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Biden’s DHS may restart border wall construction to plug ‘gaps’ Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told department employees he may restart border wall construction to plug what he called “gaps” in the current barrier. In a conversation with Immigration and Customs Enformcement employees last week Mr. Mayorkas was asked about his plans for the wall and he said that while President Biden has canceled the border emergency and halted Pentagon money flowing to the wall, “that leaves room to make decisions” on finishing some “gaps in the wall.” Mr. Mayorkas, according to notes of the ICE session reviewed...

Companies must be held accountable. When they carelessly and callously wield their power to strike out at the American people, they must be made to feel pain. Not simply nagging second thoughts or embarrassment, but real pain: pain in their wallets, in their boardrooms, and in the offices of their general counsels.It’s a tactic the American left long ago mastered. Boycotts and sponsorship threats have been a hallmark of their activism, but with rare exceptions, conservatives have failed to catch on. If a company bucks them, the left won’t hesitate to use the power of government, from regulation to the...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he’s preparing to take on sanctuary cities that refuse to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and he wants to see more illegal immigrants face criminal prosecution for jumping the border. He also rejected abolishing or splitting up ICE, rejecting calls from some in President Biden’s political base to eliminate the government’s deportation agents altogether. Mr. Mayorkas revealed the hard-line stances last week during a virtual town hall forum with ICE employees. The Washington Times has reviewed notes of the conversation, in which Mr. Mayorkas said he’s working on a new set of deportation...

Fox News's Tucker Carlson grilled Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson for vetoing the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act, which restricts “gender affirming” chemical or surgical treatments for those under the age of 18, regardless of parental consent.Though Hutchinson did sign recent legislation that protects women’s sports and allows doctors to refuse patients for moral or religious reasons, he criticized the SAFE Act as a "vast government overreach" and "a product of the cultural war in America." He was particularly concerned because it applies to patients currently in the middle of treatment.Proponents of the legislation challenged the notion that such practices are...

PHOENIX – A head-on collision involving two buses carrying workers at a gold mine killed 16 people and injured 14 The crash happened at 3:36 a.m. local time Tuesday near the entrance to the Noche Buena mine, about two hours driving distance south of the Lukeville, Arizona, port of entry, according to the Sonora Attorney General's Office. The mine used the two buses to shuttle workers, it said in a news release. Images of the crash site showed that the two buses had crashed head-on, obstructing the two-lane road. others south of the U.S.-Mexico border near Arizona.

The Left gnaws its nails over three recent monstrous crimes. These white supremacists are diabolically clever. Lately, they’ve taken to disguising themselves as Syrian Muslim refugees, black men on parole for killing their mother and homicidal Farrakhan supporters. After the Atlanta massage parlor shootings, the racial-guilt industry went into overdrive. The shooter was routinely described as a white male who had targeted Asian women. (Aside: Very few Bulgarian dwarfs work at massage parlors.) The man who confessed to the killings denied that he was motivated by race. He claimed he was suffering from sex addiction and wanted to get temptation...

What’s behind the controversial governor’s connection to the tech giant? Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Are you a New Yorker who wants to live a normal life? Move to Florida. And if you can’t do that, get an Excelsior Pass. ‘Excelsior’ means ‘higher’ in Latin and is New York’s motto. It’s probably not the best motto for a broken state tiptoeing toward bankruptcy. And it’s an even worse name for a vaccine passport that allows businesses to discriminate. A day after...

Writing an article about the national debt is ridiculous. Nobody will read it, fewer will understand it. And those who do will have a knee-jerk reaction to it. It matters or it doesn’t matter.The Paul Krugman school of “guilt-free spending” envisions the devil on politicians’ shoulders whispering in their ears to “spend, spend, spend.” The angel on the other shoulder that’s supposed to whisper “no, no. no” has fallen asleep. There are few constraints on spending and any old fuddy-duddies who make a stink about multi-trillion-dollar bills are dismissed as cranks or party poopers.For going on 40 years, doomsaying fiscal...

In a previous blog post, I commented on the email responses received from both Democrat Virginia senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (2020 V.P. running mate with Hillary). I had sent separate emails urging them to vote no on H.R. 1, the For The People Act of 2021, and against H.R. 5, the Equality Act of 2021. Anyone still capable of critical thinking should realize that H.R. 1 will corrupt all future election results heavily in favor of Dems and H.R. 5 will reopen the bathroom controversy, ruin women's sports, and force Christians and others with strongly held religious beliefs...

