On May 29th, Dr. Cornel West was being interviewed on CNN. In that interview, he referred to America as “a failed social experiment.” The next day, Elon Musk launched Bob and Doug into orbit using his revolutionary Falcon 9 rocket, and the equally stunning Dragon capsule, which Bob and Doug named Endeavor, after the now-retired Space Shuttle that had given them both their first ride into space in what was, in comparison to the Dragon capsule, a remarkably 20th Century-looking vehicle. You could hardly call that a failed social experiment.
So which one of these two visions of America is true? Well, the sad reality is that they both are.
Cornel West’s rage-fueled Blue America is a land divided by racial hatreds which, according to West and his colleagues, continues to get worse with each passing year. And yet, the SpaceX Demo-2 launch showed men and women from all racial backgrounds pulling together, their very lives quite literally in each others hands. Musk and his Red America had done something that the entire governments of China, Russia, the European Union and even the United States had failed to do: usher in a 21st Century Space Race II using what used to be called Big Dumb Rockets, but which now delicately (if spectacularly) alight on what is essentially a floating postage stamp in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, named Of Course I Still Love You. That was not just a success; it was, as Elon Musk pointed out after Bob and Doug had reached orbit, a uniquely American achievement. Endeavor is, after all, private property.
It’s clear that Two Americas exist today; not side by side but each inside the other. And that got me wondering what made them so different. Listing the attributes of Team Red vs. Team Blue showed me just how far Team Blue has departed from the historical American norm; it was actually kind of fun — and kind of sad — to stack the attitudes and motivations of Red America and Blue America against each other.
When Cornel West refers to this country as “a failed social experiment,” he’s right. His Blue vision for America is an utter catastrophe. But Red Team is alive and kicking. And, I might add, we are actively recruiting. If sharing this video helps you swing people into a happier and more productive life, feel free to use it in any way you can. That’s what it’s there for.
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I was very fortunate to have been asked to write and present a four-part podcast on the Space Race to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11’s historic landing on July 20, 1969.
Early in the process, as I was writing the outlines for the four segments, I realized that four hours gave me time to do much more than chronicle the flight of Apollo 11. Four hours gave me enough time to cover the entire Space Age, from Sputnik 1 to Falcon 9 Heavy. And it was somewhere around this time that I also realized why ever-growing numbers of people have come to believe that the lunar landing didn’t happen — in fact, it could not have happened, due to a number of damning facts heroically uncovered by the small handful of valiant souls too intelligent and too fearless to be duped like the rest of the Sheeple.
The reason the moon landings seem impossible to young people today comes down to one, simple thing, and that is incrementalism. To people born after the Apollo Program, the moon landing is presented to them as if it were something that parachuted into our living rooms one evening as we were watching the Carol Burnett Show: Our top story this evening: Man has apparently walked on the moon! Film at eleven.
If you are asked to look at the flight Apollo 11 like this, then it truly is such a miracle that it simply cannot be true. But if you look at Apollo 11 compared to Apollo 10, which two months earlier had flown to the moon, began the descent, and then aborted to lunar orbit, as planned, after dropping to 50,000 feet… then all of a sudden Apollo 11 doesn’t seem quite as miraculous. Now Apollo 10 seems miraculous!
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Of course, Apollo 10 was a test of the Apollo Lunar and Command/Service modules in lunar orbit. Incredible! But Apollo 9 was pretty much the same mission, only in earth orbit: a full-scale shakedown of the Lunar Module: extraction from the Saturn 5 third stage, docking, rendezvous, engine tests of both spacecraft — all of it — only in earth orbit instead of being tested at the moon. Miraculous!
Actually Apollo 9 was pretty mundane compared to Apollo 8. With the Apollo mission schedule thrown into chaos by the Lunar Module not being ready on schedule, NASA faced a choice: wait three months doing nothing, or… realize that right at that moment, you had a Saturn V ready to go; you had a thoroughly tested command and service module ready to go; you had a flight crew with a lot of experience ready to go; and you had the moon. Why not just improvise? We were going to have to go to the moon on Apollo 10 to prep for Apollo 11, so why not send Apollo 8 to the moon without a lunar module just so we’re not looking out the window at a Saturn V, capsule and crew getting rusty while waiting for Grumman to deliver the LEM? So they sent Apollo 8 to the moon for ten orbits, then brought them home. Miraculous!
Of course, the Command/Service modules had been wrung out over what turned out to be nearly 11 miserable days by the crew of Apollo 7…
I was determined to show that there is no point between a Fourth of July bottle rocket and a footprint in the Sea of Tranquility where you had to insert “and now a miracle occurs.” For those of you not as familiar with the incrementalism of the Space Race, perhaps this example from Episode 3 of What We Saw will make things a bit easier to relate to:
<blockquote>When the Wright Brothers set out to build a flying machine, they did not start with blueprints for an F-22 Raptor, with advanced stealth capabilities, retractable landing gear, over-the-horizon radars and air-to-air missiles, with a range of 1,839 miles, a service ceiling of 65,000 feet at speeds up to 1,500 miles per hour, and controlled by advanced, fly-by-wire avionics where computers interpret the pilots control inputs and then 30 times a second makes minute corrections to all of the hydraulically powered control surfaces, and a minimum service life of 8,000 hour of flight time. That was a little beyond their reach.
What they did build was a lightweight wooden skeleton, fabric covered wings, a home-built, 12 horsepower engine, controlled by simple levers and wires to deform the wings and simple rods to raise and lower the elevator. It didn’t fly to 65,000 feet; it got to perhaps 30 feet. It didn’t fly at fifteen hundred miles an hour but at twenty; it’s maximum range was not almost 2,000 miles but rather 850 feet — less than two tenths of a mile — and it’s total service life was not 8,000 hours but a hair over two minutes. It was badly damaged by a gust of wind on the first day it flew and it never flew again. 
You will never understand how we landed on the moon if you do not understand the difference between the Wright Flyer and an F-22. Building an F-22 from scratch is utterly impossible. But a rickety test vehicle called the Wright Flyer is not too far from a fabric-winged WW1 fighter, like the Sopwith Camel which is not too far short of a wooden-skinned monoplane, like the Hawker Hurricane, which naturally leads to a steel and aluminum turbocharged P-51 Mustang. Sometimes, breakthroughs like the jet engine occur, giving you the F-86 Saber just a couple of years later. From the Saber you go to supersonic flight in the F-100 and the F-4 Phantom, fly-by-wire appears with the F-16 Viper, and stealth with the boxy-looking F-117. Throw in advanced radars on the F-15 Eagle, state-of-the-art weapons and engines on the F-18 Hornet, and then with a little elbow grease you can look up and see a sixth-generation F-22 Raptor. </blockquote>
Now while I don’t deal specifically with the &#8220;moon landing hoax&#8221; hoax, I am amazed at how shockingly thin and how easily explainable the so-called &#8220;impossibilities&#8221; turn out to be. Just as a notable example, you will hear conspiracy theorists say that traversing the Van Allen radiation belts “would fry the astronauts like they were in a microwave oven.”
As it turns out, both the Van Allen belts and microwave ovens do in fact exist. Since microwave ovens do not cook with radiation but rather with (spoiler alert!) electromagnetic microwaves; there is no way to compare the two. There is, however, a way to measure the radiation levels in the Van Allen Belts. Most of the radiation intensity is in the inner belt. Both inner and outer belts surround the earth at the equator. But the Earth&#8217;s equator is tilted 23.4 decrees to the plane of the solar system — which is what gives us the seasons, parenthetically — and the orbit of the moon can be tilted by about 5 degrees beyond that. The short form is that during one lunar orbit — about 28 days more or less — there are narrow time windows when you have to fly right through both belts to get to the moon. Most of the time, however, a direct path to the tilted orbit of the moon will take you well over or well under the inner belt, and you end up just nicking the outer one simply because it is so large.
Now that shrewd, can-do, rocket-science decision to fly either over the belts or under them, rather than choose those narrow launch windows that would take them right through the Van Allen belts, nevertheless did end up giving the crews of Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 some additional radiation dose, and since, as I mentioned, the Van Allen belts really do exist, we can calculate what that additional dose came to. The answer is that they took, on average, 1.5 REM (roentgen equivalent man) more on the moon missions than they would have taken at a Starbucks in Santa Monica. And the government has strict limits on just how much radiation certain workers (nuclear plant engineers, medical imaging technicians, airline flight crews, etc.) can receive each year without danger to their long term health.
That limit is 5 REM per year. In other words, the passage through the Van Allen belts gave them roughly one-third of the maximum allowable dose for one year. That’s why they didn’t all die of Space Cancer.
So, on one hand, we have 13 launches of the Saturn V rocket, each televised live and witnessed in person by millions of people, myself included, and on the other hand we have some guy saying that the radiation would fry the astronauts as if placed in a device that does not emit any radiation at all.
In Post-Truth America, simply stating these things is a political statement unto itself. When I wrote What We Saw, I was determined to insert no domestic political commentary whatsoever. What we ended up with was an epic story of human beings living and dying to do the hardest thing ever attempted, not because it was easy, but because it was hard.

