Trump administration proposes $18 billion wall bordering Mexico

The Trump administration has unveiled plans to extend the border wall with Mexico – with a price tag of $18 billion over a 10-year period, according to published reports. The plan is the first detailed blueprint of how Trump plans to carry out his campaign pledge to build a “big, beautiful wall” bordering Mexico.

U.S. taxpayers will likely foot the bill for the wall, because Mexico leaders have repeatedly said they will not pay for it.

How big is this project?

A proposal by Customs and Border Protection calls for extending the existing barrier by 316 miles by September 2027. When complete, the wall would cover a total of 970 miles or about one-half of the border, the Associated Press reported. Additionally, the project calls for 407 miles of secondary fencing. The information was given to media by an official who did not want to be identified because the plan has not been made public, the report states.

Senators had asked Customs and Border Protection what it would cost to extend the border wall, the official reportedly said.

The exact location of the extended wall was not revealed.

What other projects are planned?

This year, the Trump administration wants to spend $1.6 billion to build or replace 74 miles of border fencing in Texas and California. Plans call for an additional $1.6 billion next year.

The administration is also negotiating a plan that could grant legal status to about 800,000 people who were temporarily protected from deportation under an Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Associated Press reported. Last year, Trump gave Congress a March deadline to fix DACA. The new wall would be part of any new package for DACA recipients.

The Customs and Border Protection plan represents a total of about $33 billion in new border spending. In addition to the $18 billion wall, the plan includes $5.7 billion for technology gear, $1 billion for road construction and maintenance. Also included is $8.5 billion for 5,000 new Border Patrol agents, 2,500 border inspectors and other personnel, the Associated Press reported.

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Dr. Media examining Trump? Why not examine Obama instead?


Obama was paranoid, delusional, and a power-hungry autocrat who didn’t care about equal justice, his oath to enforce laws, the Constitution, economic opportunity for all, or the safety of the people.


Paranoid


Obama wiretapped James Rosen, threw Dinesh D’Souza in jail, and spied on Sharyl Attkisson.  If you were an opponent of Obama, you weren’t safe.  I did not see supporters thrown in jail.


The State Department deliberately deleted embarrassing questions from James Rosen about Iran.  (The media and Democrats didn’t care.)


Obama illegally spied on thousands of Americans for years and spied on his political opponent, Trump.


Obama changed the rules so that members of his staff and bureaucrats could illegally unmask people’s names and illegally leak conversations to the media.  There was no punishment by the Justice Department, and somehow there were no leaks surrounding Hillary or Obama.


Obama compared Tea Party members to domestic terrorists, and his IRS clearly targeted them, violating free speech rights.


The Justice Department threatened legal action against those who disagree that mankind is responsible for changes in the global climate.


Delusional


He said when he was elected that sea levels would stop rising.  He was so delusional that he would go around the world saying that if the people and businesses just handed over trillions of dollars, politicians could control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity forever.


Obama was either delusional or a congenital liar when he went around the U.S., repeating over and over that you could keep your doctor and health care plan and that your premiums would go down if Obamacare passed.  He also lied when he said middle-class taxes would not be raised under Obamacare.


Either he was delusional to believe that government is the best way to grow the economy or he didn’t care what was coming out of his mouth.


Autocrat and power-hungry


He issued regulations at a fast pace to transfer control from the private sector to the government.  As it was clear that the economy was recovering at the slowest rate in seventy years, Obama just kept adding regulations and usurping power from the people, showing that he either is either a really slow learner or just wanted power and didn’t care that he was reducing economic opportunities for the poor and the middle class.


He and the Democrats passed a bill that dictatorially told 100% of the American people what type of health policy they had to buy.  If they didn’t do as they were told, they were fined.


He dictatorially threatened to cut off funds from schools if they didn’t allow boys and girls to expose themselves in whichever locker room or restroom they chose, notwithstanding which anatomical parts they possessed.


No matter how many times pipelines passed environmental standards, he just said no.


