op ed review 9/2
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Mitt Romney formally accepted the Republican nomination for
president Thursday night, addressing a spirited and roaring crowd of party
faithful……Romney promised a five-step plan to create 12 million jobs. A first
step, he said, will be to make North America
energy independent by 2020.
Ann Romney knocked it out of the park:
“Ann Romney’s spectacular performance — as impressive a
convention showing as any I’ve ever seen — focused on the heart…..there was
something almost surreally deft about the way (she) delivered…”
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) electrified the Republican Party
with a speech that combined lacerating attacks on President Obama with
home-spun values and a tribute to the GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. In
a 35-minute address that drew thunderous applause from Republican delegates,
Ryan condemned the Obama presidency and presented an optimistic vision of the
future under Romney’s leadership. The core theme of the speech amounted to four
words: "We can do this."
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a politician connect with a
nation quite like Paul Ryan did it tonight….”
“Dirty Harry” made Mitt Romney’s day — delivering a
double-barreled assault on President Obama in a surprise appearance at the
Republican convention.
“Had Eastwood said the things the media likes to hear…they
would've called him wizened and seasoned. But because he mocked Their Precious
One, suddenly he's some kind of embarrassment……What Eastwood did tonight was funnier, fresher, edgier, and braver than
anything those comedy cowards Chris Rock, Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert have
done in 15 years. 82 years-old, and
Dirty Harry is still pissing all the right people off. My hero.”
“….something uniquely American happened during the
Republican convention -- a new, never seen before play was run. An iconic and
extremely successful artist created an original, entirely unique moment in our
political history. Clint Eastwood gave one of the greatest pieces of
performance art ever seen.”
Judge for yourself: Clint Eastwood RNC Full Unscripted Speech, Talks To Invisible Obama.
“Obama Honors Neil Armstrong With Picture Of Himself gazing
at the moon.”
“Obama Honored Fallen SEALs By Sending
Their Parents a Form Letter Signed By
Electric Pen”
A former officer in SEAL Team Six, the unit that killed
Osama bin Laden, said that ‘veterans and special forces community’ are
determined that President Barack Obama be voted out in November
The Susan B. Anthony List is poised to embark on a TV ad
campaign challenging Barack Obama’s record on abortion. The initial ad is a $150,000 buy in Missouri, and shows a
woman – Melissa Ohden – speaking to the camera about having been born alive in
spite of an abortion procedure. “Many children, more than you might think,
actually survive failed abortions and are born alive. I know because I’m one of
them…..When he was in the Illinois state Senate, Barack Obama voted to deny
basic constitutional protections for babies born alive from an abortion – not
once, but four times."
The Democratic National Committee has chosen to proceed with
hosting Islamic “Jumah” prayers for two hours on the Friday of its convention,
though it denied a Catholic cardinal’s request to say a prayer at the same
event.
Schlafly: “The Republican
Party platform may be the best one ever adopted.”
Larry Kudlow: “While some of my conservative
colleagues are criticizing the Romney campaign for one thing or another, I want
to make a distinct point that is largely being overlooked: Mitt Romney is the
most fiscally conservative Republican standard-bearer since Ronald Reagan…”
An internal Army survey discovered that only 26 percent of
active-duty officers say the Army is headed in the right direction. One of the two main themes is that the Army
is now adversely impacted by "political correctness" imposed by both
outside policymakers and senior Army leaders.
After 20 months of oldies programming KVI AM 570 will return
to conservative talk on Tuesday September 4.
Too many Americans rely on their families for assistance,
rather than the government, so Obama administration officials have a campaign
to encourage people to apply for federal assistance.
Cannabis smoking 'permanently lowers IQ'. Teenagers who regularly smoke cannabis are
putting themselves at risk of permanently damaging their intelligence,
according to a landmark study.
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Mona Charen Aug 31
Among the most stirring moments in an effective convention came during
Condoleeza Rice's speech. She delivered (beautifully) a number of well-chosen
one-liners that hit bull's-eyes with Republicans and conservatives, warning,
for example, that "when a nation loses control of its finances, it
eventually loses control of its destiny."
She touched on the problem of failing schools and the challenge they
represent to the American dream. "The crisis in K-12 education is a threat
to the very fabric of who we are," she said, to thumping agreement. But
when she mentioned her own story, the hall erupted. "A little girl grows
up in Jim Crow Birmingham. The segregated city of the south where her parents
cannot take her to a movie theater or to restaurants, but they have convinced
her that even if she cannot have a hamburger at Woolworths, she can be the
president of the United States if she wanted to be and she becomes the
secretary of state."
The house went wild with joy. The Republicans in Tampa, Fla.,
metaphorically lifted Rice onto their shoulders and carried her around the
arena. Why? Because Americans such as Rice ratify what Republicans believe
about this country -- that our triumph over racism and discrimination -- not
the history of it, is what defines us. It's the opposite of the Democrats'
message -- that racism, discrimination and injustice are deep-dyed into the
American character.
Democrats go further, too. They encourage the prejudice or to put it more
bluntly, circulate the slander that racism and discrimination are not to be
found among Democrats but still persist is in the hearts of Republicans.
Just as painting Paul Ryan as a monster who wants to throw grandmothers off
cliffs becomes impossible when voters actually see the man, the Tampa convention has made
peddling the myth about racist Republicans a good deal more difficult.
Mia Love, the beautiful, articulate daughter of Haitian immigrants who is
running for Congress from Utah,
became an instant Republican star after her speech to the convention. She
radiated love of country, telling the delegates, "Our story has been told
for over 200 years with small steps and giant leaps; from a woman on a bus to a
man with a dream; from the bravery of the greatest generation to the innovators
and entrepreneurs of today. ... This is the America we know ... because we
built it." In the 24 hours after her address, she raised more than
$150,000. The roof was raised also for Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Brian Sandoval,
Susana Martinez, Nikki Haley, Artur Davis and Luis Fortuno. All sounded the
same themes in different ways -- that the American idea and ideal of
opportunity and freedom retains its power and that Americans from all races and
backgrounds who believe in free markets and free people are welcome -- no,
lionized -- in the Republican Party.
Democrats and members of the press (but I repeat myself) keep the old
racism charge going with ever more ridiculous allegations. Efforts to combat
voter fraud by requiring a picture ID are evidence of racism, though why
minorities should be any less likely to have an ID than anyone else is not
explained. Mentioning that President Obama has granted waivers to states to
permit watering down the work requirement in the federal welfare law brings
shrieks from MSNBC's Chris Matthews: "You know what game you're playing,
and everybody knows what game you're playing: It's a race card."
Who is the racist here? The 1996 reform had broad support from all
Americans. A 1995 Public Agenda poll, for example, found that 69 percent of
whites and 68 percent of blacks thought the system made it too easy to remain
on welfare (71 percent of households receiving welfare also agreed). Fifty-six
percent of blacks and 61 percent of whites said they would not increase
benefits for mothers on welfare if they had additional children. In the
aftermath of reform, Americans of all backgrounds agreed that it was a stunning
success at reducing poverty -- especially child poverty -- and dependency.
Democrats have been demonizing Republicans this way for decades.
Republicans have often stumbled and stammered in reply -- infuriated by the
ugly and baseless accusation but inarticulate in their own defense. This is the
party that was born in opposition to slavery, supported civil rights laws when
southern Democrats blocked them, would have nominated Colin Powell in 1996 if
he had run, and gave Herman Cain a serious look in 2012. Now, along with
articulate and appealing nominees for president and vice president, the party
is finding telegenic spokesmen who make nonsense of the Democrats' libels.
Tampa has turned a page.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama
stimulus? More debt. That money wasn’t just spent and wasted – it
was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ..Maybe the greatest waste of all was
time. Here we were, faced with a massive job crisis – so deep that if everyone
out of work stood in single file, that unemployment line would stretch the
length of the entire American continent. You would think that any president, whatever
his party, would make job creation, and nothing else, his first order of
economic business. But this president
didn’t do that. Instead, we got a long,
divisive, all-or-nothing attempt to put the federal government in charge of
health care. Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules,
mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country. The president has declared that the debate
over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of
Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.”
-Rep. Paul Ryan
“Now all that’s left is a presidency adrift, surviving on
slogans that already seem tired...sailing on yesterday's wind."
-Rep. Paul Ryan
“Democrats’ proprietary attitude toward African-Americans is
a disgrace, one that nine in ten black voters unfortunately reinforce at every
electoral opportunity. Welfare reform is not about limiting the transfer of
money from white taxpayers to non-white welfare recipients, but about ensuring
that programs intended to help the poor and ease their transition into the
productive economy do not in the end damage the poor, corrupt public
institutions, and constrain the economy. The Democrats know that a voter
dependent on the government — whether a welfare recipient or an EPA employee —
is a Democratic voter, and they actively cultivate that dependency. President
Obama’s economy is driving more Americans onto President Obama’s swelling
welfare rolls. Republicans seek to reverse both of those trends, which would be
self-evidently good for all Americans. The best the Democrats can do in such a
situation is to shout “Racist!” and so they will.”
-NR Online
"The most fatuous application of Forward. has
to be the Democratic Convention's plans to end marriage as we know it.