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GQ Magazine recently ran a <a href="http://https://www.gq.com/story/hillary-clinton-illustrations-unpublished-2016">story</a> featuring some of the many, many, many, many, many progressive certainties dreams that failed to come true when Hillary Clinton caused Hillary Clinton to miss Hillary Clinton&#8217;s historic coronation as the nation&#8217;s first felon female president.
&#8220;A lot died when <a href="http://www.gq.com/story/mike-pence-hamilton-devious-as-hell">Donald Trump</a> won the presidency&#8212;facts, optimism, our will to exercise,&#8221; wrote Liza Corzillo, the writer of the piece in what used to be called Gentlemen&#8217;s Quarterly, which is no longer neither quarterly nor about Gentlemen, but rather a monthly mag about New York metrosexuals and the men and occasional women who love them. &#8220;Not least of which were some incredible <a href="http://www.gq.com/story/hillary-clinton-presidential">Hillary Clinton</a> victory cartoons that never saw the light of day.&#8221; Whhaaaaat?!
Follow the link if you have the mental and intestinal fortitude to see them all; meanwhile, I will translate the remarks made by the illustrators into historically accurate and reasonable English.
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Ward Sutton&#8217;s entry is a great place to start. Love Trumps Hate is, as you know, what the black-booted, black-shirted, black-masked, black hoodie wearers scream when a mob of them beat some unarmed person unconscious in the street because they hold a different opinion. Lovingly.
&#8220;I think she had the potential to be a tremendous success as president.&#8221; Mr. Sutton was quoted as saying. &#8220;Also, it&#8217;s high time we had a woman in charge!&#8221; You bet, Ward! If Hillary had been elected that would make having a woman in charge three terms in a row!
It is not mentioned in the text, but if I had to guess I think that this was based on a photograph of HRC watching the women&#8217;s volleyball team practicing for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
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This entry, by Leah Goren, sums up Hillary&#8217;s appeal to women so charmingly, don&#8217;t you think? Inspired to be a woman at work today. You can tell she is a woman at work today, because unlike those not-really-women Republicans, Hillary-supporting women show that they are more than a match for the Patriarchy by drawing flowers all day. Not, you know, doing Republican things such as running winning presidential campaigns like that non-inspirational, non-woman Kellyanne Conway.
Leah is inspired to be a woman at work today by imagining Hillary Clinton, hard at work at the desk of the State Department, reviewing the hundreds of millions of dollars the Clinton Foundation received and what changes the government of United States of America will have to undertake in return for all of that cash.
It&#8217;s nice to see that Hillary has on her desk (L-R) a personally-autographed head shot of Chloe Grace Moretz, a picture of daughter Chelsea in the fabulous wedding dress paid for by the non-profit Clinton Foundation, and I was especially moved by the gold-framed photo of Hilary posing with the one person who could make her progressive agenda possible: Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 
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Jeng Wei says of the above that &#8220;I was watching a few of Hillary&#8217;s past speeches for reference, and the sketches ended up being more of an immediate response.&#8221; Can we all agree that Jeng Wei, in a series of quick sketches, has captured exactly who Hilary Clinton is, what she stands for, and why she was running for office in the first place?
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&#8220;I wanted to capture a thoughtful, happy expression with eyes looking toward the future,&#8221; artist Lauren Tamaki says of her striking work, pictured above. The post-election abandonment of this illustration is particularly tragic because an extensive Google images search reveals that there is not one single extant photograph of Hillary Rodham Clinton looking either thoughtful or happy. We must cherish this historic document, and ensure that it survives for the ages.
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Finally, the best of breed: GQ itself commissioned artist Cun Shi to depict a brilliant, confident, charming, tough-yet-kind, patriotic President of the United States of America. GQ, alas, did not go with this design because no one could identify the person depicted in the drawing.

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President Trump spoke for about an hour at CPAC on Friday. There had been a lot of speculation about his reception &#8211; he polled 15% at last year&#8217;s CPAC, as I recall &#8211; and the cremation heat of the Trump / Never Trump conflagration seems to be dying down to the embers.
Here was a unique opportunity: speaking to a fired-up crowd giddy with the elation of a win after all these horrible, year-after-year litanies of decline and destruction by President Obama.
Trump came out to thunderous applause. He may have polled 15% here last year, but this year he got 100% of the room and it was an electric moment for those of us who have been fighting a rear-guard action these last two terms. Here, at last, was a chance to go on the offensive; a chance to tell the base what is happening, why, and what they can do to help him.
Credibility is an expensive character trait. I&#8217;m not speaking of President Trump now, but rather of myself. I wanted to like that speech very much. But I thought President Trump was terrible today; I personally have never seen him worse. The speech sounded like something from last year, and I mean July of last year. I didn&#8217;t hear anything new and it seems like he said nothing new three times.
I have done something like two hundred live speaking events, and while half of those performances were below average, I nevertheless know what it looks and sounds like to phone one in, and I thought Donald Trump had a golden opportunity today that he simply missed. I was really quite disappointed.
But hey. Maybe the man was off because he was exhausted. He&#8217;s done more actual work in a month than Obama did in eight years. As a matter of fact, maybe I am the one who was exhausted; I&#8217;d just done five hours of live commentary for two consecutive days on hamster rations of sleep and the people I spoke to after the event thought he was terrific.
But I have seen him terrific, and this was not one of those times. But here&#8217;s the thing that probably makes my carping about a speech pretty much moot.
At this time last year, CPAC had the feel of a hospital visit to a terminally ill patient&#8230; something bad was going to happen and you could see it coming and there didn&#8217;t seem much to be able to do about it except grit your teeth and try to soldier on. Ultimately, the rift between the Trump / Never Trump wings of the formerly deceased and now all-powerful Republican party was not, and was never, going to be bridged by rhetoric. It was going to be settled by actions.
Before the election, the question for those of us with serious doubts about this man came down to, basically, this: was Trump a closet Democrat who was pulling a fast one on Republicans? Or were comments like putting his sister on the Supreme Court a kind of media-baiting political genius? Or both. Or neither?
Well, we don&#8217;t have to speculate any more. There is actual data now, and those data points are marked PENCE, TILLERSON, MATTIS, SESSIONS, ACOSTA, CARSON, PERRY, DeVOS, KELLY, COATS, HALEY, POMPEO, PRUITT and McMASTER. If you had told me that if Trump were elected we would get only Mattis, or DeVos, or Gorsuch then that would have been good enough for me. To get all of them (thanks Harry Reid!), each of them strong, no-nonsense personalities and not obsequious political lapdogs, is beyond my wildest imaginings. And when it is said and done, the man who has often fallen so short rhetorically has made a spectacular declaration of nominees that will be echoing through this nation&#8217;s history long, long after the lights went out in the main ballroom at the Gaylord Hotel on Friday, February 24, 2017.

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I just got back to the hotel after a midnight tour of the monuments with my Russian fiancée. The Capitol Building, despite all of the chicanery, is absolutely magnificent in its classical circular symmetry. The twenty-foot Statue of Freedom that crowns the dome is still the spindle around which the world rotates.
The Washington Monument is so tall and gracefully proportioned that you have to stand at the base of it to realize just how shockingly massive that structure is. Lincoln sits in grim majesty, as if keeping an eye on those miscreants at the end of the national mall. Jefferson stands alone, away from Washington and Lincoln, and all of the war monuments; looking at the placement of the building and the statue inside it you get the impression that the architect of freedom is somehow too regal, too aristocratic to mix with the lesser gods just across the pool of water.
And as we were closing this evening&#8217;s majestic tour, we stopped briefly in front of the Boehner Monument. The memorial to the former Speaker of the House is a seedy, shabby, 24-hour, booze and cigarette shop lit by a fluorescent tubes that flash and hiss intermittently. I personally feel this is more than he deserves.
John Boehner recently said that the full repeal of Obamacare &#8220;is not what&#8217;s going to happen.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;ll fix Obamacare, and I shouldn&#8217;t have called it repeal and replace because that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s going to happen. They&#8217;re basically going to fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it.&#8221;
More immortal rhetoric: &#8220;And all this happy talk that went on in November and December and January about repeal, repeal, repeal&#8212;yeah, we&#8217;ll do replace, replace&#8212;I started laughing, because if you pass repeal without replace, first, anything that happens is your fault. You broke it.&#8221;
You keep laughing John. Your political philosophy as the Leader of the Opposition to government-controlled government control was reflected in the transcendent quotations engraved across the front of the Boehner Monument:
ARE YOU GOING TO FINISH THAT?
And, of course,
MAKE IT A DOUBLE
You were the leader of a party that gave Republicans the House in 2010, and the Senate in 2014, specifically to stop that power-mad, ankle-deep control freak from turning over a little girl&#8217;s kidney operation to the competence and professionalism of the DMV. We gave you the tools, John, and we didn&#8217;t ask for much, so forgive me for finding you finding this funny not funny at all.
What do you believe, Mr. Former Speaker? Is there anyone in the United States of America who can tell me what your principles are? Can you?
You had one job, John. Just stop the destruction of the Constitution you swore to defend. The Obamacare mandate was a tax, but if it had been called a tax it never would have passed. When you sneer that all that is going to happen will be to &#8216;fix the flaws&#8217; in the Affordable Care Act, I think you are missing the point &#8211; again.
The Republicans do not have the power to fix the flaws in the ACA because the flaws in the ACA violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which is not something that you, or Barack Obama, or Loretta Lynch can simply decide not to enforce at your convenience.
That law states that the total entropy of a system always increases over time. Things go from complex to simple, from differentiated to uniform, from discrete sources of light and heat to a tepid blob of structureless soup.
It&#8217;s entropy, John: it is easier to have the government take care of you than it is to take care of yourself. It is easier to borrow than it is to repay. It is easier to tax a business than it is to run one. It&#8217;s easier to play a video game than it is to study to be a brain surgeon. It&#8217;s easier to get a spray-on tan to look healthy than it is to do actual work out in the sun and be healthy. And so on.
The nation&#8217;s capital has monuments to the great men who have fought this tide of entropy; men who have brought order from chaos and not the other way around; men who fought and died to preserve delicate freedoms against the indestructible granite state that has to control every aspect of our lives.
You had history in your hands, you smug, insufferable little man. You had a chance to stand against the tide of tyranny, but that requires courage, dedication, intelligence, hard work, perseverance and above all character. All of these anti-entropy qualities take skill and especially effort, and you were far too lazy for that.
So you keep laughing, John. We are going to do it right in front of your eyes. And now, if you don&#8217;t mind, shuffle off into the sunset trailing a cloud of booze breath and stale smoke. Those of us who love this country have work to do &#8211; immeasurably more work to do than we would have if you had been even a slightly better man.

