Jennifer Delacruz's Sunny and Warm Forecast

Ms. Jennifer's a hottie!

From last night, at ABC News 10 San Diego.

It's going to be lovely weather this weekend:

Trump Will Win Bigly in 2020

From Roger Simon, at Pajamas:

I have bad news for the mainstream media and the Democrats.  Time to stock up on absinthe or hightail it down to the medical marijuana store -- Donald Trump is going to be president for eight years.  Not only that, he will win reelection much more comfortably, easily winning the popular vote as well as the electoral college.

I'm not saying this because I am in the slightest bit psychic. I always lose in Vegas -- and don't even ask about the track. I'm also not saying it because Trump just had a good week, getting his Supreme Court pick through and taking it to Assad and ISIS, earning him a slight bump in the polls. (They don't mean anything now anyway.)

 I am saying it for same reason I predicted Trump would win his first term back in August 2015 -- simple observation of the scene. I should add observation from afar because I have the advantage of watching from Los Angeles. The view is too distorted in the nation's capital where, at least it seems from here, no one can stand each other. (That's okay. People in Hollywood are exactly the same.)

Yes, you can say I'm being stupid and rash to make such an early prediction, but that's just what I was accused of in 2015.  So go ahead and call me anything you want.  Make my day -- November 3, 2020.

Okay, but why?

To begin with, the media (his main opposition party) has completely blown it in less than the allotted one hundred days. By attacking Trump every which way at once, calling him a racist, sexist, homophobe, Islamophobe, isolationist and warmonger -- yes, the last two are completely contradictory, but that doesn't stop the geniuses in our Fourth Estate -- they have literally turned into the journalistic version of the boy who cried wolf.  No one believes them anymore, assuming they ever did in the first place.

And it's only going to get worse because the Trump-Russia scandal is an obvious dud while the Obama-Trump surveillance contretemps could have legs, as we say hereabouts.

The situation is even more dire for the Democratic Party itself...

I'm a little skeptical that Trump can survive the gauntlet Democrat-Media Complex a second time (his win last November still seems miraculous somehow), but I admire Roger's pluck.

In any case, still more.

Wow! Federal Investigation of Fresno State History Professor Lars Maischak

I attended Fresno State, but I'd never heard of this guy before. He posted some nasty tweets, and the blowback's been harsh.

At the Fresno Bee, "Fresno State says FBI, Secret Service probing professor’s tweets about President Trump." (Also at Twitchy, "Fresno State cooperating with feds in probe of lecturer who tweeted that ‘Trump must hang’.")

The idiot's taken his page down and apologized.

At Blazing Cat Fur, "'To save American democracy, Trump must hang': California professor apologizes for anti-Trump tweet."

Jennifer Griffin Reports on Afghanistan MOAB Attack (VIDEO)

Following-up, "MOAB."

Watch, at Fox News, "MOAB used for the first time in combat."

MOAB

It's the "massive ordnance air blast," a.k.a, the "mother of all bombs," which is actually pretty hilarious.

At CNN, via Memeorandum, "36 ISIS fighters killed by US ‘mother of all bombs’: Afghan official."

Leftists were horrified that the U.S. actually kills people over there, bad people, of course (a distinction lost on radical progs).

ISIS deserved it. Time to pay for their crimes.#MOAB
"Afghanistan" pic.twitter.com/tM1AE5DSum

— America First! (@America_1st_) April 13, 2017

Professor Eugene Volokh Discusses Freedon Speech on Campus (VIDEO)

Following-up from yesterday, "Eugene Volokh on the Individual Right to Bear Arms (VIDEO)."

He's an interesting guy.

Here's the video of his recent talk at the Reason Weekend, the annual shindig sponsored by the Reason Foundation:

Jeffrey Ostler, The Lakotas and the Black Hills

*BUMPED.*

At Amazon, Jeffrey Ostler, The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground.

Jackie Johnson's Chance of Showers Forecast

Hey, it was perfectly pleasant weather today. We've got a chance of showers tomorrow, with some clearing heading into the weekend.

Here's the lovely Ms. Jackie in a beautiful white dress, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

Bret Stephens Quits WSJ for NYT

Stephens has been a rather vile "Never Trumper" this last year or two, so it's pretty natural for him to join up at the Old Gray Hag.

At Politico:

Bret Stephens leaves Wall Street Journal for New York Times https://t.co/G8j7Mu7O7M via @Hadas_Gold pic.twitter.com/x03JB2gtez

— POLITICO (@politico) April 12, 2017

Ongoing Promotions in Lawn and Garden

At Amazon, Lawn & Garden - Ongoing Promotions.

More, GreenWorks 25022 12 Amp Corded 20-Inch Lawn Mower.

Also, New Arrivals in Sports Apparel and Swimwear.

And, Mountain House Just In Case...Classic Assortment Bucket.

BONUS: Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West.

ICYMI: Susan Sleeper-Smith, et al., Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians

At Amazon, Susan Sleeper-Smith, et al., Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians.

Eugene Volokh on the Individual Right to Bear Arms (VIDEO)

Another outstanding video, from Prager University:

Current Populist Wave the Result of the 2008 Recession?

Actually, no.

But see Stephen Green, at Instapundit, "WASHINGTON PANEL: Populist Surge a Result of 2008 Recession":

Meh. This panel seems to have focused entirely on Marxist-flavored economic determinism, and ignored the cultural blowback in Red America after eight years of top-down Progressive do-goodism...

Fewer Illegal Crossings on Southern Border

Amazing how well a little enforcement works in deterring illegal immigration.

I just love this administration, and especially the new attorney general.

At LAT, "Rio Grande Valley is unusually quiet as Southwest border crossings drop to lowest point in at least 17 years."

Earlier, "Jeff Sessions' New Immigration Plan (VIDEO)."

Bo Krsmanovic for Maxim (VIDEO)

Following-up from Sunday, "Bo Krsmanovic Uncovered for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017 (VIDEO)."

Here's Maxim:

Jeff Sessions' New Immigration Plan (VIDEO)

At the Daily Beast, via Memeorandum, "Jeff Sessions's New Immigration Plan Is ‘F*cking Horrifying’."

This is the immigration plan that's not actually horrifying. You'll be charged with a felony if you're deported and try to come back in. Not horrifying. That's righteous.

More at ABC News 15 Phoenix:

New Deals. Every Day

At Amazon, Shop Today's Deals.

And going fast, M&M'S Easter Milk Chocolate Candy Party Size 42-Ounce Bag.

BONUS: Hans Kung, On Being a Christian, and Does God Exist? An Answer for Today.

Dodge Challenger Demon (VIDEO)

Unreal.

At Fox News, "The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is an absolute beast":

The Demon makes the Hellcat look like a church mouse.

The wide-body Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is a barely street-legal drag racer with a V8 that can produce up to 840 HP and 770 pound-feet of torque, making it the most powerful American car ever. It’s also the quickest car in the world, with an NHRA certified 0-60 mph time of 2.3 seconds and a quarter-mile time of 9.65 seconds at 140 mph...

More.

What's it Take to Be 'Fully American'?

At the Los Angeles Times, "Trump wants immigrants to 'share our values.' They say assimilation is much more complex":

What does it take to be "truly" American? Some say assimilation and shared values. Immigrants say that's complex. https://t.co/81r8oOPK4b

— Hailey Branson-Potts (@haileybranson) April 11, 2017

The foreign-born share of the U.S. population has quadrupled in the five decades since the establishment of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which ended a quota system based on national origin that favored white European immigrants. In 1960, 9.7 million foreign-born residents were living in the U.S. In 2014, there were 42.2 million, according to census data and the Pew Research Center.

Kevin Solis, who works for the immigration advocacy group Dream Team LA, said politicians’ statements about assimilation just add fuel to an already sensitive subject.

“When you say, ‘They need to assimilate,’ you’re already beginning with the false notion that they don’t want to, that they’re coming here as an invading force,” he said. “It’s coded in the sense that these are ‘other’ people, foreigners who want to do harm to our nation, and that’s not the case.”

Jim Chang, an information systems specialist from Irvine, recalled meeting with one of his son’s teacher; she kept repeating what he was saying.

“I know he was repeating, you know, saying it more than once because she was worried I didn’t understand,” Chang, 53, said.

Though he spoke English fairly well and understood it even better, Chang said his Korean accent meant he would always stick out.

“It doesn’t matter if you have 12 years or 20 years in the U.S. If they hear us sound a little different, they judge,” he said.

That’s something he said he believes his son, a fifth-grader, shouldn’t have to face. Chang speaks Korean to him, but his son, Jimmy, responds in English.

“I realize that we don’t plan to return to live in Korea. We belong in California now,” Chang said.

But Carmen Fought, a linguistics professor at Pitzer College, said that everyone has an accent regardless of how well they speak English. Whether it’s the Cajun or so-called “Minnesota nice” or “Bronx” or other accent not quite on the radar of American pop culture, everyone in the U.S. speaks with an accent, she said.

Not all accents, however, are perceived as equally American.

“A way of speaking that’s associated with a group that’s stigmatized is also going to be stigmatized,” Fought said. “There’s also going to be racism and prejudice against that way of speaking.”

Karen, a 24-year-old honor student at Cal State Fullerton, is an aspiring certified public accountant. She volunteers for the IRS — where her ability to speak Spanish is a major asset — helping low-income people fill out their taxes.

The night Trump was elected, Karen — a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, recipient who asked that her last name not be used because she fears deportation — suddenly felt as if she stood out even though she was an infant sleeping in the back seat of a car when she was brought to the U.S. illegally from Mexico.

Karen hasn't been back to Mexico since then but grew up in the overwhelmingly Latino community of Huntington Park, watching Spanish-language television with her grandmother and working in a Mexican restaurant.

Moving to Orange County for college was like moving to a different world, Karen said. At least until Trump’s election, she felt that she was safer as a college student than her parents, who have labor-oriented jobs.

Her younger brother is a DACA recipient also, and she had him move in with her so they could remove their parents’ address from their federal forms.

“Sometimes I feel like I don’t belong anywhere,” she said. “In Mexico, I would be seen very differently because of my accent. It’s like, god, what do I do? If I were to go back, I wouldn’t have anything back there.”

“On the one side, the Hispanics tell you, ‘You’re way too American.’ On the other, you’ll have the Americans telling you you’re too Hispanic. It’s hard to be in the middle.”

“What makes me American? It’s not only the 24 years of my life,” she said. “It’s that this is all I know.”

We obviously need to scale back immigration, and drastically. It shouldn't even be controversial to have to assimilate into the dominate culture. The fact that these people are even questioning it, suggesting that they shouldn't be judged because they're illegal, is reprehensible.

Kate Bock Uncovered for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2017 (VIDEO)

Here's the fabulous Ms. Kate, for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: