Mid-Day Snapshot · June 18, 2024

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THE FOUNDATION

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” —James Madison (1788)

ON THIS DAY in 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain again, commencing the War of 1812. Though the U.S. had won its independence decades earlier, the British were impressing American sailors into service in their navy along with interfering with trade and other bullying behaviors. Over the course of three years, the two nations fought to a draw, which was really a victory for the young American nation.

IN TODAY’S DIGEST

EXECUTIVE NEWS SUMMARY

Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler

Immigration

  • Biden issues another incentive for illegals: Joe Biden’s handlers have stepped up their efforts to weaponize our borders and weaken the fabric of our nation. The latest example of this is a sweeping new “protection” against deportation for immigrant spouses of American citizens. Biden’s DHS, which is still being run by impeached Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, will implement the policy to allow immigrants “to apply for lawful permanent resident status, including the non-citizen spouses and children of lawful U.S. permanent residents or citizens.” As Fox News reports, “The White House said it expected the policy to offer protection [read: amnesty] to about half a million American families, which would include roughly 50,000 under the age of 21 who are married to or children of a U.S. citizen.” The order would also give additional preferences to Barack Obama’s so-called Dreamers. Asked if the new policy would apply to illegals in addition to those who obeyed our laws, a White House flack dodged the question, saying that the rules would apply to “individuals who are, eligible under existing U.S law to be able to adjust their status.” Thus, yet another Biden diktat serves as yet another incentive for gate-crashers to flout our nation’s immigration laws.
  • Migrant suspect in sex assault of 13-year-old girl in NYC park now in NYPD custody (NY Post)
  • Administration official admits that unaccompanied minors crossing border aren’t checked for criminal records (National Review)
  • Illegal immigrant “gotaways” near two million under Biden admin (Daily Caller)

“War” on Drugs

  • A dopey pardon policy: Given that Maryland abuts Washington, DC, and is therefore one of the bluest states in the union, it stands to reason that it’s also one of the dope-smokingest. And sure enough, Democrat Governor Wes Moore pardoned more than 175,000 dope-smoking Marylanders in one of the nation’s most sweeping drug-policy rollbacks. The AP reports, “Though the pardons will not result in anyone being released from incarceration — and nor will they result in having past convictions automatically expunged from a person’s background check — advocates praised the move as a way of removing barriers to housing, employment, or educational opportunities based on convictions for conduct that is no longer illegal.” Fair enough, to the extent that misdemeanor pot convictions are keeping folks from landing jobs or finding housing. “I’m ecstatic,” said Moore, “that we have a real opportunity with what I’m signing to right a lot of historical wrongs. If you want to be able to create inclusive economic growth, it means you have to start removing these barriers that continue to disproportionately sit on communities of color.” We’re not sure what Moore means by “historical wrongs.” The conduct was illegal at the time, and the law applied to all citizens regardless of skin color.

Anti-Semitism

  • Ford Foundation sends millions to anti-Semites: In response to Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack, the Ford Foundation, led by President Darren Walker, announced that it would be sending money for “immediate humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza and the Middle East.” Walker announced that the foundation’s “resources will go to partners in the region to provide life-saving support and other essential needs to the affected Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” While he observed the “tragic events” that had occurred in Israel, Walker didn’t name the perpetrators of the terrorism: Hamas. The reason for this oversight seems to be the fact that much of the foundation’s “humanitarian” funding has subsequently gone to support anti-Semitic organizations. The irony is that Walker has personally decried Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford as “one of the twentieth century’s most virulent American antisemites” and called for “all of us engaged in building a fairer, more just America ought to embrace our responsibility to speak out about this ancient strain of inequality — this category of caste — exactly as we call out racism, sexism, ableism, and homophobia.” However, since 2015, the foundation has given over $6 million to two anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian organizations that effectively justify terrorism against Israel as the Palestinians’ “right of self-defense.”
  • Gazans angry that Hamas held hostages above ground (National Review)
  • Netanyahu dissolves war cabinet after collapse of coalition (Washington Free Beacon)
  • Seinfeld shows how to shut down a heckler: Jerry Seinfeld is no conservative, but it’s clear that he’s been mugged one too many times by reality. Indeed, comedy itself has been mugged repeatedly by leftist snowflakes, to the point where many comedians have been rendered utterly unfunny. But not Seinfeld. During a recent performance in Australia, he showed his fellow comics how to shut down a heckler — in this case, one of the Jew-hating pro-Hamas variety. Without hesitating, he went straight to mockery: “We have a genius, ladies and gentlemen. He solved the Middle East. He solved it,” adding, “It’s the Jewish comedians, that’s who we have to get. They’re the ones doing everything. … Tomorrow we will read in the paper: Middle East 100 percent solved thanks to man at the Qudos Arena stopping Jew comedian. They stopped him, and everyone in the Middle East went, ‘Oh my God, let’s just get along. We can’t do that.’” Take a look. And to you aspiring comedians out there: Take notes.

