A port of entry into the United States is not 1954 miles long on the  southern border. A lawful port of entry is a place where goods and  people are allowed passage in orderly and controlled environments,  for security, economic, health and other reasons, to preserve the rights and safety of its citizens.

     There are entities in the country who do not believe in law and order, when it doesn't conform to their political agenda, creating chaos. Their latest contention is the separation of a child from its parent. The condition created solely by the victims.

     It's shameful that a parent would use their child to gain sympathy for reason to break the law and claim asylum wrongfully. Almost all of them have not been persecuted or threatened, but caught in poverty because of inept governing and greedy leaders. That's not America's problem. We have our own to contend with.

     Irresponsible parenting has created 10,000 unaccompanied children, wandering or controlled by coyotes exploiting the dire situation; putting their daughters in the grip of human trafficking and a life of prostitution, or a son winding up with MS13, with only violence to look forward to. We processed  Hungarian refugees from the revolution in 1953 and  Vietnamese after the war in 1975, with a semblance or order because they entered our country lawfully, through designated ports of entry. The felons breaking across our border forcefully without vetting, need  verification of relationship with the other 2000 children in question, in order to qualify for asylum. Separation is a matter of hours, not months or years. 
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     If conditions in some cases fall short, it is because the situation is overwhelming. Perhaps these caring critics will allow the unfortunate, caught in the political tug of war, to camp out on their immaculate lawns, or the socialist Argentine, Pope Francis, who resides behind a walled sovereign state, well protected, allow Muslim refugees from North Africa squat on the square behind its walls of the Vatican. The Pope's lecture about humanitarianism should be directed toward the Catholic nations these unfortunate souls come from rather than lecture our President about humanitarianism.
  
Clean thine own house before telling others to clean theirs.

Conservative Commentary by George Giftos​

     If you'd listen to the far-left (a/k/a Democrats and Progressives), you'd think that President Trump was an aspiring dictator trying to emulate the dastardly deeds of Adolf Hitler. Do you think that TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) has infected those Trump haters, or do you think they have been infected with that other liberal disease called CRI (Cranial Rectal Inversion)?

    A rational person can disagree with someone and elucidate his/her disagreement with a counter argument. But, in today's climate of “good” and “evil” (ex: black and white), if you stray from the liberal orthodoxy, there is no “good” in what you say, only “evil”, and you must be shut up and vilified.

   Never in my many years, have I seen such blatant crudeness, ill manners, and outright untruthfulness, as I have observed over the past few weeks and months. The abject hatred of President Trump by the left is ratcheting up to a situation where violence against our president is becoming or has become the rule rather than the exception.

     Look at what some on the “left” have been saying and doing. It started the day after Trump's inaugural when Madonna said she'd like to burn down the White House because Trump now occupied it. Then we had the gruesome picture of Kathy Griffin, a 3rd rate comedian, holding up a bloody severed head of President Trump. It has continued non-stop with another 3rd rate talk show host, Samantha Bee using the “C” word (which rhymes with runt) in describing Ivanka Trump, and then we've had the spectacle of the cast of “Hamilton” purporting to slay Trump during a performance. Not to be outdone by this outrageous behavior, we had Robert DeNiro, on a number of occasions, slimming President Trump, with the recent outrage of him at the Tony Awards shouting out, “Fu.k Trump”. In addition, we saw that anti Trumper Bill Maher hoping we had a recession so that the people will vote President Trump out of office in 2020. And don't forget that fading actor, Peter Fonda, wishing that Barron Trump be taken away fro his mother and be put in a cage with pedophiles. And just recently, Homeland Security Secretary, Kirsten Nielsen and White House Press Secretary, Sarah Sanders, were heckled and refused service at restaurants who's owners oppose Trump's policies. When does normal, rational dissent end and outright viciousness begin?

     It seems that most all of this bad behavior is coming from the “left- side” of the political spectrum. Conservative speakers at colleges and public forums are routinely attacked and shouted down by people hell-bent on causing mayhem. Those are the same people who for years have been championing “free speech”, but it seems they only champion speech that agrees with their views. It shows a blatant exercise in “hypocrisy” by those people who preach tolerance but really practice intolerance.
      
      Where or when will this crudeness and vilification of others, who have opposing views, lead to in the future? Will we, in the future, be witnessing a revolution, not only of thought, but of actual physical violence against our political opponents?

       Our headline proclaims, “Ignorance Can Be Cured, but Stupidity is Forever” seems to fit the words and actions (the modus operandi) of a group of “far-left zealots”, who would like for our president to fail and our country to go to hell. They seem to want our country to emulate either Cuba or Venezuela. God forbid they should succeed.

Conservative Commentary by Chuck Lehmann​

MORT's meanderings

Once and for all: Skin color has nothing to do with behavior. Got it?

MAXINE WATERS is a raving lunatic – skin color doesn’t matter.

