op ed review 8/24
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
On Tuesday ISIS militants beheaded American journalist James
Foley somewhere in Syria.
President Barack
Obama reacted to the on-camera slaying for five minutes on Wednesday. Then he hurried off to a five-hour round of
golf at Farm Neck on Martha´s Vineyard for his seventh visit to the links, so
far, during a vacation that began August 9. The decision brought a chorus of condemnation
from TV commentators, journalists, conservative partisans and Twitter denizens
– and even an unintentional slap from the left-leaning New York Times.
Hillary Rodham Clinton likes to travel in style. She insists
on staying in the “presidential suite” of luxury hotels that she chooses
anywhere in the world, including Las Vegas. She usually requires those who pay
her six-figure fees for speeches to also provide a private jet for
transportation — only a $39 million, 16-passenger Gulfstream G450 or larger
will do.
The release of details of Hillary Clinton’s contract demands
for speaking at UNLV, with incredible perks suitable for an empress, is deeply
damaging her prospects for winning the presidency.
Hillary Clinton is no longer the inevitable next President
of the United States, a summertime development that is not unexpected yet still
surprises. Now the question is: Who will be the first to mount a challenge?
Cashill: “Much too
quickly after the death of big Mike Brown in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri,
the Trayvon Martin dream team -- ambulance chasers Benjamin Crump and Daryl
Parks, media hound Al Sharpton -- descended on his still warm body like so many
turkey vultures. One would have hoped that their twisted performance in Florida
during the previous two years would have taught America’s liberals something --
prudence, restraint, skepticism -- but it did not. Led by their media, liberals
once again rushed in where wise men fear to tread. As expected, the media
insisted on telling the same embarrassingly fraudulent story they had told in
the Martin shooting: innocent teen, academically ambitious, minding his own
business, profiled by racist white vigilante -- this time a cop -- and shot for
no reason other than his race.”
Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal
shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations,
suffered severe facial injuries, including an orbital (eye socket) fracture,
and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun, a
source close to the department´s top brass told FoxNews.com. “The Assistant
(Police) Chief took him to the hospital, his face all swollen on one side,”
said the insider. “He was beaten very severely.”
The former head of the
CIA’s Osama Bin Laden unit said Thursday that the best way to protect Americans
from terrorists is to secure the border. “What we could have done after 9-11 if
we really wanted to improve U.S. security … was to close the southern border
and perhaps even spots on the northern border with Canada……At least you secure
the continent in that way. Right now we’re exposed, not only internationally,
but we don’t know who is in our country…”
The liberal billionaire that paid democrats $100M to stop
the Keystone pipeline, explained this week that global warming skeptics are “not
super sophisticated.”
Obama’s defense drawdown:
Almost 8,000 Navy chiefs face the ax.
Less than a week after Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) was
indicted by a grand jury on two felony counts, he may be in an even stronger
political position than he was before the charges hit.
A woman who disclosed to the Houston Chronicle that she was
a member of the grand jury that indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry, was an active
delegate to the Texas Democratic Party convention during grand jury
proceedings.
Race-based hate crimes jumped in Washington, D.C., last year
even as most other types of bias crimes decreased. D.C. police say that of the 18 race-based
hate crimes in 2013, the majority of victims were white and the majority of
suspects black.
A high school
student was allegedly suspended after breaking a class rule of saying “bless
you” after a classmate sneezed. Kendra Turner, a senior at Dyer County High
School, said bless you to her classmate who sneezed and the teacher told her
that the term was for church.
Bill Clinton Now Enjoys $1,000 Cigars
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Mark Alexander 8/20
When the Democrat Party is free-falling into political
disfavor, as it now certainly is under the Barack Obama regime, its
protagonists predictably revert to their default politics of disparity
positions in a diversionary effort to "gin up" discontent and regain
the allegiance of its base constituencies.
There are three deceptions in the Demos' disunity playbook
that have proven politically profitable. First, the Left is promoting their
spurious "war on women" rhetoric, which successfully lured majorities
of female voters to elect and re-elect Obama, as they did his predecessor, Bill
Clinton.
Second, they are pushing several classist themes projecting
a "war on the poor," because everyone has less than someone, and
Obama's "redistributive justice" is an easy sell. Indeed, as avowed
socialist George Bernard Shaw smugly declared, "A government which robs
Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul."
And third, in full bloom this week, Demos and their
operatives are busy propagating the bygone notion of "racial inequality,"
as if it pervades every facet of society and is a gauntlet between black folks
and success. Now, that's not an easy subterfuge when the twice-elected sitting
president is, himself, half black, but this artifice has successfully co-opted
the most loyal single constituency of any, black voters -- some 93 percent of
whom are baited into voting for Democrats.
Obama has a dependable stable of surrogate "race
hustlers," including Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and legions of lesser useful
idiots, who are quick to promote hate crime hoaxes in order to foment
discontent and rally black constituents.
The last national hate hoax coincided with the launch of
Obama's 2012 re-election bid and centered on accusations that a "white
Hispanic" racist murdered a black youth, though a jury ultimately
determined that the defendant, George Zimmerman, shot Trayvon Martin in
self-defense.