Determined to follow what is 'inevitable,' very liberal delegates will embrace
platform proposals that will spell the end of marriage. Do they fully realize
what they are doing? ...... Marriage is not a wedge issue, it's a bridge issue.
It's the way Republicans can embrace minorities and immigrants. We appeal to
Democrats to step back from that brink. If you care about the poor, don't end
marriage. Marriage is the best social program for economic and educational
uplift for the poor. ... Ending marriage is not Forward. It's Downward. Pull
back in time."
-Ken Blackwell
"Personally,
I'm on a quest [at the Republican National Convention] to find all of these
racist Republicans everyone at MSNBC keeps saying dominate the party. I thought
I saw a Klansman, but it turned just to be someone with a totebag on their head
to fight the rain."
-Jonah Goldberg
"They [were]
worried that Tropical Storm Isaac [w]ould hit Florida during ... the Republican
convention. But Florida
[was] ready for it. Thanks to President Obama's economic policies, many businesses
down there [were] already boarded up."
-Jay Leno
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LEFTIST WATCH
Actress Ellen Barkin “Hopes Hurricane Kills 'Every Pro-Life,
Xenophobic, Gay-Bashing SOB' At The RNC”
http://nation.foxnews.com/ellen-barkin/2012/08/28/ellen-barkin-hopes-hurricane-kills-every-pro-life-xenophobic-gay-bashing-sob-rnc#ixzz24tE8r0xC
http://nation.foxnews.com/ellen-barkin/2012/08/28/ellen-barkin-hopes-hurricane-kills-every-pro-life-xenophobic-gay-bashing-sob-rnc#ixzz24tE8r0xC
How negative is the Obama campaign? So negative that its
priority this morning has been attacking Artur Davis for joining the Republican
Party and speaking at the RNC 2012 Convention. There is nothing that Democrats
hate more than a Black Republican. That is an old hatred that goes back to the
Reconstruction Era when Democrats lynched Black Republicans.
To Republicans in the RNC convention hall last night, and
surely to the majority of Americans watching at home, regardless of their
politics, Ann Romney came across as a warm, kind and caring woman. But the
editors of the New York Times occupy a very different universe. In a nasty
piece of work this morning, editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal painted an
ugly picture of Ann Romney. Using the most violent of metaphors, Rosenthal saw
a woman who, of all things, had "slipped a knife into President
Obama." Rosenthal also managed to refer to mother-of-five Mrs. Romney as a
"diva."
Many of ACORN’s affiliates, allies, and old chapters remain
active under different names—and at least two have received federal
dollars—despite the left-wing community-organizing group’s official dissolution
and ban on receiving federal funds, according to a new report.
“Democratic families deal with shock of children going Republican”
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ISLAM
Insurgents beheaded 17 civilians in a Taliban-controlled
area of southern Afghanistan,
apparently because they attended a dance party.
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BOOKS, FILM
Galvanizing conservatives Dinesh D’Souza and John Sullivan’s
documentary 2016: Obama's America
grossed a stellar $6.3 million as it expanded nationwide over the weekend,
beating a trio of three new films. The anti-Barack Obama film, opening last
month in only a few theaters, now boasts $9.2 million, the top gross of the
year for a documentary (excluding nature films). Among other records, Obama's America is now
the top conservative documentary of all time, beating out Expelled: No Intelligence
Allowed ($7.7 million).
A blistering
anti-Obama documentary — “2016: Obama’s America” — has exploded on movie
screens just as the president prepares for his big moment before the Democratic
National Convention next week.
Review: 2016: Obama's America
Put your zip code in and see where it’s playing near you.
“Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind,”
by Mallory Factor. “…a story of
intrigue, drama, and corruption and reads like an organized crime novel. But it
is actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government
and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book
exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government
employees without their consent, and how government employee unions are now a
threat to our workers' freedoms, our free and fair elections, and even our
American way of life. And, Mallory Factor reveals what's coming next: how
unions are targeting millions of Americans--maybe even you--for forced
unionization so that unions can collect billions more in forced dues and exert
an even greater influence over American politics.”
Democratic strategist Pat Cadell said President Barack
Obama’s re-election campaign is terrified about how many of his previous
supporters are disaffected during remarks before a Tuesday screening of
Citizens United’s new film “The Hope and The Change” at the Republican National
Convention.
New documentary, “Hating Breitbart”, an exclusive journey
into the last year of Andrew Breitbart’s life – and into the leftist media and
Occupy movement that despised him so. The story of Hating Breitbart isn’t just
about those who hated Andrew, though; it’s the story of why they hated him, and
why so many loved Andrew and were inspired by him.
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ELECTION
“I detected a change from past GOP conventions that bears
mention. The Republicans seem to at last be reading Rules for Radicals by Saul
Alinsky. The messages and tactics of Alinsky, long the monopoly of the Left,
have been discovered by the Right…….In 2012, the Romney
campaign recognizes what it is up against, and last night made it
clear they know how to fight.”
“Although this happened twenty years ago and in a different
country, I propose that the important characteristics that make up the Shy Tory
Factor are present in America in 2012…..The Bradley effect has been
influential, if at all, only by a few overall percentage points. But if it is wrapped up with an American
version of the much more powerful "Shy Tory Factor," we conservatives
may be in for a treat in the form of a massive landslide come the first Tuesday
in November.
“What they don’t tell you about Romney”
Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love, a GOP candidate for
Congress from Utah,
took the stage at the Republican National Convention on Monday and delivered a
fiery speech that was particularly well received by the Republicans in
attendance. She slammed President Barack Obama and praised her background which
she called “the American dream.” “Let em tell you about the America I know,” Love began. “My
parents immigrated to this country with $10 in their pockets and the hope that
the America
they heard about really did exist.”
“To fuel their false "GOP is racist" argument, MSNBC
conveniently cut every speech given by a minority from their RNC coverage
tonight.”
Taranto: “Here was our favorite line from Mitt
Romney's convention speech: "President Obama promised to begin to slow the
rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your
family." We liked it even better when we saw that the New York Times's
Nicholas Kristof had tweeted: "Seriously, Romney's speech esp troubled me
by mocking rising seas/climate change. The dismissiveness was appalling."
Gaia is a jealous Goddess, and She will not be mocked!”
Ex-Obama ally Artur Davis — the former Democratic
congressman from Alabama who in 2008 gave a speech in support of Barack Obama
at the Democratic convention, but has since renounced him — says he feels at
home with the Republican Party and is encouraging others to leave the
Democratic Party too. “Thank you for welcoming me where I belong,” Davis told delegates who
gave him roaring applause throughout his Tuesday night primetime speech at the
Republican National Convention.
NBC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd
appeared on Morning Joe on Thursday where he gave voice to the counterintuitive
observation that the Republican Party has showcased a diverse array of speakers
at this year’s convention that the Democratic party only wishes it had.
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ARTICLES
Ronald Reagan liked to say, “It isn’t so much that liberals
are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.” There is
no better phrase than that to describe President Obama, hermetically sealed in
leftist bubble to a greater extent than any Democratic president in history. He
doesn’t imagine that there are facts or interpretations that lead his opponents
to opposite conclusions. He therefore assumes they are dimwits or liars.
How can a president presiding over the worst unemployment
situation since the Great Depression have no jobs plan for his next term? And
why is no one talking about this glaring hole in his campaign? On the
presidential campaign trail this week, the GOP once again pointed out President
Obama's failure to create jobs. But to fail at creating jobs, Obama would first
have had to try. The president hasn't made a serious effort at that in a year.
At present, he has no actionable jobs plan.
Republicans are winning the political debate on entitlement
reform and Medicare, issues long dominated by Democrats, for the first time
ever in the wake of Mitt Romney’s selection of running mate Paul Ryan. A poll
released last week shows seniors nationwide back the GOP proposals on Medicare,
with tight battles in some key swing states. Romney is beating President Barack
Obama on Medicare among seniors by margins of 48 percent to 44 percent in Florida and 49 percent to 43 percent in Ohio, according to a New York
Times/CBS/Quinnipiac poll. In Wisconsin,
Powerline: “Condoleezza
Rice is a cerebral woman and a life-long Republican, but conservatives have
sometimes wondered whether she is really one of us. She eliminated that doubt
tonight. Her speech was passionate and firmly conservative. Rice talked about foreign
policy, as you would expect, given her background and expertise. But she went
far beyond that….”
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
The thirty best quotes from the RNC Convention.
Anti-Obama Artist Debuts 'Obamanation' Interactive Painting
Michelle Malkin: “The
Condensed Liberal Handbook of Racial Code Words”
Video Library of Political Speeches, Interviews, and Ads
Romney biographical tribute:
An existential cat who ponders the absurdity of his
existence has charmed the hearts of cat lovers worldwide and been crowned the
star of the best viral cat video.
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WISE WORDS
"We must put an end to the arrogance of a federal
establishment which accepts no blame for our condition, cannot be relied upon
to give us a fair estimate of our situation and utterly refuses to live within
its means. ... We must force the entire federal bureaucracy to live in the real
world of reduced spending, streamlined function and accountability to the
people it serves."
-Ronald
Reagan
"The difference
between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time."
-Ayn Rand
"Good government is not intrusive, the people are
hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is
known and feared; the worst government is hated."
-Lao-Tzu (570-490 BC)
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