op ed review 1/19
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
After seven straight years of decline, the U.S. has dropped out of the top 10
most economically free countries.
President Obama is ´chronically incapable´ of military
strategy and ´clueless about what he
wants to do in the world´ according to
one of the UK´s most respected and senior military advisers.
Silence from the mainstram media: “Black Labor Force Participation Rate Under Obama Hits Rock Bottom – Lowest Level Ever Recorded”
Democrats are increasingly anxious about an onslaught of
television ads hitting vulnerable Senate and House candidates for their support
of Obamacare.
Three House Democrats in three days announced retirement
from Congress.
Five top Democratic chairmen retiring from the Senate.
Battling cancer, conservative Senator Tom Coburn, will step
down.
“House passes $1.1 trillion spending bill and no one knows
what’s in it”
Senate Democrats blocked a Republican attempt to restore
military pensions cut in last month’s budget deal,
Party of the rich? “More
Democrats than Republicans Sit on 10
Richest Members of Congress List”
Filmmaker Harvey Weinstein is one of President Obama’s
biggest fundraisers. He says his new Meryl Streep film will make NRA ‘wish they
weren’t alive’.
This is the same Weinstein who
likes to make anti-catholic movies about “evil nuns”, carefully timed
for release during the Christmas season.
Senate intelligence Committee report says the attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi could have been prevented
Barry who? The president of what? It seems that our national
media has experienced a collective memory lapse. The Senate intelligence report
that was published earlier this week that concluded the Benghazi attack could
have been prevented never mentions the name of the individual most responsible
for the debacle.
Latinos set to surpass whites in California in March
Department of Homeland Security has been ferrying illegal
alien children detained at the border to their illegal alien parents living in
the United States
House Republican leaders are preparing for the first time to
endorse legal status for many of the 11 million people living in the U.S.
illegally
But new polling data from Gallup shows that an overwhelming majority of
Americans do not think handling immigration reform is even close to a top
priority for 2014.
Sarah Palin´s father, who worked multiple jobs and
faithfully and honestly paid his taxes for fifty years, had never heard a word
from the IRS. In 2008, his daughter was tapped to run for vice president of the
United
States. Since that time, he has
been, in his words "horribly harassed" six times by the agency.
The Obama administration’s proposal to raise the minimum
wage to $10.10 an hour could result in as many 1,084,000 jobs eliminated from
the work force, according to a new study conducted by the Employment Policies
Institute (EPI)
New study shows “Extending Unemployment Benefits Increased Unemployment by More than 3 Percentage Points.”
A prominent consultant to health insurance companies recently
wrote in a remarkably candid blog post that, while Obamacare is almost certain
to cause insurance costs to skyrocket even higher than it already has,
“insurers won’t be losing a lot of sleep over it.” How can this be?
Because insurance companies won’t bear the cost of their own losses—at least
not more than about a quarter of them. The other three-quarters will be
borne by American taxpayers.
Now we have scientific proof: People who regularly visit a place of worship
are less likely to get involved in low level crime and delinquency, according
to new research.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Arizona cannot enforce its ban on abortions
at 20 weeks of pregnancies.
Health care death committees in Britain: A grandmother in the UK has been ‘left to die’ by the
NHS after being refused life-saving chemotherapy--because her cancer is not
‘exceptional’ enough.
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Global Warming A Back Door To Socialism - And Now Even The
UN Admits It
Investor’s Business Daily
1/16
Power: As
evidence discredits global warming, resistance to such facts by green elites
reveals their real aim is bringing socialism in through the back door. But
don't take our word for it. Listen to the climate change boss at the U.N.
Christiana Figueres, with the lumpy title of executive
secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), came right out and said it: Democracy is a poor political system for
fighting global warming. The really good model is communist China. China is "doing it
right," she told Bloomberg News Tuesday. "They actually want to
breathe air they don't have to look at," she said with a straight face.
Maybe that's because for her information, China had
breathed air it can see for decades under its command economy. Hot Air's Ed
Morrissey points out that on the same day Figueres was praising China's
top-down political system and denigrating democracies, China's capital,
Beijing, was engulfed in a massive smog cloud that prompted authorities to
order children, the sick and the elderly to stay inside.
