op ed review 8/25
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the 'Recovery' as
During the Recession
Median family income for black Americans has declined a
whopping 10.9 percent during the Obama administration, compared to 3.6 percent
for whites and 4.5 percent for Hispanics.
Feds are building a detective squad to target consumers and
companies that don’t follow Obamacare rules
On the other hand, the Feds are making it easier for someone
to be hired as a so-called Obamacare navigator, cutting back on background
checks and eliminating a fingerprinting requirement, making it easier for a person’s
private information to fall into the wrong hands.
Even the Chicago Tribune is having second thoughts about
Obamacare: Editorial: “How President
Obama is flouting Obamacare More reasons to delay and rewrite this
ill-conceived law”
Obama runs a sweatshop? White House interns work 45 hours a week
without pay.
Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Marco Rubio would like to
shutdown the government in an effort to defund Obamacare. Senator Tom Coburn called it a “failed
strategy for conservatives,” Representative Paul Ryan said it was “swinging for
the fences,” and Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor have been
gently working to stop the idea from gaining steam among House Republicans.”
A new poll done for Republican members of Congress has found
huge public opposition, and solid opposition among Republicans, to the idea.
Shutdown pros and cons are reviewed here. “Regardless of where one comes down in this
dispute, it's wise to heed the advice of both Rubio and Coburn, who urge allies
to resist questioning one other's motives. "Team Cruz" and
"Team Coburn" share the same objective -- their disagreement lies in
identifying the smartest path to reach the same destination.”
Justice Scalia warned that the Supreme Court is overstepping
its authority on matters that should be left to Congress or voters. Speaking at an event sponsored by the
Federalist Society in Montana, Scalia said the high court should not intervene
on issues such as wiretapping and “inventing” new minorities…..an apparent
reference to the court's recent decisions on gay marriage and federal benefits
for same-sex couples.
Last week, the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court
to rule that the Fourth Amendment allows for warrant-less cell phone searches.
Obama Campaign Arm Rallies For Republicans who publicly
support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants
Stirring up the racial pot:
“Paula Deen SHOOTS Trayvon Martin' in new Law & Order SVU that wraps
both scandals into one controversial episode.”
"Ayeee I knocked out 5 woods since Zimmerman
court!" young James Edwards tweeted on July 15 in the wake of George
Zimmerman's acquittal. Edwards's tweets surfaced after he and two of his homies
were charged with killing Australian baseball player Chris Lane in Duncan, Oklahoma,
last Friday. For the record, "woods" is short for peckerwoods, a
derogatory term for white people. If Edwards, who is black, knocked out five
woods as claimed, he would hardly be unique…..the "knock-out game"
has become something of a recreational outlet for bored black youths. This
"game" is just one form of black-on-nonblack assaults. Although hard
to quantify, they seem to have intensified after the media put a racial spin on
the Martin shooting eighteen months ago.
Occasionally, the attackers have made the link explicit, claiming they
were "doing it for Trayvon," revenge being a more honorable motive
than boredom.
White House spokesman ‘not familiar with’ Chris Lane murder. (because it can’t be
exploited for politics)
Pat Buchanan: 'Interracial violence is overwhelmingly
black-on-white'
The media is generally uninterested in these stories of
senseless black on white violence:
Police: Man doused with gasoline, set on fire in vacant lot
Dog Vendor at Home Depot Robbed and Beaten With Hammer for
His Cell Phone
88 year old WWII veteran Delbert Belton survived being
wounded in action during the Battle of Okinawa only to be beaten and left for
dead by two teens at the Eagles Lodge in Spokane
on Wednesday evening. They said the suspects are African Americans between 16
and 19 years old
Benghazi Victim’s Mother Says Hillary Lied: ‘You Don’t Want
This Person to be President’
The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled that, by refusing to
photograph a gay wedding, a photography studio violated the New Mexico Human
Rights Act (NMHRA).
Black pastor and gospel music superstar Donnie McClurkin was
disinvited from performing at a concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of
the 1963 civil rights March on Washington
and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech because he opposes gay
marriage.
