Mitchell Invites Guest to Slam ‘Evil,’ ‘Sin’ of Trump Enforcing Immigration Law  You’d never know that that was Trump’s job as President.

The Royals are Deplorables  I got yer right side of history, right here.

Kathy Griffin calls Melania ‘feckless complicit piece of s—t’  The Party of Hate marches on.

Fact check: Viral image of child in a cage was not detained by ICE  Lies and the lying liars who tell them.

Emails Suggest EPA Officials Colluded With Lobbyists To Thwart Trump’s Agenda

Cable News: 22 Comparisons of Immigration Policy to the Holocaust, Slavery  The Chattering Class all reach for the same analogies because they all use the same brain, I think.

Why is the party of Trump comfortable with televised sadism?  Because it’s all Fake News, and Trump (not being a Regular Politician) refuses to be spooked.

Gillibrand: Trump’s Separation Policy Is ‘Evil,’ The ‘Devil’s Schemes’  I guess he’s back to being Hitler again.

Armour Blasts Trump Again, Reveals How NFL Social Justice Activists Becoming ‘PAC-like’  Can you spell ‘p-o-l-i-t-i-c-i-z-a-t-i-0-n’? I’m sure you can….

ICE Director: ‘It’s An Insult’ That Critics Compare Border Patrol To Nazi Germany  Hey, insults are all they got.

Twitter Says Samuel L. Jackson’s Homophobic Anti-Trump Tweet Didn’t Violate Guidelines

MSNBC Anchor Cries Over Immigrant Children On Live Television  Where were her tears under Obama?

Cable News Compares Detention Centers To Holocaust, Internment Camps and Slavery 22 Times  Yup, we’re back to the Hitler smear.

Meghan McCain Calls Out Ivanka Over Child Separation At Border [VIDEO]  As if Ivanka (a) had anything to do with it or (b) has anything to do with it. (Apparently the (horse)apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.)

Reverend Al Sharpton Said Children Are Being Separated At Border ‘Because These Are Children Of Color’  To the racist, all things are racial.

Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono Says White House Officials Have ‘Sold Their Souls,’ Wants Their Resignations [VIDEO]  Of course, White House officials always resign when called on to do so by a Demagogue Senator, especially during a Trump administration. If these guys gave up posturing for the press they wouldn’t have anything to do all day.

Newest Media/CNN/Don Lemon Conspiracy Theory: We’re Only Seeing Pictures of Boys in Immigrant Detention Facilities So Trump Can Scare American Citizens Into Thinking These are All MS-13 Gangsters  ‘Journalists’ appear to have the imagination of a small child locked in a dark room. Perhaps that’s why they’re all over this story.

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I think that this is Trump’s latest move to make anti-Trump heads explode.

Let’s see whether it works.

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They ought to be re-naming schools after him, not Obama.

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It’s huge, it’s extremely dangerous, and it’s spreading. The giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) contains a corrosive sap that causes severe rashes, third-degree burns, and even permanent blindness if you get the photosensitive chemicals on your skin or in your eyes, Science Alert reports.

No relation to David Hogg, of course. (Or is it?)

The noxious, invasive weed was just identified in Clarke County, Virginia, near the Massey Herbarium at Virginia Tech. That brings the number of states it’s been spotted in to 11, including Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine. Beyond the U.S., it has taken root all over the world, from the UK to Iceland to Australia.

I bet kudzu can beat it. And I bet goats can eat it.

Victor Davis Hanson explains the Deep State to you.

Review the Clinton email scandal, the Steele dossier, the insertion of at least one FBI informant into the Trump campaign, the misleading of the FISA court by FBI and DOJ officials intent on monitoring U.S. citizens, and, now, the inspector general’s report. There emerges a common denominator: the surety by all involved that Hillary Clinton would be president, and the need to prepare for that fact.

“And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.”

When high-career FBI and DOJ officers go on to refer to American voters as smelly, “retarded,” ignorant, and feces (easily trumping Hillary’s own “deplorables” and “irredeemables” and Obama’s “clingers”), they do so because they assume their candor to each other will earn rewards rather than punishments. More generally, they count on their illegal and unethical behavior becoming known and thus résumé points rather than grounds for later firing and jail.

And that’s what the Deep State is all about.

John Hinderaker peeks behind the curtain.

In a remarkable display of unity, the nation’s news media have suspended coverage of the FBI scandal, our booming economy, progress on North Korea, etc., to focus single-mindedly on the plight of children who are temporarily separated from their parents as a consequence of their illegal entry into the U.S. I personally have no problem with enforcing the immigration laws, as the President is sworn to do. But the Democrats evidently believe they have struck the mother lode in their ceaseless quest for political advantage.

This exercise on the part of the Chattering class has two objectives:

1. Scare Cuckroach Republicans and ThoughtDeviant Crustians into joining the chorus;
2. Get low-information voters to vote for Democrats in the mid-term elections.

Nr 1 typically works with Ordinary Politicians (Bushes, of course, and people like McCain and Romney) but hasn’t worked so far on Trump so it’s hard to know what they hope to accomplish; if insanity is doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different result This Time, then ‘derangement’ is a clinically accurate diagnosis.

Nr 2 may or may not work — only time will tell. I suppose it depends on whether they can keep the pot boiling on this topic until closer to the election. Trump has historically demonstrated a talent for sucking all the air out of DemLegHump Media crusades before, and I’m waiting to see how he handles this one.

The whole point is to get elected and appointed officials to cave to the mob. With Trump like a rock behind them, which is what appears to be happening, this may not work the way it has in the past. I doubt they can keep it up for the next two-and-a-bit years, and that’s how long Trump has in the driver’s seat.

Pass the popcorn.

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SOME of us never doubted it.

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I certainly hope they make him pay back the cost of his taxpayer-funded education, but I’m not holding my breath.

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I guess because the last one worked so well.

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Guess he doesn’t know any Muslims.

Or any Venezuelans.

Or any Cubans.

Or any mainland Chinese.

Or any North Koreans.

(Don’t get me started on what he doesn’t know.)

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That’s their target demographic.

This is what happens when Trump loses control of the National Conversation to the DemLegHump Media.

He needs to regain control of the process.

Let’s see whether he’s lost his touch.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Tyler Cowen turns over a rock.

“What have been the really major advances of the past 20 years?” is one of the most common debated questions in my circles. The smartphone is probably nominated most often, while Google, Facebook and fracking have their advocates too. Yet we hardly ever talk about one of the most important developments, perhaps because it raises uncomfortable political issues: the governance technologies and strategies of authoritarian regimes have become much more efficient.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Vital weasel-word: ‘could’. Space aliens could turn all of our recyclable trash into fudge, too; doesn’t mean it will happen.

The ‘report’ is by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a famous Chicken-Little group that started out clutching their pearls over nuclear weapons and have been digging ever since.

Wake me when real estate prices in California, Florida, and Long Island start falling.

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I have an idea: Let’s have all American Republicans move to Mexico, and all current inhabitants of Mexico move to the U.S.

In which country would you rather live? I’ll pick Republico over Mexamerica any day.

Kathy Griffin Brutally Attacks First Lady ‘Melanie’ Trump On Twitter  The Party of Hate strikes again.

Dem Candidate Compares Trump Victory To 9/11 Terror Attacks

Mika Brzezinski Absolves Democrats Of Immigration Crisis, Calls Trump Policies ‘Blatantly Cruel’ Except, of course, that they’re the same policies.

‘Nothing Happened!’ Hosts Dismiss Impact of FBI Texts on ‘View’  Aside from the conspiracy and the political bias.

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The University of Washington settled with the university’s College Republicans (UWCR) Monday, agreeing to pay $122,500 to make the lawsuit go away. The settlement comes after UWCR filed a lawsuit claiming that UW’s speaker policies “unconstitutionally infringed upon the UWCR’s First Amendment freedom of speech by making it unaffordable and therefore impractical to host events likely to invite violent protests,” Campus Reform reported.

The losers here, of course, aren the university administrators who made these decisions — heaven forbid! — but rather the taxpayers and students of the University, who have to pay for this mess.

As usual, nobody gets fired and nobody goes to jail. And the Crust just keeps rockin’ on.

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SPLC reported in 2003 being worth $152 million, so I suspect this is just a flea-bite to them. Nevertheless, it represents progress.

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Sure! Open up the borders! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

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I guess they haven’t figured out that this will increase actual racism.

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Since labor unions became part of the Demagogue Coalition, they’ve been an integral part of the Deep State, fostered by the ‘regulatory capture’ of the NLRB by pro-union apparatchiks. This is good news.

Reihan Salam deals out some inconvenient truth.

The mother profiled in the Times was regularly receiving remittances from her boyfriend. According to the Times, the boyfriend was reluctant to share details about his own life out of fear of repercussions from federal authorities. It is not unreasonable to assume that he was working in the U.S. without authorization when he encouraged his girlfriend to join him with her son in tow. This reflects a larger pattern: Past migration has a snowballing effect. Earlier migrants gain experience that they can then use to help friends and relatives make their way north, and they can provide much-needed financial assistance. The presence of familiar faces lowers the psychic cost of the move. Over a long enough period of time, entire extended family networks can relocate, provided enforcement is lax and the would-be migrants can afford the journey.

ALSO: MSNBC Panel Admits Obama Also Separated Immigrant Families

ALSO: EXCLUSIVE: Moms Of Children Killed By Illegal Aliens Slam Media For Hypocritical Coverage Of Border Separations

ALSO: Illegal Immigrant Says She Wouldn’t Have Come To U.S. If She Knew Her Kid Would Be Taken Away

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But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Bear that in mind.

Absolutely nothing.

Ace of Spades slimes Paul Erlich and his fellow-travelers.

“Did you know that babbling clown Paul Ehrlich is still running his fool mouth? You’d think he’s learned his lesson by now, but no, even though virtually everything he wrote back in 1968 in his hysterical, omg-my-hair-is-on-fire book ‘The Population Bomb’ has turned out to be wrong, that hasn’t stopped him. He says, get this, ‘many details and timings of events were wrong…but…the book was correct overall.’ In other words it was fake, but accurate. He’s like one of those TV preachers who predict that the world is ending Real Soon Now so send in your money. Also, if he honestly believes that the world is overcrowded, then what is he still doing here? It’s like he’s saying ‘this lifeboat is way to crowded, so everybody needs to get off, but not me.’ Considering that European and American birth-rates have been mostly flat for decades, what he’s really saying is that there are too many brown people in the world, and there needs to be fewer of them. Somebody is going to eventually notice that all of this is kind of, you know, racist, and that’s when we’ll start seeing some wild and crazy blue-on-blue action.”

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Of course, it doesn’t ‘prove’ any ‘point’, it’s just hyperbolic virtue-signalling.

The smug self-righteousness of our ruling-class apparatchiks is nauseating.

UPDATE: Rich Lowry drives the point home – One of These Things Is Not Like the Other

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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I had a mother like that.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

John Hinderaker adds some perspective.

Let’s start with the fact that Democrats are desperate. Republican economic policies, pursued by the Trump administration and enacted by the Republican Congress, have our economy humming along at a historic rate. Overseas, the Trump administration has moved to advance America’s trade interests and to neutralize some of the principal threats against us, including that from North Korea.

What is a loyal Democrat to do? Change the subject. Hence the obsession, which has blown up over the past few days, with the alleged separation of parents from their children at the country’s Southern border.

Some questions seem to be infrequently asked. What families are we talking about? Why are they at the Southern border in the first place? How long does the alleged separation last, and what is the reason for it? What were the policies of past administrations? Instead, we have seen an over-the-top attack on the Trump administration, and Republicans in general. Although, as far as I can tell, the photos of children in cages date from the Obama era.

Also: The Truth about Separating Kids

David Brooks: Immigration Policy ‘Not Quite Abu Ghraib,’ But Makes You ‘Ashamed To Be American’  Still waiting for one of these whiners to propose an alternative.

CNN Analyst Brian Karem Defends Press Briefing Meltdown  Democrats always justify bad manners because IT’S IMPORTANT! But it rarely is.

