op ed review 6/12
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Trump Scores Historic 13 Million GOP Primary Vote Blowout with California
Win
Trump Shatters Republican Primary
Vote Record by 1.4 Million Votes
Latino support for Trump on the rise at 37%.......”It is evident that
Donald Trump has rewritten the rules of political campaigning, leaving the so-
called experts, analysts, journalists and even the GOP itself puzzled by
the power and effectiveness of his approach.”
Hillary Clinton Received 1.5
Million FEWER Votes in 2016 than in 2008 — Democrats Down 7 Million Votes
About 12 jihadis who were
formerly detained at Guantanamo Bay prison and eventually released have gone on
to kill about six Americans in Afghanistan.
The exact number is classified.
Illegals released by Obama
administration officials stabbed an old girlfriend, robbed a man outside a
7-11, and murdered a young woman in New England after failing to be deported.
The mayhem caused by Obama was discovered when the Boston Globe sued the Obama
administration and found illegal aliens who were top deportation priorities
were secretly turned loose back into New England communities — with as many as
30 percent going on to commit serious crimes such as attempted murder and rape.
Everyone knows about the problems
with Trump University, but the media doesn’t seem interested in the “Clinton
university” scandal. Bill Clinton was
paid $16 million by Laureate International Universities, an online diploma
mill, to be their “honorary” chancellor. While Bill worked as the group’s
pitchman, the State Department funneled $55 million to Laureate when Hillary
was secretary of state.
Hillary Clinton Launches
‘Republicans Against Trump’ Website
California is now so blue, there
will not be a Republican on the ballot in November´s U.S. Senate contest. Voters get to choose between two democrats.
US surrenders Internet management
to international organization.
Feds spend nearly $20,000 to
settle every refugee…Eligible for cash welfare, Medicaid, food stamps...
Illegal immigrants kidnapping
children to sneak into U.S. as ‘family units,’ feds say
Texas student brags about being an illegal immigrant and
getting a full ride scholarship to UT, offers from Yale.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3631451/Girl-writes-four-little-words-Texas-high-school-graduate-s-bragging-Twitter-lands-trouble.html#ixzz4B5qvywkB
The Obama administration has sent an email containing ready-made
pro-immigration talking points to top-level Hollywood influencers in an effort
to encourage them to promote the White House’s immigration policies on social
media.
The next bright idea from
progressives, an “unconditional basic income” for everyone, working or not,
funded by you hardworking taxpayers..
Swiss voters overwhelmingly
rejected a proposal to introduce a guaranteed basic income for all.
Report: Media Give Gorilla Death
6 Times More Coverage Than ISIS Beheadings of Christians
Hillary Clinton wears a $12,495
Armani jacket during a speech about inequality.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Phillip
Jennings 6/5 USA Today guest editorial
Apologists
for Hillary Clinton’s alleged criminal mishandling of classified documents say
that it doesn’t matter, that she really did nothing wrong, or nothing
significant. But the real question is not so much what she did as how she has
responded to being found out.
Once
during the mid-1960s when I was on active duty in the Marine Corps, I was the
air liaison officer for a battalion of Marines aboard 11 ships in the
Mediterranean. As the air officer and a senior captain, I had a rotating
responsibility for the nuclear code book, kept in the safe in the operations
room of the lead amphibious squadron command ship. I shared that duty with
another captain, a squared away young man, liked by all he commanded and the
son of a very high-ranking Marine.
On
the day our ships were leaving the Mediterranean, we met the new amphibious
squadron near Gibraltar and made preparations to transfer security codes and
other sensitive material to the incoming Marine battalion. The young captain
was on duty and went to the operations office to pick up the code book. He was
alone in the office. He removed the code book and placed it on the desk while
closing the safe. In a rushed moment, he stepped across the passageway to
retrieve something he needed from his quarters. Seconds later, he stepped back
into the operations office and found the operations sergeant having just
entered, looking down at the code book.
Against
all regulations, the code book had been out of the safe and unattended. It
mattered not that it was unattended for only seconds, that the ship was 5 miles
at sea, or that it was certain no one unauthorized had seen the code. The
captain could have explained this to the operations sergeant. He could have
told the sergeant that he “would take care of it.” He could have hinted that
his high-ranking dad could smooth it over.
But
the Marine Corps’ values
are honor, courage and commitment. Honor is the bedrock of our character. The
young captain could not ask the sergeant to betray his duty to report the
infraction, no matter how small. Instead, the captain simply said, “Let’s go
see the colonel.”
That
captain had wanted to be a Marine officer all of his life. It was the only
career he ever wanted. When he reported the incident to the colonel, he knew he
was jeopardizing his life’s dream. But he did it. The results went by the book.
The amphibious squadron stood down. Military couriers flew in from NATO. The
codes were changed all over Europe. The battalion was a day late in leaving the
Mediterranean. The captain, Leonard F. Chapman III, received a letter of
reprimand, damaging his career. He stayed in the corps and died in a tragic
accident aboard another ship.
I
saw some heroic acts in combat in Vietnam, things that made me proud to be an
American and a Marine. But that young captain stood for what makes our corps
and our country great.
Hillary
Clinton is the antithesis of that young captain, someone with no honor, little
courage and commitment only to her endless ambition. This has nothing to do
with gender, party affiliation, ideology or policy. It is a question of
character — not just hers, but ours. Electing Clinton would mean abandoning
holding people accountable for grievous errors of integrity and responsibility.
What we already know about her security infractions should disqualify her for any
government position that deals in information critical to mission success,
domestic or foreign. But beyond that, her responses to being found out — dismissing
its importance, claiming ignorance, blaming others —
indict her beyond anything the investigation can reveal. Those elements reveal
her character. And the saddest thing is that so many in America seem not to care.
