op ed review 5/24
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Smartest President Ever Says Weaponized Chlorine Is Not a Chemical Weapon
Isis ´controls 50% of Syria´after seizing historic city of
Palmyra
The US Lost 1,335 Soldiers in Anbar – ISIS Just Took it Back …Thanks Obama!
Finally, President Obama addressed what he sees as the
nation´s worst security threat, just days after the fall of Ramadi to ISIS and
North Korea´s declaration that it has miniaturized a nuclear warhead to fit on
an ICBM capable of reaching the United States. In a speech to graduates at the
Coast Guard Academy, Obama said, yes, yes, terrorism is a grave danger. But
there´s another one. "We cannot, and we must not, ignore a peril that can
affect generations," the commander-in-chief declared ominously. That
threat? Global warming.
Feds Spent $100
Billion on Food Assistance Last Year: 109,930,090 Americans participated in overlapping programs.
Soon it could be possible to apply for food stamps over the
phone, with proponents arguing that in-person interviews add too much extra
administrative cost.
Immigration: 445,000 awaiting a court date, which might not
come for 4 years
Hillary Rodham Clinton is running as the most liberal
Democratic presidential front-runner in decades, with positions on issues from
gay marriage to immigration that would, in past elections, have put her at her
party’s precarious left edge.
The Clinton foundation took in more than $140 million in
donations in 2013, but spent a comparatively paltry $9 million on direct aid.
ABC News faces credibility crisis over
Stephanopoulos donations, failing to disclose $75,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation.
NBC Universal, News Corporation, Turner Broadcasting and
Thomson Reuters are among more than a dozen media organizations that have made
charitable contributions to the Clinton Foundation in recent years, http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/clinton-foundation-donors-include-dozens-of-media-207228.html
A controversial state-owned Moroccan mining firm that has
poured money into the Clinton Foundation has received more than $92 million in
U.S. taxpayer support, public records show.
Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton earned in
excess of $25 million for delivering more than 100 speeches since the beginning
of 2014, a huge infusion to their net worth as she was readying for a
presidential bid.
Former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell said that he
believes some foreign intelligence agencies possess the contents of Hillary
Clinton’s private email server.
Clinton told a roomful of supporters (behind closed doors)
that as president she would require her Supreme Court nominees to pledge in
advance to overturn the 2010 Citizens United decision. That’s the case where
the high court upheld the right of a conservative group to air its anti-Clinton
documentary, “Hillary: The Movie,” and run ads for it during the 2008
Democratic primaries
A cyber security expert wrote of Clinton’s email use that
“You can liken this to the CFO of Chase taking billions of dollars in cash home
and storing it in the mattress. It’s so inadequate to meeting the risks that it
would be laughable if it weren’t so serious.”
“Remember the protests (and riots) in Ferguson last summer?
It looks like at least some of the protestors were told they would be paid to
show up and now they’re upset the checks haven’t arrived yet,”
The mother of a West Virginia middle schooler who was
suspended for wearing a National Rifle Association t-shirt to school is suing
the Logan County Board of Education for allegedly violating her son’s
constitutional rights.
The Vatican officially recognized the state of Palestine in
a new treaty finalized Wednesday, immediately sparking Israeli ire and
accusations that the move hurt peace prospects.
Pope Francis’ closest adviser castigated conservative
climate change skeptics in the United States, blaming capitalism for their
views.
South Carolina High School gives in on Flag Ban When Student
Shows Up With Squad Of Veterans
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Gates Says Boy Scouts Must Preemptively Surrender 5/22
Nate Jackson
Robert Gates, president of the
Boy Scouts of America, told the organization Thursday at its annual national
meeting that the time has come to end the ban on homosexual adult leaders in
the organization. Citing the wave of cultural changes taking place under threat
from homosexual activists, including same-sex marriage edicts in the courts and
anti-discrimination laws in several states, Gates insisted, “The status quo in
our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained.”
