op ed review 11/2
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
The Republicans are set to win the overall control of the
Senate, according to new polling which gives the GOP leads in almost all the
key battleground states
New Your Times predicts Republicans have a 70%
chance of taking the Senate.
Washington
Post: Republicans are favored to
control the Senate. 95% chance
as of today.
Shocking Harvard poll: Millennial voters want GOP in charge,
abandon Obama
Obama Visits Maryland; Local Democrat Drops 9 Points in
poll?
“President Obama is
about to do what no president has done in the past 50 years: Have two horrible,
terrible, awful midterm elections in a row. In fact, Obama is likely to have
the worst midterm numbers of any two-term president going back to Democrat
Harry S. Truman.”
USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page offered some of
the sharpest criticism yet of the Obama administration´s violation of the
freedom of the press, saying Obama is "more restrictive" and
"more dangerous" than any president in history.
Blue or Democratic cities seem to have worse income
inequality and less affordable housing than red ones.
State Department plans to bring foreign Ebola patients to
U.S.
The mainstream media
insists that Obamacare isn’t driving this election. But Republican ads in Senate races say
otherwise. Republicans ran nearly 12,000 anti-Obamacare ads in Senate
races during the week of October 13-19. That’s almost twice as many ads as they
ran on jobs/unemployment, more than twice as many as they ran on international
affairs, and more than three times as many as they ran on taxes.
Obamacare was supposed to make health care more affordable,
but a newly released study of insurance policies before and after Obamacare
shows that average premiums have skyrocketed, for some groups by as much as 78
percent.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/28/obamacare-sends-health-premiums-skyrocketing-by-as/#ixzz3HXuZKLsA
Over 214,000 Doctors Opt Out of Obamacare Exchanges
A new study in New Hampshire has found that 71 percent of
new jobs go to foreign born legal and illegal immigrants.
Nancy Pelosi says Obama must stop deportations and allow
entry to millions more illegal immigrants.
The Hispanic activist organization the National Council of
La Raza helpfully promoted a Washington Post article explaining which states
people can vote in without having to use a photo ID.
Obama Official Calls Israeli Prime Minister A ‘Chickens**t’
RNC Chair promises:
“GOP Will Stop Obama's 'Un-American' Amnesty if We Win Senate”
Barack Obama is close to having played more rounds of golf
since 2009 than Tiger Woods.
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Frank Miele 10/26
“Obama’s post-election plans for a secret radical agenda”
He’s the Staller in Chief — President Obama has punted
almost every hot-button issue past the key midterm elections on Nov. 4. Obama
has postponed decisions on a raft of contentious issues related to ObamaCare,
Gitmo, immigration and his Cabinet. This is partly to protect Democratic
candidates and hold onto the Senate. But it’s more than that. Obama plans a
number of radical moves later this year when the administration believes the
media, and the public, are paying less attention. This includes a forced
transformation of our neighborhoods, a huge influx of immigrants and billions
of dollars in additional taxes.
Will midterm voters really be fooled? Probably not.
Republicans are expected to hold both the Senate and the House starting in the
next term. But whether anyone can stop the executive actions Obama quietly
plans is another matter. In fact, the president is hoping you don’t even
notice.
Immigration: In
June, Obama vowed “to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own,
without Congress,” but now he’s taking no executive action on immigration until
after the midterms.
The White House reportedly is preparing to provide amnesty
for millions of illegal immigrants in late November, including work permits and
green cards for up to 34 million. Immigration and border security have become
the most divisive and important issues of this election cycle, thanks to
growing threats from Islamic terrorists and Ebola. Most Americans already opposed
amnesty…..
War on terror: Even
though the Army’s investigation into Bowe Bergdahl’s desertion of his post in
Afghanistan is complete, the results won’t be released until Pentagon brass can
“review” it. That’s bureaucrat-speak for “bury.” There’s little doubt election politics
factored into the delay. The case has become a political powder keg for
President Obama and Democrats. The GOP would justifiably make great hay of the
report, especially if it absolves Bergdahl of any wrongdoing. Since the president
traded five imprisoned Taliban leaders for Bergdahl, the US Government
Accountability Office has declared the swap illegal, and nearly two dozen House
Democrats have joined Republicans in officially condemning the move for making
“Americans less safe.”…..
