Glenn Beck on Tuesday announced that he will be bringing tractor-trailers full of food, water, teddy bears and soccer balls to McAllen, Texas on July 19 as a way to help care for some of the roughly 60,000 underage refugees who have crossed into America illegally in 2014.
Beck said he will be joined by Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), and a number of pastors and rabbis.
“Through no fault of their own, they are caught in political crossfire,” Beck said of the children. “And while we continue to put pressure on Washington and change its course of lawlessness, we must also help. It is not either, or. It is both. We have to be active in the political game, and we must open our hearts.”
If two polar opposites have the same response to a crisis, it renews my hope for this nation.
James 2:14Brothers and sisters, it doesn’t make any sense to say you have faith and act in a way that denies that faith. Mere talk never gets you very far, and a commitment to Jesus only in words will not save you. 15 It would be like seeing a brother or sister without any clothes out in the cold and begging for food, and 16 saying, “Shalom, friend, you should get inside where it’s warm and eat something,” but doing nothing about his needs—leaving him cold and alone on the street. What good would your words alone do? 17 The same is true with faith. Without actions, faith is useless. By itself, it’s as good as dead. 18 I know what you’re thinking: “OK, you have faith. And I have actions. Now let’s see your faith without works, and I’ll show you a faith that works.”
Don’t you realize that faith without works is useless, like a glove without a hand or a hat without a head?
This amnesty supporter did not believe in the law-abiding civil society for reasons he was unable to articulately communicate—that is, of course, until HPD arrived on the scene. Perhaps actions sometimes speak louder than words.
Watch the amnesty supporter dressed in the black t-shirt and khaki shorts scream: “we’re not goin’ no where! —we’re gonna stay here forever!”..” and you’re not gonna do s&{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986}$t about it”!
Forever huh?—until HPD arrived; oh about thirty seconds later—and he self-deported from the overpass.
Looks like the when the Rule of Law is enforced and respect & support for the ethics of law-abiding immigrants is expressed, the concept of self-deportation works after all.
People who believe in the civil society do not demand rights and burn the American flag because their fellow Leftists are arrested for attacking police.
If you’re not up to speed on the events in the vicinity of a Border Patrol station near Murietta, California, this American Thinker article provides a good synopsis:
Last Tuesday, several hundred residents of Murietta, California turned out to protest the dumping of illegal alien children at a processing center in their town. They managed to block the buses carrying the illegals and forced them to turn back.
For that, they were villified as racists and “anti-immigrant” bigots.
While HHS has not attempted a repeat of their actions, pro-immigration reform activists have swarmed into the area to confront the protestors. The two sides spent the 4th of July demonstrating with a few scuffles breaking out.
Video has surfaced of one scuffle –scroll to the 4:20 mark where an illegal alien supporter talks about her justification for burning an American flag:
“People just got violently arrested and you want to know why I burned the American flag? Seriously?”
Yes, burning an American flag in protest is an exercise of First Amendment speech—but the out-of-control, disrespectful act of burning an American flag (or impaling torn up flags on fences) on American soil on Independence Day because fellow Leftists demanded rights and physically attacked police shows the contempt this individual has for the civil society.
Some days you want to crawl back in bed and pretend that the news you heard upon wakening was just part of a nightmare. Today is one of those days for me when I woke up to the news that my friend Daniel McCool, Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy and Republican political activist, died last night of a heart attack.
Daniel McCool
I’d only known Daniel for a few years, I think probably 2009, but he had an impact on my life, as he did on many, many others. He was one of the most selfless persons I’ve ever known, either in politics or in life, always putting others first, working mostly in the background, long hours supporting other candidates and causes. When he ran for the Texas Senate in 2012, he self-funded the bulk of his campaign because he wanted to be truly independent and refused to take money from the insurance lobby or the trial lawyers. He was so proud of his election last week to be the SREC committeeman for SD11 because the party activists that elected him recognized his years of volunteer work for the cause of conservative Republicans.
Rest in peace Daniel, your work on earth is done. Job well done.
And I say that in a nice way. Seriously. What has happened to us? When did we decide to let conspiracies and paranoia overrule sense and sensibility? Although we’ve seen glimpses of this new mentality amongst Republicans over the last few years, nothing drives home the point better than the reaction to the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
Death threats? For wanting your son home? Politicians reversing course because they might lose a few votes if they are happy an American POW returned home? ‘Claiming’ the White House for Islam? Wow, I should walk into the Texas Democratic Party headquarters and ‘claim’ it for Republicans! OMG! Obama smiled at the mention of Allah! Scandal! In the few seconds it took to walk to the microphone in the Rose Garden, Obama tried to put the move on Bergdahl’s mom! Such a stud! Oh wait…I thought he was a pansy?
I find these examples of extremism by Republicans disgusting. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Bergdahl, he is in fact an American citizen and was an American POW. Was he a deserter? The anecdotal evidence sure points that way. But it doesn’t change those two basic facts. And Americans do not leave Americans behind.
Krauthammer has a decent take on the whole matter without being over-the-top ridiculous. Hannity, Beck, Kelly, and the rest of us should follow his lead.
Tolerant and peaceful Leftists posting comments on the Think Progress blog have openly agitated for the public shooting of a Texas official.
As a result of exercising his First Amendment religious beliefs and peacefully petitioning for defeat of Mayor Parkers’ phony “equal rights” ordinance, Dave Wilson is now the target of death threats.
Check out the comments section of a recent Think Progress article:
Houston city council is set to vote Wednesday May 28th on an ordinance designed to potentially provide a defense (or cover) for serial peepers like Lincoln Moreno who have prior convictions for indecency with a child.
Fellow BJP’er Don Hooper wrote “Mommy, there is a man in the restroom” recounting the very real story of Lincoln Moreno’s eighteenth criminal trespass conviction and cited Democrat State Representative Garnet Coleman’s sponsorship of HB 2822 to amend the criminal laws relating to disorderly or lewd conduct in a public place.
Charles Kuffner is a Harris County Democrat Party precinct chair who openly opined for the story of Mayor Parker’s potential recall effort to “go national”.
Well Charles—-you want this story to go national?–you just may get your wish.
