op ed review 8/17
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
The executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police
criticized President Obama for his remarks about law enforcement in Ferguson,
Mo. "I would contend that
discussing police tactics from Martha's Vineyard is not helpful…”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/215178-police-chief-hits-obama-for-ferguson-remarks#ixzz3APQoMvH3
A man was fatally shot outside a Philadelphia concert being held to promote peace and prevent violence in the city.
A man was fatally shot outside a Philadelphia concert being held to promote peace and prevent violence in the city.
Meanwhile, “vacationing President
Obama will host his 401st fundraiser Monday night on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.,
continuing his record-setting pace that has had him collecting checks from
donors at events on average every five days since becoming president.”
Eager to defend President Obama
from criticism of his vacation in Martha´s Vineyard amid multiple international
crises, both Sunday´s ABC Good Morning America and Monday´s NBC Today used
false spin to downplay the bad optics.
Someone has dug up an old video of Barack Obama promising
not to take vacations if he were elected president.
Washington Post:
“Republican takeover of Senate appears more and more assured”
By a ten-point spread, Obama incentivizes voters to go Republican
more than Democratic: President Barack Obama is dragging down his party and
hurting the prospects of fellow Democrats as they head into midterm elections
that will determine who controls Congress, according to a new McClatchy-Marist
poll.
“Leading from behind” has consequences: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel admits
"The world is exploding all over."
That’ll show ‘em!: “US
Sends 130 More Troops to Iraq”
White House Can’t Explain Iraq Objectives “Lawmakers at classified meeting leave
shaking their heads.”
Until 2007 the world showed a trend away from conflict and
war. Since then the world has been getting incrementally less peaceful every
year. Of the 162 countries covered by
the Institute for Economics and Peace’s latest study, just 11 were not involved
in conflict of one kind or another.
John Kerry: “The
global impact of climate change is “the biggest challenge of all that we face
right now,”
“Pope makes strong, silent anti-abortion statement”
“Hillary Clinton
alienates liberals with harsh critique of Obama foreign policy” (Wait…..didn’t
she help create Obama foreign policy as Secretary of State?)
“The rank spectacle of ex-Secretary of State Clinton
suddenly turning on her commander in chief and former boss to shiv him in the
back over the burning ruins she helped make of the Middle East is staggering to
behold. The brassiness, dishonesty and shamelessness as she slides into yet
another presidential campaign season is enough to choke that old Arkansas draft
mule of a husband she hitched her career to. The scheming calculation of it all
would make Lady Macbeth take to the bed for blushing.”
Obama Tells Lawmakers Criticism of His Syria Policy is
´Horsesh*t
Hillary Clinton's commanding lead over a crop of possible
Republican presidential candidates is slipping,
A federal agency is spending hundreds of thousands of
dollars every year to support film festivals that showcase movies that some
Americans might find offensive. Decapitated heads, public urination and sexual
promiscuity are among the subjects explored on the big screen of events
underwritten with U.S. taxpayers’ money.
“Obama Administration Makes War on Israel”, holding up weapons
transfers..
“Cash for Clunkers,” the 2009 Obama administration stimulus
program designed to spend $2.85 billion to jumpstart the auto industry, turned
out to be a complete disaster — for the auto industry.
Patients for “medical marijuana” in LA have a delivery
service: “Speed Weed is getting
attention across the country for running a delivery service that's more
Domino's or Pizza Hut than Cheech and Chong.” One driver says he delivers to over 100
celebrity clients.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that
83% of American Adults believe English should be the official language of the
United States.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is calling on every American
citizen to call their U.S. senators and demand to know where they stand on
President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty. Sessions berated House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, calling on
Reid to allow a vote on the House-passed measure that would block President
Obama’s attempts to continue or expand the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) executive amnesty to millions more illegal aliens.
“Thousands of kids who crossed illegally into the United
States will hit the jackpot Wednesday, when their expedited cases begin coming
before New York City immigration judges — who are the most lenient in the
country.”
Pinal County, AZ Sheriff Paul Babeu says feds tell him to treat illegal immigrants “as any
other citizen.”
The Department of Education said in a recently released fact
sheet that it doesn’t matter if children are illegally in the country — they’re
entitled to the same taxpayer-funded public education as everyone else.
CBS News Correspondent said Border Patrol officers she has
spoken to say they are being told to “let as many people go as possible.”
US builds border fence…..for Ukraine.
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Derek Hunter: “Open
Letter to the Political Right” 8/3
I write today in the
hope you all can get over whatever anger, distrust or bruised egos this primary
season and political year has caused you. We on the right need to unite and
send a message to progressives by unambiguously retaking the U.S. Senate in November.
We all have some problem with what’s
happened so far. Someone we liked lost a primary. Someone we didn’t won. Some
piece of legislation we hate passed; some other piece we liked did not. No one
is completely happy, but we all know things can get much worse – and will if we
don’t put aside what divides and do what we must for the cause of liberty.
