Donald Trump Defends Military Deployment to the Border: ‘We Have to Have a Wall of People’


President Donald Trump defended Wednesday his decision to send the military to the border in response to the migrant caravan headed for the United States.

“It’s very important,” Trump said. “We have to have a wall of people —very highly trained people, terrific, dedicated patriots.”

The president commented on his commitment to secure the border during an interview with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl.

Trump dismissed Karl’s description of the caravan as mostly women and children who were “deeply impoverished people fleeing violence.”

“Actually mostly young men,” Trump said. “And a lot of rough people … they are pushing the women right up to the front — not good — and the kids right up to the front.”

The Pentagon announced that they were sending 5,200 troops to the border on Monday, but Trump said he would send up to 15,000 troops to secure the border if necessary.

Trump defended his decision as a way to send the strongest message possible to the continued flood of migrant caravans toward the United States.

“They can’t invade our country,” he said. “You look at that it almost looks like an invasion.”

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Gillum campaign workers: Florida is a “f***ed up … cracker state,” or something


Andrew Gillum has more problems than he can handle at the moment between corruption allegations and dealing with the aftermath of a hurricane. Project Veritas adds a couple of more to the pile today, however, with its latest undercover report on Democratic candidates. Their operatives get a couple of Gillum’s campaign workers — one in particular — saying extraordinarily foolish and/or revealing things on camera, such as their strategies to win in a “f***ed up … cracker state.”

Like other previous PV videos, this shows a lot of excuse-making for a lack of truth in advertising. For instance, did you know that Gillum is “part of the crazy, crazy crazies”? “Medicare for All, borderline socialism”? Gun control? No?

Featured in this report is a campaign staffer who works on Andrew Gillum’s gubernatorial campaign. Omar Smith, who says he went to college with Gillum, reveals Gillum cannot fulfill his campaign promises even if he wanted to.

When asked how Gillum would fund all the programs he says he wants to fund, Smith says Gillum “can’t,” and when asked if voters are aware that Gillum cannot deliver on his proposed programs, Smith says:

SMITH: “That’s not for them to know… That’s not for them to know. Remember our saying, modern day fairy tales start with ‘once I am elected.’”

Smith explains that most of Gillum’s campaign promises could never be implemented, and that the Gillum campaign knows this:

SMITH: “So, let’s go back to Mr. Gillum’s platform, right? Raise the corporate tax in Florida from 7 to 11 percent. That will never happen. Raise teacher’s pay to $50,000, that will never happen. Give me another position. Medicare for all, that will never happen. The reason being, the legislature that write the bills is all Republican controlled. Democratic governor, Republican legislature. So, unless the legislature writes a bill, and it got voted on the floor, it cannot pass.”

Smith says that “the rules in Florida are f***ed up” and that Florida is a “cracker state,” explaining that the Florida legislature has to become racially black for Gillum’s agenda to advance.

So how can Gillum win in a “cracker state”?

SMITH: “You whip ’em up. The poor, the middle income. You have to whip them up into a frenzy in order for them to vote. Once Gillum is in, in another 2 years, other Republican Senators and Legislators will be on the ballot. So, you have to whip up the Andrew Gillum voters again in those counties to vote out the Republican to get a Democratic Legislature in order for his (Gillum) will to be executed. … You have to appeal to white guilt… [be]cause that’s what it is.”

There’s plenty more at the link and in the video, so be sure to watch and read it all. The biggest lesson here is don’t hire your old college buddies to run your campaign. Most PV videos have featured a number of campaign workers, some volunteers and low-level paid staffers. Much of PV’s material in this video features Omar Smith, a salaried campaign worker who has been with Gillum since their days as college-campus progressive activists. You’d think that much experience would have taught Smith a thing or two about discretion, or Gillum a thing or two about Smith. Instead, here’s Gillum’s college pal telling everyone who will pay attention to him that it will take “force” to achieve Gillum’s agenda.

Right now, Gillum’s beginning to show some daylight between him and Ron DeSantis, and thanks to early voting, it might be took late for this video to reverse that momentum. However, a few more days of Omar Smith might still have an impact.

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Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers on Trump Visit: ‘Pleasantly Surprised by a Warm and Personal Side’ That America Has Never Seen


Tree of Life Synagogue Rabbi Jeffrey Myers on Thursday discussed the president’s visit in the wake of the shooting that took the lives of 11 over the weekend.

Myers said President Donald Trump was “very consoling” and he saw a “warm and personal side to the president.”

“[Trump] put his hand on my shoulder and the first question he asked me was, ‘Rabbi, tell how you are doing?’ Myers recalled on CNN’s “New Day.”

He added, “And I must say throughout the time we spent together, I was pleasantly surprised by a warm and personal side to the president that I don’t think America has ever seen.”

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Weekly Unemployment Claims Fall to 214,000, Ongoing Claims Drop to Lowest Level Since 1973


Fewer Americans lost their jobs to layoffs last week.

The number of Americans filing new applications for state unemployment benefits fell by 2,000 to 214,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. Jobless claims remain near lows not seen for close to 40 years.

Jobless claims are a proxy for layoffs and have been closely watched this year for signs that trade disputes might weigh on the U.S. labor market. So far, there are no signs that tariffs have cost the U.S. economy any jobs.

The four-week moving average of claims, which smooths out weekly volatility and is considered by many economists to be a more reliable gauge of conditions,  to 213,750. That is also near the lowest level since December 1969, according to the Labor Department.

Economists had expected jobless claims to fall by even more, to 212,000. Nonetheless, Thursday’s figures show the labor market in the U.S. remains very strong.

The number of people receiving benefits after an initial week of aid also fell in late October, by 7,000 to 1.63 million for the week ended October 20. That is the lowest level since July 1973. The four-week moving average of continuing claims dropped 6,250 to 1.64 million, the lowest level since August 1973.

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WATCH: Warren First Learns Of Ethics Complaint Against Her Over Kavanaugh Fundraising In Middle Of Debate

In a rather remarkable moment in a U.S. Senate debate in Massachusetts Tuesday, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren learned for the first time that an ethics complaint has been filed against her for having fundraised off of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.

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K-12: Walk Away


When Brandon Straka founded the WalkAway movement in May, hardly anyone imagined that several hundred thousand longtime Democrats could turn against the party of their family and friends.  Although it’s a big, difficult decision, many Walkaways made videos aggressively explaining their decisions. They often conclude: “I’ll never vote Democrat the rest of my life.”


What made these people walk away with such passion?  Certainly, Trump’s success and charisma explain a lot.  The “lying media” are also a major factor.  One woman attended a crowded Trump rally.  When she reached home a half-hour later, CNN was showing a half-empty stadium where she had been standing.  She knew that the place had been jammed.  At that moment, she walked away from CNN.



Perhaps the most important factor is that leaders on the left, for many decades, became increasingly socialist/communist in their perspectives.  The rank and file are more sophisticated now and realize that their party bosses walked away from them long ago. 


So here’s the picture that Straka has brought into focus.  Namely, lots of people are mad as hell and determined not to take it anymore.


We need this exact same spirit in K-12.  You’re mad as hell and refuse to continue the same destructive relationship.  You know what the schools are doing to children: keeping them ignorant and illiterate.  You hate this.  You don’t want it being done in your name.  Or with your taxes.


So walk away. 


Democrats, heretofore passive, are showing you how to do it.  Just do it.  The liberal leaders at the top of the Education Establishment are exactly the same people whom working-class Democrats have learned to scorn.  (Indeed, studying K-12 education is a great way to understand the warped politics of the party.  Same people, same goals, same collectivist thinking.)


