The Real Inactive Shooter

The snoozefest daily paper USA Today has a particularly stupid opinion piece  today by Frances Lynch comparing the beefing up of the southern border fencing, such as it is, with razor wire to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961*. Behold: There are those who would argue that refugees are indeed criminals if they attempt to enter a country illegally. Those who tried to escape East Berlin were undoubtedly violating East German law. But whether the appropriate penalty for those trying to leave East Berlin should have been serious injury or death seems questionable looking back. You see, the Berlin Wall was constructed by the East Germans to stop citizens of East Germany leaving the workers paradise for more free, capitalist West Berlin, und so weiter. Our border fencing is being constructed to keep non-citizens from illegally entering our country. Keeping citizens in versus keeping criminal non-citizens out. I know it's such a subtle difference, that the fact b

(h/t Power Line )

I've switched over to my second blog because my readership through facebook is down about 80% for the last three postings. I'm sure I'm just being paranoid. Here is an opinion piece by Yalie math major David Leonhardt writing from Budapest. He thinks the Republicans are the authoritarian party here. He compares us to the right wing government in Hungary. Here's his complaint about the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán: What Orbán has done is to squash political competition . He has gerrymandered and changed election rules, so that he doesn’t need a majority of votes to control the government. He has rushed bills through Parliament with little debate. He has relied on friendly media to echo his message and smear opponents. He has stocked the courts with allies. He has overseen rampant corruption. He has cozied up to Putin. To justify his rule, Orbán has cited external threats — especially Muslim immigrants and George Soros, the Jewish Hungarian-born investor —