Almost all Navy shipbuilding is hopelessly behind schedule
BY STEVE COHEN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 05/02/24 8:00 AM ET
 
The Navy is in trouble.

It has too few ships to do the jobs it is expected to do and not enough money to build new vessels. But it gets worse: It is also handicapped by a civilian ship-building industry that makes promises it knows it cannot keep.


Two weeks ago, the Navy announced that all of its major shipbuilding programs would be delayed — by years. The first of ten new Columbia-class nuclear ballistic submarines is 12 to 16 months behind schedule. The aircraft carrier Enterprise is 18 to 26 months late. The Virginia attack-class submarine is two years behind. And the Navy’s newest class of ships, a guided missile frigate called the Constellation, is already a full three years behind schedule.

Such bad news is usually dribbled out piecemeal or discovered by defense watchers. Instead, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro decided to lance this long-festering boil. He announced that a 45-day internal investigation into warship acquisition revealed that almost all shipbuilding programs are subject to massive delays and cost overruns.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4624326-almost-all-navy-shipbuilding-is-hopelessly-behind-schedule-as-war-looms/

I do feel like I am in some kind of 'Twilight Zone' of history. I am now in 1933, and I have Jews lecturing me on how Hitler is just a nice old grandfather figure. Hitler/Biden would never hurt anybody. I am trapped in some kind of historical repeat of STUPID.

Biden quietly remaking courts to counter rightward lurch under Trump
By
Haisten Willis
May 3, 2024 6:00 am
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President Joe Biden may be trailing former President Donald Trump in the opinion polls, but the Democratic incumbent now has pulled ahead in one metric that will long outlive both their presidencies.

Much ink was spilled during the Trump administration over his record-breaking pace of judicial appointments with the help of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), but Biden has an edge on the judicial legacy.

Like Trump, Biden is hoping that his nominees will make rulings favorable to his party during their terms, and he has also made a point of appointing female and minority candidates to powerful positions.

The pair were tied at 193 appointments each at this point in their tenures for much of April, but Biden retook the lead earlier this week when the Senate confirmed Georgia Alexakis for a district judgeship in Illinois on Wednesday, giving him 194.

“I promised to have an administration that looks like America … a court that represents all the people,” Biden said on March 11 during a campaign speech in Atlanta. “Sixty-five percent of the judges I’ve appointed are women. Sixty-five percent are people of color. I’ve appointed more black women to the circuit courts than every other president in American history combined.”

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/2989071/biden-remaking-courts-counter-trump/

Jobs report: April employment for native-born and foreign-born workers
By
Zachary Halaschak
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Joseph Lawler
May 3, 2024 9:05 am

The jobs report for April released Friday showed that employment grew for native-born and fell slightly for foreign-born workers.

The breakdown of jobs by migration status has gained interest in recent months for several reasons. One is that Republicans have argued that President Joe Biden’s policies have favored immigrants. Another is that the large number of immigrants in recent years may be adding to economic growth in a way that is not adequately accounted for in some government statistics.

The household survey included in the monthly jobs report shows employment for both categories of workers. The numbers, which are not adjusted for seasonal variations, are separate from the payroll jobs reported from the larger survey of business establishments. Because the survey is smaller, the numbers bounce around more.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2989830/jobs-report-april-employment-for-native-born-and-foreign-born-workers/
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Mexican Diplomat’s Dishonest Claims About Illegal Alien Law-Breaking Do Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
April 29, 2024
 
Pawel Styrna
Senior Researcher
Mexican diplomats and politicians have a long history of lecturing Americans on illegal immigration, along with attempting to meddle in U.S. politics in ways that favor illegal aliens while undermining our border security and rule of law. The most recent example is Mexico’s consul in Oklahoma City protesting about an Oklahoma state law that aims to act against mass illegal migration at a time when the Biden administration refuses to do its job.

The statute in question is HB 4156, which passed the Oklahoma House of Representatives on April 18 by an overwhelming majority of 77 to 20. The state Senate passed it on April 23. Inspired by anti-illegal-immigration state legislation in Texas, “[t]he measure aims to crack down on illegal immigration in Oklahoma by creating the crime of impermissible occupation and requiring individuals to leave the state within 72 hours of their conviction or release from custody,” as explained by a press release issued by Oklahoma State Senator Casey Murdock. First-time offenders found guilty would be punished with a misdemeanor, a fine of up to $500, a year in jail, or both.

Predictably, the common-sense law has drawn criticism and attacks from pro-illegal-alien activists and lobbyists, and from Mexico’s consul in Oklahoma City, Edurne Pineda. Repeating standard open-borders euphemisms, Mrs. Pineda claimed that “ndocumented migrants” aka people “without papers” are “not criminals, and they do pay taxes. They work really hard” and “are here because they get employed, because your economy needs them.” She concluded that “criminalizing them is not going to solve anything, nor is it fair.”

https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/04/29/mexican-diplomats-dishonest-claims-about-illegal-alien-law-breaking-do-not-stand