2016 January

2016-01-19

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
Michelle Malkin on Marco Rubio and MSFT: I wish we had more Malkins (and fewer Rubios, Gutierrezes, Grahamnesties, Schumers, Boooshes, Lofgrens, Gateses, Zuckerbergs, Ellisons, Pelosis, Reids, Flakes...)
Marco Rubio's second-worst border insecurity/ visas/ immigration anti-reform bill
Norm Matloff: researchers as hired guns
Vivek Wadhwa: Bloomberg: even I (VW) admit rampant age discrimination is being carried out in STEM hiring and lay-offs
Mark Krikorian: National Review: Rubio's evasions on border security, enforcement of immigration controls, visas...
Center for Immigration Studies
_Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & BiPartisan BeltWay CarpWeasels Are [Destroying the Lives, Families, and Careers of the USA's] Best & Brightest Workers_ (B&N)
_Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & BiPartisan BeltWay CarpWeasels Are [Destroying the Lives, Families, and Careers of the USA's] Best & Brightest Workers_ (amazon; 480 pages; 10.6MB)

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Chris Pandolfo _Conservative Review_
supremes take up case of injunction blocking Obummer's anti-constitutional and illegal amnesties of and granting gifts to illegal aliens at tax-victim expense; if left undisturbed, that ruling of the federal district & appeals courts will allow States to frustrate the federal government's refusal to enforce the Nation's immigration laws
Caroline May: Breitbart

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
DHS makes life easier for itself, and for employers of small numbers of aliens
"Forgetting completely the old, and excellent, rule that tight labor markets are a worker's best friend, the Department of Homeland Security has just loosened the labor markets for several small groups of foreign workers.   Its press release said:   'This final rule does not impose any additional costs on employers, workers or any governmental entity.'   What it should have said is:   'Although this involves substantial economic costs to resident workers (citizens and green card holders), this final rule does not impose any additional costs on exploitative employers, indentured foreign workers or any inefficient government entity.'   Note the focus of the press release on the benefits to employers, rather than to resident workers.   Also note the careful avoidance of the word alien or foreign as it touts the benefits for workers without telling us that they come from somewhere other than the USA.   (As a former PR man for a government agency, I recognize the use of weasel words when I see it.)   Let's get to the substance of the new rule, as spelled out in detail in the January 15 Federal Register.   This is no casual issuance; my poor old HP printer ground out 47 pages of Federal Register copy before it sighed and stopped.   I hate to think how much DHS executive and clerical time was devoted to these new regulations, and all to benefit small groups of employers hiring small groups of indentured alien workers.   Unless the reader is deep into visa trivia, the list of visas may mystify, but they are: H-1B1, E-3, CW-1, and EB-1.   Briefly, they can be described as follows:   H-1B1 workers are [a special set-aside of H-1B visas for] (professional level) workers from Chile and Singapore, nations that send us very few such workers under trade treaties that created these categories.   (There were 870 visas issued for both countries in 2014, according to the State Department.)   E-3 workers are similar non-immigrant workers, but from Australia, another anomaly in the system.   (There were 4,492 visas in 2014.)   CW-1 aliens are non-immigrants located in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (hence CW) and may not use that status to come to the rest of the United States.   (There were 2,112 visas in 2014, but there is a larger number in the islands with visas issued earlier.)   Unlike the other categories, these are largely manual workers, clerks, and household servants.   EB-1 immigrant workers, a highly useful class of immigrants consisting of outstanding professors and researchers; there were about 7K of them admitted in 2012 and in 2013..."

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
immigration implications of the Obummer-Iran Muslim-theocratic-dictatorship swap of prisoners
"Details of the USA-Iran prisoner swap have been finding their way into various media accounts, some of which I have found passing strange (the details that is, not the media, although on sober reflection the latter's probably a truism too).   Note, though, that it is probably more accurate to describe this deal as a trade-off, and not a Cold War-style Checkpoint Charlie 'swap', for reasons discussed below.   The abridged version: Iran has released a total of 5 USA citizens, some (perhaps all) of whom appear to have been arrested and held on trumped-up charges.   In return, the United States has released, pardoned, or dropped charges against seven individuals, and agreed to withdraw Interpol 'red notices' against another 14.   Oddity No. 1:   All of the individuals to whom the United States has granted pardons, clemency, or the like had been charged, convicted, or were serving sentences for violating federal laws related to stealing secrets, defense materials, or military hardware for illegal transfer to the Islamic Republic for use by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) -- you know, the same ones who recently seized at gunpoint, and held hostage, [USA Navy] sailors who inadvertently strayed into waters claimed by Iran in the Persian Gulf.   (The seizures, of course, gave the Iranians a prime opportunity to examine the 2 Navy vessels in great detail.   One wonders what marvels of GPS, radar, or sonar technology just got transferred as a result.) IOW, when you strip away the niceties, all of the individuals on the USA side of the trade were engaged in espionage against us on behalf of a rogue regime.   This is apparently because they were the ones the Iranians pressed hardest to have released.   Significantly, one person not swapped by the Iranians was Robert Levenson, alleged to be a CIA contractor doing clandestine work in Iran at the time of his capture.   They deny even knowing where he is, but the denial lacks credibility.   Oddity No. 2:   Media have described 6 of the 7 released as 'dual nationals' of the USA and Iran -- the seventh was born in the USA to Iranian parents; the other 6 are naturalized USA citizens originally from Iran.   Here's the thing: when you take the oath of naturalization to become a USA citizen, among other important things, you swear to:   'Renounce and abjure absolutely and entirely all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which the applicant was before a subject or citizen;' and to   'Support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.'   If the individuals took this oath in good faith, how can they possibly be 'dual nationals'?   But it's pretty clear from subsequent events that they didn't take the oath with any meaningful intent (other than to gain citizenship, with the pathway that it gives to jobs with access to government defense secrets and equipment).   Why else were they stealing them on behalf of a nation avowedly hostile to the United States (the "Great Satan"), and that is a state sponsor of terror through use abroad of its radical Quds Force (a part of the IRGC) and its support of designated terrorist groups Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hamas?   And why else would these individuals figure so prominently in the 'short list' that Iran insisted upon before the trade could be finalized?   Ironically, though, secretary of State John Kerry touted proudly how the USA had 'held tough' against Iran's initially bloated list of potential 'swapees', refusing to release a murderer or drug offender in order to maintain our country's 'enforcement principles', stating proudly, 'believe me, it's hard when somebody says to you, Hey, you give us this guy, we let them all out.   And you have to say no.   And you know you're keeping people in a not very nice place for the next whatever number of months...   But there have to be an enforcement of our principles and our standards here (sic).   And in the end, we came out in the right place on that.'   Oddity No. 3:   The deal is more accurately described as a trade rather than a swap because most of the individuals benefiting from the clemencies will be staying in the USA, despite the damage they've done to USA national security.   How can this be?   Why, supreme irony of ironies, it's because they're 'American citizens'.   If I were physically present in the room with you speaking those words, you'd see me using air quotes, something I usually detest, because the notion is so laughable.   And just to rub a little salt in the wounds, the lawyers for these folks are now saying it vindicates the innocence they maintained all along -- something clearly out of whack with the facts in their cases, which involved such things as setting up dummy corporations and transshipment points in foreign countries where the illegal technology and equipment transfers could take place in order to facilitate ultimate movement onward to Iran.   A few weeks ago, I blogged about Iran's objections to new [very slightly more] restrictive USA rules for the visa waiver program (VWP), in which I mentioned what was then a rumor about a pending swap, one that has now taken place and pretty much accords with my speculations that, on our end, it would involve releasing spies.   In the blog post, I surmised that Iran's major objection to the new rules was the fear that they could impede their ongoing, organized, and aggressive program to steal USA defense secrets and technology by disrupting shipments of these things out of the country, facilitated by European VWP-eligible 'dual national' intermediaries who would, under the new rules, be obliged to seek visas through consular interviews.   Nothing I have seen in this trade persuades me that I was wrong in my thinking.   I also mentioned in that post that Secretary Kerry had been making noise about the government issuing routine or blanket waivers to individuals such as these dual nationals who would otherwise be blocked from use of the VWP.   If the administration proves true to form, look to see that shoe drop, at the expense of our national interest, in the not-too-distant future."

