Month: September 2018

Not looking good for Dr. Ford and the Democrats.

Via Fox News:

Another person claimed by Christine Blasey Ford to have attended a gathering decades ago during which, Ford claims, she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has denied any recollection of having attended the party.

In an email to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday, Leland Ingham Keyser, a former classmate of Ford’s at the Holton-Arms all-girls school in Maryland, said she doesn’t know Kavanugh or remember being at the party with him.

“Simply put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford,” lawyer Howard J. Walsh III of Bethesda, Md., conveyed in an email to the committee that was obtained by Fox News.

All five witnesses Dr. Ford places at scene have weighed in, now all but Ford say the incident didn’t happen. The four she names besides herself contradict her. Last witness, Leland Keyser, says she doesn’t know #Kavanaughhttps://t.co/A0rprHEXgv #TeaParty #IStandWithBrett
— Jenny Beth Martin (@jennybethm) September 23, 2018

Politico reported that the email was in response to a letter from a lawyer for the GOP majority staff, which said: “I understand that you have been identified as an individual who was in attendance at a party that occurred circa 1982 described in a recent Washington Post article.”

In response, Ford’s lawyer Debra Katz said: “As Dr. Ford has said, she did not share her story publicly or with anyone for years following the incident with Judge Kavanaugh.

“It’s not surprising that Ms. Keyser has no recollection of the evening as they did not discuss it. It’s also unremarkable that Ms. Keyser does not remember attending a specific gathering 30 years ago at which nothing of consequence happened to her. Dr. Ford of course will never forget this gathering because of what happened to her there.”

Keyser’s denial brings to four the number of witnesses, including Kavanaugh, who’ve all said they have no memory of the party or the incident.

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What the heck has gotten into Pope Francis? When he’s not letting a leftist pervert like Cardinal Theodore McCarrick pick out the archbishops, he’s letting the communists of Beijing.

According to Deutsche Welle:

Pope Francis on Saturday endorsed the legitimacy of seven Chinese bishops, appointed by Beijing without the Vatican’s approval.

The decision is part of a historic accord between the Catholic Church and China over the nomination of bishops, which is normally a papal prerogative. The issue has strained ties between the two for decades.

His betrayal of the Catholic Church in China is simply mind-blowing.

In a bid to establish diplomatic relations with China, he agreed to allow the Chinese state, run by atheistic communists, to choose the archbishops to lead the Catholic Church over there in a move that undercuts the underground Catholic Church over there, which has rejected this phony leadership for their faith.

It might not have been a complete capitulation — he reportedly may have reserved the right to veto any of the Beijing-picked candidates, so I suppose we won’t be getting an obvious comrade in a Mao suit spouting slogans. But we will probably get quite a few less obvious ones, Chinese internal intelligence agency informants, and people who subtly undermine the Church teachings itself because of their alignment to the regime.

It’s an astonishing betrayal of the millions of Catholics inside China who have carefully carried the torch as the Christian martyrs of ancient Rome once did, underground, risking their lives. They threw such people into the lion’s dens back then. Today, they throw them into the lao gai, or Chinese gulags. Yet they are all saints.

And they play an important role to Catholics in free countries. Essentially: If they can walk 20 miles to mass, and hide out from the secret police to bring the sacraments, who am I to miss mass or not perform some act of charity? This is what Catholics think when they consider the underground Church in China.

So to see them abandoned like this, after all their sacrifices to live the faith, only to see Pope Francis allow their enemy to appoint their leaders and lead their church, is horrifying. Can you imagine what they must be saying to each other?

Could there be any greater means of shrinking the Church after an act like that? As Pope John Paul has noted, the Church’s fruits in Asia have always been rather meager given the strength of the other faiths. China of course is different, given its communist embrace of enforced atheism, making it rather ripe for converts. Yet the Chinese Church got it all thrown in their faces. It rather resembles Pope Francis’s acts in Cuba, where he made common cause with the Castroites, to establish diplomatic relations, and presumably to get some Church schools and masses going, yet also unleashed a huge wave of repression on Cuba’s dissidents, particularly the Ladies in White, who have been beaten by Cuba’s goons as they walked to mass and went into the churches.