You’ve heard the rumors, or you have seen the results yourself.  Kids can’t read, not fluently.  Incoherent Common Core homework makes them cry.  Students don’t know the simplest things about geography, history, science, or anything else.  Jay Leno, Jesse Watters, Mark Dice, and now Jimmy Kimmel have shown this over and over.


The incompetent, ideological extremists perpetuating this educational malpractice should be rejected or at least rebuked.  What’s a simple way to do that?  You don’t need to send them a card.  Just walk away…if not physically, at least emotionally.


Parents with kids in a public school have to deal with teachers and school officials.  But you can withhold support; you can show disdain for programs you don’t like.  Let the Education Establishment know that you don’t approve of their dumbing-down strategies.  You would like to see children educated at the highest level that each one can handle.  The main thing is to stop tolerating what you sincerely feel is unacceptable.  (Some people say homeschooling is the only option.  I argue that being an informed, demanding parent contributes greatly.)


Teachers in particular know the dark secrets about ideological maneuvering  and financial chicanery.  The result is that textbooks and methods that didn’t work 25 and 50 years ago are still used today and still don’t work.  The dysfunctional gimmicks that made New Math useless can still be found in Common Core Math.  Someone is making more money.  But the students are losing.  Don’t support what you wouldn’t want for your own kids.


According to one of the popular sophistries of the past 75 years, if you criticize public schools, the professors will say you are “opposed to public education.”  You may have to spell it out.  You’re not at all opposed to public education.  You’re opposed to ineffective, screwed up education that keeps many children as ignorant and illiterate in the 10th grade as they were in the 4th grade.


The point is not to give support to something not worth supporting.  Our Education Establishment has grown increasingly wacky and reckless over the past 90 years.  The country had near universal literacy in 1915, then Progressives started to take over.  By 1955, a book titled Why Johnny Can’t Read became a huge bestseller.  Apparently, millions of people knew ”Johnny” personally.  Many social critics wrote books with titles such as Quackery in the Public Schools and Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools.  Sixty years later, the steady decline slithers on.  Prof. Patrick Deneen at Notre Dame recently accused our public schools of creating “cultural illiteracy” intentionally.


Now is a good time for everyone to start being judgmental.


Walk away from dangerous, chaotic schools.  Walk away from sight-words and the functional illiteracy they cause.  Walk away from  Common Core nonsense that makes little children cry.  Walk away from dysfunctional theories and methods that never seem to work as promised.  Walk away from imperious superintendents who tell the parents what they can have, not what they need. 


Walk away from elaborately engineered pedagogy that diminishes children.  Walk away from Constructivism, which dictates that children must figure out everything for themselves while teachers stand idly by.  Walk away from Self-Esteem, a cute little sophistry that basically freezes every class at the level of the slower students.  Walk away from Multiculturalism, which dictates that American children have to know more about foreign rivers than about American rivers.  Walk away from all the clever gimmicks that undercut real education and replace it with “progressive” – actually regressive – folderol.


In particular, walk away from so-called educators who see education as indoctrination, not enlightenment.  That is John Dewey’s malignant legacy.  We need to walk away from all that.


Bruce Deitrick Price’s new book is Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?  He deconstructs educational theories and methods at Improve-Education.org.










When Brandon Straka founded the WalkAway movement in May, hardly anyone imagined that several hundred thousand longtime Democrats could turn against the party of their family and friends.  Although it’s a big, difficult decision, many Walkaways made videos aggressively explaining their decisions. They often conclude: “I’ll never vote Democrat the rest of my life.”


What made these people walk away with such passion?  Certainly, Trump’s success and charisma explain a lot.  The “lying media” are also a major factor.  One woman attended a crowded Trump rally.  When she reached home a half-hour later, CNN was showing a half-empty stadium where she had been standing.  She knew that the place had been jammed.  At that moment, she walked away from CNN.


