op ed review 8/23
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
CNN Poll: Trump now competitive in general election. Clinton dips below 50%.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/19/politics/2016-poll-hillary-clinton-joe-biden-bernie-sanders/index.html
Trump is the clear leader with the support of 24% of
Republican registered voters. His nearest competitor, Jeb Bush, stands at 13%. Ben
Carson has 9%, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker 8%, Sen. Rand Paul 6%, Ted Cruz, Carly
Fiorina and John Kasich all land at 5%, Mike Huckabee rounding out the top 10
at 4%.
Rasmussen: 57% of
Likely Republican Voters now think Donald Trump is likely to be the Republican
presidential nominee next year.
National Review editors:
“Trump’s
Immigration Plan Is a Good Start — Trump grounds his policies in “three
core principles” — that a nation should control its border, enforce its
immigration laws, and put its own workers first — that are not only
unobjectionable but should be the starting point of any reasonable immigration
policy…”
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Intellectual leader of the
conservative movement and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s
subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest: “This is exactly the plan America needs…..Not
only would the plan outlined in this paper work, but more quickly than many
realize. “
On the other hand, Krauthammer thinks this is suicide for the
GOP: “Donald Trump’s Fantasy of Mass Deportation Is Political
Poison for the GOP”
“The alarm bells are reverberating throughout the halls of
the Republican Establishment as the realization has begun to sink in that their
days controlling the Party are over….The pent up anger over the abysmal
performance of the Republican Party hierarchy over the past 27 years has
justifiably reached a boiling point.”
Mexicans think Trump is a “nightmare.”
More than 300 of Hillary Clinton’s private emails — or 5.1 percent
of those processed so far — have been flagged for potential secret information.
Clinton and two aides appear to have violated two national
security laws by sending classified information on a private email server,
according to a former Army counterintelligence agent.
The IT company Hillary chose to maintain her private email
account was a ‘mom and pop shop’ run
from a loft apartment and its servers were housed in the bathroom closet.
Bob Woodward: “Clinton emails 'reminds me of the Nixon
tapes'”
Her campaign has centered on her claim that she will be the
champion of the middle class if she is elected to the White House. So the
average person will no doubt find it easy to relate to the beachfront mansion
that Hillary Clinton is renting for her summer vacation in The Hamptons for
$100,000/week.
One of Hillary’s aides, Huma Abedin, recently tried to force her way past Secret
Service agents without ID and expected them to carry her luggage. 'Don't you know who I am?
A new report on the freedom of countries around the world
ranks the United States 20th, putting countries like Chile and the United Kingdom
ahead of the U.S.
Multiculturalists are fond of saying, “We’re a nation of
immigrants” when the United States is actually, as is any healthy country, a
nation of citizens. But if current trends continue, we may become a land of
disparate and divided immigrants and not really a nation, which involves far
more than a political boundary drawn on a map. New information released by the
Census Bureau shows that there are now a record 42.1 million immigrants and
illegal migrants in this country; this means the two groups together comprise
more than 13 percent of our 320 million population, the highest figure in 105
years.
Up to 400,000 children are born in the United States to
illegal immigrants each year.
Muhammad is now the most popular boy baby’s name in London.
Unbelievable: “Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be
allowed to use its own experts to inspect some nuclear sites, instead of UN
inspectors.”
Three years after California voters passed a ballot measure
to raise taxes on corporations and generate clean energy jobs by funding
energy-efficiency projects in schools, barely one-tenth of the promised jobs
have been created, and the state has no comprehensive list to show how much
work has been done or how much energy has been saved.
Isn’t this special?: The White House now has an openly
transgender staff member.
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
The Trumping of Party
Mark Steyn
Donald Trump has now said that he would reverse President
Obama's executive amnesty for "DREAMers" - illegal immigrants who've
been here since they were children - and deport every last member of the
Undocumented-American community. The amnesty for the kids was supposed to
prefigure an amnesty for their parents - for what mean old politician would
advocate breaking up families? But, as he told NBC's Chuck Todd, Trump plans to
keep the families together by deporting every single one of them: But he's gone beyond that. Trump has - ta-da!
- a policy paper: 1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a
wall across the southern border. 2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws
passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced.
3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any
immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.
In other words, as every functioning society understood
until two generations ago, immigration has to benefit the people who are
already here. Government owes a duty to its own citizens before those of the
rest of the planet - no matter how cuddly and loveable they might be. The fact
that it is necessary to state the obvious and that no "viable"
"mainstream" candidate from either party is willing to state it is
testament to how deformed contemporary western politics is. Trump may not be a
"real" Republican or a "real" conservative, but most of his
rivals are not "real" period,
as Carly Fiorina would say.
The retort that Trump is not a "real" Republican
or a "real" conservative would of course be a devastating criticism
had "real" Republicans and "real" conservatives" in
Washington managed actually to "conserve" anything during their time
in office. Fiscal prudence? Constrained welfare? Private health care? Religious
liberty? There's no point to a purity test for a party that folds more reliably
than the White House valet. As I've said, for the Republican establishment the
issue is Trump; for a large part of the base the issue is the Republican
establishment.