Communist China has had one pollution crisis after another
for decades. It's also the home to black rivers, polluted groundwater,
destroyed lakes and some of the world's worst food standards — all fruits of a
command economy where the public has no right to complain about anything
because government knows best. Morrissey notes that the same smog blighting China now was a
problem five years ago, during the 2008 Olympics. Some sign of "doing it
right."
The only thing clear here is the real motive of global
warm-mongers. They're less interested in cleaning up the Earth than in
controlling human beings in the name of "the common good" — just as
the Bolsheviks once did, first in Russia, and then in China, where the tyranny
continues to this day.
Global warming alarmists "want to change us, they want
to change our behavior, our way of life, our values and preferences,"
according to a man who knows a thing or two about communist regimes, former
Czech President Vaclav Klaus. In a speech to Australia's
Institute of Public Affairs in 2011, he stressed:
"They want to restrict our freedom because they themselves believe they
know what is good for us. They are not interested in climate. They misuse the
climate in their goal to restrict our freedom. Therefore, what is in danger is
freedom, not the climate."
Klaus, who fought communists all his life, admitted he may
be "oversensitive." But "I am afraid that some of the people who
spend their lives in a free society don't appreciate sufficiently all the
issues connected with freedom. So my oversensitivity is like an alarm clock
warning about the potential development, which I am really afraid
of." He pointed out that as global
warming falls apart as a theory, its proponents grow more strident because
their claim to power grows ever more tenuous.
"I feel threatened now, not by global warming — I don't
see any — (but) by the global-warming doctrine, which I consider a new
dangerous attempt to control and mastermind my life and our lives, in the name
of controlling the climate or temperature."
"They don't care about resources or poverty or
pollution. They hate us, the humans. They consider us dangerous and sinful
creatures who must be controlled by them. I used to live in a similar world
called communism. And I know it led to the worst environmental damage the world
has ever experienced." But that's of no concern to Ms. Figueres,
princeling daughter of a former Costa Rican president who's lived a life of
privilege since birth and is now badmouthing democracy and praising communist
systems.
She condemned as "very detrimental" Congress'
refusal to pass the U.N.'s climate change agenda even as evidence reveals
global warming as a hoax and the U.N. agenda as a threat to America's
economic well-being.
In the world she inhabits, the people's interests don't
matter — neither in the United States
nor in pollution-choked China.
All that matters is control, her control. In modern times, the only ecosystem
in which such people can effectively exist is a communist one.
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/011614-686713-climate-change-a-back-door-to-communism-and-the-united-nations-admits-it.htm#ixzz2qfccL6QS ________________________________________________________________________
FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“While the creation of a traffic jam in a small New Jersey town shows
the calloused ugliness too often found among political operators puffed up with
their own power, this cannot compare with the threat to freedom when the
Internal Revenue Service targets the administration’s political opponents
during an election year. Nor can a traffic jam compare with the Department of
Justice’s gun-running operation that led to the death of an American Border Patrol
agent in the southwest or the State Department’s actions and inactions that led
to the deaths of four American officials killed by terrorists in Benghazi.”
-Thomas
Sowell
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BOOKS, FILM
As incredible as it sounds, Hollywood has produced a patriotic movie for
a change. “Lone Survivor,” the new war movie starring Mark Wahlberg, is so
powerful in its depiction of the brutality of al Qaeda and its Taliban backers
that it could awaken the American people to the reality of President Obama’s
deliberate retreat in the face of this global danger. “‘Lone Survivor’ leaves
box office shocked and awed,” is how USA Today described its debut. It depicts
the grueling training of U.S. Navy SEALs and the sacrifices that American
soldiers are making to keep Afghanistan
free of Taliban and al-Qaeda
Throughout the book “Lone Survivor”, Luttrell registered
distrust of liberals in the media and in Washington
– and did so with a very direct eloquence. Here are 10 of the best examples
from the book.
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LEFTIST WATCH
“A new breed of website has sprung up, powered by social
media, in which liberals congratulate themselves, and attempt to provide
spiritual instruction on improving the world through their ideology……many
people find the discipline of genuine religions daunting, unpleasant, and a
general buzz-kill. Liberalism offers hedonism and self-congratulation in place
of genuine contact with the numinous. It may not have any depth to it, but for
those inclined to reject everything that came from their forbearers´ world, convinced
that they have found a better, or at least a more pleasant approach to life,
liberalism is a decent crutch.”
A report promoted heavily by NBC News Special Anchor Maria
Shriver was funded by a ultra-left political group funded by George Soros.