LOUIS FARRAKHAN is a racist peesashit – skin color doesn’t matter.

JESSE JACKSON is corrupt, law-breaking thug – skin color doesn’t matter.

AL SHARPTON is a rabble-rousing street bum – skin color doesn’t matter.

NANCY PELOSI is a bumbling crazy person – skin color doesn’t matter.

CHUCK SCHUMER is a delusional Democrat -skin color doesn’t matter.

DON LEMON is a handsome whitey-hater – skin color doesn’t matter.

SNOOP DOG is possibly the ugliest man on Earth – skin-color aside.

VAN JONES is extremely racist but – skin color doesn’t matter.

SHEILA JACKSON LEE is the dumbest Congressperson – skin color aside.

COLIN KAEPERNICK seriously kneeds help – skin color doesn’t matter.

JUAN WILLIAMS could use a brain – skin color doesn’t help him.

WHOOPEE GOLDBERG’s talent eludes detection – skin color matters not.

OPRAH WINFREY’s success defies comprehension – skin color aside.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA – incompetence knows no skin color.

MICHELE OBAMA – racism starts at home; skin color doesn’t matter.

O.J. SIMPSON football star / murderer; skin color doesn’t matter.

BILL COSBY disgraced comic actor – skin color doesn’t matter.

ERIC HOLDER most corrupt former A.G. ever – skin color doesn’t matter.

. . . . just a tiny smidge of the list.
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     Can you believe the nonsense that Bernie Sanders has come up with? This Marxist/Socialist has offered up the idea that everyone should have a job at $15 per hour. If a private sector job is not available, he proposes that the government will hire that person or put them on the government payroll. It looks like ole Bernie missed that Economics 101 class in school to be able to come up with that nonsense. Who, in their right mind, would support this cockamamie plan? Well, it looks like the brain-washed Millennials have latched onto this ridiculous plan of Bernie's. Remember what Sir Winston Churchill once said: “If your not a liberal before you're 20 you have no heart, but if you're not a conservative by the age of 40, you have no brains”. Those prescient words fit this group of Bernie and Hillary supporters to a tee.
   This jobs-for-all plan is even backed by two 2020 Democrat presidential hopefuls, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand and Sen. Cory Booker. Do they really think that this “something for nuttin” proposal is going to mobilize the voters to vote for them to become president? They
must've cut the same Economics 101 class as Bernie?

       This whole scenario shows why our schools have undermined our heritage as set down by our Founding Fathers. The United States was formed, quite ingeniously, on the idea that we would be a free enterprise capitalist country and it was and is the foundation for the United States becoming the pre-eminant country in the world today.
 
       It seems that the majority of the Democrat Party has embraced this. train of thought that the government should be the be-all and end-all of all economic decisions. It is a fact that over 70 legislators are members of that group called the Democratic Socialists of America (a.k.a the Progressive Caucus). The leaders of the Democrat Party, Chairman Tom Perez and Vice-Chairman Keith Ellison are both adherents to this Socialist group and the socialist mindset. Do they really represent the Democrat Party or the voters of the United States? Other Democrat politicians, including Rep. Maxine Waters, and most of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, have declared that they are believers of the Socialist principles of economics. Haven't they ever heard of Cuba and Venezuela? Is that what they want our country to become?

        Remember, back in the presidential campaign of 2008, then candidate Barack Hussein Obama, proclaimed that he was in favor of “income redstribution” (the Robin Hood syndrome of taking from the rich to give to the poor), when he answered a question by “Joe the Plumber”. That thinking has become the main platform of today's Democrat Party.

            During the primary and presidential election of 2016, both Bernie and Hillary were trying to outdo each other by proposing to give “freebies” to the voters in hopes of getting their votes. The people eventually rejected those proposals by electing a free enterprise populist, Donald Trump. So far, our economy has responded favorably to the decisions made by Pres. Trump. But, it seems that the successes of of this Administration has not rubbed off on the Democrats, as they keep lurching to the left. In doing so, I predict that the Republicans will prevail in the upcoming mid-term elections even though the “fake news media” has predicted a “Blue Wave” of Democrat victories this November. These were the same media outlets that predicted a “Blue Wall” would propel Hillary into the White House. The “Something for Nuttin” crowd will not prevail as the the voters would not want to go back to the economic malaise of the Obama Administration, especially after seeing the the extra spend money in their paychecks which Nancy Pelosi has signified as “crumbs”.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann

        You'd think that a meaningful phrase like that would resonate with our politicians and powers-to-be, but it seems they are doing, in many cases, just the opposite. Take, for instance, our out-of-control immigration policy over the past few decades. We have, against our best interests as a country, let millions of illegal aliens (a.k.a undocumented immigrants) into our country with little or no restraint to halt the “invasion” by these non-U.S. Citizens looking for work, a better life, and some for evil reasons (ex: MS-13 gang bangers). Most of us would agree that orderly immigration is a good thing for our country as long as the immigrants attempt to positively assimilate into our society and into our economy. But, our lax policy has created a major problem that today entails a danger to our national security and has become an economic burden upon our country.
  
