Good news from the illegal immigration battlefront

This is a good thing here:

Prof. Robert George’s group, American Principles in Action, has released an “immigration reform” plan calling for enforcement followed by amnesty and increased guestworker admissions. The plan (really more of a brief outline) shows the power of the demand for Enforcement First and the importance of rejecting compromise on core principles. Perhaps the most important sentence in the outline is this (the emphasis is mine): “After we have secured the border and toughened up interior enforcement, we should then provide undocumented immigrants a path to legal status, short of citizenship.” This is a fundamental concession by at least part of the pro-amnesty Right. During the immigration debate in the last Congress, immigration hawks were vilified for rejecting the Schumer-Rubio bill’s amnesty-first approach and insisting instead that enforcement be fully implemented before anything else happened. Alfonso Aguilar, who runs Prof. George’s “Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles” project and who released this plan, was an aggressive proponent of the Schumer-Rubio bill and was one of those vilifying conservatives who insisted on Enforcement First. Now, it seems, he’s joined our ranks. In other words, they blinked.
Source: Don’t Look Now, but the Amnesty-First Crowd Has Blinked | National Review Online

My whole argument has been, since day one, has been secure the border and then go from there. Personally, I would like to see ALL of the illegals deported back to their home countries.

The Sunday Afternoon Music Express Presents: Steve Camp

This one takes me back to simpler time in my life, in the 1980’s. When I was stronger, when I was hardcore for the Lord. This was my feelings about the Church World, at the time. Still is, to a degree. Maybe even more so now.

Fun Fact: Steve Camp was a Baptist, He is now a hardcore Calvinist.

Lyrics:

I feel sick when I look at the sin in my life
I can’t take it any longer
All along I’ve known what to do–what is right
But my heart wasn’t stronger

Why do I do the things I don’t want to do ?
Do you ever feel the same way?
Like sin has got it’s hold over you
You try to stop but you just can’t walk away

Why do I listen to the teaching that tickles my ears?
How they play on my emotions
How can they laugh at the truth in tears (?)
There’s no call for my devotion

Am I man enough to face the truth?
Do you ever feel the same way?
Like the world has got its hold on you
You try to stop but you just can’t walk away

Cheap grace
We’ve watered down the blood he shed
We say we’ve given all
But we have hardly bled

Cheap grace
You know it cost him everything
It’s easy to abuse
What you think is for free

In these last days men’s hearts will turn hard
They become lovers of pleasure
Oh how they run away from their God
To seek other treasures

Why do I do the things I don’t want to do?
Do you ever feel the same way?
Like the world has got its hold on you
You try to stop but you just can’t walk away

Repeat chorus

Am I man enough to face the truth?
Do you ever feel the same way?
Like the world has got its hold on you
You try to stop but you just can’t walk away

Repeat chorus

Do you think it’s for free?

I feel sick when I look at the sin in my life (x2)

I can’t take it any longer (x2)

Cheap grace

Cathy Young tells the obvious truth about Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer

This is very good.

Here’s what I think about activist Pamela Geller’s recent “Draw the Prophet” contest in Garland, Texas, where two wannabe jihadists were killed trying to carry out a terror attack: Geller had every right to organize that contest, and she should not be chided for supposedly abusing that right. When extremists use deadly violence against speech that offends them, tut-tutting “just because you can do it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea” is unseemly and misguided.JihadWatchI also believe that, as I argued recently in The Daily Beast, Geller and her associate Robert Spencer are terrible poster children not only for free speech, but for combating Islamist extremism—because they routinely blur the lines not only between “anti-jihadism” and a war on Islam, but between criticism of Islam and Muslim-bashing. I don’t believe Mohammed cartoons are an attack on Muslims, and I actually thought the contest winner made an excellent point. However, as I documented, Geller and Spencer have spent years stoking anti-Muslim hysteria. I’m not fond of the term “Islamophobia,” which lumps together criticism of a religion and hatred toward its adherents; but “bigotry,” in this case, is not too strong a term
Source: Pamela Geller is a Terrible Poster Child for Free Speech—and Against Islamist Extremism – Reason.com

Go read the rest of that, it is very good.

NAACP continues to attempt to stifle the first amendment right of southern Americans

Yeah, good luck with that one guys. These are Obama’s people; never forget that.

