SENATE JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN CALLS CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAWS “INSANE” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 14, 2019) — On the April 14 edition of “Sunday Morning Futures,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he will be introducing a “legislative package” on immigration for the committee to consider once Congress returns to Washington from Easter break. “What […]
IS THE JOB “OVERWHELMING?” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 7, 2019) — On Sunday evening, mainstream media reported and President Trump tweeted that DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position. Trump tweeted that Customs & Border Patrol Commissioner Kevin McAleenan will become Acting DHS Secretary upon Nielsen’s departure and thanked Nielsen for her service. […]
TOP DEMOCRAT SAYS COMMITTEE WILL “DO ITS JOB” BEGINNING NEXT MONTH by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 20, 2018) — On Thursday morning at 10:15 EST, the House Judiciary Committee opened a hearing concerning the committee’s oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with the department’s secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, listed as the only witness. Chairman Bob […]
BORDER PATROL USES TEAR GAS TO DISPERSE WOULD-BE BORDER CROSSERS by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 25, 2018) — At 6:21 p.m. EST Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tweeted that the San Ysidro Port of Entry between the U.S. and Mexico was closed earlier in the day “to ensure public safety in response to a large […]
“BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY” by Sher Zieve, ©2018 (Oct. 29, 2018) — There’s something very wrong with this world, today. We all know it. We all feel it. There’s something in the air that is causing anxiety and a general feeling of unease in the world at large. There are people who appear to be […]
SAYS “MASSIVE FOREIGN AID” TO BE REDUCED OR TERMINATED by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 22, 2018) — At approximately 8:35 AM EDT, President Donald Trump tweeted that he considers the Central-American caravan now traveling through Mexico to be a “national emergency” given that Mexican federal police have been unable to stop its progress toward the U.S. […]
“NEEDLESS PAIN AND SUFFERING” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 21, 2018) — According to The Tampa Bay Times on Sunday, a “caravan” of thousands of Honduran citizens continues on a path toward the United States after crossing from Guatemala into Mexico Saturday morning largely undisturbed. Although Mexico has strict laws about illegal entry, many of its […]
“SANITIZING” AND “SUGARCOATING” by OPOVV, ©2018 (Aug. 22, 2018) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the one place to get the straight skinny, which is Navy parlance for the facts. Hello, my name is Roving and I’ll be your host for tonight’s show. What we do is […]
CENTRAL-AMERICAN “CARAVAN” SAID TO BE “BROKEN UP” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 3, 2018) — In the wake of a “caravan” of mostly Honduran citizens traveling north to the U.S. with a number of “demands,” on Tuesday afternoon President Donald Trump said that he plans to have the U.S. military guard the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump tweeted […]
“EXACTLY WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED” by Contributor (Jan. 15, 2018) — January is the perfect month to pack our bags and jet off somewhere exotic. After Christmas, we might be feeling a little blue and grumpy as we patiently wait for spring to arrive. Sadly, spring seems like a lifetime away, and with people surrounding […]
CLAIM: DHS HAS “A PATTERN OF LYING” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 22, 2017) — A group of advocates for “undocumented” aliens claimed on a media conference call on Thursday that the 23-year-old DACA recipient removed to Mexico in February whose case has received national attention was deported to Mexico on two different occasions by U.S. […]
BUT IS THERE A DOUBLE STANDARD? by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 23, 2017) — On Thursday, while meeting with a group of corporate leaders about job-creation, President Donald Trump made remarks about the removal of criminal illegal aliens under new guidance issued by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly on Monday. In the course […]
“REAL CHANGE IS FINALLY HERE” by Jeff Crouere, ©2017 (Jan. 27, 2017) — During his unconventional race for the White House, President Donald Trump made many campaign promises to the voters. In his dozens of rallies and interviews, Trump often pledged that he would “Drain the Swamp” in Washington D.C. and implement “Extreme Vetting” of refugees […]
“50 YEARS OVERDUE” January 27, 2017 Mr. Trump, As a former corporate manager, you know that corporations do not pay taxes; they merely pass that on to the consumer. It is buried into the cost of the product. Democrats and Republicans alike have been cheating Americans with this age-old “hallucination” that we are making corporations pay […]
FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO COME ON THURSDAY by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 30, 2016) — On Tuesday evening, President-Elect Donald J. Trump tweeted that negotiations with executives at Carrier Corporation in Indiana announced on Thanksgiving Day culminated in the company’s agreement not to relocate approximately 1,000 jobs from Indianapolis to Monterrey, Mexico in the near future. On […]
“MAKING PROGRESS” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 24, 2016) — Late Thursday morning, President-Elect Donald Trump tweeted that he is attempting to convince Carrier Air Conditioning, which announced in February that it would leave Indiana and New York State for Mexico, to change its decision. If Carrier follows its original plan, 2,100 U.S. jobs will be […]
1952 IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT GIVES PRESIDENT AND ATTORNEY GENERAL AUTHORITY TO REFUSE ENTRY TO CERTAIN GROUPS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY REASONS by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 15, 2016) — In apparent reaction to President-Elect Donald Trump’s first interview since last Tuesday’s election with Lesley Stahl of ABC News on Sunday in which he affirmed that he […]
TECHNOLOGY, NATURAL RESOURCES CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL MARKETPLACE by Caitlyn Jones, ©2016 (Oct. 25, 2016) — While 2016 is likely to be remembered for political stories and conflict, the changing nature of the world economy should be regarded as one of the biggest news stories of the year. A wide range of factors have created a […]
A “WHITEWASH” by OPOVV, ©2016 (Jul. 5, 2016) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the ‘’Pulse of the Nation.’ As you can see, we’re back just where this show started from, on the corner across from the railroad depot. Excuse me, Miss, but do you have time for a couple of questions?” “Time? […]
AN “APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY?” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 23, 2016) — As reported on June 7 by the Conservative Treehouse blog, the federal judge presiding over two class-action lawsuits against Donald Trump’s former real estate instructional organization known as “Trump University” informed the U.S. Senate in a 2011 confirmation questionnaire that he is a “lifetime […]