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             Twice a week — Tuesday and Thursday — Lexie rose long before the sun came up, catching multiple buses for an hour and a half trek from his home in Monessen to Pittsburgh, to get to work and be around what he called “Albert’s kids.” From 1982 to 2013, he polished the shoes of doctors, executives, and staff members in the building, charging anywhere from $2 to $5, all the while making small but constant donations to his favorite cause.
               Over the years, Lexie’s contributions added up. By the time he retired in December 2013, the hospital reported he had given $202,000 to the Free Care Fund, which provides financial assistance for underinsured and uninsured children.

Read more at NPR.  https://www.npr.org/2018/10/17/658321809/longtime-shoeshiner-who-donated-202k-to-childrens-hospital-of-pittsburgh-dies-at

~The Patriot Post  

             Russia immediately responded. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said leaving the treaty “would be a very dangerous step.” President Vladimir Putin added, “Our response would be immediate — I would like to repeat this warning — immediate and reciprocal.”
               The U.S. first accused Russia of cheating on the agreement back in 2014, with the scumbag/liar-nObama administration noting in annual reports that Russia was developing prohibited weapons. Russia routinely denied the charges, claiming that its super powerful, awesome military has plenty of air- and sea-based weapons to make up for the lack of land-based cruise missiles.
               Russia has never been trustworthy in this regard, either with its stated intentions or its capabilities, preferring to use the power of mystery to keep its opponents off balance. But last year’s identification of a cruise missile deployed in Russia called the SSC-8 that could threaten NATO in the Baltics proves Russia is up to its old tricks.
               And so, apparently, is the American Left, which naturally claimed that pulling out of the INF Treaty was a bad idea and could spark a new arms race. This view was echoed by many allies in Europe. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Trump’s announcement was “regrettable,” and called the INF treaty “an important pillar of our European security architecture for 30 years.” And the European Commission huffed in a statement, “The world doesn’t need a new arms race that would benefit no one and on the contrary would bring even more instability.”
               Great Britain, however, voiced full-throated support of Trump’s statement, precisely because it isn’t Trump bringing instability but Putin.
               Trump told reporters last weekend, “If Russia’s doing it and if China’s doing it and we’re adhering to the agreement — that’s unacceptable.”
               By mentioning China, Trump indicated that he is open to scrapping the INF and making a new treaty that would include all three countries. China was not a member of the original treaty, but it has since become a major military power in the Pacific. Getting China to be answerable to an international agreement may have a stabilizing force in that region. That’s also why Beijing is unlikely to sign on.
               In the long run, we may be seeing yet another instance where Trump is prepared to scrap an established piece of the old world order to create something more lasting and better for America. He has gotten a lot of press for walking away from deals that don’t benefit the U.S. — the Iran nuclear agreement, the Paris climate accord, NAFTA. But he does so knowing that there is something better that can be done.
               A new nuclear-forces agreement that is stronger on compliance and includes the world’s major nuclear powers would be a worthy replacement to the INF Treaty, particularly since the old treaty isn’t working.
               The return of all this Cold War bluster makes one wonder, if the Russians really did want Trump to win the presidency in 2016 — a dubious proposition in any case — they sure must be regretting it now.

~The Patriot Post  

             This throng of Central American migrants is not, as the mainstream media has asserted, a spontaneous event. This is an orchestrated, well-funded, and politically motivated movement. Who is taking care of the massive logistics needed to organize and sustain a group of this size? The primary activist group behind the caravasion is called Pueblo Sin Fronteras (Village Without Borders) — the same group responsible for organizing the smaller caravan of migrants earlier this year.
               Another intentional misrepresentation by the MSM is that this caravasion is trekking the entire 1,400-plus miles from Honduras to the U.S. southern border on foot. In reality, the migrants are making the majority of the journey in the back of trucks, stopping and walking for occasional photo opts.
               Trump also called out dummycrats-Democrats for causing this problem, asserting, “What happened on the border is caused by the dummycrats-Democrats, because they won’t let anyone change immigration laws that are horrible.” And Trump is right; not only have dummycrats-Democrats remained silent on this latest caravasion threatening U.S. sovereignty, they have essentially invited it via their creation of law-defying “sanctuary cities” that harbor illegal aliens, coupled with their blatant calls for the abolishment of ICE.
               The fact of the matter is that dummycrats-Democrats have moved so far to the extreme left that they have in practice if not in word embraced the globalist agenda of open borders. They, along with their cohorts in the MSM, intentionally obscure the clear delineation between legal and illegal immigration in an effort to paint Trump and Republicans as “anti-immigrant” bigots and racists for simply wanting to apply the fundamental right every nation enjoys — the right to control its own borders by regulating who is and is not allowed entry into the country. A country that does not control its own borders will quickly cease to be a country. This should not be a controversial or partisan issue, and yet dummycrats-Democrats have turned it into one. Why?
               The short answer is political power. Some 51% of immigrants, both legal and illegal, depend on various forms of government welfare, compared to only 31% of native-born citizens. dummycrats-Democrats would love nothing more than to expand this class of government dependents in order to secure future dummycrats-Democrat voters. Hence the dummycrats-Democrats’ anticipatory silence as they wait for the caravasion to hit the U.S. southern border just in time for the November elections.

