op ed review 8/3
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
“It Wasn´t Pretty, But It Worked: How the Right Won the
Summer Immigration Skirmish”
Earlier in the week: ”The
GOP leadership’s new immigration bill shows that top Republicans won’t fight
against the Democrats’ unpopular immigration policies, even when the public
overwhelmingly agrees with the GOP……The GOP leaders’ bill is so favorable to
President Barack Obama that it is the political equivalent of “catching your
opponent’s Hail Mary pass and running it into your own end zone for them.”
Feds have run out of beds:
The federal government is in dire need of U.S. citizens willing to house
the thousands of illegal immigrants who enter the country each week, and they
are willing to pay them to do so. You can “Collect More Than $7,000 Per Month
for 'Fostering' Adult Illegal Aliens”
A huge majority of Americans, 81 percent, believe the new immigration
crisis of unaccompanied children streaming over the U.S.-Mexico border is
serious, and almost as many want them gone -- some even if it's not safe to
return, according to a new poll.
The American people have risen up in response to a rallying
cry from Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), overloading the phone
lines on Capitol Hill to pressure their members of Congress to fight against
President Obama’s planned executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.
Illegal immigrant demonstrators protest outside the White
House without fear of deportation.
New immigrant detention center , has cartoon wall murals,
stuffed animals, playgrounds, flat screen TVs, snacks and a hair salon at a
South Texas facility that will house women and their children who crossed the
border illegally.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants to spend $659 million
so that unattended minors crossing the border will have legal representation in
the immigration court process. Pelosi
said that “we cannot have deportation without representation.”
“Inspector general said border agents have contracted
everything from scabies and lice to chickenpox, including bringing the disease
home to their own children, as they care for the unaccompanied minors………some
illegal immigrants’ ‘unfamiliarity with bathroom facilities’ resulted in
unsanitary conditions…in some of the facilities.”
American kids and teenagers will be
sharing their already-crowded classrooms with tens of thousands of ill-educated
Central American migrants this fall, because President Obama is distributing
perhaps 100,000 Central American migrants across the country.
House Republicans voted to proceed with a lawsuit against
President Obama on Wednesday, saying that his executive actions are so extreme
that they violate the Constitution.
The next day, President Obama followed through with a threat
to issue more executive actions, not fewer.
Emails reveal IRS official Lois Lerner called conservatives
'crazies' and 'a**holes' as Eric Holder comes under new pressure to investigate
“Obama military downsizing leaves U.S. too weak to counter global threats, panel finds.”
11.4 million Americans age 16 and over have left the
workforce since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to data
released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
More than 35 percent of Americans have debts and unpaid
bills that have been reported to collection agencies, according to a study
released Tuesday by the Urban Institute.
California’s experience with ObamaCare portends a dubious
future for the nation. “Californians endured premium rate increases ranging
from 22 percent to 88 percent from last year to this year.
Huh? On Sunday,
President Obama and First Lady Michelle released a statement thanking Muslim
Americans for “..building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the
core of our democracy.”
Officials at some Denver homeless shelters say the
legalization of marijuana has contributed to an increase in the number of
younger people living on the city's streets.
But the New York Times’ editorial board called on the
federal government to legalize marijuana.
An Iowa race that was pegged just a
couple of weeks ago as leaning Democratic is now considered to be at the
epicenter of the GOP battle to reclaim power in the U.S. Senate. Just 100 days
out from election day, national prognosticators say Democrat Tom Harkin´s seat
seems an even bet to fall into Republican hands.
“Skinny-Dipping Joe Biden Offends
Female Secret Service Agents”
“Oregon school district halts condom giveaway to 6th graders
amid community uproar.” Sign on the condom jar:
“Condoms for students only, 3 per day”
Atheists in Oregon
are warning parents that a Christian organization will damage their children
through its summer “Good News” program in the Portland area. Portland
atheists paid for a full-page newspaper ad to oppose the outreach. "They
claim that we have a damaging message to the children.”
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Investor’s Business Daily 7/22 “The
Obama Promise Of Amnesty Drives The Border Surge”
As the great wave of illegals continues to wash over our
border, Sen. Ted Cruz puts his finger on the magnet: President Obama's promise
of amnesty — an incentive unlike any other.