Perhaps the most important factor is that leaders on the left, for many decades, became increasingly socialist/communist in their perspectives.  The rank and file are more sophisticated now and realize that their party bosses walked away from them long ago. 


So here’s the picture that Straka has brought into focus.  Namely, lots of people are mad as hell and determined not to take it anymore.


We need this exact same spirit in K-12.  You’re mad as hell and refuse to continue the same destructive relationship.  You know what the schools are doing to children: keeping them ignorant and illiterate.  You hate this.  You don’t want it being done in your name.  Or with your taxes.


So walk away. 


Democrats, heretofore passive, are showing you how to do it.  Just do it.  The liberal leaders at the top of the Education Establishment are exactly the same people whom working-class Democrats have learned to scorn.  (Indeed, studying K-12 education is a great way to understand the warped politics of the party.  Same people, same goals, same collectivist thinking.)


You’ve heard the rumors, or you have seen the results yourself.  Kids can’t read, not fluently.  Incoherent Common Core homework makes them cry.  Students don’t know the simplest things about geography, history, science, or anything else.  Jay Leno, Jesse Watters, Mark Dice, and now Jimmy Kimmel have shown this over and over.


The incompetent, ideological extremists perpetuating this educational malpractice should be rejected or at least rebuked.  What’s a simple way to do that?  You don’t need to send them a card.  Just walk away…if not physically, at least emotionally.


Parents with kids in a public school have to deal with teachers and school officials.  But you can withhold support; you can show disdain for programs you don’t like.  Let the Education Establishment know that you don’t approve of their dumbing-down strategies.  You would like to see children educated at the highest level that each one can handle.  The main thing is to stop tolerating what you sincerely feel is unacceptable.  (Some people say homeschooling is the only option.  I argue that being an informed, demanding parent contributes greatly.)


Teachers in particular know the dark secrets about ideological maneuvering  and financial chicanery.  The result is that textbooks and methods that didn’t work 25 and 50 years ago are still used today and still don’t work.  The dysfunctional gimmicks that made New Math useless can still be found in Common Core Math.  Someone is making more money.  But the students are losing.  Don’t support what you wouldn’t want for your own kids.


According to one of the popular sophistries of the past 75 years, if you criticize public schools, the professors will say you are “opposed to public education.”  You may have to spell it out.  You’re not at all opposed to public education.  You’re opposed to ineffective, screwed up education that keeps many children as ignorant and illiterate in the 10th grade as they were in the 4th grade.


The point is not to give support to something not worth supporting.  Our Education Establishment has grown increasingly wacky and reckless over the past 90 years.  The country had near universal literacy in 1915, then Progressives started to take over.  By 1955, a book titled Why Johnny Can’t Read became a huge bestseller.  Apparently, millions of people knew ”Johnny” personally.  Many social critics wrote books with titles such as Quackery in the Public Schools and Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools.  Sixty years later, the steady decline slithers on.  Prof. Patrick Deneen at Notre Dame recently accused our public schools of creating “cultural illiteracy” intentionally.


Now is a good time for everyone to start being judgmental.


Walk away from dangerous, chaotic schools.  Walk away from sight-words and the functional illiteracy they cause.  Walk away from  Common Core nonsense that makes little children cry.  Walk away from dysfunctional theories and methods that never seem to work as promised.  Walk away from imperious superintendents who tell the parents what they can have, not what they need. 


Walk away from elaborately engineered pedagogy that diminishes children.  Walk away from Constructivism, which dictates that children must figure out everything for themselves while teachers stand idly by.  Walk away from Self-Esteem, a cute little sophistry that basically freezes every class at the level of the slower students.  Walk away from Multiculturalism, which dictates that American children have to know more about foreign rivers than about American rivers.  Walk away from all the clever gimmicks that undercut real education and replace it with “progressive” – actually regressive – folderol.


In particular, walk away from so-called educators who see education as indoctrination, not enlightenment.  That is John Dewey’s malignant legacy.  We need to walk away from all that.