The video:

The story:

For the past few years, the NAACP has rapidly accelerated their war on Confederate symbols. They are now protesting Confederate symbols at cemeteries and museums. In South Carolina they want several entire monuments destroyed that surround the Statehouse. They even cover up a monument of George Washington, when they have their statehouse rallies.A memorial to Confederate veterans is being constructed on private property in Orange, TX. Multiple black city council members, who are allied with the NAACP, demanded an illegal ordinance “banning” Confederate memorials on private property. Now an NAACP leader in Texas has openly called for Confederate symbols to be banned on private property. He says the first amendment should be suspended to allow for a ban on Confederate symbols.The radical left-wing Beaumont Enterprise, and other local media, have attacked the monument and pandered to the anti-white race hatred of the NAACP.Despite fictional claims by the Beaumont Enterprise about the community rejecting the memorial, their own online poll ended with 77% of those who responded approving of the monument.
Source: NAACP boss says first amendment doesn’t protect Confederate memorials

Great, an unfunny so-called comic gets his own show at Fox News Channel

I hate to be the to pee on someone’s victory lap; but I have to speak out on this one.

Via Fox News Channel: (H/T to Hot Air)

Greg Gutfeld will host the new FOX News Channel program “The Greg Gutfeld Show.”
Gutfeld will continue to appear on “The Five” as he takes on his new gig as the solo host of the new, one-hour program.
“Every host of a new show likes to say they’re breaking new ground,” Gutfeld said in a press release. “So why should I be any different. This show will forever change the way you watch television, plus guests provide their own transportation.”
The new show will include parodies of current events and feature interviews with newsmakers, media personalities and culture critics.

Jazz Shaw says:

Greg is hilarious, with a proven track record for being sharp and witty. (You should be following him on Twitter if you don’t already.) I think Redeye missed out on a lot of the audience it might have garnered because of the odd time slot, while The Five has been a solid ratings performer. I have Greg’s latest book, Not Cool, and it lives up to his other work. There’s always a temptation to refer to Gutfeld as “the conservative Jon Stewart” but that really doesn’t do him justice. He tackles many of the same subjects and is a master of satire, but the “feel” of his work is distinctly different from The Daily Show. I’d expect that tradition to continue with his new show.

I guess the terms funny, witty and sharp are subjective terms. Because quite bluntly; and no, I am not joking at all — I do not find Greg Gutfield’s style of comedy funny at all. I feel it to be grade school yard sophomoric at best. I feel that Redeye is over-the-top silly.

Furthermore, comparing Greg Gutfield to Jon Stewart; would be like comparing Pope Francis to the late Baptist Pastor Jack Hyles. One is nothing like the other, at all. Jon Stewart pokes fun at both parties and point the absurdities with the political elite class in the United States. Greg Gutfeld is an unfunny, overrated, failure of a comedian, who lucked into a job at Fox News Channel and makes up unfunny stuff about people the network disagrees with politically. That is not comedy; that is Hitler-like propaganda dressed up in a comedic sketch.

Needless to say, he has a decent resume and being from a chosen, protected group helps too. But, as for comedy, Gutfeld doesn’t impress me a bit.

Hot Air’s Noah Rothman moves on….

Over to Commentary…. So, basically he is moving from a blog with neoconservative leanings; to a full on neocon blog. Nice.

It was just under a year ago that I had the great fortune of being asked to take over for the capable and talented Erika Johnsen when she moved on from the site to pursue a law degree. Though my time with the site has been lamentably short, today will be my last day blogging full-time for HotAir.Working with and learning from the best at HotAir has been a career highlight. I will always treasure the time I spent honing the craft of political analysis on such an important and visible platform. Working alongside such well-known talents as Ed Morrissey, Allahpundit, Jazz Shaw, and Mary Katharine Ham has been a dream.I owe a special debt of gratitude to all of them, as well as Townhall’s Guy Benson, for having faith in my work.

[—]

Beginning on Monday, I will be joining the incredibly talented team at Commentary Magazine as the publication’s new assistant online editor. There, I hope to modestly fill some of the void left by Seth Mendel who recently joined The New York Post as its opinion page editor. I hope you will continue to follow my writing there and on my Twitter account.
Source: Let’s don’t say goodbye. I hate the way it sounds « Hot Air

I wish him the best.

Some housekeeping

Just a quick note on a few things:

I am again changing the look around here. The dark, “out in the woods” look was getting old. I switched it to something that fits the theme of the blog a bit more.
In my posting about B.B. King’s death, I accidentally linked to a blogger who I have had beefs with in the past. This was a major oversight by me. Oops. It will not happen again.

That is all. Still working on getting my sidebars all straightened out. Please, bear with me.

