op ed review 6/22
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Obama’s approval rating has dropped to 41 percent,
a majority of Americans disapprove of his handling of foreign policy issues, he
has lost support from the Hispanic community and Americans actually think his
administration is less competent than the Bush White House post-Hurricane
Katrina, according to a new survey from the Wall Street Journal and NBC News. The
survey would appear to be so bad, in fact, that NBC News' Chuck Todd said
Tuesday that the poll basically means the public has declared the Obama
presidency to be over". On the
issue of do you believe he can still lead? A majority believe no. Essentially
the public is saying your presidency is over," Todd added.
“After prisoner deal, Obama´s job
approval soars among Taliban”
Republican Rep. Lou Barletta said Monday that President Barack
Obama would 'probably' lose an impeachment vote in the House of Representatives
'He’s just absolutely ignoring the Constitution, and ignoring the laws and
ignoring the checks and balances.’
Despite record revenue of almost two trillion dollars the
federal government still ran a deficit of $436.382 billion in the first eight
months of the fiscal year.
Tired of waiting for the Keystone pipeline, Canada's
government on Tuesday approved a pipeline proposal that would bring oil to the
Pacific Coast for shipment to Asia.
525,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta's oil sands to the Pacific to
deliver oil to Asia, mainly energy-hungry China.
Director of National Intelligence
Celebrates LGBT Pride Month: “What
The Intelligence Community Is About”.
The administrators at the Veterans Administration have been
so busy “going green”, installing solar
panels and windmills, they didn’t have time to help old soldiers waited to see
the doctor. “….paying more attention to
greening the department and saving the polar ice caps than to health care.”
A staggering crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border has left
federal officials scrambling to provide basic human necessities to thousands of
undocumented immigrants — most of them unaccompanied children — who have flowed
over the divide….some have scabies or chickenpox.
Central American migrants are on a word-of-mouth exodus to
the U.S.
The plan to turn Texas Blue:
Largely from Central America, illegals are now arriving in Texas at a
rate of more than 35,000 a month.
“The White House is incompetent and the dumping of illegals
is intentional.” says Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The Obama administration claims to be surprised by the new wave of
children flooding our borders, but back in January the federal government
posted an ad seeking bids for a vendor contract to handle 65,000 “Unaccompanied
Alien Children“.
Only 31% Approve of Obama Handling of Immigration
Meanwhile, “Obama Meets Giant, Talking Robot Giraffe at the
White House Today”
Last weekend Obama played his 175th and 176th rounds of golf
as president.
The Department of Homeland Security is set to pay for
illegal minors up to the age of 17 to be escorted into the United States,
according to a new solicitation posted at FedBizOpps.
U.S. Border Patrol will put in place new policies to restrict
the use of force by agents.
A Texas man says his apartment complex manager told him his
American flag was a “threat to the Muslim community,” and that he has to take
it down.
Last year, scholars at the Manhattan Institute ran a
49-state analysis of individual market healthcare rates under Obamacare and
found a 41 percent increase on average. Their follow-up study of more than
3,100 counties across the country pegs the average hike at 49 percent.
HUH? Senate majority
leader Harry Reid claims that Democrats—don’t “have any" billionaire
backers:
Bill and Hillary Clinton have long supported an estate tax
to prevent the U.S. from being dominated by inherited wealth. That doesn’t mean
they want to pay it.
Mexican Embassy says Mexicans 'Illegally' Crossing U.S.
Border 'Are “Not Committing a Crime'”
In one of the Obama
administration´s most shameless weekend news dumps, the IRS claimed that a hard
drive glitch erased many of Lois Lerner´s emails sent between 2009 and 2011.
Hardly anyone accepts the IRS’ claim to have lost two years
of Lois Lerner’s emails. Those most familiar with government record retention
requirements, and the technology used, probably are the most skeptical.
“This is the lamest and most transparent "dog at my
homework" excuse since Richard Nixon lost several minutes of tape during
the Watergate scandal.”
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
John Hawkins 6/21
20 Reasons You Wouldn't Want To Live In An America Controlled
By Liberals Like Obama
The only thing more
disturbing than the arrogance, incompetence, and lawlessness of Barack Obama's
administration is that most liberals are perfectly fine with everything he's
doing. It's shocking that there are so many Americans who don't care about the
Constitution, the rule of law, or even what happens to the country just as long
as someone they agree with ideologically is in charge. In fact, the only time
liberals seem to get really upset these days is if someone criticizes Barack
Obama or tries to put ANY KIND of restraint on his power. Want to know how
America would look if liberals like Barack Obama had complete control of the
country?
1) Abortion would be
the only "choice." Almost everything else including light bulbs, TVs,
health care plans, cars, and the schools your child goes to would be chosen for
you by people in D.C.
2) You could be sued
for failing to warn people that you are about to say something that could
conceivably be offensive to women, gays, transsexuals, or minorities.
3) Every sports fan
of teams like the Redskins, Braves, Chiefs, Indians, Blackhawks, and Seminoles
would be branded as a bigot and all of those teams would be forced to change
their names.
4) We would have
open borders and anyone who walks across would be welcome to sign up as a
citizen and collect welfare, food stamps, and Social Security.
5) It would be
illegal to say the Pledge of Allegiance or fly an American flag because it
might "offend people."
6) All criticism of
black and Hispanic politicians would be shrugged off and treated as racism.
7) Government
investigations of liberal wrongdoing would be handled by friends, associates,
or campaign contributors of the liberal being charged.
