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THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker endorses Ted Cruz a week ahead
of the state´s Republican primary.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on
Saturday that his foreign policy would be “unpredictable” in order to maintain
leverage over other countries.
Hillary Clinton ran afoul of both the pro-life and
pro-choice sides of the abortion debate Sunday when she said constitutional
rights do not apply to an “unborn person” or “child.”
Trump puts foot in mouth when asked if abortion should be
punishable.
One third of the nation's 50 states now have immigrant
populations over 15 percent, with six over 25 percent, raising new questions
about the country's ability to absorb the immigrant flood in schools and the
job market, a new report on government immigration data said.
Mexican film juxtaposes audio from a Donald Trump speech
with scenes of Mexican immigrants being shot while crossing into the United
States.
Lobbyists in Washington say they are being flooded with
questions and concerns from foreign governments about the rise of Donald Trump.
Fidel Castro lectures Obama after Cuba trip
Obama Commutes 61 More Drug Offenders Sentences — More Than
Previous Six Presidents Combined All told, Obama has commuted the
sentences of 248 individuals.
Hillary ‘had several abortions’, but kept Chelsea for
political appearances: one of Bill’s former lovers says.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill Friday that defunds
his state’s abortion clinics - including those run by Planned Parenthood (PP) -
making Florida the 12th state to block state taxpayer dollars from going to the
nation’s largest abortion provider.
HBO film targets Clarence Thomas
Marquette
University has moved to suspend and then fire a professor for backing a student
who tried to defend man-woman marriage when a leftist teaching assistant shut
the student down.
The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) endorses Donald
Trump. The unusually bold statement
comes just days after a senior policy adviser for Trump made clear that future
U.S. border security policy would be largely determined by the men and women of
the U.S. Border Patrol who are actual agents protecting the border and not by
politically-appointed bureaucrats in the Border Patrol or its parent agency.
The Obama administration is supporting several non-profit
groups — with federal funding through a major White House initiative — that are
part of an organized effort aimed at converting green-card holders into U.S.
citizens in order to vote against Donald Trump, a Daily Caller investigation
reveals.
Obama made clear he has no plan to back off his promise to admit
100,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees to the U.S. this year.
North Carolina is the latest to approve a law to require
transgender people to use restrooms that correspond with their biological
gender, instead of letting them choose. But the fight is likely just beginning.
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COLUMN OF THE
WEEK
Investor’s
Business Daily
While the global warming alarmists have
done a good job of spreading fright, they haven’t been so good at hiding their
real motivation. Yet another one has slipped up and revealed the catalyst
driving the climate scare.
We have been told now for almost three
decades that man has to change his ways or his fossil-fuel emissions will
scorch Earth with catastrophic warming. Scientists, politicians and activists
have maintained the narrative that their concern is only about caring for our
planet and its inhabitants. But this is simply not true. The narrative is a
ruse. They are after something entirely different.
If they were honest, the climate
alarmists would admit that they are not working feverishly to hold down global temperatures
— they would acknowledge that they are instead consumed with the goal of
holding down capitalism and establishing a global welfare state. Have doubts?
Then listen to the words of former United Nations climate
official Ottmar Edenhofer: “One has to free oneself from the
illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has
almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such
as deforestation or the ozone hole,” said Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of
Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.
So what is the goal of environmental
policy? “We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy,”
said Edenhofer.
For those who want to believe that
maybe Edenhofer just misspoke and doesn’t really mean that, consider that a
little more than five years ago he also said that “the next world climate
summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of
the world’s resources will be negotiated.”
Mad as they are, Edenhofer’s comments
are nevertheless consistent with other alarmists who have spilled the
movement’s dirty secret. Last year, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of
U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, made a similar statement.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves
the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the
economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since
the Industrial Revolution,” she said in anticipation of last year’s Paris
climate summit. “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given
ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model
for the first time in human history.”
The plan is to allow Third World countries to emit as much
carbon dioxide as they wish — because, as Edenhofer said, “in order to get rich
one has to burn coal, oil or gas” — while at the same time restricting
emissions in advanced nations. This will, of course, choke economic growth in
developed nations, but they deserve that fate as they “have basically
expropriated the atmosphere of the world community,” he said. The fanaticism
runs so deep that one professor has even suggested that we need to plunge
ourselves into a depression to fight global warming.
Perhaps Naomi Klein summed up best what the warming the fuss
is all about in her book “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.”
“What if global warming isn’t only a
crisis?” Klein asks in a preview of a documentary inspired by her book. “What
if it’s the best chance we’re ever going to get to build a better world?” In
her mind, the world has to “change, or be changed” because an “economic system”
— meaning free-market capitalism — has caused environmental “wreckage.”
This is how the global warming alarmist
community thinks. It wants to frighten, intimidate and then assume command. It
needs a “crisis” to take advantage of, a hobgoblin to menace the people, so that
they will beg for protection from the imaginary threat. The alarmists’ “better
world” is one in which they rule a global welfare state. They’ve admitted this
themselves.
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BOOKS
The war on poverty is a war on work, the authors of a new
book that criticizes the nation’s welfare system assert. Phil Harvey, chief
sponsor of the DKT Liberty Project, and Lisa Conyers, a policy analyst for the
project, conducted a nationwide study of anti-poverty programs for their book,
“The Human Cost of Welfare: How the System Hurts the People It’s Supposed to
Help.” “The present system is anti-work. It’s almost a war on work. And that’s
insane; at the very, very least, we ought to be helping people get out of the
system and into paid employment,” Harvey sai
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LEFTIST WATCH
John Kerry meets with the leader of FARC, a Marxist
terrorist organization that appears on his own department of state’s list of
foreign terrorist organizations a little above Al Qaeda, and offers a $5M
reward for information leading to capture.
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ISLAM
ISIS 'crucifies Catholic priest on Good Friday' after kidnapping
him from old people's home where four nuns were shot dead
Whether you accept it or not, the free world is at war.
Islam has brought a war against the civilized world. While the majority of the
world’s 1.65 billion Muslims are peaceful and are not terrorists, the concern
is with the fundamentalists, who are the terrorists. Estimates vary, but if for
example 90% of Muslims are peaceful. This means 165 million are fundamentalists.
That’s more than the population of France, UK and Canada combined! Yet, how
seriously is this threat being taken? If you ask President Obama he will tell
you “America is not at war with Islam.” Well Mr. President you
The first man charged with the Islamic State (IS) Brussels
terror attacks is a migrant rights activist and ‘freelance journalist’ who
lived next door to headquarters of the European Union (EU).
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ARTICLES
The Questions
Liberals Never Have to Answer
Obama touts Cuban health care as
outstanding. Is there even one person
who would fly from the USA to Cuba for medical treatment? But we can be certain that many would fly to
the USA from Cuba if they had the chance and needed, say, cancer treatment or
even treatment for allergies. Similarly,
regarding education, how many Americans would choose to attend the University
of Havana rather than go to any state university in the USA? Yet we can be certain that if given the
choice, so many Cubans would opt to attend one of our universities rather than
the University of Havana. So let us understand now and forever that President
Obama's Argentine reasoning is puerile at best. We do everything better than Cuba. Our two countries are non-comparable. Capitalism is the source of all real and
lasting prosperity, while communism is a failed concept despite some
intellectual adherents like our president who are, almost congenitally, unable
to admit the dismal failures of that system. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/yes_mr_president_capitalism_is_better.html
These are
interesting times. The United States stands ready to espouse a collectivism
that its very founders were repelled by and that its citizens fought and died
to defeat. Western Europe seems compelled to surrender itself to a
religio-culture that its distant ancestors epically fought to a standstill over
700 years ago and then rolled back over centuries. Cultural and national mass
suicide is now the cause célèbre in the West, toasted by academics and the
media alike. Consider the old saying "By their fruits shall you know
them." This holds for civilizations and societies as well as individuals.
Trump
supporters are, perhaps, the only group of voters in this nation´s history who
have been so viciously and consistently maligned, and in such a coordinated
manner, by both political parties. At the same time, not much is known about
them, despite the recent spate of articles attempting to explain the
phenomenon. The problem with that is that the authors admittedly don´t know any
of the Trump supporters themselves. Well, I happen to know quite a few of them
personally. Full disclosure: first, I can´t vote because I´m not a U.S. citizen
yet, despite my best and decades-long efforts – but
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