Author Archive: Stephen Green

A GOOD START: Trump Admin Moves To Strip Citizenship From 40 Foreign-Born Americans.

The targets of the latest action include people from China, Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Venezuela, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Mexico, according to the Justice Department. The cases involve offenses including acting as an agent of the Chinese government, committing voluntary manslaughter, and various forms of fraud.

“Today’s announcement marks the largest denaturalization effort in modern history,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement Monday. “From an individual convicted of espionage to others convicted of sexual offenses against minors, these defendants concealed critical facts from the U.S. government and represent serious criminal offenders.”

One of the targets of the Trump administration’s latest denaturalization effort is 60-year-old Cuban-born Javier Marrero-Pando, who in May 2020 forced a man with special needs to perform sexual acts against his will, according to the Justice Department. In October 2020, Marrero-Pando allegedly lied under oath that he had never committed a crime for which he had not been arrested. DOJ says the false statement led immigration authorities to approve his application for naturalization.

To be fair, at least Marrero-Pando doesn’t seem to have married his brother.

IT’S THE LEFTIES WHO LIKE TO SAY THAT IF YOU AREN’T ANGRY YOU AREN’T PAYING ATTENTION…:

…but it’s the normies who ought to be pissed.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Look Inside the Luxury Tower Housing L.A.’s Homeless Bureaucracy. “Before we take a look into just how profitable and luxurious it is not to solve the Los Angeles homelessness crisis, let me first advise you to delay that next cup of coffee and make sure that you’ve taken any and all prescription blood pressure medication.”

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT THE REPLACEMENT THEORY WAS JUST RIGHTWING PARANOIA:

Plus:

It’s hard to tell, but is anyone able to spot any women or children among the “migrants?”

OH, COME ON: St. Louis Housing Authority Evicts Man in Wheelchair for Defending Himself With a Gun.

The incident took place on August 26, and a report by FOX 2/KTVI St Louis notes that the Housing Authority sent the resident, Torrey Holliday, an eviction letter after viewing a surveillance video that “captured [Torrey Holliday] on front lobby video shooting someone.”

When asked to comment by FOX 2, SLHA referred to “conduct that threatens the health or safety of residents, staff, or the community.” It was then noted, “When such conduct is documented, SLHA takes appropriate enforcement action consistent with Section 22.1.2.1 of our Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy (ACOP), which may include lease termination.”

But the section referenced refers to eviction for criminal activity.

The problem for SLHA is that there did not appear to be any criminal activity on the part of Mr. Holliday.

I left that city 38 years ago and have only rarely looked back.

SPED UP, BUT STILL GORGEOUS:

Does anyone else hear Strauss’s “Blue Danube” in their head while watching this?

STILL DIDN’T GET HALF THE WORKING OVER WE GAVE HAMBURG:

Hamas loved the FA so much, they uploaded murder videos to the victim’s own social media accounts. The FO, not so much.

MAYBE THIS IS HOW AI KILLS EVERYBODY:

It shouldn’t be necessary to add “Please don’t hallucinate routes up the mountain called Widowmaker,” but here we are.

GAZANS ARE VICTIMS OF NOTHING BUT THEIR OWN CRUELTY:

INVENTED HERE, BUILT THERE: China’s Sneak Attack on the Battery American Taxpayers Paid For.

EnerVenue is not just another battery company. Its battery is a game changer. A steel vessel with nickel on one side, hydrogen on the other, and water in between, it cannot catch fire the way a lithium-ion battery can.

It uses no lithium. It uses no cobalt, the metal dug in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Chinese companies and refined in China. Its raw materials, by the company’s own list, are steel, nickel, fiberglass, resin, and water—four of them mined or refined in America, the fifth mined next door in Canada. And it runs 30 years, 10 times the life of the lithium-ion cells now going onto the American grid.

The American taxpayer built this battery twice. NASA developed the nickel-hydrogen battery half a century ago and has flown it ever since; the Hubble telescope ran on it for 19 years. But it needed platinum, and engineers built it one cell at a time for spacecraft. It was too expensive for anything on Earth.

Then a Stanford laboratory, on Energy Department money—the American taxpayer’s dime—found a way to make it without the platinum. The cost problem was solved. The commercial door was open.

Today, EnerVenue has the one storage chemistry that could let America compete in one of the world’s fastest-growing battery markets without buying a single cell from China’s supply chain. It is exactly the technology that could get us out from under Beijing. Instead, EnerVenue’s first factory is in Changzhou, China. How did this happen?

Read the whole thing.

UNIONS, WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT THEM?

“According to sources familiar with the incident, they did not trust him and wanted to keep a close eye on him throughout the flight. Sources also say United wanted to terminate Mossallam’s employment, but the pilots’ union blocked the move.”

JUST DO IT: President Trump Approves Execution of Fort Hood Mass Murderer Nidal Hassan. “Hasan — who laughably acted as his own attorney — was tried and found guilty in 2013 and sentenced to death. Now, finally, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has requested permission and President Trump has approved the execution of the useless oxygen thief who’s been needlessly living at taxpayer expense for the last 17 years.”

UPDATE (From Ed):

HUGE, IF TRUE:

YEP, WE LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES:

Make the Ottoman Hejaz Great Again?

NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: Barack Obama to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.

The Oct. 24 event will feature Obama, as well as El-Sayed and Jocelyn Benson, who is seeking the governorship, the Michigan Democratic Party announced on Monday.

Obama has generally stayed out of the spotlight since leaving the White House, though he has ocassionally appeared on the campaign trail for other Democratic candidates.

The Michigan race is expected to be one of the most competitive of the cycle and a pivotal contest in the battle for control of the upper chamber.

The trick, of course, is trying to figure out which one is actually to the left of the other.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

NEEDS AT LEAST TWO MORE ZEROES, BUT POINT TAKEN:

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Correctly Understanding the ‘Stupidity’ of the Left.

A long list of prominent conservatives have referred to leftists and Democrats as dumb, stupid, incompetent, crazy, and insane. In 2007, Ann Coulter wrote the book “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans.” Both Rush Limbaugh and President Trump regularly referred to Democrats as “Dumbocrats.” More recently, the leader of the House Freedom Caucus called Democrats “the crazy party,” and JD Vance framed the contrast between the parties as “common sense vs. crazy.” Matt Margolis titled a piece in PJ Media this year “Democrats Are Too Stupid to Heed This Warning,” and posited that somewhere between the 1990s and today, the Democratic Party lost its mind.

Some of this stuff gets a chuckle, but conservatives need to be careful with this narrative.

Conservatives need to understand that this tactic can not only contradict the more serious messages they’re trying to convey about leftist policies, it can also remove responsibility from leftists for their malevolence. Consider a recent interview in which Representative Jim Jordan explained that the left’s open-border policy was part of a shrewd, long-term plan to bring in new Democrat constituents, with sanctuary-city policies as another step in that plan. Yet in the same interview, he called the policy “Just stupid” and “one of the dumbest policies I’ve ever heard of,” and in a later interview, adding, “just about every single position today’s left adopts is crazy.”

So we are told that leftists are shrewd, long-term planners who are simultaneously stupid and crazy. Which is it? The distinction may seem trivial, but it’s not.

“Evil” works.