A Mexican woman living in Texas has been convicted on two counts of illegal voting.  She had falsely claimed to be an American citizen and voted—at least five times—in the 2012 and 2014 elections; she received a $5,000 fine and an eight-year prison sentence for her crimes. Fox News reports: A Mexican citizen living in […]

President Trump’s “shock and awe” approach continues with a massive crackdown on illegal aliens in Southern California. Federal immigration officials say 160 people were arrested across the Southland over the past week during a crackdown targeting “criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants and immigration fugitives.” The arrests took place in six counties during what U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Face fines up to $25,000 and a maximum 10 years in prison.  As I’ve said since the beginning: protests are fine; rioting is criminal.  Protesters at President Trump’s inauguration became violent, setting fires, vandalizing property, and antagonizing—even injuring—law enforcement officers.  The indictments of 146 additional rioters were handed down this week. The total of those

Fox News reports: Several towns, cities and counties around the nation are caving to President Trump’s threat to pull funding, and abandoning their “sanctuary” pledges to shield illegal immigrants from federal authorities. Dayton, Ohio, dropped a policy that restricted the city’s cooperation with immigration officials pursuing illegal immigrants arrested for misdemeanors or felony property crimes,

This photo is from the Moscow/Pullman protest of the Planned Parenthood facility in Pullman.  #DefundPlannedParenthood #AbortionIsMurder

A member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors resigns in protest because Trump is eyeing deregulation. Via Reuters. The Federal Reserve Board’s top bank regulator said on Friday he would resign, giving a boost to President Donald Trump’s plans to ease reforms put in place after the 2007-09 financial crisis. Daniel Tarullo, a strong

This from last May:  Of course, this is a spoof on the infamous line about snow uttered by Dr. David Viner of the University of East Anglia some years ago in the Independent (now deleted, but preserved here) where he claimed in an article Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past by Charles Onians: However, the

More counterexamples. Via CTV News:  Many snowfall records broken on Vancouver Island February 2017 will go down as one of the snowiest Februaries on record in Victoria, B.C. As of February 9, a total of 32.8 cm had been measured at the YYJ weather station, making 2017 the 3rd snowiest February since 1978. And we’re

Still more counterexamples. Via Canada Weather Channel Lots of snow over the weekend with 120 cm (4 ft) at Waterton Gate. Also one-day record snowfall in numerous parts of B.C. and record lows in Labrador. NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR The following stations set a daily minimum temperature record on February 4, 2017: Churchill FallsNew record of

More counterexamples.  Bookmakers Ladbrokes has set odds of 2/1 that this month will be the coldest February ever recorded in Dundee. A spokeswoman for the betting firm said “Weather betting is more popular in Scotland than anywhere in the UK, with the majority of bets being placed online. “We have seen a flurry of bets

Via Gallup:  A majority of Republicans, 55%, are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., up sharply from 22% last month before President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Democrats’ satisfaction dropped from 27% to 13% in the same period. These shifts resulted in a slight uptick in Americans’ overall satisfaction, from 26% to 30%.

Universities are creating “Bias Response Teams” to investigate offensive speech, reports the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Forty-two percent of these teams include police officers. “Bias” is defined very broadly, writes Robby Soave in Reason. It may include “hateful speech impugning gender, race, political belief, religion, disability status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.” The University of

“changing of public policy in social justice movements” The Daily Caller reports: Duke University Training Students For Anti-Trump Activism Duke University is sponsoring a workshop for the purpose of training students to engage in activism against President Trump’s administration. LGBTQA activist Mandy Carter will lead the February 15 event, which is titled “Ideas for Activism in

Leftists looking to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for an idea of how the Trump era might look could realize they’ve already brought parts of the seminal dystopia to life themselves. Brendan O’Neill writes: I was delighted to read that leftists and millennials and others are snapping up George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in a bid to make some sense of

Now this is ironic. Those opposed to DeVos’ heading the Dept. of Education are thinking of pulling their kids out of the government schools. How can you continue to be a statist if you don’t have your kids in state schools?  [I must resist the temptation to mock them…] There’s going to be a temptation

Maybe they should rethink the use of the word “wall” here. Someone might find it racist… </sarcasm>  The City of Lights is bracing for darker times. In a Feb. 9 press conference, Paris’s deputy mayor Jean-François Martins unveiled a proposal to build a permanent bulletproof glass wall around the base of the Eiffel Tower to

As her sign makes abundantly clear, they don’t know the difference between “migration” and “immigration.” It’s like basic categories are lost on progressives. Via Reason:  Hundreds of people have been apprehended in at least a half dozen states by federal agents as part of a Trump administration crackdown on people in the country without proper

Food policy writer Baylen Linnekin notes the massive regulatory differences between the farmers markets in his new hometown of Seattle versus what he sees elsewhere across the country: Last weekend I shopped for the first time at a farmers market in Seattle’s University District, near my new home in the city’s Wallingford neighborhood. I visited