op ed review 6/14
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Obama on ISIS Fight:´We Don´t Yet Have a Complete
Strategy´
Two days after publicly admitting he did not yet have a
complete strategy to repel the advancing army estimated at 30,000 terrorists,
the president dispatched another 450 U.S. advisers to train Iraqi troops to do
the fighting. Here´s what that means in
reality: There are now about 950 more American trainers in Iraq than there are
trainees in Iraq.
The Obama administration is on the verge of possibly
doubling the salary levels that would require employers to pay overtime in the
most ambitious government intervention on wages in a decade. And it doesn’t
need Congress’s permission.
In the past few weeks, the numbers of unaccompanied minors
and incomplete family units illegally crossing the border has begun soaring
again, according to the organization that represents nearly 17,000 U.S. Border
Patrol agents. “
GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina jumped to fourth
place, according to Fox News’ 2016 Power Index.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that a record 54%
of Americans oppose Obamacare–the highest disapproval rating ever in the Post-ABC
poll–and a six point increase in unpopularity since last year.
The Clinton administration had bankrupted the intelligence
community and refused to let the CIA prioritize anti-terrorism over other major
priorities in the late 1990s, leaving the agency stretched too thin in the days
ahead of the 2001 terrorist attacks, former Director George J. Tenet said in a
2005 document declassified Friday.
Foreign Governments Pay Former Senate Leaders to Sell
Obamatrade deal.
Discovered inside the huge tranche of secretive Obamatrade
documents released by Wikileaks are key details on how it would massively
expand President Obama’s executive authority when it comes to immigration
matters.
According to the U.S. Census, Hispanics made up 5 percent of
Hazleton’s population in 2000. By 2010, that number increased to 37
percent.
Arizona Sheriff Joe
Arpaio said Democrats are mostly interested in immigration reform because the
newly legalized residents will eventually obtain voting rights and will vote
for Democrats.
More school districts report chaos after ‘white privilege’
theory influences discipline rules
A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and
Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times’ charitable fund in 2008,
the same year the newspaper’s editorial page endorsed Clinton in the Democratic
presidential primary.
New York Times’ Top Shareholder Is a Clinton Foundation
Donor
The Department of Labor (DOL) issued instructions for how
private businesses should address a transgender individual who wants to use a
different bathroom, arguing that allowing transwomen to use the ladies bathroom
is a matter of “health and safety.”
A federal appeals court upheld a strict anti-abortion law in Texas
that will close all but seven abortion providers in the state.
Not your father’s army:
Army General introduces his husband at Pentagon
Gay Pride event
Mexican drug traffickers shoot down a U.S. Customs and
Border Protection Helicopter on the Texas border, the agency says it will now
send two UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters to continue surveillance operations in the
area. Not clear whether they will be
allowed return fire.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Ben Shapiro 5/27
This week, iconoclastic master Ann Coulter released her new
book, "Adios, America!" The book has already been labeled racist by
the mainstream left, which fears her argument, and will undoubtedly be
marginalized by the mainstream right, which doesn't want to hear it. Coulter's
thesis is simple: Since Senator Teddy Kennedy, D-Mass., rammed through the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, America's immigration system has
transformed from a device for enriching the nation for both native-born and
immigrants into a scheme for importing anti-American voters.
What made America America, Coulter argues, was a particular
blend of Protestant religion and European civilization that led to the rise of
the greatest nation in human history. What will unmake America, she continues,
is a deliberate attempt to poison that blend with a flood of immigrants with
wildly different values.
Coulter points out that the real number of immigrants
currently residing in America illegally far surpasses the 11 million
consistently put forth by politicians and media. That 11 million springs from
census data, which is notoriously unreliable, given that immigrants here
illegally typically don't spend time answering government surveys. The real
number, she argues, is far closer to 30 million. And those 30 million
immigrants in America illegally drive down wages, shred social safety nets,
drive up the crime rate and congeal the American melting pot into a melange of
inferior cultural values competing for local dominance.
"The foreign poor are prime Democratic constituents
because they're easily demagogued into tribal voting," Coulter points out.
"Race loyalty trumps the melting pot. ... The American electorate isn't
moving left -- it's shrinking. Democrats figured out they'd never win with
Americans, so they implemented an evil, genius plan to change this country by
restocking it with voters more favorably disposed to left-wing policies than
Americans ever would be."
And the Democrats have achieved their goals. America is more
polarized than at any point since the civil rights era, and not by chance.
Americans have been told that they have a responsibility to anyone who wants to
enter the country, even as they are lectured that it would be gauche for them
to ask just who wants to come in. "At what point will Americans remind
their government that it has a responsibility to us, not to every sad person in
the world?" Coulter laments.
