Cooper: Eye on the left: Why not enforce the law?

Illegal immigrtants caught in Arizona by the U.S. Border Patrol are processed at the agency's Tucson Sector headquarters in Tucson, Ariz.
Illegal immigrtants caught in Arizona by the U.S. Border Patrol are processed at the agency's Tucson Sector headquarters in Tucson, Ariz.

Not a good answer

When a high-level administration official says for the record that following the law is not the right thing to do, it's clearly time for new leadership.

The most recent example of such a statement in the Obama administration came last week when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Sarah Saldana testified at a Senate hearing on immigration and the administration's selective enforcement of it.

After it was noted that deportations have fallen for the last four years, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz asked her to expound on her comment that ICE could deport millions but chose not to.

"You mentioned a minute ago that ICE could deport the 12 million people here illegally," he said. "Why is it not doing so? Why is it not enforcing the law?"

"We're talking about billions and billions of dollars to do that," Saldana answered. "That is not practical, and quite frankly, not very smart."

It makes you wonder why there was ever a law in the first place.

Oh, yes she did

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is retiring at the end of her term, and Golden State voters may think it's not a moment too soon.

On Thursday, a day after gunmen slaughtered 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., she stood with several of her gun control-pushing colleagues and said something amazing.

"The fact is," Boxer said, "sensible gun laws work. We've proven it in California."

That she would utter such a statement when the families of 14 people in her state were grieving after being killed by a couple who had legally purchased their guns is the height of insensitivity.

California, because of its size and population, leads the country in murders and murders by gun. But the gun laws she claims the state has still puts it in the top 15 in the country in gun murders per 100,000 people and in the top 20 for all murders per 100,000 people. And the state has earned those rankings while being in the bottom 10 in percentage of the population who own guns.

Clearly, something's not so sensible there.

Catch me up on Benghazi, will ya?

Newly released Hillary Clinton emails, obtained in Freedom of Information Act lawsuits by Judicial Watch, note the then-secretary of state slept in on Saturday, following the attacks on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, and missed a staff meeting about intelligence issues and the information from the daily presidential briefing.

"These new Benghazi emails are disturbing," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told Newsmax, "and show why Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration had to be forced to disclose them.

"Hillary Clinton, despite knowing that terrorists were responsible for the attack, allowed her spokesman to go to the Arab world and blame an Internet film."

Fitton said the new emails also showed Clinton "trafficked in fantastical conspiracy theories," suggesting that American conservatives and Israel were to blame for the Benghazi attack and jihadist violence.

Another email from longtime advisor Sidney Blumenthal, a man she testified to Congress she did not solicit information from but to whom she told to keep the memos coming, advised her that 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was "contemptible on a level not seen in past contemptible political figures" and was a "mixture of greedy ambition and hollowness."

Romney, it's been revealed since the election, could not be more different than the man Blumenthal described, having been dubbed "an Eagle Scout" by several observers and a man, according to his son, who probably didn't have enough ambition to be president.

Dear, oh, deer

Several months ago, it was Eden Prairie, Minn., dentist Walter James Palmer who was in the public crosshairs for killing a lion in Zimbabwe that he didn't know was protected. Today, it's country singer Luke Bryan who is catching heat because of his quarry.

The Country Music Association 2015 Entertainer of the Year recently was pictured on the Buck Commander Facebook page, which congratulated him on the large white-tail buck he shot with a compound hunting bow.

Anti-hunting individuals and groups quickly caught scent of the photo and began their Facebook assault.

"The Dear [sic] should be standing over you saying First One Of The Season," one read.

The death threats then began to roll in, according to Mad World News.

"One day we'll get lucky," one said, "and it won't be against the law to do this to people that do this to animals. I long to live in a world like that. Then what would you all say? It's inhumane?"

But, hey, never mind that's it's perfectly legal.

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