Thursday, November 9, 2017
Dozens of illegal aliens removed from stash houses in Texas
Tuesday, October 31, Rio Grande Valley Sector agents received assistance from the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office and the Hidalgo County’s Constable Precinct 4 Office to conduct a consensual search of a suspected stash house in Mission, Texas. Agents located 18 subjects kept inside the house. The smuggled migrants were from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico.
Next day, Brownsville agents worked with the Cameron County Constables Office in apprehending 14 subjects at an apartment complex. The smuggled aliens were from...
Why the Left Has Been So Wrong About the Trump Boom
The New York Times ran a lead editorial complaining that Team Trump is shrinking the regulatory state at an “unprecedented” pace.
Meanwhile, last week the stock market raced to new all-time highs; we had another blockbuster jobs report with another fall in the unemployment rate; and housing sales soared to their highest level in a decade.
Are the editors at Time and the Times so ideologically blinded that they are incapable of connecting the dots?
The U.S. economic revival of 3 percent growth has already defied the predictions of almost every Donald Trump critic.
I vividly remember debating Hillary Clinton’s economic gurus during the campaign: They accused Trump and advisers such as myself of “lying” when we said that pro-growth policies would speed up economic growth to 3 to 4 percent.
Jason Furman, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, told reporters earlier this year that the chances of reaching 3 percent growth over a decade were about 1 in 25—which is what many political experts said was Trump’s chance of winning the election.
Another Obama economist, Alan Krueger, called the 3 percent growth forecast “extremely rosy.”
Larry Summers, a top economic adviser to Obama, questioned the “standards of integrity” of the Trump economic team’s forecast for 3 percent (or more) growth. “I do not see how any examination of U.S. history could possibly support the Trump forecast as a reasonable expectation,” he wrote in The Washington Post.
Congress weighed in, too. “This budget relies on absurd economic projections and pretend revenues that no credible economist would validate,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., announced at a House budget hearing.
The sharp-penned Paul Krugman of The New York Times declared Trump’s growth forecast an act of “economic arrogance.” He said the productivity improvement necessary for faster growth was as likely as “driverless flying cars” arriving “en masse.”
Admittedly, we shouldn’t read too much into six months of very good economic data (with 3 percent growth) or the booming stock market. These trends can always reverse course quickly. Trump’s more restrictive policies on trade and immigration could harm growth potential.
But so far the Trump haters have missed the call on the economy’s trajectory. Doubly ironic is that the same Obama-era economists who are trashing Trump’s increasingly realistic forecast of 3 percent growth are the ones who predicted 4 percent growth from the Obama budgets.
Obama never came anywhere near 4 percent growth, and at the end of his second term, the economy grew at a pitiful 1.6 percent.
Under Obama, free enterprise and pro-business policies were thrown out the window. What was delivered was the weakest recovery from a recession since...
Is Justice Ginsburg Leaking Fake News About Justice Gorsuch To NPR?
In every case, Totenberg has presented anonymously sourced – but supposedly legitimate – claims about feuds involving Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee, and one of President Obama’s nominees, Justice Elena Kagan. Specifically, Totenberg has alleged that Justice Kagan has embarrassed Justice Gorsuch in conference in duels of wit over the law.
Justice Clarence Thomas denied this fake news about Gorsuch to his former clerk and Fox News host Laura Ingraham earlier this week, definitively stating that Totenberg’s allegations are false:
See Video HEREPerhaps most critically, they are damning evidence of a serious problem: leaks at the Supreme Court.
Totenberg, despite lacking a law degree, has a close professional and personal relationship to Justice Ginsburg. It is possible that the comments dripping out of the conference are courtesy of the embittered Ginsburg, a Clinton appointee.
According to a 2015 article in the Washingtonian titled “Supreme Court Justices Officiate A Lot Of Weddings,” Justice Ginsburg officiated Totenberg’s wedding in 2000. The article describes Totenberg as...
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