Bruce Deitrick Price’s new book is Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?  He deconstructs educational theories and methods at Improve-Education.org.




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Caravan migrants different, more violent, than previous migrant groups -U.S. military



That would certainly go for the not just the first caravan headed our way, but the chain reaction of the second, third and more groups following. According to the Daily Mail:


The second migrant caravan, believed to be armed with bombs and guns, crossed into Mexico on Monday despite a huge police presence.


Hundreds of migrants following in the footsteps of the first caravan heading to the U.S. border crossed a river from Guatemala.


…and…


The second group back at the Guatemalan frontier has been more unruly than the first that crossed. Guatemala’s Interior Ministry said Guatemalan police officers were injured when the migrant group broke through border barriers on Guatemala’s side of the bridge.


Mexico authorities said migrants attacked its agents with rocks, glass bottles and fireworks when they broke through a gate on the Mexican end but were pushed back, and some allegedly carried guns and firebombs.


There was also this:


The standoff at the riverbank followed a more violent confrontation that occurred on the bridge over the river Sunday night, when migrants threw rocks and used sticks against Mexico police. One migrant died from a head wound during the clash, but the cause was unclear.


The first migrant caravan isn’t without reports of violence, either. According to Breitbart Texas, they’ve already begun using their guns:


Mexican authorities arrested two Hondurans who allegedly shot at federal police officers escorting the migrant caravan across the southern state of Chiapas. The attack follows shortly after government warnings about Molotov cocktail attacks around a second caravan near the border with Guatemala.


The attack took place near Ignacio Zaragoza, Chiapas, when members of Mexico’s Federal Police were escorting the migrant caravan as part of “Operativo Caminante” or “Operation Walker” across the southern border state. According to Mexico’s Interior Secretariat, two men identified only as 22-year-old “Jerson” and 17-year-old “Carlos” spotted the group of police officers guarding the caravan and began firing at them.


The attackers’ pistol jammed, allowing police officers to arrest them without any injuries. Federal authorities seized a .380 caliber Glock with nine rounds still in the magazine.


Meanwhile, back in the U.S., the Border Patrol has warned Texas landowners at the international line to prepare for armed conflict from the caravan:


The U.S. Border Patrol this week reportedly told Texas landowners along the U.S.-Mexico border to prepare for a possible influx of “armed civilians” on their property as the migrant caravan moves closer to the U.S., a report said.


The Associated Press reported that these civilians say they intend to support the National Guard and Border Patrol to prevent the illegal migrants from crossing into the U.S.


It’s an astonishing departure from the picture the mainstream press has been painting for us about the supposedly harmlessness of the migrant caravans, and it’s completely in line with the warnings President Trump has made about the possibility of criminals within the caravan ranks. If that’s not reason to distrust the mainstream press’s “narrative” reporting, what is?


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Empty Seats Galore: Andrew Gillum Holds Rally with Bernie Sanders – And Hardly Anyone Shows Up


Empty Seats Galore: Andrew Gillum Holds Rally with Bernie Sanders – And Hardly Anyone Shows Up

Jim Hoft
by Jim Hoft
November 1, 2018

Guest post by Joe Hoft

For the past two years we’ve heard talk about a ‘Blue Wave’ as the Democrats would retake Congress in the 2018 Mid-Terms.  Sadly for the Dems the wave is now a trickle.

Democrats, Hollywood and their Mainstream Media (MSM) did all they could to promote the far left liberal socialist causes these past several years.  They bashed and belittled President Trump at every turn, almost guaranteeing he would soon be gone –

But as the mid-term elections draw closer, the Blue Wave is receding. Bernie Sanders held a rally with Florida Governor candidate Andrew Gillum and almost nobody showed up:

The same goes for the former leader of the Democrat Party Barack Obama. He too can’t seem to fill even high school gymnasiums:

Sorry haters but it starting to look like 2016 all over again –

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