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&#8203;Now before you say anything, I know this is a little out of character for me. But I plead the Fifth! Steve Green, the Vodkapundit, put a fifth of scotch into me and there is a deadline to fill so here we are, my friends.
Hanging around with Steve Green is an amazing experience. He has the constitution of a yak. Steve Green cannot die until the EPA can find a safe place to bury his liver. They dip surgical instruments in his blood to sterilize them.
I met Steve and Scott Ott back in CPAC 2009. This would have been a month after that communist swine Obama was elected. Yeah, you heard me. CPAC in 2009 was like a funeral viewing, only not so cheerful or peppy.
Today was very different. People are smiling. It rained in California again. The drought is over. Hooray!
That said, while the mood is better, it seems to me that there is nothing like the crackle and energy of that first CPAC of mine. I&#8217;d been an admirer of Steve&#8217;s work at Vodkapundit, as well as Scott Ott&#8217;s satire at Scrappleface. They were fans of my essays at Eject! Eject! Eject! Of course, we were not the glamorous, magnificently paid internationally known celebrities we are today. Just simple bloggers pounding away on the internet because we felt, in those post 9/11 years when we all started, that we had to do something for America&#8230; even if it was only blogging, for God&#8217;s sake. 
Steve, Scott and I met for the first time in the lobby of the hotel. We went across the street to a very cold booth, had breakfast, and a half-hour later we had the idea for Trifecta, which became Right Angle. We have done something like five thousand episodes since then.
One evening in CPAC 2009, I got a call from a loose acquaintance of mine named Andrew Breitbart. He asked me if I wanted to go to dinner with Ann Coulter. I said &#8220;boy howdy!&#8221;
We went to an expensive restaurant in DC. The night was historic, really: it was the last time in recorded history when Your&#8217;s Truly shut up for a while and listened to these two people; titans, really, which was remarkable since all of us, Steve and Scott and I especially, seemed to be just regular shmoes called to try to do something about the fate of the country we all loved, and continue to love.
Even then, going to a restaurant with Ann Coulter was a unique experience. I have been around a few famous people before, and I know what it looks like when someone is staring at a person, trying to be sure if they were famous or not. I saw that with Ann, but I also saw real anger at her and after hearing some of her personal stories I simply marveled at her physical and moral courage.
Back then, politics on the internet was new and we all felt a sense of electrical excitement in the air: we regular guys &#8211; sad, isn&#8217;t it? &#8211; were going to have to stand up and do what the immortals had done before us: get out there and defend the country in this new war of images and ideas.
It&#8217;s been almost five years since Andrew died of a heart attack. Steve and Scott and I still have the passion to do four or five shows a week for eight years without missing a single week. CPAC 2017 is filled with bright-eyed young people who are now, suddenly, not just the campus weirdos but the ones speaking for a party that has won the Presidency, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and at least one &#8211; if not two or three &#8211; Supreme Court picks. So things are better but not as exciting. Maybe we too felt the romance of being in opposition to the most powerful forces on the earth. And what was a passion remains a passion, but now it is a business as well, and we owe our livelihoods to our ability to convince people like you that while TV is free, and the internet is free, we need to get you to pay for TV on the internet. We all know that this is the future of news, but it takes a while for the dust to settle from the asteroid impact that wiped out the Mainstream Media dinosaurs.
What has not changed, however, is the most important thing of all. To actually meet our audience; to hear people tell you that you have helped to change their lives&#8230; that has the same, undiluted effect today as it did when we started the game in earnest in 2009. You people are so kind, so sensible and so fundamentally honorable that it has forced all three of us to become better people in order to rise to your standards. You have, through the rigors of a fire assay, forced us as individuals and as a movement to find the gold within ourselves and to present that gleam in the service of the idea of what America is, and for that we are genuinely and eternally grateful.

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The F-35 Lightning II is not just the most expensive aircraft ever built. Costing in the general vicinity of $400 billion dollars or so, it is the most expensive weapon ever built &#8211; by far.
By how far? Well, the latest generation aircraft carrier &#8211; the Ford class, which is the first new design since the first of the Nimitz class carriers was commissioned in 1975 &#8211; is itself over-budget at $13 billion dollars per ship. In other words, for the money already spent on the F-35 project, you could purchase thirty of the newest, largest and most advanced aircraft carriers in the world.
Thirty aircraft carriers.
The jet has had some teething problems. Many of these problems could be categorized by a specific engineering concept. Pardon my jargon, but the problem as defined by the best aeronautical designers and engineers is that it doesn&#8217;t work.
Several weeks ago, I was disturbed, angered and not at all surprised to learn that the F-35C &#8211; the Navy variant of the one-size-fits-all lunacy that we have not seen since the flying-bus &#8220;fighter,&#8221; the F-111 &#8211; was causing the vast majority of pilots moderate to severe pain during the catapult shot. They had difficulty in reaching the controls and reading the instruments, both of which &#8211; airspeed, anyway &#8211; are handy things to have as you are hurled into the roiling waves a mere six stories above oblivion with the World&#8217;s Biggest Warship several yards behind you and bearing down on your splash point at 30 knots.
It looks like the entire ejection seat mechanism will have to be replaced for the Navy variant. You might have thought that with $400,000,000,000 in pocket change, Lockheed Martin might have thought this through just a wee bit better and perhaps discovered a severe and very dangerous design flaw while the aircraft was actually being shot into the sky.
Not too long ago, there was a huge stink when the F-35 was flown against the 70&#8217;s era workhorse it was designed to replace: the venerable F-16 Fighting Falcon, which Air Force guys call the Viper. In close-in dogfighting, the F-16 cleaned its clock.
Proponents of the F-35 claim that this is misleading. The F-35 has an extraordinary radar and sensor system that gives the F-35 an all-aspect capability. That means that unlike the F-16 and other legacy fighters, the F-35 does not need to be able to out-turn the Snake because it does not need to be behind the target in order to fire its air-to-air weapons. That off-aspect capability was the go-to argument for the jet and the entire program.
The Air Force currently has two main air-to-air missiles: the long-range, radar-guided AIM-120C AMRAAM, and the AIM-9X, the latest in the venerable line of short-range, heat-seeking missiles called the Sidewinder.
But!
Recent tests not only revealed that the aircraft caused pilots severe pain on a cat shot. They have just revealed another problem &#8211; trifling, really: the Navy&#8217;s F-35 experienced &#8220;undisclosed&#8221; amounts of oscillation and turbulence when carrying the off-boresight Sidewinder. The outer wings fold up on the Navy variant of the Lightning II, and as it turns out, the F-35C will not be able to carry the off-aspect, fire-from-any-angle Sidewinder niner-xray.
And so they will have to replace the wing.
$400,000,000,000 later, we only now discover that the world&#8217;s most advanced jet is unable to carry externally the world&#8217;s most advanced short-range, air-to-air missile &#8212; the technology that justified the F-35 in the first place &#8211; without building a new wing.
One begins to suspect that Lockheed Martin has some explaining to do.
This jet is so bad, and so expensive, and so late, that significant, stealthier upgrades to the existing workhorses: The F-15 Eagle, F-16 Falcon, F-18 Hornet and A-10 Warthog &#8211; are being hurriedly rolled out. The F-15 Silent Eagle and the F-18 Advanced Super Hornet are starting to look like sensible replacements for the F-35. They may also become indispensible replacements, since the new wing on the F-35, we just now discover, will delay the seven years overdue jet by another five years.
Here&#8217;s the final insult: because the F-35 is so far behind schedule, it will not be able to carry the latest generation of missiles: the AIM-120D and the improved Sidewinder 9X block II. Got it? The F-35 will have weapons inferior to those aircraft it was designed to replace; and not just in the air. The F-35 will not be able to carry more advanced air-to-ground bombs that can hit a truck while the truck is&#8230; you know&#8230; moving.
We have this debacle for one reason and one only: cost-plus procurement. This is an idea so insane that it has to come from the fatal combination of big government and big business. Cost-plus means the buyer &#8211; that would be you and me &#8211; pays for the cost of the jet, plus some set profit for the builder.
Those of you who do not work in government may perceive that this not only allows time and money overruns, it incentivizes them!
I want the best military and the most advanced weapons in the world. Cost-plus means that we have to scramble to find work-arounds for aircraft that do work &#8211; F-15, F-16, F-18 and A-10 &#8211; to cover the seventeen-year-old F-35 project that has sucked up enough money for 30 aircraft carriers that it is incapable of operating from.