Equal justice for all


Clapper, Brennan, Hillary, Rice, Huma, and Holder all committed perjury, and they were never prosecuted.


Hillary and her aides continually violated the nation’s security laws, and they were purposely not charged.


Lois Lerner and others at the IRS committed perjury, destroyed records and computers, and violated people’s constitutional rights, and Justice didn’t charge them.


Obama said there wasn’t a smidgen of evidence of wrongdoing at IRS and didn’t see anything Hillary and others did at the State Department that jeopardized the safety of the U.S.  The “independent” Justice Department did what it was told by not charging anyone.


His oath to enforce laws and the Constitution


Obama repeatedly said he didn’t have the right to unilaterally change immigration laws but did it anyway.


When Arizona wanted to enforce immigration laws, he sued the state.


When sanctuary cities refused to enforce laws on the books, he supported them.


When states passed sensible voter ID laws, Obama sued them.  (States’ rights seem important to Democrats only when they comport with the Democrat agenda.)


The IRS violated conservative free speech rights, and Obama supported it (probably instructed the agency).


The Justice Department sued the Little Sisters of the Poor for daring to exercise their freedom of religion.


And the supposedly independent Justice Department did exactly what Obama instructed it to do.


Didn’t care about the safety of people


Pulled out all troops from Iraq, letting the terrorist organization ISIS build up.


Essentially did nothing to stop North Korea from continually developing nuclear weapons.


Failed to live up to our commitment to help Ukraine.


Drew a fictitious red line in Syria.


Built up Iran, which continues to threaten death to America and death to Israel and supports terrorism throughout the world and the Mideast.


One of the most disgusting things Obama did as president


On September 11, 2012, there was an attack happening on American people in Benghazi.  Despite Obama, Hillary, and others having no idea how long the attack would last, they did not lift a finger to help save those lives.  Instead, they seemed to spend the night figuring out how to protect their political power because a terrorist attack would be inconvenient that close to an election.  Therefore, they concocted a lie about a video causing the attack and sent Susan Rice out to tell the world the lie.


It shows that Hillary and Obama have zero empathy.  They wouldn’t tell the families of those who lost loved ones the truth.  Their power was much more important to them than those who suffered.


My choice


I will gladly take a president who leads from ahead, who follows laws that Congress has passed, and who is striving to give the power and purse back to the people as fast as he can.  His mental capacity to produce results appears to be spectacular.


Here is a hint for the media: the president who is seeking to reduce regulations as fast as he can and give the power and purse back to the people is not the power-hungry autocrat.  Obama was the autocrat and the power-hungry man, and the media and other Democrats supported him at all times.


A side note


Black unemployment hit a record low in December.  I would think the media and other Democrats would be celebrating, but instead, their goal is to destroy the president who wants to give economic opportunity to everyone.  That is more proof that Democrats want more people to be dependent on government and that they would rather oppress than progress.


Correction: James Rosen was wiretapped, not imprisoned


Many in the media along with other Democrats say Trump is mentally incompetent and needs his head examined.


I believe that the people who actually need their heads examined are Obama and all the journalists and Democrats who supported him, no matter what he did.


Obama was paranoid, delusional, and a power-hungry autocrat who didn’t care about equal justice, his oath to enforce laws, the Constitution, economic opportunity for all, or the safety of the people.


Paranoid


Obama wiretapped James Rosen, threw Dinesh D’Souza in jail, and spied on Sharyl Attkisson.  If you were an opponent of Obama, you weren’t safe.  I did not see supporters thrown in jail.


The State Department deliberately deleted embarrassing questions from James Rosen about Iran.  (The media and Democrats didn’t care.)


Obama illegally spied on thousands of Americans for years and spied on his political opponent, Trump.


Obama changed the rules so that members of his staff and bureaucrats could illegally unmask people’s names and illegally leak conversations to the media.  There was no punishment by the Justice Department, and somehow there were no leaks surrounding Hillary or Obama.


Obama compared Tea Party members to domestic terrorists, and his IRS clearly targeted them, violating free speech rights.


The Justice Department threatened legal action against those who disagree that mankind is responsible for changes in the global climate.


Delusional


He said when he was elected that sea levels would stop rising.  He was so delusional that he would go around the world saying that if the people and businesses just handed over trillions of dollars, politicians could control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity forever.


Obama was either delusional or a congenital liar when he went around the U.S., repeating over and over that you could keep your doctor and health care plan and that your premiums would go down if Obamacare passed.  He also lied when he said middle-class taxes would not be raised under Obamacare.


Either he was delusional to believe that government is the best way to grow the economy or he didn’t care what was coming out of his mouth.


Autocrat and power-hungry


He issued regulations at a fast pace to transfer control from the private sector to the government.  As it was clear that the economy was recovering at the slowest rate in seventy years, Obama just kept adding regulations and usurping power from the people, showing that he either is either a really slow learner or just wanted power and didn’t care that he was reducing economic opportunities for the poor and the middle class.


He and the Democrats passed a bill that dictatorially told 100% of the American people what type of health policy they had to buy.  If they didn’t do as they were told, they were fined.


He dictatorially threatened to cut off funds from schools if they didn’t allow boys and girls to expose themselves in whichever locker room or restroom they chose, notwithstanding which anatomical parts they possessed.


No matter how many times pipelines passed environmental standards, he just said no.


Equal justice for all


Clapper, Brennan, Hillary, Rice, Huma, and Holder all committed perjury, and they were never prosecuted.


Hillary and her aides continually violated the nation’s security laws, and they were purposely not charged.


Lois Lerner and others at the IRS committed perjury, destroyed records and computers, and violated people’s constitutional rights, and Justice didn’t charge them.


Obama said there wasn’t a smidgen of evidence of wrongdoing at IRS and didn’t see anything Hillary and others did at the State Department that jeopardized the safety of the U.S.  The “independent” Justice Department did what it was told by not charging anyone.


His oath to enforce laws and the Constitution


Obama repeatedly said he didn’t have the right to unilaterally change immigration laws but did it anyway.


When Arizona wanted to enforce immigration laws, he sued the state.


When sanctuary cities refused to enforce laws on the books, he supported them.


When states passed sensible voter ID laws, Obama sued them.  (States’ rights seem important to Democrats only when they comport with the Democrat agenda.)


The IRS violated conservative free speech rights, and Obama supported it (probably instructed the agency).


The Justice Department sued the Little Sisters of the Poor for daring to exercise their freedom of religion.


And the supposedly independent Justice Department did exactly what Obama instructed it to do.


Didn’t care about the safety of people


Pulled out all troops from Iraq, letting the terrorist organization ISIS build up.


Essentially did nothing to stop North Korea from continually developing nuclear weapons.


Failed to live up to our commitment to help Ukraine.


Drew a fictitious red line in Syria.


Built up Iran, which continues to threaten death to America and death to Israel and supports terrorism throughout the world and the Mideast.


One of the most disgusting things Obama did as president


On September 11, 2012, there was an attack happening on American people in Benghazi.  Despite Obama, Hillary, and others having no idea how long the attack would last, they did not lift a finger to help save those lives.  Instead, they seemed to spend the night figuring out how to protect their political power because a terrorist attack would be inconvenient that close to an election.  Therefore, they concocted a lie about a video causing the attack and sent Susan Rice out to tell the world the lie.


It shows that Hillary and Obama have zero empathy.  They wouldn’t tell the families of those who lost loved ones the truth.  Their power was much more important to them than those who suffered.


My choice


I will gladly take a president who leads from ahead, who follows laws that Congress has passed, and who is striving to give the power and purse back to the people as fast as he can.  His mental capacity to produce results appears to be spectacular.


Here is a hint for the media: the president who is seeking to reduce regulations as fast as he can and give the power and purse back to the people is not the power-hungry autocrat.  Obama was the autocrat and the power-hungry man, and the media and other Democrats supported him at all times.