Environment: The Environmental Protection Agency is expected
to release new power-plant restrictions that will cost the industry some $366
billion, but the onerous rules won’t be finalized until later this year.
This looks to be just the beginning of more regulations and
fines Obama will pursue without congressional approval to pursue his
environmental visions.
Oil: Obama also
refuses to make a pre-election decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline. A move on
the massive oil and gas pipeline, opposed by environmental activists, has been
delayed for six years. Now it has been delayed again by the president, who
fears angering his environmental allies.
ObamaCare: The
administration has announced that health-insurance premium rates on the
ObamaCare exchange won’t be available until Nov. 15, when the Healthcare.gov
website is set to start enrolling people for 2015. How politically convenient. Rates
are expected to go up by a whopping 14%, but voters won’t know because they
won’t be revealed until after the election. Last year, enrollment began on Oct.
1. Clearly, the date was pushed back to hide the increases from the voting
public…..
Iranian nukes: Obama
is expected to hand even more concessions to Iran in pursuit of a nuclear deal
— but not until after Election Day. As part of the pact, set for Nov. 24, Obama
is reportedly prepared to suspend economic sanctions against Tehran and allow
it to triple the number of centrifuges in operation — an outrageous deal no
Democrat would want to defend in televised debates.
Housing: After a
delay, the administration’s final “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing”
regulation is now expected to be announced in December. Originally scheduled
for finalization in October, the new Housing and Urban Development Department
rules will force all cities and suburbs to accept subsidized housing in the
name of racial diversity, superceding all local zoning ordinances. The
Orwellian-sounding regulation would force some 1,200 municipalities to redraw
zoning maps to racially diversify suburban neighborhoods…….Under the scheme,
HUD plans to map every US neighborhood by race and publish “geospatial data”
pinpointing racial imbalances. Areas deemed overly segregated will be forced to
change their zoning laws to allow construction of subsidized and other
affordable housing to bring more low-income minorities into “white suburbs.”
HUD’s maps will be used to select affordable housing sites. It’s part of the administration’s ambitious
agenda to eliminate “racial segregation,” ZIP code by ZIP code, block by block,
through the systematic dismantling of allegedly “exclusionary” building
ordinances. In effect, federal bureaucrats will have the power to rezone your
neighborhood.
Of course, Obama and Democrats are loath to inject this decidedly
radical issue into the elections, so they’ll keep it out of the headlines until
after voters go to the polls. While
temporarily punting away politically fraught issues may be smart politics, it’s
cowardly leadership. If the president’s policies are so popular, why does he
have to try to hide them from voters? And who can trust Democrats now
distancing themselves from him and his ideas when they voted with him 99% of
the time previously?
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“There is only one real problem in America – progressivism.
Left untreated, that political cancer will metastasize and kill our country.
Destroying progressivism must be our sole goal – and we need to do it with a
smile so we don’t scare the gutless moderates.”
-Kurt Schlichter
“According to the Pew Global Poll, 95% of people in Vietnam
agree that most people are better off under capitalism, even if there is
inequality. By contrast, only 70% of Americans believe the same thing.”
-Glenn Reynolds
“Poverty is not a cause but a result of Africa’s problems.
What African countries need the West cannot provide. They need personal
liberty. That means a political system in which there are guarantees of private
property rights, free markets, honest government and the rule of law. Africa’s
poverty is, for the most part, self-inflicted. … Though there’s a strong case
for us to help with the Ebola crisis, the worst thing Westerners could do to
Africa would be to send more foreign aid. Foreign aid provides the financial
resources that enable Africa’s grossly corrupt and incompetent regimes to buy
military equipment, pay off cronies and continue to oppress their people. It
also provides resources for the leaders to live lavishly and set up
‘retirement’ accounts in foreign banks.”