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Well, everyone is talking about Donald Trump&#8217;s remarkable press conference on Thursday: brilliant, unhinged, historic, chaotic &#8211; sure, okay. But whether or not he, or the press, or neither of them, or both were fully aware of what was happening, to me it was clear as daylight: Donald Trump was training the mainstream media. And he was damn good at it, too, because it was working right in front of our eyes.
We all know the media is biased against conservatives. They are, in fact not in the news business, but the news suppression business. They are not reporters; they&#8217;re stenographers for the Democratic Party. You know it. I know it. Progressives know it. Trump knows it, and they know it too.
Everyone knows it, but not one Republican politician ever impaled on this bias has simply come out and said it.
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TRUMP: The failing New York Times wrote a big, long front-page story yesterday. And it was very much discredited, as you know. It was &#8212; it&#8217;s a joke.
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Did you hear that? In front of the New York Times and everyone on the planet, the President of the United States said that the supposed gold standard for truth and fairness wrote a story that was discredited. It wasn&#8217;t just discredited; it was a joke. And it wasn&#8217;t just a joke; it was a joke on the part of the failing New York Times.
Why is this important? Because the New York Times is failing, financially, and the reason they are failing is because that newspaper no longer reports the news; they write op/ed pieces and call it news. By saying the failing New York Times, Trump is essentially saying that the market knows they are liars and people no longer want to buy what they are selling.
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TRUMP: I mean, you have a lower approval rate than Congress.
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Talk about twisting the knife. Reporters are thought of as less trustworthy than politicians. 
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QUESTION: Just because of the attack of fake news and attacking our network, I just want to ask you, sir&#8230;
TRUMP: I&#8217;m changing it from fake news, though.
QUESTION: Doesn&#8217;t that under&#8230;
TRUMP: Very fake news.
QUESTION: &#8230; I know, but aren&#8217;t you&#8230;
(LAUGHTER)
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Laughter. You&#8217;re not liars, he says to their relief. And then with perfect comedic timing, he says they are not liars but rather damned liars.
&#8220;Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand,&#8221; wrote Mark Twain. Just so, and the more pompous and self-important the subject, the greater the assault.
That was followed immediately followed by this:
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TRUMP: Go ahead.
QUESTION: Real news, Mr. President, real news.
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Donald Trump has just caused Jim Acosta, from CNN for God&#8217;s sake, to assert that the question he is trying to ask is in fact real news. This coming question is legitimate. For a change. You see?
In military history, surprise is an advantage, superior firepower is an advantage, better morale is an advantage, but the one thing that is essential is having the initiative. Who has the initiative here? Who is controlling this conversation? Who is getting laughs at the expense of their supposed integrity &#8211; from them!
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TRUMP: Where are you from?
QUESTION: BBC.
TRUMP: Here&#8217;s another beauty.
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Dismissed. The British Broadcasting Corporation sneered at as if he was being asked yet another question by the Boca Raton Herald&#8212;Advertiser.
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TRUMP: Well, you look at your show that goes on at 10 o&#8217;clock in the evening. You just take a look at that show. That is a constant hit. The panel is almost always exclusive anti-Trump. The good news is he doesn&#8217;t have good ratings. But the panel is almost exclusive anti-Trump. And the hatred and venom coming from his mouth; the hatred coming from other people on your network. Now, I will say this. I watch it. I see it. I&#8217;m amazed by it. And I just think you&#8217;d be a lot better off, I honestly do. The public gets it, you know. Look, when I go to rallies, they turn around, they start screaming at CNN. They want to throw their placards at CNN. You know.
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Embedded in this critique of his unfair coverage, Donald Trump utters the one line that is the entire reason he got elected in the first place. Can you spot it?
The public gets it, you know. 
We get it. You know? The game is over; you&#8217;ve been called on it and we know and you know that your credibility &#8211; which is in fact your entire product &#8211; is shredded. The public gets it. You know that, don&#8217;t you? Or do you?
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QUESTION: But aren&#8217;t you &#8212; aren&#8217;t you concerned, sir, that you are undermining the people&#8217;s faith in the First Amendment, freedom of the press, the press in this country, when you call stories you don&#8217;t like &#8220;fake news&#8221;? Why not just say it&#8217;s a story I don&#8217;t like.
TRUMP: I do that.
QUESTION: When you call it &#8220;fake news,&#8221; you&#8217;re undermining confidence in our news media [and that&#8217;s] important.
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Donald Trump did not undermine confidence in our news media. The news media undermined our confidence in the news media. For decades they have exaggerated stories that are good for liberals and refused to cover stories that are bad for liberals. Someone is finally calling them on it and we are laughing at them. 
I think that what Donald Trump did was to start housebreaking the mainstream media. When they make a mess on the carpet, they get their noses rubbed in it and get swatted with a rolled-up newspaper.
Speaking of rolled-up newspapers, the housebreaking is working:
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QUESTION: Mr. Trump?
TRUMP: Yes, oh, this is going to be a bad question, but that&#8217;s OK.
QUESTION: It doesn&#8217;t have to be a bad question.
TRUMP: Good, because I enjoy watching you on television. Go ahead.
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Good boy. Here&#8217;s your treat.
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TRUMP: That was very professional and very good.
QUESTION: I&#8217;m very professional.
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Yes you are! Who&#8217;s a good reporter? Who&#8217;s the best reporter in the whole world? You are.
Good boy.

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In the grey area of politics and culture, where one man&#8217;s policy is another man&#8217;s poison; or in a pop culture that ranges from the uplifting to the despicable, it is rare to see a story where it is pretty much good versus evil, and there are photographs to match.
On February 15, 2017, a woman noticed something horrible as she was walking her toddler around a park in Daytona Beach, Florida. So horrible, in fact, that she headed straight home and told her husband, US Navy veteran Gary Blough, what she had seen.
The photo of Good in this story is a photo of a middle-aged man with a black eye, swollen face, broken skull and facial bones, a concussion and internal bleeding. 
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Good in this story got up, left the safety of his house and went out to confront two young men: Ryan Ponder and Johnnie Beveritt. Their combined picture is a snapshot of evil.
<img alt height="389" src="https://dw-wp-dev.imgix.net/2019/09/turtle_torturers.jpg" width="780" />It&#8217;s a simple tale of good versus evil, because Ponder, Beveritt and an unnamed 16-year-old minor, had proceeded to punch and kick Blough, and did not stop punching and kicking him until help arrived, at which point they ran away.
They were punching and kicking Blough, fracturing his skull, bashing his eye to the point of needing surgery, because Blough had approached these three individuals and asked them to stop what they were doing. What they were doing was reaching down, picking up a turtle, and then smashing it against the concrete, again and again, so hard and for so long that one of the animal&#8217;s legs was found in a nearby tree.
You really should take a close look at the faces of Blough, Ponder and Beveritt; compare the battered, middle-aged and gentle-looking face of disabled Navy vet Blough, versus the two strong young men in their physical prime. Pay special attention to Ponder and Beveritt, because we will certainly see their faces again; we as a society, I mean. The next time they get their mug shots taken may be for killing a person and not a turtle, and that story, of course, will not make the news the way a defenseless animal, later discovered dead and floating in a pool of blood in the lake, makes the news. Bashing turtles to death is newsworthy while bashing people to death is so commonplace. But society will see these faces again.
Some people look at creatures like these three monsters and ask themselves what happened to them to make them so inhuman, so incapable of compassion or remorse, so willing to strike again and again until the shell, or the skull, make a cracking sound and then, in both cases, to continue bashing and stomping until help arrived.
It is not about what happened to them. It is about what did not happen to them.
Human males &#8211; these three are not boys and they most certainly are not men &#8212; are capable of this kind of behavior because virtually all predatory animals are capable of it: from cats playing with mice, or male lions eating the cubs of the aging alpha male they have just displaced, or chimpanzees on a war party looking to rip monkeys or other chimps to shreds and eat them raw. This is how animals behave, and this is the kind of animal behavior that happens when a gentle and strong father does not instill in young boys the sense of compassion, of decency, of restraint, and both moral and physical courage that was most obviously instilled in Gary Blough.
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It is not about what happened to them. It is about what did not happen to them.

