Roundup
(1) Chanukah begins tomorrow evening. In honor of the holiday, Israel has released a video they found that Hamas had made in December of 2023 for propaganda purposes but never made public, of the six hostages whom they later foully murdered, lighting Chanukah candles:
Weak and emaciated hostages pray and sing as they light the festive candles, a video aired by Israeli TV channel Keshet 12 reveals. The footage originally recorded by Hamas for propaganda purposes showed hostages giving each other hope as they celebrated Hanukkah. Another video showed them marking New Year’s Eve 2024.
RIP.
(2) Many states – nearly all of them blue – have refused to hand over their voter roll data for inspection, and the DOJ is suing.
(3) The GOP has proposed a new law that attempts to deal with the Obamacare subsidies which are due to expire soon. Part of the proposal:
Under the legislation, groups or associations of employers could band together to offer health insurance regardless of industry, provided they:
– Existed for at least two years for purposes other than providing insurance
– Establish formal governance with employer-controlled boards
– Cover at least 51 employees total
– Offer coverage to all employees of member employers
– Self-employed individuals could join as both employers and employees if they work at least 10 hours weekly or 40 hours monthly in their business, with at least 20 self-employed members needed to form a group.
The bill includes protections requiring plans to follow ACA nondiscrimination rules …
Much more at the link.
(4) More on the Minnesota fraud:
“Most of that $500 million hasn’t served a single meal, and some of the simple things are if they would have just gone to the facilities, you know, you hear of the thousands of people being served out of an apartment twice a day, all they would have to do is show up and look at it,” Minnesota Republican state Sen. Mark Koran told Fox News Digital about the fraud that was hiding in plain sight in Minneapolis.
“There was a legislative auditor report that showed that 30 property owners where these businesses claim to operate out of, contacted the Department of Education who manage it, who managed that program, and they told them one, the businesses don’t exist in their facilities, so they don’t exist, period, and one of them I think was a city park,” Koran said.
“And so the Department of Education gave that complaint to the nonprofit Feeding Our Future to address those issues, and the Department of Education continued to pay millions to those thirty with a blatant, simple process of ‘We’ve been notified they don’t exist’ and they rejected and ignored it.”
(5) A large percentage of Somalis in Minnesota are on some form of welfare:
– More than half (52 percent) of children in Somali immigrant homes in Minnesota live in poverty, while only 8 percent of children in native-headed homes are in poverty.
– One in eight children in poverty in Minnesota lives in a Somali immigrant home.
– About 39 percent of working-age Somalis have no high school diploma, compared to just 5 percent of natives.
– Among working-age adult Somalis who have lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years, half still cannot speak English “very well”.
– About 54 percent of Somali-headed households in Minnesota receive food stamps, and 73 percent of Somali households have at least one member on Medicaid. The comparable figures for native households are 7 percent and 18 percent.
– Nearly every Somali household with children (89 percent) receives some form of welfare.
Each of these parasitic blood-sucking ticks called Somalies got into America because each got a Minnesota sponsor. The fault thus does not lie 100% with these black Africans of a miserable culture. I blame the sponsors: Thanks for the home-grown Jihadis.
About the Somalis
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Mr. Sailer has noted that refugees are often people who have been quite active in the political life of their countries and lost out in power struggles. He notes Ilhan Omar’s family as an example. They’re not the most sympathetic of characters.
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Again, the object of refugee relief should be to care for people in camps proximate to their country of origin, with a view to their repatriation. Resettlement elsewhere should be a last resort. Were we prudent, we’d insist on resettlement in locations most culturally proximate to the country of origin. In re Somalis, that’s not greater Minneapolis or Maine.
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In regard to settler immigration, if we we’re prudent, there would be three pathways to enter the queue for a visa: to pass a series of screens and examinations (among them proficiency tests in English, written and oral), to marry someone who has, and to be born to or sired by someone who has. Again, if we were prudent, households who arrive at the head of the queue are parked there until every member of the family over 14 has passed the English proficiency test if they have not done so in the last four years.
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If we were prudent, there would be few programs of common provision not contingent on some sort of buy in or at least some sort of life-event that had to be certified by a hearing examiner. The buy-in thresholds for immigrants would properly be higher than those for natives until such time as the immigrant household had accumulated sufficient work credit. Immigrants off the boat might be eligible for the services of a public defender or legal aid lawyer, eligible for a Job Corps post, eligible for disaster relief. The rest is properly the work of private charity.