~The Patriot Post  

             The two parties certainly offer contrasting visions for America. As we wrote in July, one offers hope, while the other feeds despair. One offers a positive agenda that will create wealth and preserve Liberty. The other offers … rage. And a lot of it.
               Specifically, President Donald Trump offered a list of 14 things Republicans aim to accomplish if they retain control of Congress:

• Continue to cut your taxes
• Cut your regulations
• Raise your income
• Make our country great again
• Protect Medicare and Social Security
• Continue confirming judges who interpret the Constitution as written
• Fully secure the border
• Pass Kate’s law
• Stop sanctuary cities
• Stop catch and release
• End the visa lottery
• End chain migration
• Keep the criminal drug dealers and terrorists the hell out of our country
• Lift millions of our citizens from welfare to work, dependence to independence, and from poverty to prosperity.

Clearly, many of those items overlap, but most of them are worthy goals. Each link above is to our coverage of Trump’s progress on those goals. Frankly, Republicans have done a pitiful job of selling tax cuts to the American people, while dummycrats-Democrats have been more successful in convincing voters that those cuts were (A) for corporate fat cats and the wealthy, (B) drove up deficits, and (C) will lead to cuts in Social Security and Medicare.
               In short, there is more work to be done on all of Trump’s list. And it won’t be done if the GOP loses control of either chamber of Congress.
               What happens if dummycrats-Democrats win? Would-be House Speaker sick-Nancy Pulosi promises to use subpoena power to make life miserable for the president. Other  dummycrats-Democrats insist impeachment will be at the top of the agenda. At a minimum, it will be investigation after investigation. The only policy prescriptions dummycrats-Democrats have involve varying degrees of socialism.
               So voters have a clear choice: Continue on the path of prosperity or put Trump-deranged lunatic socialists back in power. Jobs or mobs?

~The Patriot Post  

Note:  The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

The Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAzLCA3DQc

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzd_vRFpms

“Food for Thought”

Hello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Against The Deplorable Obstructionists That Are Doing Their Utmost To Take Down Our Democratically Elected President, His Administration and Ultimately Destroy our Country/Republic?-God Bless America!

