Chaos at the U.S. border with Mexico continued through the last week, with major arrests through the Easter weekend that included drug smugglers and their deadly wares, “migrant” smugglers and their human cargo, and illegal-alien criminals with plans to continue their careers in crime.

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It is hardly an act of war, but the decision of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, to remove the state flag of Mississippi from Liberty State Park is certainly a major insult. Liberty State Park is a 1,200-acre preserve in Jersey City that overlooks Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty (which is across the harbor from New York City), and the park has flown all 50 state’s flags for several years.

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So, why do some in South Africa wax nostalgic for that system?

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When a cabal of leftist senators and the sisterhood conspired to derail the nomination of U.S. Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh with preposterously false charges of sex assault and gang rape, they also began retailing a revisionist history about Anita Hill and her false charges against Justice Clarence Thomas.

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Wake Forest University, a private institution in North Carolina, is set to hold a series of “listening sessions” aimed at advancing diversity “inclusion” efforts at the school. Unfortunately, the ideas of Caucasians are not welcome at these events.

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The grim headlines got the story half-wrong again.

The Commercial Appeal in Memphis put it this way: “4-month-old baby beaten to death when Memphis man learned he’s not father, police say.”

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Economic forecasters really ought to get out more. As recently as March, many were saying that the U.S. economy for all intents and purposes had stalled in the first quarter of 2019. They blamed the government shutdown, something called the “wearing off” of the economic stimulus provided by Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and of course, the weather. The consensus of Blue Chip economists yesterday was first quarter growth of 1.5 percent while economists polled by MarketWatch were slightly more optimistic, at 2.3 percent.

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While driving home from an Easter gathering not long after midnight and trying to keep my eyes open, something on the radio made them wide. “The plants believe they’re going extinct because of climate change,” said the speaker, “so they’re releasing more pollen,” is how I remember it.

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After months of offering amnesty to Venezuela’s top military in exchange for their defection, the opposition to Nicolás Maduro’s Marxist dictatorship has largely failed in its efforts. As of Wednesday, barely 1,500 of Maduro’s 280,000-strong military have done so, escaping to Colombia to the west and Brazil to the south. Most of them have come from the lower ranks and the country’s National Guard.

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A bill making its way through the Texas state legislature would create a committee tasked with reviewing the constitutionality of federal laws before they are enforced in the Lone Star State.

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