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If you think this video is corny , if you think the message is unworthy you need to look in the mirror and explain to yourself why? I you cannot and are standing in NIKE Shoes no need to say anything else.
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Tom Barton was one of the best editorial page editors I ever had the pleasure of knowing and he was also a fine and courageous writer with great insights.
Apparently "Tommy," as his wife calls him, recently became a grandfather and wrote the attached and mentioned your's truly.
He never allowed me to write a column but he did publish many of my letters and his successor allows me one a month if I keep them under 300 words and he deems them worthwhile. (See 1 below.)
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Some interesting op eds:
Dick
Some interesting op eds:
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By Tommy Barton
I've been called a lot of names during my lifetime, including some that I deserved. But last week, I was called a new name that I’m proud to own: Grandpa.
Dylan Thomas Lester, my first grandchild, was born July 8 to my daughter, Katie Lester, and her husband, Ian Lester, in Nashville, Tenn.
Little Dylan entered the world at 10:27 p.m., at 8 pounds, 3 ounces. He was 21 inches long about as long as this column. Grandfathers are expected to know such vital statistics and to recite them as easily as they can recite the starting line-up of their favorite baseball team – in my case, the 1976 Cincinnati Reds (Pete Rose, Dave Concepcion, Johnny Bench, George Foster, Tony Perez, Cesar Geronimo…)
My daughter, who works as the director of research for Colliers International in Nashville, said they didn’t intentionally name their son after the talented but troubled Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. It just worked out that way. Thomas, who penned "Do not go gentle into that good night," was a heavy drinker and a boor.
Young newborn Dylan Thomas is good at one thing – crying. I heard him wailing while I talked to my daughter.
I am not in Nashville, as my daughter – always a practical child – wants us in Tennessee after she and her child are at home – a time when she needs extra help, especially after her husband, who works for the HCA hospital chain, returns to his job. I can’t fault her logic, but it was tough to stay put.
Thank goodness for cellphones. If I can’t do the driving my fingers could do the walking.
I was jittery with anticipation. Blessedly, everything went fine. I am proud and happy for my son-in-law and my daughter, who has gone from holding a lumpy Cabbage Patch Kid to a flesh-and-blood real kid in a blink of an eye.
Grandpa is another story. He’s lumpy and happy, but he has big shoes to fill.
I am now Grandpa Barton. I’m the third person to hold this grand title in recent memory. Grandpa Barton 1.0 was my father’s father, a Renaissance man who managed an A&P supermarket in Ohio (A favorite trivia question: What does A&P stand for? Answer: the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company). He later hung out in taverns while working as a regional distributor for Corby’s Whiskey, a Canadian blend that like the A&P went bottoms up. GB 1.0 was also a fine photographer, a woodworker and a golf course hustler who looked a bit like Sam Snead.
His competitiveness extended to grandfathering, as family gatherings were peppered with games like tossing playing cards into hat, with the winner walking away with a handful of quarters. To prepare for Thanksgiving dinners, I would spend hours flicking cards into a hat -- teaching me a valuable lesson that practice makes perfect and can pay off handsomely. Tragically, GB 1.0, a lifelong pipe and cigar smoker, died at a relatively young age after a crippling stroke. I still have his putter, a Titlelist Acushnet Bull’s Eye putter, that seldom works as all the good putts were used up long ago.
Grandpa Barton 2.0 is my own father. He inherited his dad’s golf gene and passed it on to me, along with a love-for-football gene, as GB 2.0 was his high school’s quarterback. He showed me how to cure a chronic slice and how to throw a spiral pass, two vital skills that I hope to pass on to little Dylan.
Being a grandpa is fun and keeps you young, as I’m reminded by other grandfathers I know, including father-in-law Bill Hughes, a retiree who served in the Marine Corps, Dick Berkowitz, a frequent writer of letters to the editor and a guy with a sharp eye for art, and Bob Billheimer, a Springfield, Ohio, native and a former standout wrestler for Wittenburg University.
I think it was Berkowitz who said that grandfathers have silver in their hair but gold in their heart. Billheimer told me about a scientific study that showed how many young children are as fit as endurance athletes. Sheesh. I’ve got the silver hair covered. But I will have to keep hitting the gym to keep up with my grandkid.