The political right has a habit of letting the perfect be
the enemy of the good. This is exemplified by libertarians, and it’s the fast
track to political irrelevancy. The
question is this: Do we want to sit out and lose so we can send a message of
some sort? Or do we want to at least stop the hemorrhaging of liberty and the
expansion of government? Barack Obama
still will be in the White House no matter what happens in November, and he’s
demonstrated a lack of concern for individual liberty or personal
responsibility that threatens our founding principles. A Republican- controlled
House and Senate can’t reverse much that he has done, but it can slow him down.
I get that voting
for the lesser of two evils sucks. But the alternative – more evil – is worse.
And remember, your “less evil” is someone else’s ideal candidate, and vice-
versa. No one would ever get elected if one side or the other didn’t hold their
nose from time to time in the voting booth for the good of the cause. This
year, if you’re on the right, it’s your turn.
If you don’t, if you
sit it out to make some perverse point, good for you. I’m not sure what you
think you’ll prove other than you won’t support anyone, no matter the
consequences, unless they’re “your candidate.” But you need to realize your
vote could be crucial to keeping Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. Oh, and
that your obstinance gave the most radical leftist progressives ever to occupy
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., a freer hand to replace however many Supreme Court
justices retire or die in the next two years with like- minded progressive
activists uninterested in the Constitution.
If and when that
happens and our laws are changed by judicial fiat, remember back to the
self-satisfaction you felt on Nov. 5, 2014, when you woke up and realized you
“showed” those conservatives or the establishment what they can do with their
candidate who didn’t meet your purity test. Either that or you recognize this
is the last real shot the right will have to take the Senate for at least two
election cycles and make the best choice the ballot offers you, whether they’re
your candidate or not.
It’s time to decide:
Are you going to be ruled by your scars, or are you going to learn from them?
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“I wish it were otherwise, but people tend to be libertarian
only after it’s demonstrated to them that the government can’t deliver the
results they want. … To the extent that libertarian ideas are gaining new
currency outside the GOP, it’s because of government’s failures. Particularly
for young people – especially more affluent young people – the yawning chasm
between the efficiency of the private sector and the haplessness of the public
sector is poisonous to faith in government. The VA scandal, the clownish
rollout of the Obamacare website and the near wholesale inability of Barack
Obama to deliver on his economic promises have done more to breathe new life
into libertarianism than a thousand lectures about Friedrich Hayek’s ‘Road to
Serfdom’ ever could.”
-Jonah
Goldberg
“Are there bad cops?
Yes. Does the police state go overboard sometimes? Yes. Do the demagogues
decrying systemic racism and braying about ‘assassinations’ know what happened
when teenager Mike Brown was tragically shot and killed last week? No. Here’s a
reality check. While narcissistic liberal journalists and college kids are all
posting ‘Hands Up’ selfies in hipster solidarity with Ferguson protesters, it’s
law enforcement officers who risk their lives in ‘war zones’ every day across
the country. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF)
reports that a total of 1,501 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty
during the past 10 years, an average of one death every 58 hours or 150 per
year. … Just this week, NLEOMF released preliminary fatality statistics from
August 2013 to August 2014. Total fatalities are up 14 percent, from 63 last
year to 72 this year. … Al Sharpton, concocter of hate-crimes hoaxes and
inciter of violent riots against police, had no comment.”
-Michelle
Malkin:
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BOOKS
Horowitz: “Where is
the Republican opposition? Why are Republicans still treating Obama as though
his were a normal presidency and not a national disgrace? Why are there no
indictments of Obama for the carnage he has enabled?” Horowitz
is the author of the newly published book “Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan
for Defeating the Left.”
Dr. Ben Carson’s latest book has overtaken Hillary Clinton’s
new memoir in total book sales.
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LEFTIST WATCH
The Center for Responsive Politics has issued a report
detailing the top donors to political campaigns in 2014. Of the top 20, only
two were supporting GOP candidates. Eleven were labor unions.
The U.S. Navy instructed housekeepers to remove Gideon
Bibles from every hotel room on all its military bases after it received one
letter from an atheist group.
After an uproar organized by the American Family
Association, the Navy reversed the decision, the Bibles will stay.
A 40-year political career came to a close after Hawaii Gov.
Neil Abercrombie lost his bid for a second term in a stunning primary-election
defeat by a fellow Democrat and state senator who defied party leadership to challenge
the incumbent. Aging hippie Abercrombie had high-profile endorsements including
President Obama.
In a major power play that aligns liberal muscle more fully
behind the Democratic Party — and Hillary Clinton — the self-described “right-wing
hitman-turned-Clinton enforcer” David
Brock is taking over a leading liberal
group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “Brock was elected chairman of the group’s
board last week after laying out a multifaceted expansion intended to turn the
group into a more muscular — and likely partisan — attack dog…”
Politically active liberal Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is now
blocking Republican candidates from his social media website Facebook in the
GOP’s bid to retake control of the U.S. Senate in November.