“The one thing we cannot do is
put our heads in the sand and pretend this challenge will go away or abate,”
Gates added. “Quite the opposite is happening.” Translation: Abandon
traditional values in the face of pressure from the Rainbow Mafia.
Far from putting "our heads
in the sand," however, defending both traditional Judeo-Christian values
and religious liberty itself is called standing on principle.
Gates did not call upon BSA
leaders to make a decision on the matter forthwith, but he did caution that if
the organization doesn't change on its own the homosexual lobby and its allies
in the courts are likely to force the issue. “If we wait for the courts to
act," he warned, "we could end up with a broad ruling that could
forbid any kind of membership standard,” including belief in duty to God and
specifically serving the needs of boys.
So he argued for change, leaving
it up to individual troops and councils and the churches who sponsor them ...
for now. However, such a change would only leave troops and councils across the
nation susceptible to legal assaults by the Tolerance Brigade. Gates, a former
secretary of defense and CIA director, has a track record of knuckling under to
homosexual activists. He was at the helm of the Pentagon for the repeal
of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in 2010, justifying his
actions at the time as an end to discrimination rather than calling the change
what it was: an attempt by gays and lesbians to remake yet another institution
to suit the needs of a small but vocal fraction of the population.
(On that note, homosexuals and their
allies have managed to erroneously convince
more than half of Americans that gays make up at least 20% of the population.
The true number is more like 3%, but it helps the agenda if it appears there
are far more of them.)
When Gates took the job as president
of the BSA in 2014, he said he had no intention of allowing openly homosexual
scout leaders. The BSA was already reeling from a 2013 decision that summarily
dropped the ban on openly homosexual youths. The
vote was passed by 60% of the 1,400 delegates in attendance, which may seem
like a landslide but is hardly a representative cross-section of the national
organization. Scout membership nationally is already down more than 10% since
the last encroachment of gay activists — but the prospect of homosexual leaders
overseeing troops will most assuredly lead to a much more significant decline.
Gates is correct that the
homosexual lobby isn't done reshaping the 103-year-old organization to suit its
agenda. Scouts for Equality and Human Rights Campaign issued statements after
Gates’ speech Thursday saying they were heartened by his words, but wanted to
see more action. HRC President Chad Griffin said, “It’s time for BSA leaders to
show true leadership and embrace a full national policy of inclusion that does
not discriminate against anyone because of who they are.” Unless of course you
want to discriminate against someone for their religious beliefs — that’s
perfectly acceptable to HRC and other members of the homosexual lobby.
And never mind that the "tolerant"
thing to do would be to live and let live. Set up another scouting organization
to advance and promote leftist values, and leave the Boy Scouts alone. Yet
proponents of the homosexual agenda have convinced the courts and the Leftmedia
to go along with their plan to dismantle every institution in this country for
the sake of accommodating, promoting and advancing their own lifestyle. Submit
to homosexual leaders, don't oppose same-sex marriage, bake the cake —
whatever the demand, you will comply. Or else. So-called tolerance is a one-way
street.
What takes place between
consenting adults is one thing, but when did it ever become necessary to force
other people to condone that behavior? “We must deal with the world as it is,
not as we might wish it to be,” Gates declared. Well, the world as it is right
now is being reshaped by an aggressive minority who want little more than the
power to reshape the culture and its institutions in its own image.
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LEFTIST WATCH
Some hardcore liberal ghouls came out of the woodwork
shortly after the overnight crash of an Amtrak train near Philadelphia, saying
Republicans are to blame for failing to fund infrastructure spending and
increasing the federal train agency’s budget.
“It seems a little idiotic to me.” Those were the words of
Seattle City Councilman Bruce Harrell at a hearing discussing the aftermath of
the Seattle May Day riots. The words were greeted with a great howl of laughter
and applause from the assembled audience. Harrell wasn’t castigating the
black-clad vandals that delayed traffic, vandalized property, smashed windows,
and assaulted police officers. He was castigating the Seattle Police Department
(SPD) for arresting one of them — and Councilman Harrell is the Chairman of
Seattle’s Public Safety, Civil Rights, and Technology Committee.
