Category Archives: Congress

California and Apportionment

sunbeam February 18, 2019 Comments Off

As was noted last week, California enjoys more representatives in the House of Representatives than it deserves due to its burgeoning illegal alien population. Based on the 2010 census, it is estimated that California has 7 to 8 more seats in the House than they would have if apportionment were based on the number of citizens rather than the total population.

Counting illegals in California in the census to inflate representation has been going on for a long time. Money and power are at work here. Today the elected representatives there declare their district a “sanctuary” area which attracts more illegals. This creates an endless cycle where House seats are being “stolen” at the expense of states that follow the law.

Why Is California A Sanctuary State?

sunbeam February 14, 2019 1 Comment

As most people know, California insists that it is a sanctuary state. Why are they doing this? Many cities in California have areas that have become literal cesspools from the large numbers of homeless there. Their sanitation needs are not met by standard state-of-the-art sanitation procedures. Some cities have “poop” patrols to clean up the streets from the poop and other unsanitary items put there by homeless people. Third world diseases are now beginning to show up. Los Angeles has a typhus problem which appears to be spreading. Due to the shortage of housing, encouraging more illegals to go there just exacerbates the problem.

There is an old saying that one should “follow the money” if you want to know why seemingly rational people would pursue what appears to be a irrational course of action. And in this case that certainly appears to be true.

The Border Wall

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Negotiations on a border wall continue. Supposedly a deal has been reached. It is not clear if real progress has been made. The Democrats apparently dropped their proposal to limit the number of detained immigrants caught inside the U.S. to a daily average of 16,500. There is currently no such limit.

This is insane. That’s like saying that the number of people detained for murder, assault, robbery, rape, etc., in this country should be limited to a specific number each day. Do the Democrats want to encourage more crime in America? That is just what this proposal would do. Hopefully this was fake bargaining position so that they could say that they compromised their position. However, I doubt this is the case. The fact that such a position is ridiculous is irrelevant to them.

Democrats Cower Before Trump

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The Democrats have cancelled the State of the Union address scheduled for January 29th. Technically they dis-invited PDJT.

The Wall Address

sunbeam January 10, 2019 Comments Off

On Tuesday evening PDJT went before the American public to make his case for the building of a border wall. Of course, getting airtime was not a guarantee. Most of the networks would rather do something else than provide PDJT with time to make his case. However, the MSM could not afford to have all the analysis coming from Fox News. So the networks caved and broadcasted his address.

The Wall

sunbeam January 8, 2019 Comments Off

The border wall has been in the news a lot lately since the Democrats refuse to allocate a single penny to protecting our southern border. As a result, there has been a partial shutdown of the Federal Government, not that anybody has noticed except those who are now without paychecks.

There has been a lot of smoke generated about this issue. The Dems will parade some illegal alien who just finished college as proof we should have open borders. Of course this is a far cry from just a decade ago when the Dems were all in for protecting the border. ...

Normalizing Political Violence

sunbeam January 5, 2019 Comments Off

As has been pointed out before, the left wants the American people to accept political violence as normal. Hatred and calls for violence from left wing activists are now so routine that few prominent people bother to condemn them.

Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi have constantly been urging their supporters to confront those who do not agree with their Marxist philosophy, to get in their faces in public, to harass them in restaurants, at department stores, at gas stations. Waters even extended this to harassing people in their homes. The goal is to silence those who disagree with them.

Catholics Need Not Apply

sunbeam January 2, 2019 Comments Off

Are the Democrats trying to impose a religious test on candidates for federal judgeships? In particular, are the Democrats trying to prevent practicing Catholics from ascending to federal judgeships? Of course, this would be contrary to the Constitution which specifically states that there can be no religious test for federal employment.

During 2017 confirmation hearings for the 7^thCircuit for Judge Amy Barrett, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said, “The dogma lives loudly within you.” Specifically Feinstein was referring to the fact that Barrett was a practicing Catholic who follows the Church’s teachings on life and marriage. Feinstein was attempting to draw a line whereby particular individuals would be automatically disqualified from being judges if they believed in their religion’s teachings. In particular here, abortion on demand was the issue. ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gives Economics Studies A Bad Name

sunbeam November 21, 2018 Comments Off

While there have been members of Congress who were not blessed with great intelligence, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from NYC, who will take office in January, takes the cake.

She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Boston University. After four years, (and nearly $300,000 list price), the school promises that BU economics majors will depart “with a firm understanding of core microeconomic and macroeconomic theory” and the “empirical skills that are essential to applying economic reasoning in our increasingly data-driven world.”

Given the above how does one explain the absolute economic illiteracy of this media darling who would make Sarah Palin look like a genius? The Economics Department of BU must cringe every time she shows up on TV. She is certainly not a glowing ad for the merits of their degree program.

Take a listen.