Ms. Cook is not your average borrower. She’s a Federal Reserve Governor with regulatory and oversight responsibilities for the financial system. If anyone should know and scrupulously follow the rules, it should be her. So, for goodness sake, can we get an answer to the question, did she lie on her mortgage application or not? Or is it another instance of “rules for thee, but not for me”?
Am I the only person who has concerns about the objectivity of Federal Housing Finance Agency head Bill Pulte (whose family owns significant interest in PulteGroup, America's largest home builder)?
I can tell you as someone who owns a Pulte group home built in 2021, they build overpriced cheap tract homes, use unskilled, unsupervised labor and do not keep their word to repair the numerous problems right after closing. Once they have your money, they are gone. And they stiff the communities they build in as well. I would never trust him.
Carney has pushed Canada to the edge of ruin. He has promoted violent antisemitism. He also just signed a economic cooperation deal with China. (Didn't know China was a middle power.) What he signals is not the end of Pax Americana, it is how stupid some western leaders can be. Good luck Canada you are going to need it siding with totalitarian regimes over a democracy.
Middle powers are merely countries that think they are important but no one pays any attention to.
Canada and China might be a good match. Euthanasia and one-child policies seem to come from the same creepy roots. Maybe the U.S. can welcome Alberta and Greenland to the Freedom Fold and watch the rest of Canada swirl down the toilet with Denmark and their creepy forced sterilization policies.
Bondi has an incredible number of irons in the fire as she is investigating four years of the most corrupt administration in the nation's history. Where are the January 6 arrests? Where are the autopen charges? Where are the Epstein charges? Where are the 2020 election fraud charges? Where are the Maduro charges? Where are the bullet train fraud charges in California? Where are the corruption charges in Chicago? Etc etc. The list is endless.
Good luck finding someone who is going to close out all these issues fast enough to please all the whiners and complainers.
Is it unconstitutional, immoral or even fattening for the US to deport those who came here between 2021-24 AKA the Biden Harris open border era ? That's the first basic question that rarely if ever is addressed by TFP? After we resolve that question we can turn to ways and means. How many in the streets of Minneapolis support the concept of deporting ANYONE? Or did I miss those signs as I may have missed comments on this BASIC QUESTION from the mayor, governor and chief law enforcement officer ( who seems to be a big supporter of the rabble who invaded the church a few days ago ( another story requiring detailed reporting)).
It IS unconstitutional to demand that a U.S. citizen produce papers absent a warrant, direct evidence that he has committed a crime or other exigent circumstances.
And the federal government is taking these unconstitutional actions multiple times every day.
God, you're a raging idiot, aren't you? Really, you need to get back on your meds. And now, answer my question. I'll take silence as an answer.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…”
— Fourth Amendment, U.S. Constitution
That sentence does almost all the work here.
The Supreme Court has been explicit: government officials may not stop a person and demand identification absent specific, legally sufficient justification. A seizure occurs when an officer restrains a person’s liberty by show of authority, even briefly.
Sitting in front of Home Depot or speaking Spanish, or being of Hispanic origin or ethnicity is not sufficient justification.
Key cases:
Terry v. Ohio (1968): Police may briefly detain a person only if they have reasonable, articulable suspicion that the person is engaged in criminal activity. No suspicion, no stop.
Brown v. Texas (1979): Police violated the Fourth Amendment by stopping a man and demanding identification without reasonable suspicion. This case squarely rejects “papers, please” policing.
Delaware v. Prouse (1979): Random stops to check identification or licenses are unconstitutional absent reasonable suspicion.
Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District (2004): Even in states with “stop-and-identify” statutes, an ID demand is lawful only after a valid Terry stop based on reasonable suspicion. Hiibel does not authorize suspicionless ID checks.
In the United States, government officials cannot stop citizens and demand identification absent reasonable suspicion (or probable cause, or a lawful checkpoint narrowly tailored to a specific purpose), such a stop is unconstitutional. That’s black-letter constitutional law.
OOooooooo... right to name calling. What a good little dem you are!! Barry would be SO proud.
When you have a city that is virulently pro-criminal and anti-law enforcement, and when 99.9999% of the illegal immigrants arrested for heinous crimes are NOT Caucasian, and 99.999% of the outrageous fraud committed is by non-white non-citizens, there is justification for stopping people and asking for identification.
Is it just as 'racist' if say, Costa Rica or Mexico have white criminals running around, to stop all white people and ask for ID??
First of all, I am not a Democrat. Your attempt at ad hominem is as pathetic as your "argument."
Your collectivist, statistical analysis, if it were intelligible, could come right off the page of Marx and Engles. It is the right-wing version of critical race theory.
Barry would be proud of me? He might have given you a job!
The fact that some percentage of previous arrests were non-caucasians (and that is racist stupidity on its face, beyond being false) says nothing about the NEXT person.
Truly, it says nothing.
