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Irish Diaspora

by Tom McLaughlin

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Supreme Court sides with Trump on 

detention of immigrants

by Melissa Quinn

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Trump administration by deciding federal officials can detain immigrants at any time for possible deportation... after they have served their time in the U.S. for other crimes. The 5-4 decision reversed the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which said officials have to detain these immigrants immediately or they are exempt from ever being detained. Justice Samuel Alito delivered the majority opinion for the court, and he was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh. Justices Steven Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissented. Alito wrote that in the past, the court has "held time and time again, an official's crucial duties are better carried out late than never." He also rejected the argument from lawyers representing the immigrants involved in the case that they are subject to mandatory detention only if they are arrested "on the day he walks out of jail," giving the example that state and local officials "sometimes rebuff the government's request that they give notice when a criminal alien will be released." At the center of the case are immigrants Mony Preap and Bassam Yusuf Khoury, who are in the U.S. as lawful permanent residents. Both were convicted of crimes and served their sentences but were not detained by immigration authorities for removal proceedings until years after they were released from criminal custody...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-on-detention-of-illegal-immigrants?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_03/19/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News

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What does the science really say about 

global warming and Midwest floods?

by Michael Bastasch  

{bizpacreview.com} ~ Some environmentalists and scientists are blaming global warming for historic flooding across the Midwest, adding to the long list of disasters eager activists link to climate change... But is the scientific connection between historic Midwest floods and global warming very strong? No, it’s not. A “bomb cyclone” led to sudden, devastating floods across the Midwest and Great Plains that left at least three people dead, according to reports. Officials say it’s the worst flooding in 50 years.  While most in the media largely stayed away, and rightly so, from connecting Midwest flooding to climate change, environmentalists were quick to make the connection, claiming the science was on their side. Bill McKibben, a prominent environmentalist who made headlines protesting the Keystone XL oil pipeline, proclaimed “scientists confirm climate change” was at work in the historic Midwest flooding...  https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/03/19/what-does-the-science-really-say-about-global-warming-and-midwest-floods-734820?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS

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Washington State’s Senate Passes Bill 

That Could Keep Trump Off 2020 Ballot

by Jeff Dunetz

{lidblog.com} ~ The Washington state Senate passed a bill this week whose purpose is to keep President Donald Trump’s name from appearing on the  2020 ballot... The bill that would require all candidates on the ballot for president to release five years of tax returns before appearing in a state primary or general election. “Although releasing tax returns has been the norm for about the last 40 years in presidential elections, unfortunately we’ve seen that norm broken,” said bill sponsor Sen. Patty Kuderer, a Bellevue Democrat, during debate Tuesday. Kuderer later confirmed she was referring to Trump. If also passed by the Washington State House, it would definitely be challenged in federal court. They have already ruled that states may not enact any requirements on candidates for Senate or Congressional seats. Only the Constitution can levy requirements for those federal offices. But the President may be different because the second paragraph of  Article 2, Section 1, of the constitution may indicate that the states can make their own rules. I am not a constitutional lawyer nor do I play one on TV but this is what it says... I can't agree with the changes to the constitution unless 2/3 of congress vote on it, in which U.S. congress hasn't.

https://lidblog.com/washington-state-senate/

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Shin Bet denies Saudi report Iranians 

hacked phones of Netanyahu family  

by jpost.com:  Israel's Shin Bet, the country's national security agency, denied a report Iranian hackers succesfully breached the private cellphones of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's family... shortly after a Saudi Arabian paper carried the claims on Tuesday. Independentarabia  published a report claiming that Iranian Intelligence has hacked the phones of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair and wife Sara. According to the report, the breach was done several months ago, and that it is not yet clear what information was leaked through the tapping of their phones. The report also connected it to the breach of the phone of Blue and White Party leader and former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, yet it claimed that the hacking of Gantz's phone was done years ago and only surfaced now to be used for internal Israeli election affairs. The Prime Minister's office reacted to the report, and claimed that "after an inquiry made with security officials, it never happened."...

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Saudi-report-Iranians-hacked-the-phones-of-Yair-and-Sara-Netanyahu-583909

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Truth comes to light in Bezos spectacle

by Byron York

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Sometimes stories are simpler than they're made out to be. That appears to be the case with Jeff Bezos... When the National Enquirer reported that Bezos, the Amazon founder who is the world's richest man, was having an extramarital affair and had sent racy texts, including photos of his penis, to his girlfriend, Bezos assembled a high-priced legal and PR team to mount an aggressive defense. All of a sudden, sympathetic commentators began suggesting Bezos had been hacked. There was word that a "government entity" had gotten hold of the texts and photos. There was dark speculation of international intrigue, that Saudi Arabia might have used the Enquirer to target Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, in retaliation for the Post's coverage of the murder of the columnist and Saudi regime critic Jamal Khashoggi. And of course, President Trump played some sort of behind-the-scenes role. Bezos orchestrated it all, using his security consultant to feed information to his newspaper, and also writing a much-discussed personal statement published on Medium. "This statement that Bezos has released tonight is absolutely extraordinary," MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell said on Feb. 7, "and I think it is a gigantic moment, actually in this history of our digital communication, which everyone has known has been at risk for quite a while, that any one of us could be hacked. We could have private things revealed through stolen emails, stolen texts, that sort of thing. And here is someone who stands up and says, I'm not going to take it anymore." "The Saudis are being brazen," MSNBC's Chuck Todd said on Feb. 8. "We've caught them being brazen with Qatar. We've caught them being brazen with Jamal Khashoggi. This would not surprise if it ends up being more connected to them because they've been acting this way."...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-truth-comes-to-light-in-bezos-spectacle?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_03/19/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief

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Irish Diaspora

by Tom McLaughlin

{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ It’s St. Patrick’s day as I write this and I’m not wearing anything green. If I ever have in previous years, it’s been accidental. I’m American, a proud citizen of the USA and I’m very conscious of that whenever I’m traveling in another country, including Ireland where I’ll be visiting for the fourth time in a couple of weeks. Though all my ancestors came from there and 97% of my DNA matches that of people who live in northwest Ireland, West-central Ireland, and southwest Ireland, I’m still very much an American.  

That my ancestors came from the west of Ireland means they lived “beyond the pale” — that is, they lived outside an area controlled by the British (around Dublin) called  “the pale” in the 14th and 15th centuries. My people resisted submission to foreign rule so they were banished westward, again and again, to areas with poorer and poorer soil. In the 1600s when Oliver Cromwell invaded Ireland, they were pushed back still further and sent “to hell or Connaught.”  

Yours truly in The Burren, 2009  

 

Thousands were sold into slavery in the West Indies during that time and Connaught (especially an area called The Burren) was an area about which it was said at the time “to have not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown him, nor earth enough to bury him.” All were evidently very poor, which is why so many left Ireland for America. Life was very difficult long before the potato famines of the 19th century which only made it worse.  

In spite of all that, the little leprechaun with his fists up on the logo of “Fighting Irish” sports teams at the University of Notre Dame does not offend me. Neither does the one of another leprechaun spinning a basketball on the index finger of his right hand while balancing on a shillelagh with his left which the Boston Celtics use. No Irishman or Irish-American, as far as I know, has objected to the stereotype that Irish people are prone to fighting. They are. As for the other well-known stereotype that the Irish are prone to drinking, that shoe fits too. It certainly has for my ancestors going back four generations at least. Paddy wagons were so named because they were usually filled with Irish immigrants named Patrick, or “Paddy” who were arrested for drinking and fighting.  

Are those attributes part of Irish DNA or have they been socialized into us for generations under Viking and then British oppression? Both? No one knows for sure but at least we’re not overly sensitive about them, unlike so many other kinds of people who lead campaigns demanding certain logos and mascots be changed. Yeah, the Irish have suffered, but any student of history knows that no ancestral groups, anywhere, have been spared suffering from starvation, war, slavery, and all the other nasty things we humans do to each other.  

Is it true what Matt Damon’s character in "The Departed" said about the Irish — that: “This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever”? How about what Thomas Cahill said about the Irish in his book,How The Irish Saved Civilization: “They pursued the wondrous deed, the heroic gesture: fighting…drinking, art — poetry for intense emotion…” Was he correct? Perhaps, but no Irish poet I’ve ever read stimulated intense emotion in me. They don’t reach me the way Robert Frost does.  

My DNA map blowup for County Cork  

 

In America, my ancestors became coal miners, policemen, domestic servants, laborers, and streetcar drivers. Their offspring — my uncles, aunts, cousins, and so forth — have joined all the professions and many are doing quite well. We’ve assimilated fully and that’s good for America. I’m struggling to find information on my great-grandfather, Eugene Sullivan, after whom my father was named. Born in County Cork, Ireland, he came over in 1900 and became a cop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On the boat, he met his first wife, Mary Mahoney, also from Cork as the family story goes, who bore fourteen of his children in thirteen years before dying in 1917 at only thirty-nine. My grandmother, Mary Sullivan, was the oldest. She married and bore my father at nineteen in 1922 and five more children as well.  

Great-grandfather Eugene Sullivan

 

Mary Mahoney’s mother, Kate Mahoney, also bore fourteen children back in Ireland and she lived to be sixty — beyond average life expectancy for a woman in that time and place. My own mother had eight, and she is still with us at ninety-four with grandchildren and great-grandchildren too numerous to count. Three more are gestating, but that is not the norm in America today. If it weren’t for immigration, the US population would be in serious decline. Few native-born Americans want children anymore. They have dogs instead.  

America is changing and so is Ireland. I want to experience as much of it as I can before it changes into something that would be unrecognizable to my ancestors.   

  

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2019/03/irish-diaspora.html

[Rudy Tirre]

bonnie

I believe that has been done but its caused by not registering in that state. But I do believe its up to the people of that state not to vote for a person not the leaders of that state. I do also believe its against our constitution.

[Bonnie Somer]

i do not believe u can just keep someone off of a voting ballot.  is it constitutional?