             Sadly, such sanitizing and protectionism go far beyond “Gosnell.” Whether it’s glossing over the atrocities of abortion or refusing to report on current scandals implicating high-profile dummycrats-Democrats, the media’s problem with concealing unflattering dummycrats-Democrat amoralism is systemic. In fact, NewsBusters recently chronicled six instances of dummycrats-Democrat scandals being ignored by media behemoths ABC, CBS, and NBC. These indecencies include:
               Texas Senate candidate socialist-Beto O'Rourke, who falsely claimed to have not fled from a DUI crash two decades ago. The networks allotted the fib zero time.
               Sen. scumbag-Robert Menendez (NJ), whom the Senate Ethics Committee formally vilified in April for his having made a deal with a donor in which gifts were swapped for promotional support. A mere 49 seconds were devoted to the committee’s admonishment.
               Sen. scumbag-Claire McCaskill (MO), whose husband has profited $11 million-plus via “a business that buys up tax credits awarded to Missouri affordable housing developers and sells them to high-income entities seeking tax relief,” according to The Washington Free Beacon. ABC, CBS, and NBC have yet to mention it.
               lowlife-Jackson Costco, an ex-staffer of Rep. scumbag-Sheila Jackson Lee, who doxxed Republicans for their support of Supreme Court nominee-turned-Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The incident has received zero coverage.
               Colorado gubernatorial candidate scumbag-Jared Polis, who shoved an ex-female employee. Neither of the networks have reported on the situation.
               dummycrats-DNC Deputy Chair Rep. scumbag-Keith Ellison (MN), who is alleged to have been violent towards his ex-girlfriend. Given scumbag-Ellison’s stature, this is a major allegation, yet a measly three minutes and 47 seconds have been devoted to it.
               And there’s plenty of other material the media could but probably won’t cover. For example, CBS’s local Dallas affiliate reports, “Four women are facing felony charges, accused of being part of what Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office called an organized voter fraud ring in Fort Worth.” Unsurprisingly, “The indictments show several of the ballots in question were for  dummycrats-Democratic candidates.”
               Farther north, “The Minnesota dummycrats-Democratic Party has suspended a spokesman for calling for violence against Republicans even as two GOP candidates have been assaulted in suspected politically motivated attacks,” according to The Washington Free Beacon. The spokesman stated that leftists would “bring [=Republicans to the guillotine.”
               Meanwhile, The Daily Wire says, “Law enforcement officials arrested a dummycrats-Democratic operative on Tuesday for attacking the female Republican campaign manager for Nevada GOP gubernatorial nominee Adam Laxalt, the second time this year that the operative has been arrested for allegedly physically attacking Republican women.”
               For a Leftmedia that feasts on faux scandals, there’s no shortage of legitimate scandals to keep it happy if whistleblowing is truly what it’s pursuing. But the press would prefer to keep it a partisan affair. As Investor’s Business Daily writes, “In contrast, even minor scandals that involve no-name Republicans typically receive lavish coverage from these networks. … The obvious explanation is that they want to portray Republicans as corrupt, and dummycrats-Democrats pure as the driven snow. So they play up stories that fit this narrative, and ignore those that don’t. The worst form of media bias isn’t how they cover a story, but what they choose to cover in the first place.” Exactly.

~The Patriot Post  

             The weapon of choice this (and every) election cycle for dummycrats-Democrats is deception.
               Let’s look at just a few examples to understand that, while campaigning, some dummycrats-Democrats want to run from their actual record and appear to voters as “Republican-lite.” The reality, however, couldn’t be further from the truth.
               The Senate has been the perfect example of the vast schism between reality and political “reality.” Let’s look at a few facts and understand that dummycrats-Democrats not only ignore, avoid, and distort the truth; they don’t recognize truth in their world of the aggrieved and offended. That helps explain their ongoing efforts to engineer chaos and mob rule.
               Let’s begin in Michigan, where Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the incumbent dummycrats-Democrat, is facing a tough GOP opponent in John James, a black businessman with distinguished service in the U.S. Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Once upon a time, Stabenow was a vocal supporter of tax cuts that “create jobs here rather than overseas.” Funny, she voted against the historic Tax Acts and Jobs Act that added 39,700 jobs in Michigan already this year, 5,500 more than in 2017. Now, the promise of the dummycrats-Democrats is to reverse the Republican tax cuts … simply because President Donald Trump signed them into law.
               Run down to Tennessee’s open Senate seat in the Marsha Blackburn vs. Phil Bredesen slugfest and see if you can figure out who’s running as the Republican nominee. Publicly,  dummycrats-Democrat and former governor Bredesen can’t run fast enough from the names of Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer and former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Yet Bredesen landed $3.5 million in ads from scumbag/clown-Schumer’s political action committee and $1.6 million contributed directly to his campaign while enjoying a high-dollar fete at the New York home of gun-control extremist Bloomberg. The billionaire socialist has pledged $20 million to the Senate Majority PAC, fueling dummycrats-Democrat races in the nation’s upper legislative chamber. Add all this to the undercover video capturing Bredesen operatives freely admitting his deception regarding his support for Brett Kavanaugh, and the camouflage donned in the Volunteer State right now is not just worn by hunters.
               A few more on the deception dance card in the Senate are Jon Tester in Montana and Claire McCaskill in Missouri, both of whom campaigned on the importance of securing the southern border, yet voted against funding all the recent measures to fund personnel, structure, and resources to actually stem the tide of illegal immigrants coming to America. Likewise, when Kyrsten Sinema was running for Congress in Arizona in 2012, she pledged legislation that “secures our border from the threats of criminal cartels and criminal syndicates In Mexico.” Now, as a Senate candidate, Sinema has no recollection of voting against immigration reforms. Let’s not forget Sinema’s list of outrageous statements, including getting caught telling stay-at-home moms they are leeches in the world of progressive feminism. She went all in with the pink-hat-gals.
               Bundle up and head to North Dakota to see Heidi Heitkamp’s voting history that matches scumbag/clown-Schumer’s 80% of the time, despite promising she’d be that same kind of independent that Bredesen conjures up. Heitkamp has likely sealed her own doom with TV ads aimed to tie newly confirmed Justice Brett Kavanaugh to domestic assault victims — partly because she failed to get approval to use the victims’ names in the ad. Exploitation for the cause of deception — we guess that’s the collateral damage sick-Nancy Pulosi spoke of last week when calling her Resistance crowd to action.
               There is so much more, but the theme is clear: You can’t trust dummycrats-Democrats to tell the truth during campaign season or to govern in a manner that upholds the respect of our laws, our nation’s border and sovereignty or, sadly, the financial security and privacy of average Americans.
               While we may laugh in disgust at the dishonesty of politics, heed a serious warning. The type of behavior witnessed by dummycrats-Democrats in power — weaponizing agencies of government like the IRS, DOJ, EPA, etc. to control and punish political foes; using slander at every turn alleging sexism, racism, and all other -isms to marginalize; agitating the offended to the point of riot and violence; importing foreign individuals as part of a ploy to disrupt our government under the guise of asylum and safety; and employing a two-tiered system of justice to exempt criminal acts of the elite but not the average — is not just despicable, it’s dangerous. In decades past, these acts would be accurately defined and viewed as totalitarianism.  #WalkAway from the deception and dangers of the dummycrats-Democrats.

