Illegal Alien Parents Prepare Families for the Worst

At the Los Angeles Times, "Fearful parents sign papers for friends to care for kids in case they're deported":

She saw the news of the raids happening around the country and felt helpless. Scared. She had lived here for more than a decade, following her father’s advice: Work hard and stay out of trouble.

But suddenly it felt as though trouble was looking for her. Lorena Napola worried about her four children. What if she were hauled away? Who would make sure they got to school? To doctors’ appointments? To church?

The questions weighed on her in recent weeks. She saw on the news a mother in Arizona get picked up by federal agents for deportation. Napola thought the woman seemed normal. Unassuming. She was without papers. Like her.

Napola’s friends spoke of rumors: Dark trucks filled with people in dark uniforms raiding nearby neighborhoods. She knew President Trump campaigned to crack down on illegal immigration and now he appeared to be a man of his word.

So she went to see Andres Paredes, a leader at her local Mormon church. Three of her children are U.S. citizens, she told him. Would he care for them if la migra came and she were deported?

Paredes, a quiet man who came to the United States from Peru decades ago, drew up power of attorney papers that gave him authority to make school, medical and other decisions for her children in case she and her husband were deported. Napola felt relief that her kids would be cared for and sadness that it had come to this.

“They are my life,” she said. “They are everything.”

As the papers were signed, Paredes said, his heart broke. He has signed power of attorney with two families.

“It’s a big responsibility,” he said softly. “I’m not sure it’s entirely sunk in yet.”

The fear among immigrants in the United States illegally has reached such a pitch that some have altered their lifestyles, won't answer the door if someone knocks and pay close attention to reports of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions on social media and the news...

Still more.

RELATED: "Illegal Border Crossings Appear to Drop Under Trump."

Amazing what some seriousness of purpose on immigration can accomplish. It's almost like we're enforcing our laws!

Fire in Downtown Los Angeles Fueled by Red Hot Chili Peppers (VIDEO)

Really.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Chili pepper ash and a pungent odor linger at scene of L.A. warehouse district fire."

ICYMI: Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town

I know, I know.

I've got too many books going at one time!

But I love 'em.

This book is fantastic. I can't recommend it enough.

At Amazon, Alan Taylor, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic.

A Glimpse Into the Life of a Slave Sold to Save Georgetown

Pretty fascinating.

At NYT:

A glimpse into the life of a slave sold to save Georgetown https://t.co/da5k7LVSbj pic.twitter.com/v2nPgViW9X

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 13, 2017

He was an enslaved teenager on a Jesuit plantation in Maryland on the night that the stars fell. It was November 1833, and meteor showers set the sky ablaze.

His name was Frank Campbell. He would hold tight to that memory for decades, even when he was an old man living hundreds of miles away from his birthplace. In 1838, he was shipped to a sugar plantation in Louisiana with dozens of other slaves from Maryland. They had been sold by the nation’s most prominent Jesuit priests to raise money to help save the Jesuit college now known as Georgetown University.

Mr. Campbell would survive slavery and the Civil War. He would live to see freedom and the dawning of the 20th century. Like many of his contemporaries from Maryland, he would marry and have children and grandchildren. But in one respect, he was singular: His image has survived, offering us the first look at one of the 272 slaves sold to help keep Georgetown afloat.

These rare, century-old photographs of Mr. Campbell help illustrate the story of those enslaved men, women and children. We shared that story with you back in April, starting a conversation about American institutions and their historical ties to slavery that has engaged many readers.

The photos had been stored in the archives of the Ellender Memorial Library at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, La., not far from where Mr. Campbell was enslaved.

Clifton Theriot, the library’s archivist and interim director, made the connection late last year after stumbling across an article in a genealogical quarterly about the Jesuit slaves who had been shipped to Louisiana. He was startled to see Mr. Campbell’s name listed among them.

“I thought, ‘I know this name,’” Mr. Theriot recalled.

He went into the archives and pulled out a small, black photo album from the early 1900s. Mr. Theriot went through the album, page by page, photo by photo, until he found them: three photographs of a bearded, elderly black man with pearly white hair.

Underneath was a handwritten notation. It described the man as having been born in “Moreland” or “Mereland,” probably referring to Maryland, Mr. Theriot said.

And it identified him as “Frank Cambell our old servant 19 when the stars fell.” The fiery meteor shower of 1833 was so memorable that many people used it to date important moments in their lives.

Mr. Theriot knew he was on to something: “I was like, ‘This is the guy.’”

He reached out to Judy Riffel, the author of the article that had inspired his search through the archives. She is the lead genealogist for the Georgetown Memory Project, a group founded by Richard J. Cellini, a Georgetown alumnus, to identify the 272 slaves and their descendants...

Hailey Clauson Uncovered for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017 (VIDEO)

She's wonderful.

Jackie Johnson's Sunny and Warm Forecast

But lots of fog near the coasts in the mornings. I noticed it this morning, in fact.

