Malaysia Airlines Jet Shot Down Over Ukraine, More Than 300 Dead 298 Dead

The obligatory Malaysian jet shot down post.

At NDTV, "More Than 300 Dead in Malaysian Airliner Downing: Ukrainian Ministry Aide," and at Fox News, "Malaysian jetliner shot down by surface-to-air missile over Ukraine."

And at Telegraph UK, "Malaysia Airlines plane 'shot down' over Ukraine." And at Memeorandum.

Dramatic photos here.

The Left's Semi-Annual Parade of Spooky Right-Wing Phantoms

At the Other McCain, "Demons of Left-Wing Paranoia":

Over the years, the cast of characters in this Pageant of Evil has changed several times. Ten years ago, the Left was all about fighting such dreaded demons as Halliburton, Karl Rove, Big Oil and “neocons” (a liberal euphemism for EVIL GREEDY JEWS). Nowadays, the exaggerated object of imaginary fear is usually the Koch Brothers.

After a while, you notice that the list of bogeymen that liberals want you to worry about never includes actual Bad Guys — drug gangs, carjackers, child pornographers, pimps, serial killers, Islamic terrorists or dangerous foreign governments. No, it’s always some far-fetched Republican conspiracy they’re worried about. The Existential Menace to Democracy As We Know It is necessary to the campaigns of Fear and Hate by which the Party of Evil mobilizes its core constituents: Fools, thieves, radicals and perverts.

Continue reading.

Charles Krauthammer: Obama 'Clearly Attempting to Conceal Information' on Illegal #BorderInvasion

Actually, I'm really trying to understand how Obama perceives some upside to this illegal alien invasion, besides, of course, the surge of voters into the Democrat Party ranks. But that's years away even with the most optimistic legalization timetables. (To say nothing of the so far minimal evidence of illegals padding the voter rolls in Democrat constituencies in current elections, although I wouldn't put it past the Acorn Alinskyite leftists.)

A great commentary from Krauthammer:



And in case you missed, see Krauthammer's, "Immigration No-Brainer."

David Bowie Promises: 'More Music Soon'

At the Independent UK, "David Bowie has promised new music 'soon'."

He's back... http://t.co/sgiciT5XnC pic.twitter.com/WF5of4fOY2

— The Independent (@Independent) July 17, 2014

Hundreds Protest Against 'BBC Bias' in Reporting on Gaza

My goodness, and all this protesting against the far-left BBC. I guess the Murdoch-owned Sun UK has escaped the wrath of the crazy Pallies, lol!'

At the London Evening Standard, "Pro-Palestinian demonstration over BBC 'bias' in reporting of Gaza conflict."

Israeli Strike Kills Four 'Palestinian' Children in Gaza

At the Washington Post, "Israeli strike kills four children on a Gaza beach."

And at the L.A. Times, "Israelis consider ground invasion of Gaza; brief truce planned."

PHOTOS: At McAllen Border Patrol Station, 'Unaccompanied' Children Account for Less Than 20 Percent of Those Apprehended

Los Angeles Times correspondent Molly Hennessy-Fiske obtained entry to the Border Patrol station at McAllen, Texas. She reports that nearly 1,000 illegals are detained every day, but less that 20 percent of those are "unaccompanied" children.

This is not the image of the "It's for the children!" that the despicable leftists have been spinning, as I reported earlier, "It's Not 'Unaccompanied Minors': McAllen Border Station Flooded with 1000s of Adult Illegal Alien Criminals."

Here's the report, at the Times. Click the embed to view the photos:

The latest: A grim wait for migrants at Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas http://t.co/Qc1AbleO83
— Molly Hennessy-Fiske (@mollyhf) July 17, 2014

The number of immigrants coming across the border near the southern tip of Texas, the epicenter of the crisis, has fallen recently, [Border Patrol Regional Chief Robert] Duff said. Agents are catching about 900 migrants a day crossing the Rio Grande, compared with 1,200 a day last month, he said.

The agents are seeing half as many families as before, and unaccompanied children account for less than 20% of the people being apprehended, Duff said. It's not clear why the numbers have dropped, but the Border Patrol doesn't expect the trend to last.

The station was built to house migrants temporarily, not for days at a time. Duff said the facility could hold as many as 380 people, though he acknowledged that some officials say it should be fewer. There were 350 detainees on Tuesday, the day of the tour.

Walter James Casper's Civility Bullshit Enables Hatred and Racism

Ann Althouse designated a full blogging tag to "civility bullshit," which any simpleton halfwit knows is the left's meme to shut down criticism and debate.

I shake my head at this, but as conservative as she may be, Dr. Gina Loudon does no favors by disclaiming how "civil" her segments are going to be. Debate (and disagreement) is in fact not "civil" by its very nature. People defend a position and get fired up, and sometimes tempers flare. But it's especially lame to indicate how civil you're going to be when engaging people who are objectively uncivil and decidedly vicious.

I elaborated the point earlier today, "#Murrieta Protesters @CassandraRules and @BeautifulChaosJ Spew Lies and Hatred, Not 'Civility'." The two Murrieta women had a posse of hate-breathing racists at the ready. Racist and foul-mouthed, these are the last kind of people to lend the benefit of the doubt.

We are all people. #Murrieta pic.twitter.com/5BIFBeecVC
— Cassandra (@CassandraRules) July 7, 2014

I think "Cassandra" responded as soon as I tweeted the post, and I dutifully engaged her and her hateful followers for some time. And boy, she's got some vile, genuinely demonic followers: leftist anti-colonialists spouting anti-nation-state excuses for anti-Zionist Jew-hatred; Israel-bashers cravenly and stupidly claiming to hate Israel is not anti-Semitic; anarchists with "V for Vendetta" avatars spewing sick disgusting venom and anti-Semitism; and 9/11 truthers blaming Israel for September 11.

I had hundreds of tweets polluting my mentions. Here's just one example of the disgusting effluence:

Sick. RT @jgurbin @CassandraRules @AmPowerBlog Israel is the Cancer of the world, jews are nice people, better?
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 17, 2014

And for the life of me, I could have sworn Walter James Casper tucked tail last January when Robert Stacy McCain administered the smackdown of a lifetime, "Portrait of a Stalker Troll: @Repsac3, Also Known as Walter James Casper III."

But I guess not. I reported the other day that he's once again stalking my blog, "Stalking Hate-Troll Repsac3: Still Stalking. Still Hatin'. Still Trolling."

And like he did with Tara Dublin and various others, hateful Repsac3 trolled my Twitter conversations today, spewing his civility bullshit:

.@CassandraRules @beautifulchaosJ Well u 2 have some kinda nerve having a civil conversation with @drginaloudon. Don't u 3 know its WAR?!?
— W. James Casper (@repsac3) July 17, 2014

As longtime readers recall oh so well, Walter James Casper's a despicable leftist troll, a vile scum-sucking racist, and a longtime Jew-hating OWS-backing anti-Semite. I thought he'd hit bottom, but he's like a pig in the slop. He's invigorated when boosting the most reprehensible people, whether it's KKK-style racists, far-left anti-Israel ghouls, and now Aztlán open-borders Nazis and their pro-"Palestinian" eliminationist supporters online.

As always, block, ban and report the f-ker. I've never encountered such obsessive evil in my life.

Pedro Alberto Monterroso-Navas, Criminal Alien Released by Obama, Arrested for Murder, Kidnapping in Texas

But, but, but .... it's "it's for the children!!!"

At Breitbart, "Released Alien from Border Crisis Arrested for Alleged Murder, Kidnapping in Texas."