More and more frequently we so-called advanced moderns believe things to be true that an illiterate farmer in 1800 would have known to be false. As every year passes, the self-proclaimed progressive “brights”–– those who “follow the science” rigorously, they claim, when making and supporting public policies–– endorse as proven facts beliefs and policies that are driven by ideological or venal self-interest rather than truth. If they continue, the consequences will be the bankruptcy of our culture, economy, and political freedom. Take this statement from CNN, a loud champion of “science”: “It is not possible to know a person’s ‘gender...

If you're someone who appreciates the phrase "I put ketchup on my ketchup," you'll be interested — and perhaps slightly horrified — to hear about the latest supply chain shortage to hit the country. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, ketchup packets are apparently in short supply right now, and restaurants and fast-food chains are struggling to keep up with the demand.

The opposition of major corporations such as Coca-Cola and Delta to a Georgia election law has drawn attention to an alliance of more than 1,000 companies that, in effect, have identified themselves as opponents of voting integrity. The Civic Alliance boasts on its website that its membership has grown to 1,119 companies that employee more than 5 million people. "As a coalition of businesses, we use our voice, our brand, and our reach to strengthen our democracy. We support safe, accessible, and trusted elections, and we inspire our employees and customers to participate in civic life," the alliance says. However,...

New York Democratic Committee Chairman Jay Jacobs on Tuesday sought to defuse the increasingly heated debate among lawmakers in Albany over a proposed fund that would provide aid to undocumented workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Lawmakers are considering whether to devote about $2 billion toward what is being called the excluded workers fund as the state budget negotiations continue to drag on. The proposal has led to an uproar between some members of the Democratic conferences in the state Senate and Assembly, however, with accusations leveled against one another in closed-door meetings spilling into public view. "Questioning certain provisions...

The CEO of YouTube has stated former President Trump will be allowed back on their platform, with Facebook likely to follow. A spokesman, close to the decision makers, issued this anonymous statement: “While the decision to ban Trump was the correct one, we do have a responsibility to our shareholders and investors to provide a return on their investments. In looking at the numbers, if Trump follows through with his promise to start his own social media platform, our business models will collapse as millions of users will abandon our ultra-liberal viewpoints for the neanderthal viewpoints of the radical right,...

As a president, Joe Biden is a mess, always wrong on every foreign policy decision, as Bob Gates used to say. One of his biggest, among many, is his hideous decision to halt construction of President Trump's border wall, which has since led to hundreds of thousands of illegals pouring in. Being Incompetent Joe, he didn't see it coming.Now, old Joe's got no choice but to backtrack. According to the Washington Times:Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told department employees he may restart border wall construction to plug what he called “gaps” in the current barrier.In a conversation with...

The God Hypothesis Versus Atheist Science DenialMy friend and colleague Stephen Meyer has a superb essay at The Federalist about the major scientific discoveries in the past century that clearly point to God. Dr. Meyer points out that a large percentage of young atheists today cite science as a reason for their disbelief in God, and that is because many atheist scientists have publicly misused modern scientific findings to discredit belief in God. The public square is replete with books and articles written by atheist scientists claiming that cosmology or genetics or evolution properly understood disproves the existence of God....

Roma was the third Littorio-class battleship, and by all accounts, she was graceful in appearance – a testament to Italian designs – unlike the blocky designs of British or German battleships. She was well-armored, fast-moving, and quite capably armed. Built with a compartmented hull and an ingenious system of bulkheads and expansion cylinders the Roma was in theory as fortified as her namesake – where Rome’s mighty walls fended off attackers for centuries.

objurgate ob·jur·gate (ŏb′jər-gāt′, ŏb-jûr′gāt′) tr.v. ob·jur·gat·ed, ob·jur·gat·ing, ob·jur·gates To scold or rebuke sharply; berate. [Latin obiūrgāre, obiūrgāt- : ob-, against; see ob- + iūrgāre, to scold, sue at law (probably iūs, iūr-, law; see yewes- in Indo-European roots + agere, to do, proceed; see ag- in Indo-European roots).] ob′jur·ga′tion n. ob·jur′ga·to′ri·ly (ŏb-jûr′gə-tôr′ə-lē) adv. ob·jur′ga·to′ry (-tôr′ē) adj. objurgate (ˈɒbdʒəˌɡeɪt) vb (tr) to scold or reprimand [C17: from Latin objurgāre, from ob- against + jurgāre to scold] ˌobjurˈgation n ˈobjurˌgator n objurgatory, obˈjurgative adj Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003,...

The Hard Road To save the republic, its citizens are going to have to do the work. We will not win back our freedom by passively awaiting the arrival of a white knight."Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."- John F. KennedyAll empires eventually fall. The trick is to put off the end for as long as possible and to make the years in between the start and the finish the best they can be. Bumps and ruts in the road during these in-between years are standard fare. We get ourselves in trouble, make mistakes, and,...