By Debbie Schlussel
If you are an illegal alien in Connecticut and you’re challenging your deportation in court, you hit the lottery if you draw Immigration Judge Michael W. Straus to hear your case. It’s a virtual golden ticket to remain in the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory that is America . . . forever.
It’s bad enough that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano a/k/a “The Lesbionic Woman” stopped Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from doing their jobs and investigated them. Worse that the Supreme Court ruled ICE must prove an illegal alien’s knowledge that a fake ID is stolen. Now, in Judge Straus, immigration law enforcement agents have an even more liberal opponent to their efforts to enforce immigration laws.
Yesterday, he ruled that ICE agent raids on illegal aliens were improper because they were done in response to a New Haven program providing ID cards to illegal aliens. So, I guess ICE agents aren’t allowe to read the paper or watch the news and react accordingly in their plans to enforce the law. Nope. They must act in a vacuum. Anything less–any informed behavior–is now “illegal.”

Thanks, Gringo Infidel Judge Michael W. Straus For Your “Enlightened” Decision
The illegal aliens that ICE arrested all had deportation orders telling them to leave the country. Yet, they chose to continue to break the law and stay. But ICE arresting these people is now somehow illegal by the twisted logic that ICE was arresting these people in “retaliation” against the New Haven illegal alien IDs. So what? There’s nothing in immigration law or case law that says ICE can’t pick up illegal aliens (who were ordered to leave) in response to a city’s decision to enable them. This “retaliation” issue is a red herring. But not to left-wing Judge Straus.
It’s disgusting.
Moreover, the left-wing Yale sanctuary city nuts who run New Haven get to flout immigration laws and grant legal status to illegal aliens, but ICE can’t respond. Moreoever, lawyers from Yale represented the illegal aliens arrested for deportation by ICE. William F. Buckley should have changed the name of his book to “G-d and Illegal Alien at Yale.”
The New Haven Independent has the most thorough coverage of the story:

Judge Michael W. Straus of U.S. Immigration Court in Hartford threw out the cases against four immigrants swept up in the June 2007 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. He ruled that government agents were in “egregious violation” of the immigrants’ Fourth Amendment rights.
For four individuals, the judge’s decisions marks an end to a two-year legal battle that began when Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents swept into Fair Haven, arresting 30 immigrants on charges of allegedly being in the country illegally. The raids prompted rallies and accusations from New Haven’s mayor on down that the feds were terrorizing the immigrant community and retaliating against the city for its immigrant-friendly policies, a charged the feds denied.
Attorneys from Yale Law School have been representing 17 of those 30 immigrants. The attorneys have argued that ICE agents violated their clients’ rights by entering their homes without permission and questioning them illegally. ICE has denied the allegations.
But Judge Straus agreed.
“In considering all the evidence in the record, this Court finds that the Respondent’s Fourth Amendment rights were egregiously violated,” he wrote.

PUH-LEEZE. Their Fourth Amendment rights were not violated. They had valid deportation orders against them, and ICE had the right to pick them up.
But, now, because of this case, they’re free to return back to their New Haven homes and will probably get rewarded with green cards and citizenship. That’s usually what happens when illegal aliens game the system. Our immigration process encourages that.
And that’s why our country will continue to die. We simply don’t have the guts to enforce our borders and regulate who comes in and who gets to stay.
As I always say, America . . . Desperate But Not Serious.

By Debbie Schlussel
It used to be that the most vile, disgusting, and violently threatening hate-mail I received came from Muslims.
But, sadly, now it comes from blind followers of Sarah Palin, who’ve given up all allegiance to traditional conservative views in blind loyalty to a woman who isn’t conservative, just as ambitious and empty as her followers are blindly faithful.
That’s bad enough. But apparently, if you’re a true conservative–as I am–and you point this out, you get death threats. Sorry, but the real “Palin Derangement Syndrome” we keep hearing about is embodied by her defenders and followers more than anyone else. For all of Michelle Malkin and other conservatives’ selective, faux-outrage against Playboy magazine for an article about conservative women they want to rape, where is their outrage at death and cancer wishes from Palin supporters? Strangely absent, as is their outrage over Muslim death, rape, and torture threats on my life and the lives of my family members.
Here’s just a sampling of what I regularly get from the Sarahmessiahniks, e-mails which usually include anti-Semitism, sexism, and death threats.

