Anchor babies and the 14th Amendment

Donald Trump has said the US should stop giving citizenship to anchor babies.  His opponents all insist that the Constitution's 14th Amendment gives them automatic citizenship and that therefore Trump's idea is unfeasible, if not idiotic.

Anne Coulter begs to differ, saying that the 14th Amendment gave citizenship only to blacks following the Civil War and that the Supreme Court confirmed this in a case in 1884:



Update: Here's more from Ann Coulter, including:

"... The anchor baby scam was invented 30 years ago by a liberal zealot, Justice William Brennan, who slipped a footnote into a 1982 Supreme Court opinion announcing that the kids born to illegals on U.S. soil are citizens. Fox News is treating Brennan’s crayon scratchings on the Constitution as part of our precious national inheritance. ..."

Rachel Notley's disgraceful climate action "survey"

Ezra exposes it all:



If they don't already, Albertans will seriously rue the day that they elected Notley's radical wrecking crew. If they have any real sense Albertans will compensate by shutting out the NDP (and Liberals) in October.

See also: Scary NDP Climate Change Survey Reveals Their Desired Policies

Day 395 of the endless Mike Duffy trial

Christie Blatchford: "At the Mike Duffy trial, it’s hard to tell who is really the accused"

First, watch Christie's video ... 

... this freaking trial, where a passerby, sitting in, would assume that Wright, the witness, is the alleged perpetrator, or perhaps the PM, and where ... every thundered question ... echoes across the land and into the campaign buses where it is parsed to shreds as though the question was the evidence, not the answer. ...

 Father Raymond de Souza: "The Duffy scandal is not worth the attention, or the cost" 

... a very strange scandal that leaves everyone looking bad, but Canada looking relatively good. 

... The criminal law is a blunt instrument, and this criminal trial, drenched in political showmanship, is a blunt instrument put to ill use.

... The problem Senate expenses does not justify the tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, hundreds of hours of court time and the huge quantity of public attention given to it ...

The Mike Duffy affair - "What scandal?"

Colby Cosh: "If there’s a scandal in the Duffy affair, why can’t I spot it?"

"... If I ask what is actually scandalous about this, I am guaranteed to receive several different answers. The Conservatives are charged with having considered paying Duffy’s expenses out of party funds, which, I am told, are “public” in nature because they are supported by a tax subsidy. The Conservatives did, of course, contemplate using party funds … but didn’t. And those funds, though subsidized, exist precisely to be applied ad libitum for partisan convenience. ..."  [And, since when is it a crime to "consider" doing something?]

"... When media scalp-hunters say the Conservatives were trying to “avoid” or “tamper with” the Deloitte audit of Duffy, for instance, I find myself saying, “Well … yes: they wanted to make the audit unnecessary, to hold Duffy to the strictest view of his financial obligations.” Is that an illegitimate reaction to an audit?" ...

The NDP's radical anti-Alberta position

Ezra Levant highlights the public statements of NDP candidates, politicians and operatives attacking Alberta oil sands industry noting that they shy away from similarly attacking Newfoundland's oil industry, Ontario's automobile manufacturers, Venezuela's oil ... ... Neither Tom Mulcair nor Alberta Premier Notley have objected to any of the "crazy talk".  The NDP is of one mind across the board both federally and provincially in its determination to destroy Alberta's oil sands industry (and with it Alberta's economy).  Meanwhile, the Media Party lets it all slide, holding no one to account.

A conversation with Mark Steyn

Somehow I missed this video conversation with Mark Steyn at UC Berkeley where he was the 2007 Nimitz Lecturer.  It gives some great insights into what makes him tick:

Global non-warming

"July 2015 ... the pause continues":