Earlier this week Shriver was all over NBC News and MSNBC to talk about a study
titled "The Shriver Report: A Woman´s Nation Pushes Back From the
Brink." The promotion of the report also allowed Shriver and NBC News to
portray President Obama as "sympathetic to working mothers." This
push focusing on women we see throughout the media, not just on NBC, is nothing
more than the media prepping the battlefield to elect Hillary Clinton.
Obama Picks Soros Crony to Lead NSA Probe
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ISLAM
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is taking to Twitter to
gloat about the nuclear deal his country struck with the U.S. and other
Western countries. "….world powers surrendered to Iranian nation's
will…..No facility will be closed; enrichment will continue, and qualitative
and nuclear research will be expanded,”
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ARTICLES
With the possible exception of global warming fraud, it
would be difficult to identify another major political issue more dependent
upon innumerable, uncontrollable variables than the difference in what two
persons might earn or deserve. In the case of both ideological causes, anyone
claiming to have measured the variables, predicted them or solved for them in
concocting a solution is nothing but a con artist. And what do con men do? They
steal. Theft of rights or property is the primary instrument of left-imposed
equality of any sort. The left sees this as necessary because we have equal
rights, but not equal individual qualities.
Liberals who oppose efforts to prevent voter fraud claim
that there is no fraud. But New York City’s watchdog
Department of Investigations has just provided the latest evidence of how easy
it is to commit voter fraud that is almost undetectable. DOI undercover agents
showed up at 63 polling places last fall and pretended to be voters who should
have been turned away by election officials; the agents assumed the names of
individuals who had died or moved out of town, or who were sitting in jail. In
61 instances, or 97 percent of the time, the testers were allowed to vote. The
Board of Elections reacted in classic bureaucratic fashion by calling for DOI’s
investigators to be prosecuted. “In one example, a 24-year female agent gave
the name of someone who had died in 2012 at age 87…no problem, she was given a
ballot……
Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Erick Erickson and Michelle
Malkin have a new publisher in Washington,
the expanding Christian conservative media empire of Salem Communications
Corp., recently dubbed "the new power in conservative media." Salem completed the purchase
of Eagle Publishing, which operates Regnery, the nation's leading conservative
book publisher; Human Events, one of the oldest conservative news providers;
and the popular website RedState, headed by Erickson.
It is always satisfying when one sees an insufferable jerk
get his just comeuppance. And when the jerk is a bully who thinks he´s always
right and all others, save his acolytes, are not only "always wrong"
but "knaves and fools" as well, then it is especially sweet to see
the jerk shown, on point after point, to have been consistently wrong. In
"Krugtron the Invincible," economics historian Niall Ferguson uses
Paul Krugman´s own words to filet the Keynesian economist.
“He was in high school and quite
brilliant. The kind of kid who didn´t pick up a book all year and aced all of
his honors and AP tests -- in complex subjects like Physics. He was also
musically gifted. But he couldn´t stop smoking weed. The school and his parents
did all they could; he even took up sports so he wouldn´t go home after school
and smoke. The more he smoked, the more he slacked off, the less frequently he
attended class, did his work, and participated in class. They finally expelled
him. He was last seen walking on 101 in the wee hours of the morning on meth,
punching and flailing at the police who pulled over to see if he was okay.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/asking_the_right_questions_about_pot.html#ixzz2qrJIVRaO
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REPUBLICAN CIVIL WAR
Fred Dryer, the former All-Pro NFL defensive end and Hollywood actor of shows like Hunter and Cheers, is
furious at the Republican establishment for waging war against the Tea Party.
He sees the establishment as surrendering to the mainstream media and accepting
its stereotypes about conservatives.
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
A 15-minute test you take at home can show up the first
signs of mental decline nearly as well as diagnostic exams. The questions range
from simple feats of memory – writing the date, for example – to more complex
everyday tasks, such as working out the amount of change needed when shopping.
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WISE WORDS
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those
few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a
plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks and adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.”
–George Washington, letter to
Bushrod Washington,
1783
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LATE NITE
Leno….Did you all watch the Golden Globes [Sunday] night? …
Of course, the big winner … was ‘American Hustle,’ a film about the marketing
of ObamaCare….. The White House announced that President Obama will visit Pope
Francis in the near future. Pope Francis thinks Obamacare can be a success.
Sure, he’s the Pope. He has to believe in miracles
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