op ed review 6/29
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Speaker John A. Boehner announced Wednesday that he would
introduce legislation next month allowing the House to sue President Obama over
his use of executive actions.
Obama says he will ignore the threat of a lawsuit and continue
to use executive actions.
White House
Press Secretary: “We’re not just going
to sit around and wait for Congress to write laws.”
“Boehner Is Bringing a Whistle to a
Gunfight” A congressional lawsuit is
precisely the wrong weapon to combat Obama’s lawlessness.
Krauthammer: “If Obama Were Republican, He
Would've Been
Impeached Over These Abuses...”
The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the president's power
to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments, ruling in favor of
Senate Republicans. The high court's first-ever case involving the
Constitution's recess appointments clause ended in a unanimous decision holding
that Obama's appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in 2012 without
Senate confirmation were illegal.
“Biggest rebuke to any president since ... Watergate’”
The Supreme Court also struck down a 35-foot protest-free
zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts. The justices were unanimous in
ruling that extending a buffer zone 35 feet from clinic entrances violates the
First Amendment rights of protesters.
According to a major new report from the Center for
Immigration Studies (CIS), net employment growth in the United States since
2000 has gone entirely to immigrants, legal and illegal.
President Obama is blocking several simple actions that
would quickly stop the rising flood of migrant youths and adults crossing the
Texas border, according to border officials and immigration reformers.
Feds Stand Down As U.S. Border Collapses: “Border
Patrol trucks sit in parking lots as surge of illegal immigrants flood America.”
Gallup Poll: Only 22% of Americans Favor Increased
Immigration
The IRS comissioner insists his
agency did not break the law or relevant statutes. But under questioning by
Rep. Trey Gowdy, the IRS commissioner also admitted that he doesn't know the
law or the relevant statutes:
The IRS has spent $4B on
information technology contracts but still lost Lois Lerner’s email.
What’s the next target for the
sensitivity police? “Veterans aren’t
happy with a recent op-ed by the Washington Post, which charged that the
Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa military vehicles were a
“greater symbolic injustice” than the NFL’s Washington Redskins’ name.”
The top U.S. official in charge of
archiving federal records testified Tuesday that the IRS ran afoul of the law
by neglecting to tell his office that a trove of emails from the woman at the
center of the targeting scandal disappeared after an apparent hard drive crash.
A veteran could lose
his home because of a small American flag he has placed in a flower pot in
front of his home. Larry Murphree explained that his homeowners’ association in
the Sweetwater community wants him to remove the flag because it violates home
display rules. Furthermore, he is facing $8,000 in fines if he doesn’t take it
out of his flower pot.
Welcome to the new Obama military: “A former member of SEAL
Team Six has become the poster girl for a Pentagon effort to include
transgenders — people who have undergone sex-change operations — in the ranks.”
Republicans are in the strongest position to win back the
Senate since losing it eight years ago.
According to a new Pew Research Center study, only 40
percent of consistently liberal Americans say they often feel proud to be
Americans. The other 60 percent say that doesn´t describe them.
Obamacare Exchanges Are ‘Disappointing’ With Fewer Than 4
Million Newly Insured. The Government Hoped for 26 Million.
Jihadists fighting in Syria's war
put to use for the first time on Sunday American-made Humvees that they seized
during a lightning offensive in Iraq this month, a monitor said.
A Montana judge struck down most of
a 2012 voter-approved law requiring government officials to conduct immigration
checks on anybody seeking services provided by the state — from unemployment
benefits to crime-victim assistance. In Montana, nearly 80 percent of voters
approved the state's law in a 2012 referendum, but it has not been enforced
since an immigration-rights group filed a legal challenge.
The Clintons have received a total of $15,938,000 in federal
money alone since 2001.
Despite more than $100 million the Clinton family has
reportedly earned in recent years Hillary said again this week that they're not
"truly well off."
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Lloyd Marcus 6/26
Decades of socialist/progressive indoctrination in our
schools, media, and culture, plus six years of Obama, have yielded a
devastating unspoken consequence. It is the loss of who we use to be as
Americans.
In his 1961 Inaugural Address, President John F. Kennedy
said, “My fellow Americans,
ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your
country.” Democrats have perverted Kennedy's inspiring
challenge. Their dispiriting goal is to have as many Americans as
possible controlled by and dependent on government, even for life itself, which
is at the root of ObamaCare.