The answer, if the left has its way: never. Bearing nostrums
like "diversity is our strength" and "through no fault of their
own," Democrats will browbeat Americans into accepting the demise of
American values. The shock isn't that millions of foreigners want to get into
the United States -- that's always been true. The shock isn't even that
Democrats want to open the floodgates to unchecked, unscreened immigration --
that's been true for decades, given that the modern American left despises
founding philosophy and the capitalist system more generally. The shock is that
so many conservatives have capitulated, granted the left's premise in the hopes
that America's new immigrants will resemble her old immigrants, even though the
America that welcomes them has changed dramatically.
Coulter's argument -- that the media and our politicians
conspire to keep information from us about the effects of mass immigration from
non-Western countries, and that such immigration will destroy the fabric of the
country -- is virtually unassailable. The only question left: Who will stand up
to the tidal wave of political correctness to pursue a reasonable and sane
immigration policy, rather than the insane combination of ignorance and
bullying that currently dictates who gets to live in and help redefine the
greatest country in the history of mankind?
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Politicians who fight against school choice behave the way
teachers do. Fifty-two percent of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus
who have school-age children have them enrolled in private schools.
Thirty-seven percent of members of the House of Representatives and 45 percent
of senators who have school-age children have them enrolled in private schools.
The education establishment says more money is needed, but more money does not
produce higher quality. New York City spent $20,331 per student in fiscal 2013.
Washington, D.C., spent $17,953, and Baltimore allocated $15,050. Despite being
among the nation’s highest-spending school districts, their education quality
is among the lowest. Parents, given vouchers and choice, could do a far
superior job in the education of their children — and at a cheaper cost.”
-Walter Williams
“Over the weekend, Hillary Clinton supported raising the
federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. She said every American should be able to
afford to attend one of her speeches.”
-Conan O'Brien
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GLOBALONEY
New York City underwater? Gas over $9 a gallon? A
carton of milk costs almost $13? Welcome to June 12, 2015. Or at least
that was the wildly-inaccurate version of 2015 predicted by ABC News exactly
seven years ago. Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff
hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the
then-futuristic 2015.
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LEFTIST WATCH
EAG News reports on Center School in Greenfield,
Massachusetts, a progressive day school from Pre-K through 8th graders with a
“social justice mission.” “Increasingly concerned” at the suicide rate among
“gender non-conforming kids,” the school is now offering a scholarship for
“gender creative children.”
Former Obama Press Secretary Hired By
McDonalds To Build “Modern, Progressive
Burger Company”
Ah, the Left. They want us to believe that when it comes to
celebrating Bruce Jenner’s tragic descent into the mouth of madness, gender is
a no-longer-needed societal construct. That is, of course, right before they
tell us to vote Hillary for president just because she’s a woman.
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ISLAM
The Islamic State (Isis) militants in Syria have reportedly
executed three pigeons that it had arrested on charges of spying. The UK-based
Express reported that the pigeons belonged to an anti-Isis group. The 5 June
report noted that the executions were carried out recently. The development has
come at a time, when Isis has issued a dictate, banning pigeon breeding
claiming the sight of the birds´ genitals as they fly overhead is sinful
according to Islam.
Suicide bomber attacks Egypt's Luxor temple tourist
site. The attack was the first to target
world-famous attractions in Luxor since November 1997, when Islamic militants
opened fire on tourists at the city's 3,400-year-old Hatshepsut Temple on the
west bank of the Nile, killing 58.
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ARTICLES
Important
article: “In this one Hannity interview
— set off by an innocuous imaginary scenario delivered by Graham to liberal TV
anchor Chuck Todd at NBC — Lindsey Graham has now clarified exactly what is one
of the central issues of the GOP presidential primary season. Are GOP
candidates running to be leaders in the mold of Reagan and Thatcher? Or are
they really about being moderate, Lindsey Graham or Jeb Bush-style “consensus
builders” whose policies on any given issue of the day effectively wind up
moving the country left by signing on to the “socialist ratchet”? Acting not as
conservatives but as “socialist ratcheteers.”
Dirty Jobs Star Delivers Devastating Rebuke about America’s Work Ethic
Ron Radosh: Why
Hillary May Not Win the Presidency
Why the New York Times is obsessed with smearing Marco Rubio
Alicia Colon is a big Rick Perry fan. She tells why he wears the funny glasses.
“Gov. Perry discovered his affinity for motorcycles later in
life, in 2005. A friend of his had a 1997 Harley and tossed him the keys……..I went out on that Fat Boy Harley and had an
awakening. It wasn’t just the bike, it was the whole experience: my phone
didn’t ring, nobody bothered me. When we returned from that ride, I gently
persuaded my buddy lease me that bike. I replaced the pipes, painted it, loved
that bike. I’ve been riding since…”
The Fantasy that ObamaCare "Is Working"
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
Bilderberg list of attendees.
Carly Out With Hillary Attack Ad
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WISE WORDS
“The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the
support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is
the manners and spirit of a people, which preserve a republic in vigor. A
degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and
constitution.”
-Thomas Jefferson
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