The promise of the United States is that people are considered and treated as individuals before the law. And that due process is an absolute right. The society to which you apparently aspire would be far worse than one with a bunch of immigrants and a crime problem.
Deporting illegal immigrants is obviously constitutional. Rounding people up or randomly stopping people and demanding identification when there is no evidence of a crime is obviously illegal and unconstitutional.
Why did Biden open the border? Because he, like all politicians, (including the one who makes you go weak in the knees) is a power lusting imbecile. It was obviously a mistake--almost as dumb as tariffs. It is especially dumb if your goal was to increase immigration in the face of falling birth rates. Politicians are, as a class, ignorant of the unintended consequences of their irrational policies.
So, opening the border was stupid. But it is not an excuse for the wholesale violation of the constitution. Because the unintended consequences of that will be far worse than a bunch of immigrants.
Yet somehow we need to clean up his mess. Biden and his tribe didn't just open the borders, he flew people to cities where democratic operatives helped known illegals get drivers licenses and welfare to goose the population leading to increased democratic representation in congress.
This was a planned invasion of millions so if a few jars get broken righting the ship, so be it.
Two subpoenas.......FINALLY! Keep it going DOJ!
Not a lot of good news in TFP; we may need a humorous political contributor or Mamet more often!
David Mamet should stick to writing. His cartoons are a curiosity
Ms. Cook is not your average borrower. She’s a Federal Reserve Governor with regulatory and oversight responsibilities for the financial system. If anyone should know and scrupulously follow the rules, it should be her. So, for goodness sake, can we get an answer to the question, did she lie on her mortgage application or not? Or is it another instance of “rules for thee, but not for me”?
Am I the only person who has concerns about the objectivity of Federal Housing Finance Agency head Bill Pulte (whose family owns significant interest in PulteGroup, America's largest home builder)?
I can tell you as someone who owns a Pulte group home built in 2021, they build overpriced cheap tract homes, use unskilled, unsupervised labor and do not keep their word to repair the numerous problems right after closing. Once they have your money, they are gone. And they stiff the communities they build in as well. I would never trust him.
Hmm....reading this reminded me of watching birds sitting on a wire.
Congratulations to the Vance family!
Much to do about nothing
Must be the cold weather Joe Nocera’s TDS is acting up today.
Sorry, Usha. This one won't be white either.
If you don't join my "Gaza club" I'll tariff you.
“at Davos, Palantir CEO Alex Karp said that artificial intelligence “will destroy humanities jobs”
Uh oh, sounds like Alex is developing a barista robot for Starbucks.
"“will destroy humanities jobs” Don't think so. Suspect Alex Karp said "“will destroy humanity's jobs”
Actually, he was referring to the job prospects for Humanities graduates.
Carney has pushed Canada to the edge of ruin. He has promoted violent antisemitism. He also just signed a economic cooperation deal with China. (Didn't know China was a middle power.) What he signals is not the end of Pax Americana, it is how stupid some western leaders can be. Good luck Canada you are going to need it siding with totalitarian regimes over a democracy.
Middle powers are merely countries that think they are important but no one pays any attention to.
Canada and China might be a good match. Euthanasia and one-child policies seem to come from the same creepy roots. Maybe the U.S. can welcome Alberta and Greenland to the Freedom Fold and watch the rest of Canada swirl down the toilet with Denmark and their creepy forced sterilization policies.
Where are the DOJ subpoenas to Walz, Frey, Ellison etc for the Daycare and other Medicaid fraud?..
Warming in the oven.
So disappointed in Bondi.
I think I’ve heard her say “no one is above the law” at least ten times in this first year…with little to no output. It’ time for a replacement.
Bondi has an incredible number of irons in the fire as she is investigating four years of the most corrupt administration in the nation's history. Where are the January 6 arrests? Where are the autopen charges? Where are the Epstein charges? Where are the 2020 election fraud charges? Where are the Maduro charges? Where are the bullet train fraud charges in California? Where are the corruption charges in Chicago? Etc etc. The list is endless.
Good luck finding someone who is going to close out all these issues fast enough to please all the whiners and complainers.
True, but one or two from that old list would be nice to see...
Is it unconstitutional, immoral or even fattening for the US to deport those who came here between 2021-24 AKA the Biden Harris open border era ? That's the first basic question that rarely if ever is addressed by TFP? After we resolve that question we can turn to ways and means. How many in the streets of Minneapolis support the concept of deporting ANYONE? Or did I miss those signs as I may have missed comments on this BASIC QUESTION from the mayor, governor and chief law enforcement officer ( who seems to be a big supporter of the rabble who invaded the church a few days ago ( another story requiring detailed reporting)).
Ding ding DING!
It IS unconstitutional to demand that a U.S. citizen produce papers absent a warrant, direct evidence that he has committed a crime or other exigent circumstances.
And the federal government is taking these unconstitutional actions multiple times every day.
Nope
What U.S. citizen was illegally asked to produce papers yesterday? I haven't heard.