~The Patriot Post  

             Few, if any, actually believe the Saudis story, of course. A 59-year-old journalist spontaneously took on 15 Saudi security agents? Sure thing. Quite the contrary, reports are that he wasn’t just killed but dismembered on the scene. His body has never been produced. Furthermore, as the editors of National Review put it, “Very little happens in Saudi Arabia without bin Salman’s foreknowledge and approval, so the notion that he would be so unaware of his inner circle’s activities regarding one of the regime’s highest-profile international critics is laughable.”
               Beyond that quick recap of the story, here are a few things to bear in mind:
               First of all, this is what authoritarian regimes do, be they Islamic or otherwise. A free press is anathema to totalitarians. But with Khashoggi, there may be more than meets the eye. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1970s. He wasn’t an advocate of western-style democracy, instead favoring an Arab Spring-style political Islamic regime. That isn’t to minimize his death; it’s to see clearly who he was.
               The American Leftmedia — led by The Washington Post — is running wall-to-wall coverage of his murder primarily because Khashoggi is one of theirs. He’s a journalist, an untouchable saint, and his death thus rattles them to their core.
               But have most Americans heard of the the Gwinnett County Georgia police officer killed in the line of duty Saturday? Officer Antwan Toney had just turned 30, and he was an outstanding human being and police officer. Yet this black cop was murdered by two black assailants in the Atlanta area; one killer is in custody. Toney was one of ours — an American citizen serving his country and community honorably. Both of these men’s lives matter, but only one is getting nonstop media coverage.
               The strategic reason for that is the media’s hope to pin Khashoggi’s murder — or at least the aftermath — on President Donald Trump. Anything to create the appearance of scandal before the midterms.
               Which brings us to our parting thought: In 2012, four Americans, including an ambassador, were killed in a terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and liar-Hillary Clinton lied about it for weeks solely to preserve scumbag/liar-nObama’s reelection campaign. The Leftmedia aided them in this deception. So while Trump certainly should have been far stronger in his public condemnation of the Saudis, we suspect he’s using this incident for leverage behind the scenes. Don’t be surprised to see a subtle shift in America’s relationship with the Saudis that will benefit the U.S., all while Trump gives them breathing room publicly. Distasteful? Sure. But sometimes that describes American foreign policy out of necessity.

