Over 2,000 migrants in US detention centers were quarantined on Thursday due to outbreaks of mumps and other communicable infections.
According to a report from Reuters, “a total of 2,287 detainees were quarantined around the country,” as of March 7.
“ICE health officials have been notified of 236 confirmed or probable cases of mumps among detainees in 51 facilities in the past 12 months, compared to no cases detected between January 2016 and February 2018. Last year, 423 detainees were determined to have influenza and 461 to have chicken pox. All three diseases are largely preventable by vaccine,” the report states.
Mumps is spread easily through droplets of saliva in the air, it can cause brain swelling, sterility and hearing loss.
According to the report, there are currently more than 50,000 migrants in US detention centers. Reuters reports that US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told reporters that “changing demographics on the southwest border, with more immigrants from Central America traveling long distances, overwhelmed border officials and raised health concerns.”
“We are seeing migrants arrive with illnesses and medical conditions in unprecedented numbers,” McAleenan said.
Detention centers in Louisiana, Colorado, Arizona and Texas have all had outbreaks of viral infections.
Democrats are worried that the quarantines will have trouble dealing with lawyers to get asylum, but seem less concerned about the diseases being brought into our nation in the first place.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says the "Masters of the Universe" want more legal immigration to the United States to further diminish the incomes of American working and middle-class families.
The conservatives won bigly in the state of Salzburg, one of Austria’s nine states.
For decades Salzburg was leftie, but in the last few years had moved right. Today Salzburg took a big turn to the right.
The lefties lost so big that their heads are spinning.
In Salzburg, there was a victory of the ÖVP in the mayoral and municipal elections. For the first time in the postwar period, the People’s Party became the strongest party in the city council in the city of Salzburg, almost doubling with 36.7 percent (plus 17.3 percentage points). But it was not enough for the immediate re-election of Mayor Harald Preuner (ÖVP).
The ÖVP not only became the strongest force in the town hall for the first time, it also captured the percentage best result of the People’s Party in post-war history. With 36.7 percent (plus 17.3) she will in future make 16 seats in the 40-member local council (plus 8). The SPÖ fell by 6.2 percentage points to 26.8 percent and will in future only be represented by eleven local councilors (minus 4) in the city parliament. The green citizen list defended third place: with 15.2 percent (plus 1.6) she will continue to provide six mandates. The turnout was 48.23 percent this Sunday in the state capital – including the already absent postal vote.
Twitter suspended and then reinstated a conservative contributor for the Washington Examiner, Tyler Grant, after he tweeted "learn to code" in the context of a discussion about automation and the oft-debated Universal Basic Income (UBI).
Perry High School in Gilbert, Arizona, has reportedly reinstated a student who was serving a suspension over an incident involving the display of a "MAGA" flag; however, an Arizona state legislator is now calling on the school to remove the suspension from the student’s record, and asking the Attorney General to look into possible criminal behavior by school officials.
As you may have already heard, Pete Buttigieg is running for the Democratic nomination to be president in 2020. (And if you haven’t, you are to be forgiven since he’s still polling at less than one percent.) Speaking strictly as a writer, I’m rooting against him because I can neither pronounce his name or spell it correctly without the copy/paste function. But the man has thrown his hat in the ring and is out there giving interviews so I suppose we owe him a bit of coverage now and again.
When the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana announced his bid, he did an interview with the Atlantic where he talked about how he spends a lot of time thinking about “intergenerational justice.” You might be wondering what that is. For the record, so was I. And this week, NBC News digs a bit deeper into the question. Just what is this guy talking about?
As the youngest candidate in the race so far, Buttigieg, 37, defines the concept as more of a governing principle, rather than a set of policy prescriptions.
“To me, it’s ensuring that choices made today are responsible and fair — that the distribution of the consequences is viewed not just in terms of how we distribute benefits and costs among people today, but also between people today and people tomorrow,” he told NBC News in a recent phone interview.
What intergenerational justice is not, he said, is a conflict among various age groups, noting that he isn’t suggesting he can build a movement out of one particular voting bloc.
The Mayor’s answers are about as vague as one could imagine, but he didn’t cook this idea up on his own. It turns out that the concept of intergenerational justice has been knocking around various schools for a long time, including debates among philosophy majors at Stanford dating back decades.