A side note


Black unemployment hit a record low in December.  I would think the media and other Democrats would be celebrating, but instead, their goal is to destroy the president who wants to give economic opportunity to everyone.  That is more proof that Democrats want more people to be dependent on government and that they would rather oppress than progress.


Correction: James Rosen was wiretapped, not imprisoned






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Food Stamp Enrollment Drops by 2 Million Under Trump

The number of people enrolled in food stamps dropped by two million since President Trump took office, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The USDA data show that the number of people enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the government program that administers food stamps, plunged to 42,182,443 in fiscal year (FY) 2017 —a drop of 2,036,920 from the 44,219,363 enrolled in FY 2016.

Participation in the program is at its lowest level since 2010, when 40,302,000 people enrolled in the program.

Food stamp enrollment steadily declined after 2013, when participation in the government program swelled to 47.6 million—the highest amount it has ever been since former President Lyndon Johnson authorized the creation of the food stamp program in 1964. Taxpayers spent $79.8 million on SNAP when enrollment reached its peak in 2013.

When the USDA began recording how much taxpayers spent on the food stamp program in 1969, taxpayers spent $250 million to subsidize the 2.8 million receiving benefits.

After 2013, enrollment in SNAP declined as states passed laws requiring food stamp recipients to work, volunteer, be in school, or take part in job training for a set number of hours a week to receive food stamps. The improving economy also contributed to the continuing decline in food stamp usage.

President Trump has mentioned that he wanted to make it a priority to keep SNAP program costs down at the state and federal levels, which might drive down enrollment even further in 2018.

The USDA announced in December that the agency would give state agencies more autonomy over administering SNAP as one way to curb costs of the multi-billion dollar welfare program.

The federal government is also examining policy ideas being considered at the state level, such as limiting the number of family members who can make purchases using a SNAP card and drug-testing welfare recipients, to potentially implement them nationwide.

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Illinois city runs out of other people’s money

Elected officials in the City of Harvey, Illinois are going to be missing their paychecks, as the decades of over-spending and over-taxing finally come home for the politicians responsible for the crisis.


Zack Keske of the Chicago Tribune reports:



Elected officials in Harvey learned Thursday they would not be getting paid this pay cycle due to the city’s “financial constraints,” according to an email obtained by the Daily Southtown.


City [c]omptroller Louis B. Williams notified officials early Thursday afternoon that the city could not pay them this pay period but hoped to process payments as early as within a week.


“Due to the financial constraints the City is experiencing, we are unable to pay elected officials for this current pay period 01/05/18,” reads the email, which Williams sent to the mayor, aldermen, the treasurer, the clerk, the deputy clerk[,] and a mayoral aide.  “Regarding your paychecks, we will keep you all updated, as we are hoping to process them sometime next week if funding is available.  Thank you for your patience and understanding at this time.”


The brief communication prompted email responses from multiple aldermen, who claimed they had been left in the dark about the city’s financial state and requested that a meeting be called to discuss the matter, emails provided by one of the aldermen show.




Downtown Harvey, Illinois (photo credit: David Wilson1949).


Harvey, Illinois is, to be frank, a basket case of mismanagement.  Half a year ago, the Chicago Tribune editorial board wrote:


To live in Harvey is to live in a perpetual state of municipal dysfunction.  The city’s mismanagement spans decades.  Police pensions went unpaid for years.  Rape kits languished on a shelf when they should have been sent to a lab for analysis – a lag time, prosecutors say, in which some of the suspects in those cases raped again.  In 2015, when the city’s police desperately needed squad cars, Mayor Eric Kellogg’s administration used $51,000 in federal grant money to get the mayor an SUV.