PREVIOUSLY: "It's Not 'Unaccompanied Minors': McAllen Border Station Flooded with 1000s of Adult Illegal Alien Criminals."

#Murrieta Protesters @CassandraRules and @BeautifulChaosJ Spew Lies and Hatred, Not 'Civility'

I introduced myself to Dr. Gina Loudon at the Murrieta protest on July 7th. She graciously posed for a picture.

She's a beautiful woman with a good heart:

.@DrGinaLoudon in #Murrieta last Monday. pic.twitter.com/3jtTqA5x9N

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 12, 2014

It turns's out Dr. Gina interviewed two of the Murrieta protesters who the police had to separate, along with their La Raza cohorts, from the few patriots gathered in front of the police command station. Her show is "Smart Life with Dr. Gina" on the Money Business Life Network. At the clip she speaks to "Cassandra" and "Jordyan Carroll," the latter of whom I spoke to very politely during the protest, suggesting that her protest sign was wrong and the land wasn't "stolen from" the Native Americans:

What @DrGinaLoudon learned from #Murrieta #BorderCrisis Protesters @CassandraRules & @BeautifulChaosJ - Video: http://t.co/plPz1eNEMJ

— Producer Bieber (@jsnbieber) July 15, 2014

I commend Dr. Gina for seeking to achieve some sense of civility amid all the partisan debates. The problem is that the reason there's not much civility is because Americans are so divided on the issues. "Cassandra" and "Jordyan" are just as partisan and nasty as anyone else out there protesting. I know from experience, from having engaged them face-to-face. Unfortunately, Dr. Gina doesn't press these women hard on what their protests were really all about. Their stance is certainly not about "helping children." The overwhelming majority of Americans would jump at the chance to help an abandoned child (as "Cassandra" tries to portray the issue). Dr. Gina could have followed up with, "Okay, we all want to help children, but why are you protesting with a racist, separatist group of Hispanic supremacists who reject assimilation and the American ideal?" She doesn't ask that, so intent is she on blabbering about how much "agreement" there is between the two sides.

Actually, there's not much agreement beyond agreeing to talk nice. Dr. Gina could have further asked "What is your bottom line on the Central American immigrants? Do you support sealing the border and deporting the illegal migrants, which is what conservatives want"? "Cassandra" and "Jordyan" would have probably dropped the mask of civility and called Dr. Gina a racist.

Recall that Victoria Taft took a photo of the woman (a friend of "Jordyan"), who literally got in my face screaming "You're talking to my best friend!" Well, "Jordyan" sure didn't call off her "best friend" attack dog, and neither did "Cassandra," who you can see at the picture with her gold iPhone at center, either taking pictures or video of the confrontation.

#LaRaza, #AlexJonesAcolytes & about 75 others face off at @CBPSanDiego #Murrieta @AmPowerBlog pic.twitter.com/GkfqvOkl79

— Victoria Taft (@VictoriaTaft) July 7, 2014

@RSMcCain More crazy open-borders thugs in #Murrieta. https://t.co/zAN7k7Hhsc

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 7, 2014

Note too that when I spoke to "Jordyan" she claimed she "wasn't a leftist," but that's a lie if one is to peruse the postings at her Twitter page, where we see her recent tweets expressing solidarity with Palestine. She even re-tweeted tweets blaming George W. Bush for the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq.

And the same at "Cassandra's" page as well. She's got a stream of tweets attacking the Israelis as terrorists and oppressors:

How about a count of children you have murdered? You are terrorists. @IDFSpokesperson

— Cassandra (@CassandraRules) July 16, 2014

.@Loricatus_Lupus @IDFSpokesperson funny, since that's not even a photo I have seen. Looks like propaganda to discredit the MANY real photos

— Cassandra (@CassandraRules) July 16, 2014

Will you make excuses for these deaths if the IDF terrorists bomb this hospital? http://t.co/6jWSbshBCh @Loricatus_Lupus @IDFSpokesperson

— Cassandra (@CassandraRules) July 16, 2014

.@Loricatus_Lupus @CascadiaDuck @IDFSpokesperson or Israel could stop keeping people in an open air prison and go back to the '67 map.

— Cassandra (@CassandraRules) July 16, 2014

.@cdnrod @Loricatus_Lupus @CascadiaDuck @IDFSpokesperson no, I think it's about being oppressed for decades & bombed like fish in a barrel

— Cassandra (@CassandraRules) July 16, 2014

So obviously, Dr. Gina missed a real opportunity with these two. She needed to direct some pointed questions at them to evoke some real sense of what they stand for, which, as we can see, is racist La Raza separatism and pro-Palestinian racist, Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism. All this talk about "civility" is bullshit cover for their ideological hatred and racist division.

Surge of Outrage as Public Blasts Illegal Immigration as Nation's Top Problem — #BorderInvasion

At Gallup, "One in Six Say Immigration Most Important U.S. Problem."

And at KGBT Action 4 News Harlingen, "Americans say immigration is now a top problem, per poll."

VIDEO: Feds to House Illegal Aliens at Posh Palm Aire Hotel and Suites in Weslaco, Texas

A continuing complaint we've seen with the protesters against the alien invasion is the amount of resources being expended by the Obama administration, especially given the unmet needs of various constituencies of American citizens, like veterans and the homeless.

And now we're going to start shipping illegal alien criminals to luxury resorts?

At Gateway Pundit, "FEDS TO OPEN $50 MILLION RESORT FOR ILLEGAL CHILDREN – Complete With Tennis Courts, Sauna & Pools."

Following the links takes us to KRGV ABC-TV Brownsville, "Hotel to Undergo Transformation into Immigrant Center":

WESLACO - A center for unaccompanied minors set to open in Weslaco later this year will be the first of its kind in the nation, officials with a network of non-profits said.

BCFS Health and Human Services secured a multi-million federal contract to house young illegal immigrants at the site of the current Palm Aire Hotel and Suites on FM 1015.

Representatives with BCFS said the Palm Aire will undergo a multi-million dollar transformation. BCFS runs a temporary detention center for young illegal immigrants at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.

BCFS began as an orphanage for Hispanic children in San Antonio in 1944 "Children ... who weren't able to go into other orphanages. They weren't allowed at the white orphanages, they weren't allowed at the African-American orphanages," said Krista Piferrer, with BCFS external affairs.

The agency has grown into a multi-national network of health and human service non-profit organizations.

"We lead efforts that range from emergency management and disaster response to serving teens and youths who are aging out of the foster care system to serving impoverished communities and expectant mothers in the colonias," Piferrer said.

BCFS said the Weslaco facility will be completely self-contained.

Yes, I'm sure it'll be nice.

Would that America's most vulnerable citizens were getting such lavish accommodations and favoritism.

Indeed, as noted at Gateway Pundit, BCFS will be including "medical and mental health care, on-site educational programs, recreational programs and case management."

Sweet, if you can get it.

It's Not 'Unaccompanied Minors': McAllen Border Station Flooded with 1000s of Adult Illegal Alien Criminals

It's all you hear from the lawbreaking, criminal-coddling open-borders left: "It's for the children!"

Well, turns out there's very few children among the illegal immigrants continuing to surge over our Southern border.

Here's the Washington Post concern trolling yesterday for "child migrants" from Honduras, "traveling 1,400 miles with hardly any luggage from a bus station controlled by an extortion ring and used for trafficking women and contraband cigarettes."

In Honduras, child migrants fleeing poverty and gang warfare http://t.co/cRhnpos2uK

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 16, 2014

Oh sure, some kids have come, many unaccompanied, but what the open-borders left isn't telling you is that children are now just a tiny proportion of the illegal immigrant invasion.