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If we were prudent, government financed sectoral subsidies would be limited to medical care, long term care, schooling, legal services, and shipping-and-transportation. Mundane expenditures replenished frequently whose consumption is sensitive to considerations of amenity would not be subsidized. (Groceries, rental housing, and utilities would be examples).
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Private corporate bodies (e.g. philanthropies) should not be recipients of government grants except to provide hands-on disaster relief.
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Ideally, people who apply for refugee status (and those of their household) are placed in detention while their case is adjudicated. Those who were in the United States for other reasons when their situation at home changed might be eligible for temporary residency status; those who hopped on the first plane out of Dodge and it landed in New York or San Francisco (and those of their household) might be eligible. People who skipped over other countries before arriving here should be summarily deported – to their home country, to a country adjacent, or to the first place they alighted.
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If we were prudent, temporary residents would be eligible for public sector employment on in those agencies and government corporations which absorbed service functions which could be fulfilled by private enterprise (e.g. hospitals and schools).
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If we were prudent, there would be no systematic favoritism in public employment for the Regime’s mascot groups. Recruitment and promotion would be regulated by impersonal examinations.
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If we were prudent, service providers whose custom was prescribed by legislation would be limited to government agencies and corporations, to private natural monopolies, to medical service providers, to legal service providers, and (in contingencies) businesses which provide services specifically for travelers.
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If we we’re prudent, behavior in workplaces which maps to common crimes like extortion and harassment would generate a tort liability for the perpetrator and (contingently) his supervisor, manager, and the corporation. Union contracts would be prohibited from providing for benefits specifically for ascribed groups (or impediments for them). Recruitment and promotion in public sector employment would be strictly impartial. Otherwise, companies would be free to hire, promote, demote, and discharge per their preferences or in accordance with voluntarily assumed obligations under contracts.
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Freedom of contract and freedom of association should be the order of the day.
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If we were prudent, no one would be eligible for naturalization until they’d spent the majority of their natural life as a palpable resident of the country living within the law.
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If we were prudent, aliens accused of crimes would receive preventive detention by default. If the charges were not sustained or the eventual sentence was less than time served, they could be indemnified per a standard rate.
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If we were prudent, there would be no probation nor parole for aliens. They’d serve a clipped sentence and be deported upon release. Their right of domicile might be revoked or it might be suspended allowing them to apply for re-admission later.
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You want a satisfactory immigrant population, you need to have a reception matrix which encourages salutary behavior and removes incorrigibles. Don’t leave public money on the table, insist people learn to navigate their social environment without calling in lawfare artists, and deport criminals.
Many states – nearly all of them blue – have refused to hand over their voter roll data for inspection
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Their voter rolls are shot through with relict entries. ACORN types cast mail-in ballots in the names of these phantoms.
Not to be cynical or anything (Ha!) but same ol’, same ol’. Noise, sparks, and smoke … and nothing more.
Art Deco: If we were prudent, no one would be eligible for naturalization until they’d spent the majority of their natural life as a palpable resident of the country living within the law.
To be sure I understand this, please comment on some example cases.
A 70 year old person, with a life expectancy of 80 years, arrives in the prudent country and lives lawfully for 6 years. Would he be eligible for naturalization? How about a 30 year old person who lives lawfully for 26 years?
TEST
Shooter at Brown University cue the candlelight vigil.
This is off topic, Neo, but I wanted to say that I like your lighter color hair.
Megyn Kelly has a short video on our favorite Somali, Ilhan Omar:
–“Could Ilhan Omar Be DEPORTED if Her Father’s Naturalization Was Immigration Fraud? With Dave Smith” (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WNJcqFCALP0
It seems that the statute of limitations has run out on her alleged immigration fraud of marrying her brother to get him citizenship. Though I still hope to see that exposed.
Omar herself was automatically naturalized when her father became a citizen. However … no records of his naturalization have yet to be found!
If so, Omar can be denaturalized and she can even be deported. Wouldn’t that be a kick in the head? 🙂
–Dean Martin, “Ain’t That A Kick In The Head”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7jgZTDLeIs
I have long thought, based on Scott Johnson’s reporting at Power Line, that Omar’s father committed immigration fraud to enter the U.S. (His family name was Elmi (?), not Omar, hence his son’s name, the one Ilhan married.) But I thought he’d been naturalized, and that Ilhan could not be blamed for her father’s lies when she was a minor. But if he was never, in fact, naturalized, then she’s not a citizen. AND she committed immigration fraud with her brother, allegedly, per Scott Johnson, to get him student loans. I don’t think he’s got U.S. citizenship; he’s back in the U.K.
