About 2 in 3 members of the class of 2018 graduated a little deeper in debt than the classes before them. Last year’s graduates with a bachelor’s degree averaged about $29,200 in student loan debt – a record in the USA. [They love that "USA" thing - they've been doing that since that newspaper came out.]

Your kids on Government Indoctrination. It ain't pretty!:

As the sea of people made their way to the event in Sydney at midday, some school students on scooters could be seen heading in the opposite direction - appearing disinterested in the event. 

A group of 14-year-old boys straggling at the back of the crowd near the Domain told Daily Mail Australia they weren't interested in the protest. They said they were just happy to be out of the class room.

Concerned kids dig for evidence of a cooler past:

In the Solomon Islands, protests sprang up over rising sea levels. Hundreds of schoolchildren in Thailand burst into the headquarters of the environment ministry in Bangkok and then lay down to mimic their own extinction.

In Russia, a major fossil fuel exporter, climate activists on Friday held small-scale protests in across the country’s 11 time zones, with those in Moscow planning single-person pickets to circumvent official curbs on mass protests.

President Vladimir Putin ’s government recently decided to ratify the 2015 Paris agreement on limiting emissions and introduced proposals for a law capping industrial emissions despite objections from industrialists. It was a notable shift for the country’s government, and ordinary Russians also are paying closer attention to the dangers of a climate shift after a summer of devastating wildfires and floods.

Before Greta’s speech, many gathered in Foley Square in Lower Manhattan to march. They chanted, “What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now!” Construction workers along the march route blew air horns in solidarity while passersby clapped and cheered.

“We know we need to burn less fossil fuel, but when taxes on the most polluting fuels are zero or close to zero, there is little incentive to change,” said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. “Energy taxes are not the sole solution, but we can’t curb climate change without them.”

"What do we want? Longer Recess!
When do we want it? We want it now!"

Trump’s first accomplishment: From May’s high of 144,255, apprehensions of illegals have steadily decreased: June 104,363, July 82,055, August 64,006. [Southwest Border Migration FY 2019, CBP.gov] The total dip from May is 56 percent. That’s impressive given that monthly number had risen steadily since January.

That doesn’t mean Trump’s job is done, needless to say. The total for August 2019, after all, was higher than for any August since 2014, as CBP’s data show, and topped every August for the last 10 years. [U.S. credits Mexico, Central America for sharp drop in border arrests, by Alexandra Alper and Steve Holland, Reuters, September 9, 2019]

Still, Trump’s succeeding, and Mexico’s efforts have helped. The flow of Central Americans through Mexico to our border, then into the U.S., has slowed considerably. Trump deserves credit for thinking outside the box, and using trade policy as a tool to reduce illegal infiltration.

[As is always the case, the VDare article has dozens of links, which I haven't transferred here.]

That said, consider what Mexico has done since it inked The Deal. For starters, as I recently reported, look at its strong stand against Africans, most notably in Tapachula, on Mexico’s own southern border, who demand travel visas to get to the United States. If that fracas had occurred before The Deal, Mexican authorities might well have just let them pass. After all, the Africans don’t want to stay in Mexico. And Mexicans don’t want them there.

Mexican media continue to report major apprehensions of illegal aliens. Milenio reported three on September 11:
• In Oaxaca, authorities stopped two tour buses that skirted a checkpoint. Inside were 40 illegals from Guatemala and El Salvador. They were taken into custody with two smugglers. The National Guard and National Institute of Migration carried out the operation. Each of the Central Americans had paid 5,000 pesos to be transported to Mexico City. [Rescatan a 40 migrantes en Oaxaca (40 Migrants Rescued in Oaxaca), by Oscar Rodriguez]

• 116 Central Americans (84 adults, 32 minors) from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras were inside four vehicles stopped in Acayucan, Veracruz. They were detained along with six presumed smugglers, although the four drivers attempted to escape. Veracruz state police stopped that load. [Aseguran a más de 100 migrantes en Veracruz (More than 100 migrants in Veracruz Detained), by Isabel Zamudio]

• In Miguel Aleman, across the border from Roma, Texas, Tamaulipas state police discovered and apprehended 19 Central Americans, mostly Guatemalans, hiding in a house. The detainees were awaiting transport to the United States. [Hallan a 19 migrantes en una casa en Miguel Alemán (19 Migrants Found in a House in Miguel Aleman)]

Mexico is committed to The Deal, which raises Trump’s second accomplishment: Mexican officials aren’t afraid to say so—they boast about the results.

Trump’s third accomplishment: His deals with other Latin American countries that are part of the multi-country  migration route.

In July, the Trump Administration made a Third-Country asylum deal with Guatemala in exchange for some guest worker slots. (That deal might be threatened by the change of administration in Guatemala).

Thanks to early September’s deal with El Salvador, its government has sent police and soldiers to its border with Guatemala “to patrol blind spots along its borders where migrant smugglers and transnational criminals operate.” [El Salvador sends police, soldiers to patrol border, The Associated Press, September 12, 2019]

And, as reported near the top of this article, today an asylum agreement was signed with El Salvador. 

Of course, any tightening of the borders in the Northern Triangle is in our interest.

Most shocking, from a “Little House on the Prairie” perspective, was this:

“People ... would start to say ‘Debbie does ...’ playing on the 1978 porn movie ‘Debbie Does Dallas.’ But Ms. Ramirez didn’t understand the reference.”

Remind me: Aren't these the same people demanding that we teach kindergartners about “fisting”?

But the “Debbie Does Defamation” authors weren’t finished.

“(Kavanaugh) came of age during the era of ‘Porky’s’ and ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High.’”

Ha! What do you say, NOW, Trumpsters?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg “came of age during the era of” the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War. Can we impeach her?

I’m beginning to suspect that, instead of writing the book, Pogrebin and Kelly screwed around for six months, then pulled an all-nighter the day before it was due. Also, “American Pie” was big!

But half the Democratic candidates for president are demanding Kavanaugh’s impeachment on the basis of this sublime idiocy. Trump touched their SCOTUS!