'The cause of this crisis is the promise of amnesty,"
the Texas Republican said over the weekend. "In 2011, there were roughly
6,000 children apprehended coming in illegally. Then in 2012, President Obama
unilaterally granted amnesty to some 800,000 people who were here illegally,
who entered as children. The direct foreseeable consequence of that was the number
of unaccompanied children skyrocketed." His summary of the problem is
indisputable.
Obama not only triggered this crisis by failing to protect
the border and faithfully execute immigration laws, he has actively dangled
incentives to ensure more illegal immigrants. This is why we now have 90,000
unaccompanied illegal immigrant children from Honduras, Guatemala and El
Salvador at our Texas border for this year, with estimates for next year at
160,000.
To be fair, the amnesty idea didn't start with Obama.
Central Americans have been recipients of amnesties for decades after various
wars and natural disasters, no fewer than six since 1986. This has made amnesty
expectations a way of life for the past generation. And it's why one-third of
the population of El Salvador already lives in the U.S., and the government is
structurally dependent on immigrant remittances for roughly one-sixth of the
nation's GDP.
But there's zero doubt that Obama has turbocharged the
amnesty promises as Democratic party operatives have talked up amnesty as a
surefire winner for votes since at least the 2008 Democratic Convention. The
results are in, and there's a litany of amnesties that's led to expectations of
more amnesty. To wit:
• Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals began in 2012. It's
an end-run around Congress, which had rejected Obama's DREAM Act, and provides
the same benefits to 800,000 illegals brought here as children that the
rejected law would have provided.
• The 2013 Family Interest Directive, first brought to light
by Tara Servatius in the American Thinker. The little-known policy directive
prohibits the Immigration and Customs Enforcement from deporting, arresting or
even detaining any illegal immigrant who is the caretaker of a child, related
or not. Any question as to why there are women and children at the border?
• A new executive order in the works to legalize about half
of the 11 million current illegal immigrants in the U.S. before the midterm
elections, as reported in the National Journal. Amnesty, anyone?
• And whether Obama says he has anything to do with it or
not, federal judges are now granting asylum to roughly two-thirds of illegals
seeking it.
That's amnesty once more. Give credit to Ted Cruz.
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/072114-709701-obama-promise-of-amnesty-drives-illegal-immigration.htm#ixzz38DslFALM
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“While cynical
politicians prattle on about protecting the American Dream, they’re working
together to destroy it. If these elected officials care so much about reducing
poverty, why are they working so hard to import more of it from around the
world? Leaders in both political parties have thrown struggling Americans under
the bus to feed the cheap illegal alien labor machine. … The real crisis is not
at the border. It’s being fomented inside our nation’s capital. The ‘border
crisis’ is a bipartisan D.C. catastrophe of craven politicians abandoning their
constitutional duties to defend our sovereignty and put American workers
first.”
-Michelle Malkin
“The National Security Council met in the White House Monday
to discuss the Palestinian and Israeli conflict raging into its third week. We
may get involved at the highest level. President Obama is keen to fly to Israel
and play the new two-thousand-hole golf course in Gaza.”
-Argus
Hamilton
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LEFTIST WATCH
Mediatracker, a website that tracks media stories and works
for transparency in government, has uncovered a heretofore unknown group made
up of some of the most powerful and influential leftists in the country. The
private Google group known as "Gamechanger Salon" features a
veritable who´s who of far left heavy hitting political activists….the
advantage of a group like this is that talking points and political attacks can
be highly coordinated.
A pro-pot activist claims he arranged for the planting of
the notorious white flags on the Brooklyn Bridge. “It’s a political statement …
Like, wiping your a** with the American flag,” he said.
A California labor union wants a school district to teach
children that cop killer Abu-Jamal is a civil rights hero, comparing him to
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Left-wing anti-Semitism is anything
but a new phenomenon. “How, as a
socialist, can you not be an anti-Semite?” Adolf Hitler asked his party members
in 1920. No one thought it an odd question. Anti-Semitism was at that time
widely understood to be part of the wider revolutionary movement against
markets, property and capital. The man who coined the term “socialism,” the
nineteenth-century French revolutionary, Pierre Leroux, had told his comrades:
“When we speak of the Jews, we mean the Jewish spirit--the spirit of profit, of
lucre, of gain, of speculation; in a word, the banker’s spirit.”