The city has a long history of switching money around from intended (and legal) uses to cover shortfalls elsewhere.  The Trib editorial, focused on water system failures, noted:


Water fund revenue was used to cover budget deficits and meet the payroll of non-water department workers.  The misspending of water revenue also included payments to Kay Jewelers, a Kohl’s department store[,] and a college savings account.  Harvey officials say they discovered those fraudulent payments and made sure the money was paid back.  “It is undisputed that Harvey’s water fund finances are in disarray,” [Judge] Pantle wrote in her ruling, “and are being unlawfully raided by Harvey’s government to pay for non[-]water-related expenses.”


Apparently, there are no more accounts to be looted to pay the pols.  Or, in Margaret Thatcher’s words, “eventually, you run out of other people’s money.”


How long will it be until demands for a federal bailout are heard?  Illinois has too many problems of its own to start bailing out its municipalities.  Keep in mind that Harvey’s population is over three quarters black, according to the 2010 census.


Elected officials in the City of Harvey, Illinois are going to be missing their paychecks, as the decades of over-spending and over-taxing finally come home for the politicians responsible for the crisis.


Zack Keske of the Chicago Tribune reports:


Elected officials in Harvey learned Thursday they would not be getting paid this pay cycle due to the city’s “financial constraints,” according to an email obtained by the Daily Southtown.


City [c]omptroller Louis B. Williams notified officials early Thursday afternoon that the city could not pay them this pay period but hoped to process payments as early as within a week.


“Due to the financial constraints the City is experiencing, we are unable to pay elected officials for this current pay period 01/05/18,” reads the email, which Williams sent to the mayor, aldermen, the treasurer, the clerk, the deputy clerk[,] and a mayoral aide.  “Regarding your paychecks, we will keep you all updated, as we are hoping to process them sometime next week if funding is available.  Thank you for your patience and understanding at this time.”


The brief communication prompted email responses from multiple aldermen, who claimed they had been left in the dark about the city’s financial state and requested that a meeting be called to discuss the matter, emails provided by one of the aldermen show.




Downtown Harvey, Illinois (photo credit: David Wilson1949).


Harvey, Illinois is, to be frank, a basket case of mismanagement.  Half a year ago, the Chicago Tribune editorial board wrote:


To live in Harvey is to live in a perpetual state of municipal dysfunction.  The city’s mismanagement spans decades.  Police pensions went unpaid for years.  Rape kits languished on a shelf when they should have been sent to a lab for analysis – a lag time, prosecutors say, in which some of the suspects in those cases raped again.  In 2015, when the city’s police desperately needed squad cars, Mayor Eric Kellogg’s administration used $51,000 in federal grant money to get the mayor an SUV.


The city has a long history of switching money around from intended (and legal) uses to cover shortfalls elsewhere.  The Trib editorial, focused on water system failures, noted:


Water fund revenue was used to cover budget deficits and meet the payroll of non-water department workers.  The misspending of water revenue also included payments to Kay Jewelers, a Kohl’s department store[,] and a college savings account.  Harvey officials say they discovered those fraudulent payments and made sure the money was paid back.  “It is undisputed that Harvey’s water fund finances are in disarray,” [Judge] Pantle wrote in her ruling, “and are being unlawfully raided by Harvey’s government to pay for non[-]water-related expenses.”


Apparently, there are no more accounts to be looted to pay the pols.  Or, in Margaret Thatcher’s words, “eventually, you run out of other people’s money.”


How long will it be until demands for a federal bailout are heard?  Illinois has too many problems of its own to start bailing out its municipalities.  Keep in mind that Harvey’s population is over three quarters black, according to the 2010 census.






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Cop-Hating Beyonce Just Lost “Most Admired Woman” to 3 Awesome Republican Women

Gallup released its list of “most admired” men and women of the year this week, and it was full of surprises.

Former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton secured the top spots, but a few high-profile Republicans also made the list.

In fact, three conservative women beat out pop singer Beyoncé, who sat at the bottom of the list.

According to Gallup, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, first lady Melania Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley are more admirable than Beyoncé and the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton.

The poll asked 1,049 participants, “What woman that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most? And who is your second choice?”