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Pam Key _Breitbart_
Mike McCaul (R-TX): Obummer swapped criminals, spies, potential terrorists for USA citizens held hostage in Iran
MSFT JavaScript is still evil.

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Geert Wilders _Breitbart_
delusional UK would rather ban Robert Spencer, Michael Savage, Pamela Geller, Geert Wilders, & Donald Trump than face up to unpleasant facts
"...In my case, it happened on 2009 February 12.   Two highly respected members of the British House of Lords, Lady Caroline Cox and Lord Malcolm Pearson, had invited me to show my 2008 documentary 'Fitna' to members of the House in a conference room of the parliament building in Westminster.   'Fitna' is a movie, juxtaposing Koranic verses calling for violence with footage of terrorist attacks and other violent deeds these verses inspired.   'Fitna', as well as my view that Islam, rather than a religion, is primarily a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination, has resulted in several death threats against my person.   I am on the death list of Al-Qaeda, ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate and the Pakistani Taliban.   Since 2004, I have been living under round-the-clock police protection, but I have a mission: Speak the truth about Islam.   However, a Pakistani-born Islamic member of the House of Lords, one Nazir Ahmed, demanded that the then British Labour government ban me from entering the UK.   He threatened that he would personally mobilize 10K Muslims to prevent me from entering the Upper House.   The government complied and had me banned.   Though a member of the Dutch parliament, invited by British colleagues, I was locked up in a detention room upon arrival at Heathrow Airport.   Three hours later, I was put on the next flight to Amsterdam...   However, I challenged the ban before the British Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.   On 2009 October 12, this tribunal over-turned the ban.   In 2010 March, I returned to London and showed my movie to my colleagues in Westminster.   There were no incidents and no disturbances of Britain's 'fundamental interests', 'community harmony', or 'public security'.   The bans served but one goal: It was an attempt to shut me up for speaking the truth about Islam..."

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Nate Church _Breitbart_
"No Layoffs... This Week!", Marissa Mayer cruelly taunts Yahoo! employees as every face-lift of its web-sites makes them less and less usable, more and more violative of privacy

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
does death matter? in immigration case-law not always
"Does death matter?   One might think that it always matters, but here's a grisly case involving an illegal alien where the courts have ruled that death does not count.   The alien is Eusebio Varible-Gaspar, and according to the decision of the Fifth Circuit, he '...appeals the 57-month sentence imposed in connection with his conviction for illegal reentry after deportation...   [he] argues that the [prior state court] conviction does not qualify as a forcible sex offense because a corpse cannot be forced or coerced into sex.'   The court of appeals decided that even though the woman involved was dead at the time, what the alien did was 'a crime of violence' and that he should go to jail, as the district court had ordered..."

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
John Miano _Center for Immigration Studies_
OPT case: what is next?
"I last reported on the status of the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security STEM OPT case here.   On 2015 August 12, the DC district vacated the regulations put in place under [Shrub] that were designed to circumvent the H-1B quotas by allowing aliens to work on student visas instead, but stayed the vacatur until 2016 February 12, so that aliens working on STEM OPT extensions would not have to immediately leave the country.   Both parties have taken the case to the next step on 2 fronts, battling in parallel.   First, the DC district held that the STEM OPT program was within DHS authority.   WashTech appealed the district court's holding that the STEM OPT program was within DHS authority to the DC circuit back in August.   So now the case is in the DC circuit in the briefing processes before oral arguments and a decision.   DHS is scheduled to file a response on January 20 as the next step in that process, but has filed an unopposed motion for an extension until January 27 that will likely be granted.   If Washtech is successful on appeal, DHS would not be able to put in place a regulation to replace the one being vacated.   In addition, the entire OPT program would likely go away.   Second, DHS used the 6-month grace period the court gave it to try to put in place a new regulation by February 12 to replace the one being vacated.   The agency published a proposed regulation, but [will not able to complete all of the required steps] to get a final regulation in place by February 12...."

