Dore Gold, Tower of Babble

At Amazon, Dore Gold, Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos.

President Trump Warns the United Nations: 'Let them vote against us. We don't care...' (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Nikki Haley Confronts the U.N.'s 'Jackals'."

Pres. Trump says he likes the message Nikki Haley sent at the UN that the "US will be taking names" of countries against Jerusalem embassy move. "Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care." https://t.co/cFinWveOTw pic.twitter.com/sEm7X1AIGF

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) December 21, 2017

Nikki Haley Confronts the U.N.'s 'Jackals'

This piece is getting all kinds of action on Twitter, plus it's linked at Memeorandum.

From Eli Lake, at Bloomberg:

Nikki Haley confronts the U.N.'s "jackals" https://t.co/XfdqJjfiiY via @BV pic.twitter.com/JVdOIaFaSJ

— Bloomberg (@business) December 21, 2017

'Nikki Haley is on track to be our Margaret Thatcher...' (VIDEO)

It's Ralph Peters, on Fox:

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (Ret.): "@nikkihaley is on track to be our Margaret Thatcher. She's really strong... She's sticking up for truth, justice, and the American way." pic.twitter.com/J2ADep1koT

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 20, 2017

United Nations​ Ambassador @nikkihaley issued this warning to countries planning to vote against @POTUS's Jerusalem decision. https://t.co/XA7HenCPN5 pic.twitter.com/hNM9tcLLqW

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 20, 2017

#MAGA

Seen on Twitter:

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— Tom S. (@realTomShae) November 14, 2017

Stuart Varney Rips Frederica Wilson for Listening-In on President Trump's Phone Call with Fallen Soldier's Mother (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Chief of Staff John Kelly Statement on Son's Death and Rep. Frederica Wilson (VIDEO)."

The YouTube video is here, "Frederica Wilson is part of the left's ‘hate Trump’ brigade: Varney."

And on Twitter:

Stuart rips Rep. Wilson and the left for twisting Pres. @realDonaldTrump's private call to the mother of a fallen soldier for political gain pic.twitter.com/e9VtwQinux

— Varney & Co. (@Varneyco) October 20, 2017

Chief of Staff John Kelly Statement on Son's Death and Rep. Frederica Wilson (VIDEO)

At the Hill, "JUST IN: Kelly blasts Dem lawmaker for criticizing Trump's call to solider's family."

And watch the whole press conference:

Punish Americans for Their Heritage, but Reward 'Dreamers': How #DACA Outrage Exposes the Left

At Breitbart, "By now it is crystal clear: the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was simply a way for President Obama to force his successor to make an unpopular decision."

Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan

See Austin Bay, at Instapundit, and a bunch of links, "IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM: My latest NY Observer essay: After North Korea’s latest missile test, Trump puts “all options on the table”."

And on Afghanistan, "MEANWHILE, BACK IN AFGHANISTAN: The place is a mess. But what the Trump team proposes to do makes a lot more sense than the feckless policies of the feckless Obama. (Another recent Observer essay.)"

Anton Myrer, Once an Eagle

This book's apparently required reading in the Marine Corps, said to be one of the best books ever written on moral leadership.

At Amazon, Anton Myrer, Once an Eagle.

Why Trump Is Right About Immigration

From Mark Krikorian, at the National Interest:

For the past two years, ever since Donald Trump’s escalator ride, the immigration debate has focused on enforcement and illegality. The wall, criminal aliens, deportation, Obama’s lawless executive amnesty—it’s been all illegal immigration, all the time.

And that’s as it should be, at first, because if the rules aren’t enforced, it doesn’t much matter what the rules are.

But in the long run the more important questions are: What are the rules? How many people should the federal immigration program admit each year? How should they be selected? How can we minimize the harm from the program while maximizing the benefits?

Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue have started to answer these questions. They joined President Trump at the White House this morning to unveil legislation to restructure and modernize the federal immigration program. The Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act (RAISE Act) resumes the effort undertaken by civil rights icon Barbara Jordan’s U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform in the mid-1990s. Two decades ago, the corporate Right allied with the cultural Left to kill Jordan’s recommended immigration changes. But the logic of those changes didn’t go away. And today’s announcement picks up where she left off.

The Cotton-Perdue bill makes a number of significant changes to the current program. First, it focuses family immigration more narrowly. Currently, two-thirds of the million-plus foreign citizens who get green cards (i.e., permanent residence that can lead to citizenship) each year qualify only because they have relatives already here. This nepotistic system does not screen for skills or education. It also drives chain migration, as each cohort of immigrants sponsors the next one.

The RAISE Act would limit family immigration rights to the actual nuclear family: husbands, wives, and little kids of American citizens and legal residents. The current categories for adult siblings, adult sons and daughters, and parents would be retired. U.S. citizens could still bring in their elderly parents in need of caretaking, but only on renewable nonimmigrant visas (no green cards or citizenship) and only after proving that they’ve paid for health insurance up front.