According to this report from Ashly Custer, at KGBT Action 4 News Harlingen, over a thousand illegal aliens are currently being processed daily at the McAllen Border Patrol station, but hardly any of them children. Indeed, as this report indicates, on the high end, McAllen gets as many as 1,300 illegals daily, but just six children were being processed there in the last 72 hours, a tiny fraction.

See, "Inside look of McAllen Border Patrol Station":

Border Patrol's RGV Sector Division Chief Robert Duff walked us through the center explaining how immigrants are typically processed.

Tuesday, the facility was holding an estimated 350 immigrants, which is just under its maximum capacity.

The center has 10 concrete holding cells and five additional cells for isolation. Immigrants are separated based on age and gender.

Duff said that on a good day, 1,300 people can be processed in 24 hours, which is a significant increase from past years.

Border Patrol told Action 4 News the goal is to process immigrants as quickly as possible because this is a temporary facility with no showers.

We asked about the processing times for minors and were told the average time is currently 21 hours, and there are only six kids in custody that have been processed for over 72 hours.

In June, that number was much greater.

Yeah, well, adult illegal alien criminals are getting in on the amnesty action, and the criminal-coddling Democrats are ready to throw the borders wide open to them. At Twitchy, "Rep. John Lewis declares his support for unfettered borders: ‘Our doors are open’."

We are talking about human beings, real people. We have to respect the dignity and worth of everyone. #AskDems

— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) July 15, 2014

We are all connected. We can't just build a wall or a fence and say no more. This is America. Our doors are open. #AskDems

— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) July 15, 2014

Yes, the "dignity and worth" of Honduran Mara Salvatrucha murderers.

Mayor Eric Garcetti Takes Obama's Illegal Alien 'Travel Cash' to House Border Jumpers in Los Angeles

The city was contacted by the Obama administration, and Garcetti, who's already a craven open-borders opportunist and tribalist, jumped on the chance to rake in HHS illegal alien "travel cash."

At the Los Angeles Times, "Garcetti says L.A. will shelter children who have crossed border":

#NotMurietta RT @LATpoliticsCA: Mayor @EricGarcetti says L.A. will shelter children who have crossed border http://t.co/qkekZtYe8Y

— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) July 16, 2014

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Tuesday that the city would help shelter immigrant children who have been detained after crossing the border and has begun talks with a federal agency about doing so.

"Before you get partisan, before you tell me where you are on immigration—these are children," Garcetti said Tuesday at a forum hosted downtown by Politico magazine.

"As a father, who are we as Americans if we don't step forward first and say, these kids who are isolated, alone … let's get them someplace safe and secure," the mayor told the crowd. Garcetti said the U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services has contacted the city, but he had few details Tuesday about what accommodating the children would entail or when it would occur.

Federal money would flow to pay for legal representation and temporary shelter, while local nonprofits are expected to help find homes for the children, he said.

Garcetti added that the city would also be an appropriate place to reunite many of the children with their families as their legal situation is worked out, because many of their parents are probably in the Los Angeles area.

Garcetti spokeswoman Vicki Curry later said the city's Office of Immigrant Affairs convened a meeting on Friday with officials from the Health and Human Services Department and representatives of local organizations that work with immigrants and the homeless.

Also at Breitbart, "L.A. MAYOR GARCETTI WELCOMES ILLEGAL ALIENS, UPSETS HOMELESS ACTIVISTS."

Yeah, because illegals are bigger "victims" than L.A.'s homeless population.

Illegal Alien Jose Antonio Vargas: The Face of Leftist Lawbreaking and Entitlement

Vargas is the master illegal alien con artist.

The CBS News video provides mainstream media cover.

But Michelle Malkin breaks open the leftist lies, "Jose Antonio Vargas: The face of the entitled illegal alien":

An illegal-alien Icarus, Vargas had been riding high after movie theaters and CNN aired his biographical, pro-illegal immigration documentary.

His amnesty activism is backed by the progressive Tides Center, a project of George Soros and former ACORN chief organizer Drummond Pike. To his elite friends in the no-borders industry, he’s a “hero.”

Journalists, celebrities and politicians immediately swallowed the propaganda bait, rallying to their privileged pal’s side. “#DontDeportJose,” they all cried in an orchestrated Twitter campaign.

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of law-abiding people from around the world are waiting patiently for their backlogged visa and green card applications to be reviewed.

Vargas’ outraged reporter friends don’t have much sympathy for those would-be Americans. Or for the Americans who’ve dedicated their lives to protecting homeland security and upholding our laws. Vargas’ enablers jumped to condemn the CBP employees in McAllen for doing their jobs and demanded that he be freed from “unfair” and “out of hand” detention, as one hysterical Roll Call reporter put it.

Unfair and out of hand?

As I’ve noted previously, Vargas came here from the Philippines as a child, but knowingly broke multiple laws as an adult in order to stay in the country. After being supplied with a fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card and a bogus Social Security number, he committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002, while pursuing his journalism career goals, an immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines. He ignored the counsel and instead used a friend’s address to obtain an Oregon driver’s license under false pretenses. It gave him an eight-year golden ticket to travel by car, board trains and airplanes, work at prestigious newspapers, and even gain access to the White House — where crack Secret Service agents allowed him to attend a state dinner using his bogus Social Security number.

The Vargas stunt will backfire because it is a smug and emblematic middle finger to everyone outside the D.C.-Manhattan bubble who believes in following the rules. As legal immigrant Asoka Samarasinghe wrote to me on Monday, “Michelle, this guy is a slap to the face of all us legal immigrants and citizens.”

As for “due process,” celebrity illegal alien Vargas will undoubtedly get more bites at the immigration court and federal appeals apple than law-abiding citizens will ever enjoy (see Zeituni Onyango).

But the sob-story violins play on. Democratic New York Mayor Bill de Blasio sanctimoniously tweeted Monday afternoon: “I stand in solidarity with journalist and advocate (Vargas). He exemplifies what America is about.”

Only if “America” means protecting leftist law-breakers from the consequences of their reckless, arrogant actions.

And don't miss this, from Michelle previously, "“Undocumented” folly: A liberal reporter’s illegal alien sob story."

Oracle, Arizona, Sees No Illegal Alien Buses, for Now

At the Arizona Republic, "Babeu keeps peace but buses with migrant kids a no-show":

The protest over immigrant children coming to Pinal County fizzled Tuesday afternoon after their buses failed to show.

A congressional source confirmed that the buses were not coming.

The buses were supposed to deliver between 40 and 60 children who were caught crossing into the U.S. illegally to the Sycamore Canyon Academy, a boys ranch in the Catalina Mountains, near Oracle, according to the Pinal County Sheriff's Department.

There was no word on alternate plans for the children. Protesters and supporters began gathering early Tuesday morning for an expected confrontation. But there was only a brief skirmish between the groups, which have differing views on how the U.S. should deal with the surge of immigrant children from Central America who have crossed the border alone.

At one point, a few supporters of the immigrant children ventured toward the protesters, who had gathered a couple of miles away on Mount Lemmon highway. The protesters responded by shouting, "Commies!"

But there was nothing like the heated confrontations between similar groups in Murrieta, Calif., earlier this month.

Also at the Arizona Daily Star, "Immigration tension boils over in Oracle."

'Which feminism are you talking about?...'

