op ed review 3/10
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Obama has the authority to use an unmanned drone
strike to kill US citizens on American soil, according to his attorney general.
The administration’s secret drone program burst into very
public view with lawmakers grilling the attorney general over legal
justification for targeted killings and Sen. Rand Paul launching an old-style
one-man filibuster to demand answers from President Obama.
Sen. Rand Paul´s filibuster against the confirmation of CIA
Director and "drone czar" John Brennan offers a "teachable
moment" to the media and the left about the Tea Party. As they seethe in
outrage and confusion that it took a Republican to question the constitutionality
of drone attacks, it is important to remind our friends on the other side that
it wasn´t just any Republican, but a--gasp!--Tea Party Republican who spoke
"truth to power."
Gallup:
Obama´s Job Approval Dives to 46%
Pollster Scott Rasmussen is questioning the media´s
interpretation of polling data that suggest the American public oppose spending
cuts and favor spending increases for a variety of programs. In fact, Rasmussen
says, Americans favor spending cuts. The misinterpretation, he says, is a
result of the fact that the public and the political class interpret the word
"cut" differently: in Washington,
holding spending steady is defined as a "cut." http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/03/04/Rasmussen-Questions-Media-s-Interpretation-of-Polls-on-Spending
Some of the costs the White House incurs annually: Like the
"Chief Calligrapher," Patricia A. Blair, who has an annual salary of
$96,725, and her two deputies, Debra S. Brown, who gets paid $85,953 per year,
and Richard T. Muffler, who gets paid $94,372 every year. In all, the White
House appears to employ 3 calligraphers for a yearly total of $277,050.
Arkansas now has the nation's most restrictive abortion law - a
near-ban on the procedure from the 12th week of pregnancy - unless a lawsuit or
court action intervenes before it takes effect this summer.
North Korea
says it will launch nuclear attack on America
President Obama continues to ignore new science suggesting
that the threat posed by human-caused climate change is substantially less than
previously thought. Obama´s brand-new pick to head the EPA, Gina McCarthy, is a
fresh signal that the administration favors knee-jerk policies to restrict
emissions, even when they are unsupported by available data and would hamper the
economic recovery.
If Obamacare is unpopular now, how much more will people
hate it when they hear for the first time that they are being forced to buy
health insurance, that many of them will not be able to keep the plan they are
on now, or that their employer may drop their company health insurance because
it’s cheaper to pay the fine? Those tens of millions of Americans who have not
been paying attention are in for the shock of their lifetimes.
Socialized Medicine: “Missed the last horror story from Great Britain’s
government health care system? Don´t worry, another alarming report will come
soon. They just keep piling up like firewood in the fall. On our minds right
now is the story from the Daily Mail, which reported last week that nearly 40%
of National Health Service workers — doctors, nurses and paramedics — said they
would not recommend their own workplace to friends or family who need care.”
The Obama Justice Department is arguing in the United States
Supreme Court that children do not need mothers.
Chicago
Will Require Kindergarteners to Take Sex
Ed
FOX News’s Roger Ailes:
“I have a soft spot for Joe Biden…….I like him. But he’s dumb as an
ashtray.” Ailes’ disdain for Newt
Gingrich – “He’s a sore loser and if he had won he would have been a sore
winner,” he asserts.
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Investor’s Business Daily 3/6
The left is out in force, bleating its praise for deceased
Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez as somehow a champion of the poor. It's lies.
Fact is, Chavez hurt the poor, not just in Venezuela, but all over the world.
Chavez's death from cancer Tuesday set off a chorus of
wailing from the left's politicos, media and movie stars, hailing Chavez as a
friend of the poor. "President Chavez cared deeply about the poor,"
declared Citizens Energy President Joe Kennedy, who's made it his business to
distribute Chavez's oil handouts to the poor to help the dictator's political
ends. "His legacy in his nation, and in the hemisphere," said Rep.
Jose Serrano, a Bronx Democrat, will be "a better life for the poor and
downtrodden."
Chavez's "positive legacies," said forever-naive
ex-President Jimmy Carter, was for "the gains made for the poor and
vulnerable." The New York Times credited Chavez with "empowering and
energizing millions of poor people" while Washington Post columnist Eugene
Robinson praised Chavez for providing (Cuban) medical care, saying
"frankly, it was the first time in many decades that a leader paid that
kind of attention to the poor majority in Venezuela." The Nation sighed
that Chavez wasn't dictator enough. "It wasn't too much control, but too
little," pined longtime Chavez toady Greg Grandin.
"Poor people around the world have lost a
champion," said Hollywood actor Sean
Penn. "He used the oil (money to) eliminate 75% of extreme poverty,
provide free health care (and) education (for) all," tweeted filmmaker
Michael Moore. "A great hero," said director Oliver Stone.
It's the Left's Big Lie, writ loud, stupid and vulgar, like
Chavez himself. The ugly reality is, Chavez's Castro-inspired socialist model,
far from helping the poor, left them worse off than ever even as Venezuela's neighbors in Colombia, Brazil,
Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica,
Panama and Chile have
risen by embracing free markets. Chavez's currency devaluation and capital
controls made everything from toilet paper to tires expensive and scarce in Venezuela,
harming the poor — who spend 80% of their income on necessities — most.
His wretched Cuban education and health care starved public
institutions and chased competent doctors and educators abroad. His farm and
business expropriations killed jobs. And he turned Venezuela into a crime hellhole,
which the poor suffered from most. His harm to the poor went beyond Venezuela.
Starting in 2002, he worked to drive oil prices skyward by cutting production
and monopolizing resources. Higher oil prices hurt the world's poor at the
pump. But they also raise the cost of food, and lead to factories being shut
down. And this helps the poor?
The only proven way to lift the poor from poverty is to
embrace free markets. Yet those who praise this odious, now-dead dictator don't
seem to get that they served as Chavez's "useful idiots," as Vladimir
Lenin called those naive Western socialists who aided his totalitarian rule. Hopefully,
Chavez's death will mean his Chavista model of socialist failure will be buried
along with him.
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/030613-647020-hugo-chavez-created-poverty-in-a-false-model-of-help-for-the-poor.htm#ixzz2Ms0piSgL _____________________________________________________________________________
FROM OTHER COLUMNS
"What is so
astonishing about liberals is that they aren't just wrong occasionally or even
wrong more often than not. What is truly amazing is that they are always wrong
about everything."
-Burt Prelutsky
"Say what you
like about those Mayan guys, but they only schedule an apocalypse once every
5,126 years. Only Washington
would try to pull it off every six weeks."
-Mark Steyn
"Congress did
not reach an agreement and Congresswoman Maxine Waters said 170 million jobs
could be lost. There are only 155 million workers in America. Are you beginning to
understand why we're in this situation in the first place?"
-Jay Leno
"The White
House said that President Obama's salary would not be affected by the looming
sequestration cuts. Congress quickly added that their pay is also unaffected.
Their salaries are all protected under the Americans with No Abilities
Act."
-Argus Hamilton
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LEFTIST WATCH
Venezuela’s
Chavez: Moonbats mourn another Red thug
Leftist hero Chavez amassed personal riches of $2B
With African Catholic Cardinal Peter Turkson in the running
as the next pope, the media have noted that he carries the fancy title of the
president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, an arm of the Vatican. But
they have failed to note the existence of a left-wing lobby in the U.S.
working feverishly on his behalf. It is the same group of radicals, with
connections to billionaire hedge-fund operator George Soros, who backed Obama
for president by claiming he shared their Catholic values. One of Turkson’s
chief supporters in the U.S.
appears to be Stephen Schneck,
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ARTICLES
VDH: “At about dusk,
I close two large metal gates to my driveways. The security lights come on, and
I enjoy intramural life. I am not protecting my dogs from coyotes, although
there are many in the vineyard, but rather the farmhouse from the odd array of
visitors, the lost, and criminals that can make up the now normal nighttime
world of central California.
If you doubt me, just peruse the Fresno Bee for the sort of things that occur
nightly. From the past year I offer the following catalogue of those who have
visited the farm….”
Sixty-three months ago Barack Obama officially declared his
candidacy for President. Only now are some among the so-called media and ruling
elites in America
slowly awakening from their self-induced infatuation and beginning to
understand who he is. It has become difficult to ignore the overt intimidation,
demagoguery and deliberate falsehoods spewed forth by Obama relative to
sequestration -- a miniscule cut in the growth of federal spending. However,
any cursory examination of his past reveals that these tactics are second
nature to the man who currently occupies the Oval Office.
“It's no secret the
United States has an unemployment problem….But there's an even more portentous
unemployment story unfolding today that receives almost no attention at
all….I'm referring to the millions of Americans whom economists benignly
describe as “people who have left the work force.”…..According to the experts,
they are predominantly able-bodied men who have chosen to stop looking for work
and are relying instead on the financial support of others. And the others they
rely on are more likely to be girlfriends than spouses and government programs
rather than friends or community groups. How big is this problem?.....more than
36 percent of able-bodied, non-elderly men have “chosen” to stop working.
Democrats toasted the New Year’s fiscal cliff deal with the
belief that they had set a crucial new precedent: Tax hikes would be part of
any future deficit reduction package. Two months later, the champagne buzz is
wearing off. With about $85 billion in spending cuts — and no new revenue —
kicking into gear on Friday, it appears that the exuberance expressed by many
Democrats at the beginning of the year was misplaced. Efforts to avert the
sequester never achieved liftoff, and Democrats are realizing that new tax
revenues are off the table for the immediate future.
President Obama is
just 42 days into his second term in the White House but he is already done
governing. As The Washington Post reported this weekend, Obama is already
“executing plans to win back the House in 2014, which he and his advisers
believe will be crucial to the outcome of his second term and to his legacy as
president.” “The goal,” The Washington Post reports, “is to flip the
Republican-held House back to Democratic control, allowing Obama to push
forward with a progressive agenda on gun control, immigration, climate change and
the economy.
In a previous job, Professor Barack Obama once said “I don’t
believe people should be able to own guns.”
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WISE WORDS
"I believe in your right to know all the facts
concerning the people's business. ... I know that you can face any prospect and
do anything that has to be done as long as you know the truth of what you are
up against. We will put our fiscal house in order. And as we do, we will build
those things we need to make our state a better place in which to live, and we
will enjoy them more, knowing we can afford them and they are paid for."
-Ronald
Reagan
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