North Korea: What do we do next?
The stock market tanked today because many believe that the US will take some type of pre-emptive military action against North Korea. Bill believes that President Trump thinks that he needs to send a message to Kim Jong Un and China.
Last Sunday, North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb which is the sixth nuclear test. President Trump announced shortly after that the White House has not ruled out a military response. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, which monitors the globe for nuclear tests, said that its monitoring system had gone off-scale. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a 6.3-magnitude earthquake, which was human-made. That's far larger than the seismic signature from the North's last test, conducted roughly a year ago.
On Monday, South Korea conducted military exercises involved F-15 fighter jets and land-based ballistic missiles simulating an attack on North Korea’s nuclear test site to “strongly warn” Pyongyang over the recent detonation.
Then again today, South Korean warships conducted live-fire exercises at sea Tuesday as Seoul continued its displays of military capability following U.S. warnings of a “massive military response” after North Korea detonated its largest-ever nuclear test explosion.
Members of the United Nations Security Council met in emergency session on Monday to condemn North Korea’s test of what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb, its sixth and by far its most powerful ever.
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said that Mr. Kim was practically “begging for war” and that “enough is enough,” she echoed Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ threat to use military force to stop Kim’s nuclear program and protect America and its allies.
Today, President Trump tweeted, “I am allowing Japan & South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount of highly sophisticated military equipment from the United States.”
President Trump decides to end DACA
On Tuesday, the Trump Administration rescinded DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).
Undocumented immigrants and their supporters yelled, “Shame!” in front of the White House and got arrested in front of Trump Tower in New York City on Tuesday as the Trump administration said it would end an Obama-era program that has shielded nearly 800,000 young people from deportation.
In Manhattan, about a dozen protestors blocked traffic on 5th Avenue, near Trump Tower. They sat in the street, arms locked. After about 10 minutes NY police began warning that they would be arrested if they did not leave voluntarily.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying the program was unconstitutional but giving lawmakers in Congress six months to pass legislation to help undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as young children.
A Republican coalition had threatened to challenge DACA in court if President Trump did not act by Tuesday to rescind it.
The states, which had mounted a successful legal challenge in federal court to a similar program that would have benefited the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and green-card holders, have until Tuesday to amend that lawsuit to include DACA.
Here are the details of the new DACA plan:
- The administration won’t consider new applications … dated after Sept. 5.
- Anyone who has a DACA permit expiring between now and March 5, 2018, can apply for a two-year renewal.
- Some Dreamers, those with permits that expire between now and March 5, will be eligible for legal status for another two-plus years. For others, legal status ends as early as March 6.
Newt Gingrich talks about DACA, North Korea, tax cuts & the media
The interview starts off with Bill asking Newt Gingrich about DACA. Bill says he thought on the Constitutional point the Trump Administration is right on, but the timing was bad because he’s got tax cuts, budget, health care and now he’s throwing something else at Congress.
Gingrich says that he believes Trump’s hand was forced the Texas Attorney General’s lawsuit which was going to happen today if Trump didn’t take action. Gingrich went on to say, that he thinks all of Trump’s lawyers came to him and said that DACA is unconstitutional. Trump didn’t want to make nearly 800,000 DREAMers leave the country so he is trying to accomplish two things…Get us back to a Constitutional rule of law and do it in a way so that the burden is now on Congress.
Unfortunately the media and far left are going to report this by saying “Trump hates immigrants,” or “hates young people and doesn’t want them to succeed,” etc.
Bill and Gingrich move on to the topic of North Korea. Bill believes that military action will be taken and Gingrich says that there will be steps taken that are real and Trump is talking to both the Japanese and the South Korean governments about increasing their weapons capability so all of this has to be very unnerving to the Chinese because this is not the world that the Chinese wanted.
Does Trump have a chance to turn around the media’s perception of him because it seems as though the media is never going to stop hating him. Gingrich says that if they get the tax bill through, if the economy is booming, I think he could be reelected in 2020.
Bill’s new book out soon!
Killing England out Sept. 19th is coming up! Only two weeks away from today!
Scandal Erupts over the Promotion of ‘Bourgeois’ Behavior
At the University of Pennsylvania two law professors are facing racism, sexism, and homophobia charges for urging Americans to act responsibly.
According to a current uproar at the University, advocacy of “bourgeois” virtues such as the value of hard work and civility are considered “hate speech.” The controversy, sparked by an op-ed written by two law professors, illustrates the rapidly shrinking boundaries of acceptable thought on college campuses and the use of racial victimology to police those boundaries.
On August 9, University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax and University of San Diego law professor Larry Alexander published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer calling for a revival of the bourgeois values that characterized mid-century American life, including child-rearing within marriage, hard work, self-discipline on and off the job, and respect for authority. The late 1960s took aim at the bourgeois ethic, they say, encouraging an “antiauthoritarian, adolescent, wish-fulfillment ideal [of] sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll that was unworthy of, and unworkable for, a mature, prosperous adult society.”
The University of Pennsylvania’s student newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, spotted a scandal in the making. The day after the op-ed was published, it came out with a story headlined “‘Not All Cultures Are Equal’ Says Penn Law Professor in Op-Ed.”
The Daily Pennsylvanian followed up with another article on August 13, titled “Campus Is Abuzz over Penn Law Professor Amy Wax’s Controversial Op-Ed, Which Called for a Return of ‘Bourgeois’ Cultural Values.” The August 13 article quoted liberally from the GET-UP statement and added some sarcastic tweets by an assistant professor of educational linguistics at the education school. The professor, Nelson Flores, also implied that Wax was nostalgic for Jim Crow. The student paper noted that a Philadelphia councilwoman had tweeted that Wax’s comments were “miserable.” University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann would not comment on the matter because she was traveling, a university spokesman told the paper.
Dr. Bill Bennett responds to ‘Bourgeois’ Behavior and says “I thought where will it end? Will it end?” Bill says it goes on because these Universities let it go on and they tolerate it. Dr. Bennett says that some of these professors are so cowardly that they won’t stand up for what they know in their hearts is right.
Hurricane Harvey Relief
Hurricane Harvey, the massive storm that hit Texas last month. It's going to take a lot of money to get Houston and other areas back up and running. The White House proposed nearly $8 billion in relief, and wants Congress to tack that funding onto the debt ceiling bill. But some Republicans say going about it that way doesn't live up to their fiscally conservative squad goals. So they're pushing back.
Hurricane Harvey could potentially be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history and passing an aid package for the recovery effort will top Congress's agenda.
The National Flood Insurance Program, run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), must be reauthorized by the end of the month. The program was created by a 1968 law and is part of the federal government's effort to limit damage created by floods such as in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 or Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
The White House is requesting that Congress approve nearly $7.9 billion in funding as a down payment for Harvey, including $7.4 billion for FEMA's disaster relief fund and a $450 million loan for the Small Business Administration's disaster loan program. There is also a provision that could be included in a short-term spending bill with $6.7 billion in disaster relief funding, but the White House and lawmakers are still discussing the matter.
Total losses from Harvey could reach $190 billion, according to a prediction by AccuWeather, which would make the storm the most expensive in modern U.S. history.
Hurricane Irma is upgraded to a category 5 hurricane
A "potentially catastrophic" Hurricane Irma is roaring toward northeastern Caribbean islands as a Category 5 storm, the National Hurricane Center said, threatening to slam into Antigua, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico by Wednesday before possibly taking aim at the US mainland.
Irma was churning Tuesday afternoon in the Atlantic about 180 miles east of Antigua and Barbuda, heading west with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph -- well above the 157 mph threshold for a Category 5 -- the hurricane center said.
The storm's forecast track currently has it near or over Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Anguilla by late Tuesday or early Wednesday, and the British and US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Wednesday afternoon.
Computer models show the system possibly near the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday and Friday, and Cuba on Friday and Saturday -- and potentially turning north toward Florida by the weekend.
While Irma's exact path is uncertain, Florida -- where storm-wary shoppers were standing in long lines outside some stores Tuesday -- is bracing for the storm.
And the state's Monroe County, which includes the Florida Keys, says it will order visitors to evacuate by sunrise Wednesday, and that it expects to announce an evacuation for residents soon.
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