Another must-read excursion into the bizarre world of radical feminism (and lesbianism), at the Other McCain, "Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the Long Shadow of the ‘Lavender Menace’":

Many women who today identify themselves as feminists have never examined the history of these conflicts and are unfamiliar with the militant personalities and radical ideologies that have influenced feminism for the past half-century. When confronted with the extremist rhetoric of feminists — vehement denunciation of males, condemnation of heterosexuality, claims that men (collectively) oppress and victimize women (collectively) in ways comparable to the Holocaust — the average woman is understandably startled and, if she thinks of herself as a feminist, she quickly shifts into denial mode. The anti-male passage you’ve just quoted to her is an aberration, an anomaly, an expression of fringe beliefs that does not represent the feminism that she endorses. She is not a Marxist, she is not a lesbian or a man-hater, she is not the kind of pro-abortion fanatic who views motherhood as male-imposed tyranny. The question thus arises: Is she actually a feminist?

Keep reading.

Dr. Gina Loudon: Top 10 Things I Learned From #Murrieta Protesters

I took Dr. Gina to task for naively privileging "civility" over feet-to-the-fire hosting, so it's only fair for readers to get her take on things in the first person, at World Net Daily.

.@DrGinaLoudon in #Murrieta last Monday. pic.twitter.com/3jtTqA5x9N

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 12, 2014

PREVIOUSLY: "#Murrieta Protesters @CassandraRules and @BeautifulChaosJ Spew Lies and Hatred, Not 'Civility'," and "Walter James Casper's Civility Bullshit Enables Hatred and Racism."

The GOP's Dicey Prospect for Senate Takeover in November

I'm extremely bullish on GOP prospects in November, especially with the national political environment so heavily anti-incumbent and when President Obama continues to be an anchor weighing down Democrat chances.

That said, careful state-by-state analyses show it's going to be hard fought all the way. Stuart Rothenberg's got one of the best pieces I've read in awhile. See, "Fight for the Senate Still Very Much Up in the Air."

Also, an interesting take at the Minority Report, "Good News! Colorado, Iowa Shift Toward GOP."

Hypocrite Open-Borders Democrat Martin O'Malley Won't Take Illegals in Home State of Maryland

It's Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, who's being touted for his "compassion" on immigration by lamestream media outlets. At Politico, for example, "Martin O’Malley: Don’t send kids to ‘certain death’."

And at Katrina vanden Heuval's far-left, The Nation, "Martin O’Malley’s Right: The Immigration Debate Must Respect ‘Essential Human Dignity’."

But, make sure you're sitting down, now O'Malley's begging the Obama White House not to ship busloads of dangerous and diseased illegals to Maryland.

At CNN, "First on CNN: After criticizing White House over unaccompanied minors, Martin O'Malley said don't send them to Maryland site":

(CNN) - After his strong criticism of the Obama administration's plans to return thousands of young undocumented migrants back to Central America, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley asked a top White House official that the children not be sent to a site that was under consideration in his home state, sources familiar with the conversation said.

"He privately said 'please don't send these kids to Western Maryland,'" a Democratic source told CNN. The heated discussion between O'Malley and White House domestic policy adviser Cecilia Munoz occurred during a phone call late Friday evening, sources familiar with the conversation added.

A potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, O'Malley surprised some in his party when he sharply criticized a White House proposal to give new legal authorities to the Department of Homeland Security to expedite the deportation of the unaccompanied minors and their families.

“We are not a country that should turn children away and send them back to certain death,” O’Malley said last week at a National Governors Association meeting in Nashville....

Instead, the governor urged the administration to show compassion toward the children, describing some of the facilities where the young detainees are being kept as "kennels."

“Through all of the great world religions we are told that hospitality to strangers is an essential human dignity,” O’Malley said.

Hours after making those remarks, O'Malley expressed concerns to Munoz about a proposal under consideration by the Department of Health and Human Services to convert a former Army Reserve Center in Westminster, Maryland to house the children.

A senior O'Malley administration official confirmed the conversation took place. But the official stressed O'Malley did not reject the idea of temporarily housing some of the children in other parts of the state. "Governor O’Malley and his administration are working cooperatively with federal officials to find suitable locations in Maryland for unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America," said O'Malley press secretary Nina Smith. "As he has said repeatedly, he believes the priority should be placing children with family members and–if that’s not possible–locating housing that is safe, humane, and non-restrictive," she added.

The HHS plan stirred up outrage among local elected officials in Maryland, including Rep. Andy Harris, R-Maryland, whose office cited "potential health risks" to the surrounding community. "Flying them to Maryland only to turn around and fly them back home is nonsensical.

Instead, President Obama should immediately return them to their nation of origin," Harris said in a statement.

HHS has since scuttled the plan for the Western Maryland site, an O'Malley official said.

There you go.

You name it, from "climate change" to immigration to just about anything else, so-called "compassionate" leftists are the biggest freakin' hypocrites.

'The President has appointed himself Coyote-in-Chief, express-tracking illegal immigrants from the shores of the Rio Grande deep into the country...'

A fabulous piece, from Mark Steyn, "We Are All Border States Now."

Shawn Moran, V.P. of National Border Patrol Council: Illegal Immigrant 'Children' Include MS-13 Gang Members

At Free Beacon, "Border Crisis: Illegal Immigrant ‘Children’ Include MS-13 Gang Members; Expert: MS-13 Recruiting Inside Immigration Facilities."



And from last night, "VIDEO: Border Patrol Uncovers Massive MS-13 Gang Recruiting at Alien Detention Center in Nogales, Arizona."

Oracle, Arizona, Repels Obama Administration's Illegal Alien Onslaught — #BorderInvasion

AP's Astrid Galván reports, at KSAZ-TV FOX 10 News Phoenix, "Immigrants will not be bused to Ariz. town":

.@4alaboroflove The #Murrieta model is spreading to #Oracle, Arizona!
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 15, 2014

HHS has told AZ Rep. Raul Grijalva's office there will be no buses to Oracle today. Most everyone is leaving the protest.
— Astrid Galván (@astridgalvan) July 15, 2014

ORACLE, Ariz. (AP) - Protesters carrying "Return to Sender" and "Go home non-Yankees" signs faced off with immigrant rights activists Tuesday in a small Arizona town after a sheriff said a bus filled with Central American children was on its way.

The rallies demonstrated the deep divide of the immigration debate as groups on both sides - and in similar numbers - showed up in Oracle to speak out on the issue.

It turned heated at times, with shouting matches and a group of mariachi musicians getting shoved before the skirmishes were quelled.

Anger has been spreading in the town of Oracle since Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu warned residents last week that immigrant children from Central America caught crossing the border illegally would be placed at the Sycamore Canyon Academy in Oracle. Protesters were hoping to mirror demonstrations in Murrieta, California, when immigrants were taken there recently.

"We are not going to tolerate illegals forced upon us," protester Loren Woods said.

Babeu is credited with stirring up the anti-immigrant protesters via social media postings and a press release Monday and by leaking information about the migrants' arrival to a local activist.

He addressed both sides of the protesters, asking them to remain civil, abide by the law and keep the roads cleared. Immigrant rights activists questioned Babeu about why he is stirring up protesters when he should be bringing order as the county's top lawman.

Babeu said he was simply informing the public and was at the site to make sure the protests on both sides were peaceful.

"All this was done in secrecy, and that's where a lot of people are upset," Babeu said Tuesday. "My concern (is) where's the federal government? Why are they not here? Why did they not hold a town hall to answer some of these questions?"

Well, yeah: "Sheriff Paul Babeu Slams Obama Administration: 'Nobody Has Talked to Us' About Shipping Dangerous Aliens to Arizona."

More here.

