op ed review 7/20
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
“Barack Obama strutted to the podium for a stump speech in
Delaware Thursday, just after Russian surrogates, shot down a Malaysian
airliner with a reported 23 Americans on board.
Obama began his remarks with just 38 seconds discussing the plane. “[I]t
looks like it may be a terrible tragedy,” he said. “May be”? He then
noted his national security team would stay on it, and quickly returned to his
regular programming – beginning with jokes about Joe Biden.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2696366/It-looks-like-terrible-tragedy-Obama-briefly-addresses-Malaysian-plane-crash-emerges-23-U-S-passengers-board.html#ixzz37qTKosc1
Then he went off to a couple of fundraisers.
“By contrast, when the Soviets shot down Korean Air Lines
Flight 007, Ronald Reagan, who was on vacation in California at the time,
immediately canceled all events to return to the White House. When Reagan
addressed the nation about the shoot-down, there was no equivocation. He called
it “a massacre,” a “crime against humanity,” an “act of barbarism.” Obama, on
the other hand, went on joking about Joe Biden and slamming Republicans.”
While the world attempted to figure out why a Malaysian
Airlines passenger plane carrying 295 human beings went down over a war zone in
Ukraine, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki took to Twitter to discuss
"Being informed and fashionable is natural for women”
Video: “Pretty much everyone expressing dismay over White House response to world falling
apart”
Four-star Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps,
delivered a stinging rebuke of the Obama administration’s handling of Iraq….”It
is rare for an active-duty serviceman to give such blunt public criticism of a
sitting president.”
Most of those invading America’s southern border are not
what we normally call “children.” These are not toddlers or grade-schoolers who
miraculously traveled more than 1,600 miles. These are persons of working age
who are ready to displace Americans who want jobs.
As thousands of illegal immigrant “children” are crossing
the U.S.-Mexico border, House Democrats pushed for more amnesty, guest-worker
visas, $3.7 billion in funding, and more lawyers for illegal immigrant children
during a Tuesday Twitter town hall on immigration. Their message: “We can't just build a wall or a fence…..This
is America. Our doors are open.”
Gallup poll :
Immigration now virtually ties "dissatisfaction with
government," at 16%, as the primary issue Americans think of when asked to
name the country's top problem.
Most Voters Want to Send Latest Illegal Immigrants Home ASAP
Of more than 57,000 “children” who have arrived at the
border since October, only 1,254 had been sent home. Thousands more are on the
way. Just last week, Mexico and its southern neighbor, Guatemala, agreed at a
meeting of presidents in Mexico to make it easier for Central Americans to
transit through Mexico en route to the U.S. and its collapsing border.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/15/editorial-border-crisis-worsens/#ixzz37djJdX6O
“….the belief among the illegal immigrants that they would receive permisos
and be allowed to stay was the driving factor in their choices to come to the
United States and that the crisis will continue until 'misperceptions' about
U.S. immigration benefits were no longer prevalent . The report also states
that the migrants cited Univision and other outlets as having shaped their
views on U.S. immigration policy. Another implication of the report is that
family members already in the U.S. are encouraging the minors to come and
organizing the travel with smugglers.
The White House won’t reveal where it is housing thousands
of Central American juvenile migrants because their “privacy rights” trump
Americans’ right to know what‘s happening in their neighborhoods, press
secretary Josh Earnest declared July 16.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says not to worry, “the southern border is secure”.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/212328-reid-southern-border-is-secure#ixzz37dinQjD1
Hillary Clinton thanked the Republican establishment and its
big business allies for taking on the Tea Party and defeating conservative
candidates like Chris McDaniel in Mississippi´s June runoff. The Chamber of
Commerce, which has vowed to spend at least $50 million against Tea Party
candidates and those who oppose amnesty legislation, and Karl Rove's American
Crossroads, have also emphasized their desire to defeat conservative
candidates, much to Clinton's delight.
Hillary's $2,777 PER MINUTE speaking contracts demand a
'presidential' teleprompter, let her cancel 'for any reason whatsoever' and
she's the only one allowed on stage.
Detroit police chief gives credit to armed citizens for drop
in crime
Right out of the democrat playbook: Former Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) said as a
governor he had to deal with "all this right-wing fear mongering"
about "everything from diseases to terrorism" on illegal immigration.
Richardson accused "the Tea Party and some of the strongest elements out
there that don´t want to see comprehensive immigration reform, period" of
being "nativists" that want to keep "America pure."
Fearmongering? “California
Officials ‘Perplexed’ By Unusual Spike in Whooping Cough Cases”
The Vice President of the Border Patrol Union says "a
lot of our guys" are coming down with diseases…..and we are worried
they'll spread throughout the United States especially if they are being
released and have the disease."
Add another Senate race to the tossup list: Colorado. A new
Quinnipiac University poll shows Sen. Mark Udall, a Democrat, trailing Rep.
Cory Gardner, a Republican, by 2 percentage points, 44-42 percent. By a 49-40
margin, voters say Udall does not deserve to be re-elected. Colorado has come
into play only recently. President Barack Obama carried the state in 2012 by 5
percentage points, but the new survey showed state voters today disapprove of
of the job he’s doing by a 58-39 percent margin.
Tensions between
Girl Scouts’ messaging and Catholic teaching have led to a national boycott of
Girl Scout cookies, the ousting of Girl Scouts from parishes, and a significant
drop in Catholic membership in the Girl Scouts.
Washington Democrat Estakio Beltran shoots a stuffed
elephant in his video ad. He makes it clear that he is symbolically shooting
Republicans. He is running for the 4th-district seat in Congress being vacated
by Doc. Hastings - central Washington. The ad may have been intended as
humorous, but some conservative websites are questioning the message, arguing
Democrats would flip out if a GOP candidate blasted away at a symbol of the
Democratic Party.
Only about 2% of the U.S. population identify themselves as
gay, lesbian or bisexual, the Centers for Disease Control reported in the first
large-scale government survey measuring Americans’ sexual orientation.
The Obama administration has awarded a $50 million contract
to a charitable group to buy a Texas resort hotel and transform it in to a 600
bed facility for juvenile illegal aliens. “The beautiful Palm Aire
resort and hotel has an indoor Olympic sized pool, an outdoor
pool, saunas and tennis courts. Free Wi-Fi and cable TV are included in
the simply decorated guest rooms.”
Whoops! After embarrassing
publicity, the contract was cancelled.
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Thomas Sowell 7/14
Whenever Democrats
are in real trouble politically, the Republicans seem to come up with something
new that distracts the public's attention from the Democrats' problems. Who
says Republicans are not compassionate?
With public opinion
polls showing President Obama's sinking approval rate, in the wake of his
administration's multiple fiascoes and scandals — the disgraceful treatment of
veterans who need medical care, the Internal Revenue Service coverups, the tens
of thousands of children flooding across our open border — Republicans have
created two new distractions that may yet draw attention away from the
Democrats' troubles.
From the Republican
establishment, Speaker of the House John Boehner has announced plans to sue
Barack Obama for exceeding his authority. And from the Tea Party wing of the
Republicans, former Governor Sarah Palin has called for impeachment of the
president.
Does President Obama
deserve to be sued or impeached? Yes! Is there a snowball's chance in hell that
either the lawsuit or an impeachment will succeed? No!
Barack Obama's
repeated disregard of the laws that he is supposed to follow, and his blatantly
changing these laws passed by Congress, are a threat to the whole
Constitutional form of government, on which all our freedoms depend. Once a
president — any president — can create his own laws unilaterally, we are on our
way to becoming a banana republic, where arbitrary rule from the top replaces
representative government by "we the people."
Why not sue Barack
Obama then, or impeach him? For the simplest of all reasons: Neither of these
actions is going to do anything to stop Obama, or even discredit him — and both
can create a distraction that draws attention away from the Democrats'
disasters during an election year. Either the lawsuit or an impeachment — or
both — can hurt the Republicans, by making it look like they are playing Mickey
Mouse politics during an election year. President Obama is already making a
joke out of Speaker Boehner's threatened lawsuit by saying, "So sue
me!"
Courts don't like to
get involved in cases where one branch of government is suing another — and the
Supreme Court does not have to take any case that it does not want to take.
Even a lower court can throw out Boehner's lawsuit as a political issue that
does not belong in court. Then it will be the Republicans who will have egg on
their faces. As for impeachment, the House of Representatives can impeach any
president they want to. But an impeachment is essentially just an indictment
that leaves it up to the Senate to decide whether to vote to remove the
president from office.
So long as the
Democrats control the Senate, impeachment of Barack Obama is guaranteed to
lose. And this too would leave the Republicans with egg on their faces during
an election year.
The political fate
of the Republican Party is not something that those of us who are not
Republicans need to worry about. If they want to shoot themselves in the foot
again, so be it. But all Americans have to worry — and worry big time — about
the fate of this country if Republicans blow their chances of taking control of
the Senate. If Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues his iron
control, President Obama can nominate whatever kinds of federal judges he wants
to, knowing that they will be confirmed by the Senate. Since federal judges
have lifetime tenure, this would in effect extend the Obama administration long
past the point when Barack Obama leaves the White House. All he needs to do is
pack the federal courts with judges who share his contempt for the Constitution
and his zeal to impose a far-left agenda at all costs.
This year's
elections — especially the Senate elections — can decide the fate of this
country for a long time to come. That is why Republicans' launching of
foredoomed symbolic actions like lawsuits and impeachment is such an
irresponsible self-indulgence. When the country is at a historic crossroads is
not the time for futile gestures like this, which can create bigger disasters
than we already have.