(Phillip Jennings is an investment banker and
entrepreneur, former Marine Corps pilot in Vietnam and Air America pilot
in Laos. He is the author of two novels
and one non-fiction book.)
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The saddest aspect of the
minimum wage story is the damage it does to human beings. The current hourly
wage for a fast-food restaurant cashier is $7.25 to $9 per hour. That produces
a yearly salary of $15,000 to $20,000, plus fringes. That’s no great shakes,
but it is honest work and a start in life. It might be the very best some
people could do. Enter the arrogance and callousness of the elite. Their vision
of what a person should earn, expressed by higher minimum wages, destroys
people’s best alternative without offering a superior one in its place. Maybe
the elite believe that welfare, unemployment compensation and possibly engaging
in illegal activities are a superior alternative to earning an honest and
respectable living on a cashier’s salary. That is a despicable vision.”
-Walter Williams
“It is true that in his later
years, [Muhammad] Ali lent his name and prestige to altruistic activities and
worthy public appeals. … But when Ali was in his prime, the uninhibited ‘king
of the world,’ he was no expounder of brotherhood and racial broadmindedness.
On the contrary, he was an unabashed bigot and racial separatist and wasn’t shy
about saying so. In a wide-ranging 1968 interview with Bud Collins, the storied
Boston Globe sports reporter, Ali insisted that was as unnatural to expect
blacks and whites to live together as it would be to expect humans to live with
wild animals. … This was not some inexplicable aberration. It reflected a
hateful worldview that Ali, as a devotee of Elijah Muhammad and the
segregationist Nation of Islam, espoused for years. At one point he even
appeared before a Ku Klux Klan rally……Ali was many fine things, but a champion
of civil rights wasn’t among them. Martin Luther King at one point called him
‘a champion of segregation.’ If later in life Ali abandoned his racist
extremism, that is to his credit. It
doesn’t, however, make him an exemplar of brotherhood and tolerance. And it
doesn’t alter history: At the zenith of Ali’s career, when fans by the millions
hung on his every word, what he often chose to tell them was indecent and
grotesque.”
-Jeff Jacoby
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BOOKS, FILM
Hillary Clinton has a “Jekyll and
Hyde” personality that left White House staffers scared stiff of her explosive
— and even physical — outbursts, an ex-Secret Service officer claims in a
scathing new tell-all. Gary Byrne, who was posted outside the Oval Office when
Bill Clinton was president, portrays Hillary as too “erratic, uncontrollable
and occasionally violent” to become leader of the free world.
The Clintons are in for a rough
time as a host of documentary films aiming their fire at the political power
couple are set to be released in the coming months.
New book by Bill Clinton’s lover Dolly Kyle: - before and
after his marriage - tells how 'lumpy' Hillary schemed to get her to lie on 60
Minutes about Bill's other affairs.
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LEFTIST WATCH
The United Church of Christ
(UCC), a major mainline Protestant denomination, published a Facebook post
telling all whites that they are racist against non-whites, no matter what they
do.
The Navy Secretary says that
those who opposed lifting the ban on gays serving openly in the ranks are just
like the bigots who fought against racial desegregation decades ago.
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ISLAM
The BBC has been ridiculed over
an article suggesting the knight costumes worn by England football fans could
be offensive to Muslims, reminding them of the crusades.
A massive fire at Düsseldorf’s
major international trade fair grounds yesterday has been followed by reports
that the blaze was set deliberately by migrants who were angry because of not
being woken up in time for their Ramadan breakfast.
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ARTICLES
Who is feeding Vermont Sen.
Bernie Sanders’ campaign? Who are these people who have managed to spike the
blood pressure of the Clinton political machine? For most, the areas in which
Sanders’ small donors live won’t surprise anyone. They live in some of the most
liberal parts of the country and in zip codes where the proportion of college
graduates is high. It’s these people who have fed the self-described Democratic
socialist’s army, filling his war chests in the hopes that he can accomplish
the political revolution he clamors about on the stump. And most aren’t even in
the workforce.
Steven Moore: Why do donors give money to the Sierra Club?
Are they trying to strangle the American economy? The liberal green group is
celebrating its “victory” of putting America’s major coal producers out of
business — to say nothing of the tens of thousands of miners placed in
unemployment lines. Several thousand more mining jobs were lost last month. Now
the Sierra Club wants to similarly bury the oil and gas industry.
Donald Trump´s remarks about
Hispanics -- "They´re bringing drugs, they´re bringing crime, they´re rapists,"
he said of Mexican immigrants last summer -- have been called racist and
shocking…. Yet along the Texas-Mexico border, Trump enjoys a well of support
among Hispanic Americans that some might find surprising…..Tony Castaneda, the
grandson of Mexican immigrants, cast one of those votes for Trump. "I´m a
former chief of police in a border town. I´m Hispanic, I´m proud to be Hispanic
and I´m 100 percent behind Donald Trump for his candidacy to the White
House," Castaneda told CBS News. He isn't offended by the candidate's
critical remarks. "He's very blunt. I'm blunt too. Maybe that's why I like
some of his positions, because he's not a side shooter. You know, he talks
directly, directly to the point. Maybe that needs to be polished up a bit to be
politically correct, but I don't think he wants to be politically correct.
We're tired of politically correct people occupying the White House and
occupying positions of government that represent us. We don't want to hear the
politically correct response. We want to hear the truth." "Hopefully with Donald Trump being the
next president, we can secure our borders. He is the only one who is actively
engaging in the conversation about illegal immigration," added Cepeda, a
Mexican-American who said her grandparents came to the U.S. legally in the
1950s.
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INTERESTING WEBSITES
Presidential polling by state:
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WISE WORDS
“In our country, the lie has
become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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