Sheriff Paul Babeu Slams Obama Administration: 'Nobody Has Talked to Us' About Shipping Dangerous Aliens to Arizona

Pinal Sheriff Paul Babeu has moved patriot protesters off the roads, keeping the lanes clear for the expected busloads today in Oracle, Arizona.

See the Arizona Republic, "Sheriff Babeu says he asks immigration protesters in Oracle to not block road."

Some reports on Twitter are claiming no buses will be sent today, citing Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick. But I don't see anything on that from Representative Kirkpatrick at her Twitter page.

Meanwhile, here's Sheriff Babeu today slamming the federal government, saying he's received no advance notice from Homeland Security (or anyone else) on shipments of illegals to Pinal County:



PREVIOUSLY: "Backlash! Local Communities Fight Federal Government's Flood of Illegal Aliens — #BorderInvasion," and "Immigration Backlash in Oracle, Arizona! Patriots Protest Feds' Open-Borders Tyranny!"

Report: Busload of Illegal Immigrants Shop with Food Stamp EBTs in China Grove, North Carolina

So far it's just this one report at the video, via Breitbart, "Illegal Immigrants Shop at Walmart With Food Stamp Cards."

Watch it at the link. I'll update with additional corroborating information when it becomes available.

Meanwhile, earlier mainstream media reports indicate that the USDA advertises benefits for illegal aliens. At CBS News Washington, D.C., "Watchdog Report: USDA Promoting Food Stamp Benefits to Illegal Immigrants." And following the links, here's Judicial Watch, "Watchdog Report: USDA Promoting Food Stamp Benefits to Illegal Immigrants."

Plus, at Fox News last year, "Illegal Immigrant Mother of Seven Given Food Stamps, Meds, Housing, and Social Security," and "No Citizenship? No Problem! - USDA Promotes Food Stamps to Illegals - Wake Up America - Stuart Varney."

Jose Antonio Vargas, Celebrity Illegal Alien, Detained by Border Patrol in McAllen, Texas

Maybe they'll deport the f-ker.

At the Dallas Morning News, "Jose Antonio Vargas detained at McAllen airport."

The only IDs I have for security: Philippine passport and my pocketbook US Constitution @DefineAmerican & @MAC_UTPA pic.twitter.com/IFH0Vb4oX7

— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) July 15, 2014

About to go thru security at McAllen Airport. I don’t know what’s going to happen. For updates follow @DefineAmerican & @MAC_UTPA

— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) July 15, 2014

#plsRT @joseiswriting detained @CBP, being taken to the mcallen border patrol station. http://t.co/sMR25cYtl2

— Define American (@DefineAmerican) July 15, 2014

Before today's @joseiswriting stunt: Fake passport/green card/SSN/DL & I-9 perjury. Now he wants another free pass: http://t.co/JyZLyQ2KUu

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) July 15, 2014

Immigration Backlash in Oracle, Arizona! Patriots Protest Feds' Open-Borders Tyranny!

Wow, the Murrieta model shifts to Oracle, Arizona.

At the Arizona Republic, "Protesters in Oracle inspired by Murrieta":

#PCSO says buses will arrive "shortly" in #Oracle. Group of protestors wait. #cbs5az http://t.co/G3YB8TLj0G

— Greg Argos (@GregArgosCBS5) July 15, 2014

#PCSO says buses will arrive "shortly" in #Oracle. Group of protestors wait. #cbs5az http://t.co/G3YB8TLj0G

— Greg Argos (@GregArgosCBS5) July 15, 2014

Protestors on Mt. Lemmon Highway. The music shuffles between pop country hits and patriotic ballads. pic.twitter.com/8WOhZtvtwZ

— Mariana Dale (@mariana_dale) July 15, 2014

Pipeline of Migrant Children: A remote boys retreat in Oracle, AZ is site where up to 50 boys will be housed by Feds. pic.twitter.com/jcuTKAwkpi

— JOE DANA (@JoeDanaReports) July 15, 2014

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has played a key role in dueling protests planned for today in Oracle over the arrival of Central American immigrant children at a youth ranch — a position that has left the sheriff's critics and supporters at odds over whether he is inciting unrest or simply sharing information.

Last week, Babeu, a strong border-security proponent, mentioned that the displaced children were coming to Oracle as he promoted the candidacy of Christine Jones for governor. He later told political supporters and advocates of stricter immigration enforcement the exact location of the juvenile detention center where the displaced children will be temporarily housed.

Until then, a detention center for wayward youths in the Catalina Mountains called the Sycamore Canyon Academy had been a secret. The Sheriff's Office learned of the location from "whistle-blowers" within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Babeu's spokesman said in a news release Monday.

"We already have our hands full fighting the drug cartels and human smugglers. We don't need unaccompanied juveniles from Central America being flown into Arizona, compliments of President Obama," Babeu said in the statement. "Local residents have every right to be upset and to protest."

Babeu is deploying an unknown number of deputies to the site in southern Pinal County. The ranch has taken on extra staff in preparation for the children, who are described by people on one side of the immigration debate as refugees and and on the other as illegal immigrants.

Both sides will be in Oracle today. From 50 to 300 protestors are expected, Sheriff's Office Director of Administration Tim Gaffney said. No group asked for a permit, and they will be prevented from blocking roads, he said.

The planned Oracle protests could be a repeat of a recent showdown in the Southern California town of Murrieta, an inspiration to activists such as Robert Skiba. "We're going to stop it if we can," Skiba said.

"We will take all peaceful means necessary to stop the buses from entering this place."

Protesters in Murrieta, a city of 107,000 about 60 miles west of Palm Springs, thrust the community into the national spotlight earlier this month when demonstrators blocked buses carrying recent immigrants to be processed at a Border Patrol facility there. Another round of buses slated to arrive in the city on July 4 was rerouted, but dozens of people on both sides protested anyway. Six were arrested.

Skiba, a Babeu supporter, said he first learned of the transfer of children from Babeu at a National Rifle Association luncheon last week.

Alicia Bristow, another protest organizer, told allies in an e-mail Monday: "I spoke with Paul B. yesterday and he said the only way to stop this was for our community and the area to organize; and to contact our congressional members to tell them to stop this ludicrous dumping of illegals all over the country and especially, Pinal County."

Backlash! Local Communities Fight Federal Government's Flood of Illegal Aliens — #BorderInvasion

It's not just Murrieta.

At WSJ, "Flood of Child Migrants Spurs Local Backlash" (via Google):

The federal government is scrambling to find temporary housing for thousands of children streaming across the Mexican border, asking states for help as an increasing number of governors and local officials protest efforts to send the migrants to their communities.

While some officials are welcoming the children, concerns voiced in states and communities near the southwest border and beyond demonstrate the depth of the Obama administration's challenge in trying to manage the crisis.

In Escondido, Calif., the planning commission denied a permit to turn a former nursing home into a 96-bed youth shelter after residents protested at a packed public meeting. Federal officials abandoned plans to locate a facility near Richmond, Va., after protests from residents. In Texas, two communities passed resolutions stating they don't want shelters—before anyone suggested opening them there.

At the National Governors Association meeting in Nashville, Tenn., over the weekend, governors expressed concerns over the cost of housing children in their states. And Nebraska's governor complained about 200 children who were sent to his state to live with their families, saying federal officials should have told the state who was being sent there.

"Governors and mayors have the right to know when the federal government is transporting a large group of individuals, in this case illegal immigrants, into your state," Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, a Republican, said in an interview this weekend. He said he is concerned federal officials won't answer questions about plans to send the children to public schools and the potential costs to taxpayers.

