op ed review 4/19
THE OP-ED
REVIEW 4/19 Number 766
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
As they rush to file their taxes by April 15, Ameri9cans are
rightfully frustrated with the complexity of the 74,608-page-long federal tax
code. The federal tax code is 187 times longer than it was a century ago.
President Obama puts an end to the Monroe Doctrine,
indicating the United States will no longer act to resist overseas influence in
the Hemisphere.
Instead, Obama is applying the “Gruber Doctrine” — this time
to foreign policy. The Gruber Doctrine is based on the premise that, in the
words of the now infamous MIT professor, “lack of transparency is a huge
political advantage” and that the “basic exploitation of the lack of ...
understanding of the American voter” is “really, really critical” for enacting
your preferred policies.
Obama believes that the ‘special relationship’ between
Britain and the US is over.
The day after President Obama announced the removal of Cuba
from the Sponsors of Terror list, Cuban supported leftist FARC guerrillas
killed 10 Columbian soldiers and wounded 17.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously backs bill
demanding congressional vote on Iran deal.
"No U.S. leader has ever empowered a nuclear suicide
cult. No U.S. president before this one could even imagine doing something so
monstrous. Obama has gone rogue."
Wealthy Hillary Clinton wants to be a champion for “everyday
Americans.” Clinton's press office left
an embarrassing typo in its press announcement, saying that she had 'fought
children and families all her career'
Hillary travels to Iowa in the back
of a van. “It's unlikely Hillary is
behind the wheel: She said last year that she hadn't driven a car since 1996.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3036385/ROAD-TRIP-Hillary-Clinton-starts-presidential-campaign-1-000-mile-journey-rural-Iowa-VAN-poses-pics-gas-station.html#ixzz3XCd3bUbH
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3036385/ROAD-TRIP-Hillary-Clinton-starts-presidential-campaign-1-000-mile-journey-rural-Iowa-VAN-poses-pics-gas-station.html#ixzz3XCd3bUbH
“Reward Offered For First Photos of Hillary in Scooby Van!”
Hillary Clinton's presidential
campaign announcement was not met with the positive response her team would
have been hoping for
Hillary and her support groups are opening a massive
fundraising effort to collect a historically-high $2.5 billion to win the White
House. That amounts to $37.92 per vote
in the general election for the Democrat, more than ever spent in a national
campaign. The math is based on the votes received by President Obama in his
reelection, 65,915,796.
Pentagon deploys “may I kiss you” training for troops. An
issue that could “dramatically affect” the mission of the United States Armed
Forces is telling soldiers when it is okay to kiss a girl.
According to a Defense Department approved “sexism course,”
the Bible, the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence all
contribute to modern sexism. Those three cherished texts all count as
“historical influences that allow sexism to continue,” according to a
presentation prepared by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute,
whose mission is to give a ”world-class human relations education.”
Obama’s surrogates in the military have made it clear to
Christian chaplains that they should stay silent or leave.
Rubio launches his White House bid with a speech: “Just yesterday, a leader from yesterday
(Hillary) began a campaign for President by promising to take us back to
yesterday. But yesterday is over, and
we are never going back.”
A major Appalachian coal mining company is laying off
hundreds of workers in West Virginia and blaming the lost jobs on President
Obama’s environmental policies.
Democrats made a big show Tuesday of promoting equal pay for
women, unfazed by data showing that both President Obama and leading presidential
contender Hillary Clinton haven’t walked the walk on pay equity.
Rand Paul had a good suggestion for the press last week: Why
don’t you hacks start asking Democrats the same kind of loaded, gotcha,
when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife questions that you always throw at
Republicans?
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2015/04/carr_right_questions_left_out
ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso,
Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources that include a Mexican Army field
grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector.
Unless Congress moves to limit current legal immigration
rates, the U.S. will add at least 10 million more legal immigrants over the
next decade — more than the combined populations of seven major cities,
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Obama as Nuclear
Arsonist
By James Lewis
Obama is the most
dangerous president in history. He lied when promising the world that the
U.S. would never allow Iran’s war fanatics to have nuclear weapons. While
Obama was demagogically repeating, “Never! Never!,” his alter ego Val Jarrett
carried on secret talks with the mullahs, resulting in today’s total surrender.