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The top ten most admired women in 2017 were Hillary Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Condoleezza Rice, Melania Trump, Nikki Haley, Kate Middleton and Beyoncé Knowles.

Honestly, it is little wonder Beyoncé is at the bottom of the list considering how much hate she has generated in recent years. Most notable was the singer’s race baiting, anti-police stance.

From her racially charged Super Bowl performance, to videos slamming police, there is no doubt about where the singer stands.

To make her opinion even more well known, in 2016 Beyoncé penned an open letter to police in which she encouraged black people to stand up to police violence.

“We are sick and tired of the killings of young men and women in our communities,” she wrote, adding, “It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they ‘stop killing us.”

Instead of sticking to music, the singer became an agitator, attempting to shove her views down the the throats of her fans.

It looks like her fans did not necessarily like being preached to and found other, more respectable, people to look up to.

Good for them.

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There are literally hundreds of thousands of women who are more admirable than Beyoncé and it is good to see that Americans are waking up to that fact.

In case you were wondering, the top ten most admired men are Barack Obama, President Donald Trump, Pope Francis, Rev. Billy Graham, Sen. John McCain, engineer Elon Musk, Sen. Bernie Sanders, billionaire Bill Gates, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, The Dalai Lama and Vice president Mike Pence.

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Al Gore: The Earth Is Getting Colder Because It’s Getting Warmer

Al Gore is starting to look less like an “expert” and more like a radical zealot.

Scientists look at the real world and work carefully to reach a conclusion that fits. Fanatics work backwards: They take an assumption that they want desperately to be true, and force it on top of reality like hammering a square peg into a round hole.

That’s exactly what the failed presidential candidate seems to be doing, after he bent over backwards to explain that freezing temperatures in the U.S. are proof that, er, the world is overheating.

As much of the country battles bitter cold weather and temperatures in the negative range, Al Gore used Twitter to spread his twisted brand of circular reasoning.

“It’s bitter cold in parts of the US, but climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann explains that’s exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis,” the politician-turned-guru declared.

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In other words: Freezing cold is just part of the planet overheating. Now, stop asking questions!

“Climate crisis,” of course, is a term that’s being used as a substitute for “global warming,” which fell out of favor as a talking point with people more worried about freezing to death. Make no mistake, global warming is still what Gore is peddling, no matter the label.

For instance, the former vice president famously predicted that global warming would cause the arctic ice cap to melt… with a due-date of several years ago. It didn’t happen.

“Updated data from NASA satellite instruments reveal the Earth’s polar ice caps have not receded at all since the satellite instruments began measuring the ice caps in 1979,” Forbes Magazine reported in 2015.

“Ice growth during November 2017 averaged 30,900 square miles per day,” the National Snow and Ice Data Center stated earlier this month.

It would be one thing if global warming zealots like Al Gore admitted that they came to the wrong conclusions, and updated their models and predictions to match reality — you know, like actual scientists do.

Instead, leftists are engaging in the exact same broken logic they claim to despise. The crowd constantly lectures people that “weather is not climate,” and a short-term spell is not the same as a long-term trend.

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That’s what they did after Donald Trump posted a tongue-in-cheek take down of global warming. The president humorously pointed out that the East Coast was facing near-record low temperatures over New Year’s Day, while liberals smugly scolded him that weather isn’t climate.

Yet — magically — when Al Gore needs it to make his case, it suddenly is. Gore simply flipped the same argument, and pointed at the recent cold snap as “evidence” of earth-threatening climate change.

Media outlets frequently do the same thing: Use heat waves in the summer to whip up doom-and-gloom articles about global warming, while suddenly forgetting about the “connection” when icy winter weather shows up.

Here’s a thought: Maybe we don’t actually know enough about millennia-long climate patterns to predict the future. Maybe we should keep digging and asking questions, and not treat people who have healthy skepticism as some sort of Inquisition-era heretics to be burned at the stake.

That would never sell documentaries, though. Inconvenient truth, indeed.