Federal law requires that children from countries other than Mexico or Canada who cross the border unaccompanied by an adult be transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services, which is responsible for housing them on a temporary basis and then finding sponsors, usually families, where they can live while their deportation cases unfold.

HHS says it is working with local officials as it tries to open new shelters. But an agency spokesman said HHS is legally barred from notifying states when it places children with their families, as was the case in Nebraska, due to privacy concerns.

Until recently, HHS had about 100 shelters, capable of housing a total of 6,600 children, a capacity that quickly proved inadequate.

This spring, the agency opened three temporary facilities at military bases in Texas, Oklahoma and California, to house nearly 3,000 more. The agency said it is identifying a "wide range" of potential facilities in hopes of finding a few more.

To expand its options, HHS sent a letter to governors on July 1 seeking assistance identifying additional sites.

The border crisis was a major topic of concern this weekend at the summer meeting of governors, who met privately with HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell about the issue. They expressed concerns about the costs to states that wind up housing children, about their health upon arrival and what the federal government ultimately plans to do with them, said the NGA's chairwoman, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican.

More broadly, she said she worried that the U.S. may be signaling to other countries that it has an "open border" policy and that they can send children here in perpetuity, assured that America will "feed, house, shelter and take care of" them.

The White House has said that it is working to stem the flow of unauthorized immigrants, both because the U.S. cannot handle the influx and because it wants to discourage children from making the perilous journey. The president has promised that children who don't qualify for legal status here will be deported home, and to speed deportations, he has proposed changing a 2008 law that mandates a drawn-out court process for Central American children that has made speedy removals difficult.

Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Colorado Democrat, said costs must be a concern. "Our citizens already feel burdened by all kinds of changes. They don't want to see another burden coming into their state. So, however we deal with the humanitarian aspects of this, we have to do it in the most cost-effective way possible," he said Sunday.

But other governors were more open to the idea....

But there has been resistance in many other places—notably in Murrieta, Calif., roughly 65 miles north of San Diego, where protesters blocked buses carrying migrants, mostly women and children from Central America, to a U.S. Border Patrol station.

In Escondido, between Murrieta and San Diego, commissioners worried that the proposed shelter would increase traffic and overburden the neighborhood, said Jay Petrek, the city's assistant planning director. "They felt this was not the right location."

League City, Texas, enacted an ordinance last week that prohibits local officials from cooperating with any federal requests to house undocumented immigrants in the community because of "the potential threat of communicable diseases reported to be prevalent among illegal aliens."

And in the town of Greece, in upstate New York, supervisor William Reilich said constituents raised concerns after learning that the federal government was looking into placing immigrant children in a warehouse in town. The plan was scrapped.

After HHS officials said Thursday that they were considering housing undocumented children at a former Army Reserve facility near Westminster, Md., local officials protested. By Saturday, HHS said it was no longer considering the former Army site, though that may be because it was abandoned years ago and it doesn't have access to drinking water, according to local officials.

Concerns have also been expressed about a federal facility recently repurposed by the Department of Homeland Security in Artesia, N.M., to detain families with children until their cases can be heard. Artesia Mayor Phil Burch said his community of about 11,000 people will have to spend $225,000 to install a new traffic light near the facility due to the increased traffic. Mr. Burch said DHS officials projected the site will be used to house undocumented immigrants for up to a year—a duration he said locals find implausible.

And at the video up top, John Russell, of Agawam, Hampden County, Massachusetts, say illegals should be "deported."

Word.

Newport Beach Paddle Out for Hero Lifeguard Who Gave His Life

This was on Sunday.

What a story, at CBS News Los Angeles, "Paddle Out Held to Honor Lifeguard Who Drowned In the Line of Duty."

More, "Large Crowd Gathers to Honor Lifeguard Killed In the Line of Duty."

The lifeguard, Ben Carlson, saved the swimmer before he himself was overcome by the heavy surf.

When the GOP Takes the Senate

From former New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, at the Hill:

Conventional wisdom is clear that the next Congress has a considerable likelihood of being a Republican Congress.

That same consensus also holds that if the GOP does indeed take control, the next two years will be marked by confrontation with the White House and even less actual legislative action than the present Congress has accomplished.

To be fair, there is some compelling logic behind these conclusions. President Obama has clearly opted out of the role of governing through legislation. He has become the most defensive president since at least World War II, blaming the Congress not just for all the ills of the nation but even for some of his international failures.

The president is pursuing this strategy while his party controls the Senate. This being so, it is difficult to imagine him shifting from that approach in a scenario where his party does not hold either chamber of Congress.

The Republican House appears to be equally averse to working with the administration. It has developed into a controlling party that has no control over itself.

Factions rule, and compromise or governance is simply not where their interests lie. Does adding a Republican Senate to the Republican House change this equation? Or, more likely, does it simply mean more of the same, only at an amplified volume?

The Beltway pundits are betting on the latter.

It seems like a good bet, especially since a Republican Senate will have its own dysfunctional factions in the persons of Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) et al.

But, in fact, this is not the direction in which things would go if Republicans gained the majority in the Senate...

More.

Gregg thinks there might be compromise after November if Republicans take control, sensing that Obama wants to leave a legacy.

I doubt it, and frankly, I don't care how the Republicans look next year as long as they actually win the majority. Obama's not going to sign GOP legislation. He's way too arrogant and partisan. He'll ride things out, more lame than any lame duck in recent history.

Most of all, Republicans will deliver a crushing blow this year that demoralizes the Democrat Party. I expect Hillary Clinton to run, and most likely will capture the 2016 Democrat nomination. Republicans will be better off by taking extreme care in developing a competent and electable pool of likely GOP presidential prospects. 2016 won't be a shoo in. But the last three presidencies, which were all two-term administrations, were followed by a change of party control in the White House, so historical patterns augur well for the GOP. It's gonna be intense whatever happens.

William Hague Resigns as British Foreign Minister

At Telegraph UK, "Reshuffle: William Hague quits as a dozen ministers axed":

William Hague stands down as Foreign Secretary as David Cameron ousts a dozen older male ministers in major reshuffle.

Cameron's obviously under pressure to diversify the cabinet ahead of parliamentary elections.

An interesting piece.

RTWT.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models' Biggest Fears

Lily Aldridge is a sweetie.

Dangerous Journey North for Illegal Aliens

This is an amazing video, for it reveals just how huge an industry is the human smuggling market to the United States.

And note something important: Most of those chronicled are not small children, who the uncaring left has exploited to push their sick open-borders political agenda.

Pamplona Bull Runner Gored Right Through the Leg!

One of the worst scenes out of Pamplona I can remember, and I blog this every year. Man.

Watch at the video below.

London's Daily Mail has the stop action photos, with the man horribly gored: "Gory scenes in Pamplona: The eye-watering moment a runner was gored through the leg during the final running of the bulls at Spain's San Fermin festival."

Wolf Blitzer Again Ducks for Cover

I like Wolf. I don't think he has to prove his mettle at this point.

Stay safe man.



PREVIOUSLY: "Israel Air Raid Sirens Send Wolf Blitzer Running for Cover."

VIDEO: Border Patrol Uncovers Massive MS-13 Gang Recruiting at Alien Detention Center in Nogales, Arizona

Americans are simply not going to take this any longer.

After awhile, the bleating leftist cries of "compassion" ring hollow in the face of the massive criminal onslaught overwhelming our borders. Seriously. This is Mara Salvatrucha, recruiting children as young as 10-years-old.  And this isn't Fox News pumping up the invasion, but local ABC15 KNXV-TV Phoenix.

