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New York State officials offered to use the power of eminent domain to seize private property for Amazon’s “HQ2” project, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal.

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The Transportation Security Administration has set out an alarming vision of pervasive biometric surveillance at airports, which cuts against the right to privacy, the “right to travel,” and the right to anonymous association with others.

The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, which included language that we warned would provide implied Congressional endorsement to biometric screening of domestic travelers and U.S. citizens, became law in early October. The ink wasn’t even dry on that bill when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) published their Biometrics Roadmap for Aviation Security and the Passenger Experience, detailing TSA’s plans to work with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to roll out increased biometric collection and screening for all passengers, including Americans traveling domestically.

This roadmap appears to latch on to a perceived acceptance of biometrics as security keys while ignoring the pervasive challenges with accurately identifying individuals and the privacy risks associated with collecting massive amounts of biometric data. Furthermore, it provides no strategy for dealing with passengers who are unfairly misidentified.

Worst of all, while the roadmap explicitly mentions collaborating with airlines and other partners inside and outside the government, it is alarmingly silent on how TSA plans to protect a widely distributed honeypot of sensitive biometric information ripe for misuse by identity thieves, malicious actors, or even legitimate employees abusing their access privileges.

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California already has a problem with insufficient new homes being built to satisfy demand, and high housing prices exacerbating population outflow and homelessness. This will just make that situation worse. But I guess they don’t care.

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I should think so.

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Immigration attorney Linda Vega appeared on “Fox & Friends” Friday to explain how a 19-year-old illegal immigrant can use her newborn anchor baby to achieve U.S. citizenship.
The pregnant mother from Honduras scaled a fence near the southern border to have her child on American soil in November, to exploit the loophole of birthright citizenship.
“What happens now is she will be processed either to determine whether she has a credible fear to remain in the United States for a political asylum claim,” Vega said.

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That’s where the money is, as Willie Sutton famously said.

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A judge reportedly allowed an immigrant in court on drugs charges to leave through the back door to avoid immigration enforcement who had arrived to arrest him.

Shelley Joseph, a judge in the suburbs of Boston, is reportedly being investigated by a federal grand jury over the claims she helped the man – Jose Medina-Perez – escape arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The incident is said to have happened in April when Mr Medina-Perez was appearing before Judge Joseph’s court after being arrested on drug charges. Mr Perez-Medina was ordered to reappear before the court on the drugs charges in May and then allowed to leave.

The Boston Globe said the Dominican had already been deported from the United States twice before.

In the audio recording of the courtroom, Judge Joseph can be heard saying ICE “is going to get him” and “I’m not going to allow them to come in here” before telling a clerk to turn off the recording.

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The Ninth Circuit is the most overruled appellate court in the Federal system.

You can guess why.

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Both are of course Democrats. Presumably they see themselves as Muslims first and Americans a distant second.

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Heading downtown Minneapolis several times a week, we watched a so-called homeless encampment grow on a small strip of land along Hiawatha Avenue just before it funnels traffic downtown onto Seventh Street. A tribute to the broken-windows theory of policing, the encampment grew up virtually overnight. Bordering a subsidized Native American housing complex, residents of the encampment reflect the Indian tilt of their neighbors. At one point we saw teepees join the tents.

As the encampment turned into a shithole, municipal authorities jumped to it. They moved four port-o-potties onto a fringe of the strip. That didn’t do anything to clean up the detritus of addiction that littered the grounds. Between September and November four residents of the encampment died of overdoses. The Star Tribune quoted the father of one of the deceased: “It’s a drug house without walls and everyone knows it.” Yet the encampment continued to grow, spilling over the small strip of land on which it originated. It was something like an attractive nuisance.

Long after the encampment had become a disgusting eyesore and menace to public health, the authorities came up with a creative solution of a sort. They installed a green mesh screen to render the encampment less visible to passing traffic.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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We’re in the holiday season, but that doesn’t mean conservative legislators should take a holiday from their conservative principles. Unfortunately, the farm bill devised by House and Senate negotiators would require them to do just that.

Farm bills past have repeatedly disappointed those who believe in free markets, reduced dependency on government, and individual freedom. This latest farm bill, according to published reports, would be the worst in recent memory. It doesn’t just ignore these core principles—it flouts them.

Whenever any bill gets ‘negotiated’ it always winds up worse than either of the two original positions.

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This is part of the ongoing conflict between metropolitan areas in Texas, which are run by Democrats for Democrats, and the rest of the state, which is run by Republicans for Republicans.

Opponents dismissed the lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, based on a Republican-backed law, as a “publicity stunt.”

Of course it was, just as the whole Sanctuary City schtick is a ‘publicity stunt’ — politicians are the original Virtue Signallers, and that applies to Republicans as well as Democrats.

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In a city run by Democrats, which most of them are, things go to shit really quickly.

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The suit lists curtailing the duration of early voting as among the election board’s barriers, making it more difficult for residents to vote. However, Abrams was a co-sponsor of the bill to shorten the early voting period when she was a member of the Georgia General Assembly.

Heh.

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Two Pennsylvania bus drivers are suing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after the workers were prevented from holding a vote to throw off their union representation.

Krise Transportation employees Marcia Williams and Karen Wunz are challenging the NLRB’s “settlement bar” rule that prevents workers from challenging a union for a set amount of time after a settlement.

The NLRB stacks the deck in favor of unions so many ways that I’m surprised that Trump hasn’t attacked them.

There’s a reason why ‘union’ and ‘thug’ go together, like pizza-topping.

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has paid $424,000 to insure itself against a significant drop in tuition revenue from Chinese students.