-Walter Williams
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BOOKS
Ex-CBS reporter’s book reveals how liberal media
protects Obama
She also reveals how she was spied on by a
“government-related entity” that planted classified documents on her computer.
The spyware included programs that Attkisson says monitored her every keystroke
and gave the snoops access to all her e-mails and the passwords to her
financial accounts. The most shocking
finding, she says, was the discovery of three classified documents that she was
told were “buried deep in your operating system. In a place that, unless you’re
a some kind of computer whiz specialist, you wouldn’t even know exists.” “They probably planted them to be able to
accuse you of having classified documents if they ever needed to do that at
some point.”
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LEFTIST WATCH
DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz: “Republicans Are Scarier Than
Ebola, ISIS”
Satire, but it shouldn’t be:
“The Executive Committee of the National Democratic Committee announced
today that starting in January 2015, the organization would be known as the
Socialist Democratic Committee. Spokesperson and Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman
Shultz said, “this was a change that has been a long time in the making.” “We
have been considering changing the name to better reflect our goals and show
solidarity with our brothers in Europe and it seemed like the time was right to
implement the change.”
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GLOBALONEY
US Having Its Coolest Year On Record
Earliest snowfall on record in South Carolina
An Australian climate change lobby group has faced a
backlash after creating a billboard advert comparing coal miners to
paedophiles.
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ISLAM
Despite Barack
Hussein Obama’s pandering, a preponderance of evidence suggests that ISIS is as
Muslim as Mecca. The immediate future and that passive aggressive Islamic mainstream
will determine whether all of Islam becomes ISIS. Short of a declaration of
war, it’s hard to know what side of history the fearful West and the theocratic
East will favor. Truth doesn’t care whom she offends. History is written by
winners. A declared war will eventually be necessary and even then only a total
victory will be sufficient to end the pandering in the West -- and end
caliphate fantasies in the East.
“The beheadings and the violence practiced by [the Islamic
State] are not whimsical, crazed fanaticism, but a very deliberate, considered
strategy…..”
Poster girl for Kurdish freedom fighters
in Kobane is ´captured and beheaded by
ISIS killers´ who posted gruesome
pictures online
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ARTICLES
A trend seen by prolife activists that frequently engage
college students on campuses nationwide is the growing acceptance of post-birth
abortion, or killing the infant after he or she is born. “We encounter people who think it is morally
acceptable to kill babies after birth on a regular basis at almost every campus
we visit……[I] talked with one young man at the University of Minnesota who
thought it was alright to kill children if they were under the age of 5 years
old, as he did not consider them persons until that age.” As for the trend,
Garza said there’s an explanation for it. For one, the arguments put forth by
Peter Singer and other philosophers who support infanticide are given as
reading assignments to college students.
“Wendy Davis is on fire. And I don’t mean that in a good
way. I mean it in a five-alarm, set-her-own-skirt-aflame, billowing-human-torch
kind of way….The Democratic darling of the Hollywood Left and glamour gal of
abortion thought her path to the Texas governor’s mansion would be a
pink-sneakered walk in the park. Instead, her single-issue campaign has combusted.
Do It Yourself (DIY) is in decline because today's men are
too soft. As traditional roles have
changed, today's men are more like their mothers than their fathers. No wonder
DIY is dying out, says Martin Daubney
The “Freedom Summer” of 2014 started with a bang but appears
to be ending with a whimper. Before the investigation had even begun, the
progressive narrative of the death of Michael Brown had crystallized: A white
police officer murdered a young, unarmed black man trying to surrender with his
hands up — the latest example of the systemic racism that renders black
Americans de facto second-class citizens. But that story has all but collapsed.
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This Free Voter Guide
is an unbiased evaluation of candidates and a detailed summary of important
information that will help inform you on where the candidates stand on
important issues like religious liberty, marriage, and life.
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WISE WORDS
“Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved
very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent
obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for
preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.”
-C S Lewis
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