CAN HE DO THAT? Trump’s radical immigration plan: Enforce the law.

GOOD LORD: Featured Women’s March Speaker Once Kidnapped, Raped and Tortured Man to Death.

Convicted felon Donna Hylton, who once was a member of a group that kidnapped, raped and tortured an elderly man to the point of death, was a featured speaker at Saturday’s pro-abortion and anti-Trump Women’s March on Washington.

Yup, seriously.

As reported by The Daily Caller’s Peter Hasson on Thursday night: “Hylton, along with three men and three other women, kidnapped 62-year-old real-estate broker Thomas Vigliarolo and held him for ransom, before eventually killing him. As noted in a 1995 Psychology Today article, when asked about forcibly sodomizing the victim with a three foot steel pole, one of Hylton’s accomplices replied: ‘He was a homo anyway.'”

“I couldn’t believe this girl who was so intelligent and nice-looking could be so unemotional about what she was telling me she and her friends had done. They’d squeezed the victim’s testicles with a pair of pliers, beat him, burned him,” said New York City Detective William Spurling, speaking of Hylton.

The felon/feminist hero apparently attempted to collect ransom money for the man after he had passed.

Hylton was released from prison in 2012, and Rosario Dawson has been cast to play her in a biopic titled “A Little Piece of Light.”

BIDI BIDI SETTLEMENT CAMP IN UGANDA: Relief organizations say it’s either the largest or second-largest refugee camp in the world. The camp opened the first week of August 2016.

Just 6 months old, this camp is known as the biggest settlement camp in the world, housing 270,000 or one-fifth of the over 1.3 million displaced people in South Sudan. This means that for the people fleeing war and pestilence, all roads lead to Bidi Bidi camp Uganda, just 40km away from the South Sudan-Uganda border.

The camp exists because of the violence and anarchy in South Sudan. In late December 2016 I contributed to an update on the war. Many South Sudanese fear a “Rwanda-like” genocide. Per my comment of December 27, they have a case.

Here’s a report on Bidi Bidi from September 2016. You can see why some reports call it a “pop up” city.

More here on current conditions at Bidi Bidi.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Trump’s Opening Act Is More Conservative Than Reagan.

True.

But Trump has two advantages Reagan didn’t enjoy — three, if you include the ever-expanding powers of the Executive Branch. The other two are that his own party controls the House as well as the Senate, and Trump has reduced much of the Media-Government Complex to impotent, sputtering outrage.

Fissures within the GOP coalition will eventually become a real problem, and Democrats and the “Professional Left” might someday wise up and back off the outrage. But in the meantime, Trump has a perhaps unprecedented window of opportunity to take action, and he’s taking full advantage of it.

HOW BAD IS THE ANTI-TRUMP FEARMONGERING AT THE WASHINGTON POST? So bad it’s being corrected by . . . Vox.

LARRY SUMMERS: Raise the National Gasoline Tax.

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CHUCK SCHUMER: Trump’s Education Pick Would ‘Single-Handedly Decimate’ Public Schools.

A reminder, if you need one: Chuck Schumer lies.

MEGAN MCARDLE: In Defense of Trump’s ‘Day of Patriotic Devotion.’

So Donald Trump declared his inauguration a “National Day of Patriotic Devotion.” Left-wing Twitter went into a frenzy about how creepily quasi-fascist this was. Right-wing Twitter went into a frenzy pointing out that Barack Obama had declared his own inauguration a “National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation.” Left-wing Twitter angrily responded that those things are completely different, implying that if you couldn’t see the difference between a beautiful and healing day of renewal and reconciliation, and a disgusting celebration of atavistic nationalism, you might be something of a fascist. And I, bordering on something perilously close to despair, thought, “Guys, this is why Red America hates us.”

It used to be a trope on the right that the left thought patriotism was a bad word — a charge the left angrily denied. Now here we have a surprisingly large number of people arguing that … patriotism is a bad word, and wildly inappropriate when issued from the Oval Office. Or at least, more than a bit uncouth. . . .