Of course, Obama interjected himself into that case for all
the political gain he could bleed from it. He nationalized the case by sowing
this seed: “This is a tragedy, uh ... uh and when I think about this boy, uh, I
think about my own kids, uh ... I think that all of us need to do some soul
searching to figure out how something like this happened. ... If I had a son he
would look like Trayvon, and, uh, you know, I think [his parents] are right to
expect that all of us as Americans, uh, are going to take this with the
seriousness it deserves.”
Now, just ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, Democrats
have seized on another “injustice,” the shooting of a black man, Michael Brown,
by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri, an urban
borough of St. Louis.
It is not my intent to defend the actions of Wilson, or to
condemn the actions of Brown, because we do not know, and may never
know for certain, all of the circumstance of this incident. As my colleague Cal
Thomas notes, “If jumping to conclusions were an Olympic sport, some of these
loudmouths … would win gold medals.”
Of course, in the last month, there have been more than 40
murders on the streets of Obama’s hometown, Chicago – mostly black and mostly
the result of black-on-black violence. But Obama has not offered a single word
about those dead…….the real tragedy in Ferguson, as in urban centers
nationwide, is the unintended consequence of the Democrat Party’s “Great
Society” economic and social engineering policies, which have resulted in urban
poverty plantations, effectively enslaving generations of blacks and,
increasingly, Hispanics. The Imperial Wizards of the Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan could never have scripted such a successful, oppressive socio-economic
segregation plan.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
"The late media critic
Edwin Diamond once notably quipped that to the American news media, '10,000
deaths in Nepal equals 100 deaths in Wales equals 10 deaths in West Virginia
equals one death next door.' When it comes to race relations, a similar rule
applies. 400,000 civilians have been murdered in Darfur, but one death of a
black man in Missouri, allegedly due to white police brutality, is infinitely
more newsworthy. The national media are currently obsessed with Michael Brown’s
killing by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, just as they obsessed over
Trayvon Martin’s killing in Sanford, Florida. Our media aren’t in the news
business. They’re in the narrative business, and one of their favorite
narratives is that America is deeply racist (something that electing a black
president twice in no way disproves). In this liberal view, Ferguson is not
atypical, but the rule. It’s what white cops do to innocent black folks. ... We
do not know if the cop was right to shoot Brown. The investigation should give
us the answer. The news media have rendered their judgment. Ignorantly and
maliciously."
-Brent Bozell
“A new survey finds that 75% of Americans don´t use up all
of their vacation days. While the rest apparently loan them to President Obama.
He´s on vacation again! “
-Jimmy
Fallon
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ISLAM
ISIS has released a video showing
how it enlightened hundreds of members of a religious minority by converting
them to Islam.
“ISIS recruiting in Canada, local imam warns”
ISIS may be targeting Chicago for a
terrorist attack.
In Raqqa, Syria, the Islamic State's "caliphate"
has already become a reality. All women in the city are required to wear the
niqab veil and pants are banned. Thieves have their hands hacked off and
opponents are publicly crucified or beheaded, with the images of these horrific
acts then posted on social networks. The few hair salons that are still open
are required to black out the pictures of women on the packaging for hair dye
solutions. Weddings are only permitted to take place without music. And at
livestock markets, the hindquarters of goats and sheep must be covered in order
to prevent men from viewing their genitalia and having uncomely thoughts. Any
person caught out on the street during the five daily prayer times is risking
his or her life.
“It is likely that there are now more British
Muslims fighting for the Islamic State than for Britain's military.
And then there’s our friends, the Saudis, who have beheaded
19 people since the beginning of August. Some confessions may have been gained
under torture and one poor defendant was found guilty of sorcery.
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GLOBALONEY
The new EPA regulations intent on curbing greenhouse gases
spewed from coal power plants will cost the nation's Gross Domestic Product $51
billion every year and 224,000 jobs……”all this regulation will result in a
reduction of the planet's average temperature by 0.018 degrees Celsius by 2100.”
Environmental activist Deirdre Smith of left-wing pressure
group 350.org blames the tensions in Ferguson, Missouri on global warming.
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ARTICLES
“To the four
clean-cut college freshman out on a double date, it had seemed like a typical
McDonald´s: spanking clean, well-lighted, and safe. It was in a good
neighborhood too, right next to Texas A&M University in College Station --a
campus known for its friendly atmosphere and official down-home greeting:
“howdy.” Before them, hundreds of young black males were loitering about, some
without shirts. Other local residents -- the more cynical and world-weary, both
whites and most blacks -- would have taken one look at the crowd and driven
off, dismissing many of the young and posturing black males as thugs. But not
them: innocent white kids from the suburbs. They presumed this was post-racial
America -- and that they were in an easy-going college town. Twenty minutes
later, two of them were dead……Incredibly, the race of the assailants wasn’t
considered newsworthy by the local media…..In College Station, nobody dared to
ask if a "hate crime" had possibly occurred…..”
“Another Dumb Idea from Los Angeles”. The city of Los
Angeles is considering paying voters to encourage turnout. Needless to say,
it´s a ridiculous idea that will reward low-information voting, foster
political demagogues and breed corruption.
How absurd is the indictment of Texas Gov Rick Perry? He
issued the threat of a veto, which is protected political speech under any
reading of the First Amendment, and he carried out that threat per the power
granted to him by the Texas Constitution. And for that reason, he’s being
indicted. See the video of the drunken Travis County DA who arranged the
indictment here.
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WEBSITES
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WISE WORDS
"It is a principle incorporated
into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is
better than tribute."
-James Madison
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