Hollywood is pouring money into the midterm elections, with
A-listers such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and
Barbra Streisand all coughing up blockbuster bucks. The donations are largely
aimed at keeping the Senate in Democratic hands.
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ISLAM
A British rapper who
travelled to Syria to fight for ISIS has posted a photograph on Twitter showing
himself posing with a severed head.
Crucified by the Caliphate monsters: Iraq descends into
apocalypse as Islamic State fanatics seize towns and tell terrified Yazidi “Become Muslims by noon today... or we kill
all of you”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2720876/Crucified-Caliphate-monsters-Iraq-descends-apocalypse-Islamic-State-fanatics-seize-towns-tell-terrified-Yazidi-Become-Muslims-noon-today-kill-you.html#ixzz3A5r2t7uX
An Isis commander at a terrorist training camp north of Baghdad
accidentally detonated a belt packed with explosives during a demonstration in
front of a group militants on Monday, killing himself and 21 nearby trainees.
Well that’s gratitude:
Hamas executes dozens of diggers responsible for its extensive tunnel
system in past weeks, fearing the workers would reveal the site locations to
Israel.
Hamas said to have executed dozens of tunnel diggers |
The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-said-to-have-executed-dozens-of-tunnel-diggers/#ixzz3A5pb0tna
Terror group Boko
Haram is now feared to have abducted almost 100 boys and men in a raid on a
village in Nigeria, just months after the militants captured more than 200
schoolgirls. “The bloodthirsty extremists, who aim to reinstate a medieval
Islamic caliphate in religiously mixed Nigeria, are likely to have kidnapped
the boys in order to force them to fight.”
Get ready for 100-year war with Islam´: Former Australian Army chief underlines homegrown jihad threat and warns ´terrorists only have to be lucky once´
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ARTICLES
“I´ve been getting a lot of email from Democratic
fundraisers lately. They seem very worried about November´s elections. First
came the highly publicized "Impeachment Red Alert" campaign, in which
the Democratic congressional committee warned that Republicans will impeach
President Obama if they win control of the House and Senate. Though much
ridiculed, the Impeachment Red Alert effort was a big winner, pulling in $2.1 million
in small donations in a single weekend. Despite that success, House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi´s mood seemed to blacken in subsequent days as she asked
for more and more money….”
The media’s unwritten rule for
covering political scandals: “Hide ‘D,’ Showcase ‘R’”. Bozell documents example after example….
Turns out all that "hope and change" stuff was
just hot air. A new report from the D.C.-based press shows that -- gasp -- the
White House is infested with Beltway lobbyists. The Washington press corps
discovers that the "Obama administration has hired about 70 previously
registered corporate, trade association and for-hire lobbyists.”
Senator Ted Cruz
(R-Texas) laid out a seven-point argument for how he knows “conservatives are
winning” that almost doubles as the case for his presidential candidacy. “What
I’m going to talk to you about this afternoon is how we can win. And let me
tell you something that is not getting a whole lot of coverage in the
mainstream media: Conservatives are winning,” Cruz said Friday evening during a
speech at the 2014 RedState Gathering in Fort Worth, Texas.
Dan Pipes: As Israeli
operations against Hamas wind down, here are seven insights into the month-long
conflict….
The Southern US Border is so porous even Osama Bin Laden can
get across. And to prove it James O’Keefe crossed back and forth across the Rio
Grande, dressed in an Osama Bin Laden costume. The investigation took place in
Hudspeth County, Texas, at a crossing commonly used by illegal immigrants and
drug smugglers. “Do you feel safe now?” Okeefe says in the video: “If the president or
Senator Reid or anyone else tries to tell you that our borders are secure, they
are lying to you.”
The Washington establishment GOP might want to re-think it´s
ongoing war against its own so called ´Tea Party´ base. It´s that very thing
USA Today credits for the GOP having such a strong hand in the House..
The NYT is not happy about this development: “A legislative year in which Speaker John A.
Boehner of Ohio set out to publicly marginalize the more vocal right-wing members
of his conference ended with them emboldened, and with new leaders ready to
bring the right back into the fold. “This was one of the most remarkable
experiences I’ve had in my eight years in Congress,” Michelle Bachmann said.
“We were able to achieve unity across the conference in what is likely to be
the most consequential issue of this time: immigration.”
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WEBSITES
“Bet the last time you were sipping Campbell’s soup or
popping Pringles chips it never occurred to you that your eating habits could
be political. But every product has a parent company and most major
corporations make political contributions. Enter Matthew Colbert, a former
campaign and Hill staffer, who has built a new app for smartphones that allows
users to scan the barcode of products in the grocery store and immediately find
out what political party the company and its employees support.
Video from the football’s point of view. (dizzy warning)
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WISE WORDS
“Against the insidious wiles of
foreign influence … the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake;
since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most
baneful foes of Republican Government.”
-George
Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
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