Florida becomes the first long-affected state to ban so-called "sanctuary cities," with a law now requiring police agencies to cooperate with federal entities in the perfectly legal quest to detain and deport illegal immigrants. A butt-load of criminal aliens impressed with the weather and other amenities in the Sunshine State are now fair game for encounters with agencies dedicated to tossing them out of the country.
At least, that's the intent. Far and wide, groups pressed with assisting illegal immigrants threaten lawsuits and any other actions available to them. A familiar concern among social entities warning of dire consequences is that illegals will now "fear" the police.
In our opinion, people here illegally, haphazardly sucking national resources dry, certainly should fear law enforcement personnel, as apprehension and deportation will help to -- we can't resist -- make America great again.
If Florida can weather the inevitable babbling legal storm, and if the state successfully carries out the arduous process of extracting foreign outlaws as if removing infected ticks with tweezers, maybe other states will also develop a sense of rationality regarding this serious issue of invasion.
Polls on parade: Elections may be far away, but that isn't stopping pollsters of every description from sampling public opinion. Fortunately for most, the public has a very short memory and voters are sure to forget how badly and unreliably polls reflected what would turn out to be President Trump's victory to claim on Election night. Sweetheart polling indicated time and again that Hillary was the top choice. Oops.
Killing the Electoral College: Several states have already decided to change their election rules, driven to make the traditional Electoral College almost irrelevant. We hope more rational states, the Supreme Court (good luck!) or some other official entity steps in here, because placing the fate of elections primarily in the hands of voters in a few big cities would assure Democrat Party "winners" for generations to come. The thought of a one-party system, of course, horrifies.
Is anybody surprised? The New York Times is not committing treason (per the President) by disclosing United States maneuvers to implant malicious digital code within Russia's computerized infrastructure. Why wouldn't we wish to know, assured as we certainly must be that Russia and nations such as Iran, North Korea and China have inserted similar potential disrupters into our own power grid in recent years? Best estimates indicate that a sudden and long-lasting national power failure in the U.S. would result in the deaths of 95 percent of the population over just a year, so the importance of this subject cannot be more evident.
Carrie Lam must go: Hong Kong's leader, obviously a mainland China hack, will receive no love from the (latest estimate, next day) two million people (out of a total population of seven million) in the streets protesting proposed legislation allowing China to remove and interrogate (and likely imprison) those alleged to have perpetrated crimes (such as speaking out against evil Chinese dictator punk Xi, we assume). While the protestors' goal is total retraction, not just postponement of the bill, maybe Hong Kong should beg a return to British rule before the almost inevitable occurs.Police in Phoenix go mad-dog on a couple suspected of shoplifting and resisting arrest: Well, we know how it looked on camera -- but it wouldn't be the first time a mom or dad was hiding a gun behind a babe-in-arms, though this pair was not -- yet making things difficult nonetheless. NATURALLY, there's a 10 million dollar lawsuit in the mix to make everything go away and be all better. OF COURSE Phoenix mayor Kate Galego instantly took the side of the alleged perps, blaming cops for ramping up the already ramped-up. Why is that mayors, city legislators and even some chiefs of police go absolutely Milquetoast when they should actually stand behind the defenders of law who patrol the streets at their own peril? We suspect the missing words most of the time are -- "social justice."
Social justice reminds us of an event planned for last March at the City University of New York, via the Graduate English Center, entitled “Refusing Institutional Whiteness: Possibilities, Alternatives, and Beyond.” Yes, it's as bad as it sounds, warning that “whiteness continues to be a crucial problem in our English department.” Refusal, dissent and protest are words used as potential methods to overcome "whiteness" in academia.
We, almost ashamed to admit our own whiteness lurking behind the keyboard, assume this is "diversity" at its best in the nation's educational institutions and, man oh man, is it ever time to take another look at how universities receive federal funding.
