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In The Mailbox: 01.26.17

Posted on | January 26, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.26.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: President Trump Promises His Wall Will Be Way Greater Than Matt Damon’s
Twitchy: GayPatriot Destroys The Left’s Fearmongering In The LGBT Community Regarding Trump #DeportDramaQueens
Louder With Crowder: Congress To Reverse Obama’s Awful Social Security Gun Restrictions


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Adam Piggott: Podcast #33 – The Holiday Episode
American Power: Unindicted Council On Islamic-American Relations Furious After Trump Bans Muslim Immigration
American Thinker: The DC Empire Strikes Back
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Special Relationship News
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – Rusty’s Best Montana, And Mine Too!
Da Tech Guy: Trump Takes Two DaTechGuy Ideas And Runs With Them – Time To Panic, MSM
Don Surber: Drop #theresistance Crap, Media
Dustbury: The Petries Of New Rochelle
Fred On Everything: New York Times Replaced By Black Box, World Relieved
Hogewash: What Presidential Honeymoon?
Jammie Wearing Fools: That Was Fast – Trump Surges To 59% Approval, Angry Left Hardest Hit
Joe For America: Twitter Goes Nuts Over What Melania Trump Did After Blind Singer Finished Hymn
JustOneMinute: Here We Go Again
Power Line: Meltdown On The Left – Where To Begin?, also, Did Donald Trump Carry Minnesota?
Shark Tank: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Banned In Miami, For Now
Shot In The Dark: Yelling And Breaking Things
STUMP: Kentucky Pension Liabilities – Trends In ERS, County, And Teachers Plans
The Geller Report: Mexican President Vows To Protect Illegals Living In U.S. From Trump
The Jawa Report: Meanwhile In Austria
The Political Hat: School Indoctrination, School Stupefaction, School Neurosis
This Ain’t Hell: The Army Is Looking For A Few Good Cyberpeeps
War Is Boring: Singapore’s YouTubers Take On PRC Over Seized Armored Vehicles
Weasel Zippers: President Trump To Sign Executive Order Dramatically Slashing UN Funding, also, Surprise! Bay Area Restaurants Vanishing After Minimum Wage Hike
Megan McArdle: In Defense Of Trump’s “Day of Patriotic Devotion”
Mark Steyn: Fighting Fire With Fire


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Deranged Cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt Continues His Descent into Madness

Posted on | January 26, 2017 | Comments Off on Deranged Cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt Continues His Descent into Madness

Bill Schmalfeldt, ranting on YouTube, circa 2011.

Years of working in “file-it-and-forget-it” mode — today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s fishwrapper — means that stories I once covered on an almost daily basis are routinely consigned to the archives. For a few months in 2013, for example, I covered the Kate Hunt saga in a thorough and relentless manner until she was finally sentenced to jail, at which point I dusted off my hands and moved on to other stories.

Likewise, I spent nearly two years covering every angle of the Brett Kimberlin saga until, in August 2014, the Pro Se Perjurer was defeated in the $1 million Maryland defamation lawsuit, Kimberlin v. Walker, et al.

Most unwisely, the Pipsqueak Pipe Bomber decided to turn that case into the Brett Kimberlin Pedophile Trial and when he lost . . . Well, what more could any Neutral Objective Journalist say? “Case closed.”

My erstwhile co-defendant John Hoge, however, has not been so forgiving of the Notorious Nuisance Litigator. Kimberlin has continued picking fights with Mr. Hoge, who has repeatedly defeated Kimberlin in court, much to the embarrassment of a certain obese Kimberlin fanboy.

Google “deranged cyberstalker” and Bill Schmalfeldt‘s name comes up for some reason, perhaps because in November 2012, the neckless lunatic decided that it would be a clever idea to target my wife for harassment.

Because there are many other more interesting stories my readers care about, I’ve more or less ignored the otherwise obscure Schmalfeldt the past couple of years. Probably the last time I mentioned him was in October (“Deranged Cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt Is Still Deranged and, Yes, Cyberstalking”) when the fat fool recycled a particularly wretched falsehood. However, we must ask, what does it say about Bill Schmalfeldt that he has continued his obsessive attacks against John Hoge?