A perfect example of Democrat Party hypocrisy

People ask me all the time; “what drives your hatred of the Democratic Party and the Democrats in general?” This below would be a good start:

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, own assets worth $1.9 million to $6.9 million, according to financial disclosures released Friday.The Obamas, employing a cautious investment strategy while in the White House, hold much of their wealth — at least $1.25 million — in Treasury notes and bills. They also have retirement savings in Vanguard index funds, plus checking accounts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Northern Trust Corp.The Obamas’ wealth, if at the top end of the range, is almost enough to place them in the top 1 percent of U.S. households. Their net worth is little changed from last year, when their assets totaled $2 million to $7.1 million.Federal law requires the president, senior administration officials and members of Congress to report their financial holdings annually. The forms compel disclosure in broad ranges and don’t cover personal residences and federal government retirement plans.Those limits allow only a partial view of their net worth.According to tax returns they released earlier this year, the Obamas’ adjusted gross income of $477,383 in 2014 was the lowest for any year since 2004, when Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate. Sales of their books have declined since he was elected president.The Obamas hold $200,000 to $400,000 in college savings accounts for their two daughters. The president earlier this year asked Congress to limit the tax break for future plans organized under section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code. He later backed away from the proposal.
Source: Obamas’ Net Worth as Much as $6.9 Million, U.S. Filing Says

Now, do I hate the President for being successful? No. I highly dislike the President and the Democrats, because of their blatant hypocrisy! Democrats are all like, “We’re fighting for you! We’re on your side!” Truth is, them people do not give flying flip about the poor, the downtrodden, the unemployed, blacks and other minorities —- they could honestly care less about any of those people. They only see the poor, minorities and the working class as a source for votes. They also see the middle class, working folk, as a source of tax revenue to keep their socialist programs afloat.

This is why personally, I feel, if the Democratic Party is still the part of American populism; then they should dump Hillary Clinton and pick someone, of the likes of Bernie Sanders to be the next Democratic Party Presidential Candidate. However, as we all know; the Democrats won’t do that; as Bernie Sanders does not do the Democrats dance well enough to suit his party and such the Democratic Party media lapdogs attack him as somehow or another being, “unelectable.”

Now, if the Neoconservative controlled and financed Republican Party had any sort of common sense; they would work to lighten the load of taxes on the middle class and empower them to be able to keep more of their money. Laura Ingraham has said this repeatedly. However, if I know this Neocon war party; they won’t do any of that, for the sake of “go along to get along…”

Sad thing too. As the Republican could play that middle class protection route with good success.

Looks like I am not the only person who feels that Pamela Geller was wrong

Nice to see that I am not the only one who feels the way that I do, about that slimeball slum landlord.

For those of us following Pamela Geller’s bombastic career over the course of the past decade, one of the most illuminating aspects of the aftermath of her otherwise tragic Texas Muhammad caricature contest, and its accompanying road show of anti-Muslim provocateurs, was how it revealed a fault line–however thin–over just how far the right should go in provoking Islamic fundamentalism.Geller’s event was planned after 11 people at the magazine Charlie Hebdo were killed in January by Islamist attackers because of the magazine’s regular depictions of Muhammad and Islam. Two Muslim converts, Elton Simpson, 31, and Nadir Soofi, 34, whom police say have been communicating with ISIS over social media, attempted to storm the May 3 contest with assault rifles. They were killed when they exchanged fire with the two men providing security outside the event and a SWAT team that responded.Such violence could have been expected, which was almost certainly the point. Geller and her associates “have the right to go there, but again, it’s stupid, it accomplishes nothing,” said Bill O’Reilly, whose brand of pop-conservative opinionating has kept him in the top seed of prime-time cable talk shows since he joined Fox News in 1996. “You don’t fish for [terrorists] by putting people in danger.”O’Reilly was chatting with Laura Ingraham, the sharp-tongued doyenne of right-wing talk radio. Ingraham is the pillar of truth or a priestess of hate, depending on the eye of the beholder, but numbers don’t lie—she has successfully made a name for herself in a male-dominated field in which hosts generally hew to the hard-line orthodoxy on immigration, terrorism, and religion.
Source: Pamela Geller’s Free-Speech Hypocrisy | The American Conservative

I said it before and I will say it again; if someone mocked Pamela Geller’s ethnicity and said she belonged in an oven, that person would be silenced in a heartbeat. But, yet, Geller can do this? It’s Horse-Hockey. Freedom of speech is one thing; using that freedom to abuse a particular religion to evoke violence —- that is not freedom of speech, that’s blind hatred. For this Pamela should be held responsible for it and put in a jail cell, where she truly belongs. 😡

The Friday morning music express – Special Memorial Edition – Presents: B.B. King

They say it comes in threes, first a family friend and now, this man.

My other favorite of his:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8QxOjuYHg

B.B. King, the larger-than-life guitarist and singer who helped popularize electric blues and brought it to audiences for more than six decades, died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 89. King, who was diagnosed with diabetes nearly 30 years ago, was hospitalized last month due to dehydration. Last October, he was forced to cancel eight tour dates for dehydration and exhaustion. His attorney, Brent Bryson, confirmed his death to the Associated Press. – Source: Rolling Stone

One thing to remember; if there had never been a B.B. King; there would have never been a Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page or none of the rest of them white people who were inspired by this man.

I think this tribute from NBC news is very well done: