This isn’t the first time that Trump has said this. Last July, Trump floated a de facto amnesty for hotel, restaurant and farmworkers. The Trump administration acted on it too by making it easier to import guest workers. CBS News: “Mr.
At the tail end of last year, the story of Somali fraud in the American welfare system exploded into the mainstream. Tales about the exploitation of Minnesota’s generous welfare system included the abuse of sickness benefits and the allocation of subsidized housing schemes to the benefit of a…
The Venezuela saga gets more cockamamie by the day. It turns out that the predicates for kidnapping the president of a country that poses no threat whatsoever to America’s Homeland security are about as threadbare (and even comical) as they come. For instance, did the DOJ writers of…
The relationship between the EU, NATO, and the Trump administration can be summarized as follows: America is severing its military, economic, and political ties with Europe, while Europe is striving to maintain them. Negotiations, cajoling, endless meetings, summits, and declarations play a role, but to no avail.
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, resembles a pagan ritual in which wealthy, famous, and powerful people come together to worship themselves. It takes place in a secluded ski resort in the eastern Alps, so that “elites” can indulge themselves far away from the planet’s detestable…
The mainstream media in the West is committed to portraying the protests in Iran as strictly an internal affair. The people of Iran, so the argument goes, spontaneously rose up against their government because they were in desperate straits due to their leaders’ corruption and mismanagement of the…
For years, Ilhan Omar has operated with the kind of political protection most members of Congress can only dream about. Brotherly love and ethics complaints, be damned. Financial questions were waved off, like they meant nothing. Media allies jumping in to quickly frame any scrutiny as “harassment,” not…
There are moments in international politics when participation itself becomes a moral failure. Donald Trump’s self-styled “Peace Board” is one of them. This is not a debate about efficacy, sequencing, or diplomatic creativity. It is about legitimacy, accountability, and the deliberate exploitation of mass suffering for personal…
The regime change supporter’s favorite trick is to pretend the people in the targeted country are an ideological monolith. All Iranians hate their government, all Venezuelans wanted freedom from Maduro, etc. They do this constantly. The regime change supporter’s favorite trick is to pretend the people in…
“This is how tyranny looks in the modern world. It arrives dressed as dialogue, consensus, and expertise. It is imposed by people who sincerely believe they are doing nothing at all.” —DataRepublican Davos — The World Economic Forum (WEF)— is toast. Trump, Bessant, and Luttnick exposed the…