Here is the thing that Bill Schmalfeldt can’t seem to understand: Whereas I am a Neutral Objective Journalist who is only interested in reporting and commenting on newsworthy events and personalities, John Hoge is a private citizen who just happened to take offense at Brett Kimberlin’s cruel vendetta against the lawyer Aaron Walker. My gonzo approach to the Kimberlin saga led to some personal involvement on my part, but I nevertheless kept reminding myself that I was a journalist covering a story, which is why I never sued anybody or filed for any restraining orders, etc. By contrast, the private citizen John Hoge is not constrained by any such consideration — unfortunately for Bill Schmalfeldt.

Judging from what my friend John Hoge has written lately on this subject, it would seem that Bill Schmalfeldt doesn’t comprehend the meaning of the word “plagiarism” and, by incorrectly applying this word to Mr. Hoge’s work, Schmalfeldt has committed torts against Mr. Hoge — allegedly, I hasten to add, because far be it from me to claim any specific knowledge of all the legal matters involved in this dispute. Knowing the character of the participants, however, I can safely say:

  1. If Bill Schmalfeldt were wise, he would leave Mr. Hoge alone;
    but
  2. Bill Schmalfeldt is a fool, and will be unable to restrain himself from further inciting Mr. Hoge’s ire;
    and therefore
  3. Mr. Hoge will continue to inflict humiliating defeats on Schmalfeldt.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

By the way, it probably isn’t Neutral Objective Journalism to encourage readers to hit the tip jar at Hogewash. But really, you should.

 

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt

‘Our Political Opponents’: Notorious Traitor Declares ‘Progressive’ Loyalty

Posted on | January 26, 2017 | Comments Off on ‘Our Political Opponents’: Notorious Traitor Declares ‘Progressive’ Loyalty

 

The headline on today’s Guardian column:

Chelsea Manning: Compromise does not work
with our political opponents. When will we learn?

In case you forgot, Bradley “Chelsea” Manning is the mentally ill coward and traitor who deserved to be shot by a firing squad, but was instead sentenced to serve 35 years in Fort Leavenworth, a sentence that was commuted last week by The Worst President in History.

 

There are no words strong enough to convey the contempt that every patriotic American must feel toward Bradley “Chelsea” Manning. If one of his/“her” fellow inmates at Leavenworth had murdered Manning in cold blood, I would advocate a presidential pardon for that inmate. And so, I think, we may draw our own conclusions about Manning’s use of first-person plural pronouns in this column:

Barack Obama left behind hints of a progressive legacy. Unfortunately, despite his faith in our system and his positive track record on many issues over the last eight years, there have been very few permanent accomplishments.
This vulnerable legacy should remind us that what we really need is a strong and unapologetic progressive to lead us. What we need as well is a relentless grassroots movement to hold that leadership accountable. . . .
The one simple lesson to draw from President Obama’s legacy: do not start off with a compromise. They won’t meet you in the middle. Instead, what we need is an unapologetic progressive leader.
We need someone who is unafraid to be criticized, since you will inevitably be criticized. We need someone willing to face all of the vitriol, hatred and dogged determination of those opposed to us. Our opponents will not support us nor will they stop thwarting the march toward a just system that gives people a fighting chance to live. Our lives are at risk — especially for immigrants, Muslim people and black people.
We need to stop asking them to give us our rights. We need to stop hoping that our systems will right themselves. We need to actually take the reins of government and fix our institutions. We need to save lives by making change at every level.

Who is this “we”/“us”/“our” for whom Manning speaks? Democrats.

Just keep it up, Democrats. The American people are watching you.



 

Category: Democrats, Military

The Clinton News Network

Posted on | January 26, 2017 | 1 Comment

Gabriel Sherman at New York magazine:

Shortly after 9 p.m. [Tuesday] night, Donald Trump launched another salvo at CNN, tweeting: “Congratulations to @FoxNews for being number one in inauguration ratings. They were many times higher than FAKE NEWS @CNN — public is smart!” CNN tweeted back that they had matched Fox in Nielsen numbers: “Those are the facts.”
Trump’s attacks on CNN may be a response to the network’s recent coverage, which Trump views as biased and unfair. But sources say there may also be a personal dimension at play: According to people close to both sides, Trump has told White House staffers that he feels personally betrayed by CNN chief Jeff Zucker.
Trump complains that Zucker should be programming CNN more favorably toward him because of their long relationship, which can be traced back to 2004 when Zucker put The Apprentice on NBC. Trump has also said to White House staffers that Zucker owes him because Trump helped get him the job at CNN.

The bias at CNN is not a matter of personal perception. The network clearly made a choice, several years ago, to challenge MSNBC for the loyalty of left-wing voters, and it did so in very cynical way: First, by treating the Tea Party movement of 2009-2010 as illegitimate, and second, by turning the 2012 Trayvon Martin story into national news.