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Oh, and by the way: if we don&#8217;t like these kind of behaviors; if you are repelled by the sight of three men repeatedly bashing a defenseless turtle to death against concrete sidewalks; or if you are somewhat concerned that humans like Ponder and Beveritt seem to be increasing in numbers while those like Blough become rarer and rarer&#8230;
&#8230;well, then perhaps we should stop ordering and paying for such people. Maybe we should rethink the incentive structure that pays a person additional money for every fatherless boy brought into the world. Maybe if we did not subsidize such base cruelty so intensely and for so long, then perhaps we would get less of it.
Somehow.

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Yahoo News brings us a <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/ny-fashion-week-hijabs-top-looks-fit-royalty-064725444.html">story</a> of fashion designer Anniesa Hasibuan, who for two years now has been featuring the Muslim hijab, the garment that wraps around the face of Muslim women so that no one can see their hair.
The designs are elegant if a bit gaudy: there is a photo of Hasibuan in a black robe with ornate silver embroidery, and another of twenty or so fashion models looking exactly like fashion models, wearing gold and silver and laden with jewelry&#8230; except that every one of them is wearing a silver scarf covering their hair. It&#8217;s Muslim Chic, to the roars of applause from the New York fashion crowd, one or two of which, I will dare to guess, are unmarried women and gay men.
Hey, sincerely: so far, so good. Westernized Muslims can maintain their religious practices &#8212; many of them, anyway &#8212; and look stylish as well. That&#8217;s terrific.
But there are deeper issues at play here. Frankly, my first glance at a runway of stick-thin New York models looking like some fabulous Libyan bodyguard contingent filled me with apprehension, because to look at that picture of not only westernized Muslims, but New York Fashion Chic westernized Muslims filled me with a kind of dread: this is what an Islamic New York would or will look like; and here is where we get into trouble.
It is absolutely true that here in America, there are millions of peaceful Muslims who came here to work hard and who are willing to abide by western laws. If their religion calls for them to wear a hijab, it&#8217;s none of my damn business whether they do or not.
What is my damn business, however, is whether or not the United States becomes a predominantly Muslim country, in the manner of France and Germany and Sweden: western democracies that have thrown open their doors to Muslim immigration and gotten more than fashion shows in the bargain. This picture of gold and silver clad models in hijabs produces an immediate cognitive dissonance for me, so hopefully some of the Daily Wire&#8217;s multitude of progressive readers can help me out here.
First, the entire idea of the hijab is to divert attention from a Muslim woman, not to call attention to her. The justification of the hijab in the first place is the Islamic belief that should males catch sight of a woman&#8217;s hair, they will become so overpowered by lust that their honor is in danger. And, obviously, in much of the Muslim world, a woman whose honor has been compromised is more likely to wear acid washed headscarves rather than fashionably silver ones.
The reason this causes so much cognitive dissonance is that if any of these women wore these gaudy costumes in many Muslim countries, they would be lucky to get away with only being pushed, mocked or beaten. And that&#8217;s at the core of it, really: these Muslim chic designs can be worn in New York only because New York is not a Muslim city run by Muslim laws and customs.
It is painful to point this out, because I have met many patriotic, hard-working, family-oriented Muslims here in America; however, the fact is that alone among the religions of the world, Islam, as it is written, is not only incompatible with American ideals, it is alone in being antithetical to them. 
If you stand on a street corner across from the fashion show, and hurl insults at Mohammed, his followers and his religion, than in a Judeo-Christian New York you&#8217;re just another nutcase speaking his mind. In an Islamic New York &#8212; Islamic as in as written in flowing gold Arabic in the Koran &#8211; insulting Islam and the Prophet is a capital offense. Our First Amendment also restricts the government from interfering with our right to practice whatever religion we want, or to have no religion at all. In Islam, as it is written, leaving Islam is also a capital offense.
Hindus, Confucians, Buddhists, Animists, Zoroastrians, Druids, Wiccans and Jedi &#8212; not to mention Christians, Jews and atheists &#8212; can have their religion and preach it too, here in America, without having to make a profound decision: are you governed &#8212; externally but much more importantly internally &#8212; by a love for and belief in these constitutional rights, or is your heart and your desire to live as Muhammad commands you?
Because you cannot have both. The vast majority choose to live by our laws, and all of this would be just completely swell if we did not see, time and time again, the demands for Islamic law and Islamic justice in liberal democracies once the Muslim population reaches some (relatively small) percentage.
At the end of the Yahoo article, Chiara Sari, Indonesia&#8217;s vice consul in New York and a representative of Designer Hasibuan&#8217;s home country, says that she supports the hijab clothing line by saying, &#8220;Hopefully that will increase familiarity with Islam in general, especially now when it is getting a lot of bad press.&#8221;
With all due respect, Ms. Sari, Islam is getting &#8220;a lot of bad press&#8221; because members of your religion are committing a lot of bad deeds, all around the world, pretty much all of the time. And the Muslim fashion I would like to see in America, and Europe as well, would be a declaration that Muslims in the west denounce terrorism, work with law enforcement to turn in radicals, and state clearly and publicly that your clothes and your heart have made a decision on the mutually exclusive ideas that you can say and believe whatever you want versus believing that those who insult or try to leave the religion of the hijab should be killed, as your religious law decrees.
It is not the fact that millions of Muslims &#8212; the vast majority &#8212; here in the west despise and reject terrorism, and have chosen Constitutional values over Koranic ones. It&#8217;s the fact that none of the rest of us see any of you openly saying so that alarms us.
Gaudy hijab fashion that glamorizes and sexualizes women is a rejection of core Islamic beliefs, not the inclusion of them. It&#8217;s great to see you on the walkway, but it would be even better to know where you stand.

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Constructed in 1968, the Oroville Dam in California was built with an emergency spillway; should water levels on the reservoir side rise faster than could be released in controlled fashion, the lower walls of the spillway were designed to allow overflow to be shunted harmlessly to the side of the main waterway.
Until this winter, we have never had to wonder whether or not this spillway was going to work as advertised, because until this winter, the Oroville Dam has not once encountered enough rainfall to test the design.
However. In 2005, three environmental groups petitioned the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to look into what they considered to be design flaws in the dam&#8217;s structure. No action was taken. And none was needed, what with the Neverending Drought and all.
On Saturday night, panicked, angry and confused residents of Marysville, CA fought gridlock to get themselves clear of the flooding that might &#8211; or might not &#8211; occur as the spillway structure began to disintegrate. The Oroville dam is in Yolo County, just northwest of Sacramento. A few years ago, a fad ran through the internet communities that follow these things: YOLO, You Only Live Once. Let&#8217;s hope that kind of daredevil lifestyle is not the case for the federal and state taxpayers that live downstream from the Oroville Dam.
So, as a resident of both California and the United States, there are a few things I would like to know.
From the feds, I would like an explanation of why these complaints were not addressed eleven and a half years ago. I would like an explanation because I suspect that I know the explanation: it&#8217;s the same bureaucratic wishful thinking that allowed another government agency to rationalize the fact that frequent burn-throughs on the O-rings in the Space Shuttle&#8217;s Solid Rocket Boosters had not caused a catastrophe before, and so chances are pretty good that we won&#8217;t have a catastrophe on the next flight. This same agency made the same calculation for the same reasons sixteen years later: foam departing the external tank (due to using a &#8220;greener&#8221; form of cement) had struck the orbiter on liftoff before and nothing had happened, so chances are pretty good that nothing would happen on the next flight.
The dam did not fail for any of the last sixteen winters, so chances are pretty good that it wouldn&#8217;t fail on the seventeenth. If this dam had been private property, owned and managed by a private utility, they would have been sued to the heavens &#8211; deservedly so. Being sued to the heavens is motivation to check the dam. 
Secondly, California has a base sales tax rate of 7.5%, and a top income tax rate of 13.3%. I believe they are both records for the US.
So I would like to know the answer to a simple question: where the hell has all of this money gone?
Well, it hasn&#8217;t gone into infrastructure. The roads in Los Angeles are approaching Third World conditions. It hasn&#8217;t gone into new airports. It hasn&#8217;t gone into bridges, and it seems pretty obvious that it has not gone into dam maintenance either. So where is it?
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So, as a resident of both California and the United States, there are a few things I would like to know.

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Well, it&#8217;s been stolen by people voting themselves pensions of $200,000 per years or so. That&#8217;s where it is. A public sector union is a union that sits across the negotiating table from itself and one where both parties know that revenues are unlimited. And I think the reason we do not look at the amount of larceny committed at both the state and federal level is because if we did we would go right out of our damn minds.