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Sheriff Clarke To Face Trial For Calling A Man ‘Snowflake’ On Facebook

The plaintiff will need a safe space during the trial.

Via The Hill:

Former Milwaukee County Sheriff and prominent President Trump supporter David Clarke Jr. will face trial for taunting a man on Facebook, USA Today reported.

Clarke is set to stand trial on Jan. 22 after he called Daniel Black a “snowflake” on Facebook. Black complained that Clarke abused his authority to harass him after an encounter on an airplane in Jan. 15, 2017.

No criminal charges were filed in the case, but Black also filed a civil rights lawsuit against Clarke. A judge on Friday dismissed many of the charges but said a jury should decide whether Clarke’s Facebook posts at the time were threats or retaliation against Black.

“Cheer up, snowflake … if Sheriff Clarke were to really harass you, you wouldn’t be around to whine about it,” one post from Clarke said.

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“Racist” Trump Presides Over Lowest Black Unemployment Rate in History

Unemployment in the black community dropped to a record low of 6.8 percent in December, the lowest black unemployment rate ever recorded since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking this statistic in 1972.

“In the 45 years the data has been tracked, the unemployment rate for black or African-American workers aged 16 years and older has never fallen below 7 percent,” notes CNBC.

Well done, President Donald Trump, though to be clear, the downward trajectory in black unemployment began around 2011, during the administration of then-President Barack Obama.

The following chart from the BLS demonstrates what I mean:

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Here’s my question, though: Didn’t Democrats and their liberal media peers warn us in 2015 and 2016 that Trump is a bigoted racist who dislikes minorities and would hurt the black community?

In fact, I recall a piece from The Huffington Post published last year that offered “12 reasons Donald Trump would not be great for” black people.

In another piece from Time magazine, controversial talk show host Tavis Smiley seriously pondered whether Trump’s plan to “Make America Great Again” involved re-enslaving blacks.

Likewise, last year fake conservative Jennifer Rubin outlined the many things “African-

Americans have to lose if Trump is elected.”

“Trump doesn’t say, for example, if he’d be willing to spend more on worker training, education and other targeted programs that might address youth unemployment; he does, however, favor a tax plan that hugely benefits the rich,” she wrote for The Washington Post.

Yet here we are in 2018, and not only do blacks remain as free as a bird, but they’re now benefiting from intelligent regulatory policies enacted or cut by Trump that have, in fact, created more jobs and boosted wages for everyone, be they black, white, Hispanic, you name it.

Moreover, when Rubin wrote her piece for the Post, unemployment among black youths between 16 to 19 years of age hovered around 25.4 percent, according to the Federal Reserve Economic Data database maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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As of December, that rate had dropped to 22.9 percent, which was slightly more than the low of 19.8 achieved a couple months earlier. Nice try, though, Rubin.

Look, can we be real for just a moment, versus melodramatic and hyperbolic like liberals?

First, these great black unemployment numbers aren’t attributable to only Trump. The Obama administration admittedly got the ball rolling years ago.

Second, and more importantly, despite claims by leftists that Trump’s presidency would damage the black community, it’s actually helped to push black unemployment even lower than before, to the point that black unemployment just reached a record low last month.

Why is this happening? Because when Trump promised on the campaign trail to “Make America Great Again” for everybody, regardless of their race, religious or sexuality, he clearly meant it — and that’s something no liberal moron or pretend conservative airhead can deny anymore.

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Costco price labels perfectly expose the absurdity of Seattle’s new sugary drink tax

To ring in the new year, Seattle implemented a new tax on its residents: the dreaded sugary drink tax. Now, we know just how much the tax will hurt consumers.

How bad is it?

Pricing labels at a Seattle Costco have garnered much attention because they show just how much soda and other sugary drinks now cost Seattle residents. A CBS News manager tweeted pictures showing the price increase of two drinks.