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ISLAM
Word came Tuesday that now a third UN school in Gaza was
housing rockets for Hamas.
Hillary Clinton excuses the hiding of rockets in
schools: "Gaza is small……I´m not a
military planner but Hamas puts it´s missiles, it´s rockets in civilian areas,
part of it is Gaza is pretty small and it’s densely populated.”
Over eighty kilograms of explosives were built right into
the UN-funded hospital´s walls in Gaza, revealing that the clinic itself was
built to get blown up intentionally so Israel could be blamed.
Hamas killed hundreds of children
in the construction of its extensive tunnel network, built partly to carry out
attacks on children across the Gaza border in Israel. That report--confirmed by
Hamas itself--emerged in 2012, not from the Israeli government, but the
sympathetic Journal of Palestine Studies.
Al Qaeda has secretly collected at least $125 million in
kidnapping ransoms from European governments looking to buy back hostages from
Africa and the Middle East, a report claimed Tuesday.
Maylasian politicians and religious leaders have attacked
the use of Scottie dogs during the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony,
claiming it was disrespectful to Muslims.
Around 40 Scottie dogs were used in the opening ceremony in Glasgow last
Wednesday to lead teams around Celtic Park.
The dogs, which all wore tartan dog coats with the name of each team on
them, were widely praised on social media, with many people stating they
thought they had "stolen the show".
Many Muslims refuse to have direct contact with dogs, which are
considered by some to be "unclean" in Islamic culture. Some overseas
Muslim groups have reportedly called for a “jihad on dogs.”
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GLOBALONEY
Coolest Summer On Record In The US. The only other year which came close was
1992, and that was due to dust in the atmosphere from Mt Pinatubo.
This is what Obama is using the Department of Homeland
Security for: a recent federal raid of a
South Carolinian’s home to confiscate a Land Rover…..she was told the agents
seized the vehicle because they thought it violated the Clean Air Act — “though
at the time, they weren’t completely sure.” She also said her vehicle was just one of 40
that feds seized in various locations that same day for the same reason. “I’m
sad because I owned the car. It’s just an iconic car. I’m in disbelief … and
surprised that somebody can come in and take your property,” she told Fox News.
“It’s scary, it’s scary when it happens to you.” WBTV reported that she had
invested more than $60,000 in to the vehicle, which she bought online last
year.
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ARTICLES
The weird U.S. politics of 2014: Democrats dream of Obama´s impeachment
Talk of impeaching President Barack Obama, which gained
steam when Sarah Palin gave voice to it three weeks ago, has started reaping
dividends for the Democrats. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair
Steve Israel (D-NY) said Tuesday that Republican musing about impeachment and
House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) planned lawsuit against Obama over the
delaying of the ACA individual mandate had compelled Democratic voters to
donate.
“A good friend of mine apologized to me today. You see, he
voted for Barack Hussein Obama in the 2008 election and he lives in a so-called
“swing state.” He told me that he had not voted for Obama in the 2012 election,
but that he realized that by supporting him in 2008, he had help unleash a
deadly virus onto the American scene. He simply said he was sorry.”
“Barack Obama has
already checked out of his job. The
degree to which Barack Obama is now phoning it in – sleepwalking perfunctorily
through his second term, amid golf rounds and dinner parties – is astonishing “
Growing Up American: Small-Town Dog
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WEBSITES
Kremlin mocks Obama by tweeting ‘unmanly’ photo of
president. Deputy prime minister posts a picture on his Twitter account of
President Vladimir Putin petting a leopard next to one of Mr Obama holding a
fluffy poodle, with the caption “we have different values and allies.”
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Scorched earth: Over a HUNDRED homes burned to the ground as
huge Washington wildfire burns.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698079/All-watch-Residents-massive-wildfire-burned-Washington-town-ground-fears-grow-wall-fire-claim-second-community.html#ixzz38gFQ1zle
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WISE WORDS
“It will be of little avail to the
people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so
voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be
understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or
undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day,
can guess what it will be to-morrow.”
–James Madison
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