If you haven't heard, you aren't listening. Or are willfully deaf.
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-us-citizen-detained-hmong-d009590a491c0c8243ef21ef24db7182
People do not announce their immigration status on their foreheads. Illegal searches and seizures are obviously a stock in trade of this government.
If you are stopped for speeding, the policeman asks for license and registration.
Absolutely, and when you are stopped for speeding, the government has a reasonable, articulable suspicion you've committed a crime.
Having brown skin and speaking Spanish in front of a Home Depot is not a crime, no matter how much you hate immigrants.
No one hates immigrants.
^ That is the stupidest comment I have ever seen.
To claim it is false is to say truth has a place at the table.
Yours is the stupidest comment I have ever seen.
No one hates immigrants. No one even hates illegals.
However, many of us object to the act of illegal immigration and want those who trespassed on our shores sent home.
Citation please. The standard is reasonable suspicion. Now please answer my question about deportation. I will take silence as an answer
God, you're a raging idiot, aren't you? Really, you need to get back on your meds. And now, answer my question. I'll take silence as an answer.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…”
— Fourth Amendment, U.S. Constitution
That sentence does almost all the work here.
The Supreme Court has been explicit: government officials may not stop a person and demand identification absent specific, legally sufficient justification. A seizure occurs when an officer restrains a person’s liberty by show of authority, even briefly.
Sitting in front of Home Depot or speaking Spanish, or being of Hispanic origin or ethnicity is not sufficient justification.
Key cases:
Terry v. Ohio (1968): Police may briefly detain a person only if they have reasonable, articulable suspicion that the person is engaged in criminal activity. No suspicion, no stop.
Brown v. Texas (1979): Police violated the Fourth Amendment by stopping a man and demanding identification without reasonable suspicion. This case squarely rejects “papers, please” policing.
Delaware v. Prouse (1979): Random stops to check identification or licenses are unconstitutional absent reasonable suspicion.
Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District (2004): Even in states with “stop-and-identify” statutes, an ID demand is lawful only after a valid Terry stop based on reasonable suspicion. Hiibel does not authorize suspicionless ID checks.
In the United States, government officials cannot stop citizens and demand identification absent reasonable suspicion (or probable cause, or a lawful checkpoint narrowly tailored to a specific purpose), such a stop is unconstitutional. That’s black-letter constitutional law.
OOooooooo... right to name calling. What a good little dem you are!! Barry would be SO proud.
When you have a city that is virulently pro-criminal and anti-law enforcement, and when 99.9999% of the illegal immigrants arrested for heinous crimes are NOT Caucasian, and 99.999% of the outrageous fraud committed is by non-white non-citizens, there is justification for stopping people and asking for identification.
Is it just as 'racist' if say, Costa Rica or Mexico have white criminals running around, to stop all white people and ask for ID??
First of all, I am not a Democrat. Your attempt at ad hominem is as pathetic as your "argument."
Your collectivist, statistical analysis, if it were intelligible, could come right off the page of Marx and Engles. It is the right-wing version of critical race theory.
Barry would be proud of me? He might have given you a job!
The fact that some percentage of previous arrests were non-caucasians (and that is racist stupidity on its face, beyond being false) says nothing about the NEXT person.
Truly, it says nothing.
The promise of the United States is that people are considered and treated as individuals before the law. And that due process is an absolute right. The society to which you apparently aspire would be far worse than one with a bunch of immigrants and a crime problem.
Read your last paragraph and then reread my comment to you
I especially like your calm demeanor
I still await your answer about deportation of those here illegally ( between 21-24). Here's one more. Why did they open the border? Was it a mistake?
I am happy to answer any question you pose. I have a few more in case you like civil dialogue.
Deporting illegal immigrants is obviously constitutional. Rounding people up or randomly stopping people and demanding identification when there is no evidence of a crime is obviously illegal and unconstitutional.
Why did Biden open the border? Because he, like all politicians, (including the one who makes you go weak in the knees) is a power lusting imbecile. It was obviously a mistake--almost as dumb as tariffs. It is especially dumb if your goal was to increase immigration in the face of falling birth rates. Politicians are, as a class, ignorant of the unintended consequences of their irrational policies.
So, opening the border was stupid. But it is not an excuse for the wholesale violation of the constitution. Because the unintended consequences of that will be far worse than a bunch of immigrants.
Yet somehow we need to clean up his mess. Biden and his tribe didn't just open the borders, he flew people to cities where democratic operatives helped known illegals get drivers licenses and welfare to goose the population leading to increased democratic representation in congress.
This was a planned invasion of millions so if a few jars get broken righting the ship, so be it.
The Federal Reserve is a corrupt banking cartel.
G. Edward Griffin wrote an excellent book explaining the origins and practices of the Federal Reserve in The Creature from Jekyll Island.
After reading it, Ron/Rand Paul’s cries to “Audit the Fed” should be echoed throughout the country.
Sadly, too many people don’t care and yet still vote.