op ed review 2/29
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Amnesty Beneficiaries Could Claim More Than $35K In Tax
Benefits In First Year
President Obama warns Immigration and Customs Enforcement
officers: implement executive amnesty, or else.
Texas Governor: Since Jan. 1, 'We Have Had More Than 20,000
People Come Across the Border'
President Obama is inviting previously deported illegal
immigrants back to work in the United States under a deal approved this week by
a federal judge.
HHS has confirmed that abortion is one of the medical
services that must be made available to illegal alien unaccompanied minors
Oregon Democrat lets the cat out of the bag: admits that the fight for amnesty for illegal
immigrants is the “civil rights battle” that will “decide who controls the
country”.
In March 2009 Hillary Clinton announced
that the Obama Adminstration was going to “push the reset button” with the
Russians. This week Russia pushed its own reset button…Russians paraded a missile on Army Day marked “to be personally delivered
to Obama.”
Today’s vote by a
bitterly divided FCC that the Internet should be regulated as a public utility
is the culmination of a decade-long battle by the Left. Using money from George
Soros and liberal foundations that totaled at least $196 million radical
activists finally succeeded in ramming through “net neutrality,” or the idea
that all data should be transmitted equally over the Internet. The final push
involved unprecedented political pressure exerted by the Obama White House on
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, head of an ostensibly independent regulatory body.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414483/comrades-net-neutrality-john-fund
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414483/comrades-net-neutrality-john-fund
Obama's regulations will make Internet slow as in Europe,
warn FCC, FEC commissioners.
FCC Chair refuses to appear before Congress ahead of
internet takeover.
Anti-Semitism Soaring on U.S. College Campuses
Florist Barronelle Stutzman
has rejected a deal by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson that
would have forced her to betray her religious beliefs and start providing
flowers for gay weddings.
Sen. Jim Inhofe, who chairs the Environment and Public Works
Committee, tossed a snowball on the Senate floor as part of a speech expressing
skepticism about the reality of climate change. "Mr. President, Catch
this," Inhofe said before tossing the snowball underhand.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/watch-jim-inhofe-throw-a-snowball-on-the-senate-floor-20150226
More than 16,900 federal employees took home in excess of
$200,000 in base salary in 2014, according to a partial database of federal
salary data.
Suffice it to say Hugh Hewitt is no Candy Crowley. The
conservative radio host is scheduled to moderate the first of three GOP
presidential primary debates starting in September.
White House that promised transparency refuses to cooperate
with IRS probe: “doesn’t have time”
“American
Diaper” wins Oscar.
Emotional American Sniper widow holds her husband´s dog tags
at the Oscars as the popular movie is entirely SNUBBED by the Academy
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Phyllis
Schlafly 2/24
"It hit a nerve," Rudy
Giuliani observed about his widely reported insight that President Obama does
not love America. Amid the uproar from the liberal media that anyone would dare
question a liberal's patriotism, the former mayor of New York City is not backing
away from his candid comment, telling the New York Times that "I said
exactly what I wanted to say. I conveyed exactly the message that I wanted to
convey."
Giuliani's on-target comments hit
the same nerve that has produced an uproar over the new Advanced Placement U.S.
History Framework, which is teaching 500,000 of our brightest college-bound
high school seniors to be ashamed instead of proud of our country. A half-dozen
states have introduced legislation demanding changes in the APUSH Framework,
which minimizes the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers and the
exceptional greatness of our country, in order to give disproportionate
emphasis to the grievances of minorities.
The former mayor observed that
Obama criticizes our country "much more often than other American
presidents," both Republican and Democrat. He added that Obama "was
educated by people who were critics of the U.S. And he has not been able to
overcome those influences."
"From the time he was 9
years old, he was influenced by Frank Marshall Davis, who was a
communist," Giuliani pointed out. As a young "community
organizer," Obama was influenced by the radical socialist Saul Alinsky,
who was also the subject of Hillary Rodham's 92-page senior thesis at Wellesley
College.
Giuliani continued: "He
spent 17 years in the church of Jeremiah Wright, and this is the guy who said
'God damn America, not God bless America.'" Giuliani has, in fact, been making many
comments like these, without much media attention. But this time the comment
was made in the presence of a leading presidential candidate, Scott Walker, who
refused to criticize Giuliani's remark despite pressure to do so.
"The mayor can speak for
himself," Walker told a reporter who demanded to know if Walker agrees
with the mayor that Obama does not love America. "You should ask the
president what he thinks about America."
Another prospective presidential
candidate, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, reportedly telephoned Giuliani to
congratulate him for his comments. Publicly, Jindal said, "The gist of
what Mayor Giuliani said ... is true," adding, "If you are looking
for someone to condemn the mayor, look elsewhere."
