op ed review 12/18
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
ACLU is suing a very small town in Indiana because a single
Christian cross on top of a spruce tree in the town square apparently is
causing "irreparable harm" to one resident who, when he drives by,
"is forced to come into direct and unwelcome contact" with the cross,
reads the lawsuit.
CNN’s Stelter: Trump Win a ‘National Emergency’.
The national press is renewing its call for even more
scrutiny of the incoming Trump administration, and is cheering on reporters who
challenge President-elect Trump and his team.
Politico’s
Glenn Thrush, who was exposed in WikiLeaks emails sending stories to Hillary
Clinton staffers before publication, will be joining the New York Times to
cover the White House.
Group Using Celebrities to Urge Electors to Vote Against
Trump Has Foreign-Registered Website
Hackers were able to access thousands of DNC emails after an
aide typed the word “legitimate” instead of “illegitimate” by mistake.
Hackers also tried to breach the computer networks of the
Republican National Committee, but failed to get past their security defenses.
Judge Napolitano says that the US intelligence community
leaked the hacked DNC emails to Wikileaks, NOT the Russians. Napolitano says he
has a source inside the intelligence community.
Bill Gates meets with Trump, says he is the new JFK who will
unite the country through innovation.
Illegal immigrants with criminal records, the deportation
priority of President-elect Trump, total at least 820,000, with most having
felony and serious misdemeanor convictions, according to a new report.
IBM unveils plan to hire 25,000 in US on eve of Trump
meeting
America is still struggling to overcome its "legacies
of slavery, Jim Crow, colonialism, and racism," President Obama told
Comedy Central Monday night.
Michelle Obama says America is ”entering a time of
hopelessness”.
The U.S. Military Academy, which used to focus only on
books, training and discipline, hosted its annual “Transgender Day of
Remembrance” for cadets.
Box Office Disaster: Gun Control Movie Flops
Adweek reports that Kellogg’s decision to pull its
advertising from Breitbart News inflicted massive, longterm damage to the cereal
company’s brand online.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is throwing his support
behind President-elect Trump´s nomination of Rex Tillerson to serve as
secretary of state.
Downside: “Tillerson’s
Assault on Scouting”
Not
that it matters much now, but a years-long forensics investigation into the
computer image of Obama’s long-form Hawaiian birth certificate concluded that
it is indeed a forgery. It was created by modifying another birth certificate that
has been identified.
Homeless across country fall victim to
synthetic marijuana: “Homeless pot zombies”
Two dozen states beg Donald Trump to abandon Barack Obama´s
plans to combat climate change
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Tom Trinko 12/17/16 “Liberal Logic:”
If a man says he’s Napoleon
Bonaparte, he needs help, but if he says he’s a woman he’s perfectly sane and
if anyone refuses to go along with him he’s being oppressed.
If 97% of scientists say that man
made global warming is real anyone who disagrees should be put in prison. When
100% of scientists say that human life begins at conception it has nothing to
do with abortion.
If Russia publishes true facts about
Hillary it’s foreign interference in our election. If illegals, i.e.
foreigners, vote in our election it’s a good thing.
Clubbing a baby seal to death is
evil. Dismembering an unborn human girl without anesthetic is a societal good.
Getting water to California’s
central valley farmers isn’t as important as protecting the delta smelt. It’s
okay if wind turbines kill 4200 bald eagles each year.
Saying all lives matter is racist.
Saying only black lives matter is not.
Russia revealing secrets about
Hillary is evil. Hillary putting highly classified data on an insecure server
is fine.
Exposing Hillary’s secrets is a
foreign coup. The NYT's revealing highly classified anti-terror programs is
heroic.
WikiLeaks is a source for truth
justice and the American way if it’s exposing critical national security
programs that have nothing to do with domestic surveillance. WikiLeaks is an
agent of fascism if it reveals anything that Hillary wants hidden.
Electoral college electors ignoring
how the people voted in their state is true democracy.
Fidel Castro, who wore military
attire and got his power through a military campaign he led, is a beacon of
freedom and truth. Retired American generals are unfit to serve in
government.
It was racist to say that Obama’s
lack of experience made him a poor candidate for president. Saying that Ben
Carson doesn’t have the experience necessary to run HUD is a patriot’s duty.
Native Americans not expressing
their concern at any of the 389 meetings the Army Corp of Engineers had with
Native American Tribes in no way creates suspicion about why they’re protesting
now.
Honest citizens who own guns are
evil. Criminals who commit crimes while in possession of a gun should get
shorter sentences than they do now.
92% of the victims of black
criminals are black. Wanting to keep all criminals in jail longer is racist.
Any man who claims to feel he’s a
woman at any given moment can use the women’s bathroom.
Bill Clinton’s sexually harassing
and possible raping women is irrelevant to his ability to be
president. Trump’s apparently consensual immorality completely
disqualifies him from being president.
Ignoring the thousands of blacks
shot in Democrat run cities is not racist. Not being outraged when a cop
shoots a black man in self-defense is racist.
Not caring that black women are 5
times as likely to abort their unborn baby than white women is not racist. Not
wanting to fund abortion thereby protecting black lives is racist.
Opposing school competition in our
inner cities is patriotic. Wanting to give black kids a chance to excel is
racist because it hurts the teachers unions.
That NASA showed that the earth’s
temperature was flat for 18 years and then suddenly reprocessed the data and
found that the temperature was rising -- in contradiction to the satellite data
-- raises no suspicions about the quality of the data.
The housing crisis was Bush’s fault
even though Bush had called for reform of Frannie and Freddie two years earlier
and was rebuffed by the Democratic Congress.
ISIS is Bush’s fault even though it
was Obama who withdrew all U.S. forces from Iraq and didn’t force the Shia
president of Iraq to treat the Sunni Iraqis fairly.
The deficit of 2009 is all Bush’s
fault even though it includes the $900,000,000 slush-money-for-my-friends
“stimulus” package that Obama created.
Israel is our enemy because it
doesn’t treat the Palestinians, who openly proclaim they want to commit
genocide against Jews, perfectly. Iran is our friend even though they persecute
all religious minorities in Iran.
It’s illegal to compel a gay baker
to bake a cake with a pro-marriage message. It’s illegal for a Christian baker
to be willing to serve gays but not be willing to bake a wedding cake for them.
Wanting to raise the tax rate of
other people is charitable. People who want to keep the money they work for are
selfish.
Government workers are smarter and
better than regular Americans so it’s reasonable that they get paid more, have
better benefits, and never ever get fired.
It’s great that the MSM declared open
war on Trump but Fox News is evil for questioning Obama.
Anything that goes against the
liberal narrative is malevolent “fake news”. Any news that comes from the MSM
and has to be retracted is an honest mistake that in no way affects their
credibility.
Giving oil companies the same tax
breaks that all industries get is subsidizing them. Giving billions to
companies that fail and are owned by Obama’s “green” energy cronies is
“investing” in America.
A Supreme Court justice who cites
foreign laws is a patriot. A Supreme Court justice who cites the Constitution
is an extremist.
There’s nothing undemocratic in the
Supreme Court overthrowing the laws of almost all states -- abortion and gay
marriage. A later Supreme Court reversing those decisions would be treason.
Women are just as capable as men in
every way and they are better because they are more reasonable and less
violent. We need easier criteria for women who want to be fire fighters, Army
Rangers, and cops because not doing so is sexist.
Women are oppressed in education
even though more women than men are getting college degrees.
A woman in a job in an
air-conditioned office should make as much as a man who works in the sewers,
otherwise the system is sexist.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/12/liberal_logic_.html#ixzz4T6szdNde
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OTHER COLUMNS
“So our news media hacks are up in arms about hackers, and
no wonder: they resent the competition? First, tilting the news against one
political party is supposed to be the closed shop oligopoly of the New
York Times, CBS, etc. Who are these people to be airing out secret
information? Do they think this is the Pentagon Papers or something? Second,
how can Mother Russia, home of the old Soviet Union, be doing this to us? Of
course, if the media had perhaps given some coverage to the way the Soviet
disinformation efforts used to promote fake stories in the western press, maybe
we’d be in a mood to heed their complaints now.”
