op ed review 5/3
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Riots in Baltimore:
New Black Panther Party Head: “We
Are ‘Willing to Kill’ for Black Nation”
Six officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray face a
litany of charges that include second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter,
false imprisonment and misconduct in office. Doesn’t quite fit the racism
narrative: three white, three African
American officers.
Last week the media tried to characterize the increasingly
violent protests in Baltimore as “peaceful.” Now, even after the demonstrations
have turned into outright riots, some members of the media are still trying to
excuse the violence or are otherwise downplaying what has been going on since
last Thursday.
Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are
attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America’s problem or shame. That failed
city is solely and completely a Democrat problem. Like many failed cities,
Detroit comes to mind, and every city besieged recently by rioting, Democrats
and their union pals have had carte blanche to inflict their ideas and policies
on Baltimore since 1967, the last time there was a Republican Mayor.
Police in Baltimore told to stand down and let riots play
out.
Need more moms like this:
“One Baltimore mom took matters into her own hands Monday, furiously
grabbing her would-be rioter son by the scruff of his neck and dragging him
away from the violence.”
Americans bomb Pew test of basic political knowledge
George Soros may owe $6.7B in back taxes.
181 Clinton Foundation donors who lobbied Hillary's
State Department. The size and
scope of the symbiotic relationship between the Clintons and their donors is
striking. At least 181 companies, individuals, and foreign governments that
have given to the Clinton Foundation also lobbied the State Department when
Hillary Clinton ran the place, according to a Vox analysis of foundation
records and federal lobbying disclosures.
Not only did the Clinton Foundation conceal the names of
1100 big foreign donors to an affiliate, it has lied about doing so.
In 2013 the Clinton Foundation Only Spent 10 Percent Of Its
Budget On Charitable Grants
Is the Clinton Foundation Really a Charity?.......now that
more of the press is finally asking tough questions about the Clintons’
activities, it appears that their charity may not pass the basic question
donors ask of any philanthropy: how much of the money raised is actually spent
on the causes you are supposed to be aiding?
Video: Eleven strange “coincidences” from the Clinton
Foundation
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/04/27/video-eleven-strange-coincidences-from-the-clinton-foundation/
Former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea left earlier
this week on a nine-day African safari with a plane-full of family foundation
donors and Hillary Clinton supporters in tow, adding fuel to accusations that
contributors are getting rewarded -- and courted for even more money.
Pornographer Larry Flint endorses Hillary Clinton
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Michelle Malkin 4/29
It’s never enough.
American taxpayers have surrendered billions and billions and billions of
dollars to the social-justice-spender-in-chief. But it's never, ever enough.
The latest paroxysm
of urban violence, looting, and recriminations in Baltimore prompted President
Obama on Tuesday to trot out his frayed Blame The Callous, Tight-Fisted
Republicans card. After dispensing with an obligatory wrist-slap to.."protesters"
who are burning Charm City to the ground…. the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner
got down to his usual business: hectoring his political opponents and grousing
that America hasn't forked over enough money for him to make the "massive
investments" needed to "make a difference right now."
If we are "serious"
about preventing more riots, the president declared, then "the rest of
us" (translation: all of us stingy conservatives) have to make sure
"we are providing early education" and "making investments"
so that inner-city youths are "getting the training they need to find
jobs."
Narcissus on the
Potomac wheedled that "there's a bunch of my agenda that would make a
difference right now." Me, me, me! His laundry list of the supposedly
underfunded cures that he can't get through Congress includes "school reform,"
"job training" and "some investments in infrastructure" to
"attract new businesses." I'll give POTUS credit: He can lay it on
thicker than a John Deere manure spreader.
Let's talk
"massive investments," shall we?
In 2009, Obama and
the Democrats rammed the $840 billion federal stimulus package through Capitol
Hill under the guise of immediate job creation and economic recovery. An
estimated $64 billion went to public school districts; another nearly $50
billion went for other education spending. This included $13 billion for
low-income public school kids; $4.1 billion for Head Start and childcare
services; $650 million for educational technology; $200 million for working
college students; and $70 million for homeless children.
How's that all
working out? Last week, economists from the St. Louis Federal Reserve surveyed
more than 6,700 education stimulus recipients and concluded that for every $1
million of stimulus grants to a district, a measly 1.5 jobs were created.
"Moreover, all of this increase came in the form of nonteaching
staff," the report found, and the "jobs effect was also not
statistically different from zero."
More than
three-quarters of the jobs "created or saved" in the first year of
the stimulus were government jobs, while roughly 1 million private sector jobs
were forestalled or destroyed, according to Ohio State University. President
Obama later admitted "there was no such thing" as "shovel-ready
projects." But there were plenty of pork-ready recipients, from green
energy billionaires to union bosses to Democratic campaign finance bundlers.
About $230 billion in porkulus funds was set aside for infrastructure projects,
yet less than a year later, Obama was back asking for another $50 billion to
pour down the infrastructure black hole.