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Jason Richwine _Center for Immigration Studies_
in the Wall Street Journal, 2 immigration-boosting economists make a false statement, duck debate
"When academics are faced with criticism, one way for them to respond is to carefully explain why they believe the criticisms are invalid.   Another option is to pretend the criticism does not exist.   Economists Giovanni Peri and Vasil Yasenov chose the latter approach in today's Wall Street Journal.   By ignoring counter-arguments, they have further obscured the debate over immigration and wages.   Some quick background is in order here.   Peri and Yasenov are involved in a debate over an historical event called the 'Mariel boat-lift'.   During the summer of 1980, some 125K Cubans left [or were sent from Cuban prisons via] the port of Mariel for Miami.   This large and unexpected wave of newcomers created an intriguing test of how immigration affects wages.   Surprisingly, economist David Card was unable to detect any wage impact in his classic study from 1990, and that result has since become a favorite citation for those who want to expand immigration.   Last Fall, however, George Borjas re-analyzed the data and found that the boatlift did have a large negative impact on native high-school drop-outs in Miami.   Borjas's study was quickly followed by a rebuttal paper from Peri and Yasenov.   Then Borjas filed a counter-rebuttal.   To help make sense of all of this, I wrote an article for Real Clear Policy that summarizes the debate in plain English.   CIS then published an expanded version as a backgrounder.   I struck a neutral tone in both pieces, always giving Peri and Yasenov the benefit of the doubt despite our political differences.   But Peri and Yasenov are becoming increasingly difficult to defend.   Their WSJ op-ed not only includes a false statement, it also ignores Borjas's entire rebuttal.   How can the general public ever hope to understand an issue when academics talk past each other?   Peri and Yasenov's false statement is this one: '[Borjas's] sample consisted of only 17 to 24 workers in Miami in each year, a number too small for statistical significance.'   The negative wage effect observed by Borjas is statistically significant, meaning unlikely to have occurred by chance.   In fact, Borjas found statistically significant effects with two different datasets -- in the smaller one mentioned by Peri and Yasenov, and also in a sample about three times larger.   Peri and Yasenov also make an interesting claim at the end of their op-ed: 'Earlier research by one of us [Peri] has shown that native workers do not suffer the negative impact of arriving immigrants because they take different jobs.'   There is a relevant back story here.   Peri initially published a result that implied immigrants and natives with the same education are not 'substitutes' for each other, meaning they do not compete for the same jobs [and implicitly assuming that there are no other effects including no indirect effects].   But Peri had to retract that result when critics discovered he had accidentally included high school kids with part-time jobs as 'drop-outs'.   In the revised paper, Peri found only minor departures from the normal assumption that immigrants and natives with the same education are substitutes.   So the first error was fixed, but, as Borjas notes, it inexplicably resurfaced in Peri's Mariel paper, where he again counts high school kids with part-time jobs as 'drop-outs'.   The op-ed gives no explanation for this.   In fact, as noted above, Borjas's entire rebuttal is left unmentioned.   I will not try to rehash the entire debate here -- see my backgrounder for a detailed discussion -- but Borjas points out significant problems with broadening the sample the way Peri and Yasenov do, even aside from the issue of labeling high school kids as drop-outs..."

2016-02-19 (5776 Adar alef 10)
Daniel Horowitz _Conservative Review_
beware of court involvement in immigration

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
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2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
what is the purpose of elections?
Town Hall
"...If Republican voters have consistently delivered a message through all the fluctuating polls over the past months, that message is those voters' anger at the [RINO losership and their consultants], which has grossly betrayed the promises that got a Republican congress elected.   Whether the issue has been securing the borders, [ObummerDoesn'tCare], runaway government spending or innumerable other concerns, Republican candidates have promised to fight the [Obummer regime's] policies -- and then caved when crunch time came for congress to vote [passing up a multitude of procedural tools and opportunities for positive reform along the way]..."

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
David Limbaugh _Jewish World Review_
whacked-out leftists in academia seeing bigots under every rock, behind every tree, around every corner

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Jenna Johnson & Sarah Pulliam Bailey _Jewish World Review_
why so many evangelicals have more faith in Donald Trump than other prominent candidates
"...It's that Trump is a savvy businessman who 'speaks the truth publicly, even if it is uncomfortable for people to hear' and is not a puppet for major donors..."

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Cal Thomas _Jewish World Review_
too big to fail: the sequel?

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Sahil Kapur _Jewish World Review_
economists: Marco Rubio's economic plan does not add up (just as his border/ visa/ immigration schemes do not add up)

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Lenore Skenazy _Jewish World Review_
resolutions for the slackers who already blew it since January 1

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Alicia Colon _Jewish World Review_
this time we must enforce the will of the citizenry

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
David Ignatius _Jewish World Review_
the ugly truth about the war Muslims are waging against Western Civilization is that politicians, pundits, and far too many of the citizenry are not seriously engaged

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Bernard Goldberg _Jewish World Review_
when is an initiation of force or fraud committed in the Name of Allah not about Islam?
"Politicians say dopey things all the time, but every now and then one of them says something so downright dim-witted that you have to stop and take notice.   Nancy Pelosi, of course, is such an example...   In Philadelphia, you'll recall, a police officer was shot repeatedly while he sat in his police car.   It was all caught on surveillance cameras.   According to the city's police commissioner, Richard Ross, the gunman, who was captured moments after the shooting, told police he shot the officer in the name of Islam; that 'the police defend laws that are contrary to Islam'; that all he wanted to talk about in the police station was his devotion to Islam.   Just seconds after commissioner Ross made all this quite clear at a news conference, Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney, went to the microphones to declare: 'In no way, shape or form does anybody in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with' the shooting, which the mayor said, 'does not represent the religion or any of its teachings'.   To the blissfully [willfully] delusional mayor, the incident was just your run-of-the mill crime...   Right after the mayor made a fool of himself, the head of the police department's homicide unit, James Clark, walked up to the microphones and said the shooter had repeatedly said that he was a follower of Allah and that he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and 'That is the reason I did what I did.', he quoted the shooter as saying..."

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Laura Ingraham
Iran to begin construction on 2 new nuclear reactors

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Laura Ingraham
Hitlery Rotten Clinton aides resisted State Department suggestion that she use State.gov account
Chuck Ross: Daily Caller

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Laura Ingraham
that Donald Trump may do well with black voters is only surprising to the extreme left

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Laura Ingraham
Jeffrey Lord: Marco Rubio, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Grahamnesty, John Cornyn are exactly why we need Donald Trump

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Joel B. Pollak _Breitbart_
new Anthony Weiner documentary offers window into the mind of Hitlery Rotten Clinton
Lee Stranahan: the truth about Mrs. Weiner/Huma Abedin that Media Mutters doesn't want USA to see
Discover the Networks: Huma Abedin
Discover the Networks: Muslim World League (MWL)
Discover the Networks: Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA)
Discover the Networks: Muslim Brotherhood (MB)
Discover the Networks: Valerie Jarrett
Discover the Networks: violence-advocating Muslims connected with the Obummer regime

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
_How Much.net_
Harvard: map of world economic "growth" rates

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2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Eric Worrall
bankers reaping rewards of German "green" energy instability
Watts Up With That

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Eric Worrall
why oil prices are likely to remain not-so-high for the foreseeable future -- shale 2.0
Watts Up With That

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
David Middleton
Seth Borenstein alleged man-made heat put in oceans has doubled since 1997
Watts Up With That

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Anthony Watts
Dr. Robert Carter, scientist, climate skeptic, pioneer, friend -- RIP
Watts Up With That

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
F.J. Shepherd
Scandihoovians and viking and weather and climate
Watts Up With That

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Christopher Monckton
20 deceptive representations, pretenses, or implications in one, 10-minute, video
Watts Up With That

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Willis Eschenbach
what is hot, what is not
Watts Up With That

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
Larry Kummer
how accurate are findings from the frontiers of "climate science", for example, about warming of oceans?
Watts Up With That

2016-01-19 (5776 Shebet 09)
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2016-01-20

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Jessica Vaughan _Center for Immigration Studies_
DHS reported that a huge number of visitors over-stayed visas in FY2015
"A long-awaited report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirms that [visa] over-stays are a significant source of illegal immigration.   The report identified just over 527K foreign visitors who apparently did not depart as required when their authorized stay expired in 2015.   Approximately 484K were presumed to be still in the USA at the end of 2015, and 416,500 had not departed as of 2016 January 4.   Of these over-staying visitors, 43% had entered on a business or tourist visa, 29% had entered under the controversial visa waiver program (VWP), and 28% had entered from Canada or Mexico... [and, of course, some could have left the USA without that fact being recorded in the DHS data-bases]...   This sub-set of 45M admissions is only a fraction of the total non-immigrant admissions to the United States in 2015 by air, sea, and land for all purposes.   DHS did not examine the records of visitors who entered by land, which is more than three-quarters of all admissions to the United States.   Nor did it track the records of visitors granted visas for purposes other than business or pleasure, such as students, guest-workers or exchange visitors.   These categories represent a much smaller share of all annual arrivals, but still account for several million admissions per year..."

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Stanley Renshon _Center for Immigration Studies_
what, if anything, has Marco Rubio learned about immigration reform (vs. immigration law perversion)? (part 1 of 2)
part 2

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
can an alien legally get a green card by marrying her USA-citizen step-brother?
"This is a story about marriage fraud squared, about it threatening to reach from one generation to the next.     I am leaving out the names and places in this account because they are not significant to the narrative, but real people are involved, and one of them has reached out to the Center seeking assistance and advice.     In a nut-shell: Mr. and Mrs. A, both Muslims, were married for years and had 3 children in the USA.   At this point, all 5 family members are USA citizens.   Enter Mr. B, another Muslim from the home country.   He knows Mr. and Mrs. A.   Mr. B arrived with neither a long-term non-immigrant visa or a green card, something he wants very much.   Mr. B then marries Ms. C, a USA citizen, a friend to Mrs. A, and a non-Muslim, apparently so that the new Mrs. B could sponsor his green card, but that marriage broke up before the green card could happen.   Mr. B seems to have secured a short-term employment authorization as a conditional resident out of that marriage.   (Many of the details are murky because the players did not all disclose everything to everybody, and we are hearing only one side of the story.)     Mr. B had a wife in the old country and says that he and that Mrs. B got a divorce before he came here.   There may be some doubt about the legitimacy of that divorce, which might bring up the question of whether a divorce under Shariah law (the male simply announces that they are divorced) would be recognized by our systems.   (There is a document stating that the B-B divorce was recorded by a government agency in the home country.)     Then Mr. B lured Mrs. A away from her marriage, the As got divorced in the USA, and Mr. B (now on his third marriage) wed the former Mrs. A.   (This took place less than a month after the B-C divorce was final.)   Mr. A thinks that this is another marriage ploy designed to secure that green card.   B works in a retail business with the new Mrs. B's brother.   I suspect, from all I have heard, that Mr. B now probably has the conditional resident status of a newlywed alien, but not yet a green card.   The new Mrs. B has custody of the 3 A children, one of whom is an adolescent male, turning 16 shortly.   One of Mr. A's worries is that the 16-year-old, let's call him D, will perhaps be talked into (or coerced into) marrying a daughter of Mr. B's from that first marriage.   That daughter (called E here), now back in the home country, would become a legal conditional resident if she were to marry a citizen.   Since D is the child of Mr. A and the current Mrs. B, and since E is the child of Mr. B and some other woman, D and E are step-siblings.   Both of them now have a relationship with Mr. B, who is now D's step-father.   So we return to the question: Could E get a green card by marrying her stepbrother, D?     Yes, it could happen, because in the state where they all live (and in many others) there is no legal bar to step-siblings marrying, as there is for siblings or half siblings marrying.   But, as you might expect, there are some caveats.   (I am assuming that E is 18 or older, is unmarried, and living in the home country.)   In their state, as in many, you can marry at 16 with your parents' permission, and you can marry at 18 with no permission needed, so Mr. A could block the marriage, but only for a while.   Then there is the federal requirement that the alien and the citizen must have met before immigration papers will be approved, but that could be arranged by having either D or E do a bit of traveling.   Mr. A has had no luck in getting our immigration authorities to do anything about any of this beyond sending him bland responses to his pleas for legal action, and he may, in a couple of years, be in the odd situation where he is witnessing what he would regard as marriage fraud in his family occurring in 2 generations.   I suspect that Mr. A has limited options.   If he cannot talk his son out of being coerced into the proposed marriage with E, he can, as a parent, block it for a while.   Further, Mr. A might be able to go to the local prosecutor's office and seek bigamy charges against B, but that would mean the prosecutors were comfortable with challenging the validity of a divorce in another nation, while at the same time accepting the legitimacy of the original B-B marriage.   Mr. A might also petition for a re-hearing in divorce court to seek custody of his children.   Meanwhile, he does not have a lawyer to help him with these matters and may not be able to pay for one, if he could find one.   I feel sorry for Mr. A, but am aware that I am only hearing his side of the story.   From a distance I see this as both a sad, human drama, and as a highly specialized case of probably illegal chain migration."