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In Ankara, hundreds of thousands of Iranians are chanting Death to America!
Am I the only person in the world who went from shocked to horrified to angry to worried and now bored?
It&#8217;s a common staple of many of the science-fiction stories I grew up with to deal with alternate histories. The best of these, by far I think, is Ray Bradbury&#8217;s A Sound of Thunder. 
You know you have written something with impact when it warrants a Golden Era Simpsons episode, because by tinkering with a broken toaster, Homer accidentally goes back in time in their annual Treehouse of Horror Halloween series, episode five:
Terrified, he looks around at dinosaurs and volcanoes
HOMER: Okay. Don&#8217;t panic. Remember the advice your father gave you on your wedding day&#8230;
A thought balloon containing grandpa in a tuxedo appears above his head.
GRANDPA: If you ever travel back in time, don&#8217;t step on anything! Because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can&#8217;t imagine.
A Sound of Thunder was written in 1952, and it was one of the stories I read in school when I was very young.
Set well into the future, in A Sound of Thunder, amateur hunters pay enormous sums to travel back in time to get a chance to shoot the most fearsome big game animal of all: Tyrannosaurus Rex. Time scouts have determined that this particular specimen had died off at a very specific instant, meaning if they get their shots in just before that moment, no harm will be done; that T-rex was going to die then and there regardless.
And so they construct a floating path, suspended above the jungle floor. They do this because even the slightest change in the past could lead to unknown, dramatic changes in the present. But one of the hunters falls off the path for a moment, scrambles right back on, and they return to find a dystopian future &#8211; their world gone horribly, terribly wrong. Looking down at his muddy boots, the man who fell off the path has stepped on an insignificant butterfly, which was destined to be food for something else, then something else, then something else&#8230;
Now that&#8217;s a lot of copy to get to Iranian multitudes shouting Death to America! 
&#8220;America and Trump cannot do a damn thing. We are ready to sacrifice our lives for our leader&#8221; says a young Iranian man. He may get his chance.
In A Sound of Thunder, and many, many similar stories of time travel, characters go back to the distant past, then either accidentally or purposefully change something, and that change leads to a horrible alternate reality where everything has gone wrong.
Many years after first reading this transformative story, I was struck with a sickening feeling: What if this is the horrible dystopian timeline?
Look back on the last half century or so, and ask yourself the what ifs?
What if Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, had not been allowed to return to Iran from exile abroad? What if America had not propped up the corrupt Shah in order to prevent Iran from going communist, not Islamicist? What if there had been an immediate and vigorous US military response the instant the hostages were taken? What if the Iranian uranium centrifuges were taken out in an air strike launched by Americans, or Israelis, or both?
What if the Iranian-backed bombing of the US barracks in Beirut in 1983 had been met instantly with a declaration of war by President Reagan and the removal of the Islamist regime? What if Barack Obama had given even the slightest support to the Iranians dying in the street for freedom in 2009? What if Obama had not lifted sanctions and shipped this mortal enemy &#8211; who has been at war with the United States since 1979 whether we are at war with them or not &#8211; $400,000,000 in cash for the release of US sailors, but rather coordinated cruise missile strikes at Iranian military assets?
Look back at pictures of Iran after WWII but before 1979: women in surgical scrubs rather than burkas; young people kissing as they sit in bikinis and trunks at poolside, listening to rock and roll. Look back at the pictures of a Western society, a wealthy society, a happy society, and then tell me that someone did not step on a butterfly somewhere and destroy that prosperous, free Iran that could have been and instead gave us &#8211; and most especially gave them &#8211; this brutal, primitive, death-loving, people-hating theocracy, the primary sponsor of Islamic terrorism in the world, which will most likely cause a multitude of deaths and horrors for their people, and ours, in that part of our path we have yet to travel.

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Our new Secretary of Education enters under historic circumstances: every now and then, the Vice President is called in to break a 50/50 tie regarding a piece of legislation, but never in the history of the country has a Senate confirmation vote required 101 ballots cast. The mainstream media helpfully informs us that her confirmation was &#8220;rough&#8221; and &#8220;contentious.&#8221; Another den of journalists gives us the breaking news that Trump&#8217;s appointments are taking longer to clear the senate than Obama&#8217;s.
I say all this only because it doesn&#8217;t matter in the slightest. Betsy DeVos has been confirmed and that is all that matters now. She is in. She is going to shake up the Department of Education, an earthquake that will open up a rift big enough to house what is left of the progressive agenda in.
Watching the Trump nominees take more time than the Obama nominees fills me with joy. These are not safe and they most certainly aren&#8217;t conciliatory. The Democrats are desperately trying to drag out the process, which is more or less fine with me as well. They won&#8217;t be able to drag it out over the next two years, which is what they would need to do to have the slightest chance of stopping her with a midterm flip of the Senate, but given the number of at-risk seats the Democrats will have to defend in 2018, it looks like pretty much all of Trump&#8217;s picks are going to go the distance.
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And they are extraordinary choices, all of them. One of the absolute highlights of the three months in this Parade of Winning was watching the confusion on the part of the progressives, especially journalists: Why, this Trump idiot has appointed a man as head of the EPA who seems to want to destroy the EPA! Don&#8217;t you conservative idiots out there in fly over country understand that?
Here&#8217;s a newsflash, newsboy: this is not a bug, and it&#8217;s not even a feature. This is the entire reason the product was made in the first place.
James Mattis being appointed Secretary of Defense is a shot fired across not only the bows of ISIS, Russia and China: I think, most importantly, it was a message to members of our armed forces saying that if they can just hang on for a few weeks, they will get to be warriors again. They did not enlist to socially engineer this country. They enlisted to protect it. The appointment of Secretary of Defense Mattis is the bugle call of the cavalry coming to the rescue of what looked all year to be a Last Stand.
The announcement that we were going to have a Mad Dog as SECDEF immediately put some spruce in the stride of just about everyone wearing the uniform. It was a parting of the storm clouds admitting the rays of a golden sun. A rising golden sun.
DeVos does not have that pleasure. The department she is going to shake to the foundations has been as happy under eight years of Obama as warfighters were miserable. Mattis is a ray of sunshine for the military, but DeVos will inherit staffers who believe they are on the Titanic and Betsy is the iceberg.
Donald Trump&#8217;s cabinet picks are not just &#8220;good&#8221; for conservatives; instead they all seem to be the kind of paradigm-shattering earthquake of a magnitude that no one &#8211; no one I know, anyway &#8211; had dared to believe possible.
Los Angeles used to be the earthquake capitol of America. Washington is Shaky Town now, and the reverberations of Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 will be felt not just across the entire globe but likely down the Halls of Time as well.

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Well, in today&#8217;s Hollywood Reporter we find the uplifting story of the day: UTA SCRAPS OSCAR PARTY IN FAVOR OF REFUGEE RALLY.
United Talent Agency is donating $250,000 &#8211; that&#8217;s a lot of money to people who do not represent multi-million dollar talent &#8211; to the American Civil Liberties Union, so that they can use the money to fight the Muslim ban that is not a ban on Muslims, and to oppose Trumphitler&#8217;s anti-immigration policies that do not affect any actual immigrants.
No doubt stars and Hollywood execs and agents and all the rest will turn up at the Refugee Rally they have planned for February 24, right before this year&#8217;s Oscar party, where the most talented writers, directors, actors and all the rest will gather to congratulate themselves and also give America what it so desperately needs: moral sermonizing from the most immoral people on Planet Earth.
You know who will not be making an appearance at the Refugee Rally?
Refugees, that&#8217;s who. Oh sure, they might cherry pick some camera-ready background players &#8211; those would be &#8220;extras&#8221; to those of you who live in the United States &#8211; to stand around looking sad and grateful, but the one limo that will not pull up at the Refugee Rally will be the super-stretched Town Car containing the hundreds of thousands of military-aged, single men who have been crashing the party in Germany. And France. And Belgium. And Italy. And Great Britain. And Greece. And Austria. And Hungary. And so on.
This is how Hollywood works, and it is the same that all of these self-congratulatory, hollow leftist gestures work; the working title of which is BASED ON A TRUE STORY.
What does that mean, exactly? Well, it means that if there is a country called Syria, let&#8217;s say, and we want to construct any fantasy we want about &#8220;Syria&#8221; and tell you that this lie is the truth because it is BASED ON A TRUE STORY.
See how easy it is?
On the same online page as this story is a thumbnail for another one: Disney CEO Bob Iger on Trump&#8217;s Travel Ban: &#8220;WE CANNOT SHUT OUR BORDERS TO IMMIGRANTS.&#8221;
Mr. Iger &#8211; may I call you Bob? Thanks, Bobby.
Bobby, baby &#8211; there is not, has not been, and never will be a &#8220;ban on immigration.&#8221; So saying something like that is not inspiring. It&#8217;s lying, Bobby, and that&#8217;s bad for box office biz because we notice you do a lot of this kind of thing: these unvetted, innocents and terrorists must be welcomed into America &#8211; you know, your town &#8212; but The Beverly Hilton? I don&#8217;t think so, no.
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What I care about is actually preventing another Orlando. Or San Bernardino. Or Brussels. Or Paris. Or Fort Hood. Or Beslan.