I mourn the loss of
the independent, self-reliant mindset that made our parents great, and of the
pride and dignity it generated within them. Welfare (government
assistance) was a last resort and for the truly needy. Today, far too many
Americans see no shame in living on government assistance or scamming the
system. The left's campaign, led by the Obama administration, to instill
an entitlement mindset in many has proven successful. The administration
even campaigned targeting minorities, discouraging their instinct to be
self-reliant. Even worse, the administration portrays getting on welfare
as the honorable thing to do. Dear Lord, what kind of nation are we
becoming?
An unprecedented 47
million Americans are on food stamps, which is riddled with
fraud. The Obama administration has added over 10,000 new oppressive
job-killing regulations. Consequently, 90 million are unemployed and on
unemployment, which is also riddled with fraud. Here's another first for
America: over 11 million are receiving disability benefits...riddled with fraud. Clearly,
many believe that working is for suckers when the government is handing out
freebies.
In his War on
Achievers, Obama used his bully pulpit to deflate business owners by
saying, “If you've got a business, you didn't build that.”
Obama and his operatives use compassionate-sounding terms such as “social
justice” and “income inequality” to justify the government confiscating the
earnings of achievers and redistributing it to non-achievers to win their
votes. Despicable.
My heart aches for
my America, when character, excellence, and hard work were rewarded,
celebrated, and respected. At 9 or 10 years old, I worked part-time for my
neighbor, Mr. Buddy Roy. I pulled the copper out of old motors for him to
sell. I still remember the pride I felt making my own money.
In the early 1950s,
blacks were allowed to take the entrance test for the Baltimore City Fire
Department. My dad applied, and Mom helped. My parents sought
opportunity, not handouts. Talk about a strong black woman – though
compassionate and loving, Mom could be a tough, no-nonsense person.
I remember my
parents sitting at the kitchen table, a glass turned upside-down between them,
with mom tapping on the glass with a spoon. She was simulating the
different bell sounds that alerted the firefighters to various situations.
She would yell at my dad, “No, that's wrong, stupid!
Listen and get it right!” Thanks to my drill sergeant mom, Dad
was among a handful of blacks who became Baltimore City's first black
firefighters.
Being a pioneer is
never easy. Dad endured humiliating work conditions and blatant racism.
Still, Dad relished the opportunity. Thanks to his Christian faith,
Dad won admiration and respect by fighting racism and hate with excellence.
He won “Firefighter of the Year” two times. That mindset of putting one's
best foot forward and striving for loftier standards is what I fear we are
rapidly losing as Americans. Apparently, character is no longer expected
in our leaders. President Obama is caught repeatedly lying to the
American people, and the response is ho-hum, let's move on.
The trend is to
celebrate deadbeats, entitlement junkies, haters of achievers, and assorted
lowlifes. For example: the Democrats and mainstream media loved the
Occupy Wall Street mobs. People were assaulted and even raped at their
angry mob gatherings. Severely infected with an entitlement mindset,
Occupiers dumped feces in a public building, demanding that the government
redistribute wealth to them. Meanwhile, the left continues its shameful,
relentless demonizing and slandering the Tea Party with unfounded allegations
of racism. The Obama administration has plotted to criminalize free speech
(the Tea Party). Folks, we are talking decent hard-working Americans who
are simply pushing back against Obama's shock-and-awe assault on our freedoms,
liberty, and culture.
Tax cheat Democrat
Rep. Charlie Rangel compared the Tea Party to Hamas terrorists. Mr.
Rangel is either a loudmouth clueless idiot or a despicable, evil human being.
Leftists like Rangel who throw unfounded, irresponsible “hate” grenades
at millions of Americans should be called on it. Inciting racial division
is extremely serious.
Amid the
unbelievably long list of scandals, crimes, and misdemeanors of the Obama
regime, the damage that this evil man and his minions have done to the internal
make-up of many Americans is extremely disturbing and heartbreaking. Please view me performing my song, “We
Are Americans,” which I wrote to remind us of who we use to be –
and I believe a majority still are – as Americans. I have faith that the
liberals', socialists', and progressives' toxic disease of entitlement thinking
has not reached critical mass.
My fellow Americans,
we are exceptional, a chosen people. We are Americans!
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“There’s a big difference between decline as a condition and
decline as a choice. What we have with Obama is a president choosing decline…..We
are in a position to dominate again, but we have a president who doesn’t
believe in American exceptionalism, American greatness, and he has chosen for
America to retreat from the Middle East, to not lift a finger in places like
Ukraine, basically to make us one nation among others.”
