrection: Mystery Solved – Laura Loomer Kicked Off Twitter Thanks To CAIR, also, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out Sen. Hirono For “Fomenting Religious Bigotry”
Michelle Malkin: Border Wall – A Monument For The People, Not The Pols
The PanAm Post: What Does The Ecuadorian Economy Need In 2019?
Power Line: Anti-Communism Is A Hate Crime? also, Going Broke In The Heart Of The Beast
Shark Tank: Gov. DeSantis’ Inauguration Speech Promises To Expand On Scott’s Successes
Shot In The Dark: Unexpectedly
STUMP: Mortality With Meep
The Political Hat: Broke – Big Brother; Woke – Big Sister
This Ain’t Hell: Army Deserter Found In Indiana After 20 Years, also, Navy Backlogged On Reserve Retirement Pay
Victory Girls: What Democrats Used To Say About The Border
Volokh Conspiracy: 9th Circuit Upholds Federal Ban On Gun Ownership By Illegal Aliens
Weasel Zippers: Occasional Cortex Slams Trump For Funding ICE – Five Days After She Voted To Fund Them, also, The Democratic Operation To Suppress GOP Turnout In 2018
Mark Steyn: The Real Crisis