High Ground Underground

Expert: Wall an essential part of a comprehensive solution. He's Obama's expert, and exactly right -- technology and manpower are only components of a comprehensive, effective solution, including an essential barrier (aka "wall") component. Like a multi-layer missile defense. Drones and detectors and manpower won't stop several thousand (or more) people rushing the border, and they're sure to increase the caravan size after these initial probes. And there's much less empirical or rational evidence they would be effective alone than evidence of the effectiveness of walls. How many constitute an "invasion" or "crisis" in the eyes of Democrats? Trouble is, it's a steady flow invasion over many decades -- about a million illegals a year. Like the frog in a pot of water heating slowly to boiling, and it doesn't sense the danger until too late. That million a year is much more over a long period than Europe or any other country...

Contents Capitalism vs Socialism Prager University's huge social media impact Student anti-gun rallies Keep guessing (or conjuring) Hillary The media/Left double standard on Presidential promiscuity Administration chaos, or "business as usual?" The 1% State of the Union The House Intelligence Committee's FISA memo Politics in movies (reprise) The Schumer Shutdown Rebellion within the rebel state (California) Free Market Capitalism vs Socialism A recent email exchange between myself and a colleague: My colleague who seems to idealize the more socialistic countries, and think our tax rates should be higher, took issue with my statement that free-market capitalism has raised more people out of poverty than any other system, and that socialism/Communism has failed over and over. I happened to get later that day an email from Prager University featuring a new short video addressing that very issue, which I then shared with my colleagu...