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SNR ALERT: Kasich not a particular standout in the debate fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-po… I guess he’s a Democrats’ idea of a modern Republican
Monthly Archives: August 2015
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If reporters think Kasich’s a jerk (politico.com/playbook/0815/…) then why are they hyping him? Strange New Respect + anti-Trumpism > character?
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Looks like Trump and Drudge are back on. (If they were ever off … It sure seemed that way) drudgereport.com
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Jay Leno beat me to my prized “Tortoise and Hair” joke. I was saving it. #useitorloseit hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jay-…
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“Why I Won’t Forgive Marco Rubio”// I forgot I’d written that in 2013. Persuades me! dailycaller.com/2013/10/27/rub…
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Open borders equilibrium is when U.S. is just as awful as countries migrants flee. We don’t want to equilibrate. thehill.com/blogs/ballot-b…
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People were supposed to buy the Silver plans, not the cheapo Bronze. A problem more $$ can fix? twitter.com/davidfrum/stat…
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Philip Cafaro’s book sounds important. I better read it! thehill.com/blogs/ballot-b…
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So @TheRickWilson–why is anger about immigration “not going to be politically viable for the long haul”? wpo.st/8mdU0
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I always turn to Whit Ayers, Mr. Gotta-Do-Amnesty, for insight into the Trump phenomenon, don’t you? wpo.st/8mdU0
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No wonder Nick Denton is jealous recode.net/2015/08/12/nbc…
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Brazil! Was mixed race society. Confusing! Now there’s black pride movement-& affirmative action! Like U.S..Yay! @NPR npr.org/sections/codes…
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Kids, going to school and learning Chinese! They can count to ten! Their teacher works on pronunciation! @NPRAugust npr.org/sections/ed/20…
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You know it’s August because NPR is unleashing its most devastatingly tedious stories.
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.@TweetDeck allowed videos, stopped working, and my life went all to hell. This is the arc of recent history as I see it. #amIwrong?
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Won’t it be great when it’s Jeb! attacking Rubio for missing votes? That’s the debate our country needs. twitter.com/CarmineZozzora…
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Trump missing from May Day Parade! Sometimes this sort of speculation’s right. Does Trump need Drudge more than FOX? twitter.com/HeyMickeyHeyMi…
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.@murphymike You have a shot to win the coveted Jennifer Rubin Primary!
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Huge % of migrant kids skip hearings. Problem is not enough lawyers? @politico piece seems PC BS. @JessicaV_CIS? politico.com/story/2015/08/…
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Elaborating on my recent spatlet w/ @RichLowry. Because at kausfiles paranoid trolling is more than a business model kausfiles.com/2015/08/12/440…
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Any Weapon to Trump: Here’s National Review editor Rich Lowry on Twitter, explaining why his magazine’s otherwise excellent recent immigration editorial is pitched as a dis of Donald Trump:
saying we need a fence is not a major contribution to debate, especially if you don’t understand or address the rest
& I have little time 4 anyone who says we need immigrants to do jobs americans won’t, even if he wants to build phenomenal wall
Trump has indeed said that, in a confusing CNN interview where he seemed to be veering in the direction of Mike Pence’s “Touchback” scam.** It’s a silly thing to say (Americans will do a lot of jobs if you pay them more). But then again, Marco Rubio has said it too. Guess he’s through at National Review! There may in fact be nobody for Lowry to endorse, since practically every major Republican candidate has probably said it, at one point or another. Here’s Jeb!’s version, for example (“labor-intensive jobs that few Americans want”). …
Simply put, there are three big steps NR rightly says should be completed before we can even talk about amnesty (a fence, an e-Verify-style employment checking program, and a system to track visa overstays). Trump wants to finish one of them before any legalization, which is one more than his rivals have committed to finishing before legalization. If the rest of Trump’s immigration plan is vague and ill thought-out — well, Bush and Rubio have explicit, well-developed plans that are completely wrong (because they put amnesty first, meaning the enforcement can then be blocked, and they dramatically boost legal immigration). So why blast Trump? I suspect another imperative is at work — i.e. to get him out of the race …
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** As Mark Krikorian notes, it would be better for Trump to simply repeat the sensible advice of NR‘s editorial:
“[N]o new national policy resolving the status of resident illegals should even be contemplated until real border security has been achieved. Republicans should press for enforcement as a standalone proposal, not as part of a wider immigration compromise. Once that enforcement is in place, then we can open the discussion about broader subsequent reforms …”
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Here’s a fancy Coulter-supporting academic study on the effect of immigration on [i.e. increasing] teen unemployment federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2010…
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“Have you seen the black teenaged unemployment rate?” Those tiresome protesters again … Oh wait
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“You know who [mass immig]’s really bad for? Low-wage American workers, and they’ve had it.” breitbart.com/video/2015/08/…
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If you’re going to see Larger Trends in Trump’s rise, at least put immigration front and center. Like this >> usat.ly/1NkmdzM