“I believe, therefore I know”. For a very long time that has been the creed of many of those who fancy themselves to be Liberals or Progressives. The problem is that certitude in a false premise is foolish and possibly dangerous. A classic example of that situation is the oft stated figure that there are “10 to 11 million” illegal aliens in this country. The politically correct description of these individuals is “Undocumented Immigrants”, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are in our country without a legal status. They entered illegally or overstayed their visas. Either way, they have broken our laws. To you “Globalists” out there who believe their should be no national boundaries, I would suggest that you try to enter any of the countries, either north or south of our border without proper permission, and then start trying to get social benefits from your new residence. Unless you’re in Canada, I hope you like dirty, rat infested prisons.
Now, ponder that 10 to 11 million claim. I live in South Carolina, and over the holidays I have had an opportunity to travel the full width of that state. I use back roads because I hate to drive on interstate highways when they are as congested as they are at this time of year. So, I drive through many small towns in rural areas. It is rare to pass through these small hamlets without seeing signs in Spanish and stores and restaurants with names like “mercado” or “taqueria”. Remember, these are small towns in a rural area of a southeastern state which is a thousand miles from our southern border. It is apparent that there are far more Spanish speaking people here than meet the eye. What’s the chance that they are all here legally?
From the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama has been to say the least controversial. His initial trip abroad was his famous “apology tour”. He took it upon himself to apologize, in our name, for all the things he felt were wrong about the United States of America. He told the world we were not an exceptional country. He told the world we were not a Christian nation. He told the world we would no longer be the leader of the free world, but instead would “lead from behind”, whatever that meant. And that was just the beginning.
First, what I want to make clear is that I want the United States of America to have absolutely the safest transportation system in the world where security is concerned. What I firmly believe however, is that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is not the way to achieve that goal. In a previous post on this blog (“The TSA vs Israeli Security” – check the September archives) I described the techniques used by Israel’s airport screeners as opposed to what the TSA uses today. Since that post, a report has surfaced which indicates that our vaunted TSA screeners missed 95% of all fake explosives and/or weapons which were used by DHS “Red Teams” seeking to test the effectiveness of TSA security procedures in 2015. I’ll repeat that figure. 
The recent episode where Ivanka Trump and her family were verbally assaulted by a man on a JetBlue flight from JFK to SFO highlights a serious problem which has developed over the years in commercial aviation. Namely, people being allowed to interfere with crew members while they are performing their duties, whether in flight or on the ground. The Federal regulation which covers this is:
Nisei is a word of Japanese origin which means a person born in the United States or Canada, whose parents were born in Japan. In other words, a first generation American. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 a large number of these people who lived on or near the west coast were forcibly removed from their homes and businesses and “relocated” to what can only be termed concentration camps. This was supposedly done for their own protection, due to the hysteria caused by Japan’s unprovoked attack. It is none the less a stain on our history commensurate with the practice of slavery. After the war the Nisei and their parents were never properly compensated for their material losses.
As Donald Trump takes the reins from Barack Obama on January 20, 2017, he inherits an enormous security problem. It is very similar to the one handed to George W. Bush in 2001. Obama, even more so than Bill Clinton, has ignored the threat that Islam poses to the western world in general and the United States in particular. 2001 brought us the crisis and tragedy of 9/11. What will Obama’s feckless attitude towards the threats we face bring? One thing is for sure. They ARE coming.
Tomorrow, December 19, 2016, may turn out to be the most important day in United States history. Ok, perhaps that’s hyperbole. There are plenty of more important dates on our historical calendar. However, if the radical left, on the backs of the “Hollyweird” crowd, succeeds in turning enough Presidential Electors to invalidate the results of the 2016 election, we are in trouble as a country. It’s probably not going to happen, but if it does, there will most likely be open rebellion against the tyranny of the left in the few states which can determine the outcome of a Presidential election.
It’s here. The last lavish Obama family Christmas vacation trip. At nearly $5,000,000 per trip, that’s almost $40,000,000 that the American taxpayers have paid to assure that the Obama’s would have a happy holiday. And yes, there were all those other vacations to Martha’s Vineyard, Europe and Africa. Don’t forget the “A-List” Wednesday night parties at he White House. This President and his family has lived large at the taxpayers expense for the last eight years. Made Bill and Hillary look like pikers by comparison, but you can bet she would have made up for it if she had won in November. I would guess that the eight Christmas vacations to Crawford, Texas by the George W. Bush family didn’t cost the taxpayers $5,000,000 in total.