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Stanley Renshon _Center for Immigration Studies_
what, if anything, has Marco Rubio learned about immigration reform (vs. immigration law perversion)? (part 2 of 2)
part 2

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Brandon Darby _Breitbart_
previously-deported Central American gangster caught re-entering USA

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Julia Hahn _Breitbart_
leftists/Reds/Dems predictably blocked show-measure: Obummer regime likely to issue 300K visas to Muslim "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals
"...Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) explained that the legislation Ryan pushed through the House 'allows the President to continue to bring in as many refugees as he wants from anywhere in the world'..."
I heard a "reporter" on the radio claim that the Reds/leftists/Dems filibustered the measure to require a token more in the way of background investigations. In reality, there was no filibuster. It's all a disingenuous farce... by Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, Nasty Pelosi, and Obummer. The RINO losership had several opportunities, using the House and senate standard procedures, to restrict DHS and DoS... but they refused to make use of those effective means.

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Caroline May _Breitbart_
senator Jeff Sessions: there were more visa over-stays in FY2015 than the population of any city in IA, NH, or SC
"The laws prohibiting over-staying a visa in the USA are 'more show than substance' due to a lack of enforcement and failure to implement a biometric tracking system, senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) argued Wednesday at a senate Sub-Committee on Immigration and the National Interest hearing.   'If we do not track and enforce departures, then we have open borders, especially the way it is being carried out today.', Sessions, the chairman of the committee, said..."

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Nick Hallett _Breitbart_
opponents of excessive immigration banned from televised debates ahead of German elections

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Donna Rachel Edmunds _Breitbart_
"migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals/ illegal aliens in Calais burned their own camp

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Sarkis Zeronian _Breitbart_
France declared state of economic emergency

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Leo Hohmann _WND_
Obummer & his regime are openly hostile against USA constitution, laws, and citizenry

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Mitch Betts _"IT" News_/_IDG_
STEM media continue to focus on house-geeks, ignore real software/hardware product development, and promote evil, repugnant bodyshopping
CIO

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
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2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Clair Johnson _Billings MT Gazette_
Billings residents sue protection racket of improperly denying medical claims in class-action case

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Walter E. Williams _Jewish World Review_
blacks and the Confederacy

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Ana Swanson _Jewish World Review_
twilight of the lawyer-politician

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Michelle Malkin _Jewish World Review_
mayor Bill de Blasio: hypocrite hooked on Hollywood cash
"Because the crime rate is zero, the potholes are all fixed and homelessness has been completely eradicated, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio now has time to focus on what really matters to Big Apple [tax-victims]: Racial quotas in Hollywood..."
_Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & BiPartisan BeltWay CarpWeasels Are [Destroying the Lives, Families, and Careers of the USA's] Best & Brightest Workers_ (B&N)
_Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & BiPartisan BeltWay CarpWeasels Are [Destroying the Lives, Families, and Careers of the USA's] Best & Brightest Workers_ (amazon; 480 pages; 10.6MB)

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Jonah Goldberg _Jewish World Review_
restoring USA constitution's balance of the 3 (not 4) branches

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Glenn Reynolds _Jewish World Review_
convention of states: blow up the power-mad non-constitutional administrative/bureaucratic/regulatory central government

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Christopher Elliott _Jewish World Review_
Write a negative review and get sued? It can happen

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Tiffany Gee Lewis _Jewish World Review_
the fine art of listening

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Sophia Saifi, Ben Brumfield & Euan McKirdy _CNN_
at least 19 murdered in Muslim terrorist attack at Bacha Khan U in Charsadda, Pakistan
Umer Ali: Nation

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
John Ribeiro _"IT" News_/_IDG_
fight for privacy of students and cellular-phone users is now being waged in individual USA states

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Greg Corombos _WND_
Richard A. Viguerie: Ted Cruz unites non-leftists

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Ann Coulter _Breitbart_
leftists, RINOs, and non-leftist media unite against Donald Trump

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
John Hayward _Breitbart_
Hindu militia train children to fight ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Patrick Howey _Breitbart_
Goldman Sachs employees top campaign donors to Hitlery Rotten Clinton, Yebbie Booosh, and Marco Rubio
"...Goldman Sachs employees have donated a total of $483,500 to [Yebbie Booosh's] campaign and a [pro-Booosh] super PAC, and they also gave $79,600 to Rubio's campaign and super PAC, according to an analysis of campaign finance records.   That makes Goldman Sachs staffers the top [Booosh] and Rubio donors during this election cycle.   [Hitlery Rotten Clinton] is also getting in on the action, with $169,850 in her campaign and PAC donations coming from the bank.   Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), meanwhile, has mopped up $43,575 from Goldman Sachs this cycle..."