In the first case, the price of a case of Dr. Pepper (36 cans) nearly doubled. According to the picture, Costco sells the soda for $9.99. But with an added tax of $7.56, the soda now costs customers $17.55. In the second case, Costco sells a case of Gatorade for $15.99. But the tax adds $10.34 to the price, which brings the total cost to $26.33.

Despite the steep new prices, Costco was there to remind customers who live in the Seattle city limits that the tax doesn’t apply to its nearby locations outside the city.

What did Seattle do?

Last June, the Seattle city council passed a 1.75 cents per ounce tax on sugary drinks. The tax affects sodas, energy drinks, sports drinks, juice and other non-milk based products. Non-milk based drinks include many of those sold at Starbucks and other coffee shops. Diet drinks and those from small distributors are exempt from the tax.

Distributors are required to pay the tax. However, the added cost has been directly passed on to consumers in most cases.

The purpose of the tax, Seattle’s progressive leaders allege, is to help thwart people from purchasing the drinks. Much of the tax will be used to fund programs designed to educate young people on making healthy choices.

Do other U.S. cities have a similar tax?

Yes. In 2015, Berkeley, California, became the first U.S. city to implement a sugary drink tax, otherwise known as the “soda tax.”

Many of America’s most progressive cities and municipalities followed suit, including:

  • Philadelphia
  • San Fransisco and Oakland
  • Portland, Oregon
  • Albany, New York
  • Boulder, Colorado
  • Cook County, Illinois, where the city of Chicago is located

Maryland and Virginia also levy a statewide soda tax.

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New England Liberals Shut Down Coal Power Plants, Now They’re at Risk of Freezing

Because of years of left-wing environmentalism being forced on power companies in New England, these energy suppliers are now struggling to fulfill the demands of local residents seeking to merely stay warm during this intense winter.

“Officials at ISO-New England, operators of the region’s power grid, said energy demands during the recent arctic weather have placed major pressures on energy generators, forcing power companies to rely more on coal and oil to produce electricity,” the Hartford Courant reported this week.

The Courant further noted that though energy industry officials have for years recommended that New England fix its energy problems by, at the very least, constructing new natural gas pipelines, such proposals have “been blocked or withdrawn” mainly because of opposition from environmental groups.

State and federal regulations haven’t helped either. Speaking of which, these very regulations could now pose a major concern for locals.

“Environmental limitation on how much, or whether, some oil-fired power plants will be able to generate electricity could become a concern this week and for the remainder of the winter,” explained ISO-New England spokeswoman Marcia Blomberg in an email to Boston station WCVB.

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It sounds like that’s not going to be good for anyone.

To really understand what’s happening in New England, however, you need to first be aware of how the region got to this point.

Writing for Scientific American four years ago, LIndsey Konkel explained how “(s)tringent environmental regulations and a steep drop in the cost of natural gas” spurred officials in New England to push away from coal and embrace natural gas.

“In 2000, coal accounted for roughly 18 percent of the region’s electricity generation while natural gas accounted for about 15 percent,” she wrote. “In 2012, just 3 percent of New England’s electricity was generated by coal, while 52 percent came from natural gas.”

While the increased reliance on natural gas isn’t a bad thing, the decreased reliance on coal is. What’s ironic is that liberals have complained about the gas as well.

“Natural gas is killing coal plants, but more natural gas infrastructure may be adverse to health and climate in the long run,” Konkel quoted N. Jonathan Peres, an attorney for the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation.

This is why multiple pipeline projects have been killed over the past few years, including one that “would have expanded an existing New England pipeline and was expected to save customers $1 billion a year,” as noted by The Daily Caller.

See the problem? The liberals in New England want nothing to do with coal, but they also want very little to do with natural gas as well.

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And now, thanks to these liberals’ shortsightedness, power companies in New England are functioning at full capacity, struggling to provide locals with heat.

FYI, as of Saturday morning, the temperature is Boston is 10 degrees Fahrenheit, with an estimated low of -6 degrees expected, according to AccuWeather.

I sincerely hope the power companies in New England remain operational through this bad weather, but at this point there’s no telling what might happen.

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