Applying the concept to politics is another matter entirely. Buttigieg sort of stumbles around the question, speaking in general terms about the short-term picture versus the long-term and balancing the costs and benefits to the current generation against the downstream effects on future generations. In the most basic terms, he appears to be saying any actions we take today can and probably will have effects on our children and their children and so on.
Well… sure. But isn’t that already a given? While the candidate seems more inclined to apply this theory to climate change and race relations (he is a Democrat, after all), it would be more interesting to hear him apply it to the national debt. There’s a real generational problem in search of a solution. But this mostly sounds like some sort of liberal marketing scheme to give the cool kids something else to print on their protest signs. Saying “intergenerational” makes it sound like intersectionality, which is all the rage these days. In case you’re not familiar, intersectionality is basically the principle that if anything is racist, homophobic or otherwise bigoted, then everything is all of those things. (I never promised it was going to make sense.)
Tacking the word “justice” on the end is just a bonus in liberal circles. (No justice… no peace!) Unfortunately, justice is supposed to be a universal constant in America, owed equally to each citizen regardless of demographic pigeonholes. When you start calling for more justice for particular groups than others, we’re immediately back to the idea that some animals are more equal than others.
Even after all of this examination, I’m still not entirely sure what Pete Buttigieg is trying to say here. For that matter, I’m not sure that Pete Buttigieg is sure what he’s trying to say. When asked, he’s quick to point out that this is more of a philosophy than some sort of specific set of policies. And he definitely doesn’t want to start a class war between generations… heaven forbid. So how do you build a party platform out of that? Good question.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA): “It is a fact that we can change human behaviors…” pic.twitter.com/SYrMpFLwJW — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 10, 2019 Yeah, no thanks. And her voice is as irritating as Hillary’s. Via Twitchy: During her tour through South Carolina, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris told a group that “we can change human […]
As The Gateway Pundit has been reporting for over two years, the Department of Justice and FBI used unethical and criminal actions to go after candidate and President Donald Trump and his associates and family.
Last week contributor Joe Hoft put together a stunning list of Mueller and Deep State questionable actions.
On Saturday Donald Trump Jr. called for investigations on hacks Rep. Adam Schiff and Andrew McCabe.
Of course he is. Both have spent the last few years pushing their partisan BS with leaks and lies… and of course will face ZERO consequences because they’re leftists and no one will elevate these stories. INVESTIGATE. https://t.co/rwV0145pSU
On Saturday Donald Trump Jr. retweeted Paul Sperry’s tweet on conflicted former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe’s intent to go after reporters Sara Carter and John Solomon.
Don Jr. asked, “Who is investigating the investigators?”
Wow. As I’ve been saying for weeks. Who is investigating the investigators? They have run around with their own personal agenda for years and done so totally unchecked. It has to stop! https://t.co/JxurQDMVgl
Despite being the object of a huge amount of media attention, few people seem to know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tried to be an entrepreneur and fell flat on her face. Her media pals certainly have no interest in publicizing the fact the she embraced socialism after she proved to be utterly, embarrassingly incompetent at earning her way. Monica Showalter asked the key question ion these pages last summer: “Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist fanaticism come from bitter failure in business?
Now, thanks to digging by the New York Post, we know that:
Brook Avenue Press, a company she founded in 2012 to publish children’s books in The Bronx, owes the state $1,870.36 in corporate taxes, public records show.
The state slapped the company with a warrant on July 6, 2017, two months after Ocasio-Cortez announced her candidacy to run against Democratic incumbent Joe Crowley for the district that encompasses parts of Queens and The Bronx.
She founded a publishing business at age 22, straight out of Boston University, called Brook Avenue Press, to promote the Bronx as a nice place in children’s books, something that has already been amply done by Sesame Street which came up with the concept in the 1960s. She didn’t found it out of nowhere, either, she was part of a hipster collective…where startups with supposedly great ideas and youthful owners, get together in one building financed by the state…and learn from each other as their businesses presumably grow. Hers was called the Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator.
The Post covered the debut of the “hipster collective” in 2010:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with city officials and business leaders, broke ground on the first city-sponsored business incubator in the Bronx. The facility will open in the former BankNote Building early next year and is aimed at helping small businesses and start-ups grow throughout the borough. It will be called the Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator.
“We want to help businesses get started and incubators are facilitating growth in under served areas of the city,” he said. “We’re helping the doers to become the next break-out success stories.”
The space will accommodate 400 entrepreneurs from the borough over the next three years. The building on Garrison Avenue will be ready to have its first tenants move in by February 2011.
Ocasio-Cortez produced this embarrassing promotional video about her venture in 2011, revealing not only grandiose plans that never got close to becoming real, but also showing that since then, she has had an astonishing makeover from nerd to socialist glamour-puss:
Pre-makeover version (YouTube sreen grab, cropped)
At the time I wrote about it, this video had received only a few hundred views, which is astonishing, considering how prominent she already was. Even today, it has only 13,377 views as of this writing. Her fanboys and fangirls remain blissfully ignorant. But equally astonishing is the difference between then and now in terms of her appearance. I asked last summer: “Who was behind Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s astonishing makeover?
Somebody with deep expertise on image creation got ahold of the latest darling of the left and glammed her up for her current role as the standard bearer for the socialist wing of the Democrats, the Great Hispanic Hope to lead the “browning of Amerca” toward a radical future. Sometime between 2011 and 2018, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was transformed from an earnest and nerdy wannabe entrepreneur into a glamorous radical crusader for socialism, the delusion-of-the-moment that has captured the imagination of the malcontent demographic slice of America. (snip)
Someone with deep knowledge of what expensive make-up can do to remake a human visage into something very different from the au naturel version went to work on her. In tandem with her transformation from nerd to a female Che Guevara, she morphed from capitalist to membership in a party that wants to “abolish profit.”
Pretty clearly, she was not up to the responsibility of actually running a venture. The Post noted:
But despite her promise to work with “designers, artists and authors that really know the urban story and help develop stories for kids,” The Post could not find any books the publishing house produced.
In addition to failing at developing any products that people would voluntarily pay money for, Ocasio-Cortez also failed to keep on top of her tax obligations, leading to her tax delinquency and eventual warrant issued against her company. In fact, it appears that she let the company go out of business, and promptly consigned it to the Memory Hole, leaving New York State’s tsx collectors high and dry:
The state requires businesses to pay a corporation tax on a sliding scale based on revenue. The minimum payment last year was $25.
“The company probably got numerous letters from the state and probably ignored them,” one New York City accountant theorized.
Public records show the state dissolved the company in October 2016, which can happen when a business fails to pay corporate taxes or file a return.
The state Tax Department won’t comment on individual companies but typically files warrants as a last resort after trying to collect money.
“This is the first we’re hearing of it, and we won’t have any additional comment until we look into it,” Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesman, Corbin Trent, said Saturday.
If Ocasio-Corte were a conservative, she’d be constantly hounded for comment. Do you think the 90% of the media that is progresive will give this story and prominence?
It’s easy to advocate high taxes on successful people if you don’t pay your own tax bills, of course. But I suspect the real lesson is not so much that Ocasio-Cortez is getting rich off of evading the rules, but rather that she is a total failure at anything requiting practical responsibility, attention to detail, and following the law. After failing, she retreated into the gauzy generalizations of socialism. It is so much easier than running a business to appropriate other people’s money — from the successful ones who do follow the rules and work the 70 hour weeks necessary to make a success of an entrepreneurial venture, juggling the balls, bearing the risk, and ultimately succeeding. That money can support the lifestyles of “those unwilling to work,” but only until they “eventually run out of other people’s money” – as is happening in Venezuela right now.
Do voters really want to put their future in the hands of someone this irresponsible?
Despite being the object of a huge amount of media attention, few people seem to know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tried to be an entrepreneur and fell flat on her face. Her media pals certainly have no interest in publicizing the fact the she embraced socialism after she proved to be utterly, embarrassingly incompetent at earning her way. Monica Showalter asked the key question ion these pages last summer: “Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist fanaticism come from bitter failure in business?
Now, thanks to digging by the New York Post, we know that:
Brook Avenue Press, a company she founded in 2012 to publish children’s books in The Bronx, owes the state $1,870.36 in corporate taxes, public records show.
The state slapped the company with a warrant on July 6, 2017, two months after Ocasio-Cortez announced her candidacy to run against Democratic incumbent Joe Crowley for the district that encompasses parts of Queens and The Bronx.