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Thomas D. Williams _Breitbart_
the most violent persecution of Christians in modern history was done in 2015

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Awr Hawkins _Breitbart_
Darrell Issa (R-CA) notes that documents ordered to be released to investigators by federal judge may confirm role of Eric Holder in "Fast and Furious" transgressions

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
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2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Bob Tisdale
the oddities in NOAA's new "pause-buster" sea surface temperature product -- an over-view of past posts
Watts Up With That

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Bob Tisdale
GISS & NOAA to announce 2015 "record high" global temperatures in joint propaganda tele-conference today
Watts Up With That

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Eric Worrall
Davos: climate is not the "top concern" of business executives
Watts Up With That

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
Anthony Watts
new model-based (as opposed to reality-based) study "puts temperature increases caused by CO₂ emissions on the map"
Watts Up With That

2016-01-20 (5776 Shebet 10)
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2016-01-21

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Norm Matloff _Upon Closer Inspection Norm Says No_
the great immigration debate -- now the great Peri-Borjas debate over how much the flood of various categories of cheap foreign labor suppress compensation in the USA (or UK or Europe...)

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Sharon Florentine _"IT" News_/_IDG_
firms hardly trying to hire STEM talent; their notion of a "vigorous struggle" is to barely lift a finger to recruit USA citizens

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Caroline May _Breitbart_
illegal alien arrested for binding child with duct tape, offering to let others rape her in Mesa, Arizona

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Donna Rachel Edmunds _Breitbart_
massive secondary wave expected as "migrant"/ "refugee"/ "asylum seeker"/ invader/ terrorist/ cross-border criminal/ illegal alien men demand that wives, children be brought to Europe

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Caroline May _Breitbart_
DHS official: USAICE still investigating only 0.05% of visa over-stays in FY2015

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Ildefonso Ortiz _Breitbart_
multiple child-rapers caught sneaking into Texas from Mexico

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Raheem Kassam _Breitbart_
bankers admit they want more cheap labor to ensure high profits and excessive compensation for executives and board members
"...The document begins with quotes from European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker, and billionaire 'no borders' campaigner George Soros.   It states, right from the get go: 'To match the US labor growth rate, the EU needs 1.8M additional immigrants (of working age) annually for the next 10 years...'   IOW, the migrant crisis -- while a nightmare for Western Civilisation, for towns and cities across Europe, and for European security -- is perfect for those who want more cheap labour..."

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Oliver Lane _Breitbart_
1,049 victims, rapes & other crimes committed in North Rhine-Westphalia (including Cologne/Koeln) on New Year's Eve

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Oliver Lane _Breitbart_
30 Muslim airport employees dismissed days after major terrorist threat in Geneva, Switzerland

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Oliver Lane _Breitbart_
UK judges declare that "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals/ illegal aliens in Calais can enter UK under EU law

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Oliver Lane _Breitbart_
dystopia: Swedish government report blows lid on violent "diverse" school in Gothenburg where students beat teachers & riot

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
on "equitable distribution" of "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals/ illegal aliens arriving in Europe

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
William Bigelow _Breitbart_
Obummernomics: thousands more Americans losing employment, factories closing, prices soaring

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Caroline May _Breitbart_
USA citizen STEM professional -- displaced from Disney job by cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled, foreign labor with questionable ethics -- is being featured in ads from FAIR

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Oliver Lane _Breitbart_
Linz, Austria: "migrant"/ "refugee"/ "asylum seeker"/ invader/ terrorist/ cross-border criminal/ illegal alien caught sexually groping 3-year-old boy at public swimming pool

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Donna Rachel Edmunds _Breitbart_
Lithuanian truck-driver attacked at Calais by knife-wielding robber "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals/ illegal aliens

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
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2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
judge Andrew P. Napolitano _Jewish World Review_
seeking a path to avoid murdering babies & enslaving women

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Cal Thomas _Jewish World Review_
dollars for hostages

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
George Will _Jewish World Review_
Red China's deeply flawed ascent
"[While Obummer fiddled, Red China] poured more concrete for roads and other construction between 2011 and 2013 than the USA did in the 20th century..."

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Susan Berry _Breitbart_
former Pearson executive reveals crony socialism & anti-USA agenda in Communist Corpse (especially AP History frame-work)
"...She explains that those behind [Communist Corpse] and the new AP U.S. History framework have attempted to minimize the Constitution and remove Christianity from the core concepts, while they also stress the importance of teaching about Islam..."

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Alex Swoyer _Breitbart_
reverend Rafael Cruz: the churches elected Ronald Reagan; we ca do it again

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Jordan Schachtel _Breitbart_
Iran government claims Obummer regime paid $1.7G ransom for USA citizen hostages

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Thomas D. Williams _Breitbart_
ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate imposing radical jihadist indoctrination on all school-children
"In all schools, ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate has banned the teaching of philosophy, chemistry, biology and mathematics, replacing them with courses on sharia and jihad.   All schools in the territory of the Caliphate bearing Christian titles have been renamed, and study of the Syriac language and Christian culture has been abolished.   The educational reform has also imposed a series of new school textbooks that specifically direct children to hate and kill the Nazarenes, that is, the Christians, and the Yazidis, who are condemned as 'polytheists' and 'devil worshippers', respectively..."

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
_Breitbart_
Fatah "leader" Tawfiq Tirawi: "Hitler was not morally corrupt, he was daring"

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Ali Waked _Breitbart_
Saudi grand-mufti declared that chess is forbidden by Islam
"...Abdul Aziz al Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the kingdom, said that the game 'is considered gambling, which contains an element of spending time and money in vain, as well as running the risk of creating enmity between people'..."

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Dan Riehl _Breitbart_
annual march for life will take place regardless of winter storm

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Awr Hawkins _Breitbart_
Virginia legislature passed law recognizing right to own and carry arms without government permission
"...Currently, Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Vermont, and Wyoming [currently] allow concealed carry without a permit..."

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
John Nolte _Breitbart_
with Dems/Reds/leftists in charge the results are racism, rape, riots, and poisoned water

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Julia Hahn _Breitbart_
at Davos, the deposed Eric Cantor assails Trump for his USA-first trade policy
How is it that Cantor has the cash for fancy suits, and air travel, and fancy resorts?   He hasn't invented any labor-saving or quality-improving devices.   He hasn't invented an affordable flying car.   He hasn't invented a more comfortable, durable kind of textile.   He hasn't even invented a more elegant, faster kind of computer, a better screw-driver, hammer, roof-covering, plumbing, saving/thrift account, road-way pavement, defense against privacy violations...

