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:

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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:

Daniel Justin Herman, Hell on the Range

At Amazon, Daniel Justin Herman, Hell on the Range: A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West.

In this lively account of Arizona’s Rim Country War of the 1880s—what others have called "The Pleasant Valley War"—historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. Their story, contends Herman, offers a fresh perspective on Western violence, Western identity, and American cultural history.

At the heart of Arizona’s range war, argues Herman, was a conflict between cowboys’ code of honor and Mormons’ code of conscience. He investigates the sources of these attitudes, tracks them into the early twentieth century, and offers rich insights into the roots of American violence and peace.

Amber Lee's Increasing Chance of Showers Forecast

Here's the lovely Ms. Amber, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

Shop History Books

At Amazon, Best in History.

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Felipe Moura Brasil: How Socialism Ruined My Country (VIDEO)

A great, great video!

At Prager University:

Dana Loesch: 'Old gray hag, we're coming for you...' (VIDEO)

Heh.

I love this!

At Instapundit, "THE STRUGGLE AGAINST FAKE NEWS: NRA-NYT war escalates: ‘Old gray hag, we’re coming for you’."

And here's the irrepressible Dana Loesch, for the National Rifle Assocation: