op ed review 2/28
THIS
WEEK’S NEWS
Nevada: Trump wins again.
Trump Has Won More Votes Than Romney
Had At This Point in 2012
Gov. Chris
Christie Endorses Donald Trump, calls Marco Rubio ‘Desperate’
Sen. Jeff
Sessions endorses Trump: “our
last chance to save U.S. sovereignty and to end the domination of the political
establishment over the interests of working Americans. Trump alone has rejected
the donor class, defending America’s jobs and wages from open borders,
uncontrolled immigration and the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership that will
cede U.S. authority to foreign powers. Trump’s trade and immigration plans will
revitalize our shrinking middle class, keeping jobs and wealth and income inside
the United States of America.”
Sen. Marco Rubio trails Republican
presidential front-runner Donald Trump by double digits in his home state of
Florida, according to a new poll.
Six days before Super Tuesday, Ted Cruz
and Donald Trump are now tied in Texas.
GOP Insider plan to enlist Mitt Romney
if Rubio fails.
Sen. Rubio plans to snub the
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year, and won’t show up at
all….. That Rubio is skipping the pre-eminent annual conservative gathering of
thousands of activists in a presidential election year is extraordinarily
telling about the direction of his campaign as the entire Washington
establishment aligns behind him in a last-ditch desperate bid to stop
billionaire frontrunner ,
A political science professor who
claims his statistical model has correctly predicted the results of every
election in the last 104 years has forecast that the odds of Donald Trump
becoming America’s next president currently range from 97 percent to 99
percent.
New York Times columnist
Ross Douthat caused outrage after he joked about how an assassination attempt
could end Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
http://www.infowars.com/ny-times-columnist-jokes-about-assassination-attempt-ending-trumps-campaign/
Almost 60% of democrats think
socialism is great for America
A young woman named Chelsea is burning
up the Youtubes with her tearful tale of phone-banking for Senator Bernie
Sanders (I-VT) and running into scores of “really sick people” who are voting
for Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
An
estimated 45.3 percent of American households — roughly 77.5 million — will pay
no federal individual income tax, according to data for the
2015 tax year from the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan Washington-based research group. “Roughly half
pay no federal income tax because they have no taxable income, and the other
roughly half get enough tax breaks to erase their tax liability.”
Hillary Clinton calls on President
Obama to nominate a "true progressive" to the Supreme Court.
Secretary of State John Kerry responded
to the news that a former Guantanamo Bay detainee had returned to terrorism
Wednesday by saying that “he’s not supposed to be doing that.”
John Kerry is also having an
“additional evaluation” done to help him determine whether the systematic
murder of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East—at the
hands of the Islamic State and others—should be declared “genocide.”
Charges against Perry dismissed. Same networks that hyped Gov. Perry indictment
in 2014; silent on dismissal.
Abortion Clinics Closing at Record
Pace...
Clothing
retailer Lands´ End has scrubbed a recent interview with feminist author Gloria
Steinem from its website following complaints from pro-life customers.
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COLUMN
OF THE WEEK
Peggy Noonan 2/27
The Rise of the Unprotected
There are the protected and the
unprotected. The protected make public policy. The unprotected live in it. The
unprotected are starting to push back, powerfully.
The protected are the accomplished, the
secure, the successful—those who have power or access to it. They are protected
from much of the roughness of the world. More to the point, they are protected
from the world they have created. Again, they make public policy and have for
some time.
I want to call them the elite to load
the rhetorical dice, but let’s stick with the protected.
They are figures in government,
politics and media. They live in nice neighborhoods, safe ones. Their families
function, their kids go to good schools, they’ve got some money. All of these
things tend to isolate them, or provide buffers. Some of them—in Washington it
is important officials in the executive branch or on the Hill; in Brussels,
significant figures in the European Union—literally have their own security
details.
Because they are protected they feel
they can do pretty much anything, impose any reality. They’re insulated from
many of the effects of their own decisions.
One issue obviously roiling the U.S.
and Western Europe is immigration. It is the issue of the moment, a real and
concrete one but also a symbolic one: It stands for all the distance between
governments and their citizens. It is of course the issue that made Donald
Trump.
Britain will probably leave the
European Union over it. In truth immigration is one front in that battle, but
it is the most salient because of the European refugee crisis and the failure
of the protected class to address it realistically and in a way that offers
safety to the unprotected.
If you are an unprotected American—one
with limited resources and negligible access to power—you have absorbed some
lessons from the past 20 years’ experience of illegal immigration. You know the
Democrats won’t protect you and the Republicans won’t help you. Both parties
refused to control the border. The Republicans were afraid of being called
illiberal, racist, of losing a demographic for a generation. The Democrats
wanted to keep the issue alive to use it as a wedge against the Republicans and
to establish themselves as owners of the Hispanic vote.
Many Americans suffered from illegal
immigration—its impact on labor markets, financial costs, crime, the sense that
the rule of law was collapsing. But the protected did fine—more workers at
lower wages. No effect of illegal immigration was likely to hurt them
personally.
It was good for the protected. But the
unprotected watched and saw. They realized the protected were not looking out
for them, and they inferred that they were not looking out for the country,
either.
The unprotected came to think they owed
the establishment—another word for the protected—nothing, no particular
loyalty, no old allegiance.
Mr. Trump came from that. . . . You see
the dynamic in many spheres. In Hollywood, as we still call it, where they make
our rough culture, they are careful to protect their own children from its ill
effects. In places with failing schools, they choose not to help them through
the school liberation movement—charter schools, choice, etc.—because they fear
to go up against the most reactionary professional group in America, the
teachers unions. They let the public schools flounder. But their children go to
the best private schools.
This is a terrible feature of our
age—that we are governed by protected people who don’t seem to care that much
about their unprotected fellow citizens.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
Limbaugh: “And now we've closed the circle. And now we're back at why Donald Trump is in
the race and why Donald Trump is running away with it. You can get as deep or
as shallow in the analysis as you want. But it's about a last chance, a last-gasp
effort at preserving the culture that developed after the founding of this
country. It's no more complicated than
that, folks. The country's under siege
from all quarters, and recently the Democrat Party has joined those who have
put the country under siege.”
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ISLAM
Muslims now outnumber Christians in
capital of European Union
John Kevin Wood says his daughter’s
school has banned him from campus for more than a year, illegally punishing him
for raising objections to classroom lessons about Islam. She had been asked to
memorize the Five Pillars of Islam. She had been asked to write and recite the
Muslim statement of faith. She was told that most Muslims’ faith is “stronger than the average Christian…….”
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ARTICLES
Why So Many Millennials Are Socialists
The simple trick that can reveal if
you´re a conservative or liberal: Study discovers which words give away
political beliefs
Patrick Deneen puts his finger
on the biggest problem facing the American future: a generation of students who
know nothing about anything: My students are know-nothings. They are
exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy, mostly honest, well-intentioned, and
utterly decent. But their brains are largely empty, devoid of any substantial
knowledge that might be the fruits of an education in an inheritance and a gift
of a previous generation. They are the culmination of western civilization, a
civilization that has forgotten nearly everything about itself, and as a
result, has achieved near-perfect indifference to its own culture.
“Why Donald Trump Can’t Win the White
House”
“I am going to stick my neck
out: Donald Trump will be America’s next President. I believe Donald Trump is
now unstoppable. Why? Not only is Trump speaking truth to power on two crucial
issues – trade and immigration – but it is now clear he has ignited long
smoldering voter anger on both issues.”
Critics of Donald Trump love to
state that he is a clown, his campaign speeches are reminiscent of a carnival sideshow,
his language is too outrageous, he tends to argue too much, and he fights back
when attacked. He does not practice the sort of calm demeanor, tone, and
professionalism we are accustomed to seeing in political candidates who run for
the White house. But what these critics may not realize is that in the last
fifteen years, America´s cultural tone has changed. Donald Trump´s mannerisms
and antics simply reflect changes in American culture.
IBD: Health Care: Bernie Sanders has been winning
the hearts and minds of Democrats everywhere with a health care plan that is so
reckless, extreme and fanciful that even liberals are appalled.
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