Today we have a fuzzy “framework” (that Iran denies even agreeing to), which
gives the world thirteen years before the mullahs can set off Armageddon.
After thirteen years, all bets are off, assuming the enemy doesn’t
violate its “promises” tomorrow, which it has a long history of doing. This is
not sane.
Dick Cheney has
correctly called Obama “the worst president in history.” I think history will
brand him with that flaming scarlet letter, because no U.S. leader has ever
empowered a nuclear suicide cult. No U.S.
president before this one could even imagine doing something so monstrous. Obama has gone rogue.
Arab nations are also in danger of nuclear Armageddon from
the mullahs, or blackmail under a threat of total
destruction. Israel is officially target
#1, but it is ready to retaliate with overwhelming force.
My guess is therefore that Saudi Arabia will be the first big target
for Iranian assault. The Iranians have
already taken over the strategic country of Yemen, encircling Saudi Arabia from
the south. They also threaten Arabia
from their side of the narrow Gulf, and they have developed a giant pincer
movement to surround Israel and aim at Egypt and Arabia.
Khomeinist Shi’ites have always believed they are divinely entitled to
Arabia, with the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Today they are closer to that goal than ever
before, simply by waging proxy terrorist war in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and
Yemen. Already they threaten Arabia
across the Gulf. The mullahs can choke
off the world’s oil supply when the time is right, and nuclear weapons will
keep them immune to retaliation.
Our puffed-up, preening hero is therefore the most dangerous character
in history. Bar none. Never before
has an American president surrendered to a fanatical suicide cult with nukes.
Now Obama tells us three lies. One
is that this sleazy deal is the best we can possibly get. The second lie is that the only alternative
is war. The third lie is that Obama’s
“framework” isn’t a “treaty” at all – so it doesn’t need to meet the constitutional
standard of advice and consent by the U.S. Senate.
This is just like that used car salesman telling you not to bother
reading the fine print. Hurry! Hurry!
Sign now, or you’ll miss your last chance! This “deal” is so full of holes it’s hard to
see any paper. No sane person believes
it. Henry Kissinger and George P. Shultz
took it apart in the Wall Street Journal last week.
Four-star admiral James (“Ace”) Lyons is telling us outright that Obama
has let the U.S. government be penetrated and sabotaged by the fascist Muslim
Brotherhood, which has long-proclaimed genocidal goals. They are just like the mullahs. If it were up to Obama, we would be
threatened by nuclear Arabs as well as nuclear Iranians. Fortunately, Egypt caught the Muslim
Brotherhood in time and knocked down Mohammed Morsi, who is now in jail.
Obama commands the greatest military force in history, and he’s done
nothing but sabotage them under cover of “peace” negotiations. Prime Minister Chamberlain’s infamous
appeasement with Hitler was at least negotiated in good faith on the British
side. Churchill’s comment on Chamberlain’s appeasement should ring in our ears
today: "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose
dishonor, and you will have war."
That is the whole point the left pretends not to know. Obama is not avoiding war. Everything he has done in the last six years
increases the chance of war, which is already going on everywhere Obama tried
to fix things. The latest U.S. defeat is
in Yemen, but we’ve knocked down the pillars of stability in Egypt, Libya,
Syria, and Iraq. In Eastern Europe we’ve
endangered the Ukraine (now being torn apart by Putin), but Putin has
threatened everybody in sight.
The only regime we’ve respected is Iran’s openly genocidal cult. Obama tried to overthrow Israel’s elected
government more than once, and Israel is stable today in spite of
Obama – no thanks to his repeated attempts at sabotage.
Obama has never shown good faith in anything. He is simply an enemy of this country and the
civilized world. “Why?” is irrelevant.
We can see it every day.
The U.S. Constitution, which Obama publicly despises, has a very clear
definition of treason: “aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war.” Judge Andrew Napolitano thinks that Obama has
already crossed that threshold and can be charged with and tried for
treason. Any trial will expose a huge
cesspool of provable betrayals by both Obama and Hillary Clinton, exposing many
others in this administration.
At some point, the sane and sensible people of this country will have
to have it out. The Senate is now trying to respond with SB 6615, the
Corker-Menendez bill, now in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It states that the U.S. Senate must be
consulted on this suicidal surrender to the war cult. You can call your
senators and House members. If Congress
does not stand up for its constitutional powers, Obama will get his way. We
have to be heard. We must act now.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“I love conservative
guerilla street art. Among other things,
it conveys the message that the establishment is controlled by the left, and
conservatives are the true rebels. Owing
to the nature of hormonal development, teens and young adults have a need to
rebel. As it happens, the education industry,
within which most young people live, is overwhelmingly leftist, so if they are
to rebel, they ought to be conservative. They just don’t know it yet.”
-Thomas Lifson
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ISLAM
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has released a
new video showing what appears to be the terror group´s destruction of an
ancient city in Iraq. It was a city that stood for 3,000 years, reduced to dust
in a matter of seconds.
The University of Michigan is the latest American campus
determined to prove that the central premise of higher education — the free and
open exchange of competing ideas — is a cruel hoax. Last Tuesday, in a spasm of
oh-so familiar political correctness, UM initially canceled a scheduled showing
of “American Sniper” after 300 students and others whined about the “negative
and misleading stereotypes” of Muslims portrayed in the film.
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ARTICLES
Natan Sharansky:
“When did America forget that it’s America?......in today’s postmodern
world, when asserting the superiority of liberal democracy over other regimes
seems like the quaint relic of a colonialist past, even the United States
appears to have lost the courage of its convictions.”
One of the most frustrating aspects of the loud and
vitriolic debates over police shootings is the extent to which they ignore
common sense and human nature. In the quest to find grand narratives, we’re too
quick to discount the simple realities of how human beings react during times
of stress, and we minimize the reciprocal moral and legal responsibilities that
citizens owe police and police owe citizens.
“It has been a couple of months since Barack Obama suggested
that the Crusades were somehow on a par with, or even a justification for,
21st-century Islamic terrorism. I objected to Obama’s casual slur at the link,
saying, among other things: There was nothing wrong, in principle, with the
Crusades. They were an appropriate (if belated and badly managed) response to
the conquest of the Holy Land by Islam……the most unfortunate thing about the
Crusades is that they failed.”
Right to Bear Arms? Gun grabbing
sweeping the nation…..
“Let's say you live in the great state of Maine, down on
your luck and needing some kind of social safety net to get you through. Would
you say that spending at least 20 hours volunteering, working or participating
in a work-training program is a fair trade-off for getting on the state's food
stamp program? Even if you spend all your time playing "Call of
Duty," surely you could carve out some time on the weekends to volunteer
at the local animal shelter. But that requirement was too tough for 9,000
Mainiacs. Some 12,000 people were on Maine's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program before Jan. 1. After the government started enforcing the 20-hour rule,
however, only 2,680 people stayed.”
The Greatest Setback for Cancer Research Is Obamacare
“Some little bakeries operated by Christians, Muslims and
Jewish bakers don’t want to place plastic figurines of a same-sex couple atop a
wedding cake on the grounds that doing so violates their faith. The Indiana law
says that these little, family bakeries don’t have to. The Left, naturally, sees this as a big
problem. (Forget about nukes in Iran. The Left is worried about wedding cakes
in Indiana.) Let’s be clear about what
this half-baked “problem” is and what it isn’t. It isn’t that gays are unable
to find a bakery to make a gay cake. Nearly all bakeries will. The people who
finally found ones that refused were not actually looking to buy a cake, but to
pick a fight. And the problem isn’t that
these rare religious bakers are out to prohibit gayness. They aren’t. They
simply don’t want their private, family-owned businesses endorsing it. So the real “problem” that the Left sees here
is not that gayness is being prohibited, because it’s not. It’s that religion
is being allowed. To address this “problem”
of religious people practicing their religion, the Left mobilizes their usual
arsenal of shouting, name-calling, mockery and intimidation.”
Prager: Hillary
Clinton has announced that she is running to be the next President of the
United States. What her likely nomination says about the Democratic party and
tens of millions of Americans is depressing. Other than Barack Obama — whose
résumé consisted of being a charismatic black — it is hard to come up with a
less accomplished individual who has run for president in our lifetime.
A brief guide to Clinton scandals
from Travelgate to Emailgate
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
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About 5,500 more people could survive a major tsunami
hitting the Pacific Northwest if they just walk a little faster to higher
ground after roads are knocked out, a new study shows.
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WISE WORDS
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit,
and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from
the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are
rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."
-Joseph Story, 1833
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