"Mission, Texas -- Democrats show no interest in solving illegal immigration, and they downplay the drug and humanitarian problems it causes, yet liberals in the media never ask them to explain why.

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has so far said she's unwilling to do anything on immigration, so long as the White House refuses to sign a bill funding the small portion of the government that's been shut down for a month.

"As agents here at the southernmost point of Texas will tell you, the way to deter smugglers from bringing in drugs and undocumented immigrants from Mexico is to install cameras, strategically place personnel, and build a physical barrier. ...

"Border agents have told us what they want and why they want it. Why won't Democrats give it to them?"

"Imagine that a scientist wanted to conduct an experiment to see if it's true that blind hatred of President Trump has led Democrats and their media handmaidens to go 'round the bend and off the cliff.

"Such a scientist would inject a damning -- and false -- media report about Trump into the political bloodstream, then observe the reactions. It wouldn't take long.

"The Gotcha! glee, the declarations of Trump's certain impeachment for suborning perjury, reckless references to Richard Nixon, the breathless anticipation of resignation and disgrace, perhaps prison -- these and other overheated reactions quickly clogged the airwaves and Internet, growing ever more bold as the day wore on and no compelling rebuttal appeared.

"Then, suddenly, the scientist pulled the plug on the experiment. He had seen enough to prove the thesis: Much of America, many of its leaders and some of its most prominent institutions are indeed gripped with madness.

"Hatred for the president has corrupted their judgments and blinded them to duty and decency. Having succumbed to prejudice and rage, they have proven themselves unworthy of public trust.

"Case closed."

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"When CNN's Jim Acosta tweeted a selfie video from the U.S.-Mexico border, he was roundly mocked and ridiculed for claiming he saw no 'crisis' at the 'tranquil' spot where he stood. Of course he didn't. Because where he stood was on the safe side of a steel barrier protecting him (and the rest of America) from illegal border crossings.

"If President Trump's policies for border protection were to be enacted, there'd be hundreds of more places on the border protected as safely as that spot where Mr. Acosta stood. Sadly, Mr. Acosta's buffoonery was merely a blatant example of the sad, slanted coverage found in most of the mainstream media over the past several weeks. ...

"The facts, which the mainstream media have almost no interest in reporting to the American people, show exactly how the existing border barriers work. From San Diego to Tucson to Yuma, illegal border crossings dropped significantly wherever a barrier has been built.

"If journalists really wish to engage their audience with facts and a fair debate over this issue, they'll start raising these points but don't hold your breath. At this point, they want little to do with informing the public and everything to do with the partisan fight to defeat President Trump.

"It's a pity because if a nation can't have a serious, informed conversation over the protection of its own borders, one wonders what we can talk about."

"Conservatives complain about government constantly. But if there's one agency hated by people across the political spectrum, it is the Transportation Security Administration.

"This agency, created in late 2001, is known by alternative acronyms such as 'Thousands Standing Around,' and anyone who has flown on a busy day understands why. On every trip, one inevitably gets the perception that innumerable TSA workers are lounging in the background.

"This complaint should resonate now, at a time when a government shutdown subtly threatens everyone's ability to travel. Although both TSA and air traffic control workers are being made to work without pay, some TSA workers have already been caught staging sickouts and many are just quitting.

"One cannot blame them for insisting on jobs that actually pay. It's fundamentally unjust that the nation's transportation system should hinge for weeks or months on thousands of people working without a paycheck.

"That's just one more reason the TSA should be privatized."

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"Has President Trump suckered Democrats and the Deep State into a trap that will enable a radical downsizing of the federal bureaucracy? In only five more days of the already 'longest government shutdown in history' (25 days and counting, as of today), a heretofore obscure threshold will be reached, enabling permanent layoffs of bureaucrats furloughed 30 days or more.

"Don't believe me that federal bureaucrats can be laid off? Well, in bureaucratese, a layoff is called a RIF -- a Reduction in Force -- and of course, it comes with a slew of civil service protections. But, if the guidelines are followed, bureaucrats can be laid off -- as in no more job."