Some of this was arguably defensible as a business decision. If Fox News dominates among Republican-leaning voters, it would seem logical that the two other major cable networks — CNN and MSNBC — are vying mainly for Democrat-leaning voters. During the Bush presidency, MSNBC boosted its ratings by positioning Keith Olbermann as the spokesman for anti-Bush sentiment. Olbermann’s “Angriest Man on TV” act, however, lost much of its raison d’etre once Obama became president. When Olbermann left MSNBC in 2011, this created an opportunity for CNN, and they have exploited it quite irresponsibly.

CNN’s coverage of the Trayvon Martin story, treating this shooting as emblematic of American race relations, was clearly an election-year attempt to mobilize black voters in support of Obama’s re-election campaign. Nothing else could explain why, in a nation where young black men are rather routinely murdered by other young black men, CNN should devote so much coverage to this local crime story from Sanford, Florida, merely because the shooter was “white Hispanic” George Zimmerman. And having discovered they could exploit racial hostility for ratings, CNN then doubled down in 2014 with its biased coverage of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

“According to one analysis, of all the people shot and killed in the U.S. by police so far in 2016, only 24 percent, or 122, were black. Black people are only about 13 percent of the population but they commit around half of all violent crimes. So far this year 47 percent of people shot and killed by police, or 235 individuals, were white.
“Only 3 percent, or 13 people shot and killed by police year to date were black and unarmed.”
— Matthew Vadum, July 8, 2016

The “Black Lives Matter” movement was to a great extent created by CNN. Every time a cop shot a black suspect anywhere in America, it seemed, CNN went into round-the-clock coverage mode, and we might ask whether the riots in Ferguson, Baltimore and Charlotte would have happened had it not been for CNN.

Race riots and politics — that’s what CNN has been about, and their coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign was so blatantly one-sided that they certainly earned their title as the “Clinton News Network.”

What would truly objective TV journalism look like? We don’t know. The claim by Fox News that their network is “fair and balanced” has long been scoffed at by liberals, but if Fox is pro-Republican in its bias, is it therefore necessary that CNN be anti-Republican? And what about the real-life consequences of such biased coverage?

How can CNN justify its deliberate incitement of racial hostility — which is the only accurate way to describe the network’s coverage of Ferguson, etc. — when this foments an anti-police bias that endangers the lives of citizens, including innocent black people who suffer from a wave of criminal violence? And isn’t it also the case that CNN, by promoting the Democrat Party’s narrative of Trump as a dangerous villain, helped incite the violence that erupted during the inauguration protests in D.C.?

 

Because most conservatives watch Fox News, they may not realize how extreme the partisan bias at CNN has become in recent years. If you are a Republican who hasn’t watched CNN lately, you should try watching it occasionally, just to see the alternative universe that CNN presents to its audience. The producers at CNN seem to assume that their viewers are all Democrats who hate Trump. The producers’ concept of who is watching CNN dictates the network’s coverage. It’s not just politics, but CNN’s coverage of everything which is made to conform to this partisan worldview. CNN would never knowingly hire a Republican as a producer, writer, director, editor or reporter. Everyone in any position of influence at CNN is a Democrat, and the network’s coverage is scripted and edited by Democrats for Democrats. Whenever any news event happens that might tend to contradict this partisan weltanschauung, CNN immediately convenes a panel of pundits to spin it around the other way, to explain and interpret the news according to the officially-approved talking points issued from Democrat Party headquarters. Anyone who watches CNN closely cannot help but perceive that most of the network’s anchors — Chris Cuomo, John Berman, Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, et al. — are motivated by a deep personal hatred of the Republican Party. Everyone in Chris Cuomo’s circle of family and friends hates everything Ronald Reagan stood for, and Erin Burnett would spit on any Republican voter who even so much as tried to speak to her.

It is impossible to exaggerate how wildly biased CNN actually is, and the fact that other liberal journalists are complaining about the way Donald Trump is calling out CNN tells you that the Democrat-controlled media machinery understands the importance of CNN to their collective mission of producing partisan propaganda.

 

Category: CNN, Donald Trump, Media Bias

Probably Not a Trump Voter

Posted on | January 25, 2017 | 1 Comment

Browsing around feminist Tumblr blogs, I encountered this headline:

DC Metro Rape Highlights Why
Women Are Always Aware of Rape

The blog links a Huffington Post column by Soraya Chemaly last May:

This rape has made the police and media sit up and pay attention to street harassment, which is common on DC streets and elsewhere. While the DC Metro system can be faulted for many egregious and dangerous faults, in point of fact, the system is pioneering in it efforts to understand and address the risks that users, particularly women, face in public transit.
For more than a year now the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMTA) has been working with Stop Street Harassment and Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS) to raise awareness and develop responses to the problem. . . .
Most men I talk to don’t think the threat of rape is a real consideration on a regular basis for the women they know and many openly dismiss the idea that women think of rape when they experience street harassment.

About 20 years ago, I moved to the D.C. area and for many years, rode the Metro system to work almost every day, on the Red Line from Shady Grove to Union Station near the Capital. Anyone familiar with the area around Union Station knows that aggressive panhandlers (i.e., the “homeless”) are a common nuisance, and the D.C. government doesn’t seem to care about this problem. Being a Caucasian in business attire makes you an automatic target for these dope-addled moochers, who evidently believe that any white guy wearing a tie must be rich.

The D.C. government seems indifferent to the negative impact that these hordes of persistent beggars have on perceptions of the city, and if it bothered me, certainly it is not difficult to imagine that women in Washington fear for their safety. It’s the “Broken Windows” phenomenon, where tolerating minor public disorder sends a signal that the community is not serious about enforcing the law. And, of course, racial identity politics is a factor because the panhandlers in D.C. are black, and one can imagine the uproar that might be caused by a crackdown on Washington’s “homeless” population. So day after day, people endure these hassles and I don’t doubt that the problem of “street harassment” for women in D.C. is as bad as Soraya Chemaly describes it.

Well, Soraya Chemaly is not only a feminist, but also a liberal Democrat, and when such people talk about “street harassment,” they do the kind of politically correct tiptoe dance that requires them to ignore the, uh, demographics of this problem. Everyone remembers the 2014 video of a woman walking through New York City and being catcalled. This video was intended to be the great “a-ha!” moment proving the pervasiveness of misogyny and objectification in American society, but then people started noticing the ethnicity of the catcallers. Hannah Rosin at Slate:

But the video also unintentionally makes another point: that harassers are mostly black and Latino, and hanging out on the streets in midday in clothes that suggest they are not on their lunch break. As Roxane Gay tweeted, “The racial politics of the video are f–ked up. Like, she didn’t walk through any white neighborhoods?”

“It’s a racist production about white women not wanting attention from black and Latino men,” as Professor Glenn Reynolds observed. And that was the last we heard from the feminist “street harassment” discourse, because the Race Card always trumps every other card in the identity-politics deck. So when I was browsing the “rape culture” tag on Tumblr, in my daily search for fresh feminist craziness, this Soraya Chemaly column from May 2016 caught my eye:

Rape is what gives pervasive and damaging harassment its power. Thirty-seven percent of girls in high school report not wanting to go to school because of harassment. . . . Between 65% and 85% of women in the US report experiencing street harassment.

And the headline item which Soraya Chemaly employed as the hook for her diatribe about “harassment” was a rape on the D.C. Metro. Hmmm.

 

A 39-year-old woman was raped at knifepoint on a moving Metro train just before 10 a.m. [April 12] in the Wheaton-­Glenmont area of Montgomery County, prosecutors said in court [May 23].
“This is a horrifically terrifying experience. It certainly was for the victim in this case,” Assistant State’s Attorney Elizabeth Haynos said in court. . . .
The suspect, John Prentice Hicks, 39, of Northeast Washington, was making his first court appearance in Montgomery County District Court in the case. . . .
According to Haynos and Metro Transit Police, on April 12, Hicks approached a seated passenger aboard a northbound Red Line train and began speaking to her. He allegedly pulled out a knife, forced her to a different part of the car, raped her, then ordered her to another area of the car, and forced her to perform a sex act, court statements and records allege. . . .
According to an arrest document signed by Metro Transit Detective C.H. Dorrity, investigators used high-definition surveillance video inside the Glenmont station, records from the suspect’s Metro SmarTrip card, and the woman’s recollection to identify Hicks.
Metro police officers also recognized him as the suspect in an indecent-exposure case that took place on Metro, according to Haynos.

Now, according to Chemaly’s column, what makes this relevant is that indecent exposure is “an every day form of street harassment.”