Just tell the faux-compassion leftists to get bent, freakin' assholes.

Devastating:

'Worst President Ever Elected' — Chicago Blacks Ask 'Where's Our Asylum?'

I've been meaning to get to this outstanding report at Rebel Pundit, "Chicago-Southside Residents Go Off on Obama over Amnesty: “Worst President Ever Elected”."

Watch the video at the link.

And now picked up at IBD, holla!

Inner City Blacks Ask Obama: Where's Our Asylum? http://t.co/DtVthES54l via @IBDinvestors - pic.twitter.com/t7YR7iYMuD

— Daniel John Sobieski (@gerfingerpoken) July 14, 2014

Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo: Obama Administration 'Encouraging Human Smuggling' Across the Border

An unprecedented catastrophe, on the O'Reilly Factor:

Bret Baier's Special Report: On the Front Lines of the #BorderInvasion

John Roberts has an exclusive report, for Special Report:

Jew-Hatred in Toronto

At the Canadian Jewish News, "Protesters square off in front of Israeli consulate":

TORONTO — As the Gaza conflict continued in the Middle East, more than 1,000 pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters faced off on either side of Bloor Street at Avenue Road early Friday evening, waving placards and flags and hurling insults across a sea of Toronto police officers and crowd-control fencing.

More.

Plus, watch Michael Coren's video from the protests. It's foaming hatred everywhere, and rabid conspiracy theories. One of the protest signs says, "From the river to the sea... Palestinians will be free." Which of course is another way of saying "We'll sweep the dirty Jews into the sea."

So much for peace.



More at BCF, "Michael Coren receives warm welcome from Pallie Protesters..."

Heavenly Surfing Video Will Leave You Speechless

From the comments on Facebook, "It's like touching the face of God."

Mike Trout Won't Participate in All-Star Game's Home Run Derby

At the Los Angeles Times, "Angels' Mike Trout looks forward to future Home Run Derby":

Mike Trout is the consensus best player in baseball.

He would have been a natural for Monday night's Home Run Derby -- he has more home runs than any of the 10 contestants -- but he rejected an invitation.

"A lot of guys were giving me crap about it," Trout said Monday.

His Angels teammates?

"Around the league," Trout said. Trout, 22, left little doubt that his decision reflected the wishes of Angels manager Mike Scioscia. Trout said he would welcome another opportunity to participate.

"If I get another chance, and if I said I wanted to do it," Trout said, "Scioscia would be against it, but he would support it."

More, "Home Run Derby: Some sluggers would just as soon sit than swing."

Watch that video and you'll get a feel for the kind of power Trout's boasting.

What a guy. Glad he's on the Angels, lol.

Why The Ramones Mattered

Jon Gabriel's a very knowledgeable music aficionado, especially on the punk and alternative scenes on which I cut my teeth.

Be sure to click through to read his essay on the Ramones, at Richochet:

"Why The Ramones Mattered" my latest at @Ricochet > http://t.co/U1XAbcBIKp #RIPTommyRamone @redsteeze @KurtSchlichter pic.twitter.com/478Y5DocHF

— jon gabriel (@exjon) July 13, 2014

I was so moved I tweeted him my 1981 Ramones concert ticket, heh:

.@ExJon Saw The Ramones 32 yrs and 11 mos ago today, "Pleasant Dreams" tour. Marky Ramone on drums by then. pic.twitter.com/s8l2fpMvc0

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 14, 2014

U.S. Border Agent Saves Illegal Alien Who Tried to Hang Himself from Border Fence in Calexico

Man, if the Border Patrol isn't challenged enough already.

At the Riverside Press-Enterprise, "CALEXICO: Man tries to hang himself from border fence":

CALEXICO: Man tries to hang himself from border fence http://t.co/LKTHsNbtxS

— The Press-Enterprise (@PEcom_news) July 14, 2014

A 27-year-old man tried to hang himself from the border fence in Calexico Sunday night, authorities said.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent near 1st Street saw the man scaling the fence with a rope on the Mexico side about 7 p.m. As the agent approached, the man wrapped the rope around his neck, hanging himself on the U.S. side of the fence, Border Patrol Agent Eduardo Jacobo said.

The agent grabbed the man by his legs, elevating him to release the pressure around his neck, until another agent arrived to help, a Border Patrol news release said. At some point, the rope came loose and the agents lowered the man to the ground.

The man was revived at the scene and taken to a hospital.

Sunday Cartoons (On Monday)

Blogging has been busier than normal this last couple of weeks, and yesterday I forgot to post my Sunday cartoons. (It's not the first time, although I like taking a humor break here and there.)

This cartoon is out today from Legal Insurrection, "Branco Cartoon – Israeli vs Hamas Defense Shields."



More at Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies," and Theo Spark, "Cartoon Round Up..."

Emily Ratajkowski Sanity Break

We interrupt our leftist Holocaust blogging to bring you this very important update.

At Egotastic!, "Emily Ratajkowski Brings Her Faptastic Funbags to Italy."

And from the lovely lady on Twitter:

Summer in Italia 👙 pic.twitter.com/118MIi6OI5

— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) July 13, 2014

More at Ms. Emily's Instagram page as well.

Leftist Protesters in Seattle Depict Jews as Drinking Blood and Eating Gentile Babies — #AntiSemitism

Look, I was talking about Europe last night when I mentioned this is the worst surge of anti-Jewish hatred since the 1930s, but it's here at home as well.

Just scroll trough this post at the Mike Report, "SHOCKING ANTI-SEMITIC HATEFEST IN DOWNTOWN SEATTLE."

Right out of the Nazi playbook:

Right out of the Nazi playbook. Shocking anti-Semitic hate-fest in downtown #Seattle http://t.co/hlo8qs30LR #Israel #gaza #hamas #tcot #p2

— Deetz (@Dootster) July 14, 2014

Democrat Congressional La Raza Caucus Puts Racist Solidarity Ahead of American Security

At Fox News Latino, "Latino lawmakers oppose expedited deportation of young migrants."

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus emphatically stated Friday their opposition to the deportation of immigrant children and asked President Barack Obama to safeguard their rights.

At a press conference in the CHC office in Washington, Rep Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) declared himself in favor of the supplementary funds requested by Obama to address the influx of unaccompanied minors from Central America, but only as long as "we do not short-circuit justice for the children."

These congressional racists are hard at work destroying the fabric of America, and the Democrat Party leftist hordes are totally down with it.

Doug Schoen: 'The election for the most part will be about immigration...'

And the Obama administration has "put politics ahead of people, and it's a tragedy."

At 1:00 minute at the clip:



And keep in mind, November elections were already looking bad for the Democrats, but now even mainstream outlets are reporting that the Dems have lost whatever advantage they had on immigration politics. At the Washington Post, "Border crisis scrambling the politics of immigration policy":

Until now, the politics of immigration have been seen as a no-lose proposition for President Obama and the Democrats. If they could get a comprehensive overhaul passed, they would win. And if Republicans blocked it, the GOP would further alienate crucial Hispanic and moderate voters.

But with the current crisis on the Southwest border, where authorities have apprehended tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children since October, that calculus may be shifting.

Republicans and even some Democrats have accused Obama of being insufficiently engaged in a calamity that many say he should have seen coming. And the president’s own party is deeply divided over what must be done now — particularly on the sensitive question of deporting children who have traveled thousands of miles and turned themselves in to U.S. authorities to escape from the desperate situations they faced in countries such as Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

The emergency has also renewed questions about the administration’s competence, reminiscent of those raised during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, last year’s botched rollout of the health-care law and more recent revelations of mismanagement that jeopardized care of patients at veterans hospitals.