…As Trump's detractors see it, he's just a reality-show
buffoon with a portfolio of incoherent attitudes that display no coherent
worldview. But very few people go around with a philosophically consistent
attitude to life: Your approach to, say, health insurance is determined less by
abstract principles than by whether you can afford it. Likewise, your attitude
to the DREAMers may owe more to whether your local school district is
collapsing under the weight of all this heartwarming diversity.
Presumably, if you're one of these bipartisanly extreme
moderates, which of your incoherent positions is more pressing on election day
determines your vote. The question then is whether large numbers of the
electorate are as concerned about immigration as Trump purports to be.
On immigration both parties are engaged in a conspiracy
against the American people. One party gets cheap voters and Big Government
dependents; the other gets cheap labor and a chocolate on its turned down
coverlet in the junior suite. The Democrats made a smarter deal. The
Republicans signed a demographic death warrant. Yet Jeb! and the other alleged
non-buffoons in the race have to be dragged kicking and screaming to get beyond
the most ludicrous sentimentalist pap on the subject. If a "real"
Republican is someone who toes the party line on a suicide mission, why be
surprised that voters seek reality elsewhere?
The experts are still assuring us that the next Trumpian
infelicity - after Mexicans, McCain and Megyn - will be the one that causes his
campaign to self-destruct. You could be waiting a long time. As Ann Coulter
says, the quickest way to get rid of Trump is to steal his issue and run with
it.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“When something isn’t working, it is often a good idea to
reexamine one’s premises. Perhaps it is time black Americans reexamined their
belief that Democrats, and only Democrats, are looking out for their best
interests. That reexamination begins with the simplest of questions: Why hasn’t
50-plus years of loyalty yielded little more than the very same discontent that
arose in the 1960s? Hint: One definition of crazy is doing the same thing over
and over again and expecting a different result each time.”
-Arnold
Ahlert
“There are reports that if Joe Biden runs for president, he
would promise to serve for only one term — because nothing says confidence like
promising your presidency would be over quickly.”
-Jimmy
Fallon
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ISLAM
A chilling new propaganda video has been released by
hardline Iranian activists imagining the ´inevitable´ destruction of the
Israeli state at the hands of Islamic armies.
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LEFTIST WATCH
Billionaire leftie investor George Soros, who has demonized
fossil fuels for years through his think tanks and political contributions,
seems to have warmed up to Big Coal now that stocks are dirt cheap. The
left-wing hedge fund legend has raised eyebrows with major purchases of stock
in two large coal companies, firms his critics say he helped bring to their
knees.
The huge crowds greeting socialist Bernie Sanders in his run
for the Democratic presidential nomination cannot just be attributed to large
numbers of left-wingers. There is a hard-core left-wing element to the Sanders
candidacy, of course. But Sanders has tapped into what used to be one of
Hillary Clinton’s key constituencies, the New Age Movement.
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ARTICLES
The Washington chattering class is perplexed and bedeviled
by a political alien by the name of Donald Trump, who just doesn’t have the
good manners to die, no matter how hard they try to kill him. No, like The
Terminator, he keeps on coming, advancing through the fusillade of snide and
snarky bullets, oblivious to the ad hominem walls of fire in his path, and
immune to their favorite weapon: rhetorical condescension and ridicule.
Jeb Bush said Tuesday that birthright citizenship is a
"constitutional right," casting doubt on fellow 2016 candidate Donald
Trump´s plan to do away with it.
This practicing constitutional attorney explains why Bush is
wrong. ”Parts of Donald Trump’s
immigration plan may raise serious constitutional questions, but the part that
launched a media firestorm—ending birthright citizenship for the children of
illegal aliens—does not. The Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment does not
confer citizenship on the children of foreigners, whether legal or illegal.
Media commentators have gotten this issue dead wrong. ……”
Many Ruling Class Republicans seem to suffer from Trump
Derangement Syndrome.
Sometimes in the life of our nation there comes a tipping
point during which a horror of such great magnitude is revealed so clearly the
response can only be universal revulsion and outrage. Such a moment has come
into being in the stomach churning revelations of Planned Parenthood’s sale of
babies’ body parts. Out of the hours of video tapes have emerged portraits of
human beings so morally degraded, so pitilessly brutal, so wiped clean of heart
and soul that it causes a shudder down the spine to see and to hear them.
If you don´t like the idea of robot waiters and robot cooks
replacing entry-level workers, you might think twice about the recent $15
minimum-wage craze. Because that´s what doubling the current federal minimum —
which several cities are doing — is likely to produce. A Washington Post story
this week says that restaurant chains are "already looking for ingenious
ways to take humans out of the picture, threatening workers in an industry that
employs 2.4 million wait staffers, nearly 3 million cooks and food preparers
and many of the nation´s 3.3 million cashiers."
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
America Rising has put together a video that exposes Hillary
Clinton’s lies about her email server.
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WISE WORDS
“The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force
to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other
possibilities.”
-Alan Bloom
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