Every day? Really? But never mind that. More importantly:

The man accused of raping a woman aboard a moving D.C. Metro train in April dodged arrest just a week before the brutal attack for an indecent exposure charge aboard the Metro. . . .
Court records revealed the Metropolitan Transit Police Department positively identified Hicks as the likely culprit of an indecent exposure incident on a Metro car April 2, reports The Washington Post.
Despite reportedly having strong evidence to arrest and charge Hicks for the April 2 crime, police failed to get a warrant for Hick’s arrest. It is unclear why authorities failed to arrest Hicks in the week before the April 12 rape.

In other words, this is a story about the failure of law enforcement to apprehend a dangerous criminal. But wait — there’s more:

In court Monday, Haynos cited a series of earlier convictions for Hicks: first-degree sexual abuse in 1995, attempted second-degree child sexual abuse in 2000, and unauthorized use of a vehicle in 2000 and 2007.

This guy already had three criminal convictions on his record, including two sexual abuse charges, and yet when he allegedly committed indecent exposure on the Metro, police failed to put him in jail?

Beyond providing further proof of how shoddy the police are in D.C., what this story (and Soraya Chemaly’s column about it) shows is the way liberal arguments create distorted perceptions of reality. Feminists want to use “street harassment” as a way to demonize men and why? To encourage women to support the feminist cause and vote Democrat. But when we start taking a closer look at the facts of “street harassment,” we notice that the perpetrators aren’t likely Republican voters.

It’s all about the narrative, as the late Andrew Breitbart used to say. One of the incidents that caused Andrew to rethink his youthful liberalism was the 1991 Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing. Here was a highly accomplished black man, nominated for the Supreme Court by a Republican president and yet, because Democrats had cynically calculated that “harassment” was an issue that could help them get a large share of the women’s vote, Thomas was subjected to what he called a “high-tech lynching.” If the GOP had done to a black Democrat what Democrats did to Clarence Thomas, we never would have heard the end of the accusations of “racism” from liberals. There is a partisan double-standard in the media, confirmed a few years later when liberals circled the wagons to protect President Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

This kind of dishonest and manipulative exploitation of divisive issues is entirely partisan. It’s about electing Democrats. The crude “feminist” messaging that accompanied the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign was transparently an exercise in political propaganda. As last weekend’s Women’s March on Washington showed, “feminism” is now simply a partisan movement which seeks to convince women that they are “systematically oppressed,” that their oppressors are Republicans, and therefore, women should vote Democrat.

Well, OK, fine — let’s turn rape into a political issue and just start grabbing stories about rape arrests to prove our point: Timothy Wayne McLean Jr. (Durham, N.C.), Marco Antonio Garcia Perez (Highland, Calif.), Allen Mays (Lincoln Parrish, La.), Arturo Bedolla (Memphis, Tenn.), Toney Moore (Harlan, Ky.), Kamai Clerveaux (Miami, Fla.) and Rafael Alfredo Pabon (Cabarrus County, N.C.). That’s seven rape stories from around the country this week, and so far I haven’t seen a single feminist blogger or columnist mention any of these crimes. Why do you think feminists don’t want to talk about these accused rapists? My hunch is that it’s because the suspects are probably not Trump voters.



 

 

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 01.25.17

Posted on | January 25, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.25.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
BattleSwarm: Ted Cruz Makes Deadspin His Bitch
EBL: Jenna Jameson’s Awesome Slam Of Bill Maher
Michelle Malkin: Ultrasound – The Anti-Science Left’s Bugaboo
Twitchy: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) Sends Heads To Desks By Declaring This Federal Spending a “Human Rights Issue”
Louder With Crowder: Live Action Exposes Planned Parenthood’s Lies About Prenatal Care