Race

  • Google’s racist reroute: Google’s Big Tech colossus gives us plenty of “free” and fascinating goodies, so long as we’re willing to compromise our liberty-based conservative principles — and, in at least one instance, our safety as well. As Ali Partovi, the CEO of startup accelerator NEO, points out, “If you’ve wondered why Google Maps doesn’t offer ‘most scenic walking route’ (a top user request), apparently it’s because they want to help fix income inequality by sending you through low-income neighborhoods.” There are, of course, good types of discrimination and bad types. The good types, like choosing not to pull on a tiger’s tail and steering clear of crime-ridden neighborhoods, are what keep us alive and well. The bad types, like judging people purely based on the color of their skin, are what foster racial harm and resentment. Leftist do-gooders, though, often throw others’ caution to the wind in the furtherance of social justice. For example, some guy named Kasey argues that “inadvertently diverting foot traffic from low-income streets to high-income streets takes revenue and potentially tax dollars from already struggling communities and funnels it instead to richer communities.” We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Google is evil.
  • Chicago reparations task force: Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson’s poll numbers are sinking as violent crime continues to plague the city, and residents, particularly the city’s black residents, have become increasingly outraged over the growing number of migrants being dumped in their neighborhoods. So, in an effort to deflect from his failures and his policy decisions that served to exacerbate both these problems, Johnson, who is black, decided to play the race card. On Monday, to much fanfare, Johnson announced his creation of a reparations task force ahead of the Juneteenth celebration. Citing the city’s history of “systemic racism and injustices that have been inflicted on our communities,” Johnson asserted that his reparations task force “will unlock the doors of prosperity to fully flow through the neighborhoods that have been disinvested in for decades.” He added, “We must never forget our goal to make sure reparations become a reality for Black residents of this city.” Johnson’s task force grift will cost Chicago taxpayers some $500,000, money that could be spent on other things, such as more policing in low-income neighborhoods, since 71 people were shot, nine of whom died, in the city over the past weekend.

Rainbow Mafia

  • Biden’s infamous White House trans influencer accused of sexual assaults: Rosa Montoya, the gender-bending male who went topless during Joe Biden’s Pride celebration at the White House last year, has been accused of sexually assaulting at least five people. One individual, a woman who has undergone several gender-mutilating surgeries in an effort to appear like a man, accused Montoya of repeatedly sexually abusing her over a year-long period. The individual said that after the assaults, she “attempted to end my life on more than one occasion due to how depressed I was from the trauma.” She also shared emails that were purportedly from Montoya in which he appears to admit to the sexual abuse. “I broke your trust and violated you,” he said, and “I’m sorry I forced myself on you.” The individual also claims that there are at least four other victims of Montoya’s abuse. Given his publicly sexually lewd behavior at the White House, these allegations are not shocking.
  • Top cancer charity apologizes for using word “cervix” instead of trans-friendly “front hole” (Daily Mail)

American Spirit

  • Morgan Freeman excoriates Black History Month again: Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman is not a fan of Black History Month. Back in a 2005 interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Freeman famously called Black History Month “ridiculous” as he explained, “I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history.” In a recently published interview with Variety, Freeman again weighed in on Black History Month, stating, “I detest it. The mere idea of it. You are going to give me the shortest month in a year? And you are going to celebrate ‘my’ history?! This whole idea makes my teeth itch. It’s not right.” He added, “My history is American history. It’s the one thing in this world I am interested in beyond making money, having a good time, and getting enough sleep.” We need a lot more Morgan Freemans and a lot fewer race-hustlers.

Misc.

  • White House finally declares Biden won’t commute Hunter’s sentence even if he gets prison time (NY Post)
  • Secret Service confirms agent was robbed at gunpoint during Biden’s California trip (Scripps News)
  • Obesity will cost U.S. up to $9.1 trillion in medical costs over next decade, House GOP warns (Washington Examiner)
  • Judge backs off from threat to punish journalist over Covenant School reporting (Daily Wire)
  • Tennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child rape convictions (AP)
  • Humor: White House claims terrible economy is just a deepfake (Babylon Bee)

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FEATURED ANALYSIS

Another Illegal Alien Murders an American Woman

Rachel Morin’s killing is the direct result of Joe Biden’s facilitated invasion.

Emmy Griffin

On August 5, 2023, a mother of five named Rachel Morin disappeared while hiking on the popular Ma and Pa trail in Bel Air, Maryland. Her body was discovered in a culvert on August 6. She had been sexually assaulted and murdered. Her alleged killer is a Salvadorian gang member who entered the U.S. illegally as early as February 2023. He also sought asylum in Canada before being turned away by the Canadians.

Reports are that the illegal immigrant brutalized women in his wake. He fled his home country after murdering a woman there. In California in March 2023, he assaulted a nine-year-old girl and her mother during a home invasion, an assault that produced DNA linking him to Morin’s murder in Maryland. Morin may not have even been his last victim as he forged his way through the U.S. interior.

Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler gave an impassioned speech about the senselessness of this murder during a press conference. “We are 1,800 miles from the southern border here in Harford County,” he said. “This is the second woman in our county to be killed by illegal suspects. In both cases, they are suspects from El Salvador with ties to criminal gangs. [This] should not be happening. Victor Hernandez did not come here to make a better life for himself or for his family; he came here to escape a crime he committed in El Salvador.”

Sheriff Gahler is absolutely correct. Morin’s murder is the direct result of Biden’s facilitated invasion. Her blood is on his hands. Her children are without their mother because of the actions of this monster that Biden allowed in.

Morin’s is by no means the first death at the hands of an illegal immigrant. In Martinsburg, West Virginia, another Salvadorian gang member killed an American woman, and police found her body burning. This murderer had already done 22 years in an El Salvador prison and had a rap sheet a mile long.

And who can forget Laken Riley, the college student murdered by an illegal? Her alleged killer was a Venezuelan who entered the country illegally in September 2022. He played Biden’s “catch and release” border policy like a fiddle.

Biden sort of acknowledged Laken during his State of the Union address (he called her “Lincoln” after being heckled into attempting to say her name), but it was all in service to a cynical political ploy — trying to pin his own bad border decision on Republicans.

We know Laken Riley’s name and now Rachel Morin’s. But how many countless others go unremarked by the national news? How many other American mothers, daughters, fathers, and sons are dead because Biden turned a blind eye to the needs of the American people in an attempt to garner future Democrat voters via the southern border pipeline?

If we had a national database of illegal immigrant crime like our Mark Alexander has been calling for since 2022, we would know the answer. Frankly, the reason that one isn’t being set up is because it paints a pretty ugly picture for Democrats. It would expose the fact that other countries are emptying their prisons and mental institutions and foisting them on the U.S. It would even demonstrate once and for all that not all illegals are here for a better life.

It’s also not just murder; remember, tens of thousands of Americans die every year from fentanyl overdoses — a drug trafficked across Biden’s open border.

It’s poor consolation to all the American families grieving because their loved ones were assaulted and/or murdered by individuals who had no right to be in this country in the first place. Even one victim is one too many.

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BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

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BEST OF VIDEOS

SHORT CUTS

Non Compos Mentis

“You know, my, my, my son says, you ought to have a, uh, you know, we all have, uh, various short-term descriptions for your jobs, for what you’re accomplished. You should say, ‘Joe jobs.’” —Joe Biden

Gaslighting

“These right-wing critics of the president have a credibility problem. … Instead of talking about the president’s performance in office — and what I mean by that is his legislative wins, what he’s been able to do for the American people across the country — we’re seeing these deepfakes, these manipulated videos. And it is, again, done in bad faith.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Praetorian Guard

“There’s a growing and insidious trend in right-wing media … to take highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden … and use those videos to spread messages virally to cast doubt on President Biden’s fitness for office.” —MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace

“Even critics were saying that [Biden] did a strong job, very good job representing the United States.” —MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough regarding the G7 summit

For the Record

“The media that decries misinformation is now insisting unedited videos of Joe Biden are edited.” —Erick Erickson

“Biden’s White House has redefined ‘deep fake’ to mean any video that shows Biden being lost and confused.” —Tim Young

“Americans think President Biden is mentally unfit because he is, clearly, mentally unfit for the office.” —Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)

Demagogue

“Today, we remember the nine beautiful souls of Mother Emanuel AME who lost their lives on June 17, 2015. [T]he word of God was pierced by bullets in hate and rage…” —Joe Biden (“But Joe Biden never, EVER mentions the NINETEEN THOUSAND+ black souls murdered by other black people since then. Hmmm. Guess those black lives did NOT matter.” —Mark Alexander)

With Friends Like These…

“I will not attend [Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress]. … I’m not going to sit in a one-way lecture. … How he treated President Obama, he should not expect reciprocity.” —Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA)

The BIG Lies

“Zero. That was monthly inflation in May. There’s more to do still, but this is welcome progress.” —Joe Biden

“No administration has done more for Black America than the Biden-Harris administration.” —Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler

“This MAGA [Supreme] Court is going off the deep end, aligning itself more and more with the most extreme elements of the hard-Right.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

Re: The Left

“Martha Ann Alito had a life before she met her husband, and every feminist out there suggesting that she is simply his proxy with a vagina is a hypocritical disgrace.” —Christine Flowers

“Those claiming that the Hunter Biden conviction proves our justice system has not been weaponized … couldn’t be more wrong. … His paltry case got to trial despite the many efforts — some successful — by the Garland Justice Department to scuttle the entire investigation against him and to insulate any complicity by his father, who is Trump’s political rival for the presidency.” —Hans von Spakovsky

Food for Thought

“Maybe the best thing coming out of Ukraine is that it is exposing the sad state of our industrial base when it comes to making weapons that will be needed in the next war that is just over the horizon.” —Gary Bauer

And Last…

“I detest [Black History Month]. … This whole idea makes my teeth itch. It’s not right. My history is American history.” —actor Morgan Freeman

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