The, uh, ‘social justice’ teachings of the Church don’t seem to apply in these cases, because the Church leadership has been dead silent.

And that is what this comes down to: leadership. Who picks the bishops picks the Church leadership. Putting Beijing’s men in pretty well puts some in line to become cardinals, which in turn puts them in line to voting for the next pope. The implications of that are staggering.

What’s more, it’s part of a pattern. The pope has been roundly criticized for abandoning the Uniate Catholics of Ukraine in the interest of good relations with Moscow, and the persecuted Christians of the Middle East in the interest of good relations with the European ruling class, which favors Muslim immigration to Europe. Tha abandonment of China’s Christians, who have carried the torch in silence for so long is extremely hard to stomach. There have been many complaints from Venezuela, too, about the Pope’s failure to condemn the socialist starvation policies of Nicolas Maduro, in the interest of good relations with the Chavista government. In all cases, the pope has chosen the state over the people.

Quite an irony from the man who up until now has been called ‘the people’s pope.’ 

 

Image credit: Yoshi Canopus, via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

What the heck has gotten into Pope Francis? When he’s not letting a leftist pervert like Cardinal Theodore McCarrick pick out the archbishops, he’s letting the communists of Beijing.

According to Deutsche Welle:

Pope Francis on Saturday endorsed the legitimacy of seven Chinese bishops, appointed by Beijing without the Vatican’s approval.

The decision is part of a historic accord between the Catholic Church and China over the nomination of bishops, which is normally a papal prerogative. The issue has strained ties between the two for decades.

His betrayal of the Catholic Church in China is simply mind-blowing.

In a bid to establish diplomatic relations with China, he agreed to allow the Chinese state, run by atheistic communists, to choose the archbishops to lead the Catholic Church over there in a move that undercuts the underground Catholic Church over there, which has rejected this phony leadership for their faith.

It might not have been a complete capitulation — he reportedly may have reserved the right to veto any of the Beijing-picked candidates, so I suppose we won’t be getting an obvious comrade in a Mao suit spouting slogans. But we will probably get quite a few less obvious ones, Chinese internal intelligence agency informants, and people who subtly undermine the Church teachings itself because of their alignment to the regime.

It’s an astonishing betrayal of the millions of Catholics inside China who have carefully carried the torch as the Christian martyrs of ancient Rome once did, underground, risking their lives. They threw such people into the lion’s dens back then. Today, they throw them into the lao gai, or Chinese gulags. Yet they are all saints.

And they play an important role to Catholics in free countries. Essentially: If they can walk 20 miles to mass, and hide out from the secret police to bring the sacraments, who am I to miss mass or not perform some act of charity? This is what Catholics think when they consider the underground Church in China.

So to see them abandoned like this, after all their sacrifices to live the faith, only to see Pope Francis allow their enemy to appoint their leaders and lead their church, is horrifying. Can you imagine what they must be saying to each other?

Could there be any greater means of shrinking the Church after an act like that? As Pope John Paul has noted, the Church’s fruits in Asia have always been rather meager given the strength of the other faiths. China of course is different, given its communist embrace of enforced atheism, making it rather ripe for converts. Yet the Chinese Church got it all thrown in their faces. It rather resembles Pope Francis’s acts in Cuba, where he made common cause with the Castroites, to establish diplomatic relations, and presumably to get some Church schools and masses going, yet also unleashed a huge wave of repression on Cuba’s dissidents, particularly the Ladies in White, who have been beaten by Cuba’s goons as they walked to mass and went into the churches.

The, uh, ‘social justice’ teachings of the Church don’t seem to apply in these cases, because the Church leadership has been dead silent.

And that is what this comes down to: leadership. Who picks the bishops picks the Church leadership. Putting Beijing’s men in pretty well puts some in line to become cardinals, which in turn puts them in line to voting for the next pope. The implications of that are staggering.

What’s more, it’s part of a pattern. The pope has been roundly criticized for abandoning the Uniate Catholics of Ukraine in the interest of good relations with Moscow, and the persecuted Christians of the Middle East in the interest of good relations with the European ruling class, which favors Muslim immigration to Europe. Tha abandonment of China’s Christians, who have carried the torch in silence for so long is extremely hard to stomach. There have been many complaints from Venezuela, too, about the Pope’s failure to condemn the socialist starvation policies of Nicolas Maduro, in the interest of good relations with the Chavista government. In all cases, the pope has chosen the state over the people.

Quite an irony from the man who up until now has been called ‘the people’s pope.’ 

 

Image credit: Yoshi Canopus, via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

The circus that Democrats are putting on for all the world to witness is a display of partisanship that should disgust even the casual observer, regardless of party.  Shockingly, as disgusting as their blatant disregard for the integrity of the Supreme Court confirmation process is, it’s not even close to the clear and present danger that their immediate presumption of guilt for Judge Kavanaugh poses to our nation’s boys and young men.

Parents of boys must understand the brave new world Democrats are attempting to usher in and the legitimate threats it poses to their sons’ futures – their reputations, college and career prospects, and general welfare.

Democrats’ instantaneous presumption of guilt for Judge Kavanaugh is setting a new standard for sexual assault allegations wherein they should be accepted simply for having been made.  Moreover, the allegations are to be believed, despite lacking any semblance of credible evidence, solely for having been made by a woman.

Consider Democratic senator Hirono from Hawaii’s recent comments: “Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely come forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed.”

Statements like that of Sen. Hirono, of which there have been a plethora, undermine the very nature of our nation’s judicial system and rule of law by placing the burden to disprove the allegations on the accused and, thus, rendering him guilty should he be unable to persuade the mob in the court of public opinion.

Parents, set aside the partisanship and the hyper-polarization that exist in our modern discourse and consider for a moment if this were your son. 

A girl comes forward accusing your son of sexual assault.  The case she lays out contains minimal evidence with fuzzy, uncorroborated details and zero recollection at all of many foundational material facts.  Two of the only three people the girl claims are in a position to corroborate the allegation issue patent denials, and the only person with whom the incident was disclosed prior to a public accusation against your son contradicts key facts of the allegation.  The accuser has a demonstrable history during that period of her life of underage intoxication, and your son unequivocally denies that the situation ever occurred.  When the authorities offer to hear her testimony, she issues a list of demands designed to obscure your son’s quest for the truth and unfairly prejudice the investigation significantly in her favor.  To compound matters, failure by your son to disprove these allegations will result in him losing everything – his reputation, friends, college admission prospects, scholarships, and career opportunities, along with an infinite amount of additional harm.

Parents, does this sound right to you?  Does this sound like blind justice that presumes innocence until proven guilty?  Does this sound like a society that you want your sons to be forced to navigate as they live their lives?

It certainly isn’t the world I want my three boys to grow up in, yet if the Democrats are allowed to continue establishing this precedent while they pursue an unconstitutional obstructionism of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process, that’s exactly the world our boys will be forced to grow up in.

Parents, if there was ever a time to get off the sidelines – to pull our heads out of the sand that’s been shoveled around them by the mainstream media – the time is now.

Democrats are presently claiming that even the mere questioning of the facts of Christine Ford’s accusation is somehow a sexist attack on her by a misogynistic patriarchal society.

As a society – as parents – we cannot allow this kind of mob rule to prevail, for doing so will radically alter and significantly darken the future for our children by instituting a new de facto American legal standard based on the presumption of guilt.

Make no mistake: should we permit such a legal standard to be established, it is only a matter of time before that standard shifts to universal applicability, regardless of sex and accusation.

All parents have a moral and parental imperative to speak out against this assault on our children and demand that the Democrats cease with this kangaroo court. 

With Christine Ford’s eleventh-hour acceptance of the Senate’s request for testimony, she should be held to the same process and standard as would be afforded to any other individual testifying before a Senate committee.

Should Ford continue her antics of delays, half-truths, and non-recollections, Senator Grassley should immediately regard her as nothing more than a partisan actor intended to defame an honorable man and call for a vote on Judge Kavanaugh based on the undeniable merits of his legal career and overwhelming evidence of his exceptional moral character in both his professional life and his personal life.

Parents, it’s time to make your voices heard.  Your children’s future depends on it.

Image: Chris Schmich via Flickr.

The circus that Democrats are putting on for all the world to witness is a display of partisanship that should disgust even the casual observer, regardless of party.  Shockingly, as disgusting as their blatant disregard for the integrity of the Supreme Court confirmation process is, it’s not even close to the clear and present danger that their immediate presumption of guilt for Judge Kavanaugh poses to our nation’s boys and young men.

Parents of boys must understand the brave new world Democrats are attempting to usher in and the legitimate threats it poses to their sons’ futures – their reputations, college and career prospects, and general welfare.

Democrats’ instantaneous presumption of guilt for Judge Kavanaugh is setting a new standard for sexual assault allegations wherein they should be accepted simply for having been made.  Moreover, the allegations are to be believed, despite lacking any semblance of credible evidence, solely for having been made by a woman.

Consider Democratic senator Hirono from Hawaii’s recent comments: “Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely come forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed.”

Statements like that of Sen. Hirono, of which there have been a plethora, undermine the very nature of our nation’s judicial system and rule of law by placing the burden to disprove the allegations on the accused and, thus, rendering him guilty should he be unable to persuade the mob in the court of public opinion.

Parents, set aside the partisanship and the hyper-polarization that exist in our modern discourse and consider for a moment if this were your son. 

A girl comes forward accusing your son of sexual assault.  The case she lays out contains minimal evidence with fuzzy, uncorroborated details and zero recollection at all of many foundational material facts.  Two of the only three people the girl claims are in a position to corroborate the allegation issue patent denials, and the only person with whom the incident was disclosed prior to a public accusation against your son contradicts key facts of the allegation.  The accuser has a demonstrable history during that period of her life of underage intoxication, and your son unequivocally denies that the situation ever occurred.  When the authorities offer to hear her testimony, she issues a list of demands designed to obscure your son’s quest for the truth and unfairly prejudice the investigation significantly in her favor.  To compound matters, failure by your son to disprove these allegations will result in him losing everything – his reputation, friends, college admission prospects, scholarships, and career opportunities, along with an infinite amount of additional harm.

Parents, does this sound right to you?  Does this sound like blind justice that presumes innocence until proven guilty?  Does this sound like a society that you want your sons to be forced to navigate as they live their lives?

It certainly isn’t the world I want my three boys to grow up in, yet if the Democrats are allowed to continue establishing this precedent while they pursue an unconstitutional obstructionism of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process, that’s exactly the world our boys will be forced to grow up in.

Parents, if there was ever a time to get off the sidelines – to pull our heads out of the sand that’s been shoveled around them by the mainstream media – the time is now.

Democrats are presently claiming that even the mere questioning of the facts of Christine Ford’s accusation is somehow a sexist attack on her by a misogynistic patriarchal society.

As a society – as parents – we cannot allow this kind of mob rule to prevail, for doing so will radically alter and significantly darken the future for our children by instituting a new de facto American legal standard based on the presumption of guilt.

Make no mistake: should we permit such a legal standard to be established, it is only a matter of time before that standard shifts to universal applicability, regardless of sex and accusation.

All parents have a moral and parental imperative to speak out against this assault on our children and demand that the Democrats cease with this kangaroo court. 

With Christine Ford’s eleventh-hour acceptance of the Senate’s request for testimony, she should be held to the same process and standard as would be afforded to any other individual testifying before a Senate committee.

Should Ford continue her antics of delays, half-truths, and non-recollections, Senator Grassley should immediately regard her as nothing more than a partisan actor intended to defame an honorable man and call for a vote on Judge Kavanaugh based on the undeniable merits of his legal career and overwhelming evidence of his exceptional moral character in both his professional life and his personal life.

Parents, it’s time to make your voices heard.  Your children’s future depends on it.

Image: Chris Schmich via Flickr.

The left’s smear campaign against Judge Brett Kavanaugh has descended into the worst kind of buffoonery.  It was clearly planned many months in advance and orchestrated by a bevy of Democrats from Dianne Feintstein to Ford’s lawyer, Debra Katz, and Rickie Seidmon, a vicious veteran strategist of the Bork Senate Judiciary hearings. 

Blasey-Ford has surrounded herself with Alinskyite leftists for whom no dirty trick is too low in service of taking out an opponent.   That so many members of Congress are willing to participate in this wholesale destruction of a good and qualified man over a 36-year-old  fact-free accusation is appalling.  

