California Newspaper Stands Its Ground On Free Speech — a commentary by Jim Gilchrist Dear Americans and free speech proponents, The Santa Barbara News-Press will set a long overdue precedent of defying politically correct speech, which in itself is “censorship.” For decades the U.S. media has cowered to intimidation from sinister reactionaries who would have […]
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Commentary from Jim Gilchrist defending free speech for Santa Barbara, Ca. newspaper
Thousands of illegal minors apprehended to start fiscal year 2015
Latin Post — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) released data on the number of undocumented immigrants already apprehended during the 2015 fiscal year, and according to the numbers, thousands of immigrant children were caught by border patrol agents to kick off the new fiscal year. The CBP noted 5,143 undocumented immigration children were […]
Newspaper office VANDALIZED for using term ‘illegals’
Fox News — A California newspaper will continue to use the term “illegals” to describe people who enter the U.S. without permission, despite an attack on its building by vandals believed to object to the term. The Santa Barbara News-Press’s front entrance was sprayed with the message “The border is illegal, not the people who cross […]
White House: GOP ‘playing with fire’ on DHS funding
The Washington Examiner — The White House is accusing Republicans of “playing with fire” in their strategy to use Homeland Security funding to challenge President Obama’s executive action on immigration, after the deadly terrorist attack at a French satirical magazine. Team Obama has long doubted that Republicans would unite behind an effective strategy to fight the […]
Illegal immigrant turns down chance to gain amnesty
The Washington Times — The Honduran illegal immigrant whose case sparked a judicial spanking for President Obama’s new deportation amnesty said Tuesday he doesn’t think he would qualify for the president’s new policy anyway, and wants to get his case over with as quickly as possible. In papers filed by his lawyer the man, Elionardo Juarez-Escobar, […]
Two Republican plans to stop Obama’s amnesty
The Washington Examiner — On Tuesday Republican Rep. Martha Roby filed a bill, the “Prevention of Executive Amnesty Act of 2015,” to block President Obama’s unilateral action on immigration. Now, another House Republican has filed another proposal — this one more far-reaching — that would stop the president’s plan to offer quasi-legal status to millions of […]