op ed review 8/10
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Obama will head off to his two-week vacation at
Martha´s Vineyard tomorrow regardless of the violence in Iraq and Gaza. Even as
the first military airstrikes he authorized in northern Iraq were carried out
Friday, Obama did not cancel the vacation.
The public's trust
in government is at an all-time low, according to a new CNN poll. Just 13% of Americans say the government can
be trusted to do what is right always or most of the time, with just over
three-quarters saying only some of the time and one in 10 saying they never
trust the government, according to the poll.
The total federal
debt of the U.S. government has now increased more than $7 trillion during the
slightly more than five and a half years Barack Obama has been president. That
is more than the debt increased under all U.S. presidents from George
Washington through Bill Clinton combined, and it is more debt than was
accumulated in the first 227 years of this nation's existence--from 1776
through 2003.
Obamacare plans have shrunk payments to physicians so much
that some doctors say they won’t be able to afford to accept Obamacare
coverage,
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office finds that
the number of those who don’t have to pay fines to opt out of Obamacare — the
exempted class — is going to hit 25 million by 2016.
Now even democrats admit it:
Barney Frank: “But frankly, he
should never have said as much as he did, that if you like your current health
care plan, you can keep it. That wasn’t true. And you shouldn’t lie to people.
And they just lied to people,”
Another poll has
found that a majority of Americans want illegal immigrants to be "returned
immediately" to their home countries
“Sheriff leading probe into murder of Border Patrol agent
claims armed illegal immigrants in military fatigues have been spotted on Texas
ranches.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2720066/Were-getting-overrun-danger-increasing-We-need-open-eyes-Sheriff-investigating-murder-Border-Patrol-Agent-claims-armed-illegal-immigrants-military-fatigues-spotted-ranches.html#ixzz39pUndd53
A leaked intelligence analysis from the Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) reveals the exact numbers of illegal immigrants entering and attempting
to enter the U.S. from nearly every nation on Earth. Yemen, Somalia, Egypt,
China, Pakistan and more.
Signs Posted For Illegals Increasingly Written In
Chinese. “Illegals From 75 Countries
Caught...”
Two illegal immigrants from Mexico who had been deported
many times, were charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of an
off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent in front of his family in Texas.
Activists angered with unaccompanied minors swarming over
the U.S.-Mexico border plan to invade town hall meetings House members are
planning during the five-week congressional recess.
Islamic State jihadists who took over large areas of
northern Iraq overnight have forced thousands of Christians to flee and
occupied churches, removing crosses and destroying manuscripts.
Probably coming to
Seattle: Minnesota Restaurant Charging
Customers Minimum Wage Fee
Vice President Joe Biden wants everyone to know that he has
high hopes for the ´nation´ of Africa. Biden isn´t just a walking gaffe
machine--he´s a walking gaffe top-ten list.
One day after Joe Biden said he wanted the “nation of
Africa” to prosper, Nancy Pelosi appears to have deleted a tweet that called
the continent a country.
Dozens of government watchdogs are sounding the alarm that
the Obama administration is stonewalling them, in what is being described as an
unprecedented challenge to the agencies they´re supposed to oversee.
Forty-seven of the government´s 73 independent watchdogs known as inspectors
general voiced their complaints in a letter to congressional leaders this week.
“Any party that allows its opponents to help pick its
candidates in “open” primaries is a PPINO — a “political party in name only” —
say many Republican officials at their annual summer meeting. Republican
National Committee members and activists are still seething about reports that
longtime Sen. Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican, enlisted Democrats to help
him win his tough primary contest this summer against state Sen. Chris
McDaniel, who was backed by the tea party.
The federal government paid $2,007,358,200,000 in benefits
and entitlements in fiscal year 2013 from government programs, according to
data from the Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s Monthly Treasury Statement.
“Mitt Romney is emerging as one of the Republican Party’s
most in-demand campaign surrogates.”
Gay leaders are alarmed at the just-released numbers from
the Center for Disease Control that place the percentage of Americans
identifying as homosexual at only 1.6% of the adult population. “Most Americans
believe the population of gays is exponentially larger.” (because they watch
network television)
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Thomas Sowell 8/4
Some have said that
we are living in a post-industrial era, while others have said that we are
living in a post-racial era. But growing evidence suggests that we are living
in a post-thinking era.
Many people in
Europe and the Western Hemisphere are staging angry protests against Israel’s
military action in Gaza. One of the talking points against Israel is that far
more Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli military attacks than
the number of Israeli civilians killed by the Hamas rocket attacks on Israel
that started this latest military conflict.
Are these protesters
aware that vastly more German civilians were killed by American bombers
attacking Nazi Germany during World War II than American civilians killed in
the United States by Hitler’s forces?
Talk-show host
Geraldo Rivera says that there is no way Israel is winning the battle for world
opinion. But Israel is trying to win the battle for survival, while surrounded
by enemies. Might that not be more important?