David Limbaugh: “I
don´t think Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against President
Obama right now, but I also don´t think that considering the idea is
"crazy talk." The man has, in my view and that of many others,
committed multitudinous impeachable offenses, and we need to strenuously object
and bring it to the public´s attention every chance we get. The idea of turning
our heads and looking the other way is repugnant. …”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Israel accepts an Egyptian-proposed Gaza cease-fire; Hamas
keeps firing. Hamas deliberately aims rockets at civilians; Israel
painstakingly tries to avoid them, actually telephoning civilians in the area
and dropping warning charges, so-called roof knocking. “Here’s the difference
between us,” explains the Israeli prime minister. “We’re using missile defense
to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to protect their
missiles.” Rarely does international politics present a moment of such moral
clarity. Yet we routinely hear this Israel-Gaza fighting described as a morally
equivalent “cycle of violence.” This is absurd.”
-Krauthammer
"Scientists predicted that global warming could lead to
lopsided German victories at soccer."
-Frank
J. Fleming
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BOOKS, FILM
Dinesh D’Souza’s latest film, “America, Imagine a World
Without Her,” which earned a rare A+ rating from CinemaScore, is apparently
such a threat to progressive ideology that Costco initially ordered the book on
which the movie is based removed from its shelves. One can understand why: the
film is a devastating takedown of those who see America as the primary source
of evil in the world.
The government’s spending programs are keeping the people
who receive the help “addicted” to aid, said Wayne Allyn Root, author of the
new book, “The Murder of the Middle Class.” The problem not only exists with
the U.S. government but in states such as California, where heavy government
regulation and spending raise the costs of goods and services, said Root, who
was the 2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee. President Obama and
many other lawmakers today continue to advocate policies that increase the
dependency of people on the government.
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GLOBALONEY
Kudos to Australia for repealing their carbon tax.
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LEFTIST WATCH
John Kerry: “I Get 'A Little Uptight When I Hear Politicians
Say How Exceptional We Are'”
A CNN reporter has been reassigned to Moscow after tweeting
that Israelis were “scum.”
Holder admits, equality of outcome is the goal, not color
blindness.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/holder-america-should-be-color-brave-not-color-blind_796655.html
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a measure
that creates a municipal identification card that can now be used by illegal
immigrants to access government services, rent an apartment and open a bank
account.
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ISLAM
Some 20 rockets were found Wednesday in a school in Gaza
operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. The discovery would seem to confirm Israel’s
oft-repeated claim that Hamas and other Gazan terror groups use civilian
infrastructure to hide weapons.
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ARTICLES
VDH: The summer of 2014 will go down in history as the
season when America fell apart. Let’s take a tour of the disasters…….
“Rather than deport the illegals, Mr. Obama has ordered them
spread around the country, often with neither the knowledge nor consent of
state and local officials. Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska said Tuesday he
learned after the fact that 200 unaccompanied illegal-alien children were
placed in his state. “Why are they conducting a secret operation, essentially,
transporting them all over the country,” an indignant Mr. Heineman told Fox
News on Tuesday. ” … and the federal government won’t tell us what’s going on.”
It had to come sometime, and it came in one very bad week
for the Democrats: that the many big problems with Hillary Clinton and Barack
Obama finally grew too great for the press to ignore. Obama in his own
different way is heading towards Nixon-like levels of weirdness, as, beaten
down by the failures regarding his ventures, he appears to have quit his own
job. A.B. Stoddard of the Hill says in effect he has stopped being president
and chooses to live in a world of his own, shutting out the problems that have
become overwhelming, giving dinners where he talks about NBA ratings and where
he will live when he leaves. As for Hillary Clinton, she took a long step
toward becoming toxic when tapes emerged of a years-old conversation in which
she boasted of getting a man who raped a 12-year -old child off with a slap on
the wrist. In doing so, she painted the girl as unstable, and given to making
things up. Ruth Marcus says, she was "doing her job," but did she
have to so much like doing it? Karen Tumulty called her tone
"swaggering." Susan Page and Andrea Mitchell agreed.
Sen. Cruz: ‘Mr. President, When Did
the Democratic Party Declare War on the
Catholic Church?’
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions
(R-AL) has warned all of his colleagues in Congress that President Barack
Obama’s new immigration strategy—his plans to legalize millions of illegal
alien adults through executive power—could destroy America as we know it.
“Burger King sells
gay pride Whopper”
Archie to be shot dead while saving gay best friend who
called for gun control. What’s next? ….Betty’s
forced to scrape together eight bucks for birth control when her boss cuts off
coverage after the Hobby Lobby ruling?
“MTV to Air Show About Losing Virginity...”
Dennis Prager on moral and cultural “decivilization”: “LA Mayor Exemplifies America's Decline”
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WEBSITES
Ronald Reagan quiz:
The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal just
released their 2014 Index of Economic Freedom. One of the surprising results is
that the United States is no longer in the top 10 freest economies in the world.
In fact, the United States’s economic freedom score has declined every year
since 2008.
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WISE WORDS
"I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated
great things, and they didn't spring full bloom from my brow, they came from
the heart of a great nation -- from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief
in the principles that have guided us for two centuries."
-Ronald
Reagan
"Security against foreign danger is one of the
primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the
American Union."
-James
Madison, Federalist No. 41, 1788
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