Stephen Miller has pointed ICE to Home Depots as magnets for undocumented workers (usually gathered outside, hoping to snag a day’s work). But to paraphrase Willie Sutton, why not go where the immigrants are? “Undocumented immigrants are concentrated in cities for various reasons but by no means only in cities. Cities have communal and ethnic […]

Since I don’t watch TV, I might have missed it. Anybody here see Elon and the DOGE bois protesting the government inefficiency of National Guard and Marines being sent to LA as a Trump photo op? Isn’t this sort of wasteful spending what DOGE was created to eliminate? Anybody here see any anti-ICE protestors waving […]

I haven’t seen any significant “violence” or “riots” reported in LA, although that’s the Trump Administration claim. Predictably, Trump seized the moment to send in troops, with the hope of escalating things. I’ve seen claims that Newsom should have blocked the State National Guard, but that’s incorrect–Trump federalized the State National Guard, so they’re under […]

I changed the order of this article so as to attribute the authors and others in the beginning rather than near the end of this piece. I am reposting this article to Angry Bear Blog and attributing the authors, others, and any organizations which may have played a part in writing this piece. The why […]

When we visited the Providence Rhode Island area in April 2022 to look for a house, we bid on three houses. The first bid had an inspection contingency and was rejected out of hand. For the other two, we left out the inspection continency and were still outbid. It was a seller’s market. In the […]

Sure, Trump and Musk are endangering America by their cuts to the Department of National Security, the FBI and the CIA. Sure, those cuts make it easier for the next 9/11 attack. But whatabout back when the Democrats held the WH and Congress and had the clairvoyance to foresee all this and didn’t pass any […]

The Department of Homeland Security was created in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, ostensibly to consolidate and coordinate anti-terrorist activities previously housed in several different federal agencies. We can debate whether DHS has been an unalloyed good, but it at least paid lip service to the notion that the federal government has an […]

This is one of those issues where one side supports an ideal even if there is harm to the other side. My choice would be to warn those who may confess to something they did. The other side of this? If unknown and happening, who is to blame if nothing s done? ~~~~~~~ Priests to […]

Interesting issues occurring on May 28th which ended up in the courts. Also, people are finding ways to make money as Trump plays with on-again and off-again tariffs. As you probably know, the ruling on tariffs by the U.S. Court of International Trade was set aside by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. […]

First, my opinion. If anybody thinks this is not holding Trade with the US hostage until the other country concedes, they are crazy. Trump is obviously flexing our muscle to gain political advantage and a venue in which to brag. The only thing a tariff will do is protect an industry for a short period […]