Now we find out the commander in chief was playing cards
while Navy Seals risked their lives to kill Osama bin Laden -- only later to
use photos of himself watching live feeds for his re-election
sloganeering.
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Roger Simon 8/14
Martin Luther King would not be amused by the pitiful
current state of the civil rights movement.
End the civil rights movement. Now. Shoot the sucker and put
it (and us) out of its misery. It’s a relic of the 1960s about as relevant as
bell bottom trousers.
When we are debating Oprah Winfrey’s right to buy a
thirty-five thousand dollar purse or whether Barack Obama’s dog should be flown
to Martha’s Vineyard in the canine’s own
private state-of-the art military transport, you know it’s finished. Or should
be.
It’s also time for the NAACP and the Black Caucus to close
up shop. They are dinosaurs from another era, making life miserable for the
very people they are intended to help.
Black unemployment is at record levels during the
administration of the first black president and that horrible situation is
aided and abetted by those organizations. They are determined to preserve the
image of black people as victims — an insulting self-fulfilling prophecy. What
was once a solution has become the problem.
Affirmative action should also be flushed down the toilet
with the civil rights movement. It contributes to the same syndrome of
victimhood, simultaneously dividing our society, which is divided enough
already.
The race card is a perfect example of this division and why
this movement should be extinguished. Anybody who plays the race card in our
country today is less than pond scum. It has become the 21st century equivalent
of accusing someone of witchcraft in seventeenth century Salem.
Anyone who uses the race card should be considered a pariah
automatically. It’s almost always projection.
Black and brown people above all would profit from the end
of the civil rights movement. We already have strong civil rights legislation.
If anyone breaks the law, prosecute them. Meanwhile, move on. Stop dwelling on
discrimination. Stop scratching the scab and let it heal.
Another good read:
Three teenagers were charged Tuesday in the killing of a
white Australian college student in Duncan,
Oklahoma, and part of the story
is what didn't happen. There was no saturation cable TV coverage, no press
conference featuring Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, and no statement from the
Oval Office. The death of Christopher Lane, while as troubling as that of Trayvon
Martin, will not become a national touchstone of racial and cultural debate or
reflection…….The murder is a national story in Australia, where people are
contemplating the horror of such casual killing in America. Some are focusing
on the ease of obtaining a gun in the U.S., as (inevitably) is the
reflexive CNN, and it would almost be a relief if we could blame such a murder
on guns. Then we wouldn't have to focus
on a culture that produces teenagers for whom the prospect of shooting an
innocent man in the back on a Friday evening apparently raised not a scintilla
of conscience. That is the deeper tragedy, and the real scandal, of too much of
American life. That is also an issue of
far greater consequence to the future of young black men than the acquittal of
George Zimmerman in his awful showdown with Trayvon. If only Mr. Sharpton and
his fellow black leaders paid attention to what was missing in the lives of
those three teenagers. Maybe President Obama would even care to use it as one
of his teachable moments.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
"During President Barack Obama's years in office, the
number of people receiving food stamps has skyrocketed by 39 percent. ...
Government handouts probably go a long way toward explaining the unprecedented
number of Americans, close to 90 million, who are no longer looking for work.
This is all a part of the progressive agenda to hook Americans, particularly
black Americans, on government handouts. In future elections, they will be able
to claim that anyone who campaigns on cutting taxing and spending is a racist.
... When black Americans finally recognize the harm of the progressive agenda,
I'm betting they will be the nation's most conservative people, for who else
has been harmed by progressivism as much?"
-Walter Williams
"The Cato Institute has released a report documenting
that in Obama's America,
'welfare pays better than work.' ... In the state of New York, for example, 'a
family receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid, food
stamps, WIC, public housing, utility assistance and free commodities (like milk
and cheese) would have a package of benefits worth $38,004, the seventh-highest
in the nation.' Because welfare benefits aren't taxable, a New York wage earner would have to earn in
excess of $21 per hour to do better than his welfare recipient counterpart,
which is more than a beginning teacher makes. Though benefits vary among the
states, for many recipients, especially long-term dependents, welfare pays
substantially more than an entry-level job. Ponder the powerful disincentive
this constitutes to work.... How can a society that embraces the work ethic not
shudder in horror at this development?"
-David Limbaugh
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BOOKS
In The Liberty Amendments Mark Levin has delivered more than
advertised. He promises a credible agenda for reinvigorating constitutional
government based on an approach to the amendment process which avoids the
liabilities of better known options. What he delivers, though, is a vast,
potentially game-changing political arsenal that can be drawn upon by everyone
from had-it-up-to-here Tea Partiers to Republican candidates at least sentient
enough to know they need something more than budget and deficit talk.
One of the most malignant consequences of Republican
betrayal of Tea Party exertions in 2010 has been its effect on conservative
citizens' morale. Nothing is more dispiriting than being played for a sucker.
How then to rouse conservatives for the next battle? What about a principled
yet tangible agenda that transcends the candidate and facilitates building a
winning coalition? "Trust me; I'm a constitutional conservative," or
"I'm a businessman and know how to create jobs," are not enough to
cut it anymore. Dead-end distinctions -- he's a Libertarian; he doesn't like the
Flat Tax; she changed her mind on abortion; he's great on individual freedom
but wobbly on national defense, etc., will never produce a governing majority,
and are perfect tools for the Legacy Media to lever apart the opposition. The
Liberty Amendments offer a vehicle for creating a diverse constitutional
restoration coalition, outside of the parties, but without actually attempting
to replace one.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/what_has_mark_levin_wrought.html#ixzz2cKli5sbL
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LEFTIST WATCH
“This email arrived yesterday from MoveOn, whose
communications are generally indistinguishable from those of the Democratic
Party. The subject line was “New York Times stunner.” Republicans are trying to steal control of the U.S. Senate by making it
harder to vote. Pitch in to help defend the right to vote and stop Republicans
from stealing the 2014 election. This plea requires a certain chutzpah,
as stealing elections at the polls has always been a Democratic specialty. I
think what they are actually referring to is Republican efforts to ensure
honest voting so that Democrats can’t steal elections.”
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ARTICLES
Mark Steyn: “On the
global scene, America
has imploded: Its leaders have no grasp of its national interests, never mind any
sense of how to achieve them. The assumption that we are in the early stages of
“the post-American world” is now shared by everyone from General Sisi to
Vladimir Putin. General Sisi, I should add, is Egypt’s new strongman, not Putin’s
characterization of Obama. Meanwhile, in contrast to its accelerating
irrelevance overseas, at home Washington’s
big bloated blundering bureaucratic security state expands daily. It’s easier
to crack down on 47 Elm Street
than Benghazi.”
America
3.0: The Coming Reinvention of America
Remember Black Jesus? The Lightworker? The One? The next Lincoln, the Democrats’
Reagan, the neo-FDR? He is now standing next to Tricky Dick and Slick Willie,
caught in a quartet of burgeoning scandals, charged with rewriting the facts
when they became inconvenient, harassing the press, and using the Internal
Revenue Service to get at his enemies, subverting their rights of assembly, and
speech. “Richard Milhous Obama,” writes Carl M. Cannon, and there are also
Clintonian levels of cover-ups, literally in the case of Hillary Clinton’s role
in the Benghazi
debacle.
Roger Simon: Obama’s Strange Love Affair with the Muslim
Brotherhood
It is now clear that Sen. John S. McCain
III (R.-Ariz.) has completed his transition from being the Senate’s “maverick”
to becoming the upper body’s model prisoner. It is not just that McCain is a
snitch, running to the press or the Senate floor, whenever a rebellious
conservative disturbs the good order and discipline of upper chamber. The son
and grandson of Navy admirals now meets in secret with the warden, Majority
Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.), to cook up new ways to undermine and thwart
conservatives.
Bill Kristol: “Sarah
Palin — after having hastily stepped down as Alaska’s governor in 2009 – might
be able to rehabilitate her political career by winning a Senate race in her
home state next year.
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WISE WORDS
"Civil tyranny is usually small in its beginning, like
'the drop in a bucket,' till at length, like a mighty torrent of raging waves
of the sea, it bears down all before it and deluges whole countries and
empires.”
-Jonathan Mayhew (1720-1766)
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