Has any other
country, in any other war, been expected to keep the enemy’s civilian
casualties no higher than its own civilian casualties? The idea that Israel
should do so did not originate among the masses but among the educated
intelligentsia.
In an age when
scientists are creating artificial intelligence, too many of our educational
institutions seem to be creating artificial stupidity.
It is much the same
story in our domestic controversies. We have gotten so intimidated by political
correctness that our major media outlets dare not call people who immigrate to
this country illegally “illegal immigrants.”
Geraldo Rivera has
denounced the Drudge Report for carrying news stories that show some of the
negative consequences and dangers from allowing vast numbers of youngsters to
enter the country illegally and be spread across the country by the Obama
administration.
Some of these youngsters
are already known to be carrying lice and suffering from disease. Since there
have been no thorough medical examinations of most of them, we have no way of
knowing whether, or how many, are carrying deadly diseases that will spread to
American children when these unexamined young immigrants enter schools across
the country.
The attack against
Matt Drudge has been in the classic tradition of demagogues. It turns questions
of fact into questions of motive. Geraldo accuses Drudge of trying to start a
“civil war.”
Back when masses of
immigrants from Europe were entering this country, those with dangerous
diseases were turned back from Ellis Island. Nobody thought they had a legal or
a moral “right” to be in America or that it was mean or racist not to want our
children to catch their diseases.
Even on the less
contentious issue of minimum wage laws, there are the same unthinking
reactions.
Although liberals
are usually gung ho for increasing the minimum wage, there was a sympathetic
front-page story in the July 29 San Francisco Chronicle about the plight of a
local nonprofit organization that will not be able to serve as many low-income
minority youths if it has to pay a higher minimum wage. They are seeking some
kind of exemption.
Does it not occur to
these people that the very same thing happens when a minimum wage increase
applies to profit-based employers? They, too, tend to hire fewer inexperienced
young people when there is a minimum wage law.
This is not breaking
news. This is what has been happening for generations in the United States and
in other countries around the world.
One of the few
countries without a minimum wage law is Switzerland, where the unemployment
rate has been consistently less than 4 percent for years. Back in 2003, The Economist
magazine reported that “Switzerland’s unemployment neared a five-year high of
3.9 percent in February.” The most recent issue shows the Swiss unemployment
rate back to a more normal 3.2 percent.
Does anyone think
that having minimum wage laws and high youth unemployment is better? In fact,
does anyone think at all these days?
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“What’s the GOP plan
to increase take-home pay? Or to cut business taxes for large and small
companies that would not only increase growth and jobs but throw 70 percent of
the benefits to wage earners? And what happened to monetary reform that would
boost King Dollar? House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan gets it right
with his new state-sponsored anti-poverty program. But he’s often a lone GOP
voice on issues like these. And then there’s ObamaCare. It’s a wet blanket over
business hiring and the economy. And recent polls show that ObamaCare is even more
unpopular today. But Republicans seem to have dropped the issue. Why aren’t
they promising to end the much-disliked mandates? … They could play a hugely
positive role today if they unveiled and campaigned on a clear economic-growth
agenda. Markets want it. And America wants it. But will they?”
-Larry Kudlow
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BOOKS
Choosing politics over policy, the Obama administration
ignored a willingness by the gun lobby to help in the fight against illegal
guns and gun violence following the 2012 Newtown, Conn., school shooting. In “The Future of the Gun,” New York Times
bestselling author Frank Miniter reveals that two of the country’s leading gun
lobbies stood ready to work with the White House, but instead were pushed away
by an administration that wrongly thought the country was on their side in
banning assault weapons.
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LEFTIST WATCH
A prominent CNN
commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters
reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America
television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two
dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of
Gamechanger Salon. Founded by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt, the group is a
secretive digital gathering of writers, opinion leaders, activists and
political hands who share information, ideas and strategy via a closed Google
group.
Members of the Kennedy clan have been quietly wooing
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and encouraging her to challenge Hillary Clinton.
The UK’s top public doctor says the failure to find a cure
for Ebola underscores “the moral bankruptcy of capitalism”. Does that mean we
can expect an Ebola vaccine from a socialist country any day now?
Professor Danielle Allen, at the Princeton Institute for
Advanced Studies, has proposed a closer reading of the Declaration of
Independence in order to prove that the country was “intended to be socialist
all along.”
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ISLAM
Hamas Posts Dead Jew Collage on Twitter
In ISIS controlled parts of Iraq, police cars have been
repainted to say "Islamic police." Women are forbidden from wearing
bright colors and prints. The homes of Shiites and others have signs stating
they are property of the Islamic State. And everyone walks in fear amid a new
reign of terror. That´s what life is like in Mosul, Tikrit and other cities in
northern and western Iraq under the control of Islamic extremists after their
lightning-fast military campaign that overwhelmed the Iraqi army in June. The
new normal for these residents means daily decrees about attire and raids to root
out religious minorities.