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Joel B. Pollak _Breitbart_
Chicago school admin mandates collectivist/racist "Racial Identity Day"; students boycott

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
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2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Anthony Watts
horrrrible new threat from global warming: fewer pearl necklaces... or not
Watts Up With That

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Anthony Watts
failed math: in 1997, NOAA claimed that the earth was 5.63 degrees warmer than they are claiming it is today
Watts Up With That

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
M.S. Hodgart
another impartial look at "global warming"...
Watts Up With That

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
David Middleton
"thorough, not thoroughly fabricated: the truth about 'global temperature' data"... well, not *thoroughly* fabricated
Watts Up With That

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Rud Istvan
the "Karlization" of earth temperature
Watts Up With That

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Eric Worrall
Discovery!: technological global warming killed all of the ancient aliens
Watts Up With That

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
James Delingpole _Breitbart_
no, 2015 was NOT the hottest year on record
"...1.   The satellite data show no warming...   2.   NASA has fiddled the raw temperature data on an 'unbelievable scale'...   3.   NOAA is just as bad...   4.   According to the satellites it was only the third warmest year since 1979...   5.   The claim is meaningless anyway..."

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
Warner Todd Huston _Breitbart_
winter storm shuts down DC; USA safer for a few days

2016-01-21 (5776 Shebet 11)
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2016-01-22

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Douglas Ernst _WND_
DHS investigated only 3K of 6M visa over-stays
"The website noted on Wednesday that more than 500K aliens over-stayed their temporary visas in 2015 alone.   Over-stays from the Middle East and North Africa include:   Afghanistan: 219.   Iraq: 681.   Iran: 564.   Libya: 56.   Pakistan: 1,435.   Syria: 440.   Yemen: 219.   The DHS 2015 entry and exit overstay report said 482,000 of 527,127 aliens temporarily granted USA business and tourist visas were found to have stayed in the USA longer than legally permitted..."

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Ramesh Ponnuru _Jewish World Review_
Ponnuru's notions of why border security, visas, and immigration are a big deal to many non-leftists
The economy, and job markets in particular, have been weak since at least the last 2 years of the Reagan administration.   Job markets repeatedly worsened due to legislation and regulation changes beginning in Carter's last year, and about every other year since then.   In particular, the flood of cheap, young, pliant, low-skilled labor with questionable ethics has been repeatedly worsened, holding down internship and employment opportunities, facilitating transfer of intellectual property and research methods off-shore, directly displacing USA citizen workers, indirectly displacing and barring USA citizen workers from entry and upward mobility; reducing employers' willingness to invest in print advertising of jobs and to include contact information in advertisements, reducing employers' willingness to interview USA citizen job candidates, reducing their willingness to invest in new-hire and retained employee training, reducing their willingness to invest in retention and relocation of USA citizen workers...   At first only those directly harmed became aware of direct effects.   Gradually they became aware of indirect effects.   Eventually, they got through to close colleagues, relatives, and friends what had been being done for quite some time.   Years later, during the Shrub regime, it finally became a steady topic on at least one cable news program (whose viewership went from 400K to 1.4M), which caused other news media to cover it at least occasionally for a time.   Those negatively affected realized they were not alone, that it was not due to some peculiar fault of their own or a single employer.   Eventually, analysts acknowledged that millions of USA citizens had been harmed.   The "elites", who directly benefit from these changes (at least initially) have spent millions for traditional lobbying and through direct ownership of media have striven mightily every election cycle to continue to make USA job markets ever more dysfunctional.   IOW, the "elites" have been very responsive, but in ways they expect and are likely to only benefit themselves, while spreading harm throughout the USA economy.   The economic arguments related to border security, illegal aliens, student, internship, exchange, guest-work visas, and legal permanent resident/green card/immigration visas have never been able, and usually have not attempted to consider all of the relevant factors.   GNP, GDP, NIPA conflate good with bad, positive with negative effects on the economy; a higher GDP can coincide with worse economic well-being for the bulk of the population.   But there are advocates of sensible restrictions on visa from both the left and the right.   This cluster of issues does not neatly sort itself into Republican and Democrat dichotomy.   Ramesh Ponnuru's past columns clearly show that he is firmly on the side of over-population, over-crowding, low border security, little effort to find or remove illegal aliens, ever more student, exchange, internship, guest-work and immigrant visas, and low or no standards for those visas..and that he won't let facts to the contrary get in his way, nor the way of his sponsors.

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Donna Rachel Edmunds _Breitbart_
Geert Wilders: we must stop admitting Islamic rapists... should restrict new "migrants"/ "refugees"/ "asylum seekers"/ invaders/ terrorists/ cross-border criminals/ illegal aliens to asylum centers and off the streets

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Raheem Kassam & Chris Tomlinson _Breitbart_
"Angela Merkel, you have killed Germany!"
video

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Stanley Renshon _Center for Immigration Studies_
Washington DC Compost's delusional cockamamie advice on USA constitution's requirement that only "natural born citizens" can be president

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
David North _Center for Immigration Studies_
South Sudanese "temporary protected status" 4 days in advance

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
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2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Thomas Sowell _Jewish World Review_
individuals have different values, knowledge, & incentives; differing view of political candidates illustrate these differences

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
David Limbaugh _Jewish World Review_
RINO losership's/elite's/establishment's fear of Ted Cruz

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Jonah Goldberg _Jewish World Review_
the Koch brothers' biggest "sin" is disagreeing with the leftist narrative/story/myth
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2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Adam Taylor _Jewish World Review_
murdered KGB operative was a whistle-blower who accused Putin of pedophilia

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Caroline B. Glick _Jewish World Review_
the murderous hatred of Palestinians against Israel
"...Since last September when the Palestinians began their current terrorist onslaught, killers like Adais have been characterized as lone wolves.   But a study published last November in Mosaic on-line journal by Shalem College's Daniel Polisar shows that this characterization is both wrong and unhelpful.   Polisar studied Palestinian public opinion data from surveys conducted by 4 independent research groups over the past 25 years.   His data exposed three key aspects to Palestinian positions about Israel that all bear directly on the current Palestinian terrorist offensive.   His first finding is that throughout most of the past quarter-century a solid majority of Palestinians have supported terrorism against Israelis.   Moreover, the more murderous an attack, the more it is supported.   Polisar's second finding was that the vast majority of Palestinians hate Israelis and believe that Jews have no right to the Land of Israel, and therefore our state has no right to exist.   Taken together, these first 2 insights lead to 1 clear conclusion about the nature of the current Palestinian terrorism campaign against Israelis.   As Polisar explained, they show that this campaign is not being carried out by 'lone wolves', who have been incited by Palestinian Authority propaganda.   Rather, that propaganda reflects the murderous hatred that the vast majority of Palestinians feel toward Israelis and Israel..."