What it does mean is that you should be able to say, without irony or reservation, “I love my country more than any other country,” and understand that adults around the world won’t hear this as an insult against their own land, but as the moral equivalent of “I love my wife more than any other woman.” You don’t love your country best because all the others are rotten places full of awful people; you love it best because it’s yours.

This sits badly with the cosmopolitan values of wide swathes of the country, because this sort of particular love closes off other options. But as I’ve noted before, the idea of being a “citizen of the world” is nonsense. If you get into trouble in a foreign country, it’s the U.S. embassy that’s required to swoop in to bail you out, not “the world.” Don’t get me wrong; there are many fine people abroad, and many of them may help you. But the U.S. government is the only one that has to, and that makes all the difference.

This should be obvious at a time when that cosmopolitan ideology is failing everywhere. Elites somehow got the idea that national loyalties would fade away and be replaced by a gentle globalism. And indeed, some of the old loyalties did fade away. But it turned out that the alternative to nationalism was not globalism, but particularism — the fracturing of polities into angry tribes that passionately loathe each other. And many in those tribes now demand to know why they should let cosmopolitan elites run things, when those elites declare, as a matter of pride, that they feel no greater loyalty to their fellow citizens than they do to strangers far away.

Indeed. And Trump’s little proclamation certainly brought that into sharp relief.

WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? NAACP Pledges to ‘Resist’ Trump Voter Fraud Investigation.

RETREAT IN THE FOREST: One of the Battle of the Bulge photos I missed during StrategyPage’s retrospective photo series. There are a half-dozen other photos that got skipped during the six weeks the series ran. I’ll play catch up over the weekend. But this photo of German infantrymen retreating struck me as an apt mirror of yesterday’s photo of U.S. forces advancing. The caption doesn’t give the date the action occurred, just January 1945. I’ll bet the date is mid-January 1945, but that’s a guess. This is a genuine combat photo, too.

WHITTLE, OTT, GREEN: It Was a Dark and Stormy Speech — Did the Left Watch the Same Inaugural We Did?

Full Disclosure: I’m Green.

DEPLORABLES WITH DIPLOMAS: How could a college-educated woman vote for Donald Trump? In She’s With Him, Jayne Riew shows who they are and why they voted (and why some of them still haven’t told their friends).

REKINDLING THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP: Theresa May praises Trump but pledges end to ‘failed’ foreign wars.

But? Trump made similar pledges throughout his campaign, so CNN’s headline reads like nothing more than a lame attempt to paint Trump as a warmonger.

THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED, IGNORANT RELIGIOUS ABSOLUTISM WOULD DOMINATE OUR POLITICS. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Pelosi: Democrats Do ‘the Lord’s Work,’ Republicans ‘Dishonor God.’

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OLD VS NEW: Pentagon, Air Force Continue F-35 vs A-10 Close Air Support Testing – to Include Possible Fly-Off.

While the cherished A-10 is unambiguously combat-tested in the role of Close Air Support, some F-35 advocates have mused that the JSF sensors, maneuverability, high-tech computers, 25mm canon and arsenal of weapons just might better position the 5th generation aircraft for the mission; at the same time, the A-10s titanium frame, built-in redundancy, famous nose-aligned 30mm cannon and wide-ranging precision-weapons envelope make clearly make it the best choice for close air support.

Sure enough, the A-10s performance against ISIS, Congressional lobby and broad adoration among ground troops are among the many factors believed to have influenced the Air Force’s current plan to both extend the life of the current A-10 and also explore requirements options for a future Close Air Support platform. Air Force officials have told Scout Warrior the ongoing requirements and analysis procedure is looking at three options – upgrading the existing A-10 airframe, using the best available commercial-off-the shelf aircraft, or simply engineering an building a newly designed A-10-like Close Air Support airplane.