~The Patriot Post  

             Mexican authorities attempted to stop the migrants and funnel them into shelters where their requests for asylum could be processed, but the caravan quickly grew frustrated, overwhelming Mexican police and illegally crossing Mexico’s southern border by going around processing stations. They met little resistance.
               This is a politically orchestrated and timed event to interfere with the upcoming midterm elections. dummycrats-Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media would love nothing more than to rekindle the previous outrage over President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” enforcement policy on illegal immigration in an effort to exploit women and Hispanic voters. That much is evident in the media coverage that offers nothing but an overly simplistic and sympathetic narrative regarding the “plight” of these migrant invaders.
               Meanwhile, Trump has sought to address the issue before the invasion of migrants reaches the U.S. southern border. On Friday, Trump received support from Mexican authorities that they would seek to help stop the migrants. On Saturday, Trump declared, “We’re going to figure it out,” adding, “They’re not coming into this country.” This morning, he warned that the U.S. would be “cutting off, or substantially reducing” aid to the three Central American nations in question, while putting the Border Patrol and military on alert. But the fact of the matter is that Trump’s ability to act on this current immigration crisis is limited. Republicans in Congress need to pass legislation to shut down the legal loopholes that have essentially allowed for de facto “catch and release” immigration. The underlying problem isn’t going to be solved easily — especially when one party is dedicated to ensuring it remains a crisis.

~The Patriot Post  

             “In the first week of November 2017, YouGov polled 1,500 Americans about their attitudes on the matter, on behalf of The Economist,” according to the report. “In the final week of September 2018, it conducted a similar poll again. When it came to questions about the consequences of sexual assault and misconduct, there was a small but clear shift against victims.” By the numbers:
               The share of American adults responding that men who sexually harassed women at work 20 years ago should keep their jobs has risen from 28% to 36%. The proportion who think that women who complain about sexual harassment cause more problems than they solve has grown from 29% to 31%. And 18% of Americans now think that false accusations of sexual assault are a bigger problem than attacks that go unreported or unpunished, compared with 13% in November last year.
               Paradoxically, it’s females, not males, who are most responsible for these shifts. As the report adds: “Surprisingly, these changes in opinion against victims have been slightly stronger among women than men. Rather than breaking along gendered lines, the #MeToo divide increasingly appears to be a partisan one. On each of these three questions, the gap between Trump and liar-Clinton voters is at least six times greater than the one between genders.” The partisan divide is routine in this polarized political atmosphere — not to mention also quite ironic given the liar-Clintons’ licentious history — but the fact that women appear to be growing more hesitant to cast stones suggests more of them view the #MeToo movement as sophomoric and even deleterious given the rather significant lack of due process.
               Even The Economist deserves some scrutiny. It uses the word “victims” three times, including in the title — “American opinion has shifted against victims” — yet the more appropriate term would be “accusers.” A victim implies the existence of concrete and/or corroborative evidence. But that’s often times not the case. Just this week we learned that a male student is taking legal action against Pittsburgh’s Seneca Valley School District after some fellow female classmates accused him of crimes he didn’t commit. A tape exists in which the girls, who claimed they were sexually assaulted, concede it was all a hoax. The reason? In their own words, “I just don’t like him” and “[I] would do anything to get him expelled.”
               This is why we have due process — because the idea that “women almost never lie about rape is a lie.” Except even in the Pittsburgh example it came too late. The male student faced expulsion and even imprisonment before the tape exonerated him. Yet he can’t erase the harrowing experience, and his reputation is irreparably tarnished. Yet a growing chorus of leftists want due process abolished because it supposedly undermines the #MeToo movement. By the way, the accusers — or “victims,” as The Economist would prefer to call them — at the school remain unpunished.
               The concept of #MeToo absolutely should be applauded. The problem is that the movement itself has devolved into a no-questions-asked morass wherein presumptions are treated as facts. It has been used by celebrities and politicians alike to paint a broad brush that unfairly portrays the situation. In truth, false allegations are likely to be just as hellish as real ones. Finally, it’s worth pondering what this poll would look like in the aftermath of the Brett Kavanaugh witch hunt.