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I don&#8217;t care what an actor says about something he knows nothing about. It&#8217;s just another script he is reading and another character she is playing. What I care about is actually preventing another Orlando. Or San Bernardino. Or Brussels. Or Paris. Or Fort Hood. Or Beslan.
Or New York, Bobby. You have people there, don&#8217;t you?
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I had a chance to talk to a few hundred pre-college teens in Sacramento this past weekend. They were all members of JSA &#8211; the Junior State of America &#8211; and they all want to be involved with government in some way.
&#8220;So, most of you want to be politicians, huh? I think we should have you all arrested while we have the chance.&#8221;
Was I being serious? Well, when you get down to brass tacks, government is legislation. Legislators get to vote on things, and what they got to vote on are laws. As part of the seminar, each one of these kids had a bill they had written and were trying to get passed.
So why arrest these miscreants? Well, it&#8217;s because laws are restrictions on human freedom. Murder laws, for example, restrict my freedom to give Michael Moore the full flavor of the feelings I have for his work. Laws that restrict murderers are good and necessary, as are those against theft, assault, rape and so on.
But think about it. For almost 250 years, legislators have gone to Washington, and all they did during that quarter-millennia was write laws. How many laws, and how many of their illegitimate siblings &#8211; regulations &#8211; have been passed? It would be faster to count the stars in the sky.
No, I&#8217;m serious. There are between 2,000 &#8211; 3,000 stars visible on a dark night with no moon. The number of laws and regulations exceed the number of stars in the sky by many orders of magnitude.
And that&#8217;s just federal laws. State and local laws too, and there is a big difference between prohibiting murder and rape versus fining someone $1000 for throwing a Frisbee on the beach in Santa Monica. All these laws, all these restrictions: more and more each year, narrowing the list of things we can do ever tighter, like plaque on the wall of the aorta.
Anyway, that&#8217;s the kind of day it was. Their expressions &#8211; and they were wide-eyed and open-mouthed &#8211; were not expressions of anger, or contempt. They were surprised. They were amazed that someone could say things that challenged their carefully manufactured worldview.
And in the front row, off to the side, sat one of the architects of their narrowness of thought and lack of mental flexibility. It was, in point of fact, a perfect specimen of a Feral Socialist and if I had a lick of sense I would have taken her picture before she darted away.
This woman was unkempt. Unkempt isn&#8217;t casual. Unkempt does not look poor. (In fact, there is little more moving than the sight of poor children with immaculately clean clothes and faces and hair. Their poverty is only skin deep; someone loved them enough to give them the priceless gift of self-respect.)
Unkempt lives by itself. It is studied rumpledness, flagrant disregard for hair or clothes. It is perfected dishevelment; you have to work at being unkempt. 
This woman glared at me the entire time, but I truthfully did not pay her any attention until one of these kids, during the Q&amp;A session, asked me what harm there was by adding regulations and laws designed to protect people.
&#8220;I pay half of what I make to cover these regulations and laws,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Half.&#8221;
At this point the Feral Socialist began to crow. &#8220;Good!&#8221; she said.
Good? Turning to the white kid with the dreadlocks who had asked the question in all seriousness, I gave him a serious reply. I told him how if I got to keep more of that money, I could hire the two extra people we desperately need. The harm in all of these laws and regulations is not what you see but what you don&#8217;t see: all of the people not hired, companies not expanded, new houses not bought, vacations not taken and all the rest. I work about fourteen hours a day, which means I have nearly two full-time jobs. Running my company is a full-time job, and then I have to work a second full-time job to pay for these regulations and the people who write them.
Feral Socialist went into raptures at this. &#8220;Good!&#8221; she said again.
&#8220;Let me clear something up for you, lady,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Your Bernie Sanders seriously proposed a ninety-three percent federal income tax on anything beyond about $400,000. If that ever happens, I and the rest of the small business owners will contract and lay off people until my income is $399,999, because if you think I&#8217;m going to work for seven cents on the dollar so that your bitter, rather dull candidate &#8211; who has never worked a real job for one day in his life &#8211;can spend the other 93 cents buying affection then you are out of your mind.&#8221;
I added that nothing is so mobile as a wealthy person, and if you pass laws like that they will all leave and take their jobs with them.
&#8220;Good riddance!&#8221; croaked the Feral Socialist.
&#8220;So you don&#8217;t care if poor people get poorer. You don&#8217;t care if everybody gets poorer, so long as we are all poor equally?&#8221;
And with an enthusiastic nod, the Feral Socialist retreated into its sulfurous-smelling cave.
These people don&#8217;t give a single flying damn about the poor, or the middle class, or anyone else for that matter. Babies starving in the street, like so many places where Bernies get their way? Starving babies are a small, small price to pay for the pleasure of knowing that despite their comprehensive laziness and stupidity and bitter envy, no one is doing better than you are. You don&#8217;t get to cloak yourself in virtue when I&#8217;m at a microphone, you heartless, brainless, soulless commie swine.
The kicker, of course, is that this woman spoke out in favor of hardship and poverty from the ballroom of the Sheraton Grand Hotel, which then went on to serve this Feral Socialist a lunch that would have been the envy of Tsars and Kings.
What a repellent animal, this scavenger, this parasite that feeds upon the flesh and blood of the living.

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Which anti-conservative slur is the most dishonest? It&#8217;s liberals, not conservatives, who have destroyed black America by destroying the black family. It&#8217;s liberals, not conservatives, who pay women less on their presidential campaigns. And it&#8217;s liberals, not conservatives, who really hate American immigration when it also means integration.
With the construction of the southern border wall, and the travel suspension for countries with close terrorism ties, conservatives are once again being painted as anti-immigrant. Thankfully, the compassionate liberals that work in ad agencies were here to instruct us on our backward ways with a series of Super Bowl ads designed to elevate us to their moral level. They will never really stop thinking of us as bigots, because if your entire party identity is a one-trick pony, then you had better know how to do the trick. But it&#8217;s the thought that counts.
The most egregious of these commercials, to me, was the one made for a company called 84 Lumber. In it we see a young mother and her daughter, struggling for mile after mile of brutal desert heat, begging for water from a kindly, middle-aged man. Finally, they approach The Wall, all of their struggles apparently in vain. Then the young daughter reaches into her knapsack and removes a tattered American flag. All of their long dreams of freedom smashed by Cheeto Hitler and his Nazi followers.
But yonder stands a huge gate in this concrete wall! The wooden gate opens to let them in. Thank God for lumber companies or they would have died out there.
There is so much wrong with this that it is hard to know where to begin.
First of all, I don&#8217;t imagine that much of the illegal immigration from Mexico consists of a young woman and her single small child walking here alone. If this ad had any integrity &#8211; you know, a remote connection to the truth &#8211; then the young mother would be walking across the badlands as part of a group of 20-50 people, herded and driven by several Mexican coyotes armed with AK-47&#8217;s, which are to be used if they have to drop some gringos on the way to Gringoland. A much, much more believable version of this story would have had the beautiful young woman raped by her Mexican guards, and the little child would have a kilo or two of cocaine or heroin in her knapsack.
Second, very few of the people entering the southern border are clutching American flags, dreaming of political freedom. They are clutching Mexican flags, and dreaming of economic opportunity. When American teams are roundly booed in matches against Mexico &#8211; that would be here in Los Angeles &#8211; the whole start-a-new-life-as-Americans dream of the 84 Lumber commercial starts to seriously unravel.
Now, does stating this truth and pointing out these lies make me anti-immigrant? That seems unlikely considering my engagement to one of them. And because of that relationship, I got to see something I had thought had virtually disappeared because I keep getting morality lessons from progressives at 84 Lumber.
I got to meet immigrants. Not religious refugees with values antithetical to those of America, and not armed invasions of people simply looking for work.
I got to meet two families of Russian and Ukrainian origin who have filled out the forms, spent money on the lawyers, waited in line, but most importantly of all, I met people whose hearts are American and whose work ethic is infinitely higher than these Millennials protesting the results of an election and most especially higher than the leftist professors who we pay huge sums of money to in order to remove intelligence from and add indoctrination to our children.
I met people who instantly, in broken English but in English, began asking me questions not of benefits or aid programs, but rather nearly insatiable questions on how our government works. They simply could not get enough of it.
There are no politics as we understand the term in modern Russia. Putin will do what he wants to do, and the people do not discuss politics because the people of Russia have no say in politics. Here, however, they watched in amazement and awe as the American people stood up to Hillary&#8217;s corruption machine, the hurricane headwind of news media bias, the bleating of celebrities and all the rest only to see the voice of the people triumphant over that kind of entrenched power.
They are here to start a church; a church that will turn Eastern European immigrants into Americans by teaching them the priceless value of religious and economic freedom coupled with nothing but hard work and faith in their idea that hard work will eventually pay off in America.

They told me how the greatest recruiting tool they had for Russians in Moscow was to host an American Thanksgiving dinner and talk about the power of gratitude and humility. They impressed me so much that I made Thanksgiving dinner for them last November; in fact, they impressed me so much that I decided to spend most of my free time for six weeks producing a video to tell their story. They are working as house cleaners while they pursue their own unique American dream, and if you have six minutes you can learn more about them <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/svoboda-la-mirada">here</a>.