I don’t know what’s supported by evidence here, but it’s delightful to think we could send Ilhan back to Somalia to stay.
From the river
To the sea
Hamasites must cease
To be.
Every single one of them.
A 70 year old person, with a life expectancy of 80 years, arrives in the prudent country and lives lawfully for 6 years. Would he be eligible for naturalization? How about a 30 year old person who lives lawfully for 26 years?
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As we speak, a person of 70 in this country has a life expectancy of about 15 years. If he arrives at age 70, he could not live the majority of his natural life hear until he had been present for 70 years, i.e. reached the age of 140.
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If someone arrives at age 30, he would not be eligible until age 60. If, as you’re implying, he arrives at age 4, he would have sufficient residency to be naturalized at age 8, but would not, at that age, have sufficient understanding to seek naturalization on his own account. IMO, you should have to have reached the age of 25 before you can sit for the necessary examinations, execute the necessary declarations, and take the oath.
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Please note, if you’re an illegal alien, incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, you are not living at liberty within the law and your time in those states could not count toward the time necessary to be eligible for naturalization. If your right of domicile was suspended consequent to a criminal conviction, the time you spent back in the old country could not count toward it either. It think it would be sensible to exclude any time you spent under civil commitment orders or adult guardianships as well.
National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe, who was shot by the Afghan terrorist in Washington,, is making progress. He is now breathing on his own and can stand with assistance. He was released from hospital intensive care to a rehabilitation facility. One of his doctors, a neurosurgeon, said.
“We extend our deepest gratitude to our dedicated physicians, nurses, and support staff who cared for him every step of the way, and to his family for their unwavering love and encouragement. While this remains an early phase of healing, his progress gives us every reason to feel hopeful about what lies ahead,” Mai said.
https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/andrew-wolfe-deadly-national-guard-shooting-washington-dc-shooting-recovery-rehabilitation-prayer-progress-medstar-health-sarah-beckstrom-ambush-attack-west-virginia
Art Deco: Thanks for the clarification
And in Australia, where no one is supposed to have firearms…or do bad things with them…10 dead in a Hannukah shooting.
Pray aplenty please.
Obvious terrorism incident.
12 now confirmed deceased.
1 of 2 shooters included in the 12.
The horror at Bondi Beach was the first thing I saw when I opened my computer this morning. May God receive the souls of the dead, and comfort their families. You are not allowed to have guns to defend yourselves — not that people would normally take their firearms to a Chanukkah on the Beach celebration.
I imagine everyone’s seen this by now, but if you haven’t, it’s extraordinary.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/14/hero-bystander-tackles-attacker-at-australia-jewish-festival-shooting
That refusal to assist in voter fraud has to be honest and a miscommunication right?
Good video at Legal Insurrection on the Bondi shooters.
Still not much on Brown University shooting but a suspect might be caught. But no name, what class or group was target was attacked can be found yet.
Apparently it was in a review session for a Jewish Studies-related class taught by a Jewish professor. Probably coincidental, right?
Mike Plaiss, in that video it looks like there are two other shooters on that raised walkway, not including the guy who was tackled. But the reports are of only two shooters, one killed.
Fox News has the video of the hero, a Muslim man, who tackled one of the riflemen, at considerable risk, probably saving lives.
I saw a report that said it was a basic economics class. The professor wasn’t there; it was a review sessions led by TAs. The gunman walked in, shot many people, and walked out.
Could be, Kate. The professor is in Jewish Studies but also teaches economics, and the review session was likely led by a TA.
Adding the video Mike put up and Legalinsurrection.com, the #1 Gunman leaves the bridge, is disarmed by bystander then goes back to bridge where he is hit and goes down for good. Thinking bystander or someone else hit #1 Gunman with debilitating shot if not killed him.
I just put up a post on the shootings.
Now they’re saying that the Sydney shooters were a father and son. See ADDENDUM here.
More bad news: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/2-found-dead-at-brentwood-mansion-owned-by-director-rob-reiner/3815886/
Emma Goldman was denaturalized. Merely for speech.