According to a new report released by the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, just “walking into or sitting in” a classroom
full of white people is a “microaggression”.
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GLOBALONEY
Name calling of climate skeptics skyrockets...
Term 'denier' appears 3,183 times in media...
Graduation day at
Rutgers University is a chance for students to relax after four years of
college and celebrate with family and friends before entering the real world. Or, when Bill Nye is the keynote speaker, it's
a reminder that the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is
rising and its future may be a "no-way-out overheated globe."
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BOOKS, FILM
Teacher assails practice of giving passing grades to failing
students. A college professor and policy analyst decided to try teaching math in
the D.C. schools. He was given a pre-calculus class with 38 seniors at H.D.
Woodson High School. When he discovered that half of them could not handle even
second-grade problems, he sought out the teachers who had awarded the passing
grades of D in Algebra II, a course that they needed to take his high-level
class. There are many bewildering stories like this in Rossiter’s new book,
“Ain’t Nobody Be Learnin’ Nothin’: The Fraud and the Fix for High-Poverty Schools.”
“Mad Max and the Dream-Work of
Homosexuality: “there is a deep-seated but suppressed anxiety running rampant
in Hollywood about just how horrible our society will become if gay men are
uncritically awarded everything they demand.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/emmad_maxem_and_the_dreamwork_of_homosexuality.html#ixzz3ay8CDKfJ
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ARTICLES
Kristol: Assuming a
Republican wins the presidency in 2016, his top domestic priority will be—and should
be—to repeal and replace Obamacare. The health care overhaul is the cornerstone
of President Obama’s project to transform America into a top-down
administrative state. The effects of repealing Obamacare, and replacing it with
a conservative reform that moves us away from government control even by
comparison with the pre-Obamacare status quo, would be hugely consequential.
The reverberations from its defeat would be felt across the American political
landscape. Such a profound rejection and reversal of the progressive worldview
and agenda would strengthen the resolve of
“I’m a Ted Cruz fan. At the same time, I find myself
increasingly intrigued by Carly Fiorina. She speaks like no one else in the
field. Perhaps, in part, because she’s not a politician…. In just a few short
minutes, Fiorina manages to interweave personal stories with core values that
include faith in God, limitless human potential, and the greatness of America.
Her speeches don’t sound like they have built-in applause lines. She simply
speaks. If people clap, that’s fine. She doesn’t appear to expect it or revel
in it. She is articulate as she speaks on a wide array of topics…”
Clinton is running for president as a "topple the
rich" champion of "everyday Americans," and Bill is just tryin´
to pay the bills, y´all: Hillary and her husband made at least $30 million over
the last 16 months, mainly from giving paid speeches to corporations, banks and
other organizations….
The countdown is on
for the very first Republican presidential debate, set for August 6 in
Cleveland - to be moderated by Fox News anchors Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and
Chris Wallace….The requirements seemed geared to keep the conservative base
locked out and the RINO's in play
It’s 6-foot-2, with laser eyes and vise-grip hands. It can
walk over a mess of jagged cinder blocks, cut a hole in a wall, even drive a
car. And soon, Leo, Lockheed Martin’s humanoid robot, will move from the
development lab to a boot camp for robots, where a platoon’s worth of the
semiautonomous mechanical species will be tested to see if they can be all they
can be.
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
Texas tenors sing God Bless the USA.
Map shows the most distinctive causes of death, state by
state.
Fed up with your current job? Feel you´re not properly
challenged? Bored of the 9-5 routine? Al-Qaeda has a job application for you…..
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WISE WORDS
"[W]hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little
as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it
will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another."
-Thomas
Jefferson,
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