Author Archive: Stephen Green

100 MILLION SEEMS (AHEM) A LITTLE MUCH, BUT POINT TAKEN:

UPDATE (From Ed): And that’s why the left no longer sounds like this anymore:

 

When Rahm Emanuel Called for “Record Deportations of Criminal Aliens.”

● Harry Reid in 1993: It’s insane to reward illegal immigrants by giving their children birthright citizenship.

● “Trump took to Twitter on Thursday to remind Democrats that even former President Barack Obama spoke out against illegal immigration. Trump dug up a 2011 tweet from former President Obama which said: ‘I strongly believe that we should take on, once and for all, the issue of illegal immigration.’ ‘I totally agree!’ Trump wrote, retweeting the former president.”

—The Daily Caller, December 27, 2018.

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO SCREW UP THEIR WHOLE STRATEGY?

GROW UP, ABDUL:

CONSTITUENT SERVICE:

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Russia to task bankers with shooting down Ukrainian drones. “The draft legislation, which would see banks across Russia install electronic jamming systems while selected employees would shoot down incoming unmanned aircraft, passed in its third and final reading in the lower house Duma on Tuesday, according to the state-run TASS news agency.”

DON’T HOLD BACK NEXT TIME, JD:

WE NEED AGE LIMITS: Absent 83-Year-Old Democrat Frederica Wilson Announces Retirement From House. “Wilson previously committed to running for reelection despite missing several consecutive votes while she recovered from eye surgery. After consistently missing House votes and committee hearings, Wilson told the Miami Herald it was time for her to retire.”

Previously: One of Our Congresscritters Is Missing. “My attempts to reach her office via phone and email received no response. Whatever happened, it looks like Wilson’s staff is in lockdown mode.”

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY:

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Keep it in Your G-String, Gramps. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn that your rights of free expression end at your g-string, what not to drink before driving across a golf course, and how to pack serious heat in Connecticut.”

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

GOOD QUESTION:

THAT SUCKS. HAS RUSSIA CONSIDERED NOT OCCUPYING TERRITORY?

And as Trent Telenko noted, “Mining roads by air & rocket was late Cold War NATO doctrine after all.”

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Oregon Is a Step Closer to Outlawing Hunting and Gathering “his is the place where residents of other states come to verify that they don’t have it so bad, and where lawmakers could, if they bothered to look, find out that their great idea of the week has already been tried and failed. Indeed, in reading the West Coast, Messed Coast™ weekly update, you’ve arrived at the land where proof of concept has no expiration date and where money for every cockamamie idea is in endless supply.”

A POSTMORTEM: Cornyn’s Slaughter. “It’s pretty rare that a four term incumbent senator gets primaried out of office. Indeed, I think you’d have to go back to Alfonse D’Amato defeating Jacob Javits in 1980 for the last time it happened, back when New York was still capable of electing Republicans statewide. So it’s worth taking a deeper look at why John Cornyn got slaughtered by Ken Paxton in Tuesday’s runoff.”

DISPATCHES FROM BLUE SAN DIEGO:

“A county is not the State Department. A county is not an immigration court. A county exists to keep streets safe, roads paved, and the most vulnerable residents cared for.”

GOOD IDEA: Don’t make us reteach middle-school math, say STEM profs at ‘test-free’ UC.

Bring back the SAT/ACT testing requirement for University of California admissions, says an open letter signed by more than 360 STEM professors. Would-be STEM majors are being admitted with “preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics while simultaneously teaching the material students need for sciences, engineering, economics, and other quantitatively demanding fields.”

The number of incoming students with very low math skills has increased nearly thirtyfold, a UC San Diego report warned the Board of Regents. All the UC campuses are seeing many more unprepared students, including those who want to major in technical fields, the letter states. “Failing to measure preparation gaps does not remove barriers; it moves them into the classroom, where they become harder to overcome.”

Why not? Yale did it.

IT SEEMS TO BE ACCELERATING:

“BOOTS ON THE MOON:” Report urges Space Force deployment to counter China.

The Space Force must plan to deploy troops on orbiting space stations and at bases on the moon to prevent China from winning the new space race and controlling outer space, according to a report by an aerospace think tank.

The report by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies warns that a sustained human military presence in space is needed to counter China’s growing space efforts that are run by the People’s Liberation Army, including plans for a moon base by 2030.

“China is poised to achieve positional advantage in setting norms, standards, and legal frameworks for lunar habitation and lunar economy,” states the report, made public May 22. “This condition is unacceptable for U.S. national security.”

Military troop deployments in space are needed to defend American interests over the long term and to prevent Chinese dominance in the region of low-Earth orbit to the moon in the 21st century, the report states.

Using unmanned drones for military operations or limiting space presence to civilians under the direction of NASA poses national security risks, based on China’s current designs on space, the report said.

A human military space presence is imperative because of the growing likelihood of a high-stakes competition for control of lunar access and resources.

How long before Space Force has its own version of the Navy’s Marine Corps? A “Mobile Infantry,” if you will.

MORE ON THAT BLUE ORIGIN RUD:

My original item is now updated with damage estimates and how long this sets back the New Glenn program.