From Steve Maloney, proprietor of the Draft Palin 2012 website:

From: TalkTop65@aol.com
Date: Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: PALIN BLASTS OBAMA — Campaign 2012 Begins
To: writedebbie@gmail.com
If you ever have a daughter as morally courageous as Bristol Palin, let me know okay? In the meantime, get breast cancer or ovarian cancer — do the world a favor, huh? All the best . . .
Steve Maloney
Ambridge, PA
DraftPalin2012
SteveMaloneyGOP

Yes, it’s now “morally courageous” to be a slut and a baby mama. If this–and wishes of cancer and death–are Sarah Palin “conservatism” (and they are), good luck to you in the next several decades of liberal Democrat rule over America.
Oh, and by the way, Sarah Palin has similar views on cancer and other women. She famously appeared on an Alaska radio show, laughing in agreement with the hosts when they called her top Republican opponent in the Alaska legislature, Sen. Lyda Green–who had cancer–a “cancer” and a “bitch.”
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Then, there’s the constant e-mails, like the one below, which I receive from mentally unstable loser Gregory A. Hanson, a 60-year-old from Brainerd, Minnesota, who apparently is a full-time Palin defender on the internet, and likely on the Palin payroll. He has stated on other sites that he gets Sarah Palin google alerts. And, as the google results littered with his various online screen names attest, he spends his life in a complete rage, responding nuttily to every single one. This guy needs a life–a life beyond openly fantasizing about me and a vibrator. He’s sent me several deranged, stalking e-mails like this.

From: gatshanson1@msn.com
Date: Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Subject: Todd
To: writedebbie@gmail.com
Poor Debbie, failure as a politician, no husband, barren, no wonder you are such a twisted, hateful person. Maybe you should rev up your vibrator from time to time.
You’re truly disgusting.
GAHanson

Yes, I’m the disgusting one, not the lowlife who invokes vibrators to defend Sarah Palin’s shameless promotion of her daughter’s single motherhood. Hilarious.
For the record, at age 21, with all the odds against me and well-established, wealthy candidates running against me, I lost a race for the Michigan House of Representatives by just one vote (and actually, it turned out I’d won by three votes, but a sleazy judge, Edward Sosnick–who had a “relationship” with my opponent, Barbara Dobb, representing her when she was charged with stealing from her job at a carpet store–refused to recuse himself and decided to violate Michigan law and not count the votes). Hardly a failure. I could run for office again and win, but I have national and international influence here and have very successfully influenced many things in American and world politics. If I hadn’t, this nut, Hanson, wouldn’t be contacting me.
I’d say a guy who spends his life on-line fanaticizing over Sarah Palin and sending me e-mails like this is the very definition of failure. And the really barren vessel. Nothing grows there.
Don’t hold your breath for Sarah Palin–who laughs at a woman’s cancer in Alaska–to denounce this stuff.

By Debbie Schlussel
Other than the hating on Ronald Reagan and the dumb Nancy Reagan joke, this is pretty funny. For my Christian readers, I don’t believe for a second that Heidi and Spencer represent you. Nope, they represent the typical reality show celebrities who are famous for . . . nothing.

