Scorching Hot Take: None Of Us Actually Deserve U.S. Citizenship, So Why Deny Others?

By William Teach December 22, 2018 – 7:00 am

This might be just a wee bit too hot for a Saturday morning, as the NY Times’ Michelle Alexander thinks she’s on to something

None of Us Deserve Citizenship

(couple paragraphs about a woman who illegally climbed over wall then immediately gave birth)

Answering these questions may be easy legally, but they’re more difficult morally. After all, none of us born here did anything to deserve our citizenship. On what moral grounds can we deny others rights, privileges and opportunities that we did not earn ourselves?

Jose Antonio Vargas’s powerful book “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” wrestles with the moral, emotional and psychological dimensions of America’s perennial question: Who deserves citizenship? With remarkable sensitivity to the extraordinarily wide range of people whose lives are affected by our nation’s immigration policies, he writes from the perspective of someone who was brought to this country illegally at the age of 12 to live with his grandparents, leaving his mother in the Philippines. Ever since his grandfather confessed to him, at age 16, that “you are not supposed to be here,” he has battled deep feelings of unworthiness and has striven to earn the right to belong. Yet no matter how much he achieved or contributed — indeed, even after winning a Pulitzer Prize for journalism — he still had the nagging feeling that he didn’t deserve to be here. Only after being arrested near the border and held in a cell with a group of terrified undocumented boys who had been separated from their families did he have an awakening: It was suddenly obvious to him that the boys huddled near him deserved safety, security and a place they could call home — a place where they could not only survive but also thrive. If they deserved such a thing, he did too. “Home is not something I should have to earn,” he wrote. It’s something we all have a right to.

Really? So we can all just deserve to start living in some sort of McMansion at the beach (or wherever floats your boat)? For illegals, their home is somewhere else. What this does do is make it so America has to kowtow to illegals rather than them attempting to assimilate.

Many people will sympathize with Mr. Vargas’s story but recoil at his bold conclusion, as it seems to imply support for open borders — a position that no Republican or Democratic member of Congress supports or even takes seriously. This reaction seems misplaced. The deeper question raised isn’t whether our borders should be open or closed (generally a false dichotomy) but rather how we ought to manage immigration in a manner that honors the dignity, humanity and legitimate interests of all concerned.

What she means is accommodating illegals, rather than the interests of U.S. citizens.

Reaching for a radically more humane immigration system is not pie-in-the-sky, utopian dreaming. But it does require a certain measure of humility on the part of those of us who have benefited from birthright citizenship. Rather than viewing immigrants as seeking something that we, Americans, have a moral right to withhold from them, we ought to begin by acknowledging that none of us who were born here did anything to deserve our citizenship, and yet all of us — no matter where we were born — deserve compassion and basic human rights.

That is not the end, she keeps going. When will she give up her own unearned citizenship?

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White Male Democrat Super Enthused To Make Companies Pay For Birth Control

By William Teach December 21, 2018 – 4:00 pm

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein apparently thinks that those poor women can’t afford their own birth control

Is it even necessary to note how much is wrong with this? If you’re a Republican, you understand that not forcing companies to pay for contraception doesn’t limit access. It’s right there at every drug store. You can find condom vending machines all over the place in bars and nightclubs. Heck, at schools! And, if companies shouldn’t be making birth control decisions, then why should they pay for it?

If you’re a hardcore Stateist, well, you get the above. Anyhow, since he doesn’t offer a link, here you go

Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a complaint to seek an injunction to prevent new Trump administration rules that will drastically change access to contraceptive coverage. Specifically, these rules will allow any employer or health insurer with religious objections to opt out of the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement.

“I believe that women, not their employers, should make their own birth control decisions,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “These new rules to limit women’s access to contraception are unlawful, and I will fight to stop them.”

Almost 2 million women in North Carolina have benefited from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement. More than 70 percent of North Carolina women aged 18-49 use contraception, including nearly 80 percent who are at risk of unintended pregnancy. In 2010, public costs for unintended pregnancies in North Carolina were $858.3 million.