She founded a publishing business at age 22, straight out of Boston University, called Brook Avenue Press, to promote the Bronx as a nice place in children’s books, something that has already been amply done by Sesame Street which came up with the concept in the 1960s. She didn’t found it out of nowhere, either, she was part of a hipster collective…where startups with supposedly great ideas and youthful owners, get together in one building financed by the state…and learn from each other as their businesses presumably grow. Hers was called the Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator.
The Post covered the debut of the “hipster collective” in 2010:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with city officials and business leaders, broke ground on the first city-sponsored business incubator in the Bronx. The facility will open in the former BankNote Building early next year and is aimed at helping small businesses and start-ups grow throughout the borough. It will be called the Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator.
“We want to help businesses get started and incubators are facilitating growth in under served areas of the city,” he said. “We’re helping the doers to become the next break-out success stories.”
The space will accommodate 400 entrepreneurs from the borough over the next three years. The building on Garrison Avenue will be ready to have its first tenants move in by February 2011.
Ocasio-Cortez produced this embarrassing promotional video about her venture in 2011, revealing not only grandiose plans that never got close to becoming real, but also showing that since then, she has had an astonishing makeover from nerd to socialist glamour-puss:
Pre-makeover version (YouTube sreen grab, cropped)
At the time I wrote about it, this video had received only a few hundred views, which is astonishing, considering how prominent she already was. Even today, it has only 13,377 views as of this writing. Her fanboys and fangirls remain blissfully ignorant. But equally astonishing is the difference between then and now in terms of her appearance. I asked last summer: “Who was behind Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s astonishing makeover?
Somebody with deep expertise on image creation got ahold of the latest darling of the left and glammed her up for her current role as the standard bearer for the socialist wing of the Democrats, the Great Hispanic Hope to lead the “browning of Amerca” toward a radical future. Sometime between 2011 and 2018, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was transformed from an earnest and nerdy wannabe entrepreneur into a glamorous radical crusader for socialism, the delusion-of-the-moment that has captured the imagination of the malcontent demographic slice of America. (snip)
Someone with deep knowledge of what expensive make-up can do to remake a human visage into something very different from the au naturel version went to work on her. In tandem with her transformation from nerd to a female Che Guevara, she morphed from capitalist to membership in a party that wants to “abolish profit.”
Pretty clearly, she was not up to the responsibility of actually running a venture. The Post noted:
But despite her promise to work with “designers, artists and authors that really know the urban story and help develop stories for kids,” The Post could not find any books the publishing house produced.
In addition to failing at developing any products that people would voluntarily pay money for, Ocasio-Cortez also failed to keep on top of her tax obligations, leading to her tax delinquency and eventual warrant issued against her company. In fact, it appears that she let the company go out of business, and promptly consigned it to the Memory Hole, leaving New York State’s tsx collectors high and dry:
The state requires businesses to pay a corporation tax on a sliding scale based on revenue. The minimum payment last year was $25.
“The company probably got numerous letters from the state and probably ignored them,” one New York City accountant theorized.
Public records show the state dissolved the company in October 2016, which can happen when a business fails to pay corporate taxes or file a return.
The state Tax Department won’t comment on individual companies but typically files warrants as a last resort after trying to collect money.
“This is the first we’re hearing of it, and we won’t have any additional comment until we look into it,” Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesman, Corbin Trent, said Saturday.
If Ocasio-Corte were a conservative, she’d be constantly hounded for comment. Do you think the 90% of the media that is progresive will give this story and prominence?
It’s easy to advocate high taxes on successful people if you don’t pay your own tax bills, of course. But I suspect the real lesson is not so much that Ocasio-Cortez is getting rich off of evading the rules, but rather that she is a total failure at anything requiting practical responsibility, attention to detail, and following the law. After failing, she retreated into the gauzy generalizations of socialism. It is so much easier than running a business to appropriate other people’s money — from the successful ones who do follow the rules and work the 70 hour weeks necessary to make a success of an entrepreneurial venture, juggling the balls, bearing the risk, and ultimately succeeding. That money can support the lifestyles of “those unwilling to work,” but only until they “eventually run out of other people’s money” – as is happening in Venezuela right now.
Do voters really want to put their future in the hands of someone this irresponsible?