8) So many nuclear
and coal plants would be shut down that we'd end up with regularly scheduled
blackouts in many parts of the country.
9) Anyone could
choose not to work and get a monthly stipend from the state -- well, until the
money runs out.
10) Cities, states,
and even well-connected big businesses that spend irresponsibly and go broke
could always be bailed out by the federal government.
11) Women would have
to get mandatory abortion counseling from Planned Parenthood before giving
birth just to make sure they are ready to have a child.
12) Conservative
talk radio, blogs, websites and especially Fox News would be regulated
out of existence and only government-approved media sources would be allowed.
13) Christians and
conservatives would have to hide their beliefs to get government jobs.
14) The IRS would be
allowed to audit people solely for contributing to conservative candidates or
being a member of conservative groups.
15) Men who have sex
with women who are drinking would be treated as rapists by default.
16) Merit and even
basic competence would be secondary in importance to hiring people who are the
right race or sex for a job.
17) Any child who
plays with a toy gun would be considered a potential psychopath and expelled
from school.
18) Americans would
only be allowed to buy tiny, overpriced electric cars that don't work very
well.
19) It would be
illegal to oppose gay marriage.
20) Guns would be
confiscated from everyone except the criminals, the cops, the military, and the
bodyguards for rich liberals.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
"You cannot win a battle against radical Islamic
terrorism if you´re unwilling to utter the words ´radical Islamic
terrorism,´"
-Sen. Ted Cruz
"Obama has an interesting view on wars and how they
end. Most presidents bring troops home when the war's over. Obama thinks he can
end wars by bringing troops home. In fact Obama seems to think leaving is
winning..."
-Brit Hume
“The IRS tea-party audit story isn't Watergate; it's worse
than Watergate,…..The Watergate break-in was the professionals of the party in
power going after the party professionals of the party out of power. The IRS
scandal is the party in power going after the most average Americans
imaginable.”
-WSJ
editorial page editor Daniel Henninger.
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BOOKS
Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, “America: Imagine a World Without
Her”, has been in bookstores for three weeks but is mysteriously missing from
the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List. Sales show
that America should be ranked higher than 13 of the 25 books on this
week's list, yet it is nowhere to be found. The book aims to answer the questions:
"Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as
Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a
national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America
still the hope of the world?"
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GLOBALONEY
“….in recent years,
NOAA’s US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has been “adjusting” its
record by replacing real temperatures with data “fabricated” by computer
models. The effect of this has been to downgrade earlier temperatures and to
exaggerate those from recent decades, to give the impression that the Earth has
been warming up much more than is justified by the actual data.”
Al Gore: “Climate crisis a threat to human future”
At a time when debate is swirling over the assertion that 97
percent of scientists endorse man-made global warming, Secretary of State John
Kerry nudged the figure up to “at least 98, 99 percent.”
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LEFTIST WATCH
Emily’s List will spend $3 million to elect women supporting
abortion.
Confirmed: Las Vegas Cop Killers
Were Members of Far Left Occupy Movement
Oh dear, someone called former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton "feisty" and now ThinkProgress is out crying sexism. CNN host
Christiane Amanpour – a woman, if you didn’t know – said that Clinton "got
quite feisty" during her interview Tuesday with Diane Sawyer – another
woman (just making that absolutely clear). Wolf Blitzer – who is not a woman – agreed,
and also said the word "feisty." This sent ThinkProgress into a tizzy
(wait, is that sexist?) and allowed the liberal website to bring up a 2012
"guide" from the Women´s Media Center that details more than 100
words and phrases that are apparently sexist.
Feisty is one of them.
Leftie actor George Clooney is planning to run for Governor
of California, according to his friends.
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ARTICLES
VDH: What we can say
for sure is that Obama has nullified U.S. immigration law, made it clear that
deportations were de facto over, praised the arrival of young illegal aliens,
and thereby prompted a surge northward of thousands more kids without their
parents. The apparent thinking of the crusading children was that the U.S.
border would open, as the Mediterranean once was supposed to have done. Kids
would become near-instantaneous citizens. And they would then be anchors for
their patient parents, who had sent them ahead with the promise they would all
soon be reunited in the north. This latest cruel episode — What sort of parent
sends his children across the desert unaccompanied? What sort of country allows
its youth just to walk away en masse? What sort of country facilitates their
transfer across its own territory into the U.S.? And what sort of American
administration tolerates this human tragedy as a way of building a future
political constituency? — reminds us that almost everything we are told about
illegal immigration is both a lie and amoral.
5 Reasons Hillary Won't Run
“…..one of the Obama administration’s most appalling
scandals has gone largely unremarked. In the Fall of 2010, as part of its
effort to stem the conservative uprising that was occurring at that time, the Internal
Revenue Service, under the direction of Lois Lerner and Sarah Ingram, sent the
FBI 21 disks containing 1.1 million pages of taxpayer filings. The IRS’s
purpose was to give the FBI ammunition with which to investigate and prosecute
conservatives. The IRS covered up this transaction. “
With the ongoing collapse of Iraq, the endgame for the worst
foreign policy in American history has begun.
President Obama racked up $2.5 million in hotel and rental
car costs for just one night in Brussels, Belgium for the G7 summit-- 141
rental vehicles and a total of 399 lodging, meeting and conference rooms.
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WEBSITES
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Are you sure you’re registered to vote? AFA has a lookup tool:
Astronomy picture of the day. “Lisbon honey moon”
Weird gizmos and gadgets:
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WISE WORDS
"It has been said that all Government is an evil. It
would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a
misfortune."
-James Madison
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