WP: More people were murdered last year than in 2014, and no one’s sure why
* Have you noticed the flurry of op-Ed’s and think pieces about how the crime isn’t really bad? Funny, for the last couple of years I remember multiple liberal politicians and media talking about how out of control gun crime was and how we need gun control. But now that cops are getting killed they hasten to say how crime isn’t really that bad compared to 40 years ago, etc.
* Trump made some good points on immigration.
The number of police officers killed in the line of duty has risen by almost 50% compared to this point last year. Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.
Lastly, we must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place.
Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.
But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens. My plan is the exact opposite of the radical and dangerous immigration policy of Hillary Clinton. Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration. Communities want relief.
Yet Hillary Clinton is proposing mass amnesty, mass immigration, and mass lawlessness. Her plan will overwhelm your schools and hospitals, further reduce your jobs and wages, and make it harder for recent immigrants to escape from poverty.
* Right after Trump’s speech, a male PBS commentator said Trump was stretching the truth by citing the 17% murder rate increase because the 17% increase only applied to 50 cities (!) and not suburban or rural areas.
The PBS journalist also said it was a dark, doom and gloom type speech. I’m sure most of the country thought it was glorious.
* I blame clickbait “news” sites like Buzzfeed for the decline in headline quality over the past few years. I’m so sick of “X event happened; here’s why” (which the above WaPo headline is an form of) and “Person did Action; here’s what happened”.
The running joke South Park did last season about the blurred line between ads and actual news was spot on.
* I don’t think there is today such a thing as a “centrist” Democrat. The entire US congressional membership strike me as a bunch of far left wacko open borders commie extremists. Tim Kaine rates an “F-” with NumbersUSA on immigration issues. So do his VA amigos Warner, Connelly, and Beyer. “F-”. They would import all of Latin America into the US over the weekend if they could get away with it, and put as many whites (themselves excluded of course) into unemployment as possible. Kaine is a far left Spanish-speaking nut job who dreams of turning to the US into Latin America Norte. “Centrist” to me implies that he might at least a little America First or a smidgen of patriotism in his DNA. He doesn’t.