The Attorney General’s complaint states that these new rules are illegal, as they violate the Administrative Procedure Act, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Today’s action against the new rules comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s interim final rules early this year.

The thing is, the HHS rule on contraception was created out of the blue. There is nothing really in the Obamacare bill that authorized this rule specifically. Contraception doesn’t appear in Ocare. Anyhow, Democrats are so paternalistic towards women that they do not think women can afford $9 a month for birth control pills.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 21, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded due to Other People consuming meat over holidays, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on Toblerone chocolate conforming to Islamic law.

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Latest ‘Climate Change’ Doom: War Against Rats In NYC

By William Teach December 21, 2018 – 11:17 am

It couldn’t have anything to do with garbage sitting around and stuff, right? Oh, wait, right, we should blame all the New York City resident traveling around in their fossil fueled vehicles living and working in their buildings with outsized carbon footprints

‘We are at war’: New York’s rat crisis made worse by climate change

The discarded slices of pizza that litter New York’s streets have long fuelled its sizeable population of rats, but now the city’s growing swarm has a new reason to enjoy their home – warming temperatures.

City officials have reported an increasing number of calls from residents complaining about rats, and have warned that milder winters are helping them feed and mate longer into the year. And as winters warm up, more frequent outdoor activity by humans is adding to the litter rats thrive upon.

Rat-related complaints have been on the rise over the past four years, with 19,152 calls made to the city last year, an increase of about 10% on 2016. There are no reliable figures on the number of rats in New York – estimates range from 250,000 to tens of millions – but the surge in rat activity has been replicated in other cities. Houston, Washington, Boston and Philadelphia have experienced large increases in calls to pest control.

Veteran anti-rat strategists have, in part, blamed climate change. “It’s a complex issue but we are seeing rat population increases around the world now,” said Bobby Corrigan, a sought-after rat-catching consultant who once spent a week living in a rat-infested barn in Indiana as part of his PhD research.

So, they can’t actually show that the numbers have increased, just that there are more calls. Might it have something to do with more people in these cities making more messes? Regardless, the thing here is that they cannot prove that the very slight warming has been mostly/solely caused by Mankind. Still, everyone in these big Leftist cities who Believes in ‘Climate Change’ should immediately go carbon neutral. Just to be sure.

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Loony Lefty Churches Sing Rewritten Christmas Songs About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach December 21, 2018 – 6:55 am

I wonder how many of the Progressive parishioners drove their fossil fueled vehicle to the church?

Progressive churches are singing rewritten Christmas carols to fight climate change

Some progressive churches in Australia are teaming up to fight climate change this Christmas season — and are singing rewritten Christmas carols to get the job done.

Check out the Pitt Street Uniting Church Singers croon new versions of “Joy to the World,” “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” “Silent Night,” and others..

The rewritten version of “Joy to the World” they sing in the clip goes like so:

Cool down the world / the time has come / for targets tight and fair 
Let petrol, oil, and coal / prepare to go 
Let’s fund renewables 
Let’s fund renewables 
Let’s fund, let’s fund renewablesThe Pitt Street Uniting Church’s website describes the congregation as a “progressive faith community of justice-seeking friends in the heart of Sydney.”

“We still sing traditional carols and celebrate Christmas!” says thevideo description of church singers belting out the new carols. “We also believe that God wants us to care for the earth. 97% of climatologists believe that climate change is real, and that it is in part caused by human activity.”

The Lord also says you should practice what you preach

Another video featured “people of faith” singing the carols in Brisbane “to remind ourselves, the public and elected leaders of our responsibility to look after our common home, planet Earth. The Very Rev. Dr. Peter Catt, Dean of Brisbane’s St. John’s Cathedral said that in this climate emergency we must stand up for urgent action against coal and support renewable energy projects especially in Queensland.”

The Very Rev. should hearken back to 2012 when the party in control rammed through all sorts of ‘climate change’ measures then lost so badly during the Queensland elections that they did not have enough seats to be a formally recognized political party.