By Debbie Schlussel
It’s like that movie, “When Harry Met So-So,” minus the restaurant orgasm scene (“I’ll have what she’s having”–NOT in this case):

By Debbie Schlussel
For several years now, I’ve been documenting how men are vastly outnumbered by women in college and graduate school admissions and student bodies. That’s what happens when you have years of affirmative action preferences for vulvas.
Now, men are being told they aren’t wanted in the sciences–a field where they previously dominated and for which they’ve shown far more aptitude in test scores, awards, and research.
According to a tax-funded National Research Council study of hiring and promotions in the sciences at 89 universities, women with advanced degrees in math, science, and engineering are more likely to be chosen for faculty positions and promotions when they apply.
From a press release abstract of the study:

Although women are still underrepresented in the applicant pool for faculty positions in math, science, and engineering at major research universities, those who do apply are interviewed and hired at rates equal to or higher than those for men. . . . Similarly, women are underrepresented among those considered for tenure, but those who are considered receive tenure at the same or higher rates than men.
The Congressionally mandated report examines how women at research-intensive universities fare compared with men at key transition points in their careers. Two national surveys were commissioned to help address the issue. The report’s conclusions are based on the findings of these surveys of tenure-track and tenured faculty in six disciplines — biology, chemistry, mathematics, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and physics — at 89 institutions in 2004 and 2005. The study committee also heard testimony and examined data from federal agencies, professional societies, individual university studies, and academic articles.
In each of the six disciplines, women who applied for tenure-track positions had a better chance of being interviewed and receiving job offers than male applicants had. For example, women made up 20 percent of applicants for positions in mathematics but accounted for 28 percent of those interviewed, and received 32 percent of the job offers. This was also true for tenured positions, with the exception of those in biology.
However, women are not applying for tenure-track jobs at research-intensive universities at the same rate that they are earning Ph.D.s, the report says. The gap is most pronounced in disciplines with larger fractions of women receiving Ph.D.s; for example, while
women received 45 percent of the Ph.D.s in biology awarded by research-intensive universities from 1999 to 2003, they accounted for only 26 percent of applicants to tenure-track positions at those schools. Research is needed to investigate why more women are not applying for these jobs, the committee said.

Um, no it isn’t. Some women want to stay home and have families, raise their kids, etc. This is not a problem. It’s a good thing.
And get this–here’s the money quote:

“Our data suggest that, on average, institutions have become more effective in using the means under their direct control to promote faculty diversity, including hiring and promoting women and providing resources,” said committee co-chair Claude Canizares, Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics and vice president for research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

That’s a nice way of saying, we don’t care for male scientists. We’re trying to get rid of them to promote “diversity.”
But that’s not good enough for this hypocrite, Canizares.

“Nevertheless we find evidence for stubborn and persistent underrepresentation of women at all faculty ranks.”

I say, since he’s a male, time to deep six his “stubborn and persistent” career and address “underrepresentation” by replacing him with a chick. It’s only fair, after all.
The report also assessed gender differences in . . . [c]limate and interaction with colleagues: Female faculty reported that they were less likely than men to engage in conversation with their colleagues on many professional topics, including research, salary, and benefits. This distance may prevent women from accessing important information and may make them feel less included and more marginalized in their professional lives, the committee observed.
Well, whose fault is that? This whole study is ridiculous in its aim, especially when it’s so revealing of what’s already happened: that women scientists and mathematicians are being preferred over men based solely on internal plumbing and not on qualifications.
And that–the new sexism–is tolerated far too much.
Read the whole study, “Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty.”

By Debbie Schlussel
On Friday, not a big news day, the Muslim-dominated, openly pro-Hezbollah and pro-HAMAS American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee sent out a press release gloating that its national executive director, Kareem Shora, was sworn in by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). The council is made up of 21 members, who are mostly members of law enforcement and government officials.
If you’re like me, you’re familiar with Shora, who has been an open, vehement opponent of any and every tool and move American law enforcement has made in the fight against terrorism and dangerous Muslim illegal aliens from the Middle East. As a lawyer and an ADC legal advisor, he was front and center in opposing profiling, the use of secret evidence against Islamic terrorists seeking to enter the U.S. and become citizens, and even the background checks that the U.S. does on every single person seeking to become a U.S. citizen. He is the father of the litigation jihad.