Here's Ms. Jackie, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

CBO Cost Estimate of the American Health Care Act (VIDEO)

I think I've mentioned it, but there's a couple of core elements of ObamaCare that shouldn't be repealed, particularly the protections for preexisting conditions and the provision to allow health coverage for children up to 26 under parents' insurance plans.

Some of the other provisions of ObamaCare, especially the individual mandate, have to go. Doing so would of course weaken the law, making it easier to shift to a more market-oriented alternative. Whatever happens, though, Republicans can't just drop millions of people off the health care rolls. It's going to be political dynamite, as a number of conservatives mentioned last week (see Dana Loesch, for example).

Most of all, congressional Republicans must protect the Trump administration, to say nothing of their majorities in the legislature.

At the New York Times, via Memeorandum, "G.O.P. Health Law Insures Fewer People, Nonpartisan Review Shows."

I personally don't trust the CBO to be "non-partisan," but that's just me.

Also, at CBS Evening News:

Wearing Red, White, and Blue is 'Offensive' at Iowa Basketball Game (VIDEO)

This is pretty messed up.

You can't even wear America's colors anymore without being attacked as "racist."

At Zero Hedge, "It Is Now 'Blatant Racism' to Wear Red, White, and Blue."

Also, at Heat Street, "Iowa Teens Blasted for Wearing ‘Offensive’ Patriotic Attire to Basketball Game."

Lightning Deals

*BUMPED.*

At Amazon, Today's Deals.

And, Brother TN450 High Yield Black Toner - Retail Packaging.

Also, GoPro HERO5 Black.

More, Coleman 8 Person Tenaya Lake Fast Pitch Cabin Tent with Closet.

Plus, Acer Aspire 15.6-Inch Full HD Laptop (Intel Core i5, NVIDIA 940MX, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, Windows 10).

And, NordicTrack T 6.5 S Treadmill.

BONUS: David Horowitz, Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left.

Intersectionality as Religion

Andrew Sullivan got props at Hot Air from John Sexton.

See, "Andrew Sullivan: Is intersectionality a religion?"

Excitable Andrew's arguably a great writer. It's just so hard to get past all of his baggage (don't look over there!)

But I'll give him a link, to be nice, heh.

At New York Magazine, "Is Intersectionality a Religion?"

"Intersectionality" as orthodoxy is shutting down debate on college campuses, says @sullydish https://t.co/90IdlNiBpq

— New York Magazine (@NYMag) March 11, 2017

SEAL Team 6 'Decapitation' Strike Against North Korea

That just has a rad ring to it, not to mention it'd be cool to really "decapitate" the North Korean regime, as in regime change Pyongyang.

At Business Insider, via Memeorandum, "SEAL Team 6 is reportedly training for a decapitation strike against North Korea's Kim regime."

How the Lack of Ideological Diversity on College Campuses Slows Progress and Threatens the Ideals of Liberal Education

From political scientist Samuel J. Abrams, at the American Interest, via Instapundit, "HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Mind The Professors."

Alexa Ray Joel Uncovered for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017 (VIDEO)

She's nice.

Amazingly so.

Sean Spicer Ambushed While Shopping at Apple Store in Washington, D.C.

I hope the dude has some security with him.

It's just not safe to go about your business on your own. Leftists are truly evil.

Here's some black chick named Shree, attacking the press secretary, via Memeorandum, "Such a Great Country, Such Nasty Bigotry."

Nicholson Baker, Substitute

At Amazon, Nicholson Baker, Substitute: Going to School With a Thousand Kids.

Charlie Rose is Back After Undergoing Heart Surgery in February (VIDEO)

At CBS This Morning.

I'm normally up at 7:00am to catch the opening of the show, but not on Mondays when my son has late start at school. (We can sleep in an hour longer, which is heavenly.)

Charlie's a good guy. Yeah, they're progs on the show, all of them, but I like the more serious news format compared to the morning shows on the other networks, especially Good Morning America, which is vile.

Theodore Draper, A Struggle for Power

At Amazon, Theodore Draper, A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution.

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."



Also at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."

Cartoon Credit: A.F. Branco, "The Shadow Knows."

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

*BUMPED.*

I picked up a copy.

Dunbar-Ortiz gets right into "settler colonialism," starting on page 2 of the "Introduction."

She really hates the U.S.

Know your enemies, people. Books like this have a lot of influence.

At Amazon, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States.

New Michael Brown Video Prompts Massive Round of Fake News

This is so stupid. Even Obama's own Justice Department couldn't exonerate the thug Mike Brown.

At NYT, via Memeorandum, "New Ferguson Video Adds Wrinkle to Michael Brown Case."

And at Conservative Treehouse, "CNN Tries Another Michael Brown Con Job – Everything About The “New” Mike Brown Video is Fraud Here’s Proof…," and from Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "NO. NEXT QUESTION? DOES NEW VIDEO IN THE MICHAEL BROWN CASE CHANGE ANYTHING?"

Still more, at Gateway Pundit, "VERY FAKE NEWS: CNN Releases New Mike Brown Video at Convenience Store – Suggests It’s From Day of Shooting."