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Monica Crowley _Political Mavens_
Obummer unleashing his most destructive betrayals of the USA

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
David Simonsen _Jewish World Review_
are you a student or a victim?
Positive people strive to make the world a better place, to correct mistakes and try again, to solicit others' ideas for improvements, to take arms against their sea of troubles and by opposing seek to end them...

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Brady Dennis _Jewish World Review_
have you heard about the guy who dropped dead while shoveling show?
"Each approaching blizzard brings warnings about the dangers of shoveling snow, an activity that sends thousands of Americans to emergency rooms each winter.   Don't tackle the walk-way if you aren't in good enough shape...   At the gym, he noted, it's easy to hop off a tread-mill when you start feeling winded or to slip out of that spin class early.   But shoveling snow tends to be a 'goal-oriented' activity.   Call it pride, stubbornness or maybe naivete, but men especially tend to keep at it until the job is finished -- or, too often, until disaster strikes...   In a study several years ago, for example, researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio found that an average of 11,500 snow-shoveling-related injuries and medical emergencies occur annually in the United States.   More than half involve soft-tissue injuries, as well as lacerations, bone fractures and harm from slips and falls.   Cardiac-related injuries account for fewer than 10% of the total cases, but between 1990 and 2006, they comprised more than half of the hospitalizations and all of the more than 1,600 deaths.   The researchers also found that people over 55 were more than four times as likely as younger patients to experience heart-related problems while shoveling snow.   Men were twice as likely as women to experience symptoms..."

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Susan Jones _Cybercast News Service_
corrupt Obummer regime: other than that "Fast and Furious" and a few other malevolent actions, we have gone to great lengths to stop the flow of arms between USA & Mexico
"...A new report from the Government Accountability Office [GAO] says 73,684 firearms (about 70%) seized in Mexico and traced from 2009 to 2014 originated in the USA. The data comes from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE)..."

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Larry Kudlow _CNBC_
it is time to reciprocate, to declare war against ISIL/ ISIS/ Daesh/ IS/ caliphate

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Melanie Hunter _Cybercast News Service_
Carly Fiorina: the next president will decide whether an un-born baby is only as good as the organs, tissues, and chemicals you can sell from it

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Jill Mislinski _Financial Sense_
Conference Board leading economic index decreased slightly in December to 123.7

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Tzvi Hersh Weinreb _Jewish World Review_
spiritual snobbery vs. amunah pushta/simple fidelity
"...there are clear distinctions between various segments of the Jewish people as they stand at Mount Sinai, at the moment of the Torah's revelation.   Moses is instructed to stand alone, separate from his brother Aaron, who is to stand behind him.   Aaron's sons follow in a separate area further removed from the mountaintop.   Behind them stand the elders, and even further behind stand the rest of the nation.   How are we to explain, asks the Rebbe, the discrepancy between the rigid hierarchy dictated at the Revelation at Sinai, at the time the Torah is revealed, and the inspirational moment at the splitting of the sea, at which point there were no distinctions?   The Rebbe answers that when one wishes to advance his spiritual level through Torah study and observance, there are natural differences between individuals.   Some people are gifted with intellectual strengths that enable them to comprehend the depths of Torah, whereas others are more limited and can only understand Torah superficially.   Some have prodigious memories so that they can remember all of Jewish law, and others can barely remember the basics.   With Torah, there are individual differences.   Hence the prayer that we recite at the conclusion of the central Amidah prayer: 'grant each of us our unique portion in the Torah'.   We do not have equivalent Torah portions.   But when it comes, the Rebbe concludes, to emuna peshuta, to simple faith, there are no individual differences.   Everyone is capable of sincere and genuine belief in G0D...."
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10 commandments/ asereth ha dibrot
613 mitzvoth/taryag mitzvot
7 laws of Noah
Natural Law
Golden Rule and similar brief ethical rules of thumb
Natural Rights vs. legal privileges
The Libertarian Principle: No individual or group of individuals may morally initiate physical force or fraud against others.   Anyone who does initiate the use of physical force or fraud is unethical and criminal.

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Existence
Consciousness				Identity
Reason			Purpose	Self-Esteem
Rationality	Independence	Integrity	Honesty	Justice	Productiveness	Pride

2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
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2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Josh
Friday funny: probable cause
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2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Roger Pielke ii
82M to see at least an inch of snow in east coast blizzard; what does history show?
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2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
Anthony Watts
yet another prediction of doom over Greenland ice melt and the AMOC that we can ignore
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2016-01-22 (5776 Shebet 12)
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2016-01-23 (5776 Shebet 13)
Dan Cadman _Center for Immigration Studies_
concrete evidence of the continuing plunge in immigration enforcement, both civil and criminal

2016-01-23 (5776 Shebet 13)
Julia Hahn _Breitbart_
National Review enlisted open border, over-population, over-crowding zealots in feeble attempt to trash Donald Trump

2016-01-23 (5776 Shebet 13)
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2016-01-23 (5776 Shebet 13)
Philip Foster
of the UK were to try to achieve COP21 regulator goals... hold on to your hats!
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2016-01-23 (5776 Shebet 13)
David Whitehouse
2015 "global temperature", or how some "scientists" deliberately mistook weather for climate
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2016-01-23 (5776 Shebet 13)
Anthony Watts
Saturday silliness: wind turbine photo of the year
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2016-01-23 (5776 Shebet 13)
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