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American Power: America’s Second Civil War
American Thinker: America, At Last The Land Of Can-Do
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Bring The HEAT: Why Is It Taking The Air Force So Long to Jump On The Light Attack Bandwagon?
Da Tech Guy: The Illegal Immigrant Vote – Another Trump Trap For The MSM
Don Surber: President Trump Just Forced The Press To Cover The March For Life, also, Fighting The Fourth Branch Of Government
Dustbury: Rolled Back Into The Parking Lot
Hogewash: Defamation Du Jour
Jammie Wearing Fools: Dopey Swedish Pol Resigns After Asking If Someone Could Shoot Trump
Joe For America: Islamic Leader Warns That If U.S. Moves Embassy To Jerusalem, It’s War
JustOneMinute: Building The Wall
Power Line: The Myth of Obama’s Popularity, also, How Green Was My Tesla
Shark Tank: Gov. Scott Challenges Speaker Corcoran Over “Corporate Welfare”
Shot In The Dark: When Narratives Collapse
The Geller Report: Trump To Sign Executive Orders Restricting Migration From Muslim Nations, also, Trump Halts Obama’s Last-Minute $221 Million Gift To Palestinians
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – BOLO Red Panda
The Political Hat: In Canada, Free Healthcare May Soon Mean Morally Acceptable Organ Harvesting – From The Living
This Ain’t Hell: We Need More Airborne Rangers In Congress, also, Someone Escaped Norkiland?
War Is Boring: We’re Worried About The Nominee For Air Force Secretary
Weasel Zippers: Just Days Into The Trump Administration, Corrupt Employees Already Being Fired At The VA, also, Ted Cruz Introduces Bill To Allow States To Reject Refugees
Megan McArdle: Aetna Threatened Obamacare, But Didn’t Start The Fight
Mark Steyn: Wrong And Wronger


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The Huge Wall™ of America

Posted on | January 25, 2017 | Comments Off on The Huge Wall™ of America

 

Did I ever tell you my youngest daughter is a genius? All my kids are smart, but Reagan is 99th percentile smart, and last month she was talking about The Huge Wall™ of America. China has its Great Wall, but President Trump is going to build a Huge Wall™ and, considering his successful career in real-estate development, shouldn’t we expect this project on the Mexican border to be a huge success? My daughter Reagan expressed the idea that the new border wall could be a major tourist attraction, and why not? There could be shopping (The Huge Wall Mall) and resort hotels (The Trump Wall Casino) and all sorts of commercial development along the border. Restaurants, playgrounds for the kids, water parks and roller coasters — like Disney World, except huge.

The New York Times reports:

President Trump on Wednesday will order the construction of a Mexican border wall — the first in a series of actions this week to crack down on immigrants and bolster national security, including slashing the number of refugees who can resettle in the United States and blocking Syrians and others from “terror prone” nations from entering, at least temporarily…
“Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night. “Among many other things, we will build the wall!”
Mr. Trump will sign the executive order for the wall during an appearance at the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, as Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray, arrives in Washington to prepare for the visit of President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico.

The secret to making this project work, as my genius daughter perceived, is capitalism. Democrats spent eight years talking about “infrastructure investments” during the Obama administration, but President Trump is actually going to do it. The Huge Wall™ of America is going to be the biggest federal infrastructure project in American history. It’s going to make the Hoover Dam look like a kid’s Lego toy set by comparison. By unleashing the power of free enterprise along the southwestern border — retirement communities! golf courses! multiplex cinemas! — The Huge Wall™ of America will generate enormous new tax revenues.

Think about the I-10 corridor from Texas to California — miles and miles of empty scrub land, full of coyotes, rattlesnakes and jackrabbits. Yes, and 50 years ago, the area of central Florida that is now Disney World was nothing but swamps, cattle farms and citrus groves. Under the Trump administration, which has already shown a cheerful willingness to ignore radical environmentalist dingbats, the federal government could build all kinds of dams and reservoirs and irrigation projects to turn the southwestern desert into an oasis. NASCAR tracks and football stadiums! Concert venues and skyscrapers! Nuclear power plants! If the Arab sheikhs could turn Dubai into an international resort destination, why can’t we make The Huge Wall™ of America even more spectacular?

Texas, New Mexico, Arizona — there’s six Senate votes and 43 in the House right there, not even counting California, so the political incentives are obvious enough. What we really need, though, is to get Wall Street to see the possibilities. Once the real-estate speculators get a whiff of the enormous profits to be made by investing in land near the The Huge Wall™ of America, this thing could take off like a rocket. And when it does, remember it was my 14-year-old genius daughter who foresaw it.

Don’t just dream big, America — dream huge.



 

Category: Donald Trump

Great Again: Dow Hits Record High

Posted on | January 25, 2017 | 2 Comments

Thank you, Mister President:

Dow 20,000 is finally here.
After weeks of close calls, the Dow made history on Wednesday by blowing past that key level for the first time ever.
The historic milestone leaves the Dow up a stunning 1,667 points since President Donald Trump’s victory in November. The achievement is evidence of how optimistic investors have become about the prospects for the U.S. economy.
“The stock market has given him this extraordinary vote of approval. Happy days are here again,” said Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research.
Wall Street is clearly betting that Trump’s plans to slash taxes, ramp up infrastructure spending and cut regulation will make the American economy grow faster.

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Economics
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