This is the saddest commentary on the state of American politics today — along with the outpouring of evidence that higher-ups in the Obama administration, in conjunction with the DOJ, NSA, and FBI, actually did conspire to  destroy Trump, both before and after his election, simply because they do not like him and cannot accept his victory over the most corrupt candidate for the office of the presidency ever is beyond sad; it is lethal for the United States.  The left is killing America and it is purposeful.  Trump is trying to save the nation and doing a damn good job of it, a shockingly good job.  So the left hates him even more for  exposing the lies of their contrary agenda.

As for Christine Blasey-Ford, her scrubbed but still available captioned high-school year-book photos reveal a private girls’ school  that reveled in underage drinking, partying, and promiscuity, even the preying on of younger boys.  It may be a leap, but the evidence implies Blasey was a party animal without the boundaries to which lesser privileged teens would have been bound.  

While a girl’s or a woman’s life style, no matter how promiscuous, is never an excuse for abuse, let alone attempted rape, her behavior is very much relevant when she makes accusations for which she herself may have been responsible, especially if she was drunk.  That she is using this 36-year-old foggy “recovered” memory to take down one of the most qualified persons ever nominated to the Supreme Court is reprehensible.  She knows it.  Every member of the Democratic Party knows it.  They all know Kavanaugh is a good and decent man and that he is extraordinarily qualified to be a Justice.  What roils them is his devotion to the Constitution and his prodigious knowledge of it and all its ramifications. 

But to them, the left,  their loss is an excuse to act out in the most craven, vicious manner.  They have all been schooled in the Alinskyite method so embraced by Obama. If the same tactics were ever to be employed against them, the mainstream media would suffer a major meltdown.  Not until Trump has any Republican fought back against the left with the tactics of their own template — and they are stunned.  How dare he use their long-perfected strategies against them.  Oh, the horror!

There is a profound difference between the American left and right in 2018.  The left, since their electoral loss, has been distraught, angry, and insane. After two years, they are still unable to accept the results of the election.  They accuse Trump of all manner of crimes, not one of which he is guilty.  He is not guilty of collusion with Russia nor is he guilty of a single impeachable crime.  And yet the loathsome Maxine Waters calls for his impeachment seemingly on a daily basis and her party does nothing to temper her hysteria.   The right, on the other hand, is annoyingly compliant and submissive to the left. 

But we must consider the left’s reliance on the judiciary.  They have successfully and destructively transformed American culture through the courts, never by electoral victory.  Roe v. Wade, same-sex marriage — all the social issues victories of the left have been court-mandated, and have gone against public opinion.  When public opinion has gone against the left, they turn to the courts.  California’s  Prop. 8, the legalization of   gay marriage, was voted down by California voters but overturned by the Ninth Circuit.  As Mark Levin has often remarked, SCOTUS is the left’s Politburo.  It is how they impose their love of authoritarianism on us all.  Everything today’s left stands for is antithetical to everything the Founders envisioned, and for what they spent years devising the greatest politicaldocument ever written.

What the left is doing to Kavanagh, the notion that a 36 year-old accusation without any details – time, place, persons – is a viable allegation worthy of attention is ludicrous in the extreme.  The screaming members of Congress and the media are making utter fools of themselves by pretending this is important enough to take Kavanaugh down.  Very few, if any, sentient women truly believe Blasey Ford.  She may have endured an unpleasant incident with a drunk boy, but she likely has no idea who he was.  That the Democrats have latched onto her pathetic tale is indicative of their vacuity.  Our left no longer values decency over indecency, good over evil.  They only value the opportunity to destroy their ideological opponents by any means necessary. 

We are indeed engaged in a cultural and political civil war.  The left has achieved victories repeatedly even when Republicans have been in the majority.  Democrats fight dirty. Republicans capitulate, over and over again. They cower and fear the negative press that is the rule in the odious mainstream media.  But who on this planet with an intact mind automatically believes anything the NYT or the WaPo publishes?  Current events junkies know to ignore them; they are merely arms of the DNC,  calculated promoters of leftist propaganda.  