-Steven Hayward
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LEFTIST WATCH
Filmmaker Michael Moore says Donald Trump “has no right” to
enter the White House. Moore called for “protesting, obstructing, disrupting,
civil disobedience.”
A permit for the “Women’s March On D.C.” has been granted
for the day after Trump’s inauguration. Organizers hope to draw 200,000.
National
Geographic cover story features nine year old transgender under heading “gender
revolution”. What’s this got to do with geography?
Married couples in Italy will no
longer have to promise to be faithful to each other, if a new bill is approved. “The promise not to cheat is a "cultural
legacy from an outdated and obsolete vision of marriage, family, and the rights
and duties of spouses", according to the senators who have signed the
bill.”
Two more taxpayer-funded American
universities — the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of
Colorado Denver — will offer undergraduate courses focused exclusively on how
“whiteness” is a serious social problem
The organization partnered with Facebook to help determine
whether a certain story is “disputed” is financed by billionaire George Soros
and a slew of other left-wing funders.
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ISLAM
Honor killing in Pakistan: 5 young girls executed for
attending a co-ed singing and dancing party. “The girls’ participation…was
risky enough, but someone posted the video on the Internet, where it spread
rapidly, bringing shame on their community before the vast virtual world. The
local Muslim cleric, allegedly issued a religious decree ordering the five
girls to be killed for dishonoring their tribe, along with the boy seen dancing
and every member of his family. There was no resistance from the community.” This is a sick, sick culture.
Woman who became known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian” killed
by her brother because she posted suggestive photos of herself online and
criticized a well-connected Islamic cleric. “Pakistan’s attorneys, particularly
those involved in prosecuting cases of honor killing and Islam-motivated
violence, often become the target of such violence themselves.”
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ARTICLES
Top pollster Frank Luntz – who was not a Trump supporter – tells
Sean Hannity that Trump could create a permanent Republican majority. “I did
not think Trump had a good chance. But I thought he was absolutely viable
because of what he said and how he said it… If Trump can keep this majority of
these new voters who have never voted Republican before and bring back some of
those Republicans from the suburbs who voted for Clinton but voted Republican
all the way down the line this is a long term majority.
Russian “Meddling” In Election: Most Overblown Story Ever?
Before Donald J. Trump, there was Patrick J. Buchanan, who
ran for president three times as a champion of the white working class. He
railed against globalization and unfair trade deals, and he pushed for a crack
down on immigration. His rhetoric inflamed the grievances of voters that felt
left behind by party elites. He never came close to the presidency, but the
issues he ran on are the ones that propelled Trump to the White House. Asked if
he feels vindicated, Buchanan said: “I was all for Trump. Do I feel my ideas
appear to have prevailed? My enemies seem to
“I tip my cap to Tucker Carlson, whose new show on Fox News
Channel (7 PM Eastern) has become must see TV. Using his unique combination of
charm and wit, he has turned the first segment of his show into a fascinating
inquiry into the mental state of the American Left. Tucker’s modus operandi is
to invite leftists on his show to talk about what they have written. After
thanking them in a way that seems utterly sincere, he wields a stiletto, asking
the interviewee to justify what he or she has written.”
“Unable to stand in front of executive donors and tell the truth,
Hillary Clinton told those who invested over a billion dollars in her campaign
it was Vladimir Putin’s fault she didn’t campaign in August and never
campaigned at all in Wisconsin…”
Why conservative churches grow and liberal churches shrink
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NOTEWORTHY
Coming home for Christmas! Heartwarming photos show US
Marines returning to their families for the first time in nine months
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4043048/US-Marines-come-home-families-Camp-Pendleton-Oceanside-California.html#ixzz4T8pdglj1
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WISE WORDS
“[W]hen people are universally ignorant, and debauchd in
their manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign
invaders.”
-Samuel
Adams (1775)
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