Tommy Barton is the former editorial page editor at the Savannah Morning News and a blogger at iaamnotoldnews.com .
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2)
Democrats now reject the whole concept of citizenship
It is unlikely that many illegal immigrants or others who fear the government will participate in the Census — whether the document asks about citizenship or not. Thus, even if Trump had gotten his way, it wouldn’t have significantly affected Census results or the composition of Congress, which the Census results shape.
Yet the cultural question at the heart of the debate, having to do with the meaning of citizenship, is worth arguing about. To wit, by going after Trump’s proposal, his opponents ultimately targeted American sovereignty itself.
Democrats claimed that merely asking about citizenship would have discouraged both legal and illegal immigrants, and even some citizens, from answering the Census. They accused Trump of trying to cook the numbers to undercount the population in immigrant-heavy blue districts and boost Republicans’ chances of controlling Congress.
Nonsense. The Census already probes respondents about their race and whether they are Hispanic. Citizenship status is at least as pertinent. The US Census used to probe citizenship on the short form as recently as the 1950s. As these pages have noted, moreover, other Western countries, including our Canadian neighbors, still ask about citizenship. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, meanwhile, by law can’t use Census data, so immigrants had nothing to fear from responding.
So why did the American left go into Defcon 1 over Trump’s attempts to ask about citizenship in the Census? Part of the answer has to do with liberals’ determination to resist whatever Trump does.
There is nothing outrageous about this, since those involved have already been afforded due process by immigration courts. But liberals are treating this otherwise mundane and belated effort to enforce the law of the land as evidence of the administration’s barbarism and cruelty.
The ultimate point of Democratic efforts to hamstring ICE is to treat laws against illegal immigration as fundamentally immoral. Illegally crossing the US border, liberals think, should be treated the same way as jaywalking on our streets — that is, a civil violation.
Asking Census respondents about their citizenship status would have suggested that these distinctions matter. So would supporting ICE’s efforts to locate and deport illegal migrants. The aim is to blur the lines between citizens and non-citizens, and legal and illegal migrants, to the point where there is no effective difference between these various groups.
In other words, the very concept of citizenship is now a hallmark of Trumpian oppression in the liberal mind.
So, yes, while the argument over the Census was perhaps much ado about nothing, the underlying debate about citizenship is very significant indeed. To the extent that Democrats are chipping away at these distinctions, they are undermining respect for US sovereignty and the rule of law, bedrocks of American democracy.
That’s a dangerous game that no responsible politician should be playing — no matter what he thinks of Trump.
Jonathan Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org and a contributing writer for National Review.
2a) Klobuchar: I Don’t Support Open Borders Like Warren, Castro
'I don't support open borders'
ByCameron Cawthorne
Democratic presidential candidate and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Sunday said she doesn't support open borders like some of her Democratic opponents Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Julian Castro.
Klobuchar appeared on ABC's This Week, where she was asked if she supported decriminalizing unauthorized border crossings.
"Elizabeth Warren this week came out with a proposal following up on what Julian Castro said in the debate to decriminalize unauthorized border crossings. You said you were going to look at that in the debate. Do you support that idea?" fill-in host Jon Karl asked.
"I support different enforcement priorities and of course I'll look at the statute to see if you can make changes depending on the level of a security risk, but no I don't support open borders and simply getting rid of this statute" Klobuchar said, referring to Section 1325.
She went on to say she believes the best solution is replacing President Donald Trump with a Democratic president
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"The answer is when we are on the cusp of getting comprehensive reform done, which will be so much better for our economy," Klobuchar said. "The 2013 bill brought the deficit down according to every estimate by over $150 billion in ten years because people would start paying their taxes, then you take some of that money and you can use it for better order at the border for targeted reasons and then you can also look at those countries that we're talking about where we have seen this surge of asylum seekers."
Castro has been leading the debate on decriminalizing illegal border crossings and has called out a few of the other 2020 Democratic candidates for not supporting the proposal. He said last week that Beto O'Rourke, former Vice President Joe Biden, and former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson were "wrong" for their opposition to making illegal border crossings a civil violation.
O'Rourke came out Friday to say he will "make sure no one is criminally prosecuted for being a human being." He went on to say there will be no reason for people to cross in between ports of entry, but he said if people do, they will not be criminally prosecuted, adding they are "seeking safety or shelter or refuge or asylum."
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