NBC Panel Debates How Often Media Should Call President Trump a Liar

Johnson: Trump Admin Are ‘Terrorists,’ Comey ‘Pissed’ at ‘Black Woman Boss’  If you’re thinking about race all the time, then you’re the racist.

Tom Arnold Rants That ‘Trump Is a Russian Asset’; Gives No Evidence  Evidence? We don’t need no steenkin’ evidence.

Reverend Al Sharpton says Trump is an ’embarrassment’ to America and emboldens the far right  Although not as much of an embarrassment as Al Sharpton.

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No doubt Trump is to blame, what with putting kids in cages and all.

Ace of Spades looks at food.

I am a thigh man. Breasts are the tabula rasa of the chicken world, and while I love a nice plump one, they are better when stuffed with interesting things like cheese and ham. But thighs can stand on their own (SWIDT?). In addition to having more myoglobin and fat, they have that wonderful bone with the connective tissue that seems to melt into lusciousness with careful cooking.

They also stand up to an awful lot of heat, so it is difficult to overcook them. And if you bone them, they have a lot of surface area, so whatever marinade or rub you feel like using will quickly add tons of flavor.

I appreciate chicken breast in the same way that I appreciate steak: It’s good to slice it up and use it in slice-oriented contexts, as with turkey. Thighs (and, to a lesser extend, legs) are hand-food, and that’s The American Way.

Try sous-vide. You’ll not regret it.

The Other McCain is on the case.

Ordinarily I would recommend to each young man graduating from high school a term in one of the services, which used to give excellent training in responsibility and leadership, along with a usable skill for civilian life (which, alas, high school no longer does).

I couldn’t do that today.

‘Is that guy wearing a skirt? Where did you say you got that special deal on the reservations?’

Check it out.

As if you didn’t have anything else to do today.

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If self-hating white people don’t reproduce, then the situation will eventually correct itself.

The system works, if people allow it to, even though there are rough spots along the way. But natural selection is a long-term thing.

Eventually, right-thinking people will refuse to send their children to government schools to be indoctrinated in modern tribalism, and the government school systems will wind up like Detroit.

Heather MacDonald turns over a rock.

Progressives say that the United States is racist and misogynist, but they still want everyone in the world to come here.

Funny how that works. And I’d be curious as to what proportion of the people demonstrating against the U.S. in foreign parts would be first in line for admittance.

Progressives are masters of DoubleThink but this appears to be excessive.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care that a labor government stuck Britain with back in the 1940s! Don’t you wish we had a system like that over here?

Feel the Bern….

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend make $288,000 donation to ACLU to ‘Make Trump’s Birthday Great Again’  I doubt that Trump pays as much attention to what they do as they seem to think he does.

MSNBC’s Wallace Likens Trump Admin to MS-13 Gang, ‘Terrorizing Children’  Except for the whole shooting/drugs thing.

Salon: Trump Supporting Friends Should be Dead to You  Does anybody who reads Salon have any Trump-supporting friends? I shouldn’t think so. (If they do, they’d be too embarrassed to admit it.)

MSNBC Accuses Trump of Creating ‘Concentration Camps’; Warns: ‘Your Kids Could Be Next’  Well, no, they couldn’t, not unless they’re here illegally.

Joe Scarborough Compares Processing Of Illegal Immigrants To Nazis Murdering Jews And Joe jumps the shark.

‘Quiet’ — Trump Dominates Reporter Who Interrupts Him  Been waiting for that.

Samuel L Jackson Make Homophobic Trump Birthday Joke

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I thought you’d never ask.

I knew there was a reason I didn’t eat asparagus. (Besides the fact that it tastes like cat barf [I suspect]).

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And the White House Press Secretary would be justified in kicking his ass out.

Just sayin’.

(Since when is somebody from Playboy magazine a journalist? What news have they ever broken?)

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Colbert is a Catholic? Could have fooled me. He certainly doesn’t sound like any Catholic I ever knew.

‘Steven! To you you’re a Catholic, and maybe to me you’re a Catholic, but to a Catholic are you a Catholic?’

Uh, no.