-Charles
Krauthammer
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BOOKS
Jonah Goldberg reviews “Mr. Piketty's Big Book of Marxiness”
What does Hillary think of Obama? From Ed Klein’s new book “Blood Feud”: After a few glasses of wine, Hillary told a
friend in 2013: “The thing with Obama is
that he can’t be bothered, and there is no hand on the tiller half the time…..That’s
the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f—ing tiller.” She continued,
“Obama has turned into a joke. The IRS targeting the Tea Party, the Justice
Department’s seizure of AP phone records and [Fox reporter] James Rosen’s
emails – all these scandals. Obama’s allowed his hatred for his enemies to
screw him the way Nixon did.” She finished by saying Obama was “incompetent and
feckless.”
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GLOBALONEY
When future generations try to
understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by
the panic over global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part
played in stoking up the scare by the fiddling of official temperature data.
There was already much evidence of this seven years ago, when I was writing my
history of the scare, The Real Global Warming Disaster. But now another damning
example has been uncovered by Steven Goddard’s US blog Real Science, showing
how shamelessly manipulated has been one of the world’s most influential
climate records, the graph of US surface temperature records published by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
“The scandal of fiddled global warming data. “ The US has
actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record
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Hypocrisy: “Greenpeace
Chief´s ´Several Flights a Month´ Could Power the Average Household for 2 Years”
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LEFTIST WATCH
Children who illegally enter the United States must be
granted a lawyer to help them stay and evade deportation because of “basic
fairness,” demands the American Civil Liberties Union.
A bill introduced June 12 by Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), would
establish a special envoy at the State Department to coordinate America’s
“global response” on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues and
allow LGBT individuals “...to seek protection in the United States.”
Senior White House officials and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew
are set to meet this week with Tom Steyer, an environmental activist pledging
to pump up to $100 million into the November midterm elections, as part of a
new campaign to promote President Obama´s green agenda.
The feminist film critics can exhale now. Someone has
finally concocted their dream movie: an "abortion comedy." Because
apparently nothing sounds funnier than an unplanned one-night stand and a
courageous destruction of God's most beautiful and most innocent creation. Feminists
have been grumpy for years about movies like "Juno" and "Knocked
Up" sending pro-life messages……. “If America laughs at this, America is
beyond redemption.”
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ARTICLES
Longtime incumbent Thad Cochran beat Tea Party favorite
Chris McDaniel in the Mississippi runoff primary vote 50.8% to 49.2%. The whole
election between the Republicans was dirtier than a cup of Mississippi River
water. Despite the millions of dollars national Tea Party groups poured into
the state, Cochran won because he appealed to Democrat voters – who could vote
in the runoff thanks to a lax voting law in the state – by bragging about his
record of bringing pork spending into the state. McDaniel said he would contest
the election results, saying, “[T]here is something a bit strange, there is
something a bit unusual, about a Republican primary that’s decided by liberal
Democrats.”
President Obama is now reaching terminal velocity, like a
skydiver plunging toward earth. Except he doesn’t have a parachute. There’s a
mighty splat coming soon. With his approval rating at 40 percent, down 6 points
from early June, and just 29 percent of Americans convinced the country is on
the “right track,” the president is doubling down on his strategy of blaming
Republicans for his failures. And he’s shifting into hyperpartisan drive,
traveling the country to campaign for Democrats, many of whom wish he’d just
stay away.
“Isis is a “group
more radical than al-Qaeda, better organized, better financed, commanding the
loyalty of thousands of dedicated fanatics including many with Western and even
U.S. passports? And this group now controls some of the most strategic
territory at the heart of the Middle East? Welcome to President Obama’s brave
new world. After six years in office pursuing strategies he believed would tame
the terror threat and doing his best to reassure the American people that the
terror situation was under control…Obama now confronts the most powerful
and hostile jihadi movement of modern times, a movement that dances on the
graveyard of his hopes.”
Few in the mainstream press seem interested in tracing the
full and ugly course of the six years of continual failure that dog the
footsteps of the hapless Obama team in a region the White House claimed to
understand. Nothing important has gone right for the small and tightly knit
team that runs American Middle East policy.
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WEBSITES
“Marine Corps Pilot Pulls off Harrowing Landing after Gear
Malfunction”
The most pampered dogs in America
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WISE WORDS
"[A] mere demarcation on
parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a
sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical
concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.”
-James Madison,
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