The second major element in this restructuring addresses the employment-based immigration flow. It is now a jumble of categories and subcategories, the main result of which is to provide steady work for immigration lawyers. The Cotton-Perdue bill would rationalize this mess by creating one, streamlined points system, along the lines of similar schemes in Canada and Australia. Points would be awarded to potential candidates based mainly on education, English-language ability and age, and those who meet a certain benchmark would be in the pool for green cards, with the top scorers being selected first.

The bill would also eliminate the egregious Diversity Visa Lottery and cap refugee admissions at fifty thousand per year, rather than allow the president let in as many as he wants, as is the case today.

The level of immigration—now running at over a million a year—would likely drop by 40 percent, and then drop some more over time, as the number of foreign spouses declined. (Most U.S. citizens marrying foreigners are earlier immigrants, so as they age, and fewer new immigrants come in behind them, the demand for spousal immigration is likely to fall.) That would still mean annual permanent immigration of 500,000–600,000 a year, which is more than any other nation.

The bill isn’t perfect. It leaves the level of skills-based immigration, for instance, at the current 140,000 a year—the world doesn’t generate 140,000 Einsteins annually. It preserves a category for the spouses and minor children of green-card holders, which I don’t think is justified. (That relates to spouses acquired after immigration; if you’re married at the time you get your green card, your spouse automatically gets one too.) And I don’t think there’s any justification for resettling even fifty thousand refugees (as opposed to helping a far greater number at the same cost in the countries where they’ve taken refuge).

Neither does this bill address so-called temporary immigration, where businesses import cheap labor—both higher- and lower-skilled—to make an end-run around the American labor market...

More.

President Trump Picks Up Marine's Hat

At the Hill, "Trump puts hat on Marine after wind carries it away."

And at Theo's, "WINNING as obvious as Day from Night..."



Added: Here's the video, at Fox News, "President Trump picks up Marine's hat in viral video."

No Apologies: The NRA Stands Up for Truth (VIDEO)

The NRA's been in the eye of the storm for decades, so the latest attack on spokeswoman Dana Loesch is par for the course.

I posted earlier here, "WATCH: Dana Loesch Takes on Critics Who Accuse Her of 'Inciting Violence' in New Video for the NRA," and "Dana Loesch Slams 'Fake Feminists' Behind Anti-NRA Women's March (VIDEO)."

But see Legal Insurrection, "Dana Loesch Slams 'Fake Feminists' Behind Anti-NRA Women's March (VIDEO)."

And here's Grant Stinchfield for the NRA:

Ayn Rand, Capitalism

At Amazon, Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Mass Market Paperback).

Trump Administration Rescinds DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans)

This is big. Freakin' really big.

More immigration news: The Trump admin just killed DAPA https://t.co/VyPPTzEaLs

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) June 16, 2017

Promise Kept: Trump Admin Rescinds DAPA Amnesty Program https://t.co/RdQR7QVr55 pic.twitter.com/iDjajYnJgx

— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 16, 2017

The Trump admin just rescinded DAPA, which would have given legal status to undocumented parents with US children pic.twitter.com/9KzSaLbfAZ

— Marcelo Rochabrún (@mrochabrun) June 16, 2017

Local immigration lawyer says Trump Administration's decision to rescind DAPA will not impact Dreamers: https://t.co/k5D3zfbUU3

— #NBC7 San Diego (@nbcsandiego) June 16, 2017

Band of Brothers at the Eagle's Nest

I think that's Major Dick Winters fourth from the right.

Either way, phenomenal photo, and some of the greatest Americans.

Dick Winters and Easy Company (Band of Brothers) at the Eagle's Nest, Hitler's residence pic.twitter.com/PfS25k0WNk

— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPix) June 6, 2017

PREVIOUSLY: "D-Day 73rd Anniversary."

D-Day 73rd Anniversary

At the Department of Defense homepage, "Ceremony Marks 73rd Anniversary of D-Day Landings."

Also, at the Heavy, "D-Day 2017: 73rd Anniversary Photos of Normandy Beach Invasion."

And watch, "President Reagan's Address at the Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day at Point-du-Hoc - June 6, 1984":

President Trump Speaking at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C.: 'This Bloodshed Must End...' (VIDEO)

Via Associated Press:

Plain Truth About the Paris Climate Agreement

From Ramesh Ponnuru, at Bloomberg, "The Plain Truth About the Climate Accord."

Leftist Hysteria After President Trump Withdraws U.S. from Paris Agreement

A great post, from Steven Hayward, at Power Line, "LET THE HYSTERIA BEGIN!"