Kareem Shora:
Now It’s Really the Dept. of Jihadist Security
(Jihadist Security Artwork by Fred Taub/Boycott Watch)
And I know of him from personal experience, since he and ADC criminal (yes, she has a criminal record) chieftess Mary Rose Oakar tried to use the FBI to silence me and my writing. Imagine what they will do with the Department of Homeland Security. Shora included me in the bogus “ADC 1998-2000 Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab Americans” and “Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab Americans: The Post September 11 Backlash – September 11, 2001 to October 11, 2002.” My “hate crime”: writing about jihadists/Islamic terrorists. You, apparently, aren’t allowed to do that in America, in his opinion. And Shora and the ADC got some idiot left-wing Congressman to insert the reports into the Congressional Record, along with National Catfish Day recognition, and other such highly important and scholarly information.
A few gems from his bio:

Shora is also ADC’s representative on several committees with the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and a Steering Committee member of the Detention Watch Network. A frequent guest on Al-Jazeera, Shora has spoken about civil rights, civil liberties and immigration policy with many national and international media outlets . . . .
Shora also co-authored the LCCR’s report on racial profiling entitled Wrong Then, Wrong Now: Racial Profiling Before and After September 11, and the ADC 1998-2000 Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab Americans and Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab Americans: The Post September 11 Backlash – September 11, 2001 to October 11, 2002 (Part of the Congressional Record).
Shora, who was born in Damascus, Syria . . . has served as a legal associate with the WV Office of the Attorney General, the WVU Immigration Law Clinical Program.

Shora refuses to condemn HAMAS, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and other Islamic terrorist groups, whom he views as freedom fighters.
Just what we need–a jihadist getting confidential information on sources, methods, and operations of the Department of Homeland Security.
But it shouldn’t be a shocker to anyone who has been a reader of this site and my columns over almost a decade. Just after 9/11, the Bush administration began heavy outreach to ADC, even prompting the FBI to give an award to ADC senior national advisor and Midwest regional director Imad Hamad–a “former” PFLP terrorist and marriage fraud perpetrator whom the government had been trying to deport for well over a decade. The award was revoked after I exposed it in a New York Post column.
Since then, as I’ve detailed on my site, the ADC has been a designated destination for top Homeland Security officials. Daniel Sutherland, a top Homeland Security advisor and Bush appointee, made monthly trips to Detroit to fete Hamad, an open supporter and defender of HAMAS homicide bombers and the Hezbollah murderers of over 300 U.S. Marines and officials.
Sutherland frequently advised then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, which led to leniency by DHS officials in enforcing immigration laws against Muslim illegal aliens and travelers in our nation’s airports, among other things. Sutherland and Shora were in frequent contact, as were Chertoff’s top deputies on his behalf. And ADC’s Hamad was solicited by DHS official Brian Moskowitz a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz” (Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent in Charge for Michigan and Ohio) to submit a stack of resumes of Muslim candidates for ICE agents, who got special interviews for ICE positions, including Hamad’s nephew–who was accompanied to his ICE agent interview by Moskowitz, despite the fact that he didn’t meet even minimum requirements to get the interview in the first place.
Before all of that, the first Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge, flew to Detroit to have dinner with Hamad and other Muslim activists and officials at La Shish, the now-defunct restaurant, which was already widely known at the time to be the house finance organ of Hezbollah.
And, throughout the Bush administration, ADC representatives were constantly invited as observers as DHS personnel carried out rehearsals of their responses to terrorist attacks, letting them in on our first responders’ procedures so ADC officials could inform their jihadist buddies.
So, while it is very disturbing that Napolitano appointed Shora to this committee, it’s not much different from the outrageously pandering efforts toward ADC that the Bushies started. And now the slippery slope has reached its latest–but not ultimate–destination.
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In case you were wondering, here are the other members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC)–as you can see, Shora doesn’t belong (nor does the guy from the Navajo Nation–neither brings any expertise, just whines):

Lee Hamilton, former Congressman and President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Martin O’Malley, Governor of Maryland; Judge William Webster, former Director of Central Intelligence; Sonny Perdue, Governor of Georgia; Raymond Kelly, New York City Police Commissioner; Louis Freeh, former FBI Director and Senior Managing Partner at Freeh Group International; Frances Fragos Townsend, former White House Homeland Security Advisor; Kenneth “Chuck” Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police; Manny Diaz, Mayor of Miami, Florida; Jared “Jerry” Cohon, President of Carnegie Mellon University; Leroy “Lee” Baca, Sheriff of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department; Clark Kent Ervin, former DHS Inspector General and Director of the Homeland Security Program at The Aspen Institute; Sherwin “Chuck” Wexler, Executive Director of the Police Executive Research Forum; Harold Schaitberger, General President of the International Association of Firefighters; and Joe Shirley Jr., President of the Navajo Nation.

