Bowling Alley Oops

Kellyanne Conway is taking a lot of heat for making up a terrorist attack in Bowling Green in an effort to defend the new immigration rules. (Maybe this administration needs gutter guards.) The bigger issue is whether the bans and walls are actually protecting us from anything other than manufactured and hyper-politicized fear.

+ “Lancaster County takes in more refugees per capita than almost anywhere in the country, according to numbers from the State Department and the Pennsylvania Refugee Resettlement Program.” From Outline: Where The Refugees Go.

+ “I have so many people, friends of mine, that had nice businesses, they just can’t borrow money … because the banks just won’t let them borrow because of the rules and regulations in Dodd-Frank.” President Trump signed executive order to reconsider Wall Street regulations. And the Treasury Dept placed new sanctions on Iran, in response to a ballistic missile launch and because, “they’re not behaving.”

+ On Friday, President Trump met with his business advisory council. Uber’s Travis Kalanick was not among the attendees. He dropped out after pressure from employees, and about 200,000 people deleted the Uber app.