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House Republicans Finally Listen, Pass Bill With Border Wall Funding

By William Teach December 21, 2018 – 6:41 am

We should remember that Congress passed legislation well over a decade ago that required the construction of a border wall, they just haven’t funded it in full

(Breitbart) The House passed a spending bill that includes $5.7 billion in border wall funding, sending the bill to the Senate.

The House passed the spending bill with border wall funding, 217-185, featuring strong Republican support for the bill and no Democrat support for the bill.

The House started a renewed effort to push for $5.7 billion in wall funding after President Donald Trump declared on Thursday that he will not sign a bill that does not include border security funding. Trump also threatened to veto any legislation that comes before him without security funding. The revised funding bill also includes $7.8 billion in disaster relief.

“I’ve made my position very clear,” Trump said. “Any measure that funds the government must include border security.”

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) cheered the bill’s passage in a statement on Thursday, saying, “Tonight the House passed a Continuing Resolution to keep the government open, secure our borders, and provide relief to communities harmed by natural disasters.” (snip)

Meadows also said that he came away with the impression that Trump will not relent on his fight for border security funding, even though Democrats will likely reject the measure in the Senate.

And now it is back over to the Senate

Rep. Perry said that Senate Democrats will face a tough time explaining why they will not vote for funding a border wall.

“Nine Democrats are going to explain to their constituents, their bosses, why they would rather shut down the government than stop the flow of illegal immigrants, human trafficking, and fentanyl and opioids,” Perry said. “If they can make that case to their constituents, God bless them.”

Three Dems look like yes votes to push the bill in the Senate to a floor vote, so six more would be necessary to avoid a filibuster. Chuck Schumer has said the that bill is dead in the Senate, but, is it? Is this the hill Democrats want to die on, defending not securing our southern border against illegal aliens? Does he want to be roasted by President Trump over this? Every shot, every tweet, every message will be on the news for everyone to see.

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Inevitable: SJW Group Sues Over Voter ID

By William Teach December 20, 2018 – 2:24 pm

In North Carolina, we voted on a constitutional amendment enshrining voter ID this November, which passed 55.49% to 44.51%. Hence, the NC General Assembly passed a law, which was utterly reasonable in what IDs were required, and the governor vetoed it, which was then over-ridden by the Senate. And now

From the link

Six voters challenging the state’s new photo ID requirements filed a lawsuit minutes after the regulations became law.  The complaint was filed in Wake County Superior Court along with a motion requesting a preliminary injunction, asking the court to halt the implementation of the law until the case can be heard in court.  State lawmakers overrode Governor Cooper’s veto of S 824, Implementation of Voter ID Constitutional Amendment, on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 19, 2018, as part of a lame-duck legislative session in which several members who lost re-election voted in favor of the override.

The full complaint can be found below.

“The North Carolina Constitution provides numerous and inviolable protections for the fundamental right to vote of all its citizens,” Allison Riggs, senior voting rights attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.  “Just because the North Carolina Constitution now authorizes, with exceptions, the presentation of a picture ID when voting does not mean those other longstanding protections can be ignored or violated.”

Of course, these elitists, who all surely have some sort of ID that would be approved, feel that minorities are too stupid to get an ID (free ID’s were enshrined in the new law, and were also baked into previous state law

purposefully discriminating against and disproportionately impacting African-American and American-Indian qualified voters, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause in Article 1, § 19;

Why do they always feel that Blacks need protecting? Rather patronizing and racist, eh?

unduly burdening the fundamental right to vote, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause in Article 1, § 19;

Considering how many other states require some form of ID along the way, and that pretty much most people have one, how is this a burden?

They throw a few other reasons at the wall, but, at the end of the day, no one is disenfranchised, since there are measures for those who show up without and ID, as well. What this is really about is making sure that people who shouldn’t be voting won’t be stopped.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 20, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Elephants, with a post on TDS and how it works.

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Coons, Flake Introduce National Carbon Tax

By William Teach December 20, 2018 – 10:30 am

They say that it will raise the incomes of working Americans by sending them a government check

If Coons wants to lead, when will he give up his own use of fossil fuels and make his life carbon neutral? Oh, right, right, he’s rich, and can afford to keep living his life the same. He’ll just pay a small penalty or carbon offset for his own bad behavior.