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"Yes, there absolutely were some Russians trying to create confusion with the American electorate. In 1996, the Chinese poured many millions of dollars into the Bill Clinton campaign to curry favor. These governments and their would-be hangers on do try to ingratiate themselves with campaigns and take disruptive actions, just as we do.

"But this is entirely different from believing that the president of the United States has sold out his country and that the FBI should be investigating -- to the extent of even possibly wearing a wire -- a White House because their boss was fired. A boss that, by the way, was then replaced by a distinguished career official, meaning no actual investigations of any kind were ever in jeopardy in any way. ...

"The response by the FBI and DOJ to Trump's election was unprecedented, and while almost all of those behind these various actions have been exposed, fired, quit or retired, the Mueller independent counsel and SDNY investigations remain as the 'insurance policies' set up to keep up the effort to remove the president for ... something.

"At least we are learning how this all really started, even as the answers continue to grow ever more unsettling."

"After Trump was elected, the FBI realized that Trump was soon going to have access to government intelligence files. If they honestly told the president-elect that they had been investigating his campaign in hope of making a case on him, they had to be concerned that he would shut the investigation down and clean house at the FBI and DOJ. So, they misleadingly told him the investigation was about Russia and a few stray people in his campaign, but they assured him he personally was not under investigation.

"This was not true. The investigation was always hoping to find something on Trump. That is why, for example, when director Comey briefed then-President-elect Trump about the Steele dossier, he told Trump only about the salacious allegation involving prostitutes in a Moscow hotel; he did not tell the president-elect either that the main thrust of the dossier was Trump's purported espionage conspiracy with the Kremlin, nor that the FBI had gone to the FISC to get surveillance warrants based on the dossier. The FBI was telling the president-elect that the allegations were salacious and unverified, yet at that very moment they were presenting them to a federal court as information the judges could rely on to authorize spying."

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"Like generals fighting the last war, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are fixated on the last presidential election. Their refusal to let it go and get on with governing in a divided Congress is a shameful sign of how radical their party has become since President Trump's election.

"This is the crisis America faces -- Democrats still do not accept the legitimacy of his victory. And so anything he says is treated as unworthy and untrue, even when Americans can see with their own eyes that much of the southern border is essentially wide open for anyone who wants to cross it. ...

"It is indeed painful to see so many destitute people looking for a better life, and the recent deaths of two young children who made the hazardous trek -- illustrate the dangers.

"But it is also extremely painful to watch America dissolve into a borderless society where laws and order are sacrificed out of bitterness and hatred for a president who won an election fair and square.

"Not so long ago, Democrats, including Schumer and Pelosi, believed that borders meant something. Trump shouldn't stop reminding them of that and speaking up for the many Americans who still do."

"Building a wall is kind of an obvious idea for protecting a border. Not only have walls been used from time immemorial to defend borders, but those precise three words have been used to describe what should happen at our specific border thousands of times before Trump used them, according to a quick Nexis search.

"The current DNC talking point against a wall is that it is a 'medieval solution to a 21st-century problem!' Turn on MSNBC or CNN right now, and you'll hear someone saying it.

"So are wheels. Are Democrats taking tires off their cars?

"A roof is a medieval solution. How about Nancy Pelosi replace the one over her house with 'new technology' -- like a drone! Drones won't keep anything out, but at least she can see what's coming in seconds before it drops on her head.

"Medievalism:1; Pelosi:0."

"The federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only: because Democrats will not fund border security. My administration is doing everything in our power to help those impacted by the situation, but the only solution is for Democrats to pass a spending bill that defends our borders and reopens the government. ...

"Some have suggested that a barrier is immoral. Then why do wealthy politicians build walls and fences and gates around their homes? They don't build walls because they hate the people on the outside, but because they love the people on the inside. The only thing that is immoral is the politicians to do nothing and continue to allow more innocent people to be so horribly victimized. ...

"To every member of Congress, pass a bill that ends this crisis. To every citizen, call Congress and tell them to finally, after all of these decades, secure our border. This is a choice between right and wrong, justice and injustice. This is about whether we fulfill our sacred duty to the American citizens we serve.

"When I took the oath of office, I swore to protect our country. And that is what I will always do, so help me God."