Weekly Posting of the Conservative Cow Doctor

Fences Make Good Neighbors

Twenty years ago, we built our house, but winter hit before we could finish a yard fence. For some reason, our horses, who had free roam of the entire pasture, preferred using our bedroom wall as a windbreak. Even though they were running wild and free they chose to stand and scratch their backsides on the siding of the house all night long and it drove me crazy. About three o’clock one morning I snapped. I grabbed my .357 from my nightstand, jerked open the door and jumped out onto the deck, intending to fire a shot into the air and scare the annoying beasts to the far corner of the pasture. It seemed reasonable. Apparently, the slamming of the nightstand drawer, click of a cocking revolver and the clunk of a door latch sounds remarkably like a crying baby because the trophy wife shot from under the covers and hollered, “What the heck are you doing?” I calmly explained my plan, but she failed to follow my logic. “The neighbors are going to flip out,” she screamed. I restated my intent saying how the 500-yard stretch to the nearby subdivision would soften the shot. We debated until I realized I was cornered. Had Mrs. Kravitz been listening to our argument only to have it abruptly stop after a pistol shot, she may have reached an erroneous conclusion. I crawled back in bed and tried to sleep while the horses scratched away the rest of the night. If good fences make good neighbors, yard fences must rate even higher, and this brings me to my point.

President Trump launched an aggressive fence building program to secure our southern border. This was common sense because countries without borders are not countries at all. In March of 2020 intending to lessen Covid risks, Trump instituted Title 42 which expedited the speed at which illegal immigrants could be deported. It had a two-year sunset.

After President Biden stole power, he repurposed the funds Trump allocated for fence building into border hospitality centers complete with cages for kids. Illegals instantly flooded the Rio Grande. Now, President Biden refuses to renew Title 42, so rather than speeding the expulsion of illegals his new policy will be to quickly hustle them into America’s interior. How is this any different than Mrs. Kravitz smuggling wild horses into my pasture under the cloak of darkness and when my meadow looks like a feral horse feedlot, she chases them north to my neighbors? Think about it.