Jindal also stood by his own
remarks that criticized "non-assimilation" by immigrants to our country.
He described as "dangerous" the "people who want to come to our
country but not adopt our values," including our English language, adding
that "it is absolutely correct to insist on assimilation" by
immigrants to America.
Responses by other Republican
presidential candidates to Giuliani's insight have been less impressive. Jeb
Bush and Rand Paul were quick to run from Giuliani's remarks by insisting they
would not question Obama's "motives," while Marco Rubio and Lindsey
Graham both said they have "no doubt" that President Obama loves
America. And 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney's chief foreign policy
adviser, Dan Senor, told CNBC that it is "insane" to question
"whether or not Barack Obama loves America."
While running for president in
2008, Obama criticized Americans in rural Pennsylvania and in small towns in
the Midwest by saying that "they get bitter, they cling to guns or
religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant
sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
That offensive comment was not long after Michelle Obama declared, "Let me
tell you something. For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm proud of my
country."
Obama refers to our nation as
"this" country, as though it is some other country and not
"our" country, as when he said, "There's a long history in this
country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped disproportionately by
the police, and that's a fact." Obama once told a European audience that
"there have been times where America has shown arrogance."
When Obama has expressed
admiration for our country, it is often in a backhanded manner. "I realize
that America's critics will be quick to point out that at times we too have
failed to live up to our ideals; that America has plenty of problems within its
own borders. This is true," Obama declared to the United Nations General
Assembly last year.
By contrast, Mayor Giuliani said,
"with all our flaws, we're the most exceptional country in the world. I'm
looking for a presidential candidate who can express that, do that and carry it
out."
"I want a president who is
not embarrassed to say America is the strongest power on earth," the mayor
continued. "And I want our enemies to be afraid of our president."
“Whenever I hear someone announce that “All religions are a
path to God!” I wonder how it would work if you applied such “tolerance” to,
say, medicine or science. “All medicines are a path to health! You take
antibiotics, I cut the head off a chicken and dance under the full moon, really
what’s the difference as long as we both believe it will
make us well?” Or “All science is a path to progress! You invent an iPhone, I
invent a weaponized disease, it’s all science, man, it’s all great!”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Democrats have for years been questioning the decency of
Republicans as human beings. During the Obamacare rollout, President Obama
accused Republicans of wanting to deprive people of healthcare; he openly
accused President George W. Bush of being ‘unpatriotic’ for raising the
national debt. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that Republicans are
‘indifferent’ to hungry and poor children. Anyone who opposes any aspect of
President Obama’s agenda has been deemed a racist. The point here is not the
media’s double standard, which is egregious but unchangeable. The point is that
this perception of Republicans has pervaded the public arena. Republicans'
fundamental burden is not explaining to the American people that Democrats are
great people, but wrong on policy. Their great burden is overcoming the
generalized perception that they are money-grubbing Snidely Whiplashes bent on
strapping widows and orphans to the train tracks. You cannot overcome that
perception by ardently pleading that the very folks who call you racist,
sexist, homophobic bigots are well-intentioned but incompetent.”
-Ben
Shapiro
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ISLAM
Islamic State in Syria abducts at least 90 Christians. (Beheadings to follow)
Saudi Arabia court gives death penalty to man who renounced
his Muslim faith
American
blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh for 'crime against Islam'...
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LEFTIST WATCH
In September 2013, Jeri Wright, daughter of Reverend “God
Damn America” Wright, and 12 other Democrats were charged with embezzling $16
million in Federal health grants that should have gone to AIDS charities and
other programs for the poor and needy. More than one of the defendants had
direct ties to President Barack Obama. In March 2014 Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s
daughter Jeri was found guilty on eleven counts that included money laundering
and lying to federal agents. This week US District Judge Sue E. Myerscough sent
Jeri Wright to prison.
Immigration lawyer and Obama supporter arrested on federal
fraud charges and for forging applications of illegal immigrants. Sherin Thawer
was invited to the Obama White House last year to discuss immigration reform.
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GLOBALONEY
One of the coldest months on record in Detroit
Cleveland breaks cold record set in 1873
Coldest month in New York City in 80 years.
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ARTICLES
By the time conservative activists leave the nation’s
capital this weekend after their largest annual get-together, they should be
better equipped for the 2016 campaign trail. They also may be a little closer
to uniting behind a candidate for president who can win by addressing the
concerns of everyday Americans. That, at least, is the goal of Matt Schlapp,
who heads the team putting on the Conservative Political Action Conference,
better known as CPAC. “We have to be able to reach [regular Americans] where
they are and explain to them why conservative policies matter,” Schlapp says in
an interview with
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
Map of anti- Christian organizations.
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WISE WORDS
"The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt.
Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression."
-Thomas Jefferson
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