         The big magnet for the influx of millions of “undocumented immigrants” has been the ease in which they are able to “game the system” once they illegally cross the border. We provide housing, welfare, medical care, education, and a host of other benefits, some of which our own citizens are not even eligible for. The liberals (a/k/a Progressives) have latched onto the emotional appeal that it is cruel to turn back these “invaders” to their home countries. Since the Democrats are the party that generally offers generous “welfare benefits” to all, they would be the one's who champion the path of these illegals to become U.S. Citizens in hopes that they will someday become future “documented Democrats”. That “someday” is actually here in some cities, as in the case of some Maryland cities who will allow “illegals” the right to vote in local elections. If the trend continues, how long before the “bleeding hearts” will be championing the right of illegals to vote in state and federal elections?
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            Another area where we seem to reward “bad behavior” is in the area of legalizing drugs. There is a major push by some liberals and libertarians to make the sale and use of marijuana legal in all states. Is it in our best interests to legalize another “mind altering” drug (like alcohol)? Yes, there are some medical benefits for the use of “pot” to ease the pain and suffering of people in need of relief, but should we be encouraging the use of this drug for recreational purposes? Experience of the effects of legalized recreational marijuana use in Colorado shows that the incidence of auto accidents has increase exponentially since “pot” has been made legal. Also, medical side effects have raised its ugly head by the excessive use of recreational marijuana. Wouldn't or shouldn't this be classified as rewarding “bad behavior”? Many of the same people who were and are against tobacco use are some of the same people who now champion the use of marijuana.

          Other areas where “bad behavior” seems to be encouraged is in the “product” being turned out in Hollywood and in the so-called music of “Rap Music” (a real stretch in calling that music), where the lyrics call for violence against police and the denigration of women. Yet these are the same people who decry violence in our society while they are big contributors to the violence and “bad behavior” by their own actions and behavior. Total hypocrites all.

            In conclusion, the policies of Pres. Trump and some of or politicians and religious leaders will have to be expanded in order to combat this assault upon our values, and the rise of “bad behavior” in certain areas of our society. When certain groups condemn law enforcement and call for the killing of cops, and then belittle people who have firm religious beliefs as being anti-American, you know we have a national problem that will only get worse if we don't confront it now. So yes, when you reward “bad behavior” you will get more of it, so stop rewarding bad behavior.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann

   ​In the United States, we spend more money on education than any other country in the world. You'd think with that expenditure that we would be turning out mostly qualified and intellectually savvy and qualified graduates, but it seems instead, we are turning out too many
“educational illiterates”. We must be doing something wrong.

   If you watch enough current events news programs on T.V. when they interview students and young adults on the street or on the campuses of colleges and universities, when you ask simple questions like, “What is Auschwitz known for”, you get blank stares and no answers.
In addition, I saw “persons on the street interview” where the person conducting the interview asked the interviewees what they thought about the Trump tax plan. Almost to a person, they thought it was terrible and favored only the rich 1% and corporations. Then the interviewer asked the people about Bernie Sanders tax plan (but the questions asked were actually provisions of the Trump tax plan). All said that they agreed with “Bernie's” plan. When the interviewer told them that Bernie's plan was actually Trump's plan, they were all amazed and chagrined and had to admit they might be wrong about Trump's plan. So much for the Marxist/Socialist indoctrination in the schools and main stream media. This is the “modus operandi” of the Marxist/Socialists (a/k/a Democrats and Progessives) in trying to instill their agenda of discrediting free enterprise capitalism in favor of the misery producing Marxism/Socialism (a recent poll taken showed that over 40% of millenials said they favored Socialism over Capitalism). It seems, unfortunately, that the George Soros and Tom Steyer coalition is winning the hearts and minds of the very gullible younger generation (the Millenials) by constant indoctrination in the schools and universities and by the left-leaning media.

   In the words of that great statesman, Sir Winston Churchill; “If you're not a liberal by the age of 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative by the age of 40, you have no brains”. Truer words were never spoken. Not only are our youth and young adults being brain-washed, they are being used by nefarious people like the aforementioned George Soros and Tom Steyer, the Congressional Black Caucus, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat National Committee headed by two Marxist/Socialists, Tom Perez and Keith Ellison, and a host of other groups and organizations of the leftist persuasion.

   The establishment and the government “Deep State”, are working their tails off to undermine the “evil” capitalist, President Donald Trump, who is trying to “Make America Great Again” by his actions and policies in the Oval Office, against a vicious organized resistance movement.

   Right minded, patriotic citizens must not let these sinister forces succeed in undermining our country and our president. Get involved in your schools and challenge the powers-to-be to bring excellence back so that we don't keep processing “educational illiterates” like we are producing today.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann​