The Detroit News is pushing Kethledge for Supreme Court, the guy who reversed a deportation order of a criminal alien

The Detroit News, here, suffering as it does from a mental disorder known as libertarianism.

Kethledge is being pushed by the Republican Establishment as easier to confirm, in other words by the open borders crowd. For a reason.

The nitwits out there are getting into the weeds of "aggravated" in order to explain this away, some ignorantly equating "aggravated" in the law with "violent", which is hardly controlling. All sorts of things which aren't inherently violent are defined as aggravated by the law, including things which are obviously violent. For example, illicit trafficking in controlled substances and firearms are aggravated, as are money laundering, receipt of stolen property, disclosing classified information (Hillary), fraud (Obama), forgery, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Kethledge ignored the meaning of aggravated in the law in the case described, which suggests he might well dismiss the law in other circumstances when it is attractive to do so, for whatever reason.

There are better candidates than Kethledge who would enforce immigration law instead of try to find an excuse to get around it, which is also what Obama tried to do with the DACA executive order. 

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for June 2018

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Climate Update for June 2018

Max temp 94, Mean Max temp 94

Min temp 48, Mean Min temp 43

Av temp 69.9, Mean Av temp 67.7

Precip 2.50, Mean precip 3.54

Snowfall 0, Mean snowfall T, Season final 77.7, Mean Season 66.7

Heating Degree Days 12, Mean HDD 54, Season final 6456, Mean Season 6705

Cooling Degree Days 168, Mean CDD 139, Season to date 276, Mean Season to date 184

The heating season has finished 3.7% warmer than the mean using HDD as a measure. It ranked 32nd warmest since 1904.

The cooling season to date as measured by CDD has moderated to 50% warmer than the mean after a hot early start to the summer season. 

Gasoline on the Fourth of July 2018 averaged $2.87/gallon nationally

But a year ago gasoline averaged $2.25/gallon nationally.

What happened to $2.50/gal gas, Mr. President?

Rush Limbaugh's not-working-but-still-eating hits a record 95.5 million in the first half of 2018

In 2011 a judge told us to forgo something is acting, in 2018 a judge insists refusing to help is not the same as impeding

Judge Kessler in 2011, here, a liberal Clinton appointee, in re Obamacare.

Judge Mendez in 2018, here, a liberal Bush 43 appointee, in re immigration enforcement.

Liberals always rule to advance liberal objectives, even if it means that not acting is acting once upon a time but later on in a different situation it is not.

The manifest politicization of the judiciary ought to mean that they all must resign when the guy who appointed them finishes his term. It would be a more honest acknowledgement of the truth that the law is an ass, and that elections have consequences.

Iiiiiiiiiiiif if if if if we fall for . . .

People who don't have a stuttering problem stutter all the time, Sssam, and it's amusing when it happens. How's everyone supposed to know you got a problem bigger than saying your name? Grow some skin.

Why it feels like a jobs boom when it isn't

Initial claims for unemployment in the first half of 2018, as of today, are running at an annual rate of 11.8 million.

In the first half of 2017 the annual rate had been 12.7 million.

The difference is an extra 17,307 people NOT losing their jobs every week compared with a year ago.

The employment to population ratio is still way down at 60.4%, last exampled in late 1985. We did a lot better than that for a long time, before the freakout in the second half of 2008.

You first, English jerk

Billionaire Richard Branson: America should give out free cash to fix income inequality

America is for ourselves and for our posterity, not for the whole world

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

WaPo: Obama's Timmy TurboTax Geithner has a new life as a predatory lender

From the story here:

Mass-mailing checks to strangers might seem like risky business, but Mariner Finance occupies a fertile niche in the U.S. economy. The company enables some of the nation’s wealthiest investors and investment funds to make money offering high-interest loans to cash-strapped Americans.

Mariner Finance is owned and managed by a $11.2 billion private equity fund controlled by Warburg Pincus, a storied New York firm. The president of Warburg Pincus is Timothy F. Geithner, who, as treasury secretary in the Obama administration, condemned predatory lenders. The firm’s co-chief executives, Charles R. Kaye and Joseph P. Landy, are established figures in New York’s financial world. The minimum investment in the fund is $20 million.

Dozens of other investment firms bought Mariner bonds last year, allowing the company to raise an additional $550 million. That allowed the lender to make more loans to people like Huggins [at 33 percent].

Whoops, looks like the story of 412 healthcare fraudsters is yesterday's news: The newest action is even bigger!

From the DOJ here:

Last July the Department of Justice announced a record-breaking enforcement action against health care fraud.  We coordinated the efforts of more than 1,000 state and federal law enforcement agents to charge more than 400 defendants—including 56 doctors—with more than $1.3 billion in fraud.

Today I am announcing that we are breaking records again.

The Department of Justice, in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services, is announcing the largest health care fraud takedown operation in American history.

This year we are charging 601 people, including 76 doctors, 23 pharmacists, 19 nurses, and other medical personnel with more than $2 billion in medical fraud.

Largest healthcare fraud action in DOJ history nets 412 individuals, many with funny names

National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges Against Over 412 Individuals Responsible for $1.3 Billion in Fraud Losses

"For the Strike Force locations, in the Southern District of Florida, a total of 77 defendants were charged with offenses relating to their participation in various fraud schemes involving over $141 million in false billings for services including home health care, mental health services and pharmacy fraud.  In one case, the owner and operator of a purported addiction treatment center and home for recovering addicts and one other individual were charged in a scheme involving the submission of over $58 million in fraudulent medical insurance claims for purported drug treatment services. The allegations include actively recruiting addicted patients to move to South Florida so that the co-conspirators could bill insurance companies for fraudulent treatment and testing, in return for which, the co-conspirators offered kickbacks to patients in the form of gift cards, free airline travel, trips to casinos and strip clubs, and drugs."

The best thing that ever happened to this country is that neither of these two became president

Slasher of refugee children in Boise is inconveniently black

Don't expect to hear too much about this one since it doesn't fit the anti-white narrative.

Story here.

Help me, Dad

Hell has open borders, heaven on the other hand . . .

FDR: Public employee unions shouldn't exist at all because they can paralyze government and its operation

Here, August 16, 1937:

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.

Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."

Laugh of the Day: Use Purell after using

The commenters over at the UK Daily Mail overwhelmingly support ICE

Thousands take to the streets across the US for mass organized protest against family separations at the border - as Trump defends the 'brave men and women of ICE' for doing a 'fantastic job'

Well, at least Mad Maxine Waters acknowledges that she's an animal

“All I have to say is this, if you shoot me you better shoot straight, there’s nothing like a wounded animal,” she added to cheers.