By Debbie Schlussel
Yesterday, reader NormanF’s comment on the “Big Arab Love” Obama apologism speech to the Islamic world was perfectly succinct in capturing the hour-long drivel:

It can be summarized as: Blame America, Screw The Jews And Apologize For Islam speech.

But this word frequency analysis, from today’s Wall Street Journal, is just as good at capturing the epitome of the speech. The figures are revealing. Compare the number of times President Barack Hussein Obama said “Muslim” or “Islam” and how many time the words “terror” or “terrorism” were used. Anyone who pretends to address the former set of words vis-a-vis the West without saying any of the latter words is just full of it.

By Debbie Schlussel
I’ll be on the nationally-syndicated ABC radio show, “The Curtis Sliwa Show,” tonight, at approximately 10:30 p.m. Eastern. To those who know I am an observant Jew and keep the Sabbath, this interview was pre-taped. Listen & Watch via the livestream.
I like Curtis because he’s the real deal. No phoniness there. I usually do the show once or twice a week.

By Debbie Schlussel
There’s not much good at the box office, this weekend. In fact, I recommend you stay home and rent something.
* “The Hangover“: This movie is as dreck-ish as they come. Absolute complete garbage. What was supposed to be a funny guy bachelor party movie, got about three laughs from me. And that’s being generous.
You don’t have to be a prude to know that this movie is trash. Perhaps the multiple shots–in the closing credits–of one of the characters getting oral sex (you can see the guy’s penis and the woman mouth on it–why didn’t this get an X or NC-17 rating?), along with other stuff usually reserved for the Playboy and SPICE Channels, should be a hint that it’s trash.

The “plot”: A guy is getting married, and he, his weird future brother-in-law, and two friends take a road trip to Vegas. They start out the night drinking shots on the roof of Caesar’s Palace, where they’ve rented a gaudy villa, and wake up the next morning with the place a complete mess. They can’t remember what happened, and the groom is missing. The rest of this waste-of-time flick shows them trying to piece it all together and find the groom. So what? Who cares?
I like a good, funny guys road trip or bachelor party movie. “Animal House,” “Class,” and others like it set the pace, and I liked those. This is just pointless.
A weird guys’ butt in a jock strap in close-up. Haha funny. And old man’s droopy butt in a hospital scene. Frickin’ hilarious. Mike Tyson singing a Genesis song out of tune and then punching someone out. Oh, gosh, I’m in stitches. A stripper (Heather Graham) pulling out a breast to nurse a baby, complete with nipple shot. Laugh attack. Sorry, not funny. The movie isn’t funny at all. And the F-words and other obscenities in every other line don’t make it any more so.
Just stupid.
But, hey, the audience filled with teens and twenty-somethings I saw this with thought it was completely hilarious. They laughed at one stupid line after another and gave applause at the end of the movie. Given that, I’m convinced the vast majority of America’s generation Y and younger are mostly morons and simpletons with zero idea of humor, not to mention class or intelligence. But what can you expect with a generation raised on Paris Hilton, the spoiled morons of “The Hills,” and “Keeping up with the Kardashians.” It’s no longer C-students who run the world. Porn and idiocy rule. As do the vile and vulgar.
As bad as a hangover feels, you’d be better off getting one than wasting your time and ten bucks on this total time-bandit flick, which steals almost two hours of your life you’ll never get back.
FOUR MARXES