Many A-10 proponents are convinced that there is no other plane capable of succeeding with the highly-dangerous, revered and essential Close Air Support Mission. Nevertheless, the Air Force does plan to use the emerging F-35 for Close Air Support moving into the next decade. In addition, F-35 advocates argue that the stealth aircraft’s speed, maneuverability and high-tech weapons and sensors give the F-35 a decisive Close Air Support advantage.

The A-10’s advantage is its ability to loiter “low and slow” and put fire from its really big gun on enemies the pilot can positively ID from up close. But the F-35 was designed to evade modern surface-to-air missiles on battlefields where you wouldn’t dare send older aircraft.

Maybe the Air Force needs to embrace the healing power of “and.”

TIMING: Trump Will Keep Vow on Jerusalem Embassy Move, Giuliani Says.

Traveling to Israel with messages from Trump to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Giuliani said the new U.S. president and his advisers will probably take “six months or so” to develop a new strategy for American peace efforts in the Middle East. How and when the U.S. moves the embassy will be discussed when Netanyahu visits the White House in early February, Giuliani said.

“I think you’ve got to wait a little bit, but it will get done,” Giuliani said of the embassy move, speaking in an interview at the Tel Aviv offices of Greenberg Traurig LLP. He heads the law firm’s global Cybersecurity, Privacy and Crisis Management practice.

The fate of Jerusalem is among the most sensitive issues Israelis and Palestinians will need to address in any future peace negotiations. Israel took the eastern part of Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War and considers all of the city as its capital, while the Palestinians want the eastern portion as the capital of their hoped-for state.

Trump realizes the embassy decision “implicates four or five countries and how they’re going to react,” Giuliani said. “He needs to know how the prime minister of Israel is going to react and how he wants to see something like this done.”

It isn’t that the move won’t happen, but believe it when you see it.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Bushwick Trashes Southerners as Racist Killers.

The thriller, which enjoyed a cushy spot in the current Sundance Film Festival lineup, leans on the notion that Texans want to secede from the country. That’s so 2016.

Today, it’s Californians who crave just that following the improbable Election Day victory of Donald Trump. Haven’t you heard of Calexit?

The film doesn’t just miss the cultural mood, though. It’s yet another cheap shot at southern America. “Bushwick,” according to early reports, paints the secessionist movement as racist, violent and willing to indiscriminately kill anyone who doesn’t believe in their cause.

Maybe the best thing you could say is that at least it isn’t another reboot, superhero origin story, or Lady Ghostbusters.

NO MORE IMPUNITY: Republicans Rethinking Relationship with Schumer after Pompeo Incident: “He lied.”

THERE ARE SEVERAL TO CHOOSE FROM: Will Current Scandals End Netanyahu’s Career?

MICHAEL WOLFF: Why the Media Keeps Losing to Donald Trump.

It is the Trump view that the media has been so wrong in its predictions, and made to look in the eyes of the public so woeful and ludicrous, that it must now double down in an effort to prove its thesis about the president and restore its honor. (The Trump White House now hammers a persistent theme: Why was nobody fired in the mainstream media for such dunderheaded election coverage?)

The media strategy is to show Trump to be an inept and craven sociopath. The Trump strategy is to show that media people are hopeless prigs out of touch with the nation (e.g., CNN’s media correspondent, Brian Stelter, who turns to the camera every Sunday morning and delivers a pious sermon about Trump’s perfidiousness) and nursing personal grudges.

Accordingly, “alternative facts.” It’s curious to pick a battle whose outcome won’t change anything—like over the actual size of the inaugural crowd. But both sides grabbed it. Hence, the argument becomes about relative reaction. Who is perceived as overreacting more? Whose apoplexy is greater?

Trump’s genius is for making his opponents seem crazier than he is — and I’m using “crazy” as a pejorative in the former example, but not in the latter.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Campus civil rights groups begin making case to Trump administration.