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Their politics differ in significant ways. And without question, the website has changed in a direction that does not appeal to me personally. But after his final stop in his Dangerous Faggot tour, the only person I can think to compare Milo Yiannopoulos to is Andrew Breitbart himself.
That, I think, is because despite their differences, Milo and Andrew share one critical character trait. They love the fight. They just love it.
And they both drew blood. Andrew (with James O&#8217;Keefe and Hana Giles) brought down that towering oak of corruption called ACORN. A moment ago, I entered &#8220;MILO&#8221; into a Google image search. There are dozens and dozens of green ads for Nestle&#8217;s &#8220;Milo&#8221; drink, which I had never heard of, probably because there were soccer stars on the boxes and it&#8217;s a drink marketed to communists. There are a few images of Yiannopoulos scattered across the page, but anyone who typed in that single word could not come to any reasonable conclusion other than that student thugs <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/13073/watch-mask-wearing-anti-fascistrioters-shut-down-james-barrett">set fire to a university campus</a> in order to protest a brand of hot chocolate.
I&#8217;m sure this is completely accidental. Google intentionally hiding images of the most talked about single name in the country would be journalistically unethical: they would be suppressing access to certain people and viewpoints because they disagree with them politically, and after the last few weeks we know that the left could never, ever do something as vile and as low as that.
Milo waltzes past lines of people calling for his death in a faux military costume once turned down by Michael Jackson as being too over-the-top. Andrew once saw a mass of protestors after his blood too, so he put on a pair of roller skates and glided right into the heart of them. I think he might have bought them lunch afterward.
Both of them have the gift to see through the moral armor of the left and insert the dagger of ridicule, which is the one thing progressives cannot survive. The Left burns cars and smashes windows when challenged, but they go into paroxysms of blind rage when they are ridiculed. 
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Milo and Andrew understand that mockery is fatal to the left because the entire progressive argument is that they themselves are the Moral Templars of modern American society, the guardians of an eco-friendly, peace-loving, racially tolerant, borderless, inclusive, LGBT-friendly dream society that will be here just as soon as all of the intolerant people are silenced or killed. When a group of men in black hoodies, with black pants, and black boots, and black masks &#8211; the miserable cowards &#8211; beat a person to the ground because that person wants to hear someone speak on a university campus, and then shout at the person they have assaulted &#8220;That&#8217;s for you, you Nazi fascist!&#8221; you know you are dealing with people so violent, so emotional, so blinded by rage that the natural response is to laugh at them.
But when cultural icons, multi-millionaires like <a href="https://heatst.com/politics/filmmaker-judd-apatow-tweets-then-deletes-support-for-violent-berkeley-protests/">Judd Apatow</a> and <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/13087/sarah-silverman-fascists-get-overthrown-ben-shapiro">Sarah Silverman</a> egg this violence on, and try to give it moral weight, we have a problem that transcends mockery and debate.
And amazingly, these stupid, violent children calling for war in the streets; these Social Justice Warriors who faint dead away at the site of a paring knife; these barbarian savages who have never met a problem that a temper tantrum has not solved for them immediately&#8230; these thugs still wonder why the other half of America is armed to the teeth. 
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Trump&#8217;s wall seems to have re-awoken in Mexicans a fierce patriotism that we may not have seen since the days of Poncho Villa tweaking gringo noses a century ago.
We know this movement is serious and consequential because the Mexicans have deployed theater-specific, state-of-the-art hashtags aimed directly at the American homeland: #AdiosProductosGringos is one of them, but for those who do not speak Spanish there is also #AdiosStarbucks, #AdiosMcDonalds and #AdiosCocaCola.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto &#8211; coming off an approval rating of twelve percent a few weeks ago &#8211; exclaimed that &#8220;Today like never before, I feel proud to be Mexican.&#8221; He may not qualify as the George Washington of his nation, but he has an excellent shot at becoming the Michelle Obama of Mexico.
Well, ain&#8217;t that grand? I&#8217;m not kidding, either. I think a surge of Mexican patriotism is exactly what Mexico needs.
I consider myself to be an American patriot. Dense, flabby, left-wing people in Starbucks or McDonald&#8217;s, drinking their Productos Gringos usually assume that being an American patriot, it must enrage me to see Mexican ones. As usual for our progressive children, that&#8217;s exactly backwards.
I am very happy to see a resurgence of Mexican patriotism because I understand patriotism. I know the power it has, for good or evil depending on whose country is doing the patriot-ing. That is why I can both despise Vladimir Putin as a ruthless dictator and at the same time admire his patriotic desire to make his country strong and respectable again. Why, there&#8217;s a hint of that in the air around these parts as well, lately.
We have a border problem with Mexico. We do not have a border problem with Canada. That&#8217;s because Canada works, and Mexico doesn&#8217;t. Canada and the United States work because we speak English; everything south of the proposed wall doesn&#8217;t work because they speak Spanish.
It&#8217;s not the language that&#8217;s the difference. Language is a handy marker, but if all Canadians and Americans were forced to speak Spanish and Mexicans forced to speak English, nothing much would change.
The Spanish / English divide is a cultural line dividing two different strategies for dealing with the unexpected gift of an entirely new world.
Spaniards came to the western hemisphere as military conquerors, whose only real reason for coming all this way was to loot and pillage and steal the gold and silver and jewels of an extant civilization, and ship it back to buy things in Europe &#8211; like a few Armadas, for example. Their soldiers colonized the regions that now speak Spanish.
In El Norte, quite the opposite happened. The primarily English, primarily protestant arrivals were not military conquerors: they were farmers. They didn&#8217;t come to steal resources; they came to develop them. And they weren&#8217;t here to sack the place and go home. America was their home. They were here to stay because their hearts were here to stay. They loved the land. That&#8217;s what patriotism means.
I hope that this wall jolts Mexico out of their self-inflicted misery. The Mexicans I have known here in Los Angeles are some of the kindest, most family-oriented and most especially hardest-working people I have ever met. Perhaps their re-discovered pride will make them take a close look at a government that steals from them the way the Conquistadors have always stolen from them. And more than anything, I hope that a love of their own land will motivate them to build it into a prosperous, free, law-abiding society where hard work pays off and laws are enforced.

Maybe this wall of Donald Trump&#8217;s will save both of our countries.

VIVA MEXICO! Now Get To Work.

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Were it useful in any way, the energy generated by the gigawats of raging apoplexy on the part of the left would run this civilization for an eco-friendly, sustainable century. But of course, it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s just a lot of waste heat that needs to be dissipated, and that&#8217;s what video cameras are for: they are heat sinks for adult infants having temper tantrums.
They are livid, and they are livid &#8211; and approaching full operating pressures and temperatures &#8212; because Donald Trump has astonished the world by actually doing what he said he would do, and quickly too. He is starting to construct a border wall, and he has temporarily banned refugees from nations with known ties to Islamic terrorism. He has what most military minds would usually describe as the single greatest element for victory in the battlespace: Trump has the initiative. He is acting and the left is reacting.
What would be actually fun to watch &#8211; justice being still something of a circus novelty after eight years of Obama &#8211; would be to witness all of the Progressive outrage disappear if you could explain to them &#8212; Clockwork Orange style, natch &#8211; that the author of our woes is not Cheetos Hitler but the Lightworker himself.
The obvious point, of course, is that it is his wars &#8211; fought in seven countries (I think &#8211; it&#8217;s hard to keep track) without congressional or UN approval, are responsible for all of these sad-eyed, young, fighting age men being denied access to America&#8217;s largesse.
But the main point is far more subtle, but only because it happened at the speed of creeping ivy. That is simply this: the border wall is a result of Barack Obama&#8217;s policies, not Donald Trump&#8217;s, and the ban on certain refugees is also the result of Barack Obama&#8217;s policies, not Donald Trump&#8217;s.
If the United States had maintained a border, we would not need a wall. The wall is the result not of a neglect of the border, but a willful destruction of it on the part of Barack Obama for reasons known best to the ghosts of Saul Alinsky, Benedict Arnold and Pancho Villa.
A roof is designed to keep out the rain. Roofs leak. Prompt attention to those leaks means the roof is restored quickly, easily and inexpensively. Ignore the leak, and the hole gets bigger. Ignore it long enough, and the supporting beams start to rot and toxic mold infests the entire home. Sometimes it&#8217;s cheaper to build a whole new house than to completely repair the damage caused by years of neglect.
Obama has not neglected the border. If the border is a leaky roof then Obama had been directing a garden hose, and then a fire hose, at the cracks until the roof, like the border, is meaningless and useless.
Obama is responsible for the wall. And if the President of the United States &#8211; the first President to be elected after 9/11 &#8211; had been willing to discuss Islamic Terrorism, instead of denying that such a word (never mind such a concept) existed, then we would have had an adult conversation about this problem with refugees and come up with a better solution than the emergency measures now being forced upon us.
But no. Here, too, the man responsible or preventing the deluge has been the one opening the floodgates, and he and his supporters have no one to blame for the drowned innocent but themselves.
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