ISIS Threatens America: ‘We Will Raise The Flag Of Allah In
The White House’
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GLOBALONEY
In a desperate effort to keep the global warming hoax alive
even though it is now called “climate change”, the meteorologically challenged
print and broadcast media is now declaring all weather “extreme” these days.
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ARTICLES
The Obama Endgame
Emerges The events of the past few
weeks on America’s southern border bring into clearer focus the Obama pledge to
fundamentally transform America. By opening our borders to illegal immigrants,
and pardoning those illegals already here as he plans through executive order,
Obama will create millions of new citizens within a few years to help him
transform America into a multicultural vacationland for the world’s footloose
homeless with free food, housing, education, entertainment, and healthcare as
drawing cards. Who will pay for this paradise? The American Middle Class,
mostly Republicans, of course, whom Obama despises as narrow-minded clingers. And
why not? While Republicans and conservatives have been busily painting Obama as
weak and indecisive internationally, Obama has in turn sized them up as even
weaker. As it turns out Obama’s seeming impotence was only a head feint…..The
Obama prize was always the southern border with its endless supply of faithful,
dependent voters. With the open border drawing millions of loyal new voters
into the Democratic Party, liberals will have no problem holding the White
House and perhaps also sweeping the House and Senate in 2016. Obama could
hand-pick his successor who would ram through radical redistributionist
legislation and America’s transformation would be complete. Who or what is there to stand in Obama’s way?
Another view: The
great fear among conservatives, stoked by the actual statements of the Obama
White House and one of its chief sycophants, Congress Luis Gutierrez of
Illinois, is that the president will step far beyond the constitutional limits
of his power and grant amnesty through executive fiat to as many as six million
illegal aliens. This would be political suicide for Obama. It would be an act
of brazen stupidity and it would likely not only destroy any chance his party
has to retain control of the Senate but could potentially fracture his own
coalition for future elections.
Ross Douhat, New York Times:
“…..even as his team plays the impeachment card with gusto, the
president is contemplating — indeed, all but promising — an extraordinary abuse
of office: the granting of temporary legal status, by executive fiat, to up to
half the country’s population of illegal immigrants……what the White House wants
to do on immigration is……lawless, reckless, a leap into the antidemocratic
dark. And an American political class
that lets this Rubicon be crossed without demurral will deserve to live with
the consequences for the republic, in what remains of this presidency and in
presidencies yet to come.”
A great deal of attention has been focused in recent months
on the surge of illegal aliens, particularly unaccompanied alien children (UAC)……According
to an HHS fact sheet, “Most [illegal aliens] are over 14 and approximately
three quarters of them are boys.”
Max Boot: “It has
gotten pretty much zero press attention, but last week the congressionally
mandated National Defense Panel issued what should have been seen as a
bombshell review of American military readiness, or lack thereof.”
About 550 Army majors, including some serving in
Afghanistan, will soon be told they have to leave the service by next spring as
part of a budget-driven downsizing of the service. The decision to cut Army majors
comes on the heels of a move to slash nearly 1,200 captains from the ranks.
Some received the news while they were deployed to Afghanistan.
Time to change your passwords: “A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest
known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion user
name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses,
security researchers say.”
Dr. Ben Carson, neurosurgeon and the author of six
best-selling books. “Well, it’s
interesting that we sit around and call other ancient civilizations heathen
because of human sacrifice but aren’t we actually guilty of the same thing?”
said Dr. Carson in reference to a question about abortion. “The good thing is
the American populace is moving closer and closer to understanding that
abortion is murder. Every year we’re getting better on that regard.”
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ACTIVISM
“Religious mockery, blasphemy and extreme
profanity, all directed at the Christian faith flooded the airwaves last night……Contact the companies who sponsored TBS's anti-Christian "Black Jesus." Unisom and Radio Shack were the major advertisers.
Let these companies know that their advertising dollars are supporting bigotry
and animosity toward people of faith.
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WEBSITES
John Kerry Pictured
Riding Pink Girls’ Bicycle Last Weekend In Nantucket…
“I have been waiting
intently for that catalogue of much vaunted accomplishments which Islam has
bequeathed both to America and the world — benefits that have been chirped
about ad nauseum by Barack Obama for years. But since this, like all his
other promises, has been left dangling, I have decided to compile my own list
for you and take the pressure off his wearied brow that best serves America on
the links. I assure you that this list is far less than exhaustive”
A leaked copy of U.S. Senate Democrat candidate’s campaign
plan. It rips the curtain away from the modern campaign. “Think of it as the
Democrats' strategy to win friends and influence people.”
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WISE WORDS
"I must study politics and
war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our
sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and
naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their
children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary,
tapestry and porcelain."
-John Adams, letter
to Abigail Adams, 1780
(Editor’s note: unfortunately the grandchildren who study
painting, poetry and music don’t have an appreciation for the sacrifices of
their forebears and don’t value their heritage…….the cycle eventually repeats….)
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