If the specious claims of Blasey Ford succeed in derailing Kavanaugh, we are done as a democratic republic.  The Left will have won.  They have already won on university campuses.  If this amazing nominee to the Court is  destroyed, it means the entire country is at the mercy of the totalitarian pols and  blinkered, mind-numbed academics.  Republicans in Congress:  DO NOT LET HIS HAPPEN.  They will use this victory over you to forever alter the character of this nation.

The left’s smear campaign against Judge Brett Kavanaugh has descended into the worst kind of buffoonery.  It was clearly planned many months in advance and orchestrated by a bevy of Democrats from Dianne Feintstein to Ford’s lawyer, Debra Katz, and Rickie Seidmon, a vicious veteran strategist of the Bork Senate Judiciary hearings. 

Blasey-Ford has surrounded herself with Alinskyite leftists for whom no dirty trick is too low in service of taking out an opponent.   That so many members of Congress are willing to participate in this wholesale destruction of a good and qualified man over a 36-year-old  fact-free accusation is appalling.  

This is the saddest commentary on the state of American politics today — along with the outpouring of evidence that higher-ups in the Obama administration, in conjunction with the DOJ, NSA, and FBI, actually did conspire to  destroy Trump, both before and after his election, simply because they do not like him and cannot accept his victory over the most corrupt candidate for the office of the presidency ever is beyond sad; it is lethal for the United States.  The left is killing America and it is purposeful.  Trump is trying to save the nation and doing a damn good job of it, a shockingly good job.  So the left hates him even more for  exposing the lies of their contrary agenda.

As for Christine Blasey-Ford, her scrubbed but still available captioned high-school year-book photos reveal a private girls’ school  that reveled in underage drinking, partying, and promiscuity, even the preying on of younger boys.  It may be a leap, but the evidence implies Blasey was a party animal without the boundaries to which lesser privileged teens would have been bound.  

While a girl’s or a woman’s life style, no matter how promiscuous, is never an excuse for abuse, let alone attempted rape, her behavior is very much relevant when she makes accusations for which she herself may have been responsible, especially if she was drunk.  That she is using this 36-year-old foggy “recovered” memory to take down one of the most qualified persons ever nominated to the Supreme Court is reprehensible.  She knows it.  Every member of the Democratic Party knows it.  They all know Kavanaugh is a good and decent man and that he is extraordinarily qualified to be a Justice.  What roils them is his devotion to the Constitution and his prodigious knowledge of it and all its ramifications. 

But to them, the left,  their loss is an excuse to act out in the most craven, vicious manner.  They have all been schooled in the Alinskyite method so embraced by Obama. If the same tactics were ever to be employed against them, the mainstream media would suffer a major meltdown.  Not until Trump has any Republican fought back against the left with the tactics of their own template — and they are stunned.  How dare he use their long-perfected strategies against them.  Oh, the horror!

There is a profound difference between the American left and right in 2018.  The left, since their electoral loss, has been distraught, angry, and insane. After two years, they are still unable to accept the results of the election.  They accuse Trump of all manner of crimes, not one of which he is guilty.  He is not guilty of collusion with Russia nor is he guilty of a single impeachable crime.  And yet the loathsome Maxine Waters calls for his impeachment seemingly on a daily basis and her party does nothing to temper her hysteria.   The right, on the other hand, is annoyingly compliant and submissive to the left. 

But we must consider the left’s reliance on the judiciary.  They have successfully and destructively transformed American culture through the courts, never by electoral victory.  Roe v. Wade, same-sex marriage — all the social issues victories of the left have been court-mandated, and have gone against public opinion.  When public opinion has gone against the left, they turn to the courts.  California’s  Prop. 8, the legalization of   gay marriage, was voted down by California voters but overturned by the Ninth Circuit.  As Mark Levin has often remarked, SCOTUS is the left’s Politburo.  It is how they impose their love of authoritarianism on us all.  Everything today’s left stands for is antithetical to everything the Founders envisioned, and for what they spent years devising the greatest politicaldocument ever written.

What the left is doing to Kavanagh, the notion that a 36 year-old accusation without any details – time, place, persons – is a viable allegation worthy of attention is ludicrous in the extreme.  The screaming members of Congress and the media are making utter fools of themselves by pretending this is important enough to take Kavanaugh down.  Very few, if any, sentient women truly believe Blasey Ford.  She may have endured an unpleasant incident with a drunk boy, but she likely has no idea who he was.  That the Democrats have latched onto her pathetic tale is indicative of their vacuity.  Our left no longer values decency over indecency, good over evil.  They only value the opportunity to destroy their ideological opponents by any means necessary. 