In what is thought to be a world first, the colleges of business and engineering at the university signed a three-year contract with an insurance broker to pay the annual six-figure sum, which provides coverage of up to $60 million.

The university came up with the idea in 2015 and implemented it last year but received permission from the broker to discuss it in public only earlier this month.

I guess they’re waiting for Trump to slap a tariff on ’em. This ought to solidify the position of Asians as Honorary White People.

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler suggested the Obama administration told the authors of the latest National Climate Assessment (NCA) to emphasize “worst-case” global warming predictions.

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Of course. She’s a black female Democrat. To the apparatchiks belong the spoils.

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In her Minneapolis Star Tribune op-ed on the FBI’s just released 2017 Hate Crimes Report, Minnesota Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar presents herself as a sort of apostle of love. Omar decries the increase in reported hate crimes. However, she immediately attributes this increase to President Trump. As Omar puts it in her first paragraph: “The culture of intolerance spread by President Donald Trump has clearly emboldened racist individuals to acts of violence.” Something tells me that Omar’s message of love is a thinly disguised invitation to hate — to hate President Trump and his supporters, anyway

Democrats: Party of Fear, Party of Hate, Party of Death.

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1. It wildly exaggerates economic costs.

2. It assumes the most extreme (and least likely)climate scenario.

3. It cherry picks science on extreme weather and misrepresents timelines and causality.

4. Energy taxes are a costly non-solution.

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Statists love ‘caseworkers’ because that means more government jobs for their people.

So let’s send a battalion of ‘caseworkers’ over to deal with Putin….

Steve Sailer connects the dots.

Apparently both Senators fromHawaii are pretty much proglodyte fools.

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But I doubt that he will look at the Clinton Crime Family Foundation. That’s not the Narrative.

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This is probably the future of the Democrat party. Be very afraid.

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The three Democrats, who all serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia claiming the the president’s appointment of Whitaker was unconstitutional, as the Senate didn’t have its advise-and-consent say in the matter.

Henceforth to be known as the Three Stooges.

The three senators are Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii.

Whitehouse was a classmate of mine at Yale. He was a dick then, and he’s a dick now.

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Saw that comin’.

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You can’t have Identity Politics without signaling your Identity.

(Scorecards! Getcher scorecards here! You can’t tell the victims without a scorecard!)

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Isn’t that amazing.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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ICE are government employees — like Kamala Harris.

They exist by statute, with powers and duties defined by statute. If Senator Harris has a problem with that, she’s a legislator, she can act to change it.

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It ought to have been there in the first place. Or snipers to pick off the ones that make the climb. I’m good either way.

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Oh please, please do.

Ace of Spades is irate.

Fortunately Flake only has a month and a half for such grandstanding.

I wonder what left-wing Establishment sinecure he’ll wind up with?

UPDATE: Jeff Flake Is Messing With Judicial Confirmations Again

If I could hit him in the head with a stick, I would.

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Actually, they’re not ‘taking power’, they’re taking 1/3 of the power.

Which won’t do a damned thing about global warming. It’s just political posturing at taxpayer expense.

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But I’m sure it’s all Trump’s fault in the end.

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It’s hard not to see the connection between this increase in wildfires and the land management policy changes that have occurred since the 1970s.

Laws like the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act, according to Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., “have resulted in endlessly time-consuming and cost-prohibitive restrictions and requirements that have made the scientific management of our forests virtually impossible.”

These laws, and others like them, have drastically reduced the amount of forest thinning and controlled burns that used to effectively keep wildland from becoming a danger to people and property.

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Really, the guy has no shame. Wait until CNN gets ahold of THIS one.

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We need the wall.

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The sun hadn’t yet risen over Gurtar Sandhu’s 7-Eleven store near downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 10 when four plainclothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swarmed inside. The place was busy; a lot of Sandhu’s customers are day laborers and other working people who start early. As dozens of customers poured themselves coffee and lined up to pay for morning snacks, the agents flashed badges and told employees to stay put. Three other agents, wearing dark ICE jackets, guarded the entrance, blocking anyone from coming in. The tension was heightened when one cashier darted out the back door into the dawn.

Government employees can make  your life hell if they choose to do so, whether you’ve doing anything illegal or not, simply by the burdens they can unilaterally impose on you in the name of the regulatory state.

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Cast your minds back — when did Senate Democrats ever push back against any of Barack Obama’s comments, no matter how egregious?

This is why we can never have nice things.

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I guess the Georgia Democrat party isn’t as well-stocked with emergency minority votes as the one in Florida.

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Which is illegal but since Hillary did it and she isn’t going to jail I guess Comey isn’t either.

Mollie Hemingway reads this stuff so you don’t have to.

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For which you can thank three Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt.

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Because there is no more impressive legal qualification than being black and female.

I guess that’s where the ‘magic’ comes in.

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This ought to have been done long ago.

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Good. That ought to be the focue of the next two years.

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The Obama administration didn’t like firearms merchants, payday loan services, and some other businesses. Operation Choke Point was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s plan to shut them down by choking off their access to the banking system. Regulators repeatedly threatened bankers with tighter scrutiny if they did business with these so-called “high risk” accounts—absurdly comparing payday lenders to porn shops and Ponzi schemes.

“I don’t like this product and I don’t believe it has anyplace in our financial system,” said a senior Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation regulator to a banker, whose sin was to consider a lawful business relationship with a payday lender. “Your decision to move forward will result in an immediate unplanned audit of your entire bank.”

In other words: Do something legal that we don’t like, and I’ll inflict extraordinary and excessive harassment.