Mickey Kaus

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  1. 9 hours ago

    "Barely relevant" is one of those nut-graf phrases you can't help but think was added as mid-level (anti-Trump) editors looked for way to torque piece to make it more cutting. They usually over-torque and produce BS, as in this case.

    This piece says wall is "barely relevant" to "conservative activists who have pressed for decades for sharp reductions in both illegal and legal immigration"--and offers ZERO evidence for that. Many think E-Verify is more important. Doesn't mean they don't also want the wall.
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  2. 9 hours ago

    This piece says wall is "barely relevant" to "conservative activists who have pressed for decades for sharp reductions in both illegal and legal immigration"--and offers ZERO evidence for that. Many think E-Verify is more important. Doesn't mean they don't also want the wall.

    Related to this great ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ piece is fact that talking about border security and having this dominate cable news is something POTUS prefers to news focused on Mueller probe.
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  3. 11 hours ago

    NOTE: This part may be happening, according to WaPo [search for "humanitarian"]

    THE OBVIOUS SHUTDOWN_ENDING DEAL now is 1) Better facilities at the border (doctors, EMTs, heat, bathrooms etc) for 2) Wall. No? You'd still need to close catch & release/asylum loopholes in a separate deal (or in the courts, or in Mexico)
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    13 hours ago

    Mulvaney, circa 2014: "There are jobs that American citizens will not do ... We have businesses that rely on migrant, legal migrant workers."

    ICYMI here's that PBS documentary outing Mulvaney as one of the pro-amnesty conspirators (with Reps. Diaz Balart and Gutierrez) in the 2013-14 immigration fight
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  5. 12 hours ago

    2/ And is that Trump's position? He's said we don' need the wall where there are "natural barriers." If being in "middle of the country" counts as a natural barrier there won't be much wall left. Is Mulvaney whittling down the wall the way Bolton is whittling down Syria pullout?

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  6. 12 hours ago

    Note Mulvaney says, re wall, that "there are places in the middle of the country where technology will be better." 1) There are? Aren't places in middle of nowhere, where you can't station agents, exactly where you need a wall? 1/2

    DO NOT TRUST Mick Mulvaney. He's well behaved on but can't help talking about "larger immigration reform" that will "solve immigration." We know what that means (Amnesty 1st). The press knows too, which is why they will highlight the comment
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  7. 12 hours ago

    Authors around the country silently praying, "Please, Foxify my book."

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  8. 12 hours ago

    State Dept. may say "there hasn’t been any terrorists found coming across the southern border." But Texas says there have: 143 "land border crossing encounters with watch-listed individuals in southwest border states between November 2013 and July 2014."

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    Here's the video of Chris Wallace fact-checking Sarah Sanders on her false claim that terrorists are streaming over the border with Mexico. "The state department says there hasn’t been any terrorists found coming across the southern border." Via Fox.
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  9. 13 hours ago

    ICYMI here's that PBS documentary outing Mulvaney as one of the pro-amnesty conspirators (with Reps. Diaz Balart and Gutierrez) in the 2013-14 immigration fight

    DO NOT TRUST Mick Mulvaney. He's well behaved on but can't help talking about "larger immigration reform" that will "solve immigration." We know what that means (Amnesty 1st). The press knows too, which is why they will highlight the comment
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  10. 13 hours ago

    DO NOT TRUST Mick Mulvaney. He's well behaved on but can't help talking about "larger immigration reform" that will "solve immigration." We know what that means (Amnesty 1st). The press knows too, which is why they will highlight the comment

    “...to the extent titles make any difference in this town...” titles used to matter in this town a lot!
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  11. 13 hours ago

    DO NOT TRUST Lindsey Graham! Seems fairly solid re: Wall on Face the Nation But remember he pushed the grotesque, immigration-doubling Amnesty-First Gang of 8 plan in 2013. Here he is characterizing foes of amnesty as "bigots"

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  12. 13 hours ago

    DON'T TRUST the NBC transcript of . Leaves out whole paragraphs of what Mulvaney said--from 4:00 to 5:00 on the clock of the video. Weird. Was as interesting as anything else he said. Video: Transcript: FYI

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  13. 14 hours ago

    This was a fantastic article. Don't know why it hasn't been made into a movie yet. Or something even bigger -- a Podcast

    Very excited to announce that my book THE QUEEN, the life story of America’s original “welfare queen” Linda Taylor, is being published this spring (May 21!) by Little Brown and is now available for preorder
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  14. 14 hours ago

    Now do Steven Hatfill

    An eye-opening article shows why Donald Trump should be VERY afraid of Robert Mueller. shows with amazing detail how the PanAm Flight 103 bombers were caught , detailing Mueller's role in thoroughly gathering evidence.
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  15. 16 hours ago

    Also, it *is* a big concession. Concrete seems better. At least should have option of concrete if appropriate. The prototype walls had concrete, no?

    Isn't it better if the concrete-to-steell issue is made to look like a wrenching concession? That would let Dems say they'd blocked the evil concrete Trump wanted.
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  16. 16 hours ago

    Isn't it better if the concrete-to-steell issue is made to look like a wrenching concession? That would let Dems say they'd blocked the evil concrete Trump wanted.

    V.P. Mike Pence and group had a productive meeting with the Schumer/Pelosi representatives today. Many details of Border Security were discussed. We are now planning a Steel Barrier rather than concrete. It is both stronger & less obtrusive. Good solution, and made in the U.S.A.
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  17. 17 hours ago

    Right. In part because the high marginal rates encouraged unproductive tax shelters -- a waste of brain cells & energy that doesn't happen at lower rates.

    This is important for all those excited about raising the top marginal income tax rate to 70%, or even 90%: 'Taxes on the Rich Were Not That Much Higher in the 1950s.' From :
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    20 hours ago

    Bears beware: the Fed has listened to the primordial scream of world markets via

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    Jan 6

    Washington Post news report: There is 'a bona fide emergency on the border...record numbers of migrant families are streaming into the United States.'

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  20. 24 hours ago

    Today's BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION UPDATE .... … Wait, that's not . It's the NY Times. They've taken her job. Same conclusion though: new miles completed by Trump = zero.

    Today's BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION UPDATE: Miles completed yesterday--Zero; Miles completed since Inauguration--Zero. NEXT UPDATE TOMORROW.
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