We are indeed engaged in a cultural and political civil war.  The left has achieved victories repeatedly even when Republicans have been in the majority.  Democrats fight dirty. Republicans capitulate, over and over again. They cower and fear the negative press that is the rule in the odious mainstream media.  But who on this planet with an intact mind automatically believes anything the NYT or the WaPo publishes?  Current events junkies know to ignore them; they are merely arms of the DNC,  calculated promoters of leftist propaganda.  

If the specious claims of Blasey Ford succeed in derailing Kavanaugh, we are done as a democratic republic.  The Left will have won.  They have already won on university campuses.  If this amazing nominee to the Court is  destroyed, it means the entire country is at the mercy of the totalitarian pols and  blinkered, mind-numbed academics.  Republicans in Congress:  DO NOT LET HIS HAPPEN.  They will use this victory over you to forever alter the character of this nation.

Before any problem can be solved, it has to be understood.

A doctor can’t treat a sick patient without having a pretty good idea of what is wrong, and how bad the situation is.

An engineer can’t repair a broken machine without knowing what went wrong in the first place, and understanding what needs to be changed.

Countless politicians on both sides of the political aisle have tossed around ideas for how to deal with America’s illegal immigration problem. The left wants to shrug off the negatives and give aliens driver’s licenses — and then let them vote, of course.

The right wants to keep immigration controlled, and welcome good people who are honest while limiting the number of lawbreakers pouring across the border.

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All of the different proposals are based on rough estimates of how many immigrants are already in America … but what if those past estimates were very, very wrong?

That’s the question that researchers at Yale University are now asking.

On Friday, a detailed study about U.S. immigration was released, and its conclusions are challenging past assumptions about immigration numbers.

Shockingly, researchers found that the accepted number of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. — 11.3 million — may be extremely low. The actual number of aliens in America could be twice that amount.

“At the center (of the debate) lies a fairly stable and largely unquestioned number: 11.3 million undocumented immigrants residing in the U.S.,” explained Yale Insights.

“But a paper by three Yale-affiliated researchers suggests … the actual population of undocumented immigrants residing in the country is much larger than that, perhaps twice as high, and has been underestimated for decades,” the Yale publication continued.

Researchers poured over the available data like deportations and visa overstays, and used mathematical modeling to consider how many illegal immigrants have actually entered the country. This has historically been hard to pin down, since those migrants are, well, undocumented.

“(R)esearchers estimate there are 22.1 million undocumented immigrants in the United States,” Yale Insights reported.

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That’s the mean number, meaning it could be a bit less or even more than that level. But even when they made their models very strict, the estimated number of aliens was several million higher than previously thought.

“Even using parameters intentionally aimed at producing an extremely conservative estimate, they found a population of 16.7 million undocumented immigrants,” stated the report.

It’s interesting to note that the researchers went into the study expecting to discover that the oft-cited 11.3 million number was actually high. They found the opposite.

“Our original idea was just to do a sanity check on the existing number,” said Professor Edward Kaplan of the Yale School of Management. “Instead of a number which was smaller, we got a number that was 50% higher. That caused us to scratch our heads.”

The researchers were quick to point out that they do not believe there was a sudden surge of border crossers which boosted the number. Instead, they think that the real number of illegal immigrants has been under-reported for a very long time.

“It’s really something that happened in the past and maybe was not properly counted or documented,” explained Professor Jonathan Feinstein.

The Yale researchers were careful to deal with statistics and not politics, but it’s worth asking whether the real number of illegal immigrants was purposely kept under wraps for so many years because it flies in the face of past liberal promises.

After all, it was Democrat “hero” Ted Kennedy who pledged in 1965: “Our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same.”

Instead, immigration surged, and that’s without even factoring in the illegal aliens who may have been dramatically under-counted for decades.

It’s time to take a long, hard look at the real immigration issues facing America. Before anything can be fixed, we need to tell the truth about the problem … and that starts with actually having honest numbers about how many people have crossed the border and never left.

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