In 2010, President
Obama signed the so-called Edujobs bill into law -- a $26 billion political
wealth redistribution scheme paying back Big Labor for funding Democratic
congressional campaigns. In 2012…Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business
Startups Act "to encourage startups and support our nation's small
businesses." In July 2014…Obama signed the Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act to "help job seekers access employment, education,
training, and support services to succeed in the labor market”…..In December
2014, the White House unveiled nearly $1 billion in new "investments"
to "expand access to high-quality early childhood education to every child
in America" from "birth and continuing to age 5." That's all on top of the $6 billion
government-funded national service and education initiative known as the SERVE
America Act….The SERVE America Act included $1.1 billion to increase the
investment in national service opportunities; $97 million for Learn and Serve
America Youth Engagement Zones; and nearly $400 million for the Social
Innovation Fund and Volunteer Generation Fund.
The "social
innovation" slush fund was intended to "create new knowledge about
how to solve social challenges in the areas of economic opportunity, youth
development and school support, and healthy futures, and to improve our
nation's problem-solving infrastructure in low-income communities." The
biggest beneficiaries? Obama's progressive cronies.
Apparently, the
richly funded "social innovators" haven't reached the looter-prone
neighborhoods of Baltimore yet. But it's not ideologically bankrupt Obama's
fault. It's ours.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“I think one of the reasons Obama and his friends are so
eager to open the gates to more and more immigrants is they think it’s going to
defeat the conservative movement and the Republican Party……Of course, they all
come from countries that are not used to the idea of limited government.
They’re used to countries where the government makes all the decisions, and
they don’t know anything different. “They don’t understand what Americans mean
when we talk about limited government, so I think one of their motives clearly
is death to the conservative movement and the Republican Party.”
-Phyllis Schlafly
“The Republican Party, if it were to nominate
a pro-amnesty candidate, would self-destruct and not be able to politically
survive having a political candidate that is pro-amnesty……It would just drive a
stake in the hearts of the grassroots Republican voters, and there would be
almost no chance the Republican nominee could win the election.”
-Richard Viguerie
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BOOKS
“Takeover: The 100-Year War For The Soul of the GOP and How
Conservatives Can Finally Win It,” by
Richard Viguerie. “One
hundred and two years ago Teddy Roosevelt split the Republican Party to advance
his progressive agenda. Progressivism, or Big Government Republicanism, became
the philosophy of the Republican Party's establishment elite. Fifty years ago
conservatives began a battle for control of the party. Now is the time for
conservatives to finish the job and take back the Republican Party. All national polls show that the American
people self-identify as conservatives by a margin of 2 to 1 or more. Despite
the scandals surrounding the White House, the outrageous failure of ObamaCare,
and the lack of leadership from Congress, the Republican Party has failed to
win key elections because it has failed to deliver on its promises to roll back
the tide of Big Government. In Takeover, prominent Republican strategist and
fundraiser Richard Viguerie outlines the way to establish limited government
constitutional conservatism as the governing philosophy of the Republican Party
and sanity back to Congress and the White House. Viguerie details the storied
history of the battle for the soul of Republican Party and offers practical
advice and outlines the steps necessary for conservatives to win the civil war
in the GOP and govern America by 2017.”
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GLOBALONEY
The New Green Religion of Global Warming/Climate Change is
coming out of the closet to begin preaching from the pulpit. In the lib-left
world timing is everything. Now that Christianity is being persecuted worldwide
with the many slings and arrows sent its way flashing out in neon, it’s time
for ‘sustainability’ to squeeze out Salvation at Sunday church services. “The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is spending $84,000 to study how churches
can be used to combat climate change.”
The blistering drought that has Californians timing their
showers, driving dirty cars and staring at brown lawns and empty swimming pools
is a “man-made disaster,” according to critics, who say the Golden State’s
misguided environmental policies allow much-needed freshwater to flow straight
into the Pacific.
The fight to stop climate change is about to become official
doctrine of the Catholic Church. By taking this action, the Church turns its
back on many of the world’s poorest people, those most vulnerable to the
impacts of the United Nations’ dangerously misguided climate and energy
policies
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LEFTIST WATCH
The left loves civil unrest:
Salon Magazine: “Baltimore’s
violent protesters are right: Smashing police cars is a legitimate political strategy.”
Bernie Sanders is an avowed socialist. 52 percent of Democrats are OK with that.
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ARTICLES
Can the Democrats Get Rid of Hillary?
Marco Rubio: “Obama´s
desperation is showing. And it´s dangerous…”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/04/29/obama-and-iran-our-president-is-disconnected-from-reality/
In a conversation with Family Research Council’s Tony
Perkins Tuesday, Representative Bill Flores (R-TX) argued against same-sex
marriage by citing the tumult in Baltimore as an example of the consequences of
family breakdown — which, Perkins pointed out, legalized gay marriage would
only exacerbate. “The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going
to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent
household or a single parent household, so the breakdown of the family has
contributed to poverty,” Flores said. “Look at what is going on in Baltimore
today, you see the
What Is China´s Navy Doing in Mediterranean?
Every member of a delegation of Iraqi minority groups has
been granted visas to visit Washington for official meetings — except one. An
Iraqi nun, who is a representative of the Nineveh Christians who have been
forced to flee Iraq or be slaughtered by ISIS, has been barred from entering
the United States by the Obama administration.
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WISE WORDS
“Nothing is more dreaded than the national government
meddling with religion.”
-John
Adams
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