* “Land of the Lost“: I normally like Will Ferrell and find him somewhat funny. But this movie was just stupid. And mostly not funny. Moreover, while the sets and special effects are cool, the movie sounded like a three-year-old wrote it. (With all due apologies to three-year-olds.)
Though the movie is based on the ’70s kids TV series of the same name, the f-bombs, s-bombs, and multiple sexual references make it unsuitable for kids. Not to mention the brain-addled story. The movie also trys way too hard to be artsy and cool. It doesn’t work, but it’s interesting and colorful to look it.
Ferrell plays a marginal scientist who is the laughing stock of the world because of his theories of parallel and alternative universes in time and space . . . and a bad interview he did with Matt Lauer on “The Today Show.”
But Ferrell proves them all wrong when he, his attractive British student assistant, and a hickish tour guide find themselves in a parallel universe, where dinosaurs and enemy lizard men,
“sleestaks,” rule. They meet and take on as a companion a sex-obsessed pre-human being who is like half-man, half monkey, named Chaka.
I laughed a few times, but not much and certainly not as much as I do in a typical Will Ferrell offering. It was mildly entertaining due to the eye-candy of the colorful sets, effects, and sci-fi nature of it all.
Don’t waste your time or your money on this.
HALF-MARX


* “My Life in Ruins“: I don’t think I’ve seen a more corny, cheesy, stupid love story movie ever. And why is it that Greek people–like star and producer Nia Vardalos–get away with making awful anti-Greek minstrel shows like this painful-to-watch utter waste?
Vardalos plays an American with a Ph.D. who is working as a tour guide for a shlocky company in Greece, while she waits to get a professorship at an American university. A cast of annoying tourists–some of them “ugly Americans,” others are stupid stereotypes of other Western locales (but don’t worry no Muslim stereotypes, couldn’t do that)–join a hairy Greek bus driver by the name of Poopy Kakas, with a nephew named Doody Kakas (either of which should have been the name of this movie). ‘Nuff said.
Soon, Vardalos finds herself falling for the bus driver. Who cares? I didn’t. I just couldn’t wait for the credits to roll. Among the credits is Richard Dreyfus. Annoying leftist America-hating actor apparently needed a paycheck . . . badly.
Skip this no matter what. Gives even chick flicks a bad name.
TWO-AND-A-HALF MARXES

* “The Summer Hours“: Ironically, this slow-moving, non-action art house flick is the best of the bunch at the theaters, this weekend. But that’s all relative.
It’s a French movie with English subtitles, which moves very slowly and is mildly entertaining, though enjoyable. But it’s not for everyone. There’s no suspense or much of a plot.
An aging French woman knows that eventually, like all of us, she will die. She has a very valuable art collection, much of which is the work of her famous artist uncle. The work is contained in her charming, valuable French country house.
The woman dies and her three kids need to figure out how to dispose of her estate. A son wants to keep the artwork and the house in the family. Meanwhile, the other son and the daughter want to sell it all, as they both live and have their lives abroad and no longer have much of a connection to France.
ONE REAGAN

By Debbie Schlussel
I can’t help but notice the glaring irony–no, the hypocrisy–of Obama’s trips, yesterday and today.
Yesterday, in Cairo, Obama praised the new Nazis (Islam and Muslims) and pressures Israel, blaming the Jews for all of the Muslims’ violence and problems. He did it in a speech at Anti-Semitic U a/k/a Al-Azhar University, where hating on Jews and wishing Hitler “finished the job” is the order of the day.
Today, Obama–in a visit to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany–condemned the old Nazis and lamented dead Jews. You know–the ones who were victims of the same kind of anti-Semitism he was lauding and sanctioning with his appearance at Al-Azhar, his praise of Islam, and his blame the Jews (Israel) mentality.

That Was Then . . .

This Is Now . . .

It’s not that the irony is lost on Obama and his handlers. It’s that it’s lost on liberals and Obama’s Jewish supporters, who are falling all over themselves over Obama standing on the graves of dead Jews.
Well, they didn’t get it in November, either. The more things change . . . .
Hey, Barack Hussein Obama, if you don’t care about live Jews, I really couldn’t care less what you think about the long dead and buried ones.