From Coon’s webpage

U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) today introduced bipartisan legislation to pay a monthly dividend to every American family.  The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act places an increasing price on carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions, designed to drive down pollution, address climate change, and encourage market-driven innovation in clean energy technologies.  Revenues received will be returned directly to the American people in the form of a monthly dividend, protecting energy consumers and low- and middle-income households.  The legislation aims to help accelerate American innovation to advance clean energy solutions, incentivize our trading partners to lower emissions, and prevent thousands of pollution-related deaths annually. A related bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressmen Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), Francis Rooney (R-Fla.), John Delaney (D-Md.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.), and Charlie Christ (D-Fla.).

“Climate change is a serious threat to our economy, our security, and our way of life, and we need leadership from all parts of our society and government to tackle it,” said Senator Coons.  “Putting an economy-wide price on carbon and other greenhouse gases is a comprehensive way to reduce emissions, spur innovation, and create jobs.  I am proud to introduce this legislation with my good friend Jeff Flake, who has long been a champion of market-based climate legislation since his days in the House.  I am hopeful that we will continue to have bipartisan conversations about addressing this issue.” (snip)

A one-pager on the bill is available here.

The bill text is available here.

Let’s take a quick look at that one pager

Carbon Dividend – The legislation rebates 100% of net revenues from the carbon fee to the American people as a monthly dividend. This protects consumers and the economy, maintains revenue neutrality, and offsets cost increases for most Americans, including low- and middle income Americans. An equal share is provided to all adults with a Social Security Number or Taxpayer Identification Number and a half share is provided on account of children. Additionally, the first payment is made one month in advance so that families and households are able to cover any increased energy costs.

In essence, he and the others are admitting that this will drastically skyrocket the cost of living for low and middle income Americans. So Government gives money to citizens, which makes them more reliant to Government, and more under the thumb of Government. Funny how that works.

Apparently, getting serious about ‘climate change’ means artificially increasing the cost of living, hosing the middle and lower classes, and increasing the power and scope of the federal government.

This will, of course, never see the light of day in the GOP run US Senate.

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Say, What Would Jesus Say About ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach December 20, 2018 – 7:00 am

So, yeah, of course it’s that time of the year where the Cult of Climastrology attempts to link their insane anti-science beliefs to all things Christmas, and there is nothing more Christmas than Jesus. UK Guardian writer Megan Mayhew makes a big, big admission about ‘climate change’, though

What would Jesus do? Talking with evangelicals about climate change

I was, frankly, nervous about speaking to people of faith in the south about climate change. I wrestled with my own preconceived notions and past experiences, and was surprised when conversations took inspiring, if not transcendent, turns.

Secular as I am now, I still think fondly of my childhood minister, Dr Lehman, who loved college basketball and Honda Accords (he drove 13 of them during his lifetime). At the conclusion of each Lakeside Baptist service, he’d call the eastern North Carolina congregation to action.

In other words, she’s an anti-Christian religion bigot.

My frustration from those years has at times stopped me from reaching out to those in the faith-based community, especially regarding political issues like climate change. I’m aware of my own bias, the way it was formed by negative experiences, and how it limits my understanding of believers and their choices. This realization helps me understand why believers might in turn have problems connecting with someone like me.

She made a big woopsie there, because Warmists are not supposed to tell us that this about anything other than science.

I spoke with people of faith in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, and it became clear that the primary barrier to climate action is the fact that it’s been yoked with the liberal agenda. Climate activist and author Anna Jane Joyner, whose father is the pastor of a megachurch in North Carolina, writes that she grew up lumping “environmentalists in with hippies and liberals and all the other people who were probably going to hell”.

Of course, ‘climate change’ has little to do with the environment, because the climate is always changing.

Anyhow, sorry, there is zero mention of Jesus beyond the headline. Because Jesus would probably say something along the lines of “stay out of the politics of Caesar and preach the Lord’s word.” Seriously, these same people who like to trot out Jesus’ name for their ‘climate change’ nuttbaggery also are the ones who sue to get everything Christmas removed from the public domain.

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