Oh yeah, baby.

And remember, 3 in 5 support deportation of illegal aliens. It's not looking good for the idiot open-borders Democrat leftists.

Endless Wave of Illegal Immigrants Floods Rio Grande Valley

These aliens are running toward Border Patrol agents, pleased as punched to be picked up and detained. No doubt they'll be in the U.S. for a long stay.

Fox News reports:

McALLEN, Texas — Life jackets of all sizes and the occasional punctured raft are strewn along the banks of the Rio Grande, just south of Mission, Texas, where a relentless onslaught of illegal immigrants eagerly surrender to beleaguered Border Patrol agents around the clock.

It’s a cycle for which there is no end in sight.

“You're going to be out here a long time,” Fernando, an El Salvadoran child, told FoxNews.com shortly after surrendering to Border Patrol authorities after midnight Saturday. “There are thousands of us."

With most of the men and women charged with securing the Mexican border busy processing some of the 60,000 illegal immigrants who have made the harrowing - and sometimes deadly -journey to the American border in the past nine months, only a handful of Border Patrol agents drive the riverside loop in a small town called Granjeno just south of Mission, in the Rincon peninsula.

More at AP:

VIDEO: Federal Officers Open Fire as Pro-Palestinian Thugs Attack Israel Protesters in Los Angeles

At the Los Angeles Times, "Federal officer fires weapon in altercation at pro-Israel rally."

At the video, it was a Homeland Security officer who fired one shot at a truck filled with pro-Palestinian thugs. The truck had pulled up to peaceful pro-Israeli protesters and the murderous goons started swinging flagpoles, striking the pro-Israel demonstrators.



Also, "Fight at pro-Israel rally started over stomping of Palestinian flag," and "Federal agent who fired gun during pro-Israel rally is placed on leave."

PREVIOUSLY: "France: Pro-Palestine Nazis Chant 'Death to the Jews', Trap Hundreds Inside Paris Synagogue."

France: Pro-Palestine Nazis Chant 'Death to the Jews', Trap Hundreds Inside Paris Synagogue

French Jewish emigration to Israel has been steadily increasing in recent years, amid the monstrous growth of violent anti-Semitism.

I've been formally studying politics since the mid-1980s, and I don't ever recall things being this bad, almost like the pogroms against the Jews in the 1930s.

Lots of folks are on this, so here's a little roundup.

At Legal Insurrection, "Paris Synagogue attacked by Pro-Palestinian crowd carrying boycott message," and Weasel Zippers, "French Muslims Chant “Slaughter The Jews,” Teenage Jewish Girl Attacked by Man Shouting “Dirty Jewess, Inshallah You Will Die”…"

And at the Times of Israel, "Anti-Israel protesters trap hundreds in Paris synagogue."



More, at FrontPage Magazine, "Muslim Protesters in Paris Chant “Death to the Jews”, Attack Synagogue."

And at Yid With Lid, "Attack On Paris Synagogue With Screams of 'Death to the Jews!'"

Still more at Twitchy, "‘Terrifying’: Jewish synagogue attacked, besieged by protesters in Paris; ‘Hundreds trapped’ [pics, video]."

VIDEO: Americans First! Fontana Patriots Protest St. Joseph's Church Secret 'Obama Cash' for Illegal Aliens — #BorderInvasion

At the Riverside Press-Enterprise, "FONTANA: Protesters demonstrate outside church":

One protest organizer said many of the picketers were involved in the Murrieta protest earlier this month that blocked busloads of migrant women and children from being processed at the border patrol station in that Riverside County city.

On Sunday, the protesters said that if the church is serving the poor, they should be Americans.

“We’d like to see these illegals repatriated back to their home countries,” said organizer Tressa Capps of Fontana. “We have plenty of our own citizens in desperate need.”

[San Bernardino Diocese spokesman John] Andrews said Christ’s teachings do not discriminate among the needy.

“The Good Samaritan didn’t ask the person on the side of the road for his legal status,” he said.

“We think this is a time that our government, our churches, should be focusing on American citizens,” said Upland resident Robin Hvidston of We the People Rising. She said the church should focus on domestic foster children, the homeless and veterans.

Here's a Tressa Capps video from Fontana:



Also, at the video below, Kit Daniels reports for Info Wars. The church spokesman, John Andrews, is apparently speaking out of both sides of his mouth, no doubt looking to avoid a blizzard of anti-amnesty protests. According to NBC News Los Angeles, "SoCal Churches Provide Temporary Shelter, "Spiritual Food" for Immigrants":

Officials with the Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino told NBC4 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials reached out to them in an effort to address the border crisis stemming from a wave of undocumented immigrants from Central America who have recently crossed into the United States at the Texas-Mexico border. President Barack Obama has described the situation as a "humanitarian crisis."

"As a church, we want to let them know that there are people here in the United States who love and support them, they're praying with them and for them," said John Andrews, of the Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino County. "Maybe that can give them some of that spiritual food for the next leg of their journey."

And see Breitbart, "CALIFORNIA CHURCH GIVES 'TRAVEL CASH' TO ILLEGAL ALIENS, SENDS THEM EAST":

Although the immigrants' final travel destinations could not be confirmed, San Bernardino Diocese spokesman John Andrews told Breitbart News that the church provided "travel cash" to those headed on long journeys east toward New York or New Jersey.

Andrews also said the church was helping the illegal immigrants--32 children and 14 women--buy bus tickets, and helping them navigate the complex bus transportation system.

So, not helping the illegals now? No deception going on here, no sir. So what's the scoop? Were church officials coerced to support the aliens? Did the church receive federal funding for illegal alien "travel cash"? Liberty News reported earlier that Obama's HHS has been funding churches for years, "EXCLUSIVE: HHS Bankrolled Catholic and Baptist Church from 2010 to 2013 to Prepare for Obama’s 2014 Invasion!"

Either way, the church spokesman Andrews is sure changing his tune.

Remember, the Nazis coerced the churches in the 1930s. How long until American households are required to house illegal aliens for the Obama regime? See, "The Catholic Church in Obama's AmeriKKKa: Co-Opted by Führer's Regime to Bypass Law, House Criminal Aliens in California." It sure has been hush-hush up in Massachusetts as well. Massachusetts! These people are on the side of the regime and they were kept in the dark on subterranean illegal alien transfers, per Michelle Malkin and Twitchy:

One month later: MSM confirms #justablogger @MichelleMalkin’s scoop on illegal alien flights to Mass. ==> http://t.co/GwBzpHZuqO
— TwitchyTeam (@TwitchyTeam) July 13, 2014

Plus, more from Jennifer Maher at the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin:

Protest outside St. Joseph Catholic Church in Fontana where undocumented immigrants are being housed. pic.twitter.com/lBt0azZtOb
— Jennifer Maher (@JCMaherPhoto) July 13, 2014

Photos: Rally In Response to Housing of Central American Immigrants in Fontana: http://t.co/YMgewDfIwI pic.twitter.com/bq1yx4nHRH
— Jennifer Maher (@JCMaherPhoto) July 13, 2014

Daily Email Newsletter TheSkimm Hits 500,000 Subscribers

The lovely Carly Zakin, at left, caught my attention.

But think about it: two young women, in their 20s, running an email newsletter that now has investors placing million dollar-plus financing deals for the business? You know, because capitalism is horrible. Just horrible!

Via the Wall Street Journal:

At Year Two, TheSkimm Hits 500,000 Subscribers http://t.co/9rTv9Ms42x

— Digits (@WSJdigits) July 11, 2014