~The Patriot Post  

             Also cheering for the president’s decision were Iowa’s two Republican senators, Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, who responded by writing an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. “Biofuels are a part of everyday life in Iowa, the top corn- and ethanol-producing state in the U.S.,” the pair noted. “Ethanol supports more than 43,000 Iowa-based jobs and 350,000 jobs throughout the country, directly and indirectly. Ethanol contributed $44.4 billion to gross domestic product and $5 billion in federal tax revenue in 2017.”
               So this is really about Making Iowa (and other Corn Belt states) Great Again, not America. Fair enough for two Hawkeye senators, but their ensuing dishonesty deserves to be challenged.
               The Grassley-Ernst op-ed descended into frankly Orwellian terms, boasting of the “competition” brought by ethanol and lauding Trump’s move to undo an “scumbag/liar-nObama-era regulation” that “hinders consumer choice at the pump” and “deprived consumers of the ability to make their own fuel choices.” They claim that “consumer demand” should by all rights drive up the use of ethanol.
               Yet all of that is exactly the opposite of reality. An onerous government mandate drives the use of ethanol, not consumer demand. And while Trump is technically “easing” a regulation to allow for year-round E15 sales, he’s actually  boosting the overall Renewable Fuel Standard — one of the biggest and most draconian regulations in government. If consumers want gas with no ethanol, it’s tough to find. Only about 11% of gas stations in the U.S. offer pure gasoline, and it’s always significantly more expensive than its less-efficient, more-corrosive, ethanol-infused cousin.
               No wonder Grassley fought so hard to save Brett Kavanaugh. The president got his Supreme Court justice, and Grassley ended up looking like the best friend Iowa farmers ever had.
               But in order to truly drain the swamp, Republicans must occasionally gore their own oxen.
               Our own Louis DeBroux recently wrote, “This move is entirely political. In fact, after the announcement, Trump held a MAGA rally in Iowa, and that was no coincidence. Between helping Iowa Republicans in the election and heartland farmers hurt by Trump’s own tariffs, the political ramifications are significant, so this decision is, sadly, hardly surprising.”
               How did all this start anyway? Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw  reminds us that dummycrats-Democrats and George W. Bush joined hands in 2007 to “require petroleum refiners to blend ever-increasing quantities of biofuels, chiefly ethanol, into gasoline, purportedly to promote energy independence and fight climate change.”
               First of all, the U.S. is now the world’s number-one oil exporter. We need ethanol less today than ever before. And secondly, putting the debate on manmade global warming aside, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change both agree that producing ethanol is a greater threat to the environment in terms of land use, chemical runoff, lower food production, and total emissions.
               Other issues that Iowa’s senators don’t seem concerned about include higher food prices, greater wear on engines that are built for gasoline, and increased environmental impact.
               Investor’s Business Daily considers the fallout: “One of the most unexpected developments of the ethanol experiment is the loss of millions of acres of natural habitat to grow corn and soybeans, not for the dinner table but for the gas-station pump. Do we really want to use millions of acres of land for no reason other to satisfy the farm lobby? Equally bad is the use of agricultural nutrients and chemicals to grow the crops. Much of those fertilizers end up in runoff that ends up in our rivers and lakes, causing algae blooms and other negative effects. You pay for that clean up — not those making billions from these crops.”
               Add in the billions of dollars spent by Americans to subsidize ethanol production in the past 30 years, and it’s pretty clear that this costly policy benefits only a relative handful of Corn Belt farmers and their political representatives in Washington.
               Senators Grassley and Ernst both have a solidly conservative record on many issues, but they’re nothing more than self-interested swamp creatures when it comes to ethanol. And now President Trump is giving them exactly what they want. The president deserves great credit for keeping his promises and taking on establishment Washington, but his ethanol policy is feeding into the very swamp that he promised to drain.

~The Patriot Post  

             When the nation is staring down its largest budget deficit since 2012, the wall may seem extraneous. But how much does doing nothing cost?
               A recent report from the Center for Immigration Studies indicates that one-fifth of all births in the U.S. are to immigrants, and a sizable number of those are to mothers here illegally. The report’s authors, CIS Research Director Steven A. Camarota, Demographer Karen Zeigler, and analyst Jason Richwine, write, “Our best estimate is that legal immigrants accounted for 12.4 percent — 494,000 — of all births, and illegal immigrants accounted for 7.5 percent — 297,000.”
               Those children become American citizens regardless of immigration status because of the widespread misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. And many of their births are payed for by American taxpayers. “Medicaid will pay for a delivery in almost all cases if the mother is uninsured or has a low income, though some mothers without insurance may not even realize the program has paid health care providers,” the CIS report indicates. “Illegal immigrants and most new legal immigrants are ineligible for Medicaid, but the program will still cover the cost of delivery and post-partum care for these mothers for at least a few months.”
               CIS puts the price tag for these births at “roughly $5.3 billion — $2.4 billion of which is for illegal immigrants.” Not to mention the fact illegal immigration as a whole costs upwards of $300 billion annually. That kind of puts the wall in perspective.
               So while the Leftmedia is focused on